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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : PicoVision Will Rock Your High-Definition World!

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lew247

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Posted: 08:05pm 17 Oct 2023

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Quote Meet PicoVision, the Digital Video (DV) stick that's just itching to bring your creative visions to life on the big screen! This powerhouse comes loaded with dual RP2040 chips, creating the perfect tag-team for your projects:
• 🖥️ The GPU handles all the heavy-lifting to display buttery-smooth, high-resolution animations right on your TV or monitor via HDMI.
• ⚙️ The CPU (application processor) runs your code and provides an interface to other gadgets through USB, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
They share a pair of 8MB PSRAM chips that are swapped each frame to allow them to pass the framebuffer and other information from the CPU to the GPU instantly — clever!
There's a heap of interesting features built into the firmware including support for "soft" (?!) hardware sprites, palette modes, scrolling, and more!
PicoVision is probably the most fun we've had this year — and we've definitely spent too much time finessing it — so grab one for yourself, hook it up to your telly and have some fun!

Features

Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard (CPU)
Dual Arm Cortex M0+ with 264kB of SRAM
2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
2.4GHz wireless / Bluetooth 5.2
RP2040 (GPU)
Another dual Arm Cortex M0+ with 264kB of SRAM
Higher resolution modes use significant GPU overclocking*
Connects to the CPU as an I2C peripheral device
2 x 8MB PSRAM chips for frame double-buffering
Digital Video out via HDMI connector
PCM5100A DAC for line level audio over I2S, wired to a 3.5mm stereo jack
MicroSD card slot
Three user buttons (one wired to CPU, two to GPU)
Reset button **
Status LED (GPU)
Qw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector
Fully-assembled (no soldering required)
Spare/extra pins broken out as unpopulated headers (these require soldering) ***
C++/MicroPython libraries

LInk to Specs and stuff

@Matherp, Peter if you think this "might" have possibilies, I'll but one for you tp play with if you want

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