Hi, > I notice that it doesn't have WiFi, and I wonder if it could be programmed > from the Arduino IDE as 'c' is mentioned. Perhaps that will come. I have been > using a Wemos D1 which has some of these features plus Wifi, and programmed > in c.
In my professional work this was often the demarcation line. Need a network Ethernet or WiFi then use a SoC and linux or at least a multitasking OS. Need lowest power and no network, use an MPU and bareback code. Now for hobby use that equates to, networking use the Pi Zero W or better, no networking STM32 blue pill and the like. The Pico even looks like a blue pill. The newer F4 based black pills look comparable to the Pico, single core but it's Cortex-M4 not M0 with hardware floating point and DSP instructions. Similar price from usual suppliers. There's a nice write up here: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/blue-pill-vs-black-pill-transitioning-from-stm32f103-to-stm32f411/#more-454155 I suspect the RPi Pico will soon win out just on popular labeling. All have IDEs available that allow you to program them in C these days, although my personal method is Vi + gcc + make. Oh and it's 'C' not 'c' please. -- Bob Dunlop -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
