Case in point, I finally delved into the ESP12-E and literally got 5 of them yesterday and loaded VS Code and platformIO for the first time and got an ESP12-E connected to my wireless network with a Modbus slave and all of that was done in 4-6 hours, which I consider to be super fast for never having used the software and hardware before. With a few more hours work, I will have a 5 min/device work load to build as many wireless Modbus nodes as I desire. All this possible due to the support of this device from the community.
So Yea! support matters. But this Pico device could be used as stand alone electronics brain. I could see using multiple devices in a robotics setting for instance. I don't know yet, but I like the competition. Also, you could use the ESP class as a wireless access point for this device. So them keeping the cost down with no wireless makes sense, because you can add wireless quite cheaply. My first reaction is still impressed. I like RPI developing as much as possible. To think about 10+ years ago, gumstix had similar devices for over $100. Perspective!! John Vaughters On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 8:58:48 AM EST, Rodney Radford <[email protected]> wrote: The biggest competitors will be the esp8266 and esp32 that offer similar specs but already include wifi and a big user following, so that may be a hard sale - especially considering the very low prices of some of the variants direct from China now. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:50 AM Mark Sidell via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, it's not exactly a pi. More like a pi-ish Arduino, perhaps. > Hackaday did a nice write-up: > https://hackaday.com/2021/01/20/raspberry-pi-enters-microcontroller-game-with-4-pico/ > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:21 AM John Vaughters via TriEmbed > <[email protected]> wrote: >> competition for arduino? >> >> 3 ADCs is nice and super flexible I/O definition possibilities. >> >> all for $4 >> >> very impressive. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 8:07:32 AM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-pico/ >> >> >> >> >> Pete >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
