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Aside from the amazing Raspberry Pi ecosystem, the big appeal of this chip is for gpio-heavy applications that don't need wireless connectivity. If you need wireless you'd want an ESP8266 or one of its siblings. Of course the history of the Pi Zero and the Zero W suggests they might release a connected version in the future.


What if mid project you realise you need more I/O? If you choose stm32 for your project you can just choose bigger controller, then you can easily even run your own board. It seems like RPi starts building a walled garden. Not cool.


Yeah I wouldn’t even look at this with STM32 on the market. Much larger choice and plenty of different dev boards available.

You can also get FreeRTOS up on an STM board in 30 minutes and actually doing useful stuff.


There is ample board space on the Pico...

Also note that there are a number of other integrators (Sparkfun, Adafruit, even Arduino) who are making custom boards. I wonder if one of them may even hack in some sort of wireless module.




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