RP2040 is Raspberry Pi’s first microcontroller and it features Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ with 133Mhz Clock, 264KB SRAM, UART, SPI and I2C support. Along with a whole lot more.
This is absolutely fantastic!
I love the MVP version in the documentation.
Now you have me thinking if I can plan up a custom PCB using this chipset and rolling my own Pi Zero in light of the current shortages.
@AndrewBG certainly doesn’t mean it can’t be done though, I saw this a lil while back and it looked neat.
Depending on your project there is definitely scope to either strip down the code that runs our outsource the processing - to a Pi 4, PC or even cloud computing like AWS. Regardless it’s always great seeing what PCB designs people come up with!
Ordinarily, yes, and I might look at using this for other projects, but my main one is camera control and image processing, I just dont think that there is enough RAM or processing power in this chip unfortunately, but I’ll have a look at it on the Pi Pico