oh, my pi pico take is "cool, good to get the pi crowd into MCUs, but probably not my first choice for any projects right now since I have about thirty MCUs lying dormant right now"
I'm not always a fan of seeing a large fandom get behind a tech stack that I'm screwing with but this is a case where more eyes and hands contributing to the arduino ecosystem will only result in better libraries becoming available and ported to the rest of the ecosystem where useful, so I'm cool with that.
@kemonine yes, I'm aware of the current arduino community. I'm also aware of the derision for the pi foundation. but neither have anything to do with the people who've been pulled into the pi ecosystem by whatever forces have done the pulling and the quality of their ability to contribute good things to the arduino community at large. that's all I'm saying.
@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology mine is, roughly, that the esp8266 is still
- cheaper
- more powerful
- more readily available
- probably has better development tools
@linear solid take, that
@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology i've now taken a look at the documentation for the rp2040
the documentation tips the scale. a lot
its good
@linear I took a glance after reading your reply this morning and yeah, that's some well produced documentation - definitely nicer than the random teensy forum threads lol
@djsundog Wait, did this just get announced?
@djsundog No wireless is kinda a shame when looking at the ESP32 in comparison.
@aschmitz definitely a strange omission all things considered