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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 released! Particle Tachyon 5G SBC! So Many RP2350 devkits! Hoorah!

The Electromaker Show · 14 Aug 2024 · 43m · Episode 150

What this episode covers

The host of The Electromaker Show details the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and its RP2350 microcontroller, highlighting the dual-core architecture (ARM Cortex-M33 and RISC-V Hazard 3), increased SRAM, and new security features like TrustZone. He also covers the Particle Tachyon, a 5G single-board computer on Kickstarter that uses smartphone-grade Qualcomm hardware and runs upstream Linux. Finally, he reviews several third-party RP2350 development boards from Adafruit, Seeed Studio, and others, noting their form factors and specific use cases.

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Mentioned

Products
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, Particle Tachyon, Adafruit Feather RP2350, Seeed Studio Zhao, Solder Party RP2350 Stamp, Thumy Color, Neotron Pico, Bus Pirate 6, Pimoroni Explorer
Chips
RP2350, Wiznet W5500
Also
Jeff Geerling, CNX Software, Hackaday, Hextricity

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