The new Raspberry Pi Pico W is just $6

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The Pico W adds WiFi to the already-popular Pico, and the price is right.

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Contents:

00:00 - WiFi for $6
00:24 - My project idea
01:38 - A garage door sensor
03:39 - Take me to the...
04:04 - ESPHome for the Pico
04:32 - Testing Pico's WiFi
06:01 - Powered by RP2040
07:12 - Availability
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To give you some idea of how valued you are by your viewers, I note that this edition was released before 4 AM and already has had 10K views an hour later. I think most of us feel your health and family come first, but glad you are feeling better. Thank you for all the great work.

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RPi always amazes me, the RPi needed the GPU in the bootloader for booting the Pi.

The Pico W controls the status LED through the WiFi chip. Whatever limitations, they sure are creative solving them lol

ScibbieGames
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You're one of my favorite youtubers, you're a source of inspiration and unlike most tech youtubers you not only promote Foss and open hardware but actually contribute to the movement. Since I study electronic engineering and I'm a Linux enthusiast I find your videos simply perfect. Keep up the good work and thanks!

dany
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A really don't get why this doesn't have USB-C

xXfzmusicXx
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They need to ramp up production on Zero 2 W, could potentially offset increased supply costs at the minute by increasing the price by $10 to the customer. It’s still preferable to the current climate.

timsarai
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The ESP32 has a hall sensor built in so you could use just a magnet to build a garage door sensor. I paid 4.50 for my ESP32 so that is not only cheaper but also eliminates the $20 door sensor.

excitedbox
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Perfect timing! I was just about to sleep. Time to unwind and relax with this video.

loldude
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Sounds exciting to be able to make a mesh network with them. Like I'm invisioning a garden that just has a few sensors like soil humidity, (sun)light and temperature that you could monitor by having many of them mesh up pinging the stats to one another and eventually back to you.

JobStoit
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Will it actually be available or just unobtainium like most Pi stuff has been for the last couple of years?

Update: Received a Pico W in the mail that I ordered last week, and I paid the standard price for it. Availability for this release much better it seems.

Hornet
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Great to see the upgrade but I am still team ESP... although when availability increases, I might get a few Pico Ws to try. Hopefully they will enable bluetooth by then!

justanotherviewer
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Looking forward to the follow up.. really enjoy all your content, it makes me want to be a better tech guy =P Glad you’re feeling better.

Credon
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The ESP32-H2 is IMHO the most interesting microcontroller for home autmation to this date due to it's bluetooth, wifi and most importantly zigbee and thread connectivity

LucaDev_
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very nice!
With this new board, the pico have replaced both arduino AND esps for teaching/school stuff.
Esp32s still have lots of unique uses and capabilities, but for many projects, this will be perfect!

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Hope they enable Bluetooth soon, as the chip on board is capable

HululusLabs
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I see on the website that it doesn't have Bluetooth support yet but will in the future, this would make an easy and cheap DIY iBeacon for indoor positioning

gspeed
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Try always to use an external pullup resistor for deployment, a value between 1k and 10k should be ok. Internal pullups are usually really weak (around 50k/80k in the rp2040) and you can have problems, specially if you install the micro near mains wiring, electric motors or other sources of electromagnetic intereferences.

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I love your Videos. Every morning, at least for me it is morning, I'm watching your videos and if there is a new raspberry pi product, I go to my online seller and they will have it in stock so I can order it. This is how I was able to get a pi zero 2 w and I've ordered a few pi picos and now a pi pico w. Which is great because this is exactly what I needed for a project of mine where I need more pins than an ESP can spare.
Can't wait for it to get shiped.

pietlego
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RP2040 with WiFi was already available for months as other manufacturers used the component. I have Invector Challenger, but I’ve ordered one of these Raspberry ones as I suspect it will get more community backing longer term.

MeTube
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This is gonna be awesome for the recently released picoboot mod for the GameCube. Basically the pico can be wired in to boot homebrew easily on the system. With this you could even have it update the firmware automatically.

chadmasta
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Just for prosperity, you can use a much cheaper reed switch (~$3) to sense door closed/not closed, or if you want to wire up more, door closed, door fully open, door in-between. i glue mine (with elastomeric caulk) between the drive track and the door drive arm/release clutch. super easy to install, much easier to use and less expensive than the sensor you have in the vid.

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