First Look at the Tiny 2040 - New RP2040 Board!

This video gives you a first look at the Tiny 2040 board from Pimoroni. This board is a great alternative to the Raspberry Pi Pico for projects where size matters! The Tiny 2040 uses the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and has 8MB of on board flash storage and a USB-C connector. It also features a user programmable RGB LED on the topside of the board. In many ways it acts just like the Raspberry Pi Pico, just with fewer pins and a much smaller form factor! It measures in at 22.9 x 18.2 x 6mm.

Programming the Tiny 2040 is exactly the same as programming the Pico. Just press the boot select button whilst plugging the USB-C cable in and drag and drop the UF2 file onto the Tiny 2040. It will then reboot and run your program! It can also be programmed in MicroPython.

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see some projects featuring this board!

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[CraftyOldGit]

Crikey, that's small. What a time to be alive.

[NZ-fotp]

It has a reset button so its already an improvement

[brantwinter]

Once the RP2040 gets solid MicroPython support (I2C, SPI and CAN) this will be gold.

[mariopojoy]

Thanks for the intro of this one, I'm planning on building a trainer board for Pico to teach my students programming on C. Your channel is the only one so far doing Pico on C/C++. Please keep going.

Grettings from Guatemala.

[TheFerdi]

Cool Board!

I just noticed: This board actually still has enough GPIO pins to drive a similar VGA signal and audio as a regular pico with the Pimoroni Demo Base; you just have to cut the color depth from RGB555 to RGB332.

(Example pinout: Red 0-2, Green 3-5, Blue 6-7, HSync 26, VSync 27, Audio Left 28, Audio Right 29)

[bunnymaid]

It's so cute! It's smaller than the connector!

[ElectronicSupersonic]

This is the one I'm most excited about, very embeddable

[dang]

Been using my Tiny2040 for a couple of years now. Two projects are a basic alarm system and a traffic signal controller simulator coded with MicroPython.

[croll_uk]

Mine arrived this morning. Unbelievable size and the extra ram will be useful. I'm a Golang programmer but we're still waiting for TinyGo to support the 2040. Keep up the great work, your insight is very informative :wink:

[yksw]

I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of devices which are coming up recently.

[matthiassuess]

As always, a very clear, understandable and very interesting video!
The USB-C connector and the 8MB flash are a clear step forward compared to the Pi Pico.
I would really like to see a video on debugging the Pico with openocd and the picoprobe. Thanks for your effort! Awesome!

Many greetings from Germany

[nr]

Maybe you can make an audio book for toddlers (and their parents)? and some simple capacitive touch buttons inside the pages

[jamesgoacher]

Yes indeed. The first Microcontroller I used was the PIC - 16C something - 84 with 14 pins, bit narrower than this one, 12 I/O and programmed with (I think) MPLAB or something in Assembler. The I/O count of Arduino - and the Raspbery PIC also perhaps is frankly way in excess of the memory for coding so for me this seems so much more sensible.
The PIC was used to make a Temperature Display, most pins were used because I had a 3-Digit 7 seg Dislay - cannot remember the device but it was one of those 3-wire devices giving a voltage output for temperature - 10mV/degree C from hazy memory but similar will do, even the onboard sensor. I would like - still - to measure negative temperature to say -20 but I am not fussy. :-)
Need to get me one of these. Glad you put a link.
James

[VisualBRON]

I would appreciate something about using the Tiny and Pico as debuggers for each other.

[richsadowsky]

I am lusting for this one. Don't have it yet. Have quite a collection of RP2040 boards. The small form factors like this board and QT Py RP2040 by Adafuit are likely going to featured frequently in my projects. Got some fun stuff on the bench.

[scienteer]

Can you measure the sleep power of this and compare to the original.

[patrickfitzgerald]

I got one in order to build a picoprobe. This small device + a full-size pico just fit together on a breadboard that I have. Don't I just build the same picoprobe documented in the getting started guide? Same firmware and use the same GPIO 2 to SWCLK and GPIO 3 to SWD?

[FinlayDaGk]

I was thinking about a little project (a little headband with some small sensors) but kept running into the issue that most microcontroller boards are too big, but this seems about perfect for it (and has all the GPIO I need for it as well) :)

[dmkays]

I would like to see you program the board to scroll text across a zigzag 16X32 WS2812B MATRIX. Either using already made panel or cutting ws2812 led strips into 32 neopixel segments as I have done. Mine feeds across from the lower left or upper right, depending on which way I turn it. Even numbered rows feed the opposite direction in a zigzag. I provide 5v at the top, center and bottom. I expect you will need a logic level shifter. The getting started guide for the RP2040 uses a pio for ws2812b signal output, but that was way over my head until I learn alot more. Thanks.

[teeIck]

showing an accurate and deep understanding; great perceptive. 💡

Muito obrigado for all the insightful information. 🤝