I wonder how bad an idea it is to mount a raspi pico at a 90-degree angle to a PCB
@buherator from memory it's about 2x faster, but the comparison is difficult.
@Extelec what's the basic BOM material cost on that before I wonder about a kit...
@falken I will send you a PCB FOC if you cover postage (I've never made it into a kit. ), other than that you only need a handful of usb connectors, there is a hub built into the base pcb, but I'd suggest using it only to power the pico's due to multiple USB issues on most common OS's.
9 Pi pico's(1's) a display ~£7, a hand full of buttons.
@falken If you are anywhere near Cambridge, I could bring one to the PIJam in the 1st March ?
@Extelec very generous of you, but I'm not doing enough electronics to have the random extra bits to hand
And I'd hate it to go to waste when I eventually bought a slightly incompatible screen or something...
If I was at that end of the country I would certainly come see it!
@falken @foone yes the Pico Cray https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/other-2/pico-cray-small-scale-distributed-computing/
The Pico Cray is a cluster of 8 Picos and a controller Pico. All Picos are connected in parallel by an I2C bus. The controller is designated by one GPIO being held low, the processor Pico’s addresses are allocated automatically. The Controller Pico has a 320x240px display connected by SPI and a couple of buttons. … Continue reading Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing. →
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