Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

RE: Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

shabaz — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:04:29 GMT

After many, frustrating hours, I've successfully built using CLion (I could already build from a Windows command prompt, but not from CLion directly).

I'll write up what I did in the CLion blog [mention:64f9a4af5d8647bf9e0af958fc5b6b72:f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07] in the next day or so.

The root of the problem was picotool, a Windows executable, which gets built each time a Pico project is built, unless it already exists. It's a pretty stupid way of doing things, it should not be part of the project build, that seems completely unnecessary. Anyway, at least I can successfully build the .uf2 binary from CLion now.

RE: Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

aswinvenu — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:23:25 GMT

The primary reason for adding 3-pin JST connector is for connecting to Picoprobe. But it should have been nice if they can expose those SWD pins as test pads atleast. ( That would have cause no harm!)

RE: Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

shabaz — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:27:05 GMT

Incidentally for the Windows users, the "Pico Setup for Windows" is still at version 1.5.1, so for the latest v2.0, that would need to be manually installed using the pico-sdk GitHub repo.

I'm having trouble with my environment (CLion) otherwise I would have tried to build some code. (I have raised a case with JetBrains).

RE: Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

Jan Cumps — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:39:23 GMT

castellations with bottom side parts...

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silence

RE: Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

beacon_dave — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:35:22 GMT

"...Castellated pads are kind of useless, since there are parts on both sides of the board..."

Perhaps design the carrier PCB with a rectangular slot slightly narrower than the width of the board at the edge of the PCB. Place the board over it. Any components on the underside sit in the clearance made by the slot. The USB port conveniently aligns with the edge of the carrier PCB.