What Raspberry Pi Pico development board do you recommend

Are you taking orders?

No paid orders unless anyone requests hundreds of them hehe,  but if you can send me your address in a private message, I can send you one of the spare boards for free (I don't have many, since I only ordered a handful, but can definitely send one).

My first reaction was to send a message to secure a board and see that you are compensated. After a sober second thought I have to ask myself that if I take you up on your offer will I have the time to get collect the parts, solder up the PCB and invest the time for some initial testing.

My home is undergoing renovations and a new grandson just arrived. By taking you up on the offer I need to feel I can commit to an end. RIght now I have to say any commitment is difficult.

Thanks for the offer just the same. I look to a ready-made Christmas present. At least then if it doesn't get used it only impacted me.

Thank you for the responses.

I seem to recall a member had done an awesome Pico review a while ago. To wait out a midnight coughing fit from a nasty cold, I combed the site and rediscovered this link. /products/roadtest/rv/roadtest_reviews/964/raspberry_pi_pico It makes reference to a development board. I have to go take a look.

At the time I felt the link was a one-stop-shop resource for getting up and running on a Pico.

Good article find, it listed the protoboard used. The Pimoroni development board is called explorer, there are several links to it, this one worked for me. Pricing looked reasonable.  www.okdo.com/.../

I visited your link and found a Canadian supplier. I think it might be a starting point.

Lots of great products mentioned here.  Guess the Pico has really established a foothold...

I found an inexpensive ($16.99) breadboard kit on Amazon that I've used for quick prototyping - GeeekPi Raspberry Pi Pico Basic Starter Kit.  It appears to be a knockoff of a kit from ThePiHut - Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit, with a few quirks, but it was easier to get in the US. 

Here I'm using it with a Pico W, OLED display, and BME280 sensor.

I also use (and have) a lot of Grove sensors from Seeed, QWIIC sensors from Sparkfun and Stemma/Stemma QT sensors from Adafruit, so I have a few really inexpensive ($3.80) Grove Shield for Pi Pico that I use for prototyping compact sensor projects.

Here is a project that I'm just starting where I've 3D printed a plate to hold the Pico and Shield - a Grove Vision AI camera will be mounted on the left side.

ntewinkel said:

Is your board something Newark / element14 will be (is already?) stocking?

Typically before it gets to that stage for consideration, it helps to have passed the regional/global certifications for safety/testing, such as IPC Standards/CE mark, etc. and demonstrated to have had mass appeal (probably why a lot of products go through Kickstarter).

It is officially vetted by a Belgian user 

Thanks for the input. I was gravitating towards the https://www.pishop.ca/product/pico-explorer-base/ I rather like the size of the board in your suggestion. The price is less also.