Two New Microcontroller Boards Released with Built In Displays
takyon writes:
LOLIN S2 Pico - A compact ESP32-S2 board with an OLED display
$10 Raspberry Pi Pico Alternative Comes With LCD ScreenIf you're into small MCU boards with an integrated display, you're in luck as LOLIN launched the S2 Pico board with ESP32-S2 and an OLED display about at the time same as LILYGO T-Display RP2040 board we covered yesterday.
Wemos/LOLIN S2 Pico board offers WiFi connectivity, a 128*32 OLED display, USB Type-C port for power and programming, as well as the usual GPIO headers in a compact 50*23 mm form factor.
DannyB writes:
Tom's HARDWARE: $10 Raspberry Pi Pico Alternative Comes With LCD Screen
Microcontroller boards based on the RP2040 chipset, the same SoC that powers the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico are becoming very popular among makers. Newer boards are popping up with extra features appearing on them, such as this 1.14 inch color display, the $10 LILYGO T-Display spotted by CNX Software.
It's not the first such board, of course, with the Arducam Pico4ML pulling a similar trick - and with a resolution of 240*135 pixels it's hardly HD - but it comes in at just under $10 with the RP2040 board attached. Along with the ST7789V SPI controller needed to run the screen, you get all the usual Pico accoutrements such as the dual-core Cortex M0+ processor, 2 x UART , 2 x SPI and 2 x I2C connections, along with a generous 4MB of flash storage. Power and data connectivity is via USB-C, a good choice of connector as it is now becoming the norm on maker boards. Where the LILYGO T-Display falls short is the GPIO. The board looks to be wider and a different pin layout to the traditional Raspberry Pi Pico, so creative hacking is required to connect accessories designed for the Pico.
Sadly, a major drawback is that it cannot run Windows 11.
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