Pico embiggened once more
Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:10:00 GMT
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10 We’ve not stopped partying since we celebrated 50 years of BASIC back in May 2014 (so it’s nearly 53 years now!) by releasing ‘Pico’, a cut down version of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi which boots straight into BASIC.
20 In the intervening TIME the PI Foundation haven’t STOP-ped producing more MODE-ls either, even bringing out a 64 bit variant using the Cortex-A53 PROC-ess-OR.
30 Perfect FOR educational use AND for hackers TO use for industrial control, Pico RETURN-s with updated GPIO support so you can control pins directly from BASIC.
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New models supported
So today we’re releasing an embiggened Pico which adds support for the tiny Pi 0, 64 bit Pi 3, Compute Module 3 and 3L, and very latest Pi 2 revision which now ships with the same processor chip as the Pi 3 does.
There are also some updated examples provided by the community to get you coding.
Updating your existing Pico
Simply download the new ZIP file and extract the contents onto a memory card which has been FAT formatted. It only needs to be a minimum of 16MB in size, so any card from your junk drawer will probably fit the bill.
The 53 year long conga, still going. CC-BY Garry Knight
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