Source: https://www.tinypico.com/

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The following gives us even less of a headache because both hardware and software are completely open source. And TinyPICO is just outstanding. It is an ESP32 based development board, that is so small, you will not believe it. Still, it comes with a huge list of onboard features like (not exhaustive) a 32Bit Dual Core RISC-V ESP32 MCU at 240MHz, Wifi, Bluetooth, 4MB SPI Flash, 4MB PSRam and 14 GPIO Pins broken out. Considering that this board measures only 18x32mm and comes with a Micro-B or USB-C port, it's almost magical. I mean, look how small this thing is! Still enormously capable and programmable in MicroPython as well as C.

This certainly very hard piece of work by Seon Rozenblum is available since this week. Should you plan some hardware project this summer, give TinyPICO a read. Especially the ESP32 which for example also powers the Nintendo Game & Watch is very interesting. Not only because of it’s RISC-V architecture, but especially because of it’s super low power consumption.

Nice device.