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		skybrian on June 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform Yes, this is for embedded devices like Arduino. You write firmware and load it into flash. 264K is plenty for many things you can do with that kind of device.

moffkalast on June 30, 2022 [–]

A bit low for Wifi stuff though isn't it? The ESP32 has 520KB and that's usually already somewhat limiting.

skybrian on June 30, 2022 | [–]

I don't know. I'm using the original Pico and not doing WiFi.

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