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tenij000
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Joined: 30/05/2025
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: 12:19pm 13 Sep 2025
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RP2350-PICO2-XXL is re-design of the popular "Raspberry Pi Pico 2" board with some improvements

PICO2-XL has 2MB external Flash

PICO2-XXL has 16MB external Flash, 8MB external PSRAM, and a micro SD-card connector

FEATURES
RP2350B Dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V @ 150MHz
520 KB on-chip SRAM
USB-C data and power supply connector
BOOT and RESET buttons
2MB QSPI flash (only in -XL version)
16MB QSPI flash (only in -XXL version)
8MB QSPI PSRAM (only in -XXL version)
Micro SD-card (only in -XXL version)
UEXT connector (pUEXT 1.0 mm step connector)
Qwiic/Stemma connector
Status LED
All 48 GPIOs exposed
Dimensions: (50 x 28)mm ~ (1.97 x 1.10)"
DOCUMENTS
PICO2-XXL pinout
PICO2-XXL user manual
PICO2-XXL EU declaration of confirmity
PICO2-XXL UKCA declaration of confirmity
HARDWARE
PICO2-XXL latest schematic in PDF format
PICO2-XXL source CAD files on GitHub
SOFTWARE
Raspberry Pi C-SDK
Micropython
Arduino

Default firmware binaries

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Edited 2025-09-13 22:20 by tenij000
 
JanVolk
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Joined: 28/01/2023
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Posted: 08:50pm 14 Sep 2025
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tenij000,              

I bought my board from tinytronics.nl. Check the TinyTronics section at Olimex for the price including VAT.
So far, no problems with the latest firmware.
The width of the PCB pin spacing isn't exactly 0.1 inches if you want to mount it on a 0.1-inch hole board, and you'll need to take that into account when designing your own board.
See the PDF for a breadboard solution.

Olimex RP2350B-XXL.pdf

Regards,

Jan.
 
Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:31am 15 Sep 2025
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Are the pins on 2mm pitch rather than the usual 2.54mm? That's becoming more common on cheap boards. Mind you, double rows of pins aren't breadboard friendly anyway. Matherp's solution is better if you want a breadboard.
Mick

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PhenixRising
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Posted: 10:20am 15 Sep 2025
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  Mixtel90 said   Matherp's solution is better


Better, period  

Wonderful design and the production quality is first-rate  
 
JanVolk
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Posted: 04:21pm 15 Sep 2025
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Mick,

They are indeed dual 2.54mm pin strips, so that's not the problem. However, when I place the RP2350B-XXL board on a 0.1-inch perforated board, the opposite pin strip
doesn't align with the perforated board, and the pins end up between two holes. (Too bad for a project on perforated boards.)
The version I received is the PICO2-XXL Rev. B, which omits some capacitors and uses SD MISO=GP24. (My board doesn't yet have the RP2350B A4.)
And you're right that Matherp's solution is better, but I only need one board, and the price is good with local shipping for a complete board with all pins available, including an SD card holder, and for a test with the RP2350B with PSRAM and 8 ADCs.

Regards,

Jan.
 
Mixtel90

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Posted: 05:45pm 15 Sep 2025
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So they arranged the pins to be half a hole out? Excellent! Well Done! ;)
Mick

Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini
Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs
 
phil99

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Joined: 11/02/2018
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Posted: 09:33pm 15 Sep 2025
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A work-around is to cut the perforated board in half.
 
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