Paying ~$80 is ridiculous. I am not even convinced the Fruit Jam is worth $40 when you can get a Pi 5 2GB for $50, a Pi Zero 2W for just $15.Shipping the board was going to cost as much as the Fruitjam itself
Its only appeal is it is arguably the best there currently is for a Home Computer based on RP2350. Though I think I'll be favouring a Waveshare RP2350-PiZero with an RM2 breakout attached ($20 total) when I am making this year's Christmas list.
I won't argue there's no point to an RP2350-based Home Computer but there's nothing really serving that niche. Not sure any third-party will produce anything that will.
What I am hoping is that Raspberry Pi will add PIO to the RP3A0 used on the Pi Zero 2W, a means to boot from on-board SPI Flash, and create something new for the Pico-range, supported by the Pico SDK for that. If it can also run Raspberry Pi OS from SD Card and be priced around $20-$25 I think it would sell well.
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.----.-------------------------.-------.--------.----------.-------.-----.-----.| $ | Product | Flash | PSRAM | Wireless | Video | SD | USB ||----|-------------------------|-------|--------|----------|-------|-----|-----|| 5 | Pico 2 | 4 MB | - | - | - | - | 1 || 7 | Pico 2W | 4 MB | - | CYW43 | - | - | 1 || 10 | Waveshare RP2350-PiZero | 16 MB | pads | - | DVI | Yes | 2 || 15 | Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 | 16 MB | 8 MB | - | - | - | 1 || 22 | Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W | 16 MB | 8 MB | RM2 | - | - | 1 || 29 | Olimex RP2350pc | 16 MB | 8 MB | - | DVI | Yes | 1+4 || 40 | Adafruit Fruit Jam | 16 MB | 8 MB | ESP32-C6 | DVI | Yes | 1+2 ||----|-------------------------|-------|--------|----------|-------|-----|-----|| 15 | Raspberry Pi Zero 2W | GB | 512 MB | CYW43 | HDMI | Yes | 1 |`----^-------------------------^-------^--------^----------^-------^-----^-----'It seems to me that a number of people have asked how to use a Pi as if a microcontroller and this may be the answer to that, could even be extended to other Pi in the range.
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sat Sep 06, 2025 6:11 pm