News Crowdfunding Board Has ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico Working Together

[Admin]

EsPiFF merges the powerful RP2040 with the venerable ESP32 into the Raspberry Pi 4 form factor for an intriguing microcontroller platform.

Crowdfunding Board Has ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico Working Together : Read more

 

[ventrig]

Very interesting combination. Is there a preliminary data sheet available? When and where would I be able to buy one?

 

[EsPiFF]

Very interesting combination. Is there a preliminary data sheet available? When and where would I be able to buy one?

Hi there,

we have now a preliminary datasheet for the version 3.1: https://github.com/MDCservice/EsPiFF/blob/main/datasheet_v3_1.pdf

Please be advised, that the version we sell over the crowdsupply campaign, will be the version 3.2, what adds a few more features over the 3.1, particular

• addition of 8 MBit ISSI high end SPI flash,
• addition of the footprint for up to 512 MBit ISSI high end SPI flash,
• footprint for a JTAG header for kernel developers.

The board can be bought via the crowdsupply campaign (https://www.crowdsupply.com/mdc-service-wittenburg-gmbh/espiff), what will soon receive orders. Please subscribe there, to get notified about the price and starting date.

BR,
Michael

 

[EsPiFF]

EsPiFF merges the powerful RP2040 with the venerable ESP32 into the Raspberry Pi 4 form factor for an intriguing microcontroller platform.

Crowdfunding Board Has ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico Working Together : Read more

Hi Ian,

thank you for the great article about the EsPiFF. We have now an annotated picture showing all the functionality on the EsPiFF board, as well as a preliminary datasheet.

 

[boyddotee]

Am I the only one that sees issues with the ESP's antenna?

 

[EsPiFF]

Hi there,

The PCB antenna of the ESP32-WROVER is disconnected by factory default. An external antenna with a uFL connector is included in our package.
Unfortunately there is no ESP32 module available with 16 MB Flash, 8 MB PSRAM and MII Ethernet, without a PCB antenna.
That's why we choose the ESP32-WROVER-IB, what have a PCB antenna and the uFL connector.

We are constrained by the Raspberry Pi's PCB size and had to make the decision to keep the Pi form factor or have the antenna protrude above the board.
This would break the compatibility with RasPi enclosures.

We will update the datasheet to mention the external antenna.