LILYGO Launches a New T-Pico, Now Featuring the Raspberry Pi RP2350A and Espressif ESP32-C6

LILYGO has announced a new model of T-Pico all-in-one development kit, now featuring a Raspberry Pi RP2350A microcontroller — and an Espressif ESP32-C6 for good measure, acting as a communications coprocessor.

The T-Pico 2350, as the new model is known, builds on the company's T-Pico C3 and T-Pico Pro, featuring a 2.33" 480×222 full-color IPS touchscreen display, an HDMI-compatible video output supporting a 480p60 resolution, and 15 pins of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) connectivity brought out to two connectors, plus two Qwiic ports — one offering I2C connectivity, the other UART serial.

These GPIO, I2C, and UART pins are connected to the development board's Raspberry Pi RP2350A microcontroller — its second-generation in-house design, featuring two Arm Cortex-M33 cores and two free and open-source Hazard3 RISC-V cores running at up to 150MHz usable in any one- or two-core combination and 520kB of static RAM (SRAM) — but they're not alone: a second 13-pin connector breaks out a further nine GPIO pins and a UART bus from the Espressif ESP32-C6 coprocessor, which also delivers single-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 Low Energy (BLE), and IEEE 802.15.4 radio connectivity.

Elsewhere in the gadget, brought to our attention by CNX Software, is 16MB of flash plus a microSD Card slot for the Raspberry Pi RP2350 plus 4MB of flash for the ESP32-C6. There's a user-addressable push-button switch, plus boot selection and reset buttons for the RP2350 and a boot selection button for the ESP32-C6, and a USB Type-C connector U2014 that, interestingly, can connect to either the RP2350 or the ESP32-C6 depending on which way up the board is when you plug it in.

The LILYGO T-Pico 2350 is available to order on the company's official store, priced at $37.78; code examples instructions are available on GitHub.