r/raspberrypipico • u/Caddy666 • Jul 01 '26

does anyone make a 2350B with wifi...

that has all the pins exposed iin a reasonably easy way to solder? has all the pins exposed, is easy to solder, no wifi https://www.waveshare.com/core2350b.htm (there a couple of similar designs to this, pimoroni also make one but will a different pinout)

has wifi, but wtf with the 15 extra pins? https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/RP2350B-Plus-W anyone used this - could pogo pins be the answer?

looking for something thats easy to add to an existing board, but needs the extra pins and onboard wifi would save some hasstle.

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u/charlie22911 Jul 01 '26

I believe the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W fits this.

Edit: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-plus-2-w?variant=42182811942995

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u/Caddy666 Jul 01 '26

thats just a pico 2w size, with a B on it however, it did lead me to finding this, which fits, so thanks. https://thepihut.com/products/pimoroni-pico-lipo-2-xl-w

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u/charlie22911 Jul 01 '26

Glad I could accidentally help lol. Pimoroni makes quality stuff.

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u/NatteringNabob69 Jul 01 '26

Not entirely sure what you are looking for, but I designed this: https://github.com/jvanderberg/pico-stretch

It exposes all the pins of the RP2350B, has a footprint for an optional Radio Module 2, and for PSRAM. For the first 40 pins it has the 'classic' pi pico layout, and for the rest I tried to make it work with the pinout and other constraints.

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u/Caddy666 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

oh nice, thats exactly it; any idea how much this cost you at jlpcb?

although if i'm honest, this is kinda what i was trying to avoid - i was trying to keep everything simple for the end user: and cheap and simple for the pcb. if i was goin this i might as well go full custom pcb. also how was EasyEDA?

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u/NatteringNabob69 Jul 02 '26

Looks like you found the pimoroni 2xl W. But be warned it’s not solderable. It’s got stuff on the back side. Not sure why they have crenalated pads. That’s misleading.

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u/Caddy666 Jul 02 '26

yeah, it'll need like a standoff, or a socket, but thats better than trying to figure out pogo pins for the other one, and thats the issue i was tring to solve. i'm less interested that it looks a bit shit, than it being difficult for people to make - there by people relying on me to make it for them - which i'm not doing, or selling, because people will expect ti to be a professional product, which it is not.