Raspberry Pi Pico board partners are slowly releasing their RP2040 'Pi Silicon' based boards. So far, we have seen boards from Pimoroni and Adafruit , but hot on their heels is the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. In a recent tweet , we see Arduino using this board in a computer vision carrier board.
Experimenting with computer vision on the upcoming #Arduino Nano #RP2040 Connect! 👀 Loving this hot slice of @Raspberry_Pi silicon, @EbenUpton! 💖 pic.twitter.com/3Q1tFNbQfQ March 17, 2021
The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect will be the first partner board, based upon Raspberry Pi's RP2040 SoC, to come with WiFi and Bluetooth via a ublox NINA-W102 module. A 9-axis IMU sensor and microphone are icing on the cake for what could be the leading RP2040 for IoT.
With this latest tweet, we see an OV7675 640 x 480 camera capable of up to 30fps is used for computer vision and machine learning projects , some of which Arducam is also working on. The tweet shows the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect on a custom carrier board that also provides six Grove style connectors, one of which is labeled for I2C use. Judging by the quality of the PCB and silkscreen printing, we hazard a guess that this is a prototype of an accessory that may be available to support the Arduino board.
The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect looks to be the go-to RP2040 board for IoT applications. It can be programmed using the Arduino Create web editor, and support will be added to the Arduino IDE via a future update. As this is an RP2040 board, it will also support MicroPython and possibly CircuitPython should there be a demand.
There is still no indication on price or availability, but we will review this board and many other RP2040 boards from other partners.