Introducing Tiny 2040 - a postage stamp sized RP2040 dev board

While we love the Raspberry Pi Pico we also wanted something smaller and with a bunch more flash on board. Tiny 2040 is a teeny tiny powerhouse with the chops to realise truly ambitious projects!
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[@dang48]

I've been using mine for a couple of years now and it's quite the versatile little powerhouse. Used it initially for college labs and now, using it for other projects.

[@etnapierala]

Looks great! Random thought: in the followup version of this board, how about adding two jumper pads, one open by default between USB PD and some GPIO, and another closed by default between USB power pin and the rest of pcb power? This way one could easily use it to draw higher power for motors and stuff.

[@HighfireX]

I'd say the biggest draw about this board is the ease of access to the debug ports. Most miniature rp2040s hide these ports in the back where it's not accessible. Here it's like the Raspberry Pico where it can be accessed easily for soldering or using probes.

[@omijharjani]

Try playing with the picosystem... quite underated device so far.

[@jyvben1520]

nice board, good short video

[@JeremiahuTOY]

Help request, if you are up to it: I noticed you put together a small robot with the Tiny 2040. Did you wire it up to a battery?
I am looking at the pinout diagram and am seeing 5v+ out, 3.3v+ out, and GND, but am not seeing a VSYS like on the Raspberry Pi Pico for use with 1.8 v -5.5 v power input other than USB. If I could confirm there is something similar I could hook up a battery to the Tiny 2040 for actual portable and wearable use like they advertise.

[@hinokikuaimu]

VBUS is on pin 5V, it takes 3-5.5V as input. It's also connected to the USB so you'll get 5V out there when powered by USB. 3.3V is the output of the LDO.

[@MichalLesniewski]

are there any plans for "Tiny 2040 W"? 😉

[@pimoroni]

Not currently - don't think we'd manage to fit a Pico W on the back of this one :)

[@YigalBZ]

Thanks for a good video. I would think that such a video should come with a comparison to other similar boards. This one has a nice CPU power, yet it is missing Wifi/BT. I would still stick to Wemos when I need tiny devices. My projects don't require much of CPU, yet I see no reason to do any project nowadays without wireless connectivity.