The Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced the world to a new Raspberry! On Pětka, however, let your taste buds go, as this will only be suitable for advanced programmers. Instead of a popular Linux computer, it is only Raspberry Pi Debug Probe.
It is powered by an RP2040 microcontroller with firmware Picoprobe and it will help do-it-yourselfers either as a universal USB-UART converter or as a tuning probe for arm chips.
Tuning/debugging box for Arm chips
So you won’t install Kodi on it, but if you’re programming Pico boards or other arm kits and chips, with the Debug Probe and its support for the CMSIS-DAP interface and 3.3V UART/SWD signals, you’ll be able to detect errors in your firmware, for example in a debugging program OpenOCD.
The device is already in stock at the official Czech retailer RPishop.cz za 329 crowns.
We unpack the box in the video:
The package also includes a red MicroUSB cable for connection to a PC and three cables that you connect to the Debug Probe through the JST connectors and to the target board through the classic male/female “duponts”.
The connectors are three-pin and depending on the function you will find 3.3V signals on them:
- UART: RX, GND, TX
- SWD: SC (Serial Clock), GND, SD (Serial Data)
If you’ve been waiting for the Raspberry Pi 5, which I talked about privately with the foundation’s evangelists at last year’s Maker Faire in Rome, you’ll have to wait.
He will not get to the fifth generation Malina this year. Rather, we will be lucky if at least the current and, due to the lack of it on the market, quite overpriced Four will be in stock for reasonable money.
