New Pimoroni RP2350 Pico Plus 2 Board

I pre-ordered one of the new Raspberry PI Pico 2 boards as soon as they were announced a few days ago. I saw that Pimoroni had their own similar board, the Pico Plus 2, available so I ordered one of those and received it a couple of days later. I had it flashing its LED in a few minutes. The Pimoroni board has several advantages over the Raspberry Pi unit, like more memory, but costs over twice as much.

This is what it looks like:

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