What am I doing wrong?

[jonnypoko]

Made up a few of these beautiful boards and tried with two official RPi Pico H - both work fine (very excited) Then I tried with three RPi Pico RP240 clones (4M and 16M veresions, non LED) and none of them work - no sound and no config menu? all three of these boards work with the blink.uf2? what could I be doing wrong, I'm afraid my knowlege of RPi ends about here? Awesome project!! what is the difference between the LED and RGB uf2 files (where do I find that info? - sorry pretty new to github too)

[frntc]

I hope you did not try the purple clones? Because they have another pinout and won't work... (flash size 4M, 16M, ... does not matter)

LED = firmware that lets the status LED blink, RGB = firmware for clones with RGB LED on the PCB.

[jonnypoko]

purple as in pcb colour? mine are black? I have ordered a couple of the RGB LED ones as well and they should arrive soon.

[frntc]

Color aside :-) -- is the pinout the same as for the original Pi Pico?

Several people experience bad build quality for the cheap clones (wrongly soldered parts, solder bridges etc), so the best thing is to also try a "blink" example to see if it works at all

[jonnypoko]

Blink works on all of them, but you are correct the pinout is different??? why would they sell clones with different pinouts, it's a black board (both the 4M and 16M versions) which has some random pin config. I should have checked this I guess, but it is hard to decipher from the various order links on AliEx. So a WARNING TO ALL not all clones are created equally - even before you get to build quality issues. Is there a differnet RPIPico board they are trying to emulate with this pinout do you know? Anyway, the boards with the RGB on seem to be a match (arrived today) so I will try those tonight. Final Question - what are the minimum pins required to hook up the SidKickPico and the RPi board?

[jonnypoko]

I just wanted to add, thanks for the help and that I have never been more excited about a new project than after watching the "more fun fixing it" youtube video on the SIDKickPico - I ordered the boards that night...👍

[frntc]

you mean which GPIOs from the Pico (clones) are needed for the SKpico? all that are present on the original Pico :-)

[jonnypoko]

next phase of my journey from planet stupid - I got the new boards with the RGB LED on and the first one i have soldered works fine - sound, menu - but no RGB? I preesume the sidkick pico board is outputting the WS2812 to GPIO23 on pin 37?