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Adding a raspberry pi in fritzing

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I understand that an H version of this is on its way (Pimoroni says PicoW H is “coming soon”). When you look at the Pico W, note that this is currently SMD, see page 10 of where the pads for the SWD are in a different position to the original.

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Your attached “PicoH-Fritzing-SMD” version isn’t correct because (a) there isn’t such a part and (b) the breadboard view shows a JST connector for the SWD pins, but it should be like the “original” Pico, with castellated pads like the other pins. So it would be good to correct it for VSS and SWD location on schematic (if you have the time, sorry). The original Pico was both SMD and header capable: I suggest people will still use these a lot. But if someone wants to put an original Pico on a PCB using headers and use SWD, there is no corrected part for this (because of VSS). Visually, the SWD pins at the top on the schematic view wasn’t ideal (the Pico H THT version is better in this respect, where they are at the bottom now). The original Pico fritzing part had only one error: you had “VSS” instead of “VSYS” at pin 39. I haven’t got an opinion on the PCB detail, but my other observations are:

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Thanks for this the Pico H looks OK for me and I guess is what a lot will use going forward.

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