[skybrian]

The RP2040 chip doesn't have WiFi but the Pico-W board certainly does and we've used it:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5526

Bluetooth support is supposed to be added in the next version of the SDK.

[Saris]

Interesting, to me that seems like a downside having external Wifi/BT over SPI

[mmoskal]

It could be an advantage if the rp2040 had a decent low power mode - then you could only turn on the wifi when you need it (eg data upload every few hours) and run for a year on battery. Alas it doesn't...

I think the main advantage (to some, in the current geopolitical climate) is that it's not Chinese.

[Saris]

Not being based out of China is good yeah.

The ESP series can disable wifi/bt entirely if needed, their low power sleep is pretty good. IIRC someone got a year or more out of a single 18650 cell doing very slow updates.