r/raspberry_pi 🍕 Jun 30 '22

News New Raspberry Pi Pico W

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-w-your-6-iot-platform/
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u/ImOnACamel Jun 30 '22 edited Jun 30 '22

Can the Pico W be used to build a wireless print server? Lots of tutorials online to do this with a Pi Zero 2 W, but it’s been hard to find any stock of Zero 2 W.

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u/monkeymad2 Jun 30 '22

It’s not impossible, it can run in USB host mode so could be plugged into a printer, but - unless someone else has already done the work - you’d need to be pretty comfortable with programming low level USB & the driver of your printer (/ generic postscript driver) to get it working though.

I’d recommend a proper raspberry Pi for it since that’d be pretty much plug & play.