The Pimoroni Explorer is powered by the RP2350, has 16MB of flash storage (four times that of the Pico 2), a 2.8 inch screen, speaker, two Qw/ST (StemmaQT) connectors.

For example, Pi engineers designed the RP2040's pinout to work well on the Pico, so it could use a cheaper two-layer printed circuit board (PCB).