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al18
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Posted: 12:49am 05 Jul 2026

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The Adafruit Fruit Jam was released in July 2025 and has the 80 pin RP2350B processor, 16 MB Flash, 8 MB PSRAM, HDMI connected thru GPIO12-19 thru HCTX pins, has 2 USB ports connected to a CH334. The Fruit Jam costs $39.95 and is available thru Adafruit and Digikey.

Compared to the PicoMite 3 board, it seems to be mostly compatible, with the exception of the I2S audio TLV320DAC3100 I2S DAC and the WiFi which is handled with an ESP32-C6.

The MicroSD connections seem significantly different, with the Fruit Jam using GPIO34-39. Don’t know if is a deal breaker.

Pinout of the Fruit Jam is at https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-fruit-jam/pinout

Is the Fruit Jam compatible with the PicoMite 6?

Mixtel90

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Posted: 10:22am 05 Jul 2026

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It doesn't seem to be fully compatible with MMBasic to me. But then, I wouldn't expect it to be. Not a good candidate. At $39 I'd consider it to be a waste of money, although you could probably get it to do *something* by customising the options, writing a fey library routines for it and losing GPIO pins.

Only my opinion, of course.

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scruss
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Posted: 04:45pm 07 Jul 2026

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There are reports of PicoMite running on a FruitJam in this thread:
new 2350 boards from Adafruit

Getting the networking going might be fiddly. I know why Adafruit used an ESP32-C6 connected via SPI (cheap!) but adapting the code may not be fun.

There are likely thousands of FruitJams out there. While Adafruit might not support a port financially (that's what their CircuitPython is for) they'd definitely publicize it if they knew about it. The price is reasonable for a fully-assembled ready-to-go unit that you can buy from many distributors.

If I could find my FruitJam, I'd try it!

al18
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Posted: 07:12pm 07 Jul 2026

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Thanks for the link to that other thread, which I forgot about.

I did watch an Adafruit video about a Pygame framework for the Fruit Jam. Adafruit developers have said the Fruit Jam can be safely overclocked up to 200 MHz, but don’t recommend faster speeds - so it’s not optimal to run PicoMite.

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