New Arduino-like Pi Board.
Posted: 21 Jan 2021, 11:19
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a new product today - the Raspberry Pi Pico.
This is not a single-board computer like the other Raspberry Pis - rather it is a single chip microcontroller - similar to our Arduino boards.
It's much more powerful than an Arduino Nano or similar - it has 264KB of RAM, and an ARM M0 processor running at 133MHz. But you program it like an Arduino using C++ (or you can also use Python and other languages).
A possible downside for our use is that it that the pins operate at 3.3V, not 5V - though this is the norm nowadays.
Of course, there are lots of other similar boards around already, but the Pico is cheap, available via local suppliers, and if the Raspberry Pi itself is anything to go by, the Pico will become enormously popular, so there will be lots of support available and plenty of projects by others to look at and use.
This is not a single-board computer like the other Raspberry Pis - rather it is a single chip microcontroller - similar to our Arduino boards.
It's much more powerful than an Arduino Nano or similar - it has 264KB of RAM, and an ARM M0 processor running at 133MHz. But you program it like an Arduino using C++ (or you can also use Python and other languages).
A possible downside for our use is that it that the pins operate at 3.3V, not 5V - though this is the norm nowadays.
Of course, there are lots of other similar boards around already, but the Pico is cheap, available via local suppliers, and if the Raspberry Pi itself is anything to go by, the Pico will become enormously popular, so there will be lots of support available and plenty of projects by others to look at and use.