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    Raspberry Pi Pico

    Feb 09, 2021 4 minutes

    Raspberry Pi has a history of disrupting the status quo. In 2012, the first $35 Raspberry Pi offered a low-cost entry into a market of single-board computers that was dominated by boards costing in excess of $100. The Raspberry Pi Pico, the latest board in the range, disrupts a different part of the electronics market, taking on microcontroller boards like Arduino.

    Available for just $4, the Pico is powered by Raspberry Pi’s own custom silicon, the RP2040 SoC, which features an Arm Cortex M0+ processor running at up to 133MHz, with 264KB of SRAM and 2MB of onboard storage. It’s a great choice for robots, weather stations or other electronics projects. The

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