Raspberry PI Pico
If you are looking for a very small but yet powerful microcontroller for your projects, this is just the product for you. The Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller That is built using the RP2040 chip.
Programming this microcontroller is extremely simple since you only need to write the code that you want the microcontroller to do, connect the microcontroller to your computer using a USB cable and then upload the code onto your microcontroller. Using Thonny as the IDE to write the code for your Raspberry Pi Pico, makes it very simple to write and upload your code to the microcontroller.
The Raspberry Pi Pico can be programmed using C/C++, SDK, or with the MicroPython port.
Technical specifications:
- RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom
- Dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
- 264kB of SRAM, and 2MB of onboard Flash memory
- The castellated module allows soldering directly to carrier boards
- USB 1.1 Host and Device support
- Low-power sleep and dormant modes
- Drag & drop programming using mass storage over USB
- 26 multi-function GPIO pins
- 2×SPI, 2×I2C, 2×UART, 3×12-bit ADC, 16×controllable PWM channels
- Accurate clock and timer on-chip
- Temperature sensor
- Accelerated floating-point libraries on-chip
- 8×Programmable IO (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support
- The digital pins on the Raspberry Pi Pico uses 3.3V
Below is a pin layout diagram of the Raspberry Pi Pico
