Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi Pico, and Arm based microcontroller in a post on their official site.

A low cost, high-performance microcontroller board built around Raspberry Pi's RP2040.


From the Raspberry Pi Foundations website the RP2040 has the following features:

  • Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz
  • 264KB (remember kilobytes?) of on-chip RAM
  • Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus DMA controller
  • Interpolator and integer divider peripherals
  • 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analogue inputs
  • 2 × UARTs, 2 × SPI controllers, and 2 × I2C controllers
  • 16 × PWM channels
  • 1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
  • 8 × Raspberry Pi Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines
  • USB mass-storage boot mode with UF2 support, for drag-and-drop programming

It's the drag-and-drop programming is the standout feature, vastly reducing development time.


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