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Pimoroni Pico LiPo Review: Pico Pinout with Plenty of Extras

Our Verdict This is the Raspberry Pi Pico on steroids. The power of the RP2040 with the extra conveniences that make creating projects a breeze. For + Identical Pico pinout + Battery charging + Stemma QT / Qwiic connector + Large flash memory + USB C Against – Costs much more than a Pico There… Read more

Adafruit Squeezes the Power of the RP2040 Into a USB key

Home News (Image credit: Adafruit) Adafruit has a lot of love for Raspberry Pi RP2040 SoC. Adafruit are partners in the RP2040, and have already released a slew of boards based on the powerful SoC. For the latest prototype, presented via Twitter we see Adafruit founder Limor “Lady Ada” Fried demonstrate the QT 2040 Trinkey,… Read more

Stemma, Qwiic and Grove Connectors: Which is Right for You?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Electronics is a world of protocols, technologies and connections. From the humble jumper wire, the most basic of connections where individual wires are used to connect the GPIO to a device, to specialist connectors often polarized or keyed for use with a specific interface. If you are new to… Read more

Adafruit QT Py RP2040 Review: A tiny board for great projects

Our Verdict There is so much to love about this board. Small in size, yet great in flexibility the QT Py RP2040 is a board that you need in your projects. For + Small size + Stemma QT Port + USB-C Against – Lack of GPIO pins Adafruit have so far released three RP2040 boards…. Read more

Raspberry Pi Sends 6,400 RP2040 Chips to Arduino for Upcoming Board

Home News (Image credit: Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi Trading) The impending arrival of another Raspberry Pi RP2040 powered partner is almost upon us. In a conversation on Twitter between Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton and Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi we see reels of RP2040 chips destined for Arduino’s first ‘Pi Silicon’ board. Hey @mbanzi,… Read more

Next Raspberry Pi CPU Will Have Machine Learning Built In

Home News (Image credit: Future) At the recent tinyML Summit 2021, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton teased the future of ‘Pi Silicon’ and it looks like machine learning could see a massive improvement thanks to Raspberry Pi’s news in-house chip development team. It is safe to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico and its RP2040… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico ‘Pi Silicon’ Heading Out To Partners

Home News (Image credit: Future) In a tweet from Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton, we see trays of RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ chips destined for board partners to build their own models of RP2040 boards. Each of these trays holds 1200 chips, but these latest chips are a little different to those that have come before…. Read more

With 200K Sold in 3 Weeks, Raspberry Pi Pico is Selling Out. Here’s Where to Buy.

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) While it’s not quite as hard-to-get as an RTX 3000 series graphics card or a Ryzen 5000 CPU, the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico is so popular that most U.S.-based retailers are currently out of stock, with units selling on eBay at 3x to 4x markups. According to Raspberry Pi… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico: Tutorials, Pinout, Everything You Need to Know

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a radical change from previous Pis, because it’s not a Linux computer, but a a microcontroller board like Arduino . The biggest selling points of the Raspberry Pi Pico are the price, $4 and the new RP2040 chip which provides ample power for embedded… Read more

‘Pi Silicon’ Partners Reveal RP2040 Boards and Accessories

Home News (Image credit: SparkFun / Pimoroni) SparkFun and Pimoroni, partners in the recent Raspberry Pi Pico project, have announced their own RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards with extra features and changes to the Pico form factor. Pimoroni is also the first partner to have add-on boards available for purchase for release day. This follows… Read more

RP2040 microcontroller board: Raspberry Pi Pico costs from 4 euros

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has presented the Raspberry Pi Pico, the first microcontroller miniboard developed in-house. While the classic Raspberry Pi is getting faster and bigger in performance and storage capacity, the Raspberry Pi Pico should be used where another Pi board would be too big, too consumption-intensive and simply oversized. A RP 2017 microcontroller… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico: microcontroller board for 4 euros

The Raspberry Pi Pico is aimed at projects for which a Raspberry Pi is too big, too power-hungry, too complicated – or too expensive. The Pico costs 4 euros, is a little bigger than an Arduino Nano and has the economical 32 – Bit microcontroller RP 2040 developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation itself Has…. Read more