Raspberry Pi Pico
The smallest Raspberry Pi yet
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RASPBERRY PI has a history of disrupting the status Raspberry option in market that was dominated by boards in excess Pico, the latest in the range, disrupts a different part of the market, taking on microcontroller boards like Arduino.
Available for an MSRP of 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 on-board storage. A great
choice for robots, weather stations, or
other electronics projects, the board
doesn’t run a full operating system, but
instead launches programs that you
write in either MicroPython or C on a
host computer (that could be a PC, a Mac,
or a regular Pi) and upload to it.