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The Raspberry Pi Foundation's tiny computers can be acclimated for butchering from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the incorporating is branching out into microcontrollers and custom silicon. The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first step. It's a new $4 microcontroller that's smaller than the nowhere Pi, features a custom tweet powerful enough to be acclimated in mechanism learning projects (according to The Raspberry Pi Foundation), and is on sale now.

In its introductory blog post, the convergence explains that today's Raspberry Pis are once often acclimated coextending a smaller microcontroller:

The Raspberry Pi takes deploring of heavyweight computation, pattern access, and storage, while the microcontroller handles counterpart input and low-latency I/O and, sometimes, provides a actual low-power standby mode.

Now, the convergence has one of its own.

In a first for the microcomputer maker, the Pico is powered by a custom tweet designed in house alleged the RP2040. The Pico conform features the new chip, 2MB of gleam memory, a clickable button, and a Micro USB Blazon B port. Here are the RP2040's galore specs:

Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz

264KB (remember kilobytes?) of on-chip RAM

Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Gleam memory via single-minded QSPI bus

DMA controller

Interpolator and integer divider peripherals

30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be acclimated as counterpart inputs

2 x UARTs, 2 x SPI controllers, and 2 x I2C controllers

16 x PWM channels

1 x USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support

8 x Raspberry Pi Programmable I/O (PIO) wholeness machines

USB mass-storage dislodgement pontificate with UF2 support, for drag-and-drop programming

Those specs might go in one ear and out the other, however the all-time way to illustrate the prepatent for a new Raspberry Pi product is to see it acclimated in something cool. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is partnering with companies like Arduino, Adafruit, and Pimoroni to lend the new RP2040 tweet into other boards and gadgets. There's a whole mitzvah in the blog column excavation the Pico, however a few notable ones are Pimoroni's PicoSystem game console, Adafruit's Feather RP 2040 board, and the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is close-by now from approved resellers for $4. The microcontroller will additionally be given yonder for free-willed in February issues of HackSpace magazine.

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