Raspberry Pi Pico
In the previous article, we talked about what Raspberry Pi is, what it’s used for, and its models. In this article, we’re going to examine one of the models of Raspberry Pi called Raspberry Pi Pico. Of course, there is a reason behind why we’re focusing on this board, but you’ll understand it better in the next articles. Let’s have a look at Raspberry Pi Pico.
What is Raspberry Pi Pico?
The Raspberry Pi Pico series is a range of versatile, tiny, and fast boards built using RP2040, the flagship microcontroller chip designed by the Raspberry Pi. This board is a low-cost microcontroller device. A microcontroller is a small, integrated computer chip designed to perform specific tasks in embedded systems and electronic devices. A Raspberry Pi Pico has GPIO pins like other Raspberry Pi models, which means that it can interact with a variety of electronic devices.
Raspberry Pi Pico
In standard Raspberry Pi Picos, they don’t come with soldered header pins. If you don’t know how to solder, you might like to have a look at this video. Raspberry Pi Pico has 40 pins on its board. These pins allow users to connect external components to this development board. You can check the pins of Raspberry Pi Pico below.
Raspberry Pi Pico Technical Specifications:
- 21mm x 25mm form factor.
- RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi.
- Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz.
- 264kB on-chip SRAM.
- 2MB on-board QSPI flash.
- 26 multifunction GPIO pins, including 3 analogue inputs.
- 2 × UART, 2 × SPI controllers, 2 × I2C controllers, 16 × PWM channels.
- 1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support.
- 8 × Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support
- Supported input voltage 1.8–5.5V DC
Raspberry Pi Pico Pins
Raspberry Pi Pico is not the only board in this series. Raspberry Pi has launched additional Pico boards to allow greater functionality and accessibility. These Pico boards are Pico H, Pico W, and Pico WH. We are going to go through each model in this blog.
Raspberry Pi Pico Versions
Raspberry Pi Pico H
The only difference between Raspberry Pi Pico H and Raspberry Pi Pico is the presence of pre-soldered headers and a new 3-debug connector. There are 20 pads on each side, with groups of GPIO pins on both sides. Since it’s pre-soldered, you don’t have to solder any headers to Raspberry Pi Pico H. Thanks to this, it’s perfect for educational and fast prototyping environments. This board allows users to start their projects without wasting time.
Raspberry Pi Pico W
Raspberry Pi Pico W is a new development board developed by Raspberry Pi that provides Wi-Fi capability to Raspberry Pi Pico, allowing users to connect their devices to a Wi-Fi network. Unlike Raspberry Pi Pico H, Raspberry Pi Pico W does not come with soldered header pins. Pico and Pico W are functionally very similar. For the vast majority of projects, there will be no difference except for some minor quirks with internal GPIO configuration.
Raspberry Pi Pico WH
Raspberry Pi Pico WH is a combination of the W and H series. It comes with the pre-soldered headers and JTAG connector of the Pico H. This variant will allow you to develop wireless and IoT applications for fast development.
Raspberry Pi Pico WH
This is the end of our second blog in this series. We talked about Raspberry Pi Pico and its additional boards. In the next blog, I would like to mention the projects that you can create by using Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards we examined in this blog. Thank you for your time.
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