The Raspberry Pi Pico.
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi announced the launch of its first microcontroller product on Thursday. The $ 4 Raspberry Pi Pico is powered by a new chip developed by the company. The 7x7mm chip has 40nm silicone with a dual core Arm Cortex-M0 processor.
Raspberry Pi has sold more than 37 million products to date. His mini computers only cost $ 35, but sometimes needs to be connected to a microcontroller. Until now, Raspberry Pi has not developed its own.
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Here is the complete list of specifications for the Raspberry Pi Pico:
- Dual core arm Cortex-M0 + @ 133MHz
- 264 KB RAM
- 16 MB Flash memory
- DMA Administrator
- Interpolator and integer peripherals
- 30 GPIO pins, four of which can be used as analog inputs
- 2x UARTs, 2 × SPI controllers and 2 × I2C controllers
- 16x PWM channels
- 1x USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
- 8x Raspberry Pi Programmable I / O (PIO) state machines
- USB mass storage boot mode with UF2 support
You can buy it online now, or get it for free in the February 2021 HackSpace magazine.