Raspberry Pi announces $ 4 microcontroller

Raspberry Pi Pico

The Raspberry Pi Pico.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi on Thursday announced the launch of its first microcontroller product. The $ 4 Raspberry Pi Pico is powered by a new chip developed by the company. The 7x7mm chip has 40nm silicon with a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0 processor.

Raspberry Pi has sold over 37 million products to date. it is minicomputers cost just $ 35, but sometimes needs to be paired with a microcontroller. Until now, the Raspberry Pi had not developed its own.

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Here is the complete list of specifications for the Raspberry Pi Pico:

  • Dual-core Cortex-M0 + @ 133MHz arm
  • 264 KB of RAM
  • 16 MB of Flash memory
  • DMA controller
  • Interpolator peripherals and entire dividers
  • 30 GPIO pins, four of which can be used as analog inputs
  • 2x UARTs, 2 × SPI controllers and 2 × I2C controllers
  • 16 PWM channels
  • 1 USB 1.1 and PHY controller, with host and device support
  • 8 Raspberry Pi programmable I / O (PIO) state machines
  • USB mass storage boot mode with UF2 support

You can buy it online now or get one for free in the February 2021 issue of HackSpace magazine.

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