The first microcontroller board of Raspberry Pi is Raspberry Pi Pico that specially designed for physical computing. Raspberry Pi Pico is built using RP2040 that features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB internal RAM and support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash. It is a tiny, fast, and versatile board having a wide range of flexible I/O options including I2C, SPI, etc. It comes without header pins so, you have to purchase that separately. We can reprogram it easily over USB from a Raspberry Pi or other computer using the C/C++ SDK or the official MicroPython port.

Technical Specifications of PICO:

• 21 mm × 51 mm form factor
• RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK
• Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, the flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
• 264KB on-chip SRAM
• 2MB onboard QSPI Flash
• 26 multifunction GPIO pins, including 3 analog inputs
• 2 × SPI controllers, 2 × UART, 16 × PWM channels, 2 × I2C controllers
• 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 power 1.8–5.5V DC
• Operating temperature -20°C to +85°C
• The castellated module allows soldering directly to carrier boards
• Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB
• Low-power sleep and dormant modes
• Accurate on-chip clock
• Temperature sensor
• Accelerated integer and floating-point libraries on-chip

 

Raspberry Pi PICO Pinout:

Package Contains:

1 x Raspberry Pi Pico