Raspberry Pi Pico, now with WiFi!

Pi Pico W. © Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Launched early last year, the Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller built on the RP2040, a chip also developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Costing just CAD 5.25, it incorporates a pair of 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU cores and 264 kilobytes of RAM. To entice companies to think of the Pico as a basis for Internet-connected smart devices, the Raspberry Pi Foundation presented a new variant, the Raspberry Pi Pico W, which adds WiFi connectivity to the board with a WiFi 4 (802.11n) Infineon CYW43439 chip. This new version costs CAD 7.95. Raspberry Pi also introduced two other Pico products: the Pico H and Pico WH. They’re the same as the Pico and Pico W, but with pre-installed header pins and a new three-pin debug connector.

⇨ Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham, “The tiniest Raspberry Pi gets a new version with built-in Wi-Fi.”

2022-07-04