{"id":645186,"date":"2024-11-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/raspberry-pi-releases-the-pico-2-w-a-7-wireless-enabled-microcontroller-board\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:00:00","slug":"raspberry-pi-releases-the-pico-2-w-a-7-wireless-enabled-microcontroller-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/raspberry-pi-releases-the-pico-2-w-a-7-wireless-enabled-microcontroller-board\/","title":{"rendered":"#Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W<\/a>, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented<\/a> microcontroller.<\/p>\n

But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices. Regular Raspberry Pis are general<\/a> purpose single-board computers, while microcontrollers are specifically designed to interact with other things.<\/p>\n

Microcontrollers tend to be cheap, small and very power efficient. As you can see in the picture above, the Pico 2 W has dozens of input and output pins on the sides (the small yellow holes all around the board) with which it communicates with other components.<\/p>\n

Hobbyists usually start developing a microcontroller-based project with a breadboard<\/a> to avoid soldering. Later down the road, they can solder the microcontroller to other parts.<\/p>\n

Unlike traditional Raspberry Pi computers, microcontrollers don\u2019t run a full-fledged operating system. Your code runs directly on the chip.<\/p>\n

In addition to C and C++, the Pico 2 W supports MicroPython, a Python-inspired language for microcontrollers, for development. The new board retains hardware and software compatibility with previous generation boards.<\/p>\n

The new $7 Pico 2 W features a dual-core, dual-architecture processor running at 150MHz. When developing for the microcontroller, you can choose between a pair of Arm Cortex-M33 cores and a pair of open-hardware Hazard 3 RISC-V cores.<\/p>\n

Arm Cortex-M33 cores are widely used in the microcontroller world, but some might prefer RISC-V cores. Everything is configurable in software, so you don\u2019t have to pick one microcontroller over the other when you order new boards.<\/p>\n

The Pico 2 W has 4\u00a0MB of on-board flash memory to store your code, while the RP2350 features 520 KB of on-chip SRAM. Again, this is not a computing beast. It\u2019s a microcontroller!<\/p>\n

As for wireless capabilities, the Pico 2 W supports Wi-Fi (2.4GHz 802.11n) and Bluetooth 5.2. It would have been nice to get 5GHz support for versatility, but maybe we\u2019ll get that with the next revision.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t need wireless features for pricing or compliance certification reasons, Raspberry Pi also offers the Pico 2 without that functionality for $5.<\/p>\n

Raspberry Pi\u2019s products are being increasingly used by industrial and electronics manufacturing companies. When Raspberry Pi became a public company this year, it reported that the industrial and embedded segment represented 72% of its sales.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably why you can buy individual units of the Pico 2 boards, as well as 480-unit reels. This is what a reel of Pico 2 microcontroller boards looks like:<\/p>\n

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