
B/The Raspberry
Pi Pico
In this appendix, we’ll take a look at the Raspberry Pi Pico.
The Pico is the newest entry in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem and was
released in February 2021. It’s a small microcontroller, similar to an
Arduino, that utilizes the RP2040 chip developed by the Raspberry
Pi organization. It retails in the United States for $4. The RP2040
is a dual-core ARM Cortex-M0+ that runs at up to 133MHz and is
programmable using both C and MicroPython.
The Pico Itself
Figure B-1.
The Raspberry Pi Pico
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