Raspberry Pi Pico

Description

A low cost, high-performance microcontroller board built around Raspberry Pi's very own chip - the RP2040.
Raspberry Pi Pico is Raspberry Pi's first
microcontroller board
, designed especially for physical computing. Microcontrollers are a different type of device than Single Board Computers (like the Raspberry Pi 4 and previous generations of Pi), they don't run an operating system and they are typically programmed to do just one task - though that task can be pretty intricate and exciting! They're perfect for experimenting with hardware and using as the brains of custom devices, machines and inventions.
It can be easily reprogrammed over USB from a Raspberry Pi or other computer using the C/C++ SDK or the official MicroPython port. The landing page is the best place to , or scroll down for links to the technical documentation for both the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board and the RP2040 microcontroller chip.
Please note that
the Pico comes without header pins
- you'll need to pick some up if you want to be able to plug your Pico into into a breadboard or any other Raspberry Pi Pico add-ons.
Board Specifications
Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces, built on silicon designed at Raspberry Pi. Key features include:
RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom
Dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
264kB of SRAM, and 2MB of on-board Flash memory
Castellated module allows soldering direct to carrier boards
USB 1.1 Host and Device support
Low-power sleep and dormant modes
Drag & drop programming using mass storage over USB
26 multi-function GPIO pins
2×SPI, 2×I2C, 2×UART, 3×12-bit ADC, 16×controllable PWM channels
Accurate clock and timer on-chip
Temperature sensor
Accelerated floating point libraries on-chip
8×Programmable IO (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support
Documentation
Documentation for the Raspberry Pi Pico board and the RP2040 microcontroller:
- An RP2040-based microcontroller board
- A microcontroller by Raspberry Pi
- Using the RP2040 microcontroller to build boards and products
- C/C++ development with the Pico and other RP2040-based microcontroller boards
- Libraries and tools for C/C++ development on the RP2040 microcontroller
- A MicroPython environment for the RP2040 microcontroller
The API level Doxygen documentation for the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK is available .