Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ board for hobbyists and power users alike
Richard Speed
Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 07:00 UTC
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The Raspberry Pi team has announced its latest bit of hardware – the $4 microcontroller-class Raspberry Pi Pico.
Some 37 million Raspberry Pi computers have been sold to date, according to head honcho Eben Upton. And although hobbyists, educators, and industry pros have seen success in connecting the diminutive computer to the outside world, often the board is paired up with a microcontroller (something like an Arduino device springs to mind) to take care of analogue input, low-latency input/output or a low-power mode.
The power consumption of a dedicated microcontroller is dwarfed even by the power-sipping Pi Zero