The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny $4 microcontroller running off the company’s very own chip
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is designing its own chips
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s tiny computers can be used for anything from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the group is branching out into microcontrollers and custom silicon. The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first step. It’s a new $4 microcontroller that’s smaller than the average Pi, features a custom chip powerful enough to be used in machine learning projects (according to The Raspberry Pi Foundation), and is on sale now.
First product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon – Raspberry Pi Pico – now available from Newark
The high-performance and low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico is designed to be easily incorporated into a range of professional microcontroller applications.
Newark, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, has today announced the availability of the first product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico. This new product brings Raspberry Pi’s signature values of high performance, low cost, and ease of use to the microcontroller market, in a game-changing $4 development kit. Newark customers will be able to purchase the Raspberry Pi Pico from the Newark website starting on Monday, January 25.