The RP2040 microcontroller on the Raspberry Pi Pico was designed with physical computing in mind. Its numerous General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins allow it to interact with a variety of components, enabling you to build projects ranging from lighting LEDs to recording data about your surroundings. Physical computing is not any harder to learn than … Read more
Recently, BearPi quietly launched a new Pico board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip: BearPi-Pico RP2040 Raspberry Pi? Yes, you read it right! Raspberry Pi is not only an excellent open-source hardware brand but also a remarkable chip company. The RP2040 chip is designed and developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, using a 40 … Read more
One year ago (January 21, 2021), the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico development board. This is the first RP2040 microcontroller product and a brand new chip developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. A year later, the Pico development board has sold nearly 1.5 million units, with thousands of people using the … Read more