Raspberry Pi Finally Entered Into the controller family, Recently Raspberry Pi launched “Raspberry Pi Pico Board” first microcontroller product ever launched by Raspberry Pi built on RP2040 which is all new developed by Raspberry Pi and taken first step with Raspberry Pi Pico (microcontroller) Board.
Raspberry Pi Pico launched globally with it’s amazing price of $4 and it’s Available online, you can buy with all Raspberry Pi Authorised Reseller, you can also get Raspberry Pi Pico Board free with Hackspace Magazine.
I’m also sharing you “Why Raspberry Pi Pico is Great in Performance?”
Raspberry Pi Pico comes with RP2040 the powerful chip Specifications Below:
-Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz
-264KB (remember kilobytes?) of on-chip RAM
-Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus
-DMA controller
-Interpolator and integer divider peripherals
-30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analogue inputs
-2 × UARTs, 2 × SPI controllers, and 2 × I2C controllers
-16 × PWM channels
-1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
-8 × Raspberry Pi Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines
-USB mass-storage boot mode with UF2 support, for drag-and-drop programming.
If you want to buy Raspberry Pi Pico Board’s and it’s Accessories In UK (United Kingdom)
Visit: https://shop.sb-components.co.uk/ you can also find many more from there.
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Best Raspberry Pi Pico Add-On & Pico Expansions
After launched Raspberry Pi Pico Board many companies reviled there Pico related hardware’s, now there are many Pico add-on’s and Pico Accessories in the global market. We cannot cover all these hardware’s in this article’s but found the Best & Most Selling Raspberry Pi Pico Hardware’s.
Here we got 3 best Raspberry Pi Pico Add-on’s And Expansions from the huge collection of Raspberry Pi Pico’s Add-on’s and Accessories here’s the first one below:
1. Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion: Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion is an input/output expansion board designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico, which provides one set of 2x20 pin headers in the form of a Raspberry Pi Header along with one set of 2 x 20 pin. It means that one can plug any HAT designed for Raspberry Pi with the Raspberry Pi Pico via the Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion that would make the user perform the advanced functions on it.
Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion has the space on its board for any HAT. One can plug Raspberry Pi Pico and a HAT by directly putting it on the Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion that has the power pins for the connection. Raspberry Pi Pico Expansion is a board on which, clear and descriptive pin labels make the process easier for the user.
I’m Also sharing you the blog where you can find how to use that hardware easily and many more.
Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico HAT Expansion
2. Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO Expansion Board: Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO Expansion Board is an advanced product in the range of the products of SB Components with an output voltage of 3.3 V. The work of the Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO Expansion Board is to break out all the pins and power of the Raspberry Pi Pico development board via two ways(male or female header). It allows the user to connect it to other components with the help of a jumper wire.
SB Components designed the Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO Expansion Board to enhance the learning experience for the user. It would help users to develop the projects based on their ideas with the utilization of Raspberry Pi Pico.
Everything to know about Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO Expansion
3. Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit: Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit is a multi-purpose Kit that consists of a “400 points half-size breadboard” on top, a Programmable Buzzer, 4 Programmable LEDs, 4 Pushbuttons, and dedicated 5V, 3v3, and GND pins at a single place. SB Components developed Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit with advanced features like independently controllable LEDs, Switches, a 400 points half-size breadboard that helps the user to prototype their projects with Raspberry Pi Pico in an efficient way.
Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit can be interfaced with Raspberry Pi Pico from which a user can run electronics experiments, prototypes, mini robots, games, interact with Linux-ready Raspberry Pi, Exploration of circuits, etc. One can also connect external components with the breadboard provided on the top of the Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit.
Everything to know about Raspberry Pi Pico Breadboard Kit
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