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Raspberry Pi Pico W / Pico 2 W

WiFi microcontroller (RP2040/RP2350)

Released 2022

Phiarc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Raspberry's WiFi microcontroller. Cheap, efficient and dual-core. We have a real Pico 2 W streaming to this site right now — its dashboard is public.

Chip RP2040 (Pico W) · RP2350 (Pico 2 W), Arm dual-core

Clock 133 MHz (RP2040) · 150 MHz (RP2350)

Memory 264 KB / 520 KB SRAM · 2 / 4 MB flash

Connectivity WiFi 2.4 GHz + BLE (Infineon CYW43439)

GPIO 26 exposed · 3 ADC · PIO (programmable I/O)

Logic level 3.3 V

Programmed in Arduino IDE (Philhower core) · C/C++ SDK · MicroPython

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Good to know For HTTPS use client.setInsecure() — the Pico does not validate the certificate.

Sensors that pair well

source: pico.pinout.xyz · Raspberry Pi datasheet ↗