Raspberry Pi Pico

Raspberry Pi Pico: microcontroller board

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board from Raspberry Pi, featuring flexible digital interfaces.

Key features of the Raspberry Pi Pico:

• RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation (UK)
• Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, flexible clock up to 133 MHz
• 264KB SRAM and 2MB onboard Flash memory
• Castellated module allows direct soldering to boards or breadboards via pins (standard 2.54mm pitch)
• USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
• Low-power “sleep” and “dormant” modes
• Drag-and-drop programming using USB mass storage
• 26 × multifunction GPIO pins
• 2 × SPI, 2 × I2C, 2 × UART, 3 × 12-bit ADC, 16 × controllable PWM channels
• Accurate on-chip clock and timers
• Temperature sensor
• On-chip accelerated integer and floating-point libraries
• 8 programmable I/O (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support

Useful documents for Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040:

• Raspberry Pi Pico Datasheet
• RP2040 Datasheet
• Hardware design with RP2040
• Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico
• Pico C/C++ SDK
• Pico Python SDK
• Raspberry Pi Pico Pinout Diagram
• Raspberry Pi Pico STEP file
• File design Pico

You may also need two 20-pin header strips and one 3-pin header (for debugging). Purchase them here: Set of male headers for Pico, 0.1” pin pitch.

For more information, see the Raspberry Pi Pico article on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog.