Sheffield, UK-based hobbyist electronics specialist Pimoroni has launched its reply to the yet-to-be-announced Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, combining the RP2350 quad-core dual-architecture microcontroller with a shock bonus part: the Raspberry Pi RM2 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio module.
“We like the flexibility and worth of Raspberry Pi Pico however we additionally take pleasure in a souped up RP2350 board with all of the extras baked in,” Pimoroni writes of its newest board design. “With Pimoroni Pico boards, we have tried to cram in as a lot further performance as we presumably can while preserving to the unique Pico footprint to keep up compatibility with present Pico add-ons.”
Pimoroni has unveiled its enhanced tackle the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W — despite the fact that it has but to launch. (📷: Pimoroni)
Pimoroni’s Pico Plus 2 W is, because the title suggests, designed to be an enhanced various to the official Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, with one little twist: the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W does not exist but. The cat, nevertheless, would seem like out of the bag: Pimoroni’s new board makes use of the Raspberry Pi RM2, an in-house single-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module that can virtually definitely be discovered on the first-party Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W — when it is introduced, anyway.
Elsewhere on the board is 8MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) and 16MB of flash, which increase the 520kB of static RAM (SRAM) on the RP2350 microcontroller itself. The chip’s general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins are introduced out to breadboard- and surface-mount-friendly castellated headers on both aspect, as with the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, and there is a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector for solderless growth — plus a Serial Wire Debug (SWD) header and bodily reset and boot-mode buttons, the latter of which might double as user-configurable enter.
The board options the Raspberry Pi RM2 radio module (proper) — which has not but been formally introduced by the corporate. (📷: Pimoroni)
The RP2350 is, after all, Raspberry Pi’s newest in-house microcontroller, and the corporate’s follow-up to the favored RP2040. The design features a pair of Arm Cortex-M33 cores with double-precision floating-point accelerators and a pair of free and open supply Hazard3 RISC-V cores — and you need to use any two, mixing and matching the RISC-V and Arm cores, as you need.
The Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W is now obtainable on the Pimoroni retailer, priced at $18.62; on the time of writing, Raspberry Pi had but to announce the RM2 radio module — and neither had it introduced the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tool that’s now sure to launch within the very close to future.