Raspberry Pi has formally launched the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a fully-anticipated variant of its standard quad-core dual-architecture microcontroller improvement board that provides Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio connectivity — for simply $7.
The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is, maybe surprisingly, not the primary radio-equipped Pico-style board to be constructed utilizing the RP2350 microcontroller: again in September Pimoroni pipped the corporate to the submit with the launch of the Pico Plus 2 W, which paired the microcontroller with Raspberry Pi’s personal RM2 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio module — even earlier than stated module had been formally introduced.
Raspberry Pi has launched the Pico 2 W (proper), which provides an Infineon CYW43439 radio to its standard second-generation microcontroller platform. (📷: Raspberry Pi)
The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, nonetheless, doesn’t make use of the RM2 — however it does use the identical Infineon CYW43439 single-band 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2 plus Bluetooth Low Power (BLE) radio chip, put in straight onto the compact PCB beneath a steel defend above a Abracon ProAnt PCB antenna. Past this, the board footprint, function checklist, and specs stay unchanged from the non-wireless Pico 2: dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 and RISC-V Hazard processors at a inventory 150MHz, TrustZone safety system, 520kB static RAM (SRAM), 4MB quad-SPI flash, and 26 uncovered general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins.
As with its predecessors, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is supported in Raspberry Pi’s official C/C++ software program improvement package and in MicroPython — although, on the time of writing, the MicroPython port was nonetheless a work-in-progress. The corporate guarantees the half will stay in manufacturing till January 2040 on the earliest, and claims a broad working temperature vary of -20°C to +85°C (-4°F to 185°F) and a imply time between failures (MTBF) of 182,000 hours — dropping to 11,000 hours if utilized in cell initiatives.
The board was pipped to the submit by Pimoroni in September, with the launch of the Pico Plus 2 W. (📷: Pimoroni)
For these presently utilizing a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, transferring throughout — as soon as the MicroPython port is finalized — needs to be a easy course of, although it should require initiatives to be recompiled. These making the transfer possible will not see improved wi-fi efficiency however will get pleasure from a significantly extra highly effective processor, close to double the reminiscence, and as much as 12 programmable enter/output (PIO) state machines on the expanded PIO controller.
The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is now out there to order from Raspberry Pi resellers worldwide, priced at $7 — a mere $2 greater than the Pico 2.