Congratulations! Another revolution? :) For $4…

Analog inputs! Yay!

I had a blast testing this little board out, and I am over the moon about the price! Thanks for delivering a great little board that my son is already trying to wrestle out of my hands so ‘he can be an inventor’ :)

Congratulations, all!

I need buy dis like now!

Oh, wow! Absolutely awesome, thank you!

And please, what is then the power consumption?

We’re over the moon this is finally out. We went big on boards to support the RP2040 and Pico :D
https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pico

Wonderfull news, I’ll have again to buy this to support your work !

Great news, l was just looking at similar products.
What are VBUS and VSYS ?

And please, how many gates RP2040 has, if that’s not a secret? Just curious!

No pins again? That’s a bummer.

This is a super cool chip

Finally, some good news in 2021. The price is so sweet. I am drooling over Pimoroni PicoSystem.

Wow! I have brought one to play with. I was wondering, the Micropython book that is available with this, is it available in PDF format to buy?

Nice board. One thing that bugs me is how there is no silkscreened pin numbers on the board.

Great. Microcontrollers are really useful and having one that has a reasonable amount of memory and works with Micro Python is going to make these even more accessible for new programmers / makers.

Sweet! Will it be possible to order RP2040 chips alone? (without having a MOQ in the range of 1000s?)

It has everything: documentation, dual core chip, mass storage, SDK, partners, …, everything! I can’t believe…
Please, two more questions: what is “integer divider peripherals”? And what are the new floating-point functions? Where do they live and what does it mean “are licensed for use on any RP2040-based product”?

How can this new rpi can be overclocked ? And does it have any internal timers?

Does Micropython run on this?

Wow, very nice, tanks. Was expecting risc-v at first but I guess this is more conservative choice.

Awesome product! Congratulations. It’s also great to see that all leading maker-focused companies will use and support this chip. Future is bright!

How does it compare to ESP32?
How stable 1-wire bus is operated, reading DS18B20?
Is there LoRaWan connectivity?

It’s a remarkable achievement and I look forward to getting hold of one. Shame that it doesn’t use the newer USB Type-C connector, though. I do hope the Foundation plan to release an updated board soon.

Please us small k for kilo -> kB (Kilobyte) not KB. Thank you.

Oh hurray! You have learned how to design a power supply!

These are manufactured at Sony Pencoed ??

This is a BRILLIANT device. I was working on a ‘first musical instrument’ for kids project a few years back that needed ADC (microphone to detect blowing) and DAC for audio output – how would you hook up a reasonable quality (16-bit 44.1kHz) DAC to this affordably? Also, I am so pleased to see this a fixed-point device.

Fantastic,
As a Raspberry pi user since 2012 and ESP8266, ESP32 MicroPython user as well I’m very excited to try this pico. I ordered one already!

I haven’t seen anything about usb2serial (CH340, CP2102, FT232 etc..) Did I miss it?

Noted this new addition to the lineup but need to say that I’m not too exited atm.
Will there be support for other IDE’s (i.e. Rowley CrossWorks, Mbed etc) as well?

Nice new board, my head is spinning with new ideas!

Most of them need connectivity though, is there a Wifi/Bluetooth add-on board, or is there a Pico W version planned? :)

I am going to love it!
#include “pico/stdlib.h”
int main() {
const uint LED_PIN = 25;
gpio_init(LED_PIN);
gpio_set_dir(LED_PIN, GPIO_OUT);
while (true) {
gpio_put(LED_PIN, 1);
sleep_ms(250);
gpio_put(LED_PIN, 0);
sleep_ms(250);
}
}

Congratulations! Looks great and I have already ordered a couple. Will there be an overview on how the Pico compares with the Arduino family? I guess a number of us are familiar with the variety of Arduino based microcontrollers such as the Nano, Teensy and ESP8266 WiFi based Arduinos and it would be very helpful to get an idea of where the Raspberry Pi Pico would provide new technical features and advantages. Also can you say if you are planning to release a version with on board WiFi connectivity? Thank you

I read from the datasheet:
4.7. USB
RP2040 has an integrated USB1.1 PHY and controller which can be used in both Device and Host mode. Pico adds the
two required 27 ohm external resistors and brings this interface to a standard micro-USB port.
The USB port can be used to access the USB bootloader (BOOTSEL mode) stored in the RP2040 boot ROM. It can also be
used by user code, to access an external USB device or host.
So the RP2040 is doing the job of the USB2Serial converter (CH340, CP2102, etc..)
When the pico is plugged to a Linux host does a /dev/ttyUSB0 come up?

I was just about to order one, then I noticed it lacks WiFi, which makes this a little… “restricted” in use vs similarly priced NodeMCU, etc WiFi capable ESP8266 boards,
I’d love to get a couple to try in home automaton or sensors, but the lack of WiFi makes this just less useful.

1. Is possible run program from flash directly?
2. Why not lipo power too?
3. Why not put MMU?
4. Why not mRuby too?
in my opinion more ram is necessary (512 KB)will be great. many project adre big because power is big. If lipo , AA, 18620 etc. will be using directly with this device many project will be smart and small. Meybe add input of solar panel too? Second idea are simple. Make a normal mechanical keyboard (Planck) and making pico as firmware and for example RPI zero as mainboard for linux and all this device put inside keyboard. many language need more keys for example this https://klawiatura.wordpress.com/wersja-mini/ two knob/rotor, light etc.

Can the Pico act as a HID (human interface device)?
I use teensy’s for this to make keyboards, so I’m reaaaaally hoping they can!
Not that it really matters, I’ve still ordered a couple cos I’m already sold.

Hi, Will these be available to buy in large volume or is it one board per customer?

The RP2040 seems to fill a nice gap between the microcontroller and embedded linux space. At Dual cores m0+ running at 133MHZ, it seems to be a beefy microcontroller. I would love to push its bare metal capabilities to drive RGB LCD displays with touch screens, where the product budgets are really low. It should also work well with some audio applications. Have ordered one. Can’t wait to start the fun…

By any chance this microcontroller has a vector processor, hope this supports Tensorflow lite and others soon.

What was the thinking behind Cortex-M0+, bespoke peripheral for integer division, optimised SW floating point routines vs a Cortex-M4F? Was this a silicone process thing?

I would also love to see this microcontroller (or another MCU) integrated directly on the board of a future Raspberry Pi 5 so that only have to buy one product to get both a single board computer and a microcontroller on the same device.

The combination could also be perfect for projects like running OctoPrint and Marlin Firmware on the same board in a DIY 3D printer or CNC machine project.

Why should we buy this instead of a ESP32 / ESP32-C3?
Please, anybody, list some reasons.

Anyone know who stocks HackSpace (in UK)
Morrison’s don’t.
and the hackspace website doesn’t say (and they’re sold out)

Congrats! looking forward to trying out the board. Along with python, would love to see rust tooling/compiler

Congratulations. I look forward to playing with the board.

The possibilities are endless and it provides wings to the imagination and a lot of motivation for the new generation, Thanks

Ooh that is a rather super new addition to the Pi family! Extra Brownie points for letting other companies design their own boards based around the main chip. Many thanks.

Nice work! Have you considered developing a Blockly style language (similar to the Microbit)? Cheers!

Looks great! I have to order them as fast as possible.

Since this has more than one core, will it be possible to have more than one thread in micropython? I assume Circuitpython is not far off either?

Can I use Keil to program it?. Keil has a free license to program cortex M0.

I worked at IMEC in the 1990s. I would like to learn more about what they did on this project.

Just when I thought my credit card was safe lol ….
Just bought 3 of them (just to start)

A friend of mine has used a Raspberry Pi 3 (not sure if model B or B+) to implement network-wide ad blocking using Pi Hole. It worked pretty well for a network serving about 300 devices, not leading to any noticeable increase in DNS latency. I wonder if the Pico would also be enough, given that it features half the number of cores and 9x lower clock rate.

Will Arduino-style shields be developed?

Congratulations on what looks to be an amazing first micro-controller.

I havent been able to find anywhere, is camera support possible?

Raspberry Pi Foundation Milestones:
First Credit Card sized Computer:Raspberry Pi 1B,
reached 2011
First “useable” Credit Card sized Computer: Raspberry Pi 4B, reached 2019
Most powerful Credit Card sized Computer: Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB, reached 2020
First Keyboard Computer: Raspberry Pi 400, reached 2020
Tiniest Product: Raspberry Silicon, reached 2021
(useable as in desktop usage)

Wow that’s quite a bomb drop!
A raspberry pi chip.
So, we skipped mini, micro, nano, and jumped straight into pico.
Achem…does it run linux! I know, I saw the statement.

Great! But why did you omit Wi-Fi ?
May we expect you to release a PicoW soon ?

Hoover Dam! Very interesting indeed. And for $4? It is amazing! It opens the possibilities and future of the R-Pi system and peripherals. Using MicroPython will ease programming the device as programs for the R-Pi can be easily ported over to this R-Pi Pico system. The future is looking bright… Just got to wait for the sun to rise from this dismal Pandemic the world is going through!

Great news! :)

DO I read correctly that the PIO peripherals cannot perform random memory accesses, for example to do a colortable lookup when sending display data out?

Kind of boggles the mind to think of how may RP2040 chips (at 2mm*2mm) can be made from a single 30cm wafer….

This should put paid to all the “competition between Pi and Arduino” threads.

Congrats, Dr. Upton, for pulling another rabbit out of your hat.

Fake news !
Here in Hong Kong your unique reseller is selling them at 8.9USD not 4USD :(
https://classroomeshop.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico?src=raspberrypi
Plus a limit of 1 Pico per order – Wonderful option for doing some testing in our Hackerspace ….

Please, we need a NEW RASPBERRY PI ZERO PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sounds awesome! :)
what is a integer interpolator needed for? it interpolates between two integers i guess but why does it have to be in hardware? :)
and what is a hardware state machine?

I wonder if it’s enough to do a mini SDR with sampling at 48 Khz without the FPU and DSP acceleration.
Wishlist for RP3000
FPU double precision
Native I2S support
DSP instructions
1 MB of RAM
400+ MHz

I’d like one to have a play with, but I’m writing this shortly after 2100 (UK time) and we seem to have broken Pi Hut.

Wow, I did NOT see that coming! This is quite a step in a new direction – very exciting. I really REALLY hope that we’ll see a BT/WiFi-enabled version of the pico that will sell in the $5 range; that would compete with the ESP8266/ESP32 boards that are becoming ubiquitous these days. The ESP boards are great, but sourcing them at a reasonable price can get really skeevy – there are counterfeits and poor quality-control versions of these and it can be hard to know in advance what you’re getting (not to mention shipping times of weeks or even months from China). I would much rather get a Pi Pico W from a reliable source, and impeccably documented like what you’ve done so far (yes I did see that the Arduino folks will be producing a wireless module for this, but we don’t know what the price will be).

Along those lines, I’d love to see the Pi Zero W become the baseline model at $5 dollars, and maybe just make the original Zero available on a legacy basis. As long as power is available, the Zero W is a compelling choice for most hobbyist-level projects, given its form factor and the familiarity of the RasPi environment (and the community support that goes with it).

Checks all 4 boxes – 1. Superb Quality and support 2. Fast 3. Inexpensive 4. Sleep Mode Ultra Low Pow .. Pow.. am I reading milliamps? This puppy is gonna require its own SMR! Like Meatloaf sings ‘Now don’t be sad … Cause 3 out of 4 ain’t bad’.
Really, this is one new cool kid on the block. Now that you’re doing your own Si, can you pretty-Please get us an RPI Pico-Pwr for the next one? (just begging….)

Love it. Ordered some already.

When you start thinking about version two.. I would like to make an impassioned plea that you include a ADLC serial data link.
Being able to network these on something simpler than ethernet but more sophisticated than the likes of the 8051s 9 bit serial mode would be really interesting and it’s not a feature that any other microcontroller has as far as I know. The venerable MC68B54 is the sort of thing. Compatibility with this would also keep the fans of Econet happy.
Alan

Awesome !!! Another great tiny product from Rasberrypi ecosystem. Going to buy one soon.

Fantastic! Now students can explore microcontrollers, and how they work with full fledged PCs. Nice, very nice at $4. Kids can collect soda cans to get the money for a Pico.

Nice spec for board at this price point..,
Can anyone share CoreMark score? how well does it do w.r.t., Teensy 3.2, 3.6 and Adafruit Metro M4?

Any RTOS off the shelf? or we need to port it?

Should have made the board with wifi.
Otherwise ESP32 if cheaper and provides Wifi and bluetooth.

Is it possible to run the sdk under WSL1 (obviously not WSL2 due to the Hypervisor USB limitations etc) ?

How about the price of the RP2040? And when can we buy the chip independently?

I am having some difficulty wrapping my brain around the flash interface. For a 32-bit wide architecture, XIP over QSPI, itself running at a maximum of (is it?) half the processor clock speed will be very slow. I thought maybe the QSPI/XIP interface would be sped up into the GHz range, but no. Yes the cache will help, but at best it adds only another 8k of full speed memory, once loaded. In other words, you would use XIP instructions only for background processes having no real-time constraints. Real-time processes – and their data – will have to live in the on-chip RAM (or at worst that plus 8k). Yes? No?

Just noticed some unpopulated bits (not looked at the schematic fully yet) but if they are configuration pads of some kind then some delicate procidures are required.

How about a Raspberry Pi 4B with an RP2040 built in and more pins ;). Also, the PIO is really really cool, would have been great for stepper motor control for student robotics, had an arduino controlling 4 wheels and had to work around timing loops to get it to bitbang them successfully whereas with this you can just set one SM per wheel and even have them all sharing the same few instructions.

I have posted a hi-res X-Ray of the new Pico on Flickr at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ultrapurple/50862597256/
Enjoy looking at the tiniest details of the latest member of the Pi family!

Hi, congratulations on another great product.
I read the spec on the RP2040 and perhaps half understood :-) It mentions that the clock uses a PLL, does that mean the 2040 clock could be syncronised to an external source with a variable frequency or have I missunderstood?
Des.

8 point grey body text for datasheets! Are we all supposed to have perfect eyesight and massive 4K monitors or something? No, zooming isn’t an option unless you like looking at headers and footers or only seeing part of diagrams.

Unfortunately it’s still not a real-time system, which most microcontrollers are. Unless they’re coming out with a real-time OS to go with it. Otherwise it’s no good for high-speed data gathering (e.g. a few mega samples per second)

This is great (and I’ve already managed to get my grubby mitts on one), but I just came to say a hearty congratulations to whoever came up with the “Raspberry Si” line above…

nice touch, PIO state machine

Hi
Congratulations on the launch. Maybe you could think of adding WI-FI, LORA

U3 is the 2M Flash storage on the dev board, if you have the skills, do we know which chips can be replace it to increase the storage?

Could a Pico, with its PIO feature, be used to controll an old laptop display? Background: all other instructions for reusing laptop displays I’ve seen involve buying a custom controller board for the specific display model. So my question is: Could a Pico in theory be used as a universal replacement for such boards?

But can it run doom?

I would be very interested in getting my hands on the datasheet for the RP2040. And apologies if this question has already been asked but will it be possible to buy the ICs in quantity from distributors like Digikey and/or Mouser in the U.S.?

would the Winbond W25Q64JVSSIM TR be a viable flash chip to replace U3 (W25Q16JVUXIQ)

Great news! Congratulations!
Add an esp8266 chip on it ;)

It’s quite inconvenient to unplug the board and plug it again every time the program needs to be flashed. Is there a way to keep the board always plugged and make updates directly from the IDE?

Is it pronounced “pee-ko” as pico usually is pronounced, or “pie-ko” to match the Pi in Raspberry Pi?

I think the ‘bootsel’ button should reset the board and enter the USB storage mode right away, without the need to unplug the board. It is simply a bad design decision to require the user to disconnect the board for each program update.

Is the VGA/SDcard/Audio Demo board available somewhere ? And the Popcorn demo sources too ?
I’d love to experiment with them…

Best regards,
Fabrice

UNFORTUNATELY I AM BEGINNER…MY DREAM IS TO BUILT TWO PICO PHONES, OR A PHONE BRIDGE WITH THIS PICO RASPBERRY

This took me back to watching a BBC TV programme on microprocessors in the 1980’s, watching silicon being designed on a BBC model B at Acorn Computers.

Does Node-Red work with RPi Pico ?

My dream is to see a Pico embedded on a Model B – The best RPi with analog I/O.

Regarding development. Obviously it is possible to use a regular Raspberry Pi to develop code to be sent to a Pico, and obviously debug it using the on board debug headers. But which one? I only have a Pi3B and a couple of Pi3A devices.

Wonder full news. another awesome product from Rasberrypi ecosystem.

Congratulations to all of you…

Is any expansion board or base board available for this new raspberry pi Pico microcontroller?

Love it! I hope there is a version with pre-soldered headers (Like Zero WH) (GPIO down, debug up) alongside the normal Pico (no soldered headers). Possibly Pico H?

How can I code on it using c or c++?

Got mine in yesterday. After a bit of faffing around (turned out I needed to reboot my Pi4B before the new version of thonny could find the Pico) I got the basic LED blink running.

Once again, the RPT/RPF has set a new benchmark for what your basic device–MCU in this case–should cost when produced by a reputable company that also provides proper documentation and software support.

Even as the Model B was revolutionary in its day, so–I think–the Pico will be, as well.
And, for once in a way, enough of them were made to keep them from selling out immediately! (Either that, or–very unusually–the RPT/RPF *over*estimated the initial market. But I’ll stick with the first part and hope that particular trend continues.)

Why ARM? I thought RPi Foundation is commited to open source? Wouldn’t it be great if it was based on an open source RISC V design instead? Would promote the open sourca idea on the one hand and give RISC V a huge push in the right direction if there were millions of cheap devices and a huge brand name like Raspberry out there encuraging kids to develop on RISC V…?

Honestly, at this point, my entire house is gonna be operational from ok gadgets alone. Who needs overclocked Windows PCs, this is much more affordable, versatile and much more enjoyable. The Raspberry Pi 3 b+ is my 1st computer, and probably the only one I’ll need for a while. I’ll invest in another one for my friends or family. Thank you Pi team!

This looks like an amazing little board to thinker around.
Also, may the new “Raspberry Silicon” mean that we can expect a custom SoC on a next iteration of the RPi, if so, I wish you guys the best and looking forward to it!

so i guess you didn’t do a version with wifi/bluetooth but let arduino do such a version to let arduino live? that’s very nice of you. :)

Looks like a good product. High power consumption during sleep though and datasheet very hard to read without zooming in. Look at ST, IFX, Atmel or any datasheet, then this can easily be fixed.

Really excited to see the RPi foundation developing microcontrollers. I’m just disappointed I could buy only one. Can’t wait for their quad core micro+FPGA boards to come out!

Will we be able to buy just the IC in the future? i could see using a smaller version of this a few projects of mine!
By the way thanks for making this programmable with C and easy to flash(technically just file change).

Great launch!

Great little micro, congrats to the team!
For audio I’d be looking to replace the 12 MHz crystal with a 12.288 MHz one (clean division down to 96/48 kHz without PLL noise). Would the OS have to be rebuilt to support that change?

Nice alternative to Arduino, ESP & others. Lots less expensive than theirs. Raspberry, have you thought/considering about reducing its footprint even more. Yes all those IO pins are nice, BUT as for my projects, have used just a few IO pins per project.

awesome piece of equipment!!! hoping to get it soon to test it.

Just a small question: should we expect to see Raspberry Silicon replacing the ARM processors found in less constrained models?

What is the Sink and Source capability of each of the Raspberry Pi Pico board GPIO pins.

Great to see Raspberry Pi getting into MCU space as well.
– Are there power consumption results available that show how low MCU can go on power consumption?
– Do we have internal HW RTC?

I’m making a data logger project and I need to have the pico run from a battery backup supply but only when not plugged into USB, I’ve read that I need a schottky diode on the vsys input, but I’ve no idea what type to order – can anyone help? I only understand basic electronics, not so much schottky diodes. I’ve googled a lot but can’t seem to find this info presumably because the pico is so new. Thanks in advance!

You say you wanted 4 Analogue inputs which is what I need, but the documentation only shows 3. I’m disappointed.

Wow. Awesome. Actually, it’s March and I got just now in India through my friend coming from US. [Just to save cost :)] I’m gonna use it for making a computerised hand blender that consists of a camera and detect whether the blending is perfect or need more run.

Hi.. I planned to teach using this board. However any recomendded book how to teach:
1) How timers work on RP2040?
2) ADC theory based on RP2040
3) and so on… (PWM, I2C, SPI)
Meaning that, the theorytical part.

Looks nice. How about some news about when you may have sufficient supply to fill demand.

Wow that’s quite a bomb drop!
A raspberry pi chip.
So, we skipped mini, micro, nano, and jumped straight into pico.
Achem…does it run linux! I know, I saw the statement.

I’m gonna use it for making a computerised hand blender that consists of a camera and detect whether the blending is perfect or need more run.

Compares well with the ESP32 only I found the coms link to the pc was dodgy on Windows 10. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Maybe it is the firewall. Makes transferring files to the device tricky. ESP32 had no such problems. Moving between devices was easy however in Python.

Well, RP2040 is new. But I just want to know 4 Analogue inputs or 3?