{"id":451004,"date":"2022-07-01T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=451004"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:49:39","slug":"raspberry-pi-launches-new-pico-microcontrollers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/451004-raspberry-pi-launches-new-pico-microcontrollers.html","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi launches new Pico microcontrollers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raspberry Pi has announced<\/a><\/strong> three new microcontrollers improving on its Pico model, including one with Wi-Fi support for less than a R100 (excl. VAT and import costs).<\/p>\n

The company unveiled the Raspberry Pi Pico W, Pico H, and Pico WH. The W and H models are already available, while the WH will release in August.<\/p>\n

The new Pico range is built on the same hardware as its predecessor. It runs using the in-house RP2040 chip with two 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ cores and 264kB SRAM.<\/p>\n

\u201cFast cores, large memory, and flexible interfacing make RP2040 a natural building block for Internet of Things (IoT) applications,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

Raspberry Pi has added Infineon\u2019s CYW43439 wireless chip to the Pico W, enabling 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless networking capabilities.<\/p>\n

The Pico W costs $6 (R98.23, excl. taxes) and is compatible with the last-generation Pico\u2019s pins.<\/p>\n

Although Pico W\u2019s wireless chip supports Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low-Energy, the company indicated that it is not enabled at launch.<\/p>\n

The Pico H and WH add pre-populated headers and a 3-pin debug connector and will set consumers back $5 (R81.86) and $7 (R114.60), respectively.<\/p>\n

Alongside the new microcontrollers, the company has included wireless networking support for C developers in its latest release of the Pico SDK<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The network stack uses libcyw43 to communicate with the wireless chip on the Pico W.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy default, libcyw43 is licensed for non-commercial use, but Pico W users, and anyone else who builds their product around RP2040 and CYW43439, benefit from a free commercial-use license,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

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Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller (Image credit: Raspberry Pi)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Raspberry Pi Pico H microcontroller (Image credit: Raspberry Pi)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Now read: Arm announces its first graphics processor with hardware ray tracing for smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raspberry Pi has launched the Pico W and Pico H microcontroller, with an additional new model to follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":451008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50977],"tags":[79490,79486,79484,79488,8043],"class_list":["post-451004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-internet-of-things","tag-microcontroller","tag-pico-h","tag-pico-w","tag-pico-wh","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}