

Note that the board doesn’t run a full operating system, but instead launches programs you write in either MicroPython or C/CPP on a host computer or a regular RPi and upload to it. The Pico board is designed for use with breadboards and surface mount carrier boards, and the dual-core processor permits multiprocessing at clock rates up to 133MHz. The RP400 is their first dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ processor based budget-friendly microcontroller.

On the technical side, it is equipped with RP2040 microcontroller chip developed inhouse by Raspberry Pi Foundation itself. If you’re a novice, and you want to get a head start on microcontrollers, then the Raspberry Pi Pico would be the great option to start with because it is the lowest cost and smallest size development board that supports both C / C ++ and micro-python.

The RPi Pico is a radical change from previous Raspberry Pi boards, because it’s not a Linux computer, but a budget microcontroller board like Arduino!

This small, cheap and flexible microcontroller platform is great for learning to code with MicroPython. The Pico is a new microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This post is an introduction to the Raspberry Pi Pico.
