Another Helping of Pi
2021-03-11 | By Kevin Walseth
Who doesn’t want another helping of Raspberry Pi? Well, you are in luck. This year on Pi-Day, we at DigiKey will talk about the coolest (and most talked about) product of 2021. The Raspberry Pi Pico and the RP2040 chips that power it. On 3/14 we will be all hands on this new board and what the future holds for it. Everything from getting to blink to the different programming options and fun projects that have already been created.
To watch the live stream, you can tune in here:
- Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtTZAuNOQUs
- Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/41528195334/posts/10164919087895335/
Here is the lineup:
Samantha Snyder @SamanthaSnyder - Maker | Avid Reader | Coffee Drinker | 3D Printing Enthusiast | Old House Owner | Video Game Addict | she/her | I do fun stuff at @raspberry_pi
John Park @johnedgarpark - Maker @ Adafruit. Hosted PBS TV series "Make:". Circus aerial straps in training. 20 year CG anim vet at Disney, Sony, others. http://jpixl.net
Shawn Hymel @ShawnHymel - Freelance content creator: http://shawnhymel.com | Embedded machine learning instructor | Co-host of @helloblinkshow | http://youtube.com/user/shawnhymel | He/him
Mike Senese @msenese - Executive Editor, @MAKE magazine. TV host on Discovery & Science Channel—How Stuff Works, Punkin Chunkin, etc.
Kirk Benell @codepod - Scientific Computing, Geospatial Analytics, powered IDL for many years, much code dabbling and bit frobbing... hardware is included
A little about the amazing Pico board:
Features:
- RP2040 microcontroller
- Dual-Core ARM Cortex-M0+
- 133MHz
- Supported by C/C++, MicroPython, and Circuit Python development environments
- Native UF2 boot and floating-point routines
- Built-in USB (device/host)
- 256KB RAM and 16KB ROM
- Onboard QSPI Flash
- Dual 20 Pin headers
- 26 3.3V GPIO
- Micro USB port
- 3-pin ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) port
Datasheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/getting_started_with_pico.pdf
Find additional documentation below and order your Raspberry Pi Pico board today by going here:
https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-picoboard
RP2040 datasheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040_datasheet.pdf
RP2040 design guide: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/hardware_design_with_rp2040.pdf
Pico board datasheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/pico_datasheet.pdf
Getting started with the Raspberry Pi Pico: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/getting_started_with_pico.pdf
Pico C/C++ SDK: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/sdk/pico_c_sdk.pdf
Pico MicroPython SDK: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/sdk/pico_python_sdk.pdf
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