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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:

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

Another Helping of Pi

A little about the amazing Pico board:

Another Helping of Pi

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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