

Raspberry Pi Pico - SC0915 - The Affordable Microcontroller
The Raspberry Pi Pico 1 is a tiny, fast, and versatile microcontroller board designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Built around the custom RP2040 chip, it’s perfect for hobby projects, robotics, IoT devices, and embedded systems. Whether you’re new to microcontrollers or an experienced maker, Pico gives you a powerful platform at an unbeatable price.
The Pico 1 family also includes the Raspberry Pi Pico W and Raspberry Pi Pico WH (Pre-Soldered Headers), which add built-in Wi-Fi for easy IoT and wireless projects, and the Pico H, a version with pre-soldered headers that saves time when prototyping or plugging into breadboards.
Key Features
- RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom
- Dual-core Arm Cortex M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
- 264KB of SRAM, and 2MB of on-board Flash memory
- The castellated module allows soldering directly to carrier boards
- USB 1.1 with device and host support
- Low-power sleep and dormant modes
- Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB
- 26 × multi-function GPIO pins (3.3V ONLY)
- 2 × SPI, 2 × I2C, 2 × UART, 3 × 12-bit ADC, 16 × controllable PWM channels
- Accurate clock and timer on-chip
- Temperature sensor
- Accelerated floating-point libraries on-chip
- 8 × Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support
- A solder-in header like our Raspberry Pi Pico Header Set
Resources
- Raspberry Pi Pico 1 product brief
- Raspberry Pi Pico 1 datasheet
- Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico: C/C++ development
- Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK
- API-level Doxygen documentation for the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK
- Raspberry Pi Pico Python SDK
- Connecting to the internet with Raspberry Pi Pico W
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 datasheet
- Hardware design with RP2040
- Raspberry Pi Pico design files
- Raspberry Pi Pico 1 STEP file
- 3-pin debug connector
Quick tips
Using an IDE for MicroPython: Pico Python SDK - Chapter 4
Using an IDE for C/C++: Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico - Chapter 6
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Pi Pico
Amazing alternative to Teensy unit!
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This is a good item for this money ~$5
The Raspberry foundation made a good product and I would have given 5 stars if it was 2017 or early.
The problem with it is energy efficiency. 170mA is too much for a battery device. So if I need to make a project that needs to work for a week or more I need to use a power supply.
Otherwise the product is good to study C/C+/mycropython for microcontrollers. -
Amazing performance for price
Dual core, faster than arduino by a long way, more memory, C++ tool chain. this device can output VGA video! Great value.