Description

Raspberry Pi Pico

The Raspberry Pi foundation has just release their brand new Pi Pico microcontroller. This low-cost microcontroller board features a powerful new chip, the RP2040. Inside the RP2040 is a 'permanent ROM' USB UF2 bootloader. What that means is when you want to program new firmware, you can hold down the BOOTSEL button while plugging it into USB and it will appear as a USB disk drive you can drag the firmware onto.

Quick Spec

Dual ARM Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz
264kB on-chip SRAM
Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash
DMA controller
Fully-connected AHB crossbar
On-chip programmable LDO
30 GPIO pins
2 x UARTs
2 x SPI controllers
2 x I2C controllers
16 x PWM channels
USB 1.1 controller and PHY
8 PIO state machines
4 Analog inputs
Size 51.3mm x 21mm x 3.9mm

Pin Functions

Resources

Official Specifications
Pi Pico Board - Official Datasheet and Dimensions
Micro Python Editor - Thonny support Pi Pico from version 3.3
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi- MicroPython and C/C++
Getting Started with MicroPython

Using Thonny as Micro Python Editor

Download the latest UF2 Bootloader from the Pi Pico Getting Started Page - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/pico/getting-started
Select getting started with MicroPython
Download latest UF2 file -> pico_micropython_xxxx.uf2

Push and hold the BOOTSEL button and then plug your Pico into the USB port of your Raspberry Pi or other computer.

Release the BOOTSEL button and your Pico appear as a removable drive
Click and hold the mouse button on the UF2 file then drag it to your Pico’s removable storage drive
After a few seconds you’ll see your Pico disappear from File Manager, don’t worry, that’s supposed to happen!
Congratulations your Pico is now running MicroPython
Download Thone v3.3 or higher
Inside Thonny go to options, Interpreter and select Pi Pico