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The $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W now supports Bluetooth (via a software update)

by Brad Linder 3 Comments on The $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W now supports Bluetooth (via a software update)

The Raspberry Pi Pico W is a $6 microcontroller board with an RP2040 chip, a micro USB port, GPIO pins, and support for 802.11/b/g/n WiFi. When it first launched a year ago there was one thing that was missing though: Bluetooth support. While the Pico W had Bluetooth hardware, it didn’t have the software to […]

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Banana Pi BPI-PicoW-S3 is a Raspberry Pi Pico clone for $5.50 (plus shipping)

by Brad Linder 2 Comments on Banana Pi BPI-PicoW-S3 is a Raspberry Pi Pico clone for $5.50 (plus shipping)

The makers of the Banana Pi line of single-board computers have launched their latest Raspberry Pi lookalike. But this time instead of copying one of Raspberry Pi’s full-fledged mini PCs, the company is taking aim at the Raspberry Pi Pico W IoT board that launched earlier this year for $6. The new Banana Pi BPI-PicoW-S3 is […]

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Raspberry Pi launches custom RP2040 microcontroller and $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board (plus 3rd-party hardware)

by Brad Linder 6 Comments on Raspberry Pi launches custom RP2040 microcontroller and $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board (plus 3rd-party hardware)

Nearly a decade after debuting its first $35 single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is launching a new Raspberry Pi Pico that sells for just $4. It’s so small and so cheap that you get one free when you buy a copy of the February 2021 edition of HackSpace magazine. But the Raspberry Pi Pico isn’t […]