The Raspberry Pi team has released the Pico, a $4 microcontroller that competes with Arduino.

Not only has Raspberry Pi launched its first microcontroller-class product - the Raspberry Pi Pico - but then Arduino have built on it with the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect.

The recently released Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards are available from stock at Farnell. They are designed to accelerate development time and time-to-market.

Emre has designed an RP2350B-based board he calls the Raspberry Pi Pico 2W Plus which has wireless support thanks to its ESP32C3.

During development / research for a project which needs more than 1 UART Port, the common replacement for the Raspberry Pi is the “Arduino MEGA”. This is because the MEGA provides 4 UART’s ...

Priced at just $12 the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe is now available to purchase and is powered by a RP2040, and has been specifically designed to enable you to connect from USB to UART (serial) or ...