![]() (On second though, is that not exactly what Raspberry Pi did with their original SBC models?)Īfter the unboxing (erm… unpacking?) experience, we were greeted with, or should we say, a lack of header pins. This makes it one of the cheapest development systems available today, but it still managed to punch far above its price class – we’ve seen features here that are absent on systems orders of magnitude more expensive. The packaging costs must have been shrunk to the absolute bare minimum (which we wholeheartedly welcome) to allow for the board’s minuscule $4 price tag. This was surprising, but extremely clever. ![]() The package we received was an envelope with a few of these tiny boards packed in carrier tape. ![]() The Raspberry Pi Foundation has once again kindly provided us with review units of the product in question. With that being said, let’s move on to the review. With the Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller development kit from Raspberry Pi, we might be seeing the start of a new chapter for this market. MCU development boards have traditionally existed alongside single-board computers with little competition between the two fields. ![]() But now, the company seems to be dipping its toes into a new product segment that’s long since been dominated by Arduino and TI. We’ve already reviewed one of their newer models – the Raspberry Pi 4B computer in one of our previous issues. Most of them are about what you’d expect – refinements and new form factors of the already established Raspberry Pi series of SBCs. Not as supported as the Arduino platform as of the time of writingĪnother year has rolled around and there are new exciting Raspberry Pi products coming out on the market.
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