The Raspberry Pi Pico W is the latest product built on the company’s own silicon. Priced at just $6 USD, it features an RP2040 microcontroller, which is built on TSMC’s 40nm low-power process, complete with two 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ cores, 264kB of on-chip SRAM, a CYW43439 wireless chip, and a custom programmable I/O subsystem.
Similar to other Raspberry Pi boards, its radio circuitry is safely encapsulated in a metal shield can, thus reducing compliance costs for customers who want to integrate it into their own products. The CYW43439 wireless chip supports both Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low-Energy, although the company states that they have not enabled Bluetooth on Pico W at launch, but may do so in the future. Available now, but finding this computer in stock may take some time. It’s only a matter of time until someone builds a portable game console with this chip, like the PiBoy DMG.
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This UF2 firmware we’re making available for Pico W is a separate build to the existing MicroPython firmware for our original Pico board. We’ll be upstreaming the changes to the main MicroPython repository soon after launch, but as MicroPython has separate binaries on a per-board rather than per-architecture basis there will always be two distinct UF2 firmware releases going forward. One for Pico, the other for Pico W,” said the foundation.
