Designed by Raspberry Pi, RP2040 features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB internal RAM and support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash. A wide range of flexible I/O options includes I2C, SPI, and — uniquely — Programmable I/O (PIO). These support endless possible applications for this small and affordable package.

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A new chip means a new Feather, and the Raspberry Pi RP2040 is no exception. When we saw this chip we thought "this chip is going to be awesome when we give it the Feather Treatment" and so we did! This Feather features the RP2040, and all niceties you know and love about Feather.

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A new chip means a new ItsyBitsy, and the Raspberry Pi RP2040 is no exception. When we saw this chip we thought "this chip is going to be awesome when we give it the ItsyBitsy teensy-weensy Treatment" and so we did! This Itsy' features the RP2040, and all niceties you know and love about the ItsyBitsy family.

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Meet the only connected RP2040 board, leveraging essential key features of the other Arduino Nanos — like the versatile u-blox NINA WiFi and Bluetooth module. The new board comes packed with some high-quality MEMS sensors from STM, an efficient power section, and a bunch of other innovations.

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A minimal RP2040 breakout board wrangled into a Pin Grid Array, with a maximal dash of retraux style. PGA2040 has no USB port, LED or buttons but it does have an embed-friendly 21mm square footprint, 8MB of flash and lots of exposed RP2040 pins to play with.

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A top of the line Pirate-brand RP2040-powered microcontroller with all the extras - lots of flash memory, USB-C, STEMMA QT/Qwiic, debug connectors, and onboard LiPo charging. Pimoroni Pico boards add extra functionality whilst keeping to the Pico footprint, ensuring compatibility with existing Pico addons.

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A postage stamp sized RP2040 development board with a USB-C connection, perfect for portable projects, wearables, and embedding into devices. Tiny 2040 comes with 8MB of QSPI (XiP) flash on board so it can handle projects small and large with ease.

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A luxe 16 key USB-C keyboard with tactile mechanical switches and fully customisable RGB lighting, ideal for custom macro pads, midi controllers and stream decks. RP2040 gives Keybow 2040 low latency input, zero boot time and a new, compact footprint.

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An all-in-one pocket sized games console with RP2040 at its heart, ready for filling up with all the most fun pixels! PicoSystem has a nice tactile joypad and buttons, a vibrant 240x240 screen and a lipo battery, neatly wrapped up in some shiny abstract PCB art.

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The SparkFun Pro Micro RP2040 is a low-cost, high performance board with flexible digital interfaces featuring the RP2040 microcontroller. The board also includes a WS2812B addressable LED, boot button, reset button, USB-C, resettable PTC fuse, castellated pads, and a Qwiic connector to add devices from SparkFun’s quick-connect I2C ecosystem.

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The SparkFun Thing Plus - RP2040 harnesses the capability of RP2040 on a compact development board. Within the Feather-compatible Thing Plus form factor with 18 GPIO pins, the board offers an SD card slot, 16MB flash memory, a JST single-cell battery connector, an addressable WS2812 RGB LED, JTAG PTH pins, mounting holes, and SparkFun's signature Qwiic connector.

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The SparkFun MicroMod Pi RP2040 Processor Board is part of SparkFun’s MicroMod modular interface system. The MicroMod M.2 connector makes it a breeze to connect your MicroMod Pi RP2040 Processor with the MicroMod carrier board that gives you the inputs and outputs you need for your project.

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You can program your Pico by connecting it to a computer via USB, then dragging and dropping a file onto it, so we’ve put together a downloadable UF2 file to let you install MicroPython more easily.

1. Download the MicroPython UF2 file by clicking the button below.
2. Push and hold the BOOTSEL button and plug your Pico into the USB port of your Raspberry Pi or other computer. Release the BOOTSEL button after your Pico is connected.
3. It will mount as a Mass Storage Device called RPI-RP2.
4. Drag and drop the MicroPython UF2 file onto the RPI-RP2 volume. Your Pico will reboot. You are now running MicroPython.

You can access the REPL via USB Serial. Our MicroPython documentation contains step-by-step instructions for connecting to your Pico and programming it in MicroPython.

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MicroPython is a full implementation of the Python 3 programming language that runs directly on embedded hardware like Raspberry Pi Pico. You get an interactive prompt (the REPL) to execute commands immediately via USB Serial, and a built-in filesystem. The Pico port of MicroPython includes modules for accessing low-level chip-specific hardware.

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If you’re new to MicroPython, our official guide, "Get started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico", is a great place to start. Learn the basics of MicroPython and physical computing, connect your Pico to displays and sensors, build alarms, reaction games, and more.

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The first program anyone writes when using a new microcontroller is to blink an LED on and off. The Raspberry Pi Pico comes with a single LED on-board (connected to GPIO pin 25). You can blink this on and off by,

1. Download the Blink UF2
2. Push and hold the BOOTSEL button and plug your Pico into the USB port of your Raspberry Pi or other computer.
3. It will mount as a Mass Storage Device called RPI-RP2.
4. Drag and drop the Blink UF2 binary onto the RPI-RP2 volume.
5. Pico will reboot, and the on-board LED should start blinking.

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The next program anyone writes is to say 'Hello World' over a USB serial connection.

1. Download the 'Hello World' UF2.
2. Push and hold the BOOTSEL button and plug your Pico into the USB port of your Raspberry Pi or other computer.
3. It will mount as a Mass Storage Device called RPI-RP2.
4. Drag and drop the 'Hello World' UF2 binary onto the RPI-RP2 volume. Pico will reboot
5. Open a Terminal window and type:
   

sudo apt install minicom
minicom -b 115200 -o -D /dev/ttyACM0

You should see 'Hello, world!' printed to the Terminal

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Our official C SDK can be used from the command line, or from popular integrated development environments like Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and CLion. To get started, download our C/C++ SDK and Examples, and take a look at our 'getting started' documentation to get going. Or for a quick setup see the next section.

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For a full walk-through of how to get going with the C/C++ SDK, you should read our 'getting started' documentation. However, if you are intending to develop for Pico on a Raspberry Pi, then you can set up the C/C++ toolchain quickly by running our setup script from the command line.

Note: You should make sure the OS on your Raspberry Pi is up to date before running the setup script.

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