Raspberry Pi launches the Wi-Fi-geared up Pico W for just $6

In a nutshell: The new Raspberry Pi Pico W provides created-in Wi-Fi connectivity to the firm's popular Pico board introduced very last 12 months. These wi-fi-enabled boards will be a wonderful match for several third-party solutions, such as IoT gadgets. Meanwhile, the Pico H and Pico WH increase pre-populated headers and a 3-pin debug connector.

The Raspberry Pi Basis has just introduced 3 new variants of its little Pico board. The Raspberry Pi Pico W provides crafted-in Wi-Fi connectivity, when the Pico H and Pico WH are variations with pre-put in header pins and a three-pin debug connector.

The initial Raspberry Pi Pico launched early previous year for just $4. It will come with an RP2040 chip constructed on TSMC's 40nm approach and features two Arm Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 133 MHz and 264KB of on-chip RAM. The board also has 2 MB of flash memory and a micro USB 1.1 port.

As beforehand stated, the new Pico W receives Wi-Fi capabilities via an Infineon CYW43439 wireless chip with an onboard antenna. It's a 1x1 SISO solution with help for the 2.4 GHz-only Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) protocol and 20 MHz-large channels, enabling for a PHY data amount up to 96 Mbps. Interestingly, this chipset also characteristics constructed-in Bluetooth 5.2 assistance, but the company hasn't enabled it on the Pico W at start.

These new Wi-Fi versions will likely be extremely common for IoT purposes, with the organization boasting it bought almost 2 million models of the conventional Pico board in the earlier 18 months.

The Pico H and Pico W are now out there for $5 and $6, respectively, although the Pico WH will launch next month for $7.