The Raspberry Pi is one of the littlest and least expensive smaller than expected PCs you can purchase. It has a HDMI port, USB ports, and runs Ubuntu or other open-source working frameworks like a champ.

The new Raspberry Pi Pico, then again, resembles the CPU of a more complex machine. Without anyone else, it can’t do a lot, however with a couple of additional items, you can handle robots, lights, and other DIY hacks.

The best thing? It costs a simple $4.

These things aren’t new. There are a lot of Arduino microcontrollers out there for fast prototyping, including Adafruit’s Feather foundation of boards and accessories.

This is a first for RaspPi, however, and it’s a fascinating move, not on the grounds that it puts it all the more immovably in rivalry with Arduino, but since it additionally includes Raspberry Pi’s initial attack into making its own chips. The board utilizes Raspberry Pi’s new RP2040 chip, which comprises of an Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB interior RAM. It additionally bolsters Flash memory storage of up to 16MB.

As indicated by Raspberry Pi Chief Operating Officer James Adams, the company began dealing with its new chip back in 2016. It runs on a 40nm cycle and has double centers, which isn’t regular in a board this modest.

You program it in C and MicroPython and associate sensors and shows up to the little leads on the sides. It’s powered by means of a USB port. You can’t actually play Doom on it (yet) yet you can utilize it for gadgets tests and other prototyping exercises that the Raspberry Pi is as of now acclaimed for. Also, as per Adams, it very well may be the first in another line of sheets controlled by Raspberry Pi’s own silicon.