Serial Servo HATs and Raspberry Pi, Arduino expansion boards 3:15 pm October 2, 2023 By Julian Horsey While building robotics projects, the importance of controllers and motors cannot be overstated.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is both faster and cheaper than the Arduino Nano, but the nano has better resources and community.

If you don’t need wireless features for pricing or compliance certification reasons, Raspberry Pi also offers the Pico 2 without that functionality for $5.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is faster and backward-compatible, still only $5 The second generation of the popular hobbyist chip just dropped and it has significantly more power than its predecessor.

That includes the newest player to the microcontroller game — the Raspberry Pi Pico, which [pete_codes] used to whip up a nice looking OBS stream deck.

Raspberry Pi details the three-year journey behind its new RP2040 chip, which was designed in-house and manufactured by iPhone chipmaker TSMC.

Priced at just $4, the Raspberry Pi Pico is built on RP2040 chip. “This is the first beta release of CircuitPython 6.2.0.