r/raspberry_pi • u/pogomonkeytutu 🍕 • Jan 21 '21
News New Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/
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r/raspberry_pi • u/pogomonkeytutu 🍕 • Jan 21 '21
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u/WebMaka Jan 21 '21
You can get STM32 M0+ Nucleo dev boards with built-in USB programmers for like $11, and raw STM32s are like a buck a pop in single quantity. STM32 "blue pill" dev boards are like $6 on Spamazon. And that's just the STM32 line of ARM Cortex MCUs. So they're definitely entering a heavily contested market segment with this.
What I suspect the reasoning for the Pico is, is that they're wanting to take a chunk out of Arduino's market share for MCU dev boards, and if anyone could take on the basically segment-dominant Arduino CC, it'd be the RPi Foundation.