The Raspberry Pi Pico W, also with pre-soldered headers, allows users to easily add wireless connectivity to builds and IoT projects.

Building on the enormous popularity of the Raspberry Pi Pico, which launched in January 2021, we are delighted to announce the extension of the Pico range to include a wireless-enabled and pre-soldered header-equipped W model. Everything that a standard Pico is, but now with wireless capabilities.

The Raspberry Pi Pico Wis a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces which incorporates an Infineon CYW43439 wireless chip. CYW43439 supports IEEE 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN.The antenna is an onboard antenna licensed from ABRACON (formerly ProAnt). The wireless interface is connected via SPI to the RP2040 microcontroller.For best wireless performance, the antenna should be in free space. For instance, putting metal under or close to the antenna can reduce its performance both in terms of gain and bandwidth. Adding grounded metal to the sides of the antenna can improve the antennas bandwidth.

The board has been pre-fitted with a pre-soldered 40-way header connector, for greater ease of use in hobbyist and industrial applications.

At the heart ofthis microcontrolleris RP2040. a Raspberry Pi-designed chip. The Raspberry Pi Pico, it’s; small, fast, highly affordable, and incredibly versatile. Brought to you by the same team that delivered the Raspberry Pi computer. The powerful, Pi-designed, RP2040 Dual ARM Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz chip features 256KB internal RAM. This is paired with 2MB of onboard QSPI Flash memory for code and data storage. The board is fully loaded with the hardware and flexible I/O options that make it perfect for beginners and experts alike.

Unlike the Raspberry Pi computers, like the Raspberry Pi 4, the pico has no operating system. Instead, the board is programmed to do only the tasks that are required of it in the project it will be used for. It can be programmed with the C/C++ SDK or with MicroPython. Code on your Desktop Computer/Pi and then