🔗 Articles: Thursday 08.Aug.2024


NYT: Tim Walz’s Rise in the Democratic Party Was No Accident

More than a year ago, Tim Walz and his aides decided to be ready in case an irresistible opportunity arose. Their tightly held strategy helped them catch political lightning in a bottle.


Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

We’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our second-generation microcontroller board, built on RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller designed here at Raspberry Pi.

With a higher core clock speed, twice the memory, more powerful Arm cores, new security features, and upgraded interfacing capabilities, Pico 2 delivers a significant performance and feature uplift, while retaining hardware and software compatibility with earlier members of the Pico series.

We’ve seen some amazing demonstrations of that power: from our very own Graham Sanderson’s port of DOOM; to Dmitry Grinberg’s port of PalmOS; to Kevin Vance’s “CPU-less” Commodore 64 cartridge.

While there is relatively little stock in channel today, Pico 2 is in full-rate production with our friends at Sony. Many of our Approved Reseller partners are operating backorder and reservation schemes, and we will be shipping units to them on a regular basis over the next few weeks.

Before the end of the year, we expect to ship a wireless-enabled Pico 2 W, using the same Infineon 43439 modem as Pico W, and versions of both Pico 2 and Pico 2 W with pre-installed 0.1-inch headers.


Last Updated: 08.Aug.2024 23:59 EDT

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