Welcome to HackSpace magazine February 2021

We’ve been waiting for months to be able to shout about this issue, so it’s exciting to finally be able to talk about it. Pico is the latest member of the Raspberry Pi stable and, if you’ve got a paper version of this magazine, you should now be holding one in your hands. It’s a thoroughly modern board, designed to bring the Raspberry Pi ethos to the world of microcontrollers.
It’s cheap ($4), powerful (dual core running at up to 133MHz), and comes with an innovative Programmable Input/Output system that lets it do amazingly fast I/O.
We’ve got a whole load of information on how to get started with this, starting on page 30, but for a sneak peek at what you can achieve, take a look at page 14 for a game (inspired by the 1980s classic Zarch) programmed by Eben Upton, and ported to Pico by Graham Sanderson. We look forward to seeing what you create with your Picos.
Send pictures of your creations to [email protected] or tag @HackSpaceMag on Twitter.
BEN EVERARD
Editor [email protected]

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