The Raspberry Pi Pico W (wireless), Pico H (Headers) and Pico WH

Elektor engineer Clemens Valens gives you a look at the three new @raspberrypi products, updates of the popular Raspberry Pi Pico board. The first update is the Pico H, a #pico board with headers pre-mounted instead of classy gold-plated castellated solder contacts. It also has a new, tiny debug connector.

The second update is the Pico W. Here the ‘W’ indicates ‘Wireless’. This board is a Pico board with a wireless LAN module added to it. This module is based on an Infineon CYW43439 chip featuring both IEEE 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2 but only wireless LAN (meaning Wi-Fi for most people) is supported by the Pico W. So no Bluetoooth yet.

The third update is the Pico W with pre-mounted headers, the Pico WH. Even though it is announced now, it will probably not be available before September 2022.

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Contents
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0:00 Intro
0:13 Background - Raspberry Pi Pico
0:30 Raspberry Pi Pico H
1:23 Raspberry Pi Pico W
4:00 Raspberry Pi Pico WH
4:16 Outro

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[ruudwarnaar]

Net thuis van het ophalen van 5 stuks pico w
Ben erg benieuwd.

Bedankt voor deze video

[ZDevelopers]

So since the Bluetooth pins are not connected, does that mean a hardware revision is required to add Bluetooth support and not just software support?

[SmithyScotland]

Great explanation of the different models. The Raspberry Pi's own video explains nothing.

[MrAtlantis]

What is the power consumption of the Raspberry Pico W? I mean the current. I want to use it with for a tiny project using a so small solar panel as possible

[john_hind]

No USB-C and no Bluetooth - disappointing!
The more products RP launch with micro/mini USB the harder the eventual transition to USB-C is going to be. I'm royally fed up with rooting through a great pile of different USB cables to find the right one! Almost wish they left the socket off althogether, brought it out on pads and let us wire up our own choice of connector!
Also disappointing they have locked out Bluetooth despite it being in the chip - is it least accessible on solder pads so we can wire it up ourselves? Do the Bluetooth and WiFi parts of the chip share the same radio, and can they be used simultaneously? Having a different interface for each seems 'sub-optimal', the WiFi interface surely must have sufficient bandwidth for Bluetooth? Very un-Pi to lock out a feature present in silicon at the board level even if, initially at least, they leave the community to sort out the firmware!