La Raspberry Pi Peak It can already be considered a complete success. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has shared sales data and in just one month it has already achieved 1 million units sold. A figure that is truly crazy if one takes into account how long it took other previous boards to achieve such numbers.
Raspberry Pi Pico sells 4 million dollars in a month
The Raspberry Pi Pico, like the first raspberry pi, it was not created with the goal that any other technology company might have regarding their products. Here it is logical that it also seeks to cover certain costs and generate a profit that allows to continue developing new devices, but the initial idea was once again to offer a development board that is easy to use, powerful, flexible and with the most reasonable price possible.
Well, they achieved all this and with a price of 4 dollars they managed to put up for sale a product that in a matter of only one month of life has already shown that it is on its way to stardom. The Raspberry Pi Peak It is a success and since it was presented on January 21 (after a month on sale) It has managed to sell 1 million units.
Obtaining figures of this type is something really very commendable, since it is not a product like the original Raspberry Pi that has everything necessary to start using it even by those who do not have much knowledge. And it is not the same to connect an HDMI monitor, keyboard, mouse and power supply and start to see the entire system on the screen than having to mess around a little more.
Even so, the reception that this microcontroller has had has been surprising and the figures show it. So much so that in The MagPi, a magazine that The Raspberry Pi Foundation publishes and that you can download in PDF format for free, shows some ideas that you can do with it. For example, accompanied with one of the more interesting modules for Raspberry Pi Pico that already exist, you could create your own timer to apply the pomodoro productivity technique.
The microcontroller revolution
With the Raspberry Pi Peak the company wants to achieve the same thing it did with the Raspberry Pi. If with this first board they were able to revolutionize computing with a versatile and very attractive price solution, with the Pico they want to do the same with microcontrollers. Hence the importance of the RP2040 chip design that gives life to this board.
Un design Full stack which, as they say on the official page, was completely done by them in Cambridge and thanks to this approach allowed them to meet all the objectives set, from the form factor for its use in a multitude of projects to reducing costs by being able to use a cheaper PCB board that didn't limit options or quality.
So you might be interested in keeping track of him if this whole subject appeals to you. Because with the great reception it has received, it is very likely that the number of projects and uses that can be given to this plate will increase exponentially in the coming weeks. And that would translate into a multitude of new options even for those users who have less knowledge. Because if there is one good thing about the Raspberry Pi user community, it is that they share everything they do.