The Raspberry Pi Pico W brings wireless functionality to this tiny computer

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When you think back to the early days of electronic computing with rooms full of house sized units to do what we'd now consider fairly basic tasks, tiny cheap computers are nothing short of amazing. Sure, we live in an age where everyone has a super beast in their pocket that can do miraculous things. But these often tend to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. 

Not like the Raspberry Pi Pico, which is famously a 21mm x 51mm card sized computer you can buy with spare change. This little hobbyist machine has just had a significant upgrade, and with that a 50% price increase. The regular Raspberry Pi also had its first price increase thanks to the chip shortage,(opens in new tab) so it's no surprise that others may also go up. This all of course sounds a lot more significant until you remember we're making a small hop from $4 to $6.

The $2 extra is well worth it as it adds Wi-Fi to to the teeny tiny device, which has been called the Pico W. This might not be a big deal for many projects, but according to the Tom's Hardware review(opens in new tab), the addition of Wi-Fi seems to be just what the Pico needed. Especially when using the board with sensors as the data can be easily transferred over a network without much extra effort on the part of the user. 

Other than that, there aren't any notable changes to the Pico board, which means it's very similar to this one running a Gameboy style game(opens in new tab). The Pico is a great little project device, and the $2 upgrade may only bring Wi-Fi but it's already seeming very useful. Plus when asked by The Register(opens in new tab), Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton explained that most of that price hike went straight to incorporating the new feature.

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