{"id":9651,"date":"2024-12-17T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:12:11","slug":"raspberry-pi-pico-2-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/news\/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-on-sale-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been released<\/a>, bringing WiFi and <strong>Bluetooth <\/strong>to the popular microcontroller platform at an incredibly affordable price of <strong>just $7<\/strong> (\u00a34.80). This new iteration builds upon the success of its predecessor, offering improved performance and connectivity options that make it ideal for a wide range of IoT and Bluetooth projects.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/picow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9654\" style=\"width:515px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/picow2.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/picow2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The integration of Wi-Fi (2.4GHz 802.11n) and Bluetooth 5.2 provides wireless connectivity, making the Pico 2 W an excellent choice for a variety of solutions. The most exciting advancement in the Pico 2 W for us is the addition of Bluetooth 5.2 making the board ideal for Bluetooth LE applications, such as beacon detection or transmitting iBeacon or Eddystone. The Pico 2 W can be used in indoor positioning systems for precise navigation and tracking in large spaces, proximity-based marketing to deliver personalised promotions in retail environments and asset tracking for real-time inventory management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W has been released, bringing WiFi and Bluetooth to the popular microcontroller platform at an incredibly affordable price of just $7 (\u00a34.80). This new iteration builds upon the success of its predecessor, offering improved performance and connectivity options that make it ideal for a wide range of IoT and Bluetooth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9682,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}