Hack Wi-Fi on to your new Pi Pico 2

The new Pico 2 doesn’t come with Wi-Fi, but when has that ever stopped Les Pounder? Never, that’s when.

YOU’LL NEED • Pico 2 or Pico 1• Adafruit Airlift FeatherWing co-processor• 8x M2M jumper wires• Breadboard Just like the original Raspberry Pi Pico, the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 has no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity. There will be a Pico 2 W, which has been confirmed by Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton, but it is still a few months off yet. So, what can we do in the meantime? Using an Adafruit Airlift FeatherWing, we can hack in wireless internet access. This board is essentially an ESP32, an already formidable Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller. You may be asking, “Why?” Because we can – and there may be an edge case that requires the power of the new RP2350 via a Wi-Fi connection. To demonstrate how to use data from…

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