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Raspberry Pi Pico W

The board as it appears on the Velxio canvas, with its full pin map read live from the simulator (regenerated by scripts/gen-boards.mjs, so it always matches what you can wire).

Raspberry Pi Pico W board

Family: Raspberry Pi Pico & Pico W · Languages: Arduino C++, MicroPython

The Pico W is the Pico with the CYW43439 radio, and the radio is emulated rather than stubbed — the wireless stack really associates and your firmware sees a link come up.

Two levels, worth knowing before you plan a project:

  • Joining a network runs in the browser and is free. The association, the driver handshake and the link state all work on any plan.
  • Reaching the real internet is a paid feature. DNS, TCP and UDP out to actual hosts, and the inbound IoT gateway, are gated at run time — see plans.

Two Pico Ws can also talk to each other on one canvas; the gallery has handshake, GPIO mirror and UART passthrough projects built that way.

No separate starter: open New Raspberry Pi Pico project and swap the board, or place it from Add Component.

  • GP0
  • GP1
  • GND.1
  • GP2
  • GP3
  • GP4
  • GP5
  • GND.2
  • GP6
  • GP7
  • GP8
  • GP9
  • GND.3
  • GP10
  • GP11
  • GP12
  • GP13
  • GND.4
  • GP14
  • GP15
  • GP16
  • GP17
  • GND.5
  • GP18
  • GP19
  • GP20
  • GP21
  • GND.6
  • GP22
  • RUN
  • GP26
  • A0
  • GP27
  • A1
  • GND.7
  • GP28
  • A2
  • ADC_VREF
  • 3V3
  • 3V3_EN
  • GND.8
  • VSYS
  • VBUS
  • GP25

Every pin above is clickable on the canvas — click one to start a wire. Board-level behavior, quirks and example links live on the family page.