It’s always nice when something new arrives in the post and it’s unexpected! Andrew Gale from PocketMoneyTronics has done great things in the past with his subscription-based soldering kits. This time, he has created a carrier board for the Raspberry…
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Using Sublime Text 3 to code with your Raspberry Pi Pico
There are, of course, many options when it comes to editing files. Raspberry Pi’s suggested way of coding for the Raspberry Pi Pico is to use Visual Studio Code. I must admit, I struggled to get on with it. In…
Create a low-res thermal camera with a Raspberry Pi Pico, an AMG8833 sensor and an ILI9341 screen with CircuitPython
As part of an ongoing Raspberry Pi Pico-based project, I wanted to create a thermal camera. To do this, I first of all went shopping to find what I needed. Here are the two components for this mini project: Adafruit…
Playing sounds from the Raspberry Pi Pico using CircuitPython – a journey of discovery
As you probably know by now, I’m not a microcontroller expert. However, with the advent of microcontrollers that use MicroPython and CircuitPython, I am a lot more comfortable using them now than I used to be! However, because the Raspberry…
Introducing the LumiCube – a Raspberry Pi-powered LED cube on Kickstarter now
London-based start-up AbstractFoundry have launched their first Kickstarter for the Lumicube. It is a 10cm cube with 192 LEDs over three sides and ports etc on the back: You add your own Raspberry Pi to the cube and then use…
Finding a Raspberry Pi Zero retro emulator in the smallest of places!
Reddit user JamHamster has done this lovely retro emulator build out of an audio cassette and a Pi Zero W. The entire underside is a heatsink made out of aluminium (which is a bit of an overkill for a Zero,…
Introducing Piper Make, a drag-and-drop visual programming environment for the Raspberry Pi Pico
San Francisco-based company Piper, who up til now have concentrated on wooden, DIY educational Raspberry Pi bundles have branched out into a visual programming environment for developing projects on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Called “Piper Make“, the web-based software allows…
Modifying an Adafruit CircuitPython library to support the Pimoroni 11×7 LED Matrix Breakout on the Raspberry Pi Pico
At the moment, I am trying to combine several different products – sensors, displays – into a project for the Raspberry Pi Pico. One of them is the Breakout Garden 11×7 Matrix from Pimoroni. I’ve chosen to use CircuitPython as…
Using CircuitPython with the Raspberry Pi Pico’s PIO functionality
Jeff Epler over at Adafruit has written an excellent guide to using the Pico’s PIO functionality in combination with CircuitPython. As he points out, CircuitPython sometimes interacts differently with the PIO than standard MicroPython, so this guide was necessary to…
Your horse runs like the wind with this Raspberry Pi Pico-driven animation
Hari Wiguna has taken a Raspberry Pi Pico and a small SSD1306 OLED display and created a lovely animation project. It features the stop-motion frames from the galloping horse animation cards by Eadweard Muybridge and uses CircuitPython to do the…