All about the calendar Arriving just in time for Christmas, The Pi Hut’s Maker Advent Calendar contains all sorts of maker-y goodness to enhance the Festive season. The Calendar comes as a large box with a cardboard wrapper and will…
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Use Adafruit IO with a Raspberry Pi Pico W to create IoT dashboards using MQTT
I decided recently to set up a string of temperature sensors around our house to work out the temperature profile of different rooms. With the recent release of the Pico W, I realised that I could do this quite simply,…
Marty the Robot from Robotical – a review of this lovely educational robot
In 2016, Edinburgh-based Robotical introduced their robotic platform, Marty the Robot. Successfully funded through a Crowdfunding campaign, the robot has now been updated to version 2, via another successful campaign, and is now available to buy from their online shop.…
Build a simple physical mute button for video conferencing on Zoom using a Raspberry Pi Pico
Miguel Grinberg has written a really great beginners’ tutorial to the world of USB HID using the Raspberry Pi Pico. For this project, he adds a Pico to a breadboard then hooks up a simple momentary button. Pressing the button…
Create a weather forecasting station using a Feather S2 and an OLED
At the moment, I am waiting for the second version of my PCB for the PicoPicorder. In a departure from my regular making, I decided to buy a Feather S2 from Pimoroni. This is a Feather-format board with built-in WiFI…
Make your own Ghostbuster PKE Meter prop using a Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
Starscream205 on Instructables has written up this great handheld, battery-powered project. It is a PKE Meter, popularised in the movie (and cartoon) Ghostbusters. Made out of Raspberry Pi 3B+, a SenseHAT, a night-vision camera (with IR lights) and a 3.5″…
Plant moisture detector uses a Raspberry Pi Pico for a low-cost, easy to implement project – the 3D-printed enclosure is an added bonus
Spencer Organ recently went to the virtual Preston Raspberry Jam which had a gardening theme to talk about his project – a Raspberry Pi Pico watering can. You can see the innards above. Costing under £15, the project helps to…
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…