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…
I’ve just found this simple tutorial for using a “one-wire” temperature sensor with the Pico. The author has used a breakout module that includes the necessary resistor to stabilise the signal, but has also given instructions for wiring up the…
Tony Goodhew got in touch and told me about Steve Baines’ effort to get the famous Conway’s Game of Life running on the Raspberry Pi Pico with a Pimoroni Pico Unicorn Pack attached. You can see Steve’s original script on…
Back in 2013, I covered Matt Hawkins’ excellent post about using an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip with a Raspberry Pi to read analog values, something that the Pi was previously incapable of doing. Now, we have the Raspberry Pi Pico which…
Tony Goodhew has written up a great Instructable to help you get the most out of the Pimoroni Pico Explorer using the Pimoroni MicroPython firmware. He uses the screen to do various drawing exercises at a low level (circles, squares,…
James from Print N Play has taken his Raspberry Pi Pico, a mini SSD1306 screen and a potentiometer and created a (very) miniature version of arcade classic Space Invaders. You can see how he did it in his very detailed…
Hriday Barot has written up a couple of example scripts for the Raspberry Pi Pico that will mimic mouse and keyboard input to the USB port it is plugged into. The scripts, written in CircuitPython, are very simple, but you…
Andy Warburton has blogged this great project with the Raspberry Pi Pico. He has used a SparkFun Soil Moisture sensor to detect moisture levels inside a plant pot. This is then wired up to the Pico, using one of the…
Tony Smith, aka smittytone, has written two articles that are well worth a read if you’re trying to develop for the new Raspberry Pi Pico with a Mac. The first is how to program a Pico in C and the…
A little while ago, on Twitter, I bemoaned that CircuitPython didn’t “just work” with the Pimoroni Pico Explorer. On this board, there is a little LCD screen, an ST7789. Theoretically, a CircuitPython library exists for it, but it didn’t quite…
