When products first come out, and the inevitable add-on boards appear, one of the things that you pray for are clear, concise instructions that take you through, step-by-step how to do something basic. The Raspberry Pi Pico is incredibly “new…
At the start of the Raspberry Pi Pico launch, it was only possible to program it in either C/C++ or MicroPython. A few languages are beginning to make an appearance now, including the quite exciting prospect of Rust running on…
Hi everyone. If, like me, you’re just starting out on your Raspberry Pi Pico journey, you’ll likely be looking for some resources to help you. This is a microcontroller, not a microcomputer, so you have to do things a bit…
Rainer Bunger on Twitter has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Pimoroni Inky wHAT e-ink display and created a lovely weather station that displays the next 7 days of forecasts.Using various fonts for the text and the icons…
A Reddit user called Jools64 has created a fully-playable demo of the game Tetris using a Raspberry Pi Pico, the newest board from Raspberry Pi. It uses a Pico Display Pack from Pimoroni to show the game and the four…
Nick decided that he wanted a more visual representation of the attempts bots made to attack and gain access to his server. To do this, he took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Blinkt and a 7-segment display and…
Young programmer Luke Spademan has built up a CamJam EduKit 3: Robotics kit and, after first of all using the excellent worksheets written by Tim Richardson, then converted it so that the Raspberry Pi inside the box can be controlled…
David Pride has taken a Tobbie robot toy and hacked it using some 3D-printed extra parts and a Raspberry Pi Zero. He’s used a ZeroBorg from PiBorg as the motor controller and then 3D-printed a replacement head to house the Raspberry…
Ben Nuttall over at Raspberry Pi has announced the release of GPIO Zero 1.5. This is a significant release and includes several enhancements. Improvements to the DistanceSensor class giving more accurate and reliable readings. Improvements to the source/value functionality meaning…
Andy Warburton has taken his initial concept of a Raspberry Pi-powered nightlight and re-invented it using an ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 (which you can find on, for example, the Wemos D1 mini) is a marvellous chip which is Arduino IDE-compatible…
