Hi everyone. It’s been a little while! I’ve been horribly busy with various things, including work, so it’s been difficult to keep up with blogging. I have been posting Pi stuff over on Twitter/X (how I hate that new name!)…
Category: Sensors
Elecrow Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit review – lots of goodies!
I received this kit for free from Elecrow in China in exchange for an impartial review. TL;DR – an amazing kit for the money, but the tutorials could use some attention. The contents This kit is large and full of good…
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,…
Review of the Maker Pi Pico from Cytron Technologies – a Raspberry Pi Pico project board worth your time
Also in my review box from Cytron (along with yesterday’s Edu:Bit) was a Maker Pi Pico. This is a board that houses a Raspberry Pi Pico and measures approximately 95mm x 70mm. The version I’ve got is the ordinary Maker…
Review of the Cytron Technologies Edu:Bit STEM and Coding kit
SC Lim of Cytron Technologies was kind enough to send me a review sample of their Edu:Bit, which is based around the micro:bit. Originally a successfully-funded Kickstarter, the Edu:Bit is, primarily, a large, red circuit board which houses a micro:bit…
Raspberry Pi Digest – 10th June 2021 – a different way of blogging!
I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
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″…
Guest post – Building a custom Raspberry Pi Pico-powered WiFi temperature sensor using MQTT and CircuitPython
David Booth is here with another guest post. This time a custom temperature sensor using a Raspberry Pi Pico and a self-designed PCB. Overview A custom, low power temperature sensor powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico with an LCD display…
Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico
Tony Goodhew has been in touch about some experiments he has run on the new, low-cost Maker Pi Pico from Cytron. TL;DR – here’s the Instructable. In the UK, the Maker Pi Pico is available from The Pi Hut (also…