During March, and for the past week as well, I’ve been working on the latest iteration of my Picorder project. This project, which has been my “go-to project” for the past 9 years (gulp!) is now running from a Raspberry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
David Pride wondered one day whether or not he could show that pigeons are intelligent animals. To do this, he created the SmartFrank 3000 (TM) which uses a Raspberry Pi 3B, a motor controller board from PiBorg and a stepper…
A team of scientists from Imperial College London, Universiti Malaysia Sabah and the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, together known as the SAFE Project, has been recording the health of the Borneo rainforest. Using solar-powered Raspberry Pis and sensors,…
I was sent a review unit of Seeed Studio’s Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino to try out and give my honest opinion. So, here it is! (You can also buy from Amazon UK here). What’s included? As you can see…
Here‘s an interesting way of using the micro:bit – as an IoT sensor device that can be deployed remotely. By using an ElecFreaks IoT:bit and some sensors, together with an online service called ThingSpeak you can broadcast, capture, access and…
This is a bit complicated, technically, but I’ve been asked to document the issue just in case someone comes across it. I was getting I2C read errors when using the new TE AmbiMate MS4 sensor board (review coming soon!) with…
