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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The piratical pirates over at Pimoroni are at it again! They’re running a Twitter-powered activity week with great discounts on all sorts of stuff and prizes awarded throughout. You can read all about the week’s plans here and you will…
This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. It uses the Pimoroni Mote (full kit) to appear as fireworks and then uses Pygame to play the sound of fireworks as each Mote…
