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″…
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…
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…
It’s always nice when something new arrives in the post and it’s unexpected! Andrew Gale from PocketMoneyTronics has done great things in the past with his subscription-based soldering kits. This time, he has created a carrier board for the 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…
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…
Hong Kong-based Elecrow, who not long ago completed shipping their CrowPi 2 laptop kit based on the Raspberry Pi, have launched their latest Kickstarter campaign: Crowbits. Crowbits are magnetically-snappable physical programming blocks that enable kids to put together complex constructions…
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…
