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″…
Spencer Organ recently went to the virtual Preston Raspberry Jam which had a gardening theme to talk about his project – a Raspberry Pi Pico watering can. You can see the innards above. Costing under £15, the project helps to…
San Francisco-based company Piper, who up til now have concentrated on wooden, DIY educational Raspberry Pi bundles have branched out into a visual programming environment for developing projects on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Called “Piper Make“, the web-based software allows…
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…
Jeff Epler over at Adafruit has written an excellent guide to using the Pico’s PIO functionality in combination with CircuitPython. As he points out, CircuitPython sometimes interacts differently with the PIO than standard MicroPython, so this guide was necessary to…
Hari Wiguna has taken a Raspberry Pi Pico and a small SSD1306 OLED display and created a lovely animation project. It features the stop-motion frames from the galloping horse animation cards by Eadweard Muybridge and uses CircuitPython to do the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
