Miguel Grinberg has written a really great beginners’ tutorial to the world of USB HID using the Raspberry Pi Pico. For this project, he adds a Pico to a breadboard then hooks up a simple momentary button. Pressing the button…
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…
Graeme over at Raspberry Connect has created this nifty little project using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a small e-ink display from SeeedStudio. Using an open API, he grabs the position of the ISS and then plots it as…
Spain-based Manu, who you can find on Twitter, needed to help his 96-year old grandmother communicate with her grandchildren. She is hard-of-hearing and not very tech-savvy, so having her use a mobile phone is a bit of a non-starter. To…
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″…
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…
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…
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…
As you probably know by now, I’m not a microcontroller expert. However, with the advent of microcontrollers that use MicroPython and CircuitPython, I am a lot more comfortable using them now than I used to be! However, because the Raspberry…
Reddit user JamHamster has done this lovely retro emulator build out of an audio cassette and a Pi Zero W. The entire underside is a heatsink made out of aluminium (which is a bit of an overkill for a Zero,…
