{"id":21011,"date":"2021-04-17T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21011"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:08:25","slug":"taking-the-cytron-maker-pi-pico-out-for-a-spin-with-the-raspberry-pi-pico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21011","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=560%2C249&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=768%2C342&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=560%2C249&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=260%2C116&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FY1JLWQKNG1CJTD.jpg?resize=160%2C71&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony Goodhew has been in touch about some experiments he has run on the new, low-cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cytron.io\/p-maker-pi-pico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maker Pi Pico from Cytron<\/a>. TL;DR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/MAKER-PI-PICO-Workout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s the Instructable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, the Maker Pi Pico is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/latest-raspberry-pi-products\/products\/maker-pi-pico-with-pre-soldered-pico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pi Hut<\/a> (also as a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/latest-raspberry-pi-products\/products\/maker-pi-pico-base-without-pico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version without the Pico pre-soldered<\/a>, but with header sockets). Other distributors around the world can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cytron.io\/p-maker-pi-pico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bottom of this page<\/a>. The board is very well thought-out and contains a whole raft of features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to all Raspberry Pi Pico&#8217;s pins on two 20-way pin headers.<\/li>\n<li>LED indicators on all GPIO pins.<\/li>\n<li>3x momentary push buttons<\/li>\n<li>1x RGB &#8220;NeoPixel-like&#8221; LED<\/li>\n<li>1x Piezo buzzer<\/li>\n<li>1x 3.5mm stereo audio jack<\/li>\n<li>1x microSD card slot<\/li>\n<li>1x ESP-01 socket<\/li>\n<li>6x Grove ports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tony&#8217;s experiments are written in CircuitPython and cover using the GPIO pins, reading from the SD card, using a potentiometer on an analog input and using an SSD1306 display to show results from various inputs including a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/bme680-breakout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni BME680 breakout board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/MAKER-PI-PICO-Workout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the Instructable here<\/a> and you can see one of his demo videos below<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MAKER PI PICO PotDemo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2_SwvzfWW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Goodhew has been in touch about some experiments he has run on the new, low-cost Maker Pi Pico from Cytron. 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In the UK, the Maker Pi Pico is available from The Pi Hut (also&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21011\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,20,972,62,51],"tags":[981,1021,1022,994],"class_list":["post-21011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-raspberry-pi-pico","category-sensors","category-tutorials","tag-circuitpython","tag-cytron","tag-maker-pi-pico","tag-tony-goodhew"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tony Goodhew has been in touch about some experiments he has run on the new, low-cost Maker Pi Pico from Cytron. 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