{"id":21064,"date":"2021-05-20T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:56:41","slug":"build-a-simple-mute-button-for-video-conferencing-on-zoom-using-a-raspberry-pi-pico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21064","title":{"rendered":"Build a simple physical mute button for video conferencing on Zoom using a Raspberry Pi Pico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21065\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/simple_hid.jpg?resize=500%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/simple_hid.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/simple_hid.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/simple_hid.jpg?resize=260%2C190&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/simple_hid.jpg?resize=160%2C117&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miguelgrinberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel Grinberg<\/a> has written a really great beginners&#8217; 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 sends a keypress to Zoom which mutes and unmutes the software. The software is CircuitPython, which has USB_HID already available and it can easily be expanded to send other commands, like turning your video off, for example. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/mute-unmute-button-video-calls-raspberry-pi-pico-micropython\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read Miguel&#8217;s tutorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a more comprehensive StreamDeck example, <a href=\"https:\/\/hridaybarot.home.blog\/2021\/01\/31\/using-raspberry-pi-pico-has-hid-device-to-control-mouse-and-keyboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Grinberg has written a really great beginners&#8217; 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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21064\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"Build a simple mute button for video conferencing on Zoom using a 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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,39,972,51],"tags":[1032,1031],"class_list":["post-21064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-making","category-programming","category-raspberry-pi-pico","category-tutorials","tag-miguel-grinberg","tag-streamdeck"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Build a simple physical mute button for video conferencing on Zoom using a 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=21064\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Build a simple physical mute button for video conferencing on Zoom using a Raspberry Pi Pico - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Miguel Grinberg has written a really great beginners&#8217; tutorial to the world of USB HID using the Raspberry Pi Pico. 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