Schlagwort: Raspberry Pi Pico
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Teaching with Raspberry Pi Pico in the computing classroom
Reading Time: 6 minutesRaspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost microcontroller that can be connected to another computer to be programmed using MicroPython. We think it’s a great tool for exploring physical computing in classrooms and coding clubs. Pico has been available since last year, amid school closures, reopenings, isolation periods, and restrictions for students and…
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Get kids coding and learning electronics with Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 7 minutesSince the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller in 2021, we have seen people all over the world come up with creative Pico-based inventions. The Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. Now, thanks to our brand-new and free ‘Introduction to Raspberry Pi Pico’ learning path, young coders can easily join in and make…
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Pico Pico Synth | HackSpace #44
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Ben Everard shows us how to create a framework for building audio devices using Raspberry Pi Pico, called PicoPicoSynth. Raspberry Pi Pico combines processing power with the ability to shuffle data in and out quickly. This makes it a good fit for a lot of…
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Build a Raspberry Pi Pico piano
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you catch the very cool Raspberry Pi Pico piano project shared on the latest Digital Making at Home livestream? The sibling maker group from the GurgleApps family, Amelie, Caleb, and Ziva, chatted about how they got into coding before inviting us into miniature musical mayhem. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ESFX0RTuI?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Watch the siblings on…
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Raspberry Pi Pico-controlled model railroad
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Orient Express. The Flying Scotsman. Ivor the Engine. All juggernauts of the rail community, but none powered by our microcontroller and all, thus, inferior in our eyes. Raspberry Pi Pico has been used in cooler and more interesting ways every day since its launch in January this year, but this is…
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Debugging embedded software with Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this article from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Rob Miles takes a look at debugging. You’ll find what a debugger does and discover how to add hardware that can be used to tell us what our devices are really thinking. Figure 1: An ESP32-PROG (on the right) connected to a…
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Make a Raspberry Pi Pico-based Midi Fighter | HackSpace 43
Reading Time: 4 minutesMIDI Fighter-style controllers (MIDI controllers with grids of arcade buttons) have been a staple of the DIY MIDI controller community for years. This project, featured in the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, continues that tradition with the Raspberry Pi Pico. A grid of 16 arcade buttons lets you play MIDI notes faster…
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The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect is here
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was back in January that we first introduced you to the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. The first Arduino board to include Raspberry Pi silicon. It’s been a roller coaster ride getting it to you, and enthusiasm during the wait has been incredibly encouraging. The wait, you’ll be glad to hear, is…
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How to add LoRaWAN to Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 9 minutesArguably the winner of the standards war around wide area networking protocols for the Internet of Things, LoRaWAN is a low-powered, low-bandwidth, and long-range protocol. Intended to connect battery-powered remote sensors back to the internet via a gateway, on a good day, with a reasonable antenna, you might well get 15km of…
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Custom USB games controllers with Raspberry Pi Pico | HackSpace 42
Reading Time: 9 minutesGames controllers – like keyboards – are very personal things. What works for one person may not work for another. Why, then, should we all use almost identical off-the-shelf controllers? In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, we take a look at how to use Raspberry Pi Pico to create a controller…
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Drag-n-drop coding for Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroducing Piper Make: a Raspberry Pi Pico-friendly drag-n-drop coding tool that’s free for anyone to use. The ‘Digital View’ option displays a dynamic view of Raspberry Pi Pico showing GPIO states Edtech startup Piper, Inc. launched this brand new browser-based coding tool on #PiDay. If you already have a Raspberry Pi Pico,…
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Graphic routines for Raspberry Pi Pico screens
Reading Time: 7 minutesPimoroni has brought out two add‑ons with screens: Pico Display and Pico Explorer. A very basic set of methods is provided in the Pimoroni UF2 file. In this article, we aim to explain how the screens are controlled with these low-level instructions, and provide a library of extra routines and example code to help…
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How to add Ethernet to Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 6 minutesRaspberry Pi Pico has a lot of interesting and unique features, but it doesn’t have networking. Of course this was only ever going to be a temporary inconvenience, and sure enough, over Pi Day weekend we saw both USB Ethernet and Ethernet PHY support released for Pico and RP2040. Raspberry Pi Pico…
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What is PIO?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrocontroller chips, like our own RP2040 on Raspberry Pi Pico, offer hardware support for protocols such as SPI and I2C. This allows them to send and receive data to and from supported peripherals. But what happens when you want to use unsupported tech, or multiple SPI devices? That’s where Programmable I/O,…
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Raspberry Pi Pico – Vertical innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutesOur Chief Operating Officer and Hardware Lead James Adams talked to The MagPi Magazine about building Raspberry Pi’s first microcontroller platform. On 21 January we launched the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico. As I write, we’ve taken orders for nearly a million units, and are working hard to ramp production of both the…
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Make an animated sign with Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 4 minutesLight up your living room like Piccadilly Circus with this Raspberry Pi Pico project from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine. Don’t forget, it’s not too late to get your hands on our new microcontroller for FREE if you subscribe to HackSpace magazine. HUB75 LED panels provide an affordable way to add…
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How to get started with FUZIX on Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 9 minutesFUZIX is an old-school Unix clone that was initially written for the 8-bit Zilog Z80 processor and released by Alan Cox in 2014. At one time one of the most active Linux developers, Cox stepped back from kernel development in 2013. While the initial announcement has been lost in the mists because…
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Keeping secrets and writing about Raspberry silicon
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the latest issue of The MagPi Magazine, Alasdair Allan shares the secrets he had to keep while working behind the scenes to get Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 chip out into the world. BEST friends There is a new thing in the world, and I had a ringside seat for its creation. For…
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The journey to Raspberry Silicon
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen I first joined Raspberry Pi as a software engineer four and a half years ago, I didn’t know anything about chip design. I thought it was magic. This blog post looks at the journey to Raspberry Silicon and the design process of RP2040. RP2040 – the heart of Raspberry Pi Pico…
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How to add a reset button to your Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to load your code onto your new Raspberry Pi Pico: press and hold the BOOTSEL button, plug your Pico into your computer, and it’ll mount as a mass storage volume. Then just drag and drop a UF2 file onto the board.…
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How to blink an LED with Raspberry Pi Pico in C
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe new Raspberry Pi Pico is very different from a traditional Raspberry Pi. Pico is a microcontroller, rather than a microcomputer. Unlike a Raspberry Pi it’s a platform you develop for, not a platform you develop on. Blinking the onboard LED But you still have choices if you want to develop for…
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Raspberry Pi engineers on the making of Raspberry Pi Pico | The MagPi 102
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the latest issue of The MagPi Magazine, on sale now, Gareth Halfacree asks what goes into making Raspberry Pi’s first in-house microcontroller and development board. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-tRJPCv0GA?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] “It’s a flexible product and platform,” says Nick Francis, Senior Engineering Manager at Raspberry Pi, when discussing the work the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)…
