In this article we look at another Raspberry Pi Pico board, this one is the Cytron Maker Pi Pico. The Maker Pi Pico is a board for the Raspberry Pi Pico, it comes in 2 variants one of these has a Raspberry Pi Pico soldered…

In this article we will display a digital clock using a Pico Scroll Pack   Getting started The labels on the underside of Pico Scroll Pack will show you which way round to plug it into your Pico – just match up the USB port…

In this article we look at the Pico Scroll Pack which 119 white LEDs in a tidy 17×7 matrix, as well with four tactile buttons for interacting with your Pico. The brightness of each LED is individually controllable an d its ideal for a text…

In this article we look at the Pico Display Pack which is an 18-bit capable 240×135 pixel IPS display. The pack also has four tactile buttons and an RGB LED that you can use as an indicator. Features 1.14” 240×135 pixel IPS LCD screen 4…

In this example we connect a PCF8574 expander to a Raspberry Pi Pico Description This 8-bit input/output (I/O) expander for the two-line bidirectional bus (I2C) is designed for 2.5-V to 6-V VCC operation. The PCF8574 device provides general-purpose remote I/O expansion for most microcontroller families…

In this article we connect a DS18b20 module to a Raspberry Pi Pico and we will use micropython to display the temperature returned from the  module. I used the following DS18b20 module Specifications The following is from the datasheet The DS18B20 digital thermometer provides 9-bit…

In this article we connect a WS2812 module to a Raspberry Pi Pico and we will use micropython to display various colours on the module. The WS2812 can also be known as neopixels, this is Adafruits naming of the module I used the following WS2812…

In this article we present our first micropython example on a Raspberry Pi Pico, rather than just use the default example to flash an LED, we will connect an RGB led up to. Tri-color LEDs contain three different LED emitters in one case. Each emitter…

This is not a SBC like a standard Raspberry Pi, you cannot run an operating system like linux on it. Think of an Arduino Nano from a size point of view but way more powerful and an Arduino from a development point of view You…

In this article we look at a fairly new piece of kit the Raspberry Pi 400 The Raspberry Pi 400 is a complete Raspberry Pi 4-based personal computer which is fully integrated into a keyboard for ease of use. The hardware features a quad-core 64-bit…