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Make Some Noise with the Raspberry Pi Pico in the Pi-Fest Design Challenge

Kit applications have now closed, but the lights have not. You can still enter for a chance in our Pi-Fest Livestream spotlight and Tour Poster by using the Raspberry Pi Pico in a musical or audio project.

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  • Songspire - Not the final chirp

    Hi all ! Hope everyone is well. This project was very fun to do. I've learned a lot, specially discovering that technology can help protect this little (and not so little) feathered friends. I've learned more about Machine Learning and Tiny...
  • Pi-Fest - Entry Theme Player with Raspberry Pi Pico (Blog5)

    Hi Everyone,This is the final blog of this project , explains the overall concept and works. The previous blogs are listed hereBlog1 , Blog2 , Blog3Blog4 Concept The concept of this project is to play background music on a person entry. ...
  • Audio Encryption Project Blog 2: The Operating System

    We decided to install FUZIX onto our picos in order to run programs written in different languages. The Fuzix operating system is a Unix clone made to run on small platforms like the Raspberry Pi Pico. After taking a look at the Github we realiz...
  • Blog #6 Working.

    This is the Continuation of the Blog #5. Here I have used Raspberry Pi PICO, Max4466, and SSD1306. All the code is developed and Flashed using the Arduino IDE(Steps to Follow to Setup Please Follow Blog 4.).   Now Working: Visualizing the Frequ...
  • Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Box: Blog#5 Time For Truth

    Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Box: Blog#5 Time For Truth Now we have come to the last blog and it means we need to put to test the MIDI we build so far. To test the MIDI I decided to use the FL studio which can be downloaded here. Once you have downloaded ...
  • Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Box: Blog#4 Let's Code

    Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI Box: Blog#4 Let's Code So once we have put the hardware together,  now we can start to code. For the coding, I have decided to use Circuit Python. And to test the MIDI I decided to use the FL studio. First, let's look at ...
  • Pi-Fest - Breadboard to Prototype, Final Setup (Blog4)

    In the previous blog (blog3), i have interfaced Neo Pixel LED's to pico. In this blog , Iam going to eliminate the breadboard and pack it all together into the wall mounting switch board.The size occupied by the components in this design,Speaker - 2 ...
  • Blog #5 Hardware implementation and Design.

    Hardware Design This section will describe the circuit design using the Pico and other electronics. The hardware components used are PICO, Microphone MAX4466, and the OLED display SSD1306. The Software Implementation: The code Here I have used the ...
  • Playing with Raspberry Pi Pico #3

    Playing with Raspberry Pi Pico #3 Hi, today we will talk about the project I want to carry out and, in particular, about the acoustic sensor that I will use.What I want to create is a system that, using two microphones, allows me to recognize the dir...
  • Playing with Raspberry Pi Pico #2

    Hi, as I said in the first blog, the purpose of this work is to acquire the knowledge of Raspberry Pi Pico board and to start using it for simple applications. I will use these blogs to introduce my students to the use of this board and its programmi...