Blog#5 Completion - Pi Fest - Music/Audio Project
This is the FINAL blog in this series. I give some conclusions as to what I have gained from this Design Challenge and list some possible enhancements that can be added to make the system more useful. This blog is part of a blog series for the Pi-Fest Design Challenge. Running the finished Project.
Conclusions
- This was a very interesting Design Challenge. I enjoyed getting to experiment with the Pico and getting the Development environment setup. Very nice environment to work in.
- I've been following the Pico since it's release and when this challenge came up I applied.
- I was able to get the Development environment up and running easily. Very interesting environment using Thorny and Micro Python. I was surprised that the OLED Display library was limited, compared to the one I used on the Arduino.
- the Micro Python libraries (picozero,ssd1306) were pretty straight forward.
- The PICO, that was supplied with the kit, had no headers and I'm not to good at Soldering, so I need to purchase one with headers. No big deal, but I might add headers to the header less one to it later. I wanted to get going on my project and my solution using a bread board with headers through the holes did not work.
- looking forward to many more projects with the Raspberry Pi Pico.
Future Enhancements
This section contains enhancements to my design that Would make my Metronome even better.
- Experiment with other Display options
- Purchase the new Pico W and experiment with communication.
- Connect other Sensors to the PICO
- Experiment using the UART
- Experiment with C/C++, VS Code and the C/C++ SDK.
- Soldering Headers onto the supplied PICO
- Or try some solderless headers from AdaFruit.
References
This section includes some links that I found helpful.
Thonny, Python IDE for beginners
MicroPython - Python for microcontrollers
Raspberry Pi Documentation - Microcontrollers