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"The oboes are more center-stage..."

cookmesomekai

At the end of last year I completed a project to build a Rasbperry-Pi-based DAC streamer. Effectively it was building a power supply for a Raspberry Pi zero and the connected Hifiberry DAC+ pro HAT. The idea of that power supply was to provide clean ...
- 6 Nov 2021
Pocket Scarface – Pi Pico Python Based MP3 Clip Player

shabaz

Introduction Circuit Building It Parts List Code Uploading the Code to the Pi Pico Summary IntroductionThere is a kids' toy that is a pocket-sized voice/effects box. It has half a dozen buttons on the front, and whenever any b...
- 27 Oct 2021
Pi Pico (RP2040) MicroPython Double Precision

shabaz

Introduction Pre-built Double Precision MicroPython Firmware Setting up the PC to build MicroPython Firmware Building a Release Version of MicroPython with Double Precision Building Latest Snapshot version of MicroPython with Double Precisio...
- 15 Oct 2021
Pi Pico Display and Rotary Encoder

shabaz

Introduction Working with the Pi Pico and CircuitPython Circuit Code Main code update_rotval function update_speedrange function Summary IntroductionThis short blog post covers how I got a display and rotary encoderrotary encode...
- 10 Oct 2021
European Astro Pi Challenge is back

colporteur

I made a post about this Raspberry Pi focused project A Raspberry Pi project for childhood Educators...that doesn't cost a dime. and received some positive feedback. The event is open for another year. Maybe someone in the community is interested in ...
- 13 Sep 2021
Microscope Photography and Video with Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

fmilburn

I bought an AmScope trinocular microscope several years back and find it handy (but not a necessity) for the electronics I do. Another reason I bought it was to entertain the grandkids and perhaps interest them in the natural world. I lik...
- 18 Jul 2021
PI Pico - Says Hello to an Old Analog Multiplexer

scottiebabe

Soft 404
- 13 Jul 2021
Insight into lan78xx driver support for Pi

colporteur

Does anyone have any insight into lan78xx usb driver support for the Raspberry Pi? I am attempting to use a Microchip PoE USB-C device to enabling networking to a Raspberry Pi4B. The work is part of a RoadTest for Microchip PoE to USB-C Power a...
- 20 Jun 2021
A Raspberry Pi computer made sleep difficult for an astronaut aboard the ISS

Catwell

The Raspberry Pi computer, Ed, made sleep difficult for an astronaut due to its LED display. (Image Credit: Astro Pi) The Raspberry Pi Foundation outlined how its hardware ran thousands of programs developed by young students to the Internationa...
- 14 Jun 2021
Four Multicore C programs for Raspberry Pi Pico using Arduino IDE

BigG

Introduction Examples FIFO Blocking routines Non-Blocking (Polling) for FIFO Summary Introduction Earlier this week, I spotted that Arduino had updated their ArduinoCore-mbed Boards Manager files for Arduino Mbed OS RP2040 ...
- 28 May 2021
Whip up a PiStorm with your Amiga 500 and Raspberry Pi

cstanton

The Amiga was one of my first computers, and now I'm fortunate enough to own an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 with various add-ons. Though I have to do some repair to get the disk drive working again (aging capacitors) I'm keeping an eye on the cu...
- 2 May 2021
SparkFun Pro Micro RP2040

ralphjy

Now that I've discovered that I can program the RPi-Pico using the Arduino IDE (with Arduino-Pico or Mbed libraries), it's time to branch out and try some other RP2040 boards. The board I think that I'll may use a lot initially is the SparkFun P...
- 23 Apr 2021
Program RPi Pico using Mbed library with Arduino IDE

ralphjy

When I wrote my initial blog about the Arduino-Pico library, fmilburn mentioned that Arduino had just released an Mbed library that had support for the RPi Pico https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-mbed/releases/tag/2.0.0 . The github i...
- 19 Apr 2021
Program RPi Pico using Arduino-Pico

ralphjy

Time to try using the Arduino-Pico library to program the RPi Pico using the Arduino IDE. I thought it would be good to try the NeoPixel Ring that I had previously tested using MicroPython Happy Pico Pi Day . But first I am going to use one...
- 17 Apr 2021
Arduino-Pico

ralphjy

I just discovered that there has been a port to use the RP2040 in the Arduino IDE. Not official Arduino release... https://arduino-pico.readthedocs.io/en/latest/https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico I've installed the Boa...
- 14 Apr 2021
Setting Up Raspberry Pi (Headless Start)

cbohra00627

Introduction :- Raspberry Pi is a low cost, tiny, single board computer to which you can connect a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse and it will work like your PC. It comes in different variants according to its RAM size (2GB, 4GB or 8GB). An external ...
- 12 Apr 2021
Raspberry Pi Netflix One Line Easy Install

colporteur

If you wish to use your Raspberry Pi to stream services like Netflix, support for accomplishing this task is now incorporated into Raspberry Pi Operating system. https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one-line-easy-install-alon...
- 20 Mar 2021
VSCode and MicroPython for the Pi Pico

Workshopshed

I've recently been experimenting with MicroPython on the Pi PicoPi Pico. There are a few steps you need to get this setup. Install the MicroPython FirmwareSuitable editorUpload the codeSetting the code to run at boot Although it is desi...
- 3 Mar 2021
Karen pi-top 4! meets physical computing students

colporteur

The Pi-Top 4 hardware used in the project described in this blog post was provided through a contest at pi-top [4] Unboxing - Karen meets the pi-top 4! . In response to our STEM project being selected, I felt it was important to make a blog post docu...
- 28 Feb 2021
DogGraphicDisplayPico - control a DOG graphic display with the Raspberry Pi Pico

bernhardmayer

Idea My first little project with the Raspberry Pi Pico is to control a Electronic Assembly DOGM Graphic display. I have already adopted an arduino library for the display and used it in several projects. So I know the display and how to control...
- 13 Feb 2021
Debugging the Raspberry Pi Pico on Windows 10

Fred27

IntroductionSetting up an IDE for C++ development on the Raspberry Pi Pico is covered in the Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico guide. The guide is not surprisingly focused on using a Raspberry Pi as your development machine, although it does cov...
- 7 Feb 2021
CANFDZeroHAT - CAN FD controller for the Raspberry Pi

bernhardmayer

The CAN bus ist widely used in many types of vehicles like cars and trucks, airplanes and now even drones. A few years ago the spec was updated and CAN FD was introduced. This upgraded the transmission speed and even more important extended the paylo...
- 31 Jan 2021
The Swear Bear

8bitsandabyte

Do you also swear too much?Don't worry, this artificial intelligence powered, internet of things enabled swear jar is here to help!How does it work?Well, it listens to your every word and detects profanity (AI).When caught, it instantly tells on ...
- 26 Jan 2021
PicoMKRAdapter - connect Arduino MKR Shields to Raspberry Pi Pico

bernhardmayer

I was very excited when I heard about the new Raspberry Pi Pico (Raspberry Pi Pico ) Overview I thought about all the projects I am going to built with it. But I needed to find a good starting point.There are already a lot of Arduino Shield...
- 25 Jan 2021
Working with the Raspberry Pi Pico with Windows and C/C++

shabaz

Introduction Install Visual Studio Code Install CMake Install Build Tools for Visual Studio Install Python 3, Git and ARM GCC Compiler Get Code Building at the Command Line Fixing NMake not found issues Building with Visual Code Running the Applica...
- 24 Jan 2021