shabaz designed a Data Acquisition Board for Pi Pico . In this post, I'm using it in continuous sample mode. Goal: get 1 second worth of samples, in 860 samples per second mode.
There are several options to trigger the reading of...
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Introduction
What Is It?
What Parts are Needed?
Circuit Diagram
How Does it Work?
Small Fixes/Changes
Proposed Modifications
New Ideas?
Next Steps
Introduction
I was recently interested in trying out a circular LCD screen for...
shabaz designed a Data Acquisition Board (DAB ) for the Pico: Data Acquisition Board for Pi Pico . In this post, I'll measure the analogue front-end, and show how it behaves within its +- 4V range.
I've attached ...
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Introduction
Circuit Diagram
Board Assembly
Testing It
Known Issues
Next Steps
Introduction
Data acquisition is pretty essential! However, it proved surprisingly difficult to find a plug-on analog-to-digital (ADC) board for the ...
Due to rising prices for oil, gas and heat as well as climate change, it is becoming more and more important to monitor energy consumption in order to keep an eye on energy costs, but also to be able to check the effectiveness of savings. Many meters...
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Introduction
SONY SONY SONY
Arduino Library vs. PIO Core
Infra-Red Sensor
Protocol Described
PIO Coding Strategy
1. Determining when the Button is Pressed
2. Reading in the Bits
Adding the PIO Code to C/C++ Code
Using PIO wi...
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Introduction
What is Needed?
Connections
High Power Audio Output
Configuration
Using It
Summary
Introduction
It’s easy to get reasonable quality sound (about as good as an early generation iPod) from a Pi. This ultra-shor...
Introduction
I recently had a need to wind a thousand turns of wire or so on a bobbin, but I might have needed to repeat it a few times each time the coil design needed tweaking. I needed a coil winder! This project might also be useful for ...
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I thought I would share my project from this past year, currently taking a month or two break to reach out to those who might be interested in building one.
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This is the "Jaccuracy Scope", a fully customizab...
This blog post contains at least two topics, both (hopefully) interesting. One topic concerns how to code new functionality into an exciting open source project called the Pico SCPI labTool. The end result discussed here provides four analog voltage ...
So I thought I'll let people know I have been working on a HAT for the Raspberry Pi, to allow easier implementation of a four player arcade with revenue service capabilities.
I have a YouTube video going over the circuit and PCB design.
https:...
Introduction
If you want to make a robot (such as Line Follower, Obstacle avoider, Arm Robot or Racing Robot) or a car using a microcontroller(such as Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, Raspberry pi pico etc.), you use motors to make your robot move. The moto...
Whatsapp has made communication very easy. We can send calls, messages, and video calls from anywhere in the world. All we need is Wi-Fi or mobile data. There is no charge. We can receive notifications from a gas sensor on our mobile phones through W...
With the shortage soon to be a thing of the past. (knocks on wood) We hope with the news that Eben stated in a few interviews. This is great but looks like Raspberry Pi 3's are going to be some of the first back in the 3rd quarter available to...
In emergency situations, quick communication can be a matter of life or death. That's why the Emergency Calling System with SIM800 and Raspberry Pi 4 was created – to provide a reliable and cost-effective communication system during critica...
Have you played number games with ChatGPT? It can play some math games with you. In earlier days of its development, one of such games were the math solving game. It asked you arithmetical questions one by one. And you had to answer. It co...
Another Pi Day and time for another Pi project .
About a year ago Lady Ada from Adafruit did a video series on using MCUs to read from floppy drives low cost and easily available floppy interface hardware. Amongst the the MCU boards ...
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Introduction
Connecting Flash Memory to Microcontrollers
Reading/Writing to Flash Memory
Using a File System
Trying out the Code
Summary
Introduction
There is often a need to store data in some form of non-volatile memory. It ma...
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Introduction
What’s wrong with Off-the-Shelf?
Building and Running the Prototype
Color Temperature: What is it?
Blending Colors
Compile-Time vs Run-Time Calculations
Creating New Projects with PicoChroma
Calibration
1: Esta...
Hi all.
This is an updated version of my previous blog post - Use a Raspberry PI Zero W as a Wireless Print Server
One problem of old printers is that they don't have network connectivity and or can't be shares with more users - unless the computer w...
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Introduction
Circuit
Printed Circuit Board
Prototype
Driving the Display
Summary
Introduction
There are lots of nice character and graphic displays, but sometimes all that’s needed is to be able to show a few digits. Bare ...
This article is for those who have played enough with simple IDEs like Thonny and Mu Editor. Who needs an advanced Python development environment with cool features like code completion, debugging, error highlighting, and to help you write better Pyt...
Introduction
December has been a good month for USB-C Power Delivery projects and experimentation. I hope it continues into the next year.
Here are some new blog posts that were created during December! They could be of interest to anyone curious abo...
In this Upgrade Project, I Have provided the following parameters
1. SpO2
2. IR Temperature Sensor
3. LCD Display
4. Voice Broadcasting
5. Data Saving For Future ML Training
I added the basic details of different Classifications of blood pres...
Back in Experimenting with Thermistors, I described the challenge I had with Bitcoin miners heating the warehouse area I use as a training space. Recently, we had three small upper windows installed that I can open. The original wind...
