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Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop

By : Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor
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Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop

By: Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Pico is the latest addition to the Raspberry Pi family of products. Introduced by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, based on their RP2040 chip, it is a tiny, fast microcontroller that packs enough punch to power an extensive range of applications. Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop will help you get started with your own Pico and leverage its features to develop innovative products. This book begins with an introduction to the Raspberry Pi Pico, giving you a thorough understanding of the RP2040's peripherals and different development boards for the Pico designed and manufactured by various organizations. You'll explore add-on hardware and programming language options available for the Pico. Next, you'll focus on practical skills, starting with a simple LED blinking project and building up to a giant seven-segment display, while working with application examples such as citizen science displays, digital health, and robots. You'll also work on exciting projects around gardening, building a weather station, tracking air quality, hacking your personal health, and building a robot, along with discovering tips and tricks to give you the confidence needed to make the best use of RP2040. By the end of this Raspberry Pi book, you'll have built a solid foundation in product development using the RP2040, acquired a skillset crucial for embedded device development, and have a robot that you built yourself.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: An Introduction to the Pico
6
Section 2: Learning by Making
10
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Tools to aid with prototyping and product development

In this section, we will discuss tools that can aid prototyping and your general product development needs. We will start by discussing a breadboard from Simon Monk.

Breadboard with Pico's pinout labels

In Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico, we discussed the Pico's pinouts. It can be cumbersome to keep referring to the pinouts while you are trying to build your prototypes. We came across a breadboard from Simon Monk (MonkMakes) that carries the labels on the Pico's pinouts (as shown in the following figure). This allows you to wire up your connections easily during prototyping.

In the following figure, the blue letters refer to the GPIO pin numbers, while the ground pin is indicated with a G and the power pins are indicated in red letters. The labeling scheme assumes that the Pico is mounted onto the breadboard, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 12.16 –...