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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

Interfacing a Sigfox module

In this section, we will discuss interfacing a Sigfox module with the Raspberry Pi Pico. Before we get started, let's take a quick look at Sigfox.

What is Sigfox?

Sigfox is a type of Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) that is operated by a French company of the same name. Sigfox radios have a range of about 10–30 km, and the network operator restricts the total number of transmissions to 140 messages per day with each message restricted to 12 bytes. This type of network is suitable for battery-powered wireless nodes deployed at scale. Sigfox typically operates in unlicensed ISM radio bands ISM refers to Industrial, Scientific and Medical bands. As the acronym suggests, it is meant to be used in those applications without a license. In the US, it is typically 915 MHz. You can learn more about Sigfox here: https://build.sigfox.com/sigfox.

Sigfox's future

At the time of writing this chapter, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy protection...