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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

Understanding the Pico phone

We built the Pico phone in 2021 and published it as a Hackster project (https://bit.ly/3pY7J5e). The project originated when we wanted to evaluate a cellular module. We chose this project to describe the product development process because it was one of 21 featured projects of 2021 (https://bit.ly/3CXh3ec) and it was also featured in the March 2022 edition of the Hackspace magazine (https://bit.ly/3CYAJ1l), which was published by the Raspberry Pi foundation. The magazine is free to download.

Hackster Article versus This Chapter

While the Hackster project discusses texting a joke to a phone number, we will discuss the product development aspects of the project. Specifically, we will discuss capturing the requirements, building the prototype, and more.

In the next section, we are going to discuss capturing the requirements for the product.