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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

Programming in C/C++ using the Pico SDK

In this section, we will discuss developing applications using the official software development kit (SDK) from the Raspberry Pi foundation. The SDK allows you to develop applications in C/C++ and the Raspberry Pi foundation has released detailed documentation on the API to help you develop applications using the Pico. The documentation is available at https://bit.ly/3IpBFwW.

The documentation includes information on installing the SDK, compiling your first example, and loading it onto your Pico. We recommend working through the documentation if you are interested in programming in C/C++.

C/C++ Code Samples

We have included C/C++ code samples for the Raspberry Pi Pico in this book's GitHub repository.

Debuggers for the Raspberry Pi Pico

If you are learning to program in C/C++, it is useful to have a debugging tool to troubleshoot your code. The Raspberry Pi Pico comes with a Serial Wire Debug (SWD) port that lets you troubleshoot...