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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

Chapter 2: Serial Interfaces and Applications

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the various communication interfaces available on the Pico. We are discussing them all in one place because they will come in handy in the projects we will discuss in the upcoming chapters. The topics discussed in this chapter will be useful for interfacing with sensors, driving actuators, displaying messages, and communicating with a Wi-Fi module to connect to your local Wi-Fi network to publish and retrieve data from the cloud. This chapter will also help you when it comes to communicating with cellular modules that act like peripheral devices.

If you are familiar with the topics discussed in this chapter, skip right ahead to the next chapter. If not, we recommend playing with the code samples discussed in this chapter to gain a basic understanding of the communication interfaces available on the Pico. In the last section of this chapter, we are going to discuss the setup of an ESP32 wireless...