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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 3: Home Automation Projects

In this chapter, we are going to discuss simple home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi Pico. We are going to work on simple projects that could be executed over a weekend and improve our immediate surroundings. We will get started by learning to interface sensors to detect events at home. Then, we will start publishing the events detected by the sensor to the cloud. We will also discuss controlling appliances at home using the Pico.

While we will be discussing the projects using the Raspberry Pi Pico, we will also introduce the RP2040 Connect from Arduino. The examples discussed in this chapter could be executed using an RP2040 Connect with some modifications to the code.

We are going to cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Installing the requisite libraries
  • Interfacing sensors
  • Controlling appliances
  • Publishing sensor events to the cloud
  • Controlling LED strips
  • Introducing the RP2040 Connect...