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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

Publishing sensor events to the cloud

In this section, we are going to discuss publishing sensor events to the cloud. This is especially important to receive email alerts and mobile notifications when a door is open. We are assuming that you have set up your wireless pack following the instructions from Chapter 2, Serial Interfaces and Applications.

Setting up Adafruit IO

In this section, we will discuss setting up Adafruit IO for our project. Adafruit IO is a cloud service provided by Adafruit Industries that enables the Raspberry Pi Pico to be connected to the internet and sensor events published, as well as appliances controlled from anywhere on the web. The setup steps include the following:

Additional Resource

We wrote this section using https://learn.adafruit.com/ as a resource. If you run into problems, refer to the links provided in each step.

  1. The first step is to create an account for yourself at https://io.adafruit.com/. While the basic plan is free, there...