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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

Conducting citizen science experiments

Citizen science is a broad approach that involves numerous individuals and groups who volunteer to collect and/or analyze data on various projects that are of wide interest. Participants in these projects may be of any gender, age group, and educational background, and they may span across continents. Some common areas where citizen science can be effective include weather and climate monitoring, wildlife tracking, and related areas. Applications include general science, sustainability, climate change, population health, and smart cities. It is expected that the nature, scope, and number of citizen science endeavors will grow immensely in years to come. The types of data gathered by citizen science may include discrete or continuous parameters such as temperature, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and other atmospheric content, images, and audio files.

At scale, citizen science projects can be effective at helping solve large-scale data-intensive...