The Raspberry Pico, or shorthand Pico, is a new microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi foundation. It provides a dual core ARM processor, 2MB of flash memory, and 26 GPIO pins. You can program the Pico with either a C/C++ SDK or MicroPython. I became fascinated by this device and started to develop a library for controlling a shift register, specifically the HC595N shift register. To get a better grip on the Pico C SDK, I looked for another sensor for which I could develop a library, and found the DHT11 temperature sensor.
The DHT11 sensor is connected via one data…
CMake is the build system of the Raspberry Pico ecosystem. In the last article, I explained the CMake essentials from the perspective of a developer that is new to C. If you followed along, you should now feel comfortable to structure your programs with CMake.
Building on this foundation, this article covers additional techniques: Conditional configuration, preprocessor symbols, including third party libraries, and how to add tests.
This article originally appeared at my blog.
Example: Pico DHT11 library
This article explains the setup that I use in my libraries. …
When you work with the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK, you also need to understand the CMake build system that is used. In my first projects, I was happy to copy and paste the example files and tweak them. Yet, when developing my libraries, new features were required. First, I wanted to have different types of build, like example and test. The example build should compile all examples, and link them with the Pico SDK and my library. …
Download the shift register library from Github: https://github.com/admantium-sg/rp2040-shift-register-74HC595
The Raspberry Pi Pico, or shorthand Pico, is a new microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi foundation. It provides a dual core ARM processor, 2MB of flash memory, and 26 GPIO pins. You can program the Pico with either a C/C++ SDK or MicroPython. I became fascinated by this device and started a new project: A library for connecting and controlling the HC595N shift register.
In the previous article, I explained the essentials of shift register operations, and detailed how the particular HC595N works. …
The Raspberry Pico is a new microcontroller launched in February 2021. The community was excited about this new board, and several people started amazing projects. I grabbed two boards early on, and while still working on my Arduino based robot, did the usual blinking led and potentiometer tutorials.
Eventually, I became more interested into the Pico, and started a new project: A library for connecting and controlling the HC595N shift register. The HC595N shift register is connected by three input pins. It receives serial data and outputs parallel data to 8 pins. …
The Raspberry Pico is a new microcontroller launched in February 2021. The community was excited about this new board, and several people started amazing projects. I grabbed two boards early on, and while still working on my Arduino based robot, did the usual blinking led and potentiometer tutorials.
The Pico captured me, I wanted more than just run demos. So, I decided to start library development for a shift register and a temperature sensor. When developing a library, I want to have tests for several reasons. First, I like to use TDD and start with writing a test that will…
In the last year, I setup a Kubernetes Cluster in the cloud. It hosts my blog and the two apps Lighthouse and ApiBlaze. Right in the middle of my holiday, I received a notification email that ApiBlaze is down, and then on Friday, also my blog and Lighthouse were not available anymore. This articles discusses how I approached the problem, found a solution, and what I learned.
This article originally appeared at my blog.
Upptime Monitoring
For the most part, I have monitored my applications with updown.io. When I ran out of the free plan credits, I switched to Upptime — basically…
The Raspberry Pico is a new microcontroller launched in February 2021. The community was excited about this new board, and several people started amazing projects. I grabbed two boards early on, and while still working on my Arduino based robot, did the usual blinking led and potentiometer tutorials. For simplicity, I used the MicroPython SDK. It is setup in minutes, simple sketches are easy, and you can live-connect to the Pico and execute your program.
If you want to use the C SDK, you have a lot to do: Install build tools, CMake, download the SDK, define an SDK path…
The Raspberry Pico is a new microcontroller launched in February 2021. The community was excited about this new board, and several people started amazing projects. I grabbed two boards early on, and while still working on my Arduino based robot, did the usual blinking led and potentiometer tutorials. For simplicity, I used the MicroPython SDK, which is set up in minutes and gives you an interactive Python shell directly on the Pico.
After some more time, I considered the idea to use a Raspberry Pi Pico in my self-made robot projects. For this, I need to evaluate the Pico more…
Let’s begin the adventure to build an own robot!
In this article, I will explain the estimated bill of materials for my custom robot. This estimation is important in one way, and introspective in another. Its importance is the preparation of constructing the robot: Creating the design and to boil it down to all required materials. And its introspective in the way as it can be used to compare planning vs. implementation — what will be the differences from the plan vs. the actual robot?
This article originally appeared at my blog.
Grand Design
The robot is a 4 wheeled vehicle with…
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