Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #4: Brilliant Bar Graphs!
It’s day #4 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today you'll find a new blinky component - one of our favourites in fact - a bar graph display. Whilst essentially it's...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #3: Incredible Inputs!
It’s day #3 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Yesterday we got familiar with creating circuits with outputs (using our LED) and using that circuit with code. Today...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #2: Lighting LEDs!
It’s day #2 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Yesterday we got comfortable with the Pico and learnt about its different features, including some sample code and the...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #1: Let's Get Started!
Welcome to day #1 of Let it Glow – your 12-day maker advent calendar packed with blinky stuff and other components to control your blinky things with! Everyone’s welcome here – absolute...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #6 Temperature & Humidity Sensors
Welcome to another instalment in our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - using a Raspberry...
Build a Raspberry Pi Pico Robot with Mecanum Wheels
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to build and code a Raspberry Pi Pico robot using mecanum wheels! Normal wheels allow the robot to move forwards, backwards, spin and...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #5 Simple Sensors
We're back with another instalment in our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - using...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #4 Functions with Potentiometers
Welcome to the fourth instalment of our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques -...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #3 LEDs and Procedures
This is the third instalment of our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - using a Raspberry...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #2 LEDs & Lists
This is the second instalment of our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - using...
Using an SSD1315 OLED with the Raspberry Pi Pico
A couple of weeks back we started stocking an interesting new OLED display from our friends over at Waveshare - a two-colour SSD1315 0.96" OLED to be exact. Funky dual-colours...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #1 Smarter Loops
In this new MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, we aim to help improve your coding skills in MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - all using...