
MicroPython Skill Builders - #7 SPI OLED Displays
Welcome to the seventh 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 -...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #12: Dazzling Displays!
It’s the final day of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're playing with a Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD), which is a bit of a hybrid as it has an...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #11: Merry Membrane!
It’s day #11 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we have another control component to play with. The thing in your box today, that looks a little like the...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #10: ULTRA Blinky!
It’s day #10 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! It's another blinky day today, and what a festival of blink today's box brings us! In your little black box you...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #9: Ice Cold Coding!
It’s day #9 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today is another control component day, and it just wouldn't be right for us not to include a temperature sensor considering the...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #8: Rainbow Ring!
It’s day #8 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're playing with addressable LEDs again, but this time in the format of an RGB LED ring - it's another...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #7: Time to Slide!
It’s day #7 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're jumping back to a control component - something we can use to physically control our blinky components, with our...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #6: See the RGB!
It’s day #6 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today is another blinky day and it's time to go multicolour with addressable RGB LEDs! The chunky LEDs in today's box...

Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #5: Switch the DIP!
It’s day #5 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're using a new control component - things that we/our environment can interact with to trigger our code, which can...

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...