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Maker Advent Calendar Day #7: Monitoring Motion!
Welcome to day seven of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we're going to be using a sensor that detects motion, allowing our Pico to react to things like people...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #6: Looking for Light!
Welcome to day six of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’ll be using a light sensor which - you guessed it - can detect the amount of light...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #5: Hear my Code!
Welcome to day five of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’ll be making sounds with our code using the custom buzzer you've just discovered in your box! The...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #4: Amazing Analogue!
Welcome to day four of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’ll be playing with analogue inputs using a potentiometer and combining this with some of the components we've...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #3: Bashing Buttons!
Welcome to day three of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’ll be adding physical inputs to your program using buttons! So far we’ve relied purely on code...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #2: Let’s Get Blinky!
Welcome to day two of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’ll be playing with one of the most popular components for makers - LEDs! LEDs (Light Emitting...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #1: Getting Started!
Welcome to the first day of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Excited? We are too! This twelve-day advent calendar will teach you how to code with MicroPython using...
Coding Graphics with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico Displays
In one of our previous tutorials we explained how to control colour on Waveshare Raspberry Pi Pico LCD displays. In this tutorial Tony Goodhew explains how to use the basic...
Assembly Guide for the Aluminium Armour Mini
This guide will show you how to assemble the Aluminium Armour Mini - Heatsink Case for Raspberry Pi Zero. All you'll need is a cross-head screwdriver...and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2...
Wireless Communication Between Two Raspberry Pi Pico W Boards
In this tutorial we are going to make one Raspberry Pi Pico W send random RGB (red, green, blue) values to another Pico W board! This is a very simple...
Getting Started with the Elecfreaks Pico:ed
The Pico:ed is a development board based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 (the chip used on the Raspberry Pi Pico) but with the form factor of the very successful BBC micro:bit....
Coding Colour with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico Displays
Got a Waveshare Raspberry Pi Pico LCD display but not sure where to start? How about experimenting with colours and shapes with MicroPython! In this article we will show you...
