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Maker Advent Calendar Day #11: OMG OLED!
Welcome to day eleven of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we're playing with a really fun and useful component that you'll use again and again in your projects - a mini...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #10: Breaking Beams!
Welcome to day ten of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we have another new sensor to play with - a break beam sensor! These sensors allow your project...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #9: Full Tilt!
Welcome to day nine of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we're going to be using a sensor that detects movement - but not like our PIR sensor from...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #8: Tracking Temps!
Welcome to day eight of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we’re going to be sensing the temperature of our local environment and using these temperature readings to make...
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...
