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Friday, February 26, 2021

Raspberry Pi Pico – Review and Getting Started #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Gary Explains on YouTube gives his impressions of the Pico. He also gives a concise explination of what makes the microcontroller different.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation seems to be searching for a new vision and so has decided to get into the crowded microcontroller market with the Raspberry Pi Pico. Based on a dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller, it runs MicroPython or C/C++ and is designed for makers, enthusiasts, and hobbyists. Here is my review and getting start guide.

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Hunt the Wumpus on Raspberry Pi Pico #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Smittytone Messes with Micros shared their Pico project on their blog.

Credit where it’s due, though: this version of Hunt the Wumpus was devised a few years ago by Corey Faure, who implemented it on the Arduino. I clocked it at the time and planned to built it myself one day, but never got round to it until I was casting around for Pico projects.

The game has some nice elements for Pico-isation. While I had already driven a display over I²C, now I could not only use GPIO for the LEDs and the switch, but also as analog input for a joystick control. The design’s inclusion of a piezo-electric buzzer would allow me to bit-bang the game’s chip tunes.

Birthday Blog Breakdown #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay

We ❤️ 🥧. Going into Raspberry Pi’s birthday weekend we wanted to share a little extra filling. This most monumental of #PiDay‘s we are rounding up of some of our fav blog content from the past year!

This past year we posted about Rasberry Pi over 780 times!

While we love to post about the Pi, the community loves to read about it. 9 of the top 25 popular blog entries are Pi-posts. Our most read Pi-post was read nearly 80,000 times!

Here are a few memorable moments:

I replaced my MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day

Die shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip

Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2040 and Adafruit family of boards

Raspberry Pi 400 is here!

Install the Android Operating System on Raspberry Pi 3 with LineageOS

Unbricking a $2,000 Bike With a $10 Raspberry Pi

How to get started with FUZIX on Raspberry Pi Pico @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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Handy new post from Alasdair Allan up on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog.

FUZIX is an old-school Unix clone that was initially written for the 8-bit Zilog Z80 processor and released by Alan Cox in 2014. At one time one of the most active Linux developers, Cox stepped back from kernel development in 2013. While the initial announcement has been lost in the mists because he made it on the now defunct Google+, Cox jokingly recommended the system for those longing for the good old days when all the source code still fitted on a single floppy disk.

Make a Spotify Vinyl Emulator #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Listen to your favorite albums a little more purposefully with this project from Mark Hank on Hackster.io:

Experience the tactile nature of a vinyl music collection (but without actually owning any vinyl) through Sonos, Spotify and NFC tags

K-Fee: The connected Coffee Machine @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Neat project from minngie bartnik, Audrey Delorme, Mickael Ramilison, and Elyoth Harian up on Hackster.io.

Connected coffee machine that can make coffee from a website where you can chose the number of sugar in your coffee and the size of it.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

POV Display Using Raspberry Pi Pico #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

How can you say no to party parrot? From HomeMadeGarbage on Hackster.io:

I made a full color POV (persistence of vision) display using Raspberry Pi Pico, wireless charging module and DotStar LED tape.