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MicroPython is a full implementation of the Python 3 programming language that runs directly on embedded hardware like Raspberry Pi Pico. You get an interactive prompt (the REPL) to execute commands immediately via USB Serial, and a built-in filesystem. The Pico port of MicroPython includes modules for accessing low-level chip-specific hardware.
What is Raspberry Pi Pico?
Raspberry Pi Pico, a microcontroller board built on silicon designed here at Raspberry Pi.
Your official guide
Microcontrollers, like RP2040 at the heart of Raspberry PiPico, are computers stripped back to their bare essentials. You don’t use monitors or keyboards, but program them to take their input from, and send their output to the input/output pins. Using these programmable connections, you can light lights, make noises, send text to screens, and much more. In Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico, you will learn how to use the beginner-friendly language MicroPython to write programs and connect up hardware to make your Raspberry Pi Pico interact with the world around it. Using these skills, you can create your own electro‑mechanical projects, whether for fun or to make your life easier.
Contents of the Raspberry Pi Pico book:
Chapter 1: Get to know your Raspberry Pi Pico
Get fully acquainted with your powerful new microcontroller and learn how to attach pin headers and install MicroPython to program it
Chapter 2: Programming with MicroPython
Connect a computer and start writing programs for your Raspberry Pi Pico using the MicroPython language
Chapter 3: Physical computing
Learn about your Raspberry Pi Pico’s pins and the electronic components you can connect and control
Chapter 4: Physical computing with Raspberry Pi Pico
Start connecting basic electronic components to your Raspberry Pi Pico and writing programs to control and sense them
Chapter 5: Traffic light controller
Create your own mini pedestrian crossing system using multiple LEDs and a push-button
Chapter 6: Reaction game
Build a simple reaction timing game using an LED and push-buttons, for one or two players
Chapter 7: Burglar alarm
Use a motion sensor to detect intruders and sound the alarm with a flashing light and siren
Chapter 8: Temperature gauge
Use your Raspberry Pi Pico’s built-in ADC to convert analogue inputs, and read its internal temperature sensor
Chapter 9: Data logger
Turn Raspberry Pi Pico into a temperature data-logging device and untether it from the computer to make it fully portable
Chapter 10: Digital communication protocols: I2C and SPI
Explore these two popular communication protocols and use them to display data on an LCD
Basic entry-level kit prepared for Pico. All the parts you need to complete the tutorials in the MicroPython beginners book (not included)
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A Low-Cost, High-Performance Microcontroller Board With Flexible Digital Interfaces
- RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom
- Dual-core Arm Cortex M0 processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
- 264KB of SRAM, and 2MB of on-board Flash memory
- Castellated module allows soldering direct to carrier boards
- USB 1.1 with device and host support
- Low-power sleep and dormant modes
- Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB
- 26 × multi-function GPIO pins
- 2 × SPI, 2 × I2C, 2 × UART, 3 x12-bit ADC, 16 × controllable PWM channels
- Accurate clock and timer on-chip
- Temperature sensor
- Accelerated floating-point libraries on-chip
- 8 × Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| LCD1602 RGB Module | LCD1602 RGB backlight character LCD, using I2C bus to display text or adjust RGB backlight |
| PIR motion sensor | Pyroelectric IR sensor, outputs electric switch signal when IR array from human/animal body is detected |
| 8-Bit WS2812 RGB LED | 8x RGB LED, play around with cool light effects by programming |
| Alarm | Quality active announciator, used for alarming or playing music |
| Single-joint potentiometer | Adjustable potentiometer, 0~10K range, used for ADC test, volume/brightness adjustment, etc. |
| Round buttons | Three colors, for button/switch detection |
| 5mm LED | Three colors, for experiments like traffic light, PWM adjusted light, etc. |
| 330R resistors | Providing current-limit protection when connected with LED in series |
| Breadboard and wires Jumper wires | Quality 830 breadboard and sorts of wires, easy for connecting components |
| Plastic box | Customized box for storing the modules and components |
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