The Raspberry Pi Pico certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons in 2021, but it was missing one key feature, Wi-Fi. Sure we can hack our own solution but we had to wait until mid 2022 for Raspberry Pi to announce the Raspberry Pi Pico W in order to get official support. The Raspberry Pi…
There is no denying that the Raspberry Pi Pico made a big impact back in 2021. The $4 microcontroller was quickly adopted by many of the maker communities and groups and one of those was CircuitPython. CircuitPython, a fork of MicroPython which is a version of Python 3 for microcontrollers, is backed by Adafruit who…
The Adafruit blog has published an announcement confirming over 300 boards now officially support CircuitPython. These microcontrollers can be used for tons of cool projects and CircuitPython adds a new level of accessibility that makes programming modules, including the Raspberry Pi, in many ways much easier. CircuitPython is a barebones programming language that simplifies coding…
Math class just got even more fun! If you’re lucky enough to get your hands on the new TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator from Texas Instruments, you now have the opportunity to tinker with CircuitPython! That’s right, it’s not just for the Raspberry Pi Pico and other microcontrollers. In a recent blog post, Adafruit…
Adafruit has shared a new guide detailing the process for using CircuitPython libraries with MicroPython using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico. The layer between CircuitPython and MicroPython is known as Blinka. It’s a compatibility library designed to work with Linux SBCs like the Raspberry Pi Pico and the Raspberry Pi. However, the Raspberry…
CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting with low cost boards, typically microcontroller boards made by Adafruit. CircuitPython can also be used on the Raspberry Pi and via two projects we introduce how to use CircuitPython with the Raspberry Pi. The first project is the humble LED, controlling how to blink an LED…
