Programming my #raspi #PicoW now sending SOS. 😎

Rewrote my hacked-together HTTP-to-RF #PicoW #MicroPython project to use a sane library (Microdot) in place of my terrible manual sockets code. Now 163.7% more elegant.

3 afstandsbedieningen, een #raspberrypi #PicoW en belabberd kabelmanagement.

So now the #picoW has #bluetooth support in micropython - I set about playing with it.
Here's how to show nearby bluetooth devices in under 20 lines of code https://github.com/mikerr/picow-bluetooth

This is my first robot in its early testing stages.

https://youtube.com/shorts/sl19pSLhYNU?feature=share

#raspberry #raspberrypipico #raspberrypi #pico #picow #python #robotics

@aallan
Good news!
Meanwhile, us #TinyGo fans still hope some wizard suddenly claims the #raspberrypi #PicoW wifi bounty - https://github.com/soypat/cyw43439/issues/1

Great to see Bluetooth land for #picoW via both C and #MicroPython - will have to play with this when I get back to my studio next week. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-functionality-bluetooth-for-pico-w/

Had to buy a #RaspberryPi #PicoW without headers due to stock issues - not sure I should be allowed anywhere near a soldering iron 😂 #rpipico

Has anybody used a Pi Pico W with an RCA backup camera to transmit motion detected stills and video clips?

#rca #camera #security #pi #pipico #picow #raspberrypi #raspberrypipico

New toys have arrived, just need to solder the headers. #rasberrypi #PicoW

If anyone is itching to dive into a new #PicoW based #RP2040 project, you might find my shiny new boilerplate a handy starting point.

Gives you a mounted USB drive (so you can have an easily-editable configuration file for your WiFi details, for example), and a couple of helper libraries to handle config files, and pull data from web APIs by making http(s) requests painless.

The documentation explains it *slightly* more coherently than I have there!

https://github.com/ahnlak-rp2040/picow-boilerplate

@ratkins @drfootleg @geekmomprojects @LaserMistress We have wormsign :) With more bulbous side facing me and red wire bottom right, the middle wire is data in. Driving using @microblocks on a #PicoW

Whew! My #wip uses a Raspberry Pi #picoW, but for the life of me I couldn't get it to serve http to a browser. I tried connecting it to an old router and it worked there, but don't want to keep using it. I finally decided I'd try the router's primary network (not the guest network) and it worked as expected. Ha! That'll show me... trying to give restricted network access to a device I don't want to be exploited!
At least there's no way to access it if you don't have access to the LAN (which in my case is important).

Oh, nice - #Wokwi now has an initial version of #PicoW available for simulations https://wokwi.com/projects/360519097147837441 #MicroPython

While one doesn't like to criticise, it's frustrating - given how excellent @Raspberry_Pi usually is when it comes to documentation - that their approach (so far) to the #PicoW WiFi API stuff is largely "here's a virtually undocumented 3rd party library, GL,HF".

I mean, I'm old enough to remember pre-WWW days when the only documentation you got was header files and - if you were lucky - a few code comments, so I can cope.

But it's not something I'm super keen on reliving.

Well that all ended up a bigger project than intended, but finally releasing my #GalacticUnicorn clock, which includes a mounted drive so you can configure your WiFi details.

Still more things to add, but overall a fun exploration of the #PicoW C SDK.

https://github.com/ahnlak/uniclock

I feel #seen right now. #chatGPT is responding to the prompt "give jepler (they/them) a cliched and flowery description as a comic book supervision" running on #raspberryPi #picoW with circuitpython

My #GalacticUnicorn #Weather #Clock has full icons!

I found some CC icons that convert well into my needs!

https://www.dovora.com/resources/weather-icons/

You can find the converted and rename set here!

https://talktech.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/weather.7z

#PicoW #Pimoroni @gadgetoid @Ryanteck @Raspberry_Pi

Ich hab mal wieder was gebastelt, diesmal mit dem #RaspberryPi und dem #PicoW. Vielleicht (ziemlich sicher) was Nerdy, aber wer schon immer mal sein eigenes Flugzeug-Radar bauen wollte (und wer wollte das nicht?) findet hier einen kleinen Leitfaden:

ADS-B Radar mit Raspberry Pi & Pico W im Eigenbau
https://youtu.be/j8Dq2oP9A_Y

Think the #picow #mqtt #neopixel efforts have reached a milestone. MVA (min viable alpha)

Need to publish the code and see if it's able to replace the existing system.