As I really prefer Python for my little projects over C++, I flashed my Wemos boards with Micropython and wanted to share how I did it (it was pretty easy). You have to connect your board with USB to your computer, have Thonny installed and the desired micropython image downloaded. (You can do it with…
After expermienting alot with my MQTT server it was pretty polluted with sustained messages and I wanted to get rid of them. The fastest way I got this reliably to work was by deleting the persistence file while the MQTT server was offline. You could delete all or specific topics with a script, too, but…
As a software engineer I often write code that runs (hopefully) fine in the background, does its job and you probably never see it again. That dragged me to buy a unicorn hat for my first Raspberry Pico, as I’d like to see some fancy output of my spare time project. After some time of…
This is a step by step reminder how to get your Python scripts run automatically on your Raspberry. We will be creating a cron job that is run once when booting. (This should be possible like this or pretty similar on every Linux distribution where Cron is available and is not limited to Python scripts…
A small helper at night and a nice little excercise on the Pico: an LED that lights up when it is dark and something moves. I used a HC-SR501 as motion sensor, light sensor with digital output, a yellow LED of my Pico project complete kit (330 Ohm resistor with it) and of course the…
The pinout of Pi Pico and Pico W are the same. Just the onboard LED has changed. See below.
Coming from a Java background, I really wanted to and now I am enjoying to learn Python. It is refreshing to see the simplicity and extensive built-in functionality. As I like to see the code working I got me a Raspberry Pico with pins and a Picorino Unicorn hat with a 16×7 RGB LED field…