Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico

Raspberry Pi Pico is a new low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces. Microcontrollers 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

Chapter 1: Get to know your Raspberry Pi Pico

Chapter 2: Programming with MicroPython

Chapter 3: Physical computing

Chapter 4: Physical computing with Raspberry Pi Pico

Chapter 5: Traffic light controller

Chapter 6: Reaction game

Chapter 7: Burglar alarm

Chapter 8: Temperature gauge

Chapter 9: Data logger

Chapter 10: Digital communication protocols: I2C and SPI

About Authors

Gareth Halfacree is a freelance technology journalist, writer, and former system administrator in the education sector. With a passion for opensource software and hardware, he was an early adopter of the Raspberry Pi platform and has written several publications on its capabilities and flexibility. He can be found on Twitter as @ghalfacree or via his website at freelance.halfacree.co.uk.

Ben Everard is a geek who has stumbled into a career that lets him play with new hardware. As the editor of HackSpace magazine (hsmag.cc), he spends more time than he really should experimenting with the latest (and not-solatest) DIY tech. He lives in Bristol with his wife and two daughters in a house that’s slowly filling up with electronics equipment and 3D printers.