Feb 15 路 20 min read 路 .noise hello_friend It鈥檚 2026 and the world is cosplaying a William Gibson book. [ .noise cut out in this article ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK4AyI1ftXI Preface In this project I wanted to build something useful, so after brainstorming for a...
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Jan 9 路 2 min read 路 Build a Precise RTC Clock Using Raspberry Pi Pico & DS3231 Real-time clocks (RTCs) are vital for projects that need accurate timekeeping鈥攅ven when the power goes out. In this tutorial, you鈥檒l learn how to interface a DS3231 RTC module with a Raspberr...
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Dec 1, 2025 路 4 min read 路 馃専 Introduction: Why Add an SD Card to Pico? The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny powerhouse, but its onboard storage is limited.If you鈥檙e building a data logger, IoT device, sensor hub, or anything that needs persistent storage, you鈥檒l hit that limit fas...
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Aug 22, 2025 路 3 min read 路 Here鈥檚 a real-world pattern: use a hardware timer interrupt to blink an LED at a fixed rate while the main loop keeps doing other work (e.g., reading sensors, talking over serial). I鈥檒l show an Arduino Uno (AVR) version first, then quick notes for ES...
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Jun 19, 2025 路 2 min read 路 To quickly determine whether a microcontroller (MCU) can run an RTOS, follow this checklist based on the RTOS鈥檚 minimum hardware requirements and the MCU鈥檚 capabilities: Quick RTOS Compatibility Checklist FeatureMinimum Requirement for RTOSHow t...
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Feb 3, 2025 路 11 min read 路 Four weeks into the semester, my Internet of Things Systems class has quickly become a favourite. Right off the bat we got into working with a Raspberry Pi Pico which has been really exciting. Outside of our first two labs I have been experimenting w...
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Aug 23, 2024 路 5 min read 路 The Raspberry Pi Pico W is a versatile microcontroller with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) capabilities, making it ideal for IoT applications. The Raspberry Pi Pico SDK comes with Bluetooth and it would be great to use it to send some data to an...
Join discussionMar 16, 2024 路 5 min read 路 For the past few months, I'm tinkering around with Raspberry Pi Pico W, and I'm simply fasininated by the possibilities it offers. In my academic years, I had the opportunity to explore the Raspberry Pi 3B, while both of these are System on Chip boar...
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Apr 25, 2023 路 4 min read 路 Points to be covered Lil History. Modern language support in microcontrollers. Will my development board support these languages? Let's blink Leds with a couple of these modern languages. What has changed in the microcontroller ecosystem? Befor...
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Mar 5, 2023 路 3 min read 路 I got really annoyed trying to figure out how to use the pico with vscode on arch, and I'm sure others are as well. Here's everything I did to get it working. I'll definitely forget all this so it def needed to be written down. System Packages sudo p...
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