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Revision as of 11:29, 30 September 2023
Introduction
583 RGB leds in 53x11 grid. Raspberry Pi Pico W (microcontroller), speaker with amplifier, two (2) I2C Stemma/qt sensor sockets, a light sensor (phototransistor) facing front and nine (9) control buttons, a reset button, JST-PH battery connector.
Connecting
Programming
Raspberry Pi Pico can be programmed using Micropython or C/C++. This will deal only with MicroPython.
To upload your file to Pico, it need to be put into bootloader mode: hold down the bootsel button while plugging the USB cable: it should show up as a drive called RPI-RP2.
IDE's
- Thonny is the da facto
- VS Studio: MicroPico (the id is paulober.pico-w-go). If not found use this https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/108147 because some Linux distros use OpenVSX.
Some libraries are needed
from picographics import PicoGraphics, DISPLAY_GALACTIC_UNICORN
Manual: PicoGraphics
from galactic import GalacticUnicorn
Manual: GalacticUnicorn
from machine import Pin, I2C
Fonts
Stationary, centred, scrolling text.
