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Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop Build exciting projects in home automation, personal health, gardening, and citizen science

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814812
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Srihari Yamanoor Srihari Yamanoor
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: An Introduction to the Pico
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Serial Interfaces and Applications 4. Chapter 3: Home Automation Projects 5. Chapter 4: Fun with Gardening! 6. Section 2: Learning by Making
7. Chapter 5: Building a Weather Station 8. Chapter 6: Designing a Giant Seven-Segment Display 9. Chapter 7: Designing a Visual Aid for Tracking Air Quality 10. Section 3: Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Building Wireless Nodes 12. Chapter 9: Let's Build a Robot! 13. Chapter 10: Designing TinyML Applications 14. Chapter 11: Let's Build a Product! 15. Chapter 12: Best Practices for Working with the Pico 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing the required libraries

In this section, we will install the libraries required for the project. These include the drivers for the wireless pack and the seven-segment display.

CircuitPython Installation

We are assuming that you have installed CircuitPython on your Pico. If you are not familiar with the installation process, we recommend following the installation process from Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico.

The libraries are all part of the Adafruit CircuitPython bundle. The latest bundle could be downloaded as a ZIP file from https://circuitpython.org/libraries. We used the bundle version meant for CircuitPython 6.x.x.

After downloading the ZIP file, extract its contents so that you can copy the libraries we need for the project.

Wireless pack

We need the adafruit_esp32spi library for the wireless pack. Copy over the folder (with the same name) to the lib folder of your Pico. We will also need the adafruit_reqests.mpy binary from...

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