Raspberry Pi Pico RGB Keypad by Pimoroni - Build and Code Examples

A full assembly of the awesome Pico RGB Keypad base from Pimoroni including a walkthrough of the example MicroPython code and my own animations.

00:00 Intro
01:24 Assembly
05:53 MicroPython Setup
08:16 Thonny IDE Install and Pico Test
10:22 Keypad Demo Example
12:50 Keypad Demo Code Explanation
14:30 Bonus Libraries and Animation Examples
16:01 Outro
16:19 Outtakes

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[browerpower]

Very helpful, thanks! Now I need to figure out what I want to do with this thing ha

[Unrealizedlosses]

I just ordered this so I'm excited to mess around with it. I'd definitely be interested to see a follow up where you add shortcut functionality in addition to the lighting.

[itolond]

is there 2and 3 key versions of this board?

[fabianyrivera]

This project is amazing
It's too similar to pocket operator
Thanks for this project

[kingmichaelcoy]

Even though it seems it could work and light up without soldering it really matters to code it for the RGBkeypadbase. I've been at this for months

Now what I want to do is use the Pico display or a adafruit lcd to go on top of the Pico. I always thought it would've been cool to attached the Pico to the base then the Pico display on top of the pins of the Pico which it does fit so you think it would work. Nope. But got both the RGB keypad working and the Pico display working. I also have six other Picos. So I'm thinking of using my extra display and pico audio outputs on the Omni bus.

Also if I cannot attach the display, I would like to be able to change banks of drums in Ableton or other saw by using the button on the Pico which would be cool but I'm good if I just have to use just the 16. I'm just glad it's working.

[BannedFromJordo]

Hi, I was just wondering on how I would install the rgbkeypad library? Every time I try to call it says it doesn't exist. Thanks.

[kingmichaelcoy]

Finally.

I got it working. Remember

[Kumodot]

I got this keypad and it’s really cool. I have it working with the leds and shortcuts sending to computer, but then I added a small oled to it to see menus and info, the oled works, but as soon I press any key the code seems to crash. I am having a hard time to make them work together. Problem is because I am a noob with i2c and some conflic is happening. If I remove one of them from the code it works. But not together. :( would be amazing to find example codes using both keypad/rgb leds and a small 128x64 oled (or any size sd1306) … thanks for the video ! Subscribed !

[foxxul]

Hello! Using your animation example, I am getting: ImportError: no module named 'rgbkeypad'
Would you know how to fix this? I'm new to Python and GPIO, but I have great experience with Java.

[kingmichaelcoy]

I got everything correct but the coding. I use a MacBook pro 2015 and a mid 2012 MacBook pro with thonny and 7.23 circuit python. It recognized the uf2 and midi within daw but my coding when I tried to copy and paste the code to code.py I wasn't able to get led or pads to light up. The LED only lights when I use the flash nuke file so it does work and is put together correctly.would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

[kingmichaelcoy]

Remember. When coding the code.py file that you change the keybow to RGBKeypadBase in thonny