Pico W Primer / WebMite / LoRa

This video will describe how to quickly configure the Pico W so it will connect to your WiFi. There is no need for coding as command line instructions will only be used.

[ericcunningham]

Thank you!! That is a great explanation of connecting to WiFi.

The recent versions of pico w also are connecting to Bluetooth too. I’m researching it, but the BLE protocols are very complicated and I don’t know how to access the Bluetooth module because there are no pins. It would be awesome to find a simple Bluetooth connection to the pico w similar to your external Bluetooth example.

I’ll keep working on it. Thanks for your great work.

[webmasterg]

Excellent - that was really useful! I hadn't realised that you could run a serial terminal on your mobile, so that is certainly something I will be exploring. Thank TYou! 🙂

[noweare]

Basic has to be the funnest language to program in. This is a pretty cool setup.

[Aeon_Electronics]

Wow, this is a cool idea! Never thought about that!

[davidjones]

An excellent introduction to the Pico W. Thanks for this and all your very instructive videos.
What terminal app do you use on your (Android?) phone?
Thanks again.

[jyvben]

nice, can it do hid aka act like a keyboard to e.g. control obs-studio thru the pico and a browser on a tablet.

[jemo_hack]

Very nice, also the zeptoforth has wifi for the pico, cheer!

[elektronkim]

I have 5-6 PicoMites (one is a WebMite). I also built the Australian PicoMiteVGA board kit. They are full computers. Start with a display panel and option system spi gp10, gp11, gp12 and option lcdpanel st7789_320 landscape, gp8, gp15, gp9, gp13 and option touch gp16, gp17 and option sdcard gp22. (The ST7789_320 is a 2.8" Hat display, so is easy somehow.) You can run into issues and can ask.

[PhG]

Cool video. Btw, is the controller able to switch between Wifi acces points depending on which access point is available or which one has the strongest signal?

[eeknud]

Sorry, no BASIC. I stopped that nonsense in 1983 😂