Raspberry Pi Pico for Robotics

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Raspberry Pi have launched a new Microcontroller called the Pico - its similar to the Arduino Nano, ESP, Trinket and other tiny boards, BUT it is ridiculously cheap (less than $4 / £4) and it is very powerful. It also has some pretty interesting features - lets talk about it in this weeks show and how we can use this in our Robotics projects, and why we might choose this over other boards.

Oh and it can run MicroPython too.

Head over to SMARSfan website for more Robotics tutorials, information and stuff:

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Music by Epidemic Sounds

PicoCat MicroPython Code on GitHub:

Chapters
00:00:00 Raspberry Pi Pico - what is it?
00:01:09 Raspberry Pi Pico - what is all the fuss about?
00:03:25 What are the design goals of the Raspberry Pi Pico?
00:05:52 What are the Raspberry Pi Pico Pin outs?
00:07:49 What is the Raspberry Pi Pico spec?
00:13:04 How does the Raspberry Pi Pico compare to other boards?
00:19:47 Raspberry Pi Pico vs ESP32
00:22:06 What is programmable I/O?
00:24:37 Where can I buy a Raspberry Pi Pico?
00:25:29 What can you do with a Raspberry Pi Pico?
00:29:16 What is MicroPython?
00:29:57 Why use MicroPython?
00:33:48 How to write MicroPython code for Pico in Thonny
00:41:15 Arduino vs Raspberry Pi Pico

#raspberrypi #pico #robotics
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23:06 Yeah I was going to say, my computer science teacher would kill me if I mixed up stacks and queues lol

coolfred
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Thanks Kevin, as always lots of background informations and interesting inputs 👏👍

nadiame
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The pico dev board has 2mb flash but I don’t think the rp2040 has any built in. I may be wrong but I think it just has ram built in and flash is always on an external chip via qspi

Kefford
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Great video. Thanks for sharing. Very detailed and informative. More so than many other pico intros. I have two picos arriving by weeks end. Most distributors in US were out or limited purchase to one pico. One charged twice as much to ship as the pico $4 price tag. I found one, Chicago Electronic Distributors that had them in stock and charged $5.89 shipping for two picos and ordered. Just checked and they are already out of stock. I got lucky.

I’m looking forward to your video on Open Cat. I’ve been gathering the parts to build one based on the Arduino design. I am very interested to see Open Cat using a pico. I assume it should increase response time significantly.

luisfmoralesjr
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Would you do a tutorial or help I'm hoping to do opencat on a Pico but I have never used raspberry at all

fpvcowboy
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You might be able to use CircuitPython with VSCode. I wasn’t too excited to have to use Thonny so I asked about VSCode integration during adafruit’s stream and they said it’s already supported.

I’m not sure about the differences between MicroPython and CircuitPython though

_gamma.
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I really liked it while you were talking about python. There is much misunderstood about this language :)

cozajeden
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Nice video man !
Maybe you could make a instruction video on how to use the ESP8266 wifi-module on the Pi pico ;)
I bet that will be a well vieuwed video because it's the 1st thing many users ask: Will there be a Wifi version?
Subscribed ! btw.
Greetz from the Netherlands.
PL.

PeterLunk
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The problem with ordering single units is the shipping. I ordered one from Vilros.com in the USA. $4 for the chip, $0.50 tax, and $8 for shipping.

MrEdwardhartmann
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how to debug ?? without debugging its of NO professional

jugnu