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Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop

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Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814812
Pages 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Srihari Yamanoor Srihari Yamanoor
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: An Introduction to the Pico
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico 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 CircuitPython on the RP2040 Connect

Installing CircuitPython is the same as what we discussed in Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico, except that there will be an extra step in these instructions where we enumerate the flash drive. The steps to install CircuitPython on the RP2040 Connect are as follows:

  1. Set up your RP2040 Connect on a breadboard, as shown in the following photo:

Figure 3.17 – RP2040 Connect on a breadboard

  1. Tap on the reset button twice to put the device into bootloader mode (highlighted using the rectangle).

Figure 3.18 – Reset button on the RP2040 Connect

  1. The device enumerates as a storage device. Download the CircuitPython binary from https://bit.ly/34R29pJ and copy it over to the storage device.
  2. Upon flashing, the device resets itself and enumerates as a storage device with the name of CIRCUITPY.

Figure 3.19 – RP2040 Connect...

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