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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 requisite libraries

In this " section, we will install the requisite libraries needed for this chapter, including the stepper motor, the CO2 sensor, and the wireless pack to the Raspberry Pi Pico. The libraries are all a part of the Adafruit CircuitPython bundle. The latest bundle can 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 we can copy the libraries we need for the project.

Stepper motor

We need the adafruit_motor library to control the stepper motor (shown in the following figure). The stepper motor has a needle that is used to point at the corresponding air quality category. Copy the adafruit_motor library to the lib folder of your Pico.

Figure 7.2 – Automotive gauge stepper motor

Next, we will review installing libraries for the wireless pack.

Wireless pack

We need the...

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