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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 Section 1: An Introduction to the Pico
Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 2: Serial Interfaces and Applications Chapter 3: Home Automation Projects Chapter 4: Fun with Gardening! Section 2: Learning by Making
Chapter 5: Building a Weather Station Chapter 6: Designing a Giant Seven-Segment Display Chapter 7: Designing a Visual Aid for Tracking Air Quality Section 3: Advanced Topics
Chapter 8: Building Wireless Nodes Chapter 9: Let's Build a Robot! Chapter 10: Designing TinyML Applications Chapter 11: Let's Build a Product! Chapter 12: Best Practices for Working with the Pico Other Books You May Enjoy

Interfacing a Bluetooth Low Energy module

In this section, we will discuss interfacing the Adafruit Bluefruit LE SPI Friend (hereby referred to as the Bluetooth module) to the Raspberry Pi Pico.

In case you are not familiar with Bluetooth Low Energy technology, it is a low-power wireless network technology meant for wireless sensors and other peripherals that can run off a coin cell. You can learn more about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) from this tutorial: https://bit.ly/3BkLPNu.

The breakout board used in this section comes with a Raytac MDBT40 BLE module, which is FCC and CE certified. In case you are not familiar with FCC and CE certification, they are mandatory certifications of approval for use in the United States and Europe respectively. The module is designed around the Nordic nRF51822 chipset. The folks at Adafruit implemented firmware that enables you to interface a Bluetooth module as a peripheral in your project. For more information, including the datasheet of the...

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