themagpi, to random
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Good morning, folks!

It's Monday, which means we want to see what Raspberry Pi or Pico projects you've been working on!

Extelec,
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@themagpi Finishing off my pair of Farnsworth's ( from Warehouse 13 fame.)

They can talk to each other with both audio and video, either both on the same network or externally via a python "Strowger" server (I decided against calling this Exchange) over UDP

Each contain a PI a Circular display, microphone, speaker and a camera

Details on the build https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/farnsworth-warehouse-13-artifact-creation/

@Raspberry_Pi

A Warehouse 13 Farnsworth black 3d printed case, etched in gold and red patterns labelled Woodroffe, with a large lens like display.
Two Warehouse 13 Farnsworth's black 3d printed cases, etched in gold and red patterns one labelled Farnsworth the other Woodroffe, each with a large lens like display.

makerbymistake, to homeassistant
@makerbymistake@mastodon.social avatar

🥶 Afraid of opening the windows due to extreme weather?
💨 Wondering about the Air Quality inside your home?
📈 Keep a close eye on air quality with my hackable PM monitor.
#picow #homeassistant #homeautomation

https://www.tindie.com/products/31940/

concretedog, to random
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Tinkering with using a #PicoW in AP mode.. moderate successes! Considering it for a #Piwars controller.

makerbymistake, to random
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Getting more Pico W air quality monitor boards made. Hoping to get this batch done before holiday season shopping is over.

peter, to RaspberryPi
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Spent the evening trying to get FreeRTOS running on a Pico W

That was a fun couple of hours messing with cmake to get a build to run, but got it in the end.

Now FreeRTOS works perfectly... just not JwIP.

When I try to get it to connect to WiFi it either fails to authenticate or worse, fails with no IP which then causes a panic which crashes the Pico.

Gave up in the end, might try it again tomorrow night.

#raspberryPi

peter,
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Well I've made some progress trying to get an RTOS running on a PicoW.

Tuesday tried FreeRTOS and failed as networking blows up.

Last night I tried Zephyr which looked promising but doesn't support the Pico's WiFi yet.

Tonight I tried NuttX & at first that also failed but I finally figured that the latest pico-sdk's firmware for WiFi was screwed.

Using pico-sdk 1.4.0 and it actually works!

So IPv4 is working, and IPv6 sort of doesn't, will play with that more tomorrow.

#raspberryPi #picoW

paco, to HomeAutomation

Working on my latest project. An Inky Frame to display calendar, weather, and a bit of status. I have a silly number of big projects tied together making it work:

  • NextCloud (where my calendar lives and is accessible via caldav)
  • HomeAssistant for Lovelace dashboards
  • Calendar integration in HomeAssistant to pull the calendar from NextCloud and draw it on a Lovelace dashboard
  • Lovelace Kindle Screensaver which fetches a Lovelace dashboard and converts it to a PNG of a known dimension (600x448 in my case)
  • Some manky Python written by yours truly to fetch the image and display on the display.

Blog post coming some day, and a few bugs will follow in the thread behind this post.

paco,

@ottaross No. All the hard thinking is done by HomeAssistant, which makes a Lovelace dashboard. Then I have that kindle screensaver project which turns the Lovelace dashboard into a PNG. My code just pulls the PNG and slams it onto the display. The has SUPER limited RAM. So it is simpler to have all the thinking happen somewhere else.

jrconlin, to random
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    jrconlin, (edited )
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    Yeah, the #pine64 0x64 is not ready for prime time.

    Hell, it's not really ready for an off broadway version done by a underfunded high school.

    (The BT/Wifi driver has not been released and is apparently proprietary, so no info either.)

    If you're looking for a capable thumbboard SoC, get yourself an #Adafruit ESP32-s3.

    So much nicer than a #PicoW, and just as capable.

    makerbymistake, to RaspberryPi
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    In case you are wondering what 120 Pico W look like.

    andypiper, to random
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    In other #MagPiMonday news, my wall plotter driven by #PicoW is ready! I 3D printed a custom holder for the electronics. https://hackaday.io/project/193338-minimal-pico-vertical-plotter

    A large MDF board with a set of electronics at the top and two motors acting as pulleys at the top corners. A gondola for a pen hangs on threads from the pulleys towards the centre of the board. A set of black lines are drawn on the board to mark the centre point.

    andypiper, to random
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    Rewrote my hacked-together HTTP-to-RF #PicoW #MicroPython project to use a sane library (Microdot) in place of my terrible manual sockets code. Now 163.7% more elegant.

    scruss, to random
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    Hmm, two metres of squishy waterproof possibly hackable RGB LEDs for $5? Yes please!

    (This is speeded up 8x slo-mo video: standard rolling shutter speed produced horrible choppy visual noise)

    a rolled-up coil of RGB LEDs pulsing a candy-stripe pattern slowly from blue to red to purple then green

    andypiper,
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    @scruss bit of a shame it’s IR and not RF. I have an RF-controlled light strip that surrounds the top of my #BambuLab X1C, with a #PicoW and #MicroPython driving the RF signals to dim and brighten etc.

    andypiper, (edited ) to random
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    Exciting to see Bluetooth support land for #PicoW via both C and #MicroPython - will have to play with this when I get back to my studio next week. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-functionality-bluetooth-for-pico-w/

    ahnlak, to random
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    If anyone is itching to dive into a new #PicoW based #RP2040 project, you might find my shiny new boilerplate a handy starting point.

    Gives you a mounted USB drive (so you can have an easily-editable configuration file for your WiFi details, for example), and a couple of helper libraries to handle config files, and pull data from web APIs by making http(s) requests painless.

    The documentation explains it slightly more coherently than I have there!

    https://github.com/ahnlak-rp2040/picow-boilerplate

    beeostrowsky, to sciencefiction

    Since I've just migrated from mastodon.lol, how about an #introduction here? I'm working as a reference #librarian and I'm also a systems librarian (I know both research and infotech).

    When there isn't someone at my desk I can help, I frequently do research on #ScienceFiction #fandom and #FanHistory, contributing to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (https://sfdictionary.com/) and Fancyclopedia3 (https://fancyclopedia.org/).

    I also tinker with #RP2040 gadgets; on my desk I have a small e-ink screen connected to a #RaspberryPi #PicoW that I've trained to show me whether the printer is low on toner or paper, what time it is, and current weather conditions.

    In my spare time I also research my #FamilyHistory and sometimes other people's #genealogy too.

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