In this tutorial, I will show you how to measure the Raspberry PI Pico power consumption (in mA) and I will report the ones I’ve measured. Running IoT projects without a line power supply requires identifying your power budget in order to avoid service outages due to missing power. For this reason, measuring the Raspberry […]
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to use ChatGPT with a Raspberry PI computer board to customize your Python scripts. With the Artificial Intelligence software growth over the last years, one specific product emerged from the others showing the power of AI: ChatGPT. What is ChatGPT Let’s look at how ChatGPT presents itself,
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a relay with Raspberry PI Pico. I will give you a simple usage example with a DC water pump. When your project includes devices with high current requirements, a relay with Raspberry PI Pico can save your microcontroller from burning its circuits and enable a
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This tutorial will show you how to use Mosquitto (MQTT) with Raspberry PI Pico W with MicroPython. Raspberry PI Pico W brings connectivity to your projects. Mosquitto is one of the most reliable, simple and fast communications for IoT projects. For this reason, MQTT and Raspberry PI Pico W will surely give you great flexibility
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This guide will show you how to create a personal media streaming server with Raspberry PI and Emby. We’ll use also a USB device to collect our media files to be streamed. This device will be simply a flash disk in my test, but the procedure is the same for a USD Drive. An alternative
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to power a Raspberry PI Pico with Solar Cells. Moreover, I will also include an external battery as a backup power supply for the moments when light is unavailable. Raspberry PI Pico and, even more, the Pico W model are excellent devices for IoT projects. Where the
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to connect and use 4 gear motors with Raspberry PI Pico using MicroPython and get the 4 main directions performed with single-line commands by defining the related custom functions. Gear motors are the basis for every Raspberry PI Pico-based robot project. Managing them with a simplified code
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In this tutorial, I’ll show how to perform I2C communication with two Arduino boards. The potentiometer and LCD are used to display the data sharing from a master Arduino to the slave one. The tutorial shows the simulation results for the potentiometer values read from the master and applied to the slave and vice versa,
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