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TUTORIAL

How to Manage Packages for Pico in Thonny

By Kitronik Maker

In this guide we are going to look at how you can use the package manager in Thonny to download the libraries for Kitronik products directly onto your Raspberry Pi Pico.

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TUTORIAL
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Raspberry Pi Pico Battery Voltmeter in Python

By Kitronik Maker

In this tutorial we’ll demonstrate how a Raspberry Pi Pico can be used along with some simple electronic components and Python code to record the voltage of a AA battery.

PROJECT
3.310

Raspberry Pi Pico SSTV Decoder- Receive Images Over Radio

By Mirko Pavleski

Raspberry Pi Pico can independently transform SSTV audio signals into viewable images.

PROJECT
63

Building the Pixel Ball Frame and LED Arches

By Zach Hipps

Part 2 of Pixel Ball: See how I turned conduit, PEX tubing, and arcade buttons into a massive, glowing game frame.

My 100th Video Was a Total Mystery Build Challenge
BLOG
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My 100th Video Was a Total Mystery Build Challenge

By Zach Hipps

For my 100th video, my team sent me mystery parts—no plan, just chaos and LEDs. Here’s how I tried to turn it into a working game.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 vs Original Pico: What’s New?
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 vs Original Pico: What’s New?

By Travis Foss

Discover the enhanced performance and features of the new Pico 2 and compare Pico 2’s RP2350 microcontroller to the original RP2040.

PROJECT
614

NES Emulator for RP2040 DVI Boards

By Adafruit Industries

Three ways to play!

PROJECT
93

Making a Cardboard Pico Drawing Robot Arm

By Kitronik Maker

In this first blog of a series we are going to cover how we can create a drawing robot arm out of cardboard using three servos, a Raspberry Pi Pico and the Kitronik Simply Servos for Pico board. Then we’ll move onto how to use the DrawingRobot Python library we created for the Pico.

PROJECT
100

CO2 Detection with SCD41

By Pimoroni

Build carbon dioxide sensing devices using our SCD41 CO2 sensor breakout and MicroPython.

Raspberry Pi Announces New RP2040 Pico Variants
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Raspberry Pi Announces New RP2040 Pico Variants

By Nate_Larson

Following on the popularity of the Pico and RP2040, Raspberry Pi has announced three new Pico boards, two of which have onboard wireless LAN and Bluetooth.