Measuring a voltage is pretty easy: just place your multimeter’s probes across the relevant pins and read the value. Probing currents is a bit trickier, since you need to open up the circuit and place your probes in series. Checking a circuit’s power consumption is the hardest, since you need to measure both voltage and […]
HACKADAY PRIZE 2023: PI PICO MEASURES VOLTS, AMPS AND WATTS Read More »
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a name synonymous with fostering digital learning, has recently made strides in the realm of coding education. A few months ago, they introduced an online text-based Code Editor, designed to assist young learners aged seven and above in their coding journey. The latest development in this initiative is the decision to make
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The RISC-V ISA specification contains the recipe for everything from the humblest of microcontrollers to the most accomplished of high-end application processors, but it’s fair to say that at our end of the market it’s mostly been something for the lower end. There are plenty of inexpensive small RISC-V microcontrollers, but so far not much
AT LAST, A BEAGLE V IN THE WILD Read More »
Debugging a Raspberry Pi Pico is straightforward enough; it simply involves hooking up something up to the USB and SWD pins. [Mark Stevens] whipped up the PicoDebugger to make this job easier than ever before. The Raspberry Pi Foundation developed the Picoprobe system to allow a RP2040 to act as a USB to SWD and UART
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Having a chemistry lab fully stocked with all necessary equipment is the dream of students, teachers, and professors alike, but a lot of that equipment can be prohibitively expensive. Even in universities, labs are often left using old or worn-out equipment due to cost. So one could imagine that in high schools this is even
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Most soldering irons in the market seem to fall into a few distinct categories. They either provide a full-blown station to which the soldering iron is wired, powered straight by mains, or an iron powered by DC power. The Miniware TS1C takes up an interesting position here in that it features both a station you
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If you’re an enthusiast in the world of Raspberry Pi Pico, you’ll be thrilled to learn about the WuKong 2040 breakout board. As a multifunctional platform designed to expand the capabilities of Raspberry Pi Pico, it offers diverse features that could potentially revolutionize your projects. Below we take a comprehensive look at the unique attributes
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The Raspberry Pi community is a passionate one with a deep affinity for the brand. When maker and developer Wayne, aka RamblingGeek, reached out to us with their latest project, it wasn’t surprising to see that they, too, are a huge fan of the company. Today we’re sharing their newest creation which has brought the Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Pico Animates Babbage the Bear Read More »
We’re always excited to find a Raspberry Pi used in a commercial product. The chip and its documentation make it super easy to drop into a retail product. The Raspberry Pi Pico is a popular choice for teachers and maker enthusiasts alike, it also has quite a bit of potential on the business side of things. Today we’re sharing
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[Outer World Apps] noted that there was no PDP-8/V made by DEC — a variant that used vacuum tubes. So he’s decided to make one using about 320 6J6A tubes. He’s got a plan and a few boards completed — we can’t wait to see it finished. The logic is actually done by crystal rectifiers, but
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