The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 11
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with a15-LED addressable RGB dot strand and a 4-way membrane keypad.
🎄 Day #11: Merry Membrane!
Today, we added a 4-way membrane keypad to our build. We used the buttons as a colour pattern selector and a passcode input for a secret present list.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 10
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with a15-LED addressable RGB dot strand.
🎄 Day #10: ULTRA Blinky!
Today, we added a 15-LED RGB dot strand and brought back the Slide Potentiometer from Day 7. We ran some cool effects Including flashing alternate odd/even LEDs between red and green.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 9
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with a ring of 12 RGB addressable LEDs and a DHT20/AHT20 temperature and humidity sensor.
🎄 Day #9: Ice Cold Coding!
Today, we added a DHT20/AHT20 temperature and humidity sensor, obtained the readings, and displayed the temperature using the LED ring from yesterday.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 8
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with a ring of 12 RGB addressable LEDs.
🎄 Day #8: Rainbow Ring!
Today, we added a ring of 12 RGB addressable LEDs. Activities included light chasing, spinning lights, bouncing lights, and random colours.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 7
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with two addressable RGB LEDs and a Slider.
🎄 Day #7: Time to Slide!
Today, we added a slide potentiometer “slider” to the build. We changed the LED colours, fades, and flash speed. We used the ADC pins on the Pico to turn the signal coming from the slider into digital.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 6
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with two addressable RGB LEDs.
🎄 Day #6: See the RGB!
Today, we reset the breadboard and added two addressable RGB LEDs. Creating loops in code to cycle the colours, add in fades, and pass the colour between the two LEDs.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 5
Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard with a 5-way DIP switch and a 5-segment LED bar graph.
🎄 Day #5: Switch the DIP!
Today, we added a “rat’s nest” of jumper wires and a 5-way DIP switch. We can now physically turn each LED on and off individually. Also, using functions we can run little programs for each DIP switch.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 4
Raspberry Pi Pico on a Breadboard with a 5-segment LED bar graph.
🎄 Day #4: Brilliant Bar Graphs!
Today, we added a 5-segment bar graph to our build. Three code blocks were tested - an LED scanner like Knight Rider, random LEDs, and a counter using our button circuit from day three.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 3
Raspberry Pi Pico on a Breadboard with two buttons and an LED block.
🎄 Day #3: Incredible Inputs!
Today, we wired a button circuit into our build. Controlled the LED block with the buttons and counted up and down depending on which button was pressed.
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The Pi Hut, Maker Advent Calendar, Let it Glow, Day 1
Raspberry Pi Pico H with Thonny and MicroPython
🎄 Let it Glow!
Last year, I went through the 12 Projects of Codemas! #MakerAdventCalendar from @thepihut.bsky.social. This year I’m back with their follow-up - Let it Glow!
Day one is the Raspberry Pi Pico #Thonny and #MicroPython set-up.
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