Day: January 26, 2022

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Using Adafruit-Blinka on the Pico with Micropython

It’s so confusing trying to find good code on the Internet. Between people not dating their webpages and not documenting what version of python they’re running, I’m out of my mind! Then compound that with Adafruit switching away from their old libraries and only supporting Blinka! OK. Let’s get Blinka up-and-running in Thonny so we […]

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Soldering Basics – What to Buy for Success

As you get into hardware programming on your Raspberry Pis, you’re going to be tasked with soldering on header strips. Header strips on your PICOs. Header strips on your Zeros. Even a couple of pins on the little sensors so you can attach the jumpers to connect to your GPIO pins. Here’s a little shopping […]

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