“Great little device to tinker with, or build something with. I have seen some great projects for it.
When starting out and following the guides, it is all very easy and the only problem I have found so far it when using C for the first time from blank, remember to enable the usb (pico_enable_stdio_usb) if you want to print to it, otherwise you don't get the ttyACM0 port to use minicom if required.”
“This product is great, good for small projects easy to use. Only downside is having to hold the button on the board and disconnect the wire every time I want to change the code running on the board.”
“The Pico arrived super quick, next day. I have been planning to make a Stepper Motor powered barn-door Astro tracker and intended to use a simple micro-controller. However, the ability to develop code using a Windows-based IDE (Thonny) was very attractive. So, I jumped on the Pico as soon as I saw it. Not written any code for 40 years (yes, assembler and Cobol) but looking forward to learning sufficient MicroPython.”
“Not quite plug and play on MacOS - won't run MicroPython out of the box, but easy enough to install. I bought this the day they came out so support was a bit limited but looking forward to making more stuff with it.”
“Fantastic and at a price that they can be deployed without great expense.
Use case: I have a bird box that blue tits nest in. I have rigged it with an RPi camera (ZeroCam NOIR) and a Pi Zero capturing images and streaming them to our house wifi.
Adding a Pico with a light sensitive resistor that can monitor ambient light levels [day/night] using the A2D converter and we now have stage lighting! By day RGB leds gently illuminate the interior of the box controlling the brightness with PMW outputs, and by night it changes over to IR so I don't keep the dear little darlings awake. :-)
£3.60 for the controller? - Most excellent!”
