Hi all,
Im Dave and just jumped into the Pi world with a Pico. Haven’t touched an electrical engineering book in 3 decades and haven’t coded in 10 years. So I figured I’d jump right into the Pico with both feet and stick to what I knew… C++. How’d that work out you ask??? It literally took me 3 weeks to get the entire toolchain up and running properly. Turns out if I had just followed the directions in the SDK docs I could’ve avoided alot of swearing. Once it was up and working (CMake??? never heard of it) the coding was extremely straight forward and got my aviation-related project running flawlessly in a few hours. Looking forward to more.
Hi All,
I am Chrissy. I work at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where I spend my time working on the development of new methods and systems for doing clinical research and trials.
I’m also a hobbyist with devices and currently in to playing around with Badger2040.
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Hi Folks,
I’m a tech enthusiast and environmental data junkie - environment data is collected from sensors; stored on servers; and displayed everywhere. On Grafana; on Desktop Conky’s; on a Galactic Unicorn; and a Wireless Plasma Skull.
It was the Wireless Plasma that caught my eye in the Pimoroni line. Saw it and thought “Gotta use that to display weather data”. I’ve noticed I can now DIY the sensor side of things which may be worth exploring. I spent many years in software development, but while I love to code, I prefer to do it on my terms with no deadlines. So being a hobbyist with Raspberry Pi’s and now Pico’s has scratched that itch.
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Welcome aboard to all who have posted above. =)
The more the merrier.
Hello,
I am called DangerousThing (or DT if you don’t want to type it all out), For most of my career I’ve been a programmer/analyst at Penn State. I developed applications so that the professors could use technology in their classrooms. When my wife became, I quit to become her full-time caregiver, until she died. Now I’m a retired programmer. One of my hobbies was making robots, so I dusted it off and am doing that again. Unfortunately, most of my tools and equipment is still in storage, so I’ve started small. I now have a trilobot to play with.
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Hi,
Emma here. The ‘too many projects, too little time’ kind. Doing stuff in cloud IT. I love to create things, finishing them is my biggest challenge. I really should call myself an ‘expert in Proof of Concept creation’.
Heya, Kelly here, but more known as STrRedWolf. Software engineer by trade but artist/author by hobby, mainly in the furry genre. I started coding in C, and know C++ (Arduino), C#, Python, HTML/CSS, and some dialects of BASIC (including VB.NET). I’m mostly coding in C# these days.
I got in early on the Raspberry Pi’s (still got a couple Pi 1B’s) but now a days I’m mucking with Pi Pico’s for a couple of projects.
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Hi,
I am an automation specialist working for a global manufacturer for 30 plus years, in two separate lifes! I ran my own company for a few years before returning home. My first keyboard was a Commodore PET in college. Since then, I never stop coding, learning new language as the world evolves. I like to tie software with hardware, may it be industrial machines, LEGO MOC or remote controled cars and boats.
It is nice to meet you all.
PA
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42 thunders for all the pirates here!
For some odd reasons I bought a new “vessel” (eletric car; of course, named “Heart of Gold”), for which I followed some Raspberry maker projekts on tracking the metrics of battery degradation and SoH of the battery cells. Now I have even a RPi0W in the car working as dashcam drive, some “Picos” doing measuremants for AQI.
A RasPi4 B 10" Display frame shows the state of my vesse and adds some more info. Another 4B is “Working horse” for compiling modules and kernel.
And of course I had to “aquire” the Badger2040W and the Badger2040 (which I like more, since it is flat and simple and can carry a lipo without problems with a velcro…). So Rapsberrys meanwhile “grow” everywhere… :-D
Currently I have anchored in the middle of Germany and do “Captian-Resetto-Like” work somewhere in the IT.
Ya’ all, have fun and sail against the wind!
The Hitchhiker
Hello (Arr!),
i was asked by local art center to tinker a device which play some music when motion activated.
i’ve been a linux user for a few years now, i also fiddle w/ arduino and i code html/css when the need arises and generally like to fix stuff (electronic or else), all that mostly self-taugh.
i must admit i’m here to solve an issue with my PI running at the art center right now ! But it’s still nice to meet ya’ll ;¬)
The more the merrier, it’s that time of year after all. =)
Plus, the bigger the forum member base gets, the better the odds get that somebody can help with an issue. It’s incredible all the different backgrounds that Tinkerers have. :) It’s also what draws us together. You never stop learning. I haven’t. =)
Hello, I’m John AKA Jomac a 60+ something retired engineer who taught electronics at University level. I have been involved with computers since 1978 (yes we did have them back then) I was at the forefront of the home computer boom with mainly Sinclair and BBC micro’s. My main interest with the RPi is Ham Radio and what it can be used for. I have a particular interest in the Basic programming Language and will be using PicoMite Basic as it’s very close to the Microsoft Basic from way back with enhancements to bring it into the 21st Century. (also, I’m too old to learn anything else!!!)
Hello,
My name is Adebisi and I been working in IT over 10 years. I mostly done Linux but, some windows. I been using raspberry pis for a while and just got some hardware that are pimoroni.
Hello, I am Hartog van den Berg.
Got hold of a Pi5 and enjoy the improvement on the Pi4.
When I installed the cooling kit my old and clumsy fingers broke the connector for the fan.
Are there alternative GPIO pins I can use instead?
Hi
I’m Jon and I am just trying to get into raspberry pi devices and have recently acquired the inky 2.9" e-ink display and hope to get some cool stuff running on it soon :)
I look forward to discussing projects with you guys in the coming months
Regards
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Good afternoon (from Barcelona) my name is Alex and I am very enthusiastic about the inky impression display. I have plenty of ideas on how to use them and I would like to chat with the community to see if we can help make this product even more known all around the globe!
please PM as you wish!!!
ciao
Alex
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Hello! I’m Knox and I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years, but I’m new to MicroPython and Pimoroni! It doesn’t seem too daunting so far. I mainly use C#, TypeScript (JavaScript), Swift, SQL, and others.
I’m building a pretty basic (at least I hope so) display for a community theatre to show when to be in places, or holding, or if the show is live. And maybe a couple of other things.
Hoping to learn enough through this project to help others in this forum someday.
Hi, I’m Andy, I helped my brother etch the board for and build a ZX80 sometime not very recently… spent my time at age 15 doing a lot of Z80 assembler and have been working in a variety of tech roles since I was 18 so that makes it 38 years so far. I’ve got plenty of open source commits merged. Early on things like OpenBSD Kernel and X on Zaurus platform, OpenJDK signal handling to work properly on FreeBSD, various private stuff for Linux Kernels, some higher level stuff like commits to k8s-digester for a Google project even fixes in for Rubygems. These days I’m a Cloud Platform Architect but still an engineer at heart and my home lab is growing a healthy collection of PI5s because they are so great and using arm64 alongside the amd64 stuff is just great - originally bought just one as a Kubernetes node for building on native arm64 and testing but I’ve added a couple more since as they are so great (but I MUST get a dusting system sorted out as two of them are bareboard using Pimoroni’s SSD boards and I’m starting to twitch at how dusty my desk is now!).
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Hi, Kevin here, now-retired IT support tech, mainframes, servers, automation yadda yadda, spent loads of time automating stuff with perlm powershell , vbscript, you name it. These days I play with Pi stuff, plasma stick lights, homebrew music centres and so forth
I too am very partial to older OS and programming, The pcDOS variants (I started on TRS-DOS to MS to free.) And also BASIC.
Emulation of such on devices like esp32 and raspberry pi is something I tinker with.
Making a smaller TRS80 iii ( the all in one style, monitor keyboard and 2 floppy bays) is something i plan to do with an end result of running a renegade BBS on emulated freeDOS with dialup, and wifi host nodes emulated to be dialup. So one could connect from internet telnet dialup or wifi hotspot on various nodes.
As well as add networking like fidonet across LoRa between various emulated pc DOS BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) hosts.
One could build a gross network totally internet free easily, using simple well established pre existing systems and standards like ANSI , using easier nonchanging syntax of we established long ago. This way nothing new needs to be learned other then how to emulate the desired device like a rasp pi, to be a 386 and what MCU or emulated Dialup modem, host end you want to configure. This creates a simple standard for new single points of growth to a totally decentralized public network.
Part of bigger mesh networking project scheme to use new tech and old syntex and methodology.
I love being able to use simple wifi hosting of the ESP32 (or esp8266) which can emulate dialup connection for wifi, can be added to a rasp pi UART to emulate a dialup modem in dosbox or your choice 80x86 emulator as you can configure what you want to define as a com port
MCUs like the esp32 can be a standalone or used as assessory to a rasp pi or other computer. They can bridge and host LoRa connections.
One could use UHF and HAM hardware as well to join a Dialup emulated network running through various LoRa and rf capable MCUs and Rasp Pi/GPIO niche SBC setups.
Somewhere on paper I have a TRSDos BASIC programing BBS i wrote in my preteens I ran on my TRS80 iii 48kRAM.. that was probably 1989 or 1990(it was a dinosaur then). A pre-ANSi graphics era of monochrome.