PA1010D GPS on Pi Pico with Pico Breakout Garden

DTR · October 16, 2024, 4:38am

Whelp, I bought PA1010D GPS and few other break out things thinking they would work with Pi Pico and Breakout board by default, has anyone gotten them to work by now?

i did quick search and looks like some done did on Badger:

so this might be a starting point, but might need to get i2c pins correct?

github.com

MichaelBell/pico-uPython/blob/main/gps/pa1010.py

# Heavily inspired by the Pimoroni library: https://github.com/pimoroni/pa1010d-python

import machine
import time
import re

class GPSTimeoutError(Exception):
    pass

class PA1010:
    """Support for GPS PA1010 module"""
    
    def update(self):
        """Call update periodically to update data.
        If update returns True, the following class members are populated:
           lat:    Text latitude in ddmm.mmmm format (e.g. 5606.1725)
           latNS:  Either N for North or S for South
           lon:    Text longitude in dddmm.mmmm format (e.g. 01404.0622)
           lonEW:  Either E for East or W for West
           altitude: The altitude of the module in metres (float, quite approximate)

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 self.i2c = machine.I2C(scl=machine.Pin(5), sda=machine.Pin(4), id=0, freq=400000)

alphanumeric · October 16, 2024, 8:24am

Yes, you’ll have to match up the i2c pins used, based on what its plugged into.
For example, the Breakout Garden uses pins 4 and 5

PINS_BREAKOUT_GARDEN = {"sda": 4, "scl": 5}
i2c = PimoroniI2C(**PINS_BREAKOUT_GARDEN)

You kind of have to read the fine print. If you look at the links you will see Python Library and maybe “Micro Python Library”. The Python is for the Pi, and Micro Python for the Pico. The other place to look is here.
pimoroni-pico/micropython/examples at main · pimoroni/pimoroni-pico (github.com)
If said breakout isn’t listed, it likely doesn’t have backed in support in Pimoroni’s custom uf2 files.

DTR · October 17, 2024, 2:09am

whelp. Michael Bells file actually worked, i just tried it wrong and hasty the first time. whoops. pins are the same as well for badger and pico since they are the same pico (:

next to figure out 1.12" OLED, but i’m not sure Luma.OLED works on pico

alphanumeric · October 17, 2024, 8:26am

Is the oled i2c or SPI?

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