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[Stevenson Streeper] is a maker, and was recently charged with a serious mission. He had to prototype, design, and build a board game. A software-controlled board game, that is, and …read more Continue reading Building a Giant Boardgame Isn’t Easy
While there’s an argument to be made that retro games should be experienced with whatever input device they were designed around, there’s no debating that modern game controllers are a …read more Continue reading PicoNtrol Brings Modern Controllers to Atari 2600
Unlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works wonderfully, and only requires …read more Continue reading Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
Normally, if you want to play music or other audio on a microcontroller, you need to get yourself a DAC. Or at least, that’s the easiest way to go about …read more Continue reading Playing Audio on The Pi Pico With No DAC To Speak Of
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and cell phones whenever we went to buy a few transistors …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit
You can do some wild things with sound waves, such as annoy your neighbours or convince other road users to move out of your way. Or, if you get into …read more Continue reading Sonolithography With The Raspberry Pi Pico
When working on a project, plenty of us will reach for an Atmel microcontroller because of the widespread prevalence of the Arduino platform. A few hackers would opt for a …read more Continue reading Saving PIC Microcontrollers With DIY Programmer
There are plenty of hobbies around with huge price tags, and ham radio can certainly be one of them. Experienced hams might have radios that cost thousands of dollars, with …read more Continue reading Pico-Sized Ham Radio
Ever feel like the Pi Pico board could be doing way more given its footprint? Does it bother you that the RP2040’s ADC quality is even further decreased because of …read more Continue reading ProPico For Your Pro Pico Needs
This gesture-controlled labyrinth game using two Raspberry Pi Pico units does a great job of demonstrating how it can sometimes take a lot of work to make something look simple. …read more Continue reading Gyro-Controlled Labyrinth Game Outputs to VGA