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Captain Resetti wants to know

BTW any of you fine ladies or gentlemen have any experience with Captain Resetti? This asked before firing up me old solderin’iron… 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

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Blinkt script to check running processes

HI, I have no python experience and am completely lost trying to fathom things out. Running a pizero using buster and fitted with a blinkt module. I’d like to have blinkt show me, using four leds, if...

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Breakout Garden broken out pins - PWM

Hi there, I’m writing just to achieve confirmation about the broken out “PWM” labeled pin in the Breakout Garden series. Is that GPIO/BCM 12 (PWM0) or GPIO/BCM 18 (PCM CLK and PWM0 as alternative)?...

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Pi4 Bluetooth connection problems

Esentially this is a copy of post i have made on raspberrypi.org Hi, i’m a complete neub to all raspberry. I received my first devices. The OS is rasbarry Pi OS desktop . the issues occurred...

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Screenshot to inky wHAT

I am grabbing a screenshot of a webpage that I’d like to display on my inky wHAT. Using the included example to dither the image, I can get it to work, but the dithering makes it look horrible. I’m...

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Pico + Display Pack + Breadboard

Hi, I have a Pico and the Display Pack (240 x 135 display). These work fine together, but I want to connect them to a breadboard circuit, but without soldering to the Pico. The Omnibus expander is...

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Pico VGA Micropython Support

Are there any plans to provide Micropython supported libraries for the Pico VGA boards or did I purchase the completely wrong product? I think it would be interesting to use Micropython with this...

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Pantilt and stream on same web page

I have Pimoroni full PanTilt and video streaming each running on separate pages. Now how can I merge the both outputs to one web page? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

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PMS5003 sudden value drops

I have an Enviro+ with PMS5003 hooked up to prometheus and grafana. The sensor is located indoors in a small room. But the readings from the PMS5003 look…surprising. I understand sudden peaks, e.g....

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Pico Explorer Example Problem

Greetings: I have a Pimoroni Explorer for PICO. I transferred the UF2 program from Pimoroni into my new PICO. I downloaded the explorer “demo” program into the PICO and try to RUN the example and got...

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PirateAudio Display used with Tiny2040 or Pico

Having the PirateAudio module on hand and Tiny2040 on delivery next week, I was wondering can I somehow use the Display together with Tiny2040. If somehow posiible I would ofcourse need instructions...

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Component wear whilst coding on the Pico

After many hundreds of USB cable insertions and disconnections (into a USB hub) over the space of 10 days or so whilst programming my Pico in C++ the cable is trashed! This got me wondering how...

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Is the fault with Lipo or powerboost charger?

Have recently received the kit below. Battery won’t charge and I can’t get 5v out of the powerboost charger. Yellow charging light comes on. Red discharged light flickers very briefly when battery...

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Pico Pi not reading UF2 file correctly

I have my Pico Pi working - it reads and runs code from shell and Script location just fine (LED blinks every 2 sec. using that example). I plug in the Pimoroni display for the Pico Pi and the LED...

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Display demos not filling pico Explorer display

I have a pico Explorer and am running the demo programs for the display, demo.py, rainbow.py & thermometer.py. The pico has had the pimoroni version of MicroPython added to it (downloaded...

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InkyPHAT not displaying anything

Hello, I bought an InkyPHAT Yellow which seems to be a SSD1608 and I encounter some difficulties to use it. I tried with 2 Raspberry Pi : A RPi Zero W A RPi 3B And the problem is the same. The script...

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My RPI 4B connects to wi-fi/ethernet but no internet

Hi Newby here I have just received a Raspberry pi 4b installed Raspbian and created ssh and wpa_supplicant.conf with my wifi credentials but when updating it comes up with a message failling to sync...

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Rv3028 rtc

Can anyone offer advice about the correct way to use the RV3028 RTC? I’ve written a simple class in Python that requires the Backup Switchover Mode to be set on initialisation, and it’s initialised to...

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Micropython Libries for Breakouts

I have a pico explorer base and a VEML6075 UVA/B Sensor. I have loaded the pimoroni firmware, Please advise if there are any libraries to get this working under micropython. I am also interested in...

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HyperPixel4 Rectangular colour issue

when i boot my rpi 4 the screen is black for a moment but then turn in to this greenish tint i tryed everything and google around with no luck strange thing is i see the boot in black and then...

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