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Articles Tagged “Raspberry Pi Pico”

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Cover illustration for DSPi Firmware Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico Into a USB DSP Card
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DSPi Firmware Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico Into a USB DSP Card

DSPi firmware turns a Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico 2 into a USB sound card with up to 110 EQ bands, active crossovers and room correction. Open source.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Oct 7, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for MemBrowse: How to Catch Firmware Memory Growth Early
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MemBrowse: How to Catch Firmware Memory Growth Early

MemBrowse tracks firmware RAM and flash across commits, with local analysis and pull-request reports that help developers catch memory growth early.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 26, 2026★2 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Hits 1080p HDMI Without a Framebuffer
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Hits 1080p HDMI Without a Framebuffer

A Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W now outputs 1080p30 HDMI in 24-bit color by building each scanline on the fly, beating the old 720p record for Pico-class chips.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 22, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Pico Powers a DIY Blood Lab Centrifuge
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Raspberry Pi Pico Powers a DIY Blood Lab Centrifuge

A Raspberry Pi Pico, a drone motor and roughly $50 in parts drive an open-source centrifuge built to spin blood at 400 g for cancer research.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 18, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for ChronoWatch X2040 Is a DIY RP2040 Round-Screen Watch
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ChronoWatch X2040 Is a DIY RP2040 Round-Screen Watch

The ChronoWatch X2040 turns a $23 Waveshare RP2040 board into a DIY wearable with a 1.28-inch round touchscreen, a 3D-printed case, and a 950mAh battery.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 10, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console
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PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console

PICOTTY pairs a Pi Zero 2 W hub with Ethernet-connected Pico nodes to give four headless machines a browser-based serial console for under $100.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 9, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare RP2350 Board Adds Ethernet and PoE for $14
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Waveshare RP2350 Board Adds Ethernet and PoE for $14

Waveshare's RP2350-POE-ETH puts hardwired Ethernet and optional 802.3af PoE on a 63mm Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with 20 GPIO, starting at $13.99.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 28, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Moonshine Puts Offline Voice AI on a Pico 2 Chip
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Moonshine Puts Offline Voice AI on a Pico 2 Chip

Moonshine AI fit a full offline voice pipeline — detection, speech-to-text, and neural TTS — onto a Raspberry Pi Pico 2, using just 3.6 MiB of flash.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 26, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide
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Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide

A buyer's guide to Raspberry Pi LoRa boards and long-range 4G HATs, from a 19 USD Waveshare SX1262 node module to a 149 euros LoRaWAN concentrator.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★8 min read
Cover illustration for Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico
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Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico

Olimex's €14.95 PICO-EVB turns any Raspberry Pi Pico into an industrial controller with four 240VAC relays, four optoisolated inputs and ESPHome support.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6
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Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6

An open-source firmware turns the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W into a USB Wi-Fi adapter that needs no drivers on Linux, macOS, Windows, or mobile.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 16, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for RP2350B 'Bells & Whistles' Board Packs a Debugger and HDMI for $30
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RP2350B 'Bells & Whistles' Board Packs a Debugger and HDMI for $30

The $30 RP2350B 'Bells & Whistles' dev board bundles an onboard debugger, HDMI video out, and microSD into one open-source maker board — removing friction for RP2350 projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jun 25, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare's $11 RP2350B-Plus-W Packs Wi-Fi and 41 GPIOs Into a Pico-Sized Board
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Waveshare's $11 RP2350B-Plus-W Packs Wi-Fi and 41 GPIOs Into a Pico-Sized Board

Waveshare's RP2350B-Plus-W puts 41 GPIOs, 16MB flash, USB-C, and official Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi into a Pico 2 W form factor for under $12 — a maker's dream.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jun 8, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare RP2350B-Plus-W: A Pico 2 W-Sized Board With WiFi and 41 GPIOs
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Waveshare RP2350B-Plus-W: A Pico 2 W-Sized Board With WiFi and 41 GPIOs

The Waveshare RP2350B-Plus-W packs WiFi, dual ARM/RISC-V cores, and 41 GPIOs into a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W-sized maker board for around $10.99.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jun 3, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Jeff Geerling Builds a Working Macintosh for $20 Using a Raspberry Pi Pico
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Jeff Geerling Builds a Working Macintosh for $20 Using a Raspberry Pi Pico

A Raspberry Pi Pico running Pico Micro Mac firmware delivers 63% more RAM than the original 128K Macintosh — all for about twenty dollars in parts.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 3, 2026★4 min read