Author Archives: Jay

7 Cup , A quick Indian dessert

7 Cup gets its name because its made of 7 cups of ingredients. Its one of the burfi sweets  which can be easily made. Skill level: Beginner – Will come out well even if you don’t follow all the instructions … Continue reading

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ADC and Pico – Trimmer, LDR and Thermistor

Next is ADC ! We are connecting variable resistances which change based on light, temperature and manual control to test Move the trimmer, shine some light on the LDR and light a matchstick near the thermistor. You will see the … Continue reading

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Reset and main.py

Pico doesn’t have a reset button on board and the tutorials start off as running the code by pressing the “run” button the thonny IDE. To add a reset button please follow this post . It says to add push … Continue reading

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Playing Simon on Pico

So we had some practice with LEDs and Switches till now, This means we have input and output now ! Game time ! In this post I am going to document a quick write of Simon Says ( like game) … Continue reading

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Pico, LED and Switch

After finishing up the onboard LED blink program, the next I did was to connect an LED and a switch as shown below The LED is connected to GPIO 15 and switch to GPIO 14. Please run the code below

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Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico

I was intrigued by Raspberry Pi Pico and the collaboration with makers. I was looking for an excuse to get started with MicroPython & CircuitPython. So here are my note on the same! The initial getting started notes are going … Continue reading

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Hello World

After a lot of fragmented places and books where I keep fairly incomplete logs of my work, this is an attempt to get better than the previous attempts. What you would see here is work logs & notes from my … Continue reading

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7400 Contest !

The 7400 Contest had loads of awesome entries ! My entries Tic Tac Toe won a first place and Mathemagic won a third place ! Thanks a lot to dangerous prototypes for running the contest ! Now for the prizes … Continue reading

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Tic_Tac_toe

First of all thanks to DangerousPrototypes! its because of you guys I worked on logic gates after college – else its usually the usual microelectronic stuff! πŸ™‚ This build is a simple ‘Tic Tac Toe’ game. I ended up using … Continue reading

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Random LED POV

Working: The main aim of this project was to generate a random (Somewhat ) LED blinking using Ic 555. When browsing I came across an article to use Ic4026 to add some amount of randomness, But that was not enough … Continue reading

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