The Raspberry Pi Thread [6]

Two Pimoroni orders arrived today. One has the Pi 4 Pibow Coupe Ninja case I was wanting, and an official Pi 4B power supply that I was really needing. Plus a Pico Display Pack V2. That's an upgrade / replacement for the V1 display I used in a project.
The second order was a bit of a surprise, I wasn't expecting that one to arrive that fast. It was the free Tufty 2040 Phil Howard from Pimoroni sent me for helping with the Pico graphics testing. I got the full Accessory Kit.
Tufty 2040 - RP2040 based colour LCD badge - Pimoroni

Going to have some fun with that.

caperjack said:

The Pico W is here.
Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform - Raspberry Pi

It's just what I need for my Weather Station build. That and a Lipo Shim for backup battery power.

I have Pico Lipo's in there now, that have built in battery recharge and can run from battery if the power fails. They don't have WIFI, and my other addons use some of the pins needed for the Pimoroni WIFI Pack. Adding a Pico Lipo Shim to a Pico W should get me what I need.

Hey Jack, I didn't forget about you. Both of those gismo's have been redone and are working now with one exception. The RTC modules appear to need new batteries. The DS3231 does for sure, its battery was flat. That would be why your date and time was messed up. That uses a CR1220 that "shouldn't" be to hard to find on the shelf locally. I need some of the 337 ones for the Pimoroni RV3028 RTC modules I have anyway, and if I can find some, I'll replace that one two. So far I haven't had much luck finding one. Might have to go into a jewelry store to find one, I think they are watch batteries? That or hearing aid battery's? The 337's are tiny tiny.

Great thank you, I have a old pocket-watch that has a 377 in it ,I think I got it at a dollar and more store downtown north sydney ,I'll check there ..I'll beable too come over tomorrw for them I think ,maybe,not sure whats going on tomorrow,our daughter and 2 kids are here for a week ...

alphanumeric said:

Hey Jack, I didn't forget about you. Both of those gismo's have been redone and are working, now with one exception. The RTC modules appear to need new batteries. The DS3231 does for sure, its battery was flat. That would be why your date and time was messed up. That uses a CR1220 that "shouldn't" be to hard to find on the shelf locally. I need some of the 337 ones for the Pimoroni RV3028 RTC modules I have anyway, and if I can find some, I'll replace that one two. So far I haven't had much luck finding one. Might have to go into a jewelry store to find one, I think they are watch batteries? That or hearing aid battery's? The 337's are tiny tiny.

I got batteries I needed. Just have to set the date and time one last time. I'll do that tonight.