The Raspberry Pi Thread [6]

I have one of those. I'll soon be setting up. I'll be using cannabis seeds with mine.

I might set it up in my Pi / Music room in the fall !

its been a long time since i had any of that weedy stuff,lol ,dont even remeber the last time I had a nice cold Beer ! my friends who always had it have moved to NewBrunswick ,his wife was from there ,she has since passed away :from Alzheimer's! I do remeber doing some magic mushroms way ,way back

I buy the CBD oil. It's easy to take and easy on the lungs. And you can select how strong you want it.

Spied this on the Pimoroni Github.
ST7701 Display Driver for Pimoroni LCDs
The ST7701 driver supports both Parallel and Serial (SPI) ST7701 displays and is intended for use with:

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Super Sekret

Looks like there is a new LCD or new Product with a New TFT-LCD in the works. 320x240 is the largest one they currently have. It's what is on the Tufty. And 240 x 240 is the largest Pimoroni Breakout you can get. ST7701 supports 480 by 800. My guess is the new one will be 480x320, or 480x480, something like that. Most likely a new Pico Base.

I like lurking around on their Github page. I've spied hints of new products in the past. Looks like they are starting to catch on and limiting any info shown to keep you guessing.
pimoroni-pico/drivers/st7701 at feature/st7701 . pimoroni/pimoroni-pico . GitHub

Workflow runs . pimoroni/pimoroni-pico . GitHub

Boy does my Pico Breakout Garden Base makes life a lot easier when I buy new Breakouts. Plug then in, run some code, verify all is good. No having to solder on headers or actually wire them up to test them. Then back into the anti-static bag until I need them. I like to test new hardware when it arrives. I don't want to discover I got a dud a month or more from now when I build something with it.

lol, I thought my Trackball had an issue. Turned out the issue was my color blindness. I couldn't tell Green from Yellow. Not until I got up close. To my eyes it was a vey subtle change. The trackball brightness was pretty low, and I had bright lights on in the background.

Catnip said:

I've been trying to find the time to work on my status display. The past week or so has been taken up by moving the PC's code to .NET 8 to make it more universally compliant if I decide to release this to the world when I am done.

And then I realized that Libre Hardware Monitor doesn't support .NET 8, only .NET 7.

Back to the drawing board, it seems.

I can't wait to get a Pi screen operational so I can show you guys some pictures.

I hate it when that happens. I've been in similar situations. You hammer away at code and all seems good. Then the one step forward two steps back hits you.

Bought some stuff from Adafruit a while back. And got a free KB2040.
Adafruit KB2040 - RP2040 Kee Boar Driver : ID 5302 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
As shipped I cannot connect to it from Thonny? I just keep getting a device busy error message. And I cannot get it into safe mode? I ended up reflashing it with a stock Circuit Python. Nice little bit of kit, I have no idea what I'll do with it though?

Was tinkering with this. It's a mock up of what will be an outdoor weather station / system. I've been working on this thing for ages. Hopefully this summer i get it finally all installed outside.


Some minor upgrades / downgrades. I swapped out a BME680 for a BME280. It's a downgrade of sorts. The BME680 is a more accurate, but the built in heater for the Gas sensor messes up the temperature readings. It makes it read higher than what the actual ambient temperature is. That's what it seems anyway based on my usage. The BME280 will be mounted in a Stevenson Enclosure, mounted to the side of my enclosure.
Weatherproof Cover/Enclosure for Outdoor Sensors (Stevenson Screen)

I also added a ICP10125 Ultra-precise Barometric Pressure and Temperature Sensor. ICP-10125: Ultra-precise Barometric Pressure and Temperature Sensor
Barometric Pressure is one thing I want to track accurately. It's a big indicator of what the weather is likely to be, good or bad. I may also use this for my Temperature readings. Then just get the Humidity from the BME280.
Top left is a PICO W with a QWICC adapter wired up to i2c. The Red thing in the middle is a QWICC 4 way Hub. Bottom Right is a Proto Board with a VEML6075 UV Light Sensor. I had to hunt up a Micro Python library for it online, as it's discontinued. I have a spare so I should be OK. Next to it is a LTR-559 light sensor. I had room so why not. I can sense dusk dawn etc, if I want. I spied this on Pimoroni's GitHub, AS7343: New driver for the 14 channel spectrometer. I'll likely swap that in place of the LTR-559 when I can get my hands on one. That Proto board is going to be mounted behind a glass viewing window in the top of the enclosure. On it's bottom side is an RV3028 RTC and and a QWICC Adapter board.

The plan for this summer is to finally wire up my Wind and Rain sensors and get my code finalized. I already have the sensors.
Wind and Rain Sensors for Weather Station (Wind Vane / Anemometer / Rain Gauge)