054 The Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors is back and WOW!!!!

A viewer suggest a very clever method to help with Robot localization using QR codes. This was considered a few months back and put on hold until now.  The Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors is back and WOW!!!! We are pushing that technology to the limit in this renewed effort.

Cheers

Chris

How to Organize and Manager Your Projects Effectively & Easily

Some of the larger projects us Makers take on can take a lot of time and effort to get them completed. Often these projects can takes months or even years.  In this video I will be showing you a technique I just started using and have found it VERY HELPFUL. The software to use is free making the price perfect.

Cheers!

Chris

The Zoomtown Experiment #053 Status Update just posted on YouTube

 So much is changing! To help keep everyone on the current events and status, we have another update video.  We will take a look at the failures, the problems, the hopeful solutions, and set the stage for the path forward.

Cheers!
Chris

MORE NEW PRODUCTS FROM RASPBERRY PI ! ! ! !

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor

It is just amazing all the new products Raspberry Pi is putting out.  I wish I had the time to purchase them and test them thouroughly with detailed videos as all of them seem so exciting.  Take a look at these two new products!

052 Debugging A Random Occurring Bug

Fixing random occurring problems is always a challenge. You never know what could be the cause and frankly, it could be anything!!!  Let's take a look at this random 'bug' and see what was done to find it and kill it!

Cheers!

Chris

NEW PRODUCT - RPI Pico 2 W

Raspberry Pi just released the latest version of the Pico 2 with W - that means WiFi!!!!!

Here are some details you may find interesting.

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W features 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2, giving you even more flexibility in your IoT or smart product designs and expanding the possibilities for your projects.
• Dual Arm Cortex-M33 or dual Hazard3 RISC-V processors @ 150MHz
• 520 KB on-chip SRAM
• 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2 (Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W only)
• Software- and hardware-compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico 1
• Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB
• Castellated module allows soldering direct to carrier boards
• Robust and fully documented security features:
• ARM TrustZone for Cortex-M
• Optional boot signing, enforced by on-chip mask ROM, with key fingerprint in OTP
• Protected OTP storage for optional boot decryption key
• Global bus filtering based on Arm or RISC-V security/privilege levels
• Peripherals, GPIOs, and DMA channels individually assignable to security domains
• Hardware mitigations for fault injection attacks
• Hardware SHA-256 accelerator
• 2 × UART
• 2 × SPI controllers
• 2 × I2C controllers
• 24 × PWM channels
• 3 x ADC channels
• 1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
• 12 × PIO state machines
• Open source C/C++ SDK, MicroPython support
• Operating temperature -20°C to +85°C
• Supported input voltage 1.8–5.5V DC
  

Cheers!
Chris

Visit my YouTube channel and companion website for much more about Python/MicroPython and Raspberry Pi products and projects.

https://makingstuffwithchrisdehut.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut

Coming up on 11/29 - Finding that nasty bug that was causing the Zoomie to freeze and squashing it!

The next video is ready and will premiere on Nov 29th 2024. 

This video is all about tracking down a nasty bug that has been plaguing the Zoomie for many months now.  Turns out, it was a pretty dumb mistake, but nonetheless it was tough to track down.  

Cheers!
Chris 

BTW - it is gone, hopefully for good!