Beginning MicroPython with the Raspberry Pi Pico: Build Electronics and IoT Projects

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C. BellBeginning MicroPython with the Raspberry Pi Picohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8135-2_1

1. Introducing the Raspberry Pi Pico

Charles Bell¹  

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Warsaw, VA, USA

 

The Raspberry Pi foundation (raspberrypi.org) has changed the world by providing powerful, low-cost computer boards. The Raspberry Pi is by far the biggest selling and most popular of the many small computer boards available. Perhaps even more important is the Raspberry Pi is designed for education. Educators can use the Raspberry Pi to teach computer science, electronics, hardware automation, and Internet of Things (IoT) projects using Python, Java, or C++ programming languages.

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