Python Playground, 2nd Edition

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Laser Audio Display with a Raspberry Pi

In Chapter 12, you used a Pico, a tiny microcontroller, to generate musical tones. In this chapter, you’ll use a much more powerful embedded system, the Raspberry Pi, to produce interesting laser patterns based on audio signals.

The previous chapter’s Pico had an RP2040 microcontroller with dual ARM Cortex-M0 processors running at speeds of up to 133 MHz, with 264KB of random access memory (RAM) and 2MB of nonvolatile storage on an external flash chip. The Raspberry Pi 3B+, in comparison, has a much more capable ARM Cortex-A53 processor operating at 1.4 GHz, with 1GB of RAM and storage of several ...