Aquarium Raspberry Pi project
April 6, 2023, 11:27
https://www.kiwi-electronics.com/en/tools-machines-155/solder-sn60-pb40-0-6mm-100g-11351
the packaging says "the best quality solder", so it must be true
I'll be soldering the male header set onto the pico w in that case
0,6 and 1.2 mm
I would by thos two
And start with leaded
alright cool, thank you π
I'm very much a beginner, so whatever's easiest
YW
actually looks like the pico w is not supported by tiny go (it only supports the pico), so I might actually go for a raspberry pi zero instead
gives me a bit more options
Ok, then your choices is clear, "must support Go"
I'm a bit more pragmatic, I mix ready made firmware, my own code in C++ or Python
I think for a first project it'll be a bit easier since I also don't have experience with python/c++
so I can play around with the hardware first, using a language I'm more comfortable in, and then later move on to micropython/c++
cause it's my first time also dealing with the electronics etc
one step at a time haha
I support your thought to 100%
Electronics is cool, and I have seen so many kids be inspired to program with just a LED, buzzer and a button connected
I have a teacher background π
Add dupont wires male-male and female-male and a "MB102 breadboard" to your list
alright gonna look those up!
and yeah it's cool, I'm 36 now, and I've been a software engineer for ~20 years by now, but it's never too late to learn new stuff π
and I'll need to add an actual breadboard to my list as well
nice ^^
this is what I ended up ordering - figured I'd also grab some buttons and leds and such to mess around with just to make something simple
Please don't post pictures, a pita to read
haha fair
It looks like a complete starter kit
yeah, I figured I can play around with some buttons and leds to start out with
I'm currently researching pH electrodes - what a minefield
From my experience, they are quirky and needs calibrations quite often.
And a search tip is to include "Arduino" in the search term since that platform is common for DIY'ers.
I received a bunch of stuff today, but I just realised I don't have an SD card \o/
I would recommend a SSD
Much more reliable
hmm, what kind of ssd would that be?
Accidental power off's
I'll mainly just be running a go program (in case I use the pi zero)
and I had one SD card that got so hot that you could boil water with it
Ahh Ok
I'll be starting with the pi zero I reckon, since then I can use go to start with
I thought you where using a big Pi
for the pico w, I'll be trying out C
initially I was going to use a 4b
but as was pointed out to me, what I want to achieve could even be done on a pico w (which I also received today)
but I need to figure out how the pico w actually works, cause I'll need to flash it somehow from my laptop (which runs macOS)
Pi Z W has a nice format
yeah, that's the one I have π
If your going to use C, look at the "Arduino IDE" (www.arduino.ccΒ΄) and add support for rp2040
ideally I'd like to use neovim as that's my editor of choice, but yeah I'll need to figure it out π
so far all the things I want to do seem to be non-conventional haha
yeah, the main reason was cause I already have a 4b haha
neovim, god luck, thats abowe my paygrade π
Well if you want to have DB and graphs a 4b is suitable
Then the Pico is a "NoGo"
my intent is to run a service on my kubernetes cluster and push readings to it, eventually π
so no db or anything like that needed on the actual thing running my local service
K8's cool
whether that's the pico w or the pi zero
I use docker a lot
yeah, k8s is great! \:D
yeah same, so it just makes sense to combine things
so I'll have stuff running in the cloud somewhere, and the local device/service will do as little as possible, ideally
but since I don't know C, and golang is not properly supported on the pico w, it's going to take a bit of time for me to get comfortable haha
I would try micropython, but I'm really not a fan of whitespace-sensitive languages π¬
I don't like the cloud, I run as much as I can locally
the cloud comes with its fair share of challenges, I'll give you that
I gotta say, I'm so impressed with how tiny the pico w is
Ahhh for me its simple, when I push the button for the lights or other home automation, I don't want to be dependent on the internet
it's insane
oh for sure
the cloud-portion of this would just be for graphs and stuff
so if a reading fails to push to the cloud, no biggie
And that you have the cpu for locally as well
But thats my preference
yeah, all makes sense π
my first little experiment will just to be to get a led to blink haha
and then maybe use a button to activate a led, and I'll slowly get into more complex stuff
I have ~20 years experience as an engineer, but I am 100% noob when it comes to electronics :p
Thats a god start, the next should be to start the power plant
But you seems to have a brain, with working brain cells, and that's helps a lot π
of course :p
haha, that's what I try to let people think, yes π¬
π deception ... haha
Well, Im off, to late for me now, cya l8r
have a good one!