Pico Button

This week we introduced the Raspberry Pi Pico. It is a small €6 micro controller that can be used to build circuits and very cool projects

We set up a button connected to Pin 14 on the Pico. The Pico is then connected to the computer via a USB cable

We created a small python program to detect when the button is pressed, when it is, a message is displayed in Thonny ( our python editor )

Below is the code we made, along with a diagram of the circuit and a link to download Thonny

Image of the circuit we built. Image is copyright. Raspberry Pi is a trademark of Raspberry Pi Ltd