Devices: Raspberry PI Pico and More

posted by Tux Machines on Jul 29, 2022

• Forget sleep and wake; it’s time to embrace ambient mode

  Forget binary sleep and wake. When we ask a fitness tracker to measure heart rate or a battery-powered earbud to have an always-on listen mode without requiring a fresh charge every hour, we’re taking advantage of ambient mode. As we are when we leverage the face detection sensors on our phones that wait until our face is detected before “waking up” a primary processor for the heavy lifting of facial recognition. Its use cases like these that are driving the rise of “ambient mode” in processors.

• SeeedStudio launches carrier boards for Jetson Nano/Xavier NX/TX2 NX

  SeeedStudio has unveiled the reComputer J101 and J202 which are compatible with the 260-pin SODIMM modules from NVIDIA. The company specified the J101 and the J202 feature a similar functional design and the same size as the NVIDIA development kits.

  According to the product page, the design of reComputer J101 it’s based on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit while the reComputer J202 mirrors the design of the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier Developer Kit. 

• The State of IoT – June & July 2022

  Welcome to the June & July combined edition of the monthly State of IoT series.

  Let’s dive straight into the most prominent news across the IoT landscape from the last two months.

• Pico PlayStation MemCard

  The goal of this project was to provide a solid alternative at a very low price, says Daniele. “Raspberry Pi Pico understands the protocol used to communicate with memory cards and convinces the PlayStation into believing an original memory card is plugged in. Development boards, such as these ones, were particularly interesting because they were quite powerful yet very cheap, and allowed me to set up my personal server to test all sorts of applications.”

• PICO-8 and TIC-80

  Now TIC-80 is open source. Well, at least the basic version. There's a PRO version too, though I don't know that I'd ever need it. The main problem is documentation and, from an ideological standpoint, opacity regarding guardianship. I've looked around the website and have been left with questions.

• MQTT and Raspberry PI Pico W: Start with Mosquitto (MicroPython)

  Raspberry PI Pico W brings connectivity to your projects. Mosquitto is one of the most reliable, simple and fast communications for IoT projects. For this reason, MQTT and Raspberry PI Pico W will surely give you great flexibility for your Smart Things projects