Programming the Raspberry Pi Pico/W in MicroPython, 3rd Ed (I/O Press)
Wednesday, 06 August 2025

This book shows how to use MicroPython to program the Pico and interface with the Pico’s hardware. Harry Fairhead and Mike James reveal what you can do with the Pico's GPIO lines together with widely used sensors, servos, motors and ADCs. This updated and expanded edition was prompted by the launch of the Pico 2 and Pico 2W which use a new chip, the RP2350, with significant improvements but also changes. This book therefore covers four devices, the new Pico 2 and its WiFi counterpart, the Pico 2W, as well as the original Pico and Pico W.

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Author: Harry Fairhead and Mike James 
Publisher: I/O Press 
Date: July 2025
Pages: 394
ISBN: 978-1871962970
Print: 1871962978
Kindle: B0FJYJF77Q
Audience: Programmers using the Pico
Level: intermediate/Advanced 
Category: Hardware platforms

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The purpose of the book is to reveal what you can do with the Pico's GPIO lines together with widely used sensors, servos, motors and ADCs. After covering the GPIO, outputs and inputs, events and interrupts, it gives you hands-on experience of PWM, the SPI bus, the I2C bus and the 1-Wire bus. One of the key advantages of the Pico is its PIO (Programmable I/O) and while this is an advanced feature, it is introduced in this book. After finding out how the PIO works, we apply it to writing a PIO program for the DHT22 and the 1-Wire bus. Three chapters are dedicated to how to make use of the additional features of the Pico W, including how to create a web client and a web server, use HTTPS and asyncio. Finally we look at more advanced hardware, Watchdog timer, file system, SDcard reader, using the second core and more.

 

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