Re: new here

On 2024-08-26 02:29, AVI GROSS via Python-list wrote:

If everyone will pardon my curiosity, who and what purposes are these
smaller environments for and do many people use them?
 I mean the price of a typical minimal laptop is not a big deal today. So are
these for some sort of embedded uses?
 I read about them ages ago but wonder ...
 

A Raspberry Pi Pico W costs less than £5, is a lot smaller, and has a much lower power consumption than a laptop, so if it's good enough for the purpose (embedded controller), why use a laptop? That's overkill!

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Sent: Friday, August 23, 2024 1:22 AM
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Subject: Re: new here
 On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:23:42 +1200, dn wrote:
 

Adding a display to the Pico-W is my next project... After that, gyros
(am thinking it may not go so well, on balance... hah!).

 https://toptechboy.com/two-axis-tilt-meter-displaying-pitch-and-roll-
using-an-mpu6050-on-the-raspberry-pi-pico-w/
 You might have to go back a lesson or two for the lead up. As he generally
says in the intro most of what he uses is from the Sunfounder Kepler kit.
It has a standard LCD display but he suggested buying the OLED separately
and used it for Lissajous patterns and other fancier stuff.
 It's not a bad series although he can be long-winded and his Python style
definitely isn't PEP8 friendly.
 https://toptechboy.com/
 He switched to the Arduino Uno R4 after the IR controller/NeoPixel Pico
project and I don't know if he intends to go back to the Pico. He uses
Thonny but I use the MicroPython extension in VS Code. Lately I've been
using Code for everything. Mostly I work on Linux boxes but it's all the
same on Windows. There is a PlatformIO extension that works with Arduino
and other boards. PyLance upsets some because it's a MS product but it
works well too.  I've used PyCharm and like it but I also work on C, .NET,
Angular, and other projects and Code gives me a uniform IDE.