Hey friends — spooky season is here, but the real magic? New releases, clever hacks, and community brilliance. Let’s dive in 👇
🔍 Raspberry Pi & Pico Ecosystem Updates
October means Debian drops — and this year’s major update brings us Raspberry Pi OS: Trixie. Expect a fresh desktop theme, better screen/printer config tools, and a new hierarchical package structure that makes minimal builds easier for embedded devs like me.
⚠️ Heads-up: AI HAT+ users will need to wait a bit for full Trixie support.
👉 Explore what’s new in Trixie
🌱 Sustainability win: Raspberry Pi boards are now made at Sony’s South Wales plant — 100% renewable energy and zero waste to landfill. That’s tech we can feel good about.
🎥 YouTuber Spotlight: Signal Drift’s “Pico Stretch”
Josh from Signal Drift has taken the Pico 2 W and supercharged it — adding 8MB of PSRAM and 24 GPIO pads. It’s called Pico Stretch, and it’s a remix-friendly dream.
Got a project worth sharing? Ping me — I love featuring community builds.
🧪 What I’ve Been Building
October’s been packed with experiments, guides, and festive prep. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
- 🟢 Status LED Library Deep Dive — Pico SDK 2.2.0 adds abstraction, but I found a few bugs. 👉 Watch the breakdown
- 🤖 DIY Robot Camera Person — Face-tracking Raspberry Pi camera for solo creators. 👉 See it in action
- 💻 VSCode + FreeRTOS + Pico = YES — Full project build from GitHub to board. 👉 Tutorial here
- 🔌 USB Host Mode on Pico — Can two Picos talk over USB? Turns out, yes. 👉 Here’s how
- 🧟 Halloween Display Review — Waveshare’s RP2350 AMOLED 1.64″ screen is a treat. 👉 Spooky screen demo
🔮 Coming in November
Here’s what I’m cooking up next:
- DVI output from RP2350 on Waveshare PiZero
- Mongoose filesystem for static web delivery
- Wi-Fi network scanning on Pico W
- Secure Wi-Fi credential storage on Pico W
🎬 Subscribe + hit the bell so you don’t miss a thing → YouTube Channel
🧑🤝🧑 Meet Me at Pi Jam UK
I’ll be at Pi Jam UK on 1st November with RexP1 — come say hi, swap ideas, and geek out.
Catch me on October’s YouTube Livestream.
