Four years of Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween builds, from an ultrasound Guy Fawkes mask to a skull that tracks you with radar. What each one taught me, and which to build this weekend.
Category: Raspberry Pi Pico
How My Halloween Skull Hunts You: Predator Servos and a Radar Brain
Part 2 of my Halloween animatronic skull: servo easing for predator-like motion on a Raspberry Pi RP2040, and a 24 GHz radar that sees through plastic to track you. Code on GitHub.
This Skull Watches You, and There’s No Camera Inside
An empty Halloween skull that turns to follow you round the room, with glowing eyes that redden as you get closer. No camera, no PIR. Part 1: how I built the eyes on a Raspberry Pi RP2040.
ReXP1: The Feature That Nearly Killed Me
ReXP1, my Star‑Wars‑inspired droid, has been one of the most fun builds I’ve ever tackled — but one capability has driven me up the wall: tilt.
🔢 Celebrating Pi Day With a Live Build!
Saturday 14 March is, of course, Pi Day (3.14), and this year I’m doing something completely different on the livestream: a Live Build over on my channel. But this won’t be a Blue Peter–style “here’s one I made earlier” situation. It’s not even a rebuild of a project I’ve already done. This is going to … Continue reading 🔢 Celebrating Pi Day With a Live Build!
Building My Projects from Repo
A guide to building my projects based on the GitHub Repos.
🎃 Halloween Hack-tacular!
👻 Treat yourself to a limited-time discount on my Raspberry Pi Pico courses—no tricks, just serious tech magic.
Pico SDK 2.2.0: Minor Update, Major Implications
The Pico SDK 2.2.0 Update, a minor update but with a lot in there.
RexP1 Rel1: Star Wars Inspired Droid
RexP1 Release 1 annouced. My Star Wars inspired droid using ROS2, MicroROS, Raspberry PI 5 and RP2040 Zero boards.
August Used to Be Quiet… Not Anymore
ANother August announcement, the new A4 Stepping (version) of the RP2350 fixing up the chip.