Here is some holiday fun with the Pi Pico, I decided to hook up to it some sensor to it in order to monitor the children bedroom temperature, and thought it is a good occasion to mess around with MQTT and dashboards.
I pulled my electronics box and had to dig a little in some components and Pi documentation to make sure I’ve got the correct resistors…ah! I didn’t want to fry anymore of these microcontroller boards. After that put together some basic Python code to connect to my LAN, imported the correct sensor libraries, read from the GPIO and pushed out the messages to my MQTT broker on Ubuntu…
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