Pico Lights Plus - Camping light home automation with a Raspberry Pi PicoW

Опубликовано: 14 Ноябрь 2024
на канале: Penguin Tutor

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Pico Lights Plus is a custom electronics circuit for controlling 12V (or 5V) LED lights. Originally designed for home automation for camping it can also be used for model railway lighting or controlling 5V COB lights.

It is based around a custom electronics PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W. It provides a way to control the LED lights using buttons (including arcade style buttons) and a web interface running on the Raspberry Pi Pico W.

The Pico Lights PCB was originally designed to be a very simple PCB as part of a tutorial for The MagPi Raspberry Pi magazine. The Pico Lights Plus adds a NeoPixel RGB status LED, output LED status indicators and various connectors for adding external sensors.

More details:
https://www.penguintutor.com/projects...

Powering the Raspberry Pi Pico:
• Power for the Raspberry Pi Pico - Gui...

Tutorial on getting started with KiCAD:
https://www.penguintutor.com/electron...

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction Pico Lights Plus
00:32 Pico Lights and Pico Lights+
01:33 Design the PCB in KiCAD
06:30 Schematic diagram
10:57 PCB layout
11:40 Complete circuit
12:20 Enclosure designed in FreeCAD
12:35 Camping lights setup
13:05 Programming
13:46 Web interface
14:23 Demonstration