PiZZa - Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero into a High-Performance Microcontroller
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Turn those unused Pi Zero W and Pi 2 W boards into a powerful microcontroller. Today I’ll share my recipe for PiZZa!
Article with code: https://dronebotworkshop.com/pizza-pi/
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Warning - you may not want to watch this episode if you’re hungry, because we are spending half an hour discussing PiZZa!
Unlike the tasty version you’re used to treating yourself to, this PiZZa is a product that turns your old Raspberry Pi Zero boards into powerful microcontrollers you can program using the Arduino IDE.
Today we’ll set up PiZZa on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board, which is pretty simple thanks to a pre-made image file and an Arduino Boards Manager JSON file. Once we test it out with the mandatory Blink sketch, we’ll hook up a few LEDs and a pushbutton switch, so we can see how easy it is to code.
This is a great way to use those old boards you have sitting in your parts drawer. With PiZZa, you can turn a Pi Zero into a microcontroller with a super-fast processor, lots of I/O, and tons of memory.
Here is the Table of Contents for today's video:
00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - PiZZa
06:50 - Installing PiZZa
11:30 - Using PiZZa
13:44 - Input / Output
16:25 - LED Fade
18:15 - Wi-Fi Connect
20:50 - I2C Scan
23:44 - Using the MicroSD
29:44 - Conclusion
If you have some old Pi Zero boards that aren’t doing anything, I recommend you give PiZZa a try. It could be the tastiest product you’ve used this year!
Hope you enjoy the video (and apologies in advance for all the PiZZa puns!)
Bill
20 Comments
Cheers
Pi Zero has many functions that are not available in low end MCUs such as video/audio hardware codec, I2S, DCI, DPI, VGA, USB ethernet....
It would be great if those functions can be available.
The 600Mhz A53 is not fast comparing to current high end MCUs.
The coremark of 812Mhz Teensy 4.1 is much faster than 1Ghz single core A53. And the new STM32N647 is very fast and has NPU.
BTW, only few sketchs can be compiled. Most are failed.
Looking forward to the new release!~
PiZZa - Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero into a High-Performance Microcontroller
DroneBot Workshop
24,131 views
Turn those unused Pi Zero W and Pi 2 W boards into a powerful microcontroller. Today I’ll share my recipe for PiZZa!
Article with code: https://dronebotworkshop.com/pizza-pi/
More articles and tutorials: https://dronebotworkshop.com
Join the conversation on the forum: https://forum.dronebotworkshop.com
Subscribe to the newsletter and stay in touch: https://dronebotworkshop.com/subscribe/
Warning - you may not want to watch this episode if you’re hungry, because we are spending half an hour discussing PiZZa!
Unlike the tasty version you’re used to treating yourself to, this PiZZa is a product that turns your old Raspberry Pi Zero boards into powerful microcontrollers you can program using the Arduino IDE.
Today we’ll set up PiZZa on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board, which is pretty simple thanks to a pre-made image file and an Arduino Boards Manager JSON file. Once we test it out with the mandatory Blink sketch, we’ll hook up a few LEDs and a pushbutton switch, so we can see how easy it is to code.
This is a great way to use those old boards you have sitting in your parts drawer. With PiZZa, you can turn a Pi Zero into a microcontroller with a super-fast processor, lots of I/O, and tons of memory.
Here is the Table of Contents for today's video:
00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - PiZZa
06:50 - Installing PiZZa
11:30 - Using PiZZa
13:44 - Input / Output
16:25 - LED Fade
18:15 - Wi-Fi Connect
20:50 - I2C Scan
23:44 - Using the MicroSD
29:44 - Conclusion
If you have some old Pi Zero boards that aren’t doing anything, I recommend you give PiZZa a try. It could be the tastiest product you’ve used this year!
Hope you enjoy the video (and apologies in advance for all the PiZZa puns!)
Bill