Pi pico pioneer platform

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sku ceo 07589 - I bought a pi pico from you on 9/3/21 and dont know how to fasten pico to the board if that is what is to be done with it. Can you give me a pic of how it is suposed to fasten please

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Hi Tim
Check that SKU. It comes up with nothing on a search of Core shop site.
Cheers Bob

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Welcome Tim!

Did you mean this platform? PiicoDev Platform for Raspberry Pi Pico | Core Electronics Australia

You can scroll across in the photos and see the different mounting solutions

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No sku must be wrong. I went back in paper and obviously was not correct. Anyway I was not aware that pico is mounted. I thought you just mounted them on breadboard, so you have ‘learned’
me and I am grateful for that. Soldering a pico to a hardboard is above me at the moment and I am busy trying to get traffic lights working on raspi. I have them working on arduino but it seems raspi pinout it BCM on the progs I have download, and the pinouts are different on BCM are they not. But I am very pleased to see I am able to work the forum platform. I first saw your reply in my email but I thought " I wonder if I go into forum whether I will see and answer and yes indeed the dot was clouded to say I had a reply, so now I know how to get help. I am MOST appreciative as I did not expect to be told how to use items I bought from Core. None of the other lectros have anything like this - altronics and jaycar and the help from them is non est.

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Hi @tim119432 - I’m glad you’re finding our forums helpful. :smiley:

Don’t forget that you can always paste images into your forum post, or click-drag images in to aid in communicating your specific topic.

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Does a pico belong to raspi and uno to arduino?

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The Raspberry Pi Pico uses a chip called the RP2040 which was designed by Raspberry Pi.
The Pico can be programmed using Arduino IDE.

The Uno is developed by Arduino. There are what’s called Arduino Compatible boards that can use the same names as official boards. These are generic boards that are built from open source designs.

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Thanks a span Aaron. What I am trying to do is to prog raspi with T cobbler attached to breadboard, using bb corresponding nos to connect to raspi.( I have already done this in arduino -prog from win computer, to make it work and its going great guns. But when I come to use the raspi all the progs I am following include a line for broadcom pegs BCM and this used different holes to the raspi normal 1-19 and 21 to 40. I dont know whether the reason is the different op systems - unix vs windows, and whether this is just something put into the prog and I can use the standard raspi plugs. But I am reluctant to take a chance as I am very busy with lodging my superfund tax return at present and dont want to waste time on something that is quite wrong. I would esteem it a GREAT FAVOUR if you would look at the progs that you have for traffic lights and tell me what the deal is??? And send me the prog to use on the raspi tellng me what holes for red yellow and green that you see from the prog. I have paid my $100 subscription to Melville Menshed who have and electronics and raspi and arduino section. I want to start attending but they need to know that I know enough on raspi and arduino for me to attend sessions, and demonstrating traffic lights on both will achieve that level. So if you could help me I would be VERY VERY appreciative. Going on to what your replied to my asking about pico and uno, I think I understand why one would want to use a pico in a confined space, and no doubt when I can prog the raspi I will download the prog to a pico and use the traffic lights from that chip. I am beginning to understand all the different things on using the chips. Thank you again.

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Hi Tim,

This is a very simple traffic light board that you could use. You will just need a resistor off the ground pin and some more wires to connect it to your Pico.

From there you’ll just be writing some pins high and low to turn the lights on and off. Here is some example code that may work but it will be even better to work towards it yourself. You will learn plenty along the way.

import machine
import utime

# LED pin assignments
red_led = machine.Pin(15, machine.Pin.OUT)
yellow_led = machine.Pin(14, machine.Pin.OUT)
green_led = machine.Pin(13, machine.Pin.OUT)

# Function to turn on a specific LED
def turn_on_led(led):
    led.value(1)

# Function to turn off a specific LED
def turn_off_led(led):
    led.value(0)

while True:
    # Red light for 5 seconds
    turn_on_led(red_led)
    utime.sleep(5)
    turn_off_led(red_led)

    # Yellow light for 2 seconds
    turn_on_led(yellow_led)
    utime.sleep(2)
    turn_off_led(yellow_led)

    # Green light for 5 seconds
    turn_on_led(green_led)
    utime.sleep(5)
    turn_off_led(green_led)

We also have this forum post where someone was after something quite similar with a button as well.