PiZZa - Turn a Raspberry Pi into a High-Performance Microcontroller

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: COMING SOON 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