Template: Pico 8SEG LED Guide
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Pico User Guide
Hardware connection
Please take care of the direction when you connect Pico, an USB port is printed to indicate . You can also check the pin of Pico and the LCD board when connecting.
You can connect display according to the table.
LCD | Pico | Description |
VCC | VSYS | Power input |
GND | GND | GND |
DIN | GP11 | Serial data input |
CLK | GP10 | Data input clock pin |
RCLK | GP9 | Output latch register clock pin |
Connection
Setup environment
Please refer to Raspberry Pi's guide: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/pico/getting-started/
Download example
1. Open a terminal of Raspberry Pi
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full cd ~ sudo wget https://files.waveshare.com/upload/2/28/Pico_code.7z 7z x Pico-8SEG-LED-Code.7z -o./Pico-8SEG-LED-Code cd ~/Pico-8SEG-LED-Code cd c/build/
Raspberry Pi
- Open a terminal and go to the C directory:
cd ~/Pico-8SEG-LED-Code/c/
- Create a build folder and add the path of SDK to it, it is ../../pico-sdk by default, however, it may be different for different users, please check the actual path of your pico.
cd build export PICO_SDK_PATH=../../pico-sdk
- run cmake to generate Makefile, and build it.
cmake .. make -j9
- A main.uf2 file is generated.
- Hold the BOOTSEL button of Pico, and connect the USB interface of Pico to Raspberry Pi then release the button.
- Copy the main.uf2 file to the RPi-RPI2 drive recognized.
Python codes
Use in Windows
- 1. Press and hold the BOOTSET button on the Pico board, connect the Pico to the USB port of the computer through the Micro USB cable, and release the button after the computer recognizes a removable hard disk (RPI-RP2).
- 2. Copy the rp2-pico-20210418-v1.15.uf2 file in the python directory to the recognized removable disk (RPI-RP2).
- 3. Open Thonny IDE (Note: Use the latest version of Thonny, otherwise there is no Pico support package, the latest version under Windows is v3.3.3).
- 4. Click Tools -> Settings -> Interpreter, and select Pico and the corresponding port as shown in the figure.
- 5. File -> Open -> the corresponding .py file, click to run, as shown in the following figure:
This demo provides a simple program...
Run in Raspberry Pi
- 1. The process of firmware flashing is the same as on Windows, you can choose to copy the pico_micropython_20210121.uf2 file into pico on a PC or Raspberry Pi.
- 2. Open the Thonny IDE on the Raspberry Pi (click Raspberry logo -> Programming -> Thonny Python IDE), you can check the version information in Help -> About Thonny.
- To make sure your version has the Pico support package, also you can click on Tools -> Options... -> Interpreter to select MicroPico. -> Interpreter to select MicroPython (Raspberry Pi Pico and ttyACM0 port).
As shown in the image:
If your Thonny doesn't support Pico, you can update it with the following command:
sudo apt upgrade thonny
- Choose File -> Open...-> python/Pico-8SEG-LED/Pico-8SEG-LED.py, and select the corresponding .py file to run the codes.
Codes Description
C
Buttom interface
In DEV_Config.c(.h) file (...\c\lib\Config)
- Data type:
#define UBYTE uint8_t #define UWORD uint16_t #define UDOUBLE uint32_t
- Mpdule initializes and exit:
void DEV_Module_Init(void); void DEV_Module_Exit(void); Note: 1. These are functions that are used to handle GPIO:
- GPIO Write/read:
void DEV_Digital_Write(UWORD Pin, UBYTE Value); UBYTE DEV_Digital_Read(UWORD Pin);
- SPI write byte
void DEV_SPI_WriteByte(UBYTE Value);