Hedley Stirrat

software engineer | aotearoa new zealand

Making a dumb smart light switch with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Python Microcontrollers Electrical engineering 19 November, 2024

– How I made a dumb smart switch with a Raspberry Pi Pico to control a Philips Hue smart light.

Flickering-flame LED effect using MicroPython on a Raspberry Pi Pico

Python Microcontrollers Electrical engineering 8 September, 2024

– This post describes how to wire up an electrical circuit and write a simple MicroPython script to deploy onto a Raspberry Pi Pico to create a flickering-flame LED effect.

How to develop and test a minimal API in Python with Flask

Python Software engineering Flask 11 April, 2023

– This post describes how to develop and test an API in Python with Flask. The API is minimal and self-contained, with very few dependencies beyond the Python standard library.