Utilizing Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board in teaching and training students

This research aims to study and utilize a new kind of microcontroller, RaspberryPi Pico, to create applications related to electronic and automation control to teach studentsin the university. First, the structure and function of the Raspberry Pi RP2040microcontroller chip and Raspberry Pi Pico board were introduced in general. Second, theauthor introduces how to connect Raspberry Pi Pico to a computer and how to control andprogram it. Then, real applications using Pi Pico were developed to demonstrate interestingthings that can be created with Pi Pico including turning the light on and off automaticallyusing ADC and photoresistor, displaying the real-time clock and temperature values on anLCD, showing text and images on a TFT screen, and controlling Pico W via the internet.Those real demonstrations show that Pi Pico is an easy and interesting kind ofmicrocontroller for students and people to use, to make real applications. It is worthlearning and applying this interesting microcontroller board in students’ theses, projects,and future jobs.