PARTS!!! and coding…AND ASSEMBLY!!!

Oh Oh Boy have I had a lot of fun haha.

Overall

I started assembling my parts, more unboxing, but I also started testing individual components with the picos. I took the code I had created already and modified it in seperate files to only test one sensor at a time. I have had a jolly good time. I did most of my work over laspe so take a look! My Lapse Account

Soldering

I was unable to get this on camera but I did most of y soldering for the MicroSD card. It was my first time but fairly simple, I just connected a few Dupont connectors into the holes in the board (for lack of a more technical term). I still have more soldering to do but I will try to get it on camera next time!

Pico Troubles

I have never used a microcontroller before so this was a crazy thing to try and learn. I spent a lot of time trying to mess around with libraries and find them on the internet.

Battery Drivers

The UPS that I have for the Pico has drivers and a program along it to collect battery info…but it only works on actual linux. It connects through I2C however, so I just reverse engineered it for the pico! I am still working on it however.

(I also spent like 2 hours trying to figure out my own diagram and plug the MicroSD card board in…)