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Yes, sounds like a good project and the Pico sounds like a good board. Developing everything on breadboard with logic level voltages first is a good idea. If you aren't already familiar with this, you'll want to learn sooner rather than later how to protect the inputs, outputs and power supply of yo...

Well, MATLAB has short-circuiting and non-short-circuiting versions of the logical operators: x = false && undefined executes without an error, but x = false & undefined fails. (The non-short-circuiting version can operate on array as well as scalar inputs - and it does short-circuit if it's in the ...

I think you can find everything you need to know at https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual When I use Python in my day job it's always in a conda environment and I'd strongly recommend it - there are other ways of creating virtual environments for Python but conda works pretty well in my opini...

According to this post there's a pull request, basically meaning Jimmo's change is submitted and waiting to be integrated into the code base.

It sounds as if your GPIO16 is a push-pull output, so when you had it connected to both the board's RESET and the sensor's output pin, it was actively holding both of those either high or low - this would explain why it actually stopped the sensor working. If you have an input with a pullup to V+, e...

I would kind-of recommend the Donald Norris book (listed here ). It's three years old now and doesn't cover the ESP32 specifically, and he can veer off into wordy discussions of language and design philosophies which you won't miss too much by skipping, but the book does cover a good range of practi...

You don't usually specify the types of a function's input arguments in Python. As a dynamic language, functions and operators in Python generally adapt to the type of their inputs as far as possible and that's what other programmers would expect your function to do too. What happens if you pass an i...

If you're going to run it on Windows or Linux, why not create your project in standard Python?

I'm very doubtful that any way of doing this will be easier than connecting the display to a Pi Zero and writing a little code to implement some sort of protocol for your MicroPython board to tell the Pi what to display - but then I don't really see why it would make sense to attach a keyboard, mous...

Many commercial spectrometers have some sort of interface that you can use to acquire data programatically, so it's not quite true that 'all you are left is Excel'. In my last job I needed to build lab equipment to measure chemical and physical properties at low cost, so I might have been interested...