Intro

I’ve been pretty into the Raspberry Pi Pico family lately—it looks nice, and it’s new, there is a fast-growing community there, and it would be cool to play together. Pico W is the newer member with the…well, you guess…the Wireless capability. I thought it would be nice to set up some code to allow me to send data from the terminal to the Pico through wifi.

Arduino-Pico

This is an Arduino Core for the Pico, which based on the official Raspberry Pi Pico SDK but with more add-ons. That basically allows you to use Arduino libraries. You can find their Github link here and the latest documentation here. This project is very active.

So one day, I was casually browsing the Adafruit Wbsite, and one thing just popped in front of me…

Hmm, a sensor that gives you the amount it flexes… I felt it would be a good idea to use it to sense the flex of fingers, and make a glove along with an MPU6050 to make a gesture-sensing glove, and probably create a digital replica in Unity, so like a VR glove.