PicoBricks Smart Home Kit

PicoBricks Smart Home Kit

PicoBricks Smart Home is an educational kit that allows you to develop your smart home scenarios by combining PicoBricks sensor modules and wooden parts. The PicoBricks Smart Home wooden educational kit includes RGB LED, Button, Red LED, Temperature and Humidity Sensor, Motor Driver, Buzzer, and LDR Sensor modules. Thanks to these sensors and the Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller included in the Smart Home Kit, you can create smart home projects using block-based or text-based coding tools. By using the input and output sensors on the modules, you can customize the usage scenarios of your smart home. In addition to improving basic electronics skills, algorithmic thinking, and problem-solving abilities, assembling the wooden parts also helps develop motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

The PicoBricks Smart Home Kit supports both text-based and block-based coding tools. You can program the kit using Python in Thonny IDE, C language in Arduino IDE for text-based coding, or PicoBricks IDE and MicroBlocks IDE for block-based coding. The Raspberry Pi Pico W included with the Smart Home Kit comes preloaded with Python codes for the Smart Home Kit. After setup, you can run your kit without writing any code. If you wish, you can revise the code using either text-based or block-based coding languages.

Thonny IDE
Thonny IDE is an editor that allows you to program microcontrollers using MicroPython or CircuitPython in a text-based environment. It enables software development on microcontrollers using Python syntax.

MicroPython
MicroPython is designed for developing software on embedded systems using the Python language. It uses the same syntax as Python and can be easily loaded and run with editors like Thonny.

How to Use Thonny IDE?

PicoBricks IDE

PicoBricks IDE is a platform where you can do block-based coding before moving to MicroPython. Each block you create is simultaneously displayed with its MicroPython equivalent. Since it also includes a Python editor, you can directly perform text-based programming as well.

PicoBricks IDE, as an online platform, supports both block-based and text-based coding.

How to Use PicoBricks IDE?