YOU’LL NEED
• Pi Pico W• I2C LCD• 4x F2F jumper wires• Code: https://github.com/lesp/LXF316/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
The Raspberry Pi Pico W excels at being used with online APIs for a myriad of data sources. We’ve used it to read the news, tell us who is on the International Space Station, and now we are building a portable weather station that uses OpenWeather’s API to tell us if we need an umbrella.
W is for weather
Holding the BOOTSEL button, connect your Pi Pico to your computer. Go to and download the version of MicroPython for your Pico/Pico W. Open your file manager, go to the downloaded file and copy it to the root of the RPI-RP2 drive. This flashes the new firmware to the Pico.
