SimplSensor

Mark Nahirny

I have been working with Raspbery Pis for the past few years developing seismic sensors but with the severe shortage and high price of Raspbery Pis I have started to turn my attention to microcontrollers. I have done some work with Arduinos but became intrigued by the Raspberry Pi Pico. It is well documented, readily available, inexpensive, has many I/O options and is dual core. The SDK has many good examples and since I have always used C-based languages, the software environment is comfortable for me.

More recently I have moved to ESP32 as my primary hardware platform for new projects. I’m very impressed with the features that Espressive has packed into the ESP32 and the documentation is very good. The ESP IDF using Visual Studio Code has a fairly steep learning curve but it allows you full control of the hardware so I chose to go that route rather than Arduino.

There are many sensor modules available but most example code is for the Arduino IDE. My preference is to use Visual Studio Code and my intention is to share my sample code in case there are others who are also interested in going this route.

I have put together some articles that may be helpful and save people some time. My intent is that this is a community service and I do not want to annoy anyone with irritating flashing ads.