The company actually provides two boards: the MessengerPi itself for both calls and messaging with a keyboard, and the smaller “ Walky Talky” board for audio communication only and without a LoRa module. With a real appetite among councils and housing associations to make their homes cheaper to heat and warmer to live in, this investment is putting the power in the hands of the people who know their communities best, allowing the right decisions to be made for each home they manage while ensuring the very best for their tenants and the environment.

Mrs Vivienne Challice is an example of the tenant that social housing providers will be able to help through this scheme. The DIY Walky Talky board is basically the same minus all parts related to LoRa messaging (LoRa module, keyboard, and display). The MessengerPi and DIY Walky Talky boards would mostly be useful for outdoor communications when hiking, farming, boating, etc… outside the range of any cellular networks, but SB Components won’t provide an enclosure, so you’d better hope it won’t rain, or keep the board in your RV, tractor, or boat… As usual, the company does not provide any details or source code about the firmware during the crowdfunding campaign, so you have to trust them and cannot evaluate the software support before pledging your hard-earned money. They typically release libraries and sample code on their GitHub account but only have funding received. In the meantime, you can still watch a promotion and demo video below. In the RP2040 SoC, we have two cores (0 and 1). They both share the same memory that they can communicate with. In single core operation, core 0 executes all the code you have written, while in a multicore program, core 0 starts, then hands a series of executable functions to core 1 to process in parallel.It worked as expected. Since my RP2040-Zero does what I anticipated, I worked through many other examples, starting here http://www.pibits.net/code/raspberry-pi-pico-and-neopixel-example-in-micropython.php. Having used Raspberry Pi Pico and Thonny before I found everything straightforward. ME6217 Datasheet https://datasheet.lcsc.com/lcsc/1912111437_MICRONE-Nanjing-Micro-One-Elec-ME6217C33M5G_C427602.pdf As you might have noticed, GP25 of the Raspberry Pi Pico is routed to an onboard green LED. The RP2040-Zero did not have a similar LED on board (GP25 was thus freed) but its GP16 is hardwired to the DI (data input) of the integrated WS2812 LED. W25Q16JV Datasheet http://wiki.amperka.ru/_media/products:raspberry-pi-pico:w25q16jvuxiq-datasheet.pdf This technical assistance is being delivered by the Greater London Authority under the name of the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator ( SHRA) which is available to all registered providers of social housing across England who intend to apply to the SHDF Wave 1 competition.

Today’s announcement is the latest step in the government’s plan to reduce emissions from social homes, a priority area for the government to help eradicate fuel poverty and reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. RP2040-Zero, A Low-Cost, High-Performance Pico-Like MCU Board Based On Raspberry Pi Microcontroller RP2040, with the following key features: The weather hasn’t been cold since the work was completed, and even on hot days, I noticed that my home was comfortably cool unlike before, which was great. And with homes accounting for 15% of the UK’s carbon emissions, the investment will also help towards eliminating the country’s contribution to climate change by 2050.We are extremely proud to be playing a part in this fantastic project, working alongside our partners Clarion and Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to help improve the energy efficiency of social homes and to pilot new and innovative ways of working. MicroPython comes with a lot of built-in support for simple devices and communication protocols to start some fun experiments. But there are also a lot of things available for fiddling with more complex hardware. So, if you’re looking for something more advanced to do, go to the various tutorials available across the web. Taken together the funding will ensure that the government is achieving its aspiration to ensure as many homes as possible reach EPC Band C or above by 2035 in a way that is practical, cost effective, and affordable.