We have a few worksheets which will help you get started with Programming and Soldering
1 How to control the lamp on the Pico
This shows you how to connect the Pico to your computer running Thonny,
How to set up a Pin with a name
How to set that Pin to be ON of Off
2 How to read the inputs available on the UKMARS robot.
Pushbutton, Switch, Line sensor
Using the import command
3 How to control the Motors (from the pushbutton)
4 Soldering the Main circuit board
Switch, Power, Diode, Sockets, 7486 Chip etc
5 Soldering the Pico Piggyback board
Lots of Pins, sockets, and connecting wires + 2 resistors
6 Soldering the Line Sensor board
This isn't complete, but it has a link to the original instructions
7 Single-sensor Line Follower
This is the simplest line follower program
8 Building a Line Follower
This uses a single-sensor linefollower to show zones, and individual motor speeds
It introduces maths as a way to calculate motor speeds.
9 Two-sensor Line follower
10 Running the Line follower demo
11a Preparing for Drag racing . Stop sensor, and keeping track of time.
12 An alternative setspeeds() Reading a wider region of line follower positions
20 Improving your code to make it easier to maintain
31 Starting Wall following: corridor and U turn WHAM UKMARS:
32 Wall following: left turns WHAM UKMARS
33 Improving wall following WHAM UKMARS
Notes:
This Pico Pin diagram may help: