little-sun-gazer VS pico-solar-system

Depends on how you configure you Pico. I.e. this project consumes around 17mA idling while using CircuitPython's light sleep, which is quite a lot. One of my other battery powered projects uses 2.3mA as I was able to tap in Pico's deep sleep mode from C https://github.com/dr-mod/little-sun-gazer

As for the bigger battery, yes the duck has room for a battery with more capacity. But I'd say the way to improve the ducks longevity would be to tap into the other Picos power saving modes that I wasn't able to achieve with CircuitPython. I was able to achieve 2.3 mA in deep sleep mode for my Little Sun Gazer Project https://github.com/dr-mod/little-sun-gazer , but it's written in C.

Software: https://github.com/dr-mod/little-sun-gazer

Source code and instructions

Thanks! I just wanted to try driving an ST7789 from a CircuitPython :) As for the custom pimoroni MicroPython build it's also fine and seems way faster than displayio, I've used it in a couple of projects e.g. https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system

Thanks. I designed a device like you're describing some time ago: * https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system * https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/on9dpl/ive_build_this_tiny_clock_to_always_be_aware_of/

Thanks! As for displaying all planets, here is another project for Pico I made some time ago: * https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system * https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/q98cpj/my_pico_solar_system_got_featured_in_magpi_the/

I'm building the Raspberry Pi Pico Solar System located here by u/dr2mod. Noobie using MicroPython, so go easy.

Code is based on these two projects: * https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system * https://github.com/dr-mod/true-binary-mode-clock

If anyone is interested, here is the link to the magazine and the repository of the project : * https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ * https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system

I’ve pushed the code and instructions to my GitHub here: https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system Do let me know if you have any ideas on additional features that could be added.

If you want to build one yourself, you can find the instructions here: https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system