Pico Strike! #

The exclamation mark is part of the 🌈Branding™🌈.

Pico Strike! is a Rust written firmware to have a RPi Pico W (RP2040) do lightning strike detection via a circuit that uses a TA7642 AM receiver IC, exposing the data to be collected by any compatible service over WIFI.

TODO Firmware #

Basic #

• PWM Driver for tuning detector circuit voltage
• ADC zero-copy DMA reading from detection circuit
• Heap allocated resources
• Error Handling
• Panic handling and resetting of device
• Intelligent tuning of noise thresholds, and detection heuristics
• Simpler, more sensitive and anti-noise heuristic
• Zero-copy/loading of env configuration data

Network #

• Wifi stack setup
• Serializing for multiple packet types for external sources
• Support runtime configuration for detector sensitivity over network (optional)
• Encryption for communication
• mDNS SD for exposing network address and endpoint information
• Home Assistant integration and setup (stretch goal)
• OTA updates (stretch goal, completely optional)

Env Sensor #

• Integrate bme280 sensor package
• Integrate GPS for timing/location (optional)

Misc #

• Open-source and license project
• Provide circuit details + construction guide