Microcontrollers such as the ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico W have an inbuilt WiFi interface. This brings a very powerful communications system to your projects. Your code now has access to the full Internet and other devices can now interact with your project over the wireless signal.
In this tutorial I'll show you how to connect to WiFi using Micropython on a Raspberry Pi Pico. We'll pull data from a web based API and then build a web page interface to allow use to control our microcontroller project and pull data from it.
Make sure you check out the main project page on my website
https://bytesnbits.co.uk/simple-micropython-wifi-connection
GitHub repository
https://github.com/getis/pi-pico-w-simple-wifi-setup
Shorter Version
https://youtu.be/ltozEpvR4Wg
0:00 Introduction
4:00 Connect to a Wi-Fi network
10:50 Get data from a web API
23:00 Creating a web server on the Pi Pico
32:00 Creating API end points - urls the Pico will serve
33:50 Building the web page for project control
39:00 Decoding the request data
44:00 Creating your own Wi-Fi network - Access point mode
