The Speech Timer project was created to provide a better timer for Toastmaster meetings.
- Project Status: Completed (May revisit to improve functionality.)
- Started (Year): 2023
- Last Updated (Year): 2024
Blog Posts
Projects in the Real World
Testing projects in real world situations can help uncover issues that we wish would have been discovered earlier. One such example was with my Speech Timer Project. I traveled to Binghamton, NY so I could attend my family reunion and decided to arrive early to attend the Morning Knights Toastmasters meeting in-person. I brought along…
Progress
Well, it has been a productive week. Much progress has been made since getting to the root problem with FreeRTOS and WiFi on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, I’ve been pulling in the code from my previous attempts and have the been piecing them together. Progress has been very…
Raspberry Pi Pico W RTOS and Wi-Fi
It has been a few months since I posted last, but I’ve had a few frustrating months working on the Speech Timer project with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, RTOS, and Wi-Fi. It does not help that I can only work on this project for about 4 to 8 hours a week. This post will…
September Update
Another month has gone by and I am still working on the Speech Timer project. I was able to develop a solution with CircuitPython but was not happy with the end product. Perhaps it would be possible to get to a more stable version but even with all the RAM available on the Raspberry Pi…
Quick Update
Just wanted to drop a quick update as I have not been able to post for the past few weeks. I am working on a couple of projects that I plan to write about shortly. Speech Timer Clock I have been working on a speech timer clock for my Toastmasters Club. I took an alpha…