Communicate Freely with a Pi
Community event hosted by Zaid Pirwani
This event is organised by and for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts.
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3 Sep 2026
10.00am – 5.00pm PKT
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Tajurbagah by Pop Up Learning
Karachi, Pakistan
Details
A hands-on event to get into the world of amateur radio super charged with the power of a Raspberry Pi and Pi Pico.
What You will learn:
- Brief introduction and history of radio communications
- Raspberry Pi GPIO control
- Moving between digital and analog signals
- Amateur radio transmission with a Raspberry Pi
- Regulations and legal concerns around amateur radio
BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE EVENT
Please bring your own laptop – where you can download and install software
What we will be using
- Raspberry Pi 5 with AI HAT+ 2 as an auto responder
- Pi Pico as nodes of a radio network
What we will be coding
- We will be demonstrating off grid, distributive communication using amateur radio devices and using a Raspberry Pi to connect to larger networks and nodes.
- Connecting AI and internet to a radio node to automatically respond.