Raspberry Pi Pico W: webserver

We are in fact going to build a RESTful(ish) web server to control our LED.

I’ve chosen to attach an external LED to GP15 of our Raspberry Pi Pico W, but you could just as easily use the on-board LED for testing things out. Open up Thonny, and upload the following Python script to your Pico W. If you haven’t used MicroPython and Thonny before, full instructions on how to do that can be found in the Raspberry Pi Pico Python SDK book.

import network import socket import time from machine import Pin led = Pin(15, Pin.OUT) ssid = 'YOUR NETWORK NAME' password = 'YOUR NETWORK PASSWORD' wlan = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF) wlan.active(True) wlan.connect(ssid, password) html = """<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Pico W</title> </head> <body> <h1>Pico W</h1> <p>%s</p> </body> </html> """ max_wait = 10 while max_wait > 0: if wlan.status() < 0 or wlan.status() >= 3: break max_wait -= 1 print('waiting for connection...') time.sleep(1) if wlan.status() != 3: raise RuntimeError('network connection failed') else: print('connected') status = wlan.ifconfig() print( 'ip = ' + status[0] ) addr = socket.getaddrinfo('0.0.0.0', 80)[0][-1] s = socket.socket() s.bind(addr) s.listen(1) print('listening on', addr) # Listen for connections while True: try: cl, addr = s.accept() print('client connected from', addr) request = cl.recv(1024) print(request) request = str(request) led_on = request.find('/light/on') led_off = request.find('/light/off') print( 'led on = ' + str(led_on)) print( 'led off = ' + str(led_off)) if led_on == 6: print("led on") led.value(1) stateis = "LED is ON" if led_off == 6: print("led off") led.value(0) stateis = "LED is OFF" response = html % stateis cl.send('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n') cl.send(response) cl.close() except OSError as e: cl.close() print('connection closed')

Make sure to replace the ssid and password with the name and password for your own wireless network at home, and then hit the button to run the script on your Pico W.