The Pico and MicroPython

The beauty of the Pico is that it’s a blank microcontroller, meaning that it’s free from any pre-installed code or routines. This allows you to program the Pico to whatever tasks or projects you have planned for it. But first, you’ll need to set it up and get it ready to use MicroPython.

The Pico uses MicroPython or C/C++ code in order to communicate with the devices it will be attached to. The code will, when uploaded to the Pico, run a specific set of instructions depending on the electronics that are soldered to the Pico. For example, in MicroPython, with an LED attached to the Pico, you would initialise and import the Pin and Timer modules, tell the Pico which GPIO the LED is attached to, then setup a routine that will use the Timer function to send a signal to the LED – let’s say every couple of seconds. The end result would be a blinking LED, which goes on and off every two seconds. Naturally, the more complex the electronics attached to the Pico are, then the more complex the…

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