Leave the Pico board Flash drive window open. Raspberry PI Pico Flash Drive Folder on a Windows Computer On a Windows computer the file manager opens as shown in the following image. Raspberry PI Pico Flash Drive Folder on a Linux Mint MATE Computer On Linux Mint MATE the file manager opens as shown in the image below. The Pico board opens in a new file manager window. After three seconds, release the BOOTSEL switch. Hold down the BOOTSEL switch found on top of the board and plug the board back into the USB port. If it does not, then unplug the board from the USB port. Raspberry Pi Pico Board Plugged into a micro USB CableĪfter plugging the Pico board into the host computer, the board appears as a Flash drive. Plug the Raspberry PI Pico board into a free USB port of the host computer using a micro USB cable. “Host computer” refers to the computer used to program the target Raspberry PI Pico board in this tutorial. Program the board using the Thonny IDE running on the host computer, as described in the steps. Write some Python programs using Thonny and load them to the Pico to test the board.Įasiest way to Start using a Raspberry PI Pico Tutorial Stepsįollow the tutorial steps below to easily start using the Raspberry PI Pico board.
Download and install the Thonny MicroPython IDE on the host computer.
Copy the MicroPython file to the Pico Flash drive folder. The Pico board appears as a Flash drive after plugging it into the host computer. Plug the Raspberry PI Pico board into a spare USB port of a computer using a micro USB cable. The steps are as follows with details in the next section. This is a summary of the more detailed steps on the easiest way to start using a Raspberry PI Pico microcontroller board. Quick Overview of this Raspberry PI Pico Tutorial 
A computer with free USB port for programming the board. A micro USB cable for powering and programming the board. Use the following hardware with this tutorial. The USB port powers the board and a program controls the on-board LED. There is no need to do any soldering or circuit building when doing a quick test of the Raspberry PI Pico microcontroller board. Connect a jumper wire from the other button pin to RUN, pin 30 on the Pico.Hardware for Starting with the Raspberry Pi Pico. Connect a jumper from one button pin to a GND pin on the Pico, we used pin 38. You can refer to this project for a step by step on how to do this. This project will show you how to do just that!Īs we’ll be building this on a breadboard, the first thing to do is to add some header pins to your Pico. Having a reset button on your Raspberry Pi Pico resolves this problem. Sometimes it is not convenient to keep unplugging the micro USB cable every time you want to upload a UF2 onto the Pico. You can then just drag and drop a UF2 file onto the board. When you press and hold the BOOTSEL button and connect your Pico to your computer, it mounts as a mass storage volume.
0 kommentar(er)
