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====== Raspberry Pi Pico Setup and Review ====== | ====== Raspberry Pi Pico Setup and Review ====== | ||
- | Saw the ad for the Raspberry Pi Pico from Core Electronics the other week. I'm not usually one swayed by advertising, that's kind of my thing. But the Pico at $5.75 each, I couldn't pass it up. | + | Saw the ad for the Raspberry Pi Pico from [[https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-pico.html|Core Electronics]] the other week. I'm not usually one swayed by advertising, that's kind of my thing. But the Pico at $5.75 each, I couldn't pass it up. |
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The Pico has an interesting take on how it behaves in contrast to other microcontrollers. When plugging the Pico into a PC via USB, the Pico acts as a USB Mass Storage Device. Much like a USB thumb drive. This is different to many other microcontrollers where the USB connection uses a USB to UART chip to communicate with the board to flash your code. | The Pico has an interesting take on how it behaves in contrast to other microcontrollers. When plugging the Pico into a PC via USB, the Pico acts as a USB Mass Storage Device. Much like a USB thumb drive. This is different to many other microcontrollers where the USB connection uses a USB to UART chip to communicate with the board to flash your code. | ||
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The instructions mention that you press and hold the ''BOOTSEL'' button on the Pico, AND plug into your computer, which is an odd act to perform. But I didn't seem to need to do this. | The instructions mention that you press and hold the ''BOOTSEL'' button on the Pico, AND plug into your computer, which is an odd act to perform. But I didn't seem to need to do this. | ||
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+ | Update: In the recent [[https://theamphour.com/529-embedded-hardware-with-the-raspberry-pi-team/|interview with the Pi team on The Amp Hour]] they mentioned looking at a way of being able to reset the Pico without the ''BOOTSEL''. Also mentioned were likely improvements to the C/C++ workflow. | ||