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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. |