Raspberry Pi Pico Rp2040 Cytron Maker Pi Rp2040 Blink Using The Arduino IDE Using C/C++ Sketch
This is to show you how you can use the Arduino IDE to program your Raspberry Pi Pico or the Cytron Maker Pi Pico rp2040 board.
Please set the video to 1080 for best results due to screen recording will be blurred if low resolution is used.
Time line
0:00 Introduction
0:19 Github Page for The Board Manager File
1:02 Arduino IDE board installation
1:43 Install the board Libraries
2:25 The code Used
3:39 Setting the Com Port
4:17 Uploading the code
4:30 Making sure the Pico Is ready to accept the upload
4:53 Showing the sketch working
It is a very simple sketch which has been modified to use the built in LEDs of the board . Now you know the very basics to be able to upload a sketch up to your raspberry Pi Pico or even the Cytron maker Pi Pico Rp2040. This can now be built on with a lot more sketches in the near future.
It is important to understand the basics before you move to fast into complexed sketches as the Arduino Ide is being developed to include more boards all the time. The board manager shown in this video is a great tool I feel for you to use.
I use this board now for some of my animation sketches as for £9 it gives me easy access to the GP via the grove plug.
It also allows me to do easy prototyping using this board.
Useful links
PiHut https://thepihut.com/products/maker-p...
For this to work you will need to install the Rasyberry Pi pico board manager from github
https://github.com/earlephilhower/ard...
and also this is the link you need to copy and paste into the preference drop down.
https://github.com/earlephilhower/ard...