

Next grab your Pico and plug a USB cable into it and press and hold the small button on the Pico whilst you plug the USB into the computer. Download and install Thonny on your computer. It’s called “Thonny” and is available at. There are lots of tutorials and support material for all kinds of projects on the Pico using MicroPython online and there are lots of people using MicroPython so it’s a good language if you are a beginner and you need to ask online for help or research for a solution.įirst let’s install some brilliant free software to program our Pico. In this guide we are going to program the Pico using the MicroPython language. The Pico can be programmed in numerous languages and the code can be created using different software programming environments. It’s affordable too at $4 and you can program it with pretty much any computer, including a Raspberry Pi! The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller board from Raspberry Pi that is incredibly powerful and yet pretty straightforward to start programming and learning with. An introduction to using MicroPython with Pico Boards!
