Getting started with the Raspberry Pi pico
I'm always excited when Eben Upton pulls another Raspberry Pi rabbit out of his capacious topper. Last week he announced the $4 Raspberry Pi pico . It's a unique product for several reasons, and I put an order in as soon as I saw the announcement. It's easy to get the pico going The pico's on-line documentation is superb and it's supplemented by an excellent and inexpensive book from Gareth Halfacree and Ben Everard. I did hit one minor 'gotcha'. I've been working on my main workstation which runs Linux Mint, and discovered the hard way that the Thonny Editor won't install properly if you're using Python 3.5 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life, but it's still the default on Linux Mint 18.3. If I want to use a later version I have to set up a virtual environment. Once I did that, Thonny installed perfectly and within a couple of minutes I'd created a Hello World script and run it on the pico. If you're using a Raspberry Pi to program ...