Hello all, I have been messing around with the RP2040 Pico board through VSCode, and slowly realizing I’m probably out of my element, given that it is so brand new and there seems to be a severe lack of libraries, documentation, and general support. I finally realized that PlatformIO was using a cu…

Please read through [image] #include "pico/stdlib.h" causes errors PlatformIO IDE Careful - that’s a different Arduino core. On the PlatformIO side there are currently 3 platforms that support programming the Pico. A platform is basically a set of board definitions and P…

[image] wisper7: Earl Philhower’s framework Earl’s Github page is a good place to start, and on there is a link to the docs which might be helpful? There is a section on multicore processing. Although I have a couple of Picos, I haven done anything with them other than to blink the LED usi…

Ok, thank you! Just to clarify, are you saying that I should just switch over to installing Earl’s framework and using that instead, or that his framework is somewhat synonymous to the one used by PlatformIO. From reading his page, it sounds like I would have to use the Arduino IDE instead (ugh), so…

[image] wisper7: Just to clarify, are you saying that I should just switch over to installing Earl’s framework and using that instead No, sorry if you got that impression, I was merely responding to your comments that you wanted to use multi-core and that this one had that ability – I though …

Thanks guys. I had seen that linked post at some point in my multi-hour reading, and didn’t put 2 and 2 together. I will look into using Earl’s implementation for now, or maybe just skip the multicore processing entirely. It’s a bummer PlatformIO hasn’t implemented it yet, but for a free platform I …

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