Raspberry Pi Pico Series - Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction
To follow this guide you will need the following:
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Raspberry Pi Pico-series device
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a Micro USB cable
The following are required for some of the later steps:
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Raspberry Pi Debug Probe, or a second Raspberry Pi Pico-series device
The following instructions assume that you are using a Pico-series device; some details may differ if you use a different
Raspberry Pi microcontroller-based board.
Pico-series devices are built around microcontrollers designed by Raspberry Pi. Development on the boards is fully
supported with both a C/C++ SDK, and an official MicroPython port. This book talks about how to get started with the
SDK, and walks you through how to build, install, and work with the SDK toolchain.
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TIP
The main method covered in this book uses a VSCode extension to make your life easy. If you would like to set up
your development environment manually, see Manually Configure your Environment.
For more information on the official MicroPython port, see Raspberry Pi Pico-series Python SDK and Get started with
MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico. For more information on the C/C++ SDK, see Raspberry Pi Pico-series C/C++ SDK.
Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico-series
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