ENG-CANSAT-PICO-THONNY

Abstract

There is no need for a specific development environment to work with a MicroPython plateforms.

A simple text editor is quite enough to write python scripts.

Command line utility like mpremote can be used to copy/run python scripts on the board.

Thonny editor

By the way, a enhanced tool like Thonny IDE can definitively improve the user experience and interaction with the Pico.

Thonny is multi-plateform editor running on Linux, Windows, Mac.

The beauty about Thonny Python Script editor is that Thonny is written in Python.

Thonny IDE is a great python script editor can also be used with MicroPython Microcontrolers:

• Raspberry-Pi Pico
• RP2040 base MicroPython board (like PYBStick RP2040 or MicroMod-RP2040, etc)
• ESP32 under MicroPython
• ESP8266 under MicroPython
• etc

Thonny offers great features for MicroPython microconroler:

• transfer script to MicroPython microcontroler.
• manage files on the MicroPython microcontroler.
• run script against MicroPython microcontroler.
• using the micropython interactive command line (named REPL)
• generating graphical data (an awesome feature)

Install Thonny IDE

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Written by Meurisse D. for MCHobby