ENG-CANSAT-PICO-MISSION1-AUTONOMOUS

Inroduction

Until now, we have worked with the emitter linked to a computer via USB cable.

Using the USB cable was very useful to capture the debugging message into the REPL Session.

We have two things to do:

• Start automatically your python script
• Making the CANSAT working autonomously

Start your Python script

If you want your script to start when powering up your Pico, just copy the script content into a file named main.py .

This approach is very efficient but can lead to plateform lock-up when the script is buggy or contains an infinite loop.

At MCHobby we do use a slide switch name "RunApp" as recover method.

The aim is to check the status of a given pin (eg: GP22) before starting you user script contained into a file user.py .

In case of trouble during testing/development we just switch-off the "RunApp" and press the reset button to restart the Pico.

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Written by Meurisse D. for MCHobby