Two days ago I finally got my Rasberry pi pico 2 working. I bought two of them a week or so before that in addition to a pico 2 W and was waiting on some soldering equipment graciously provided by my grandparents. I was also having a bunch of issues compiling and such on my computer and I was rather busy with other things which left me with only dreams of getting my pico functioning soon.
It was probably just a missing driver or library but for some reason I couldn’t get my VS code installation I specifically installed to start working with the pico working. For some reason it seemed unable to detect the project files and compile properly. After a few hours fiddling around with SDK files I stepped away from fiddling to deal with more pressing business.
The next day I 3D printed a case for my pico so I could show off the kind of a computer smaller than my finger. It had a few problems because it was designed for the pico 1 but with a set of clippers in hand I resolved the issue. Once the weekend hit I had a lot more time. I learned how Cmake works and ended up following the C SDK documentation instead of the C quick start guide. After a little more adjusting compiler settings I finally got my light to blink!
The next day (yesterday) I started to look at the pico W because I wanted to get the WIFI chip working which has brought me down a rabbit hole of sockets and other complexities I’m yet to grasp. I didn’t have much time today (I was barely able to write this post) but tomorrow I’ll take a closer look at sockets and actually watch one of the 45 minute tutorials I’ve been avoiding.
Tomarrow I'll probably explain what I'm trying to buld and why I've taken such an interest in small power efficient computers.
Good Luck!