I'm working with a founder on their project because I'm out of work, and we want to prototype Android to A Pico over USB. I've found articles, posts, etc. (viewtopic.php?t=335540) that talk about it being a long solved issue, which is great news.
I'm familiar with coding lots of different things, commercial and industrial embedded systems, and lots of things in between. I've played around with Arduino many times. I could never wrap my head around ESP32 though. It seems the Pico is an ESP32, so not much about it makes sense. Including where I try to follow the instructions. They don't work, and diverge from reality. I have spent maybe 30 mins on this and am already incredibly frustrated because there's nothing correct, only half of things are working, and all the videos and blog posts are precisely 3 years old, if not giving 404 errors.
What is a good place to get started with the Pico? Specifically, I have a Pico, Pico w, and Pico 2, and I started with the Pico 2.
So far I've loaded micro python to the board, and installed Thonny, but Thonny refuses to connect to the COM port, the official Pico book has literally 0 mention of Windows, and a 3 year old youtube tutorial didn't have a problem and just worked. The options the guy sets are in a different spot, but I transinterpolated as best I could.
I'm getting one of two errors:
"Unable to connect to COM4: could not open port 'COM4': PermissionError(13, 'Access is denied.', None, 5)
If you have serial connection to the device from another program, then disconnect it there first.
Process ended with exit code 1."
I can see COM4 in Device Manager just fine, and it goes away and comes back when I unplug the Pico. If I boot the board while holding the button, I get this one:
"Couldn't find the device automatically.
Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader mode) or choose
"Configure interpreter" in the interpreter menu (bottom-right corner of the window)
to select specific port or another interpreter.
Process ended with exit code None."
When I tried a different pico board, I got the following error:
"
Couldn't find the device automatically.
Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader mode) or choose
"Configure interpreter" in the interpreter menu (bottom-right corner of the window)
to select specific port or another interpreter.
Process ended with exit code None."
I'm familiar with coding lots of different things, commercial and industrial embedded systems, and lots of things in between. I've played around with Arduino many times. I could never wrap my head around ESP32 though. It seems the Pico is an ESP32, so not much about it makes sense. Including where I try to follow the instructions. They don't work, and diverge from reality. I have spent maybe 30 mins on this and am already incredibly frustrated because there's nothing correct, only half of things are working, and all the videos and blog posts are precisely 3 years old, if not giving 404 errors.
What is a good place to get started with the Pico? Specifically, I have a Pico, Pico w, and Pico 2, and I started with the Pico 2.
So far I've loaded micro python to the board, and installed Thonny, but Thonny refuses to connect to the COM port, the official Pico book has literally 0 mention of Windows, and a 3 year old youtube tutorial didn't have a problem and just worked. The options the guy sets are in a different spot, but I transinterpolated as best I could.
I'm getting one of two errors:
"Unable to connect to COM4: could not open port 'COM4': PermissionError(13, 'Access is denied.', None, 5)
If you have serial connection to the device from another program, then disconnect it there first.
Process ended with exit code 1."
I can see COM4 in Device Manager just fine, and it goes away and comes back when I unplug the Pico. If I boot the board while holding the button, I get this one:
"Couldn't find the device automatically.
Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader mode) or choose
"Configure interpreter" in the interpreter menu (bottom-right corner of the window)
to select specific port or another interpreter.
Process ended with exit code None."
When I tried a different pico board, I got the following error:
"
Couldn't find the device automatically.
Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader mode) or choose
"Configure interpreter" in the interpreter menu (bottom-right corner of the window)
to select specific port or another interpreter.
Process ended with exit code None."
Statistics: Posted by Easy2ByButNotMastrPi — Tue Dec 10, 2024 2:03 am — Replies 3 — Views 69