Hi
I am very confident in C++/Arduino and started my MicroPython Pi Pico journey today. I'm using VSCode as my IDE (because, that is what my students will be most comfortable with) with a Pi Pico H. Today, I built a servo library and played with some smoothing algorithms. Just through playing, I bricked my Pi Pico about 20-30 times, it was quickly recovered with the nuke firmware each time.
Is this normal? I often found that even working code, if disconnected, required firmware flashing to get it to connect???
So is this a Pi Pico thing, a VSCode thing, a hardware issue, or PEBKAC?
Thonny appears to manage the connection with the hardware a lot better, but I don't want to introduce a new IDE. Otherwise, I might as well stay with Arduino.
Ben
I am very confident in C++/Arduino and started my MicroPython Pi Pico journey today. I'm using VSCode as my IDE (because, that is what my students will be most comfortable with) with a Pi Pico H. Today, I built a servo library and played with some smoothing algorithms. Just through playing, I bricked my Pi Pico about 20-30 times, it was quickly recovered with the nuke firmware each time.
Is this normal? I often found that even working code, if disconnected, required firmware flashing to get it to connect???
So is this a Pi Pico thing, a VSCode thing, a hardware issue, or PEBKAC?
Thonny appears to manage the connection with the hardware a lot better, but I don't want to introduce a new IDE. Otherwise, I might as well stay with Arduino.
Ben
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