Programming the Raspberry Pi Pico in the Arduino IDE!

Finally, support for the Raspberry Pi Pico is available in the Arduino IDE! Whilst this support is unofficial, we can program the Pico using a significantly easier toolchain. This video shows you how to install and use the Arduino core port for the Pico written by Earle Philhower. This process avoid's the horrible toolchain set up that we used to have to do with VSCode.

It is expected that official Arduino IDE support will come out with the Arduino Nano 2040 Connect shortly. The first time you plug in your Pico, you must hold down the bootsel button. However, after you have programmed your first sketch to the Pico, you no longer have to hold down this button when connecting to USB. If you have trouble uploading a sketch, such as a hard fault, try pressing the bootsel whilst connecting and re-uploading your sketch.

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[talkazs]

I'm looking forward to this IDE going to full support. But for now, I am actually good with using the complex tool chain that this channel has helped me set up!

[mylittleparody]

Short and to the point.
Thank you, have a nice day too.

[Krishnarao_Narisetty]

I am from India by seeing ur vedio I am got successfully use it Arduino IDE really great work I also subscribed ur channel thanks my son

[dpratte]

Thank you sir. Concise, accurate, just what I needed!

[PerchEagle]

Thanks a lot. You explained the critical stuff to get this board running :)

[drilichili]

nice video! thank you very much!
Cheers from Germany

[slowedreverb]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT SOLVED MY PROBLEM

[nerdwerx]

Great video! Yeah..I would not hold my breath on an "Official" Arduino IDE support anytime soon.I don't know what happened during the microchip/Atmel aquisition, but the fact that Raspberry Pi foundation moved away from the standard Arm & Atmel/ Microchip based products; now puts Raspberry Pi foundation, as a direct competitor. 😬 Thank goodness for Meeseeks- like individuals like Mr. Earl Philhower III, (proverbial tip-of-the-hat to you sir!) who can transcend the barrier of corporatism! Let's face it.. without his Honey badger Pico tool chain, most of us would be celebrating just being able to get the pico to blink 🤣🤣🤣

[priotx]

great video it will help a lot of people

[jumhig]

I'm also looking forward to Arduino IDE support. In the meantime I have had fun using Mecrisp Forth on my Pico.

[stephensmith]

Great videos! I subbed.
Now we need to learn how to use the 2 cores in Arduino IDE.

[NickT]

Hi,
Im using Arduino IDE on RPi 4. I followed your instructions but I get an error message every time I try to upload a sketch to the Pico. Ive tried changing serial ports in case it was that but it makes no difference.

[MaxSMoke]

This doesn't work. I see the drive as a USB folder, but not as a COM Port.

[sanjaykhatri]

As many videos i have seen all are doing blink Led project on Rasberry pico pi cant we do any other projects on this pico board

[henrywinkelmann]

Great ! We will see how the official support will look like. Thanks for hint !
Where did you find this information?
I am scanning youtube on a regular basis and did not meet the guy.

By the way, I still have not found a solution to the issue (make tool) in the tool chain for C/C++ on WIN10 :(

[skyquake._]

Please teach some pico programming using micropython 🙏 . It's a humble request sir, I am a beginner, learning new things everyday. Please do some videos.
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Thank you sir .

[rishabkulkarni]

Serial monitor is still not enabled even after uploading the first sketch

[_Khayyam__]

Hi. i want to use MPU6050 module with Raspberry Pi Pico board and code on Arduino IDE. I just want to know that, how can i show my SDA and SCL pin in code. Ordinary Arduino i2c choose SDA - A4, SCL - A5. But i use GPIO? for SDA and SCL.

[kavtech_midi]

please make video making usb host mode in raspberry pico

[guomengsun]

How do we run the Arduino Sketch on Raspberry Pi, sepcially with Arduino 3th party library?