How to Setup a Raspberry Pi Pico and Code with Thonny

Let's get set up with coding/scripting in Thonny for the Raspberry Pi Pico. We'll install Thonny, configure for Pico and write our first MicroPython script. To follow along you'll need:

- A Raspberry Pi Pico
- A USB micro B lead
- PC/Mac/Linux/Raspberry Pi (computer) with Internet

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[dnywh]

For the other Pico W / Pico WH owners out there: to get the blinking LED to work you need to swap out 25 on line 4 for 'LED'.

So from:

led = Pin(25, Pin.OUT)

to:

led = Pin('LED', Pin.OUT)

[videosonix]

This is by far the best introductory video for the Pico I've seen on YouTube. Very easy to follow, and everything worked fine. Thank you very much for getting me off the ground with it. Would love to see more in a similar vein. Pressing the subscribe button now!

[philosophyben]

Both your REPL guide and this one have been extremely easy to follow and a bit of a life saver. I was getting in a bit of a muddle from the setup pdf from the pi foundation on how to set up the pi, setting up cmake and all sorts of other things for vscode etc etc. Why they didn't just have a simple "Use Thonny in this simple way" is a bit beyond me but there you go

[emanuelefavero]

Please don't stop making these videos! They are by far the best on this subject. Thanks for these!

[Dbean]

You cleared my Machine module problem. Loading the correct interpreter. Great clip for beginners..Thanks Don

[Mumme]

Thanks buddy! I´ve just received my first pair of RP Picos, and have´nt had much luck communicating with the board, till I watched this video. We´re blinkin´!!! ;)

[jannsander]

Awesome content!
A shining example how a tech tutorial sould be👍

[hballouz]

this is the best explanation of Pico and thonny, all other videos just assume that you know how to use thonny although they title their videos : for Absolute Beginners !!! (which is my case. :) ) ... thanks a lot !!! . hope you can show us a step by step video of building and programming a simple pico robot

[runepedersenDK]

Thanks a lot. Was stuck in the proces descriped in my textbook, this just worked!

[JoeSteffy]

Thank you for making this video. I'm a complete noob and you helped me get started. 👍

[mahoneytechnologies]

Ok I found it. Tools > Options > Interpreter > Port Don't know why I didn't see it before!

[MattBaker]

Thanks for the info. I was up and running in no time. Many Thanks again.

[SciHeartJourney]

Thank you for this video. I think that the most impotant lesson is to save your final file as main.py in the root directory of the RP2040 zero.

[midwifeymomkempjj]

Keep in mind, this led code is for the regular Pico, NOT the Pico W. Great tutorial, thx!

[prateeksrivastava]

I downloaded thonny on my ubuntu couldn't see pico option in there..
had to download it on windows to work with it.. It would be a lot of help if you could make a video for ubuntu users as well..
Great video BTW i enjoyed it very much

[icaruscomplex]

if using Pico W, replace 25 with "LED", debugged this for half a day lol

[elujarcaos]

so helpfull thx very much i'm beginner with pico and that learn me so many things

[paulnielson]

Thanks for this, I have been trying to workout how you view saved files on the Pico

[DSage]

I found this video very helpful and I really wanted you to know that!

[paulpomme]

Hi! Thanks you for this good introduction. On my Seven system I needed Zadig for Windows to get the good driver ;)