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Set up the Pico
From the course: Raspberry Pi Essential Training
Set up the Pico
- [Instructor] Setting up a Raspberry Pi Pico involves a few steps, but the process isn't difficult. You'll need to make two decisions, how to connect hardware and what programming environment you prefer. Let's start with the hardware connection. Along the edges of the Pico are holes with electrical connections. These allow you to connect hardware to the Pico, to do things like turn on lights or read switches. You have four options for setting up these connections. Two options are used for prototyping and two are used for more permanent connections. Heads up, all of these involve soldering. If you haven't soldered before, this is something you'll want to practice on an old circuit board before working on the Pico. The first two connection methods work best for prototyping with the Pico. This is either sockets or pins. If you've used the Raspberry Pi GPIO, you already know about using pins. If you've ever used an Arduino, you already know about sockets. Whichever you choose is entirely…
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