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Ask HN: What is your RP 2040 development environment?

16 pointsby AstroJetson6 months ago
There are a ton of RP2040 boards out there and I expect a new wave of the RP2350 boards any day now. My current favorite board is this https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minifigboards.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;fig-pi&#x2F; since it has JST&#x2F;SH connectors to add things vs a protoboard.<p>What are your development environments? I work with students ages 12 and under, so I try to keep things simple.<p>I do Circuit Python since I bought into that ecosystem with Adafruit awhile ago. Micropython is also a good environment.<p>I recently stumbled across the MaxiMite Basic. I had these boards a long time ago, and it was cool to see the port to the RP2040. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoffg.net&#x2F;picomite.html There is a neat editor that made MixMite basic easy to write that also works with the RP2040 port.<p>I&#x27;m also a Lua fan, there is a nice port of Lua, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MicroLua&#x2F;MicroLua<p>Lastly, Forth was one of the early languages I learned for the 8008&#x2F;8080 family. The Mecrisp-Stellaris Port is nice, it&#x27;s got lots of great &quot;words&quot; to use with the RP2040. I like how they have displays for the GPIO pins that make it easy to look at all of them to be able to debug complex interfaces. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mecrisp.sourceforge.net&#x2F;<p>What are you using for RP2040 development? Thanks!

4 comments

evs916 months ago
Still the good ol&#x27; Arduino IDE for regular stuff and I&#x27;ve been dabbling in going full platform.io but change is hard
throwaway367996 months ago
gcc, make, no sdk and no libc. baremetal all the way, yeehaw
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roland356 months ago
With kids id probably try Arduino. I personally prefer c and make&#x2F;cmake&#x2F;meson
is_taken6 months ago
Jetbrain&#x27;s CLion with the pico sdk. Yeah, that means C.