2. Prepare the Programming#

  1. We need to code in programming software, download and install the programming software that we recommend: Thonny. If you have already installed Thonny and selected the correct interpreter, please ignore this step, if not, you can refer to the specific installation steps: Download and install the programming software.

  2. Then we need to prepare the firmware for picoed and burn the firmware into Pico:ed. Firmware is the device “driver” that is stored inside the device and through which we write the code to implement the actions of a particular machine according to the standard device drivers. Firmware is the software that does the most basic and lowest-level work of a system. In a hardware device, the firmware is the soul of the hardware device. If you are not familiar with how to burn picoed firmware into Pico:ed, you can refer to this article: Firmware Installation Steps

  3. For the functions we want to use with Pico:ed, such as the A/B button, we need to add the picoed library file, if you are not sure about the way to add them, you can refer to this article: Add the picoed library

2.1. Prepare the Libraries for Projects#

We will need to other libraries for the following projects.

  1. CircuitPython_IS31FL3731. CircuitPython_IS31FL3731 includes the way to control the LED screen of Pico:ed.

  2. CircuitPython_Motor. CircuitPython_Motor contains the way to control the motors and servos.

  3. Next, please follow the steps to add the picoed library files by placing adafruit_motor, adafruit_is31fl3731 in the lib folder of the CIRCUITPY disk.

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The code for the following cases is written in the code.py file on the CIRCUITPY disk, which can be opened with the installed Thonny to write the code.

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