From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:02:15 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
   >    I just bought a Pico2w "starter kit". Dunno if I really NEED a Pico   
   >    for anything but it does look to be good cool tech so I'm gonna put   
   >    in the effort. Ards are also good, have used them for many things and   
   >    the IDE really makes stuff easier,   
   >    but they're not as zippy as a Pico and adding wi-fi, or even wired   
   >    networking, do NOT expect any useful speed.   
      
   If you haven't found them yet...   
      
   https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/610-raspberry-pi-pico/   
   documents/RP-008276-DS-1-getting-started-with-pico.pdf?   
      
   https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/609-microcontroller-boards/   
   documents/RP-009085-KB-1-raspberry-pi-pico-c-sdk.pdf   
      
   The first one describes setting up VS Code and the Pico extension. The   
   second gets into more detail. Beware the DHT-11 in the appendix. If you   
   want a temperature/humidity sensor get the DHT-20. The DHT-11 requires   
   very time sensitive bit-banging and the DHT-20 is I2C. The Arduino and   
   MicroPython DHT-11 libraries work, the Pico C/C++ example code not so   
   much. I finally did find something that worked on github.   
      
   www.toptechboy.com has some decent videos. He digs into how the sensors   
   work and the math behind it rather than copypasta.   
      
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