Ask HN: What is your RP 2040 development environment?

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2 years 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://minifigboards.com/product/fig-pi/ since it has JST/SH connectors to add things vs a protoboard.

What are your development environments? I work with students ages 12 and under, so I try to keep things simple.

I do Circuit Python since I bought into that ecosystem with Adafruit awhile ago. Micropython is also a good environment.

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://geoffg.net/picomite.html There is a neat editor that made MixMite basic easy to write that also works with the RP2040 port.

I'm also a Lua fan, there is a nice port of Lua, https://github.com/MicroLua/MicroLua

Lastly, Forth was one of the early languages I learned for the 8008/8080 family. The Mecrisp-Stellaris Port is nice, it's got lots of great "words" 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://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/

What are you using for RP2040 development? Thanks!

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