Pico pi connected to Slackware box using pico-tdk

SAJM · 06-29-2022, 09:26 AM

Hi
Has anyone succeeded in running pico-sdk and programmed a Pico Raspberry Pi using a slackware PC or laptop?

business_kid · 07-03-2022, 06:39 AM

If you know what a Microcontroller is, and want it as part of your electronic hardware, or as all of it, fire away. I haven't read up on it, but there's probably a simple tty type terminal interface. Even then, it's probably i²c and not RS232. And get on an appropriate forum - there's not many hardware heads here, and that thing will not run linux.

Ian M · 07-06-2022, 02:45 PM

I've fancied playing with the pico for a while so I gave it a go and got pico-sdk up and running. Just downloaded the arm GNU toolchain from here https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/gnu-rm and installed it. Then followed the instructions here https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk ignore step 1, the toolchain covers that. At stage 4 I just needed to do pass cmake the paths for the sdk and compiler because I haven't installed them properly yet or added them to my path.

Code:

cmake -DPICO_SDK_PATH=/path to/pico-sdk/ -DPICO_TOOLCHAIN_PATH=/path to/gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10/bin ..

I've ordered a pico devboard so I'll let you know how that works when it arrives.

SAJM · 07-06-2022, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

If you know what a Microcontroller is, and want it as part of your electronic hardware, or as all of it, fire away. I haven't read up on it, but there's probably a simple tty type terminal interface. Even then, it's probably i²c and not RS232. And get on an appropriate forum - there's not many hardware heads here, and that thing will not run linux.

I dont want to run linux on it
pico-tdk is recommended as a way to program the pico pi and the slackware install looks complex. Hence my original question.

i2c may well be the way forward.

Dunc. · 07-07-2022, 08:11 AM

I have programmed a pico from my rpi4 using slarm64. I installed gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10 which was the latest at the time. I did use the install script that comes with the sdk. It has some lines to edit to skip the build of vscode (which I can't get to build). I used kate to write and edit the software and built with the command line.

Dunc.