Thonny makes board setup more complicated. The process isn't as straightforward as it should be, but will be something like:
While holding down BOOTSEL, plug your board in. A new drive called RP2350 will appear. (If it's called something like RPI-RP2, you don't have a Pico 2 but an older Pico with an RP2040. Download the correct uf2 image for it from MicroPython downloads)
Drag the UF2 you downloaded onto the RP2350 drive. After a short while, the drive will disappear. Your Mac will complain about this, but it's meant to do that.
Now you have MicroPython installed, you can use Thonny.
Serial port selection is slightly fiddly on a Mac. If I remember, I'll add a screenshot from Thonny on my Mini showing the Interpreter setup page
- If you have a Pico 2, download the uf2 from micropython.org/download/RPI_PICO2
- If you have a Pico 2W, download the uf2 from micropython.org/download/RPI_PICO2_W
While holding down BOOTSEL, plug your board in. A new drive called RP2350 will appear. (If it's called something like RPI-RP2, you don't have a Pico 2 but an older Pico with an RP2040. Download the correct uf2 image for it from MicroPython downloads)
Drag the UF2 you downloaded onto the RP2350 drive. After a short while, the drive will disappear. Your Mac will complain about this, but it's meant to do that.
Now you have MicroPython installed, you can use Thonny.
Serial port selection is slightly fiddly on a Mac. If I remember, I'll add a screenshot from Thonny on my Mini showing the Interpreter setup page
Statistics: Posted by scruss — Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:50 pm