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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.