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What's MicroPico?

MicroPico is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to simplify and speed up the development of MicroPython projects for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W boards.


Features:

  • Auto-completion data for Pylance and the Python extension as well as docs for MicroPython modules which are present on the Pico W
  • A VS code terminal implementation for the MicroPython REPL on the board for easy communication with the Pico (W)
  • The ability to upload and run projects or individual files to the board
  • An integrated pinout map for the Pico(-H) and Pico-W(H) boards
  • Additional commands integrated in Visual Studio Code to address and control the Pico boards
  • An integrated virtual workspace / filesystem provider to directly edit on the Pico or as a fast and simple way to manage files on the Pico
  • Switch between auto-completion and IntelliSense for MicroPython ports RPi Pico, RPi Pico (W) and ESP32 (requires pip installed an in PATH)

Works with:

Platform x64 arm64 armhf
Windows
macOS
Linux

Additional requirements:

Required additional Visual Studio Code extensions:

  • ms-python.python
  • visualstudioexptteam.vscodeintellicode
  • ms-python.vscode-pylance

Platform specific notes:


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