This article is an introduction to Cytron’s Maker Pi PICO Board (Figure 1) equipped with a Raspberry Pi PICO microcontroller, as well as an expansion board with the basic equipment needed to practice programming and use, such as tubes, LED, memory card reader (micro SD-Card) or speakers, etc. In addition to the introduction of the board, this article discusses the installation and use CircuitPython which is Python that has adapted MicroPython for use with Adafruit and other third-party devices. For those interested in articles on MicroPython, we recommend consulting Dr. Rawat Siriphokaphirom’s website which has much more complete details than ours.

1. MicroPython for RP2040 Pico
2. RPi Pico RP2040 Code Examples
3. PIO Programming
4. PIO Signaling and Measurement
5. There is also a section CircuitPython in the article CircuitPython for Pico RP2040