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TinyGo Channels on the Pico

Jul 31, 2022 · 5 min read · In this tutorial, we look at how goroutines can communicate with one another using what are called "channels". https://youtu.be/NmEMwFQ0MI0 Objective One of our earlier tutorials covered GoRoutines, which are one of the most common concurrency primit...

GPIO and Interrupts on the Pico

Jul 13, 2022 · 4 min read · In this tutorial, we explore how to connect external devices such as LEDs and push buttons to the Pico, and how to use an "interrupt" to handle an input. https://youtu.be/I5uVHBgOZQo Objective We need to create a program which continuously blinks an...

Concurrency with Goroutines

Jul 10, 2022 · 2 min read · Let us modify the simple blink program from our earlier tutorial to run multiple tasks simultaneously. This is what we call concurrency. Go has a number of primitives to help make programmers' lives easier when they create concurrent programs. In ...

Your first program: Blinking an LED

Jul 4, 2022 · 3 min read · In this tutorial, we look at what it takes to create the simplest program of all - one that blinks the onboard LED on the Raspberry Pi Pico. https://youtu.be/B-6GsoEg0Lw The Program The program itself is simple - about 15 lines of code. // blink.go ...

Set up your Pico with TinyGo and VSCode

Jul 1, 2022 · 5 min read · In this article, I will show you how I set up my development environment for TinyGo on the Pico using VSCode as my IDE. The TinyGo web site has a detailed installation guide for various operating systems. So, the steps below are just for your quick r...