How to Set Up the Development Environment
Stephen E. P. Smith · Apress eBooks · 2021
Microcontrollers like the Raspberry Pi Pico are typically utilized as the brains for smart devices, like microwave ovens, dishwashers, home security systems, weather stations, or irrigation monitors and controllers. At best, they have a small display and perhaps a couple of buttons for taking commands; however, they are still fully functioning computers. The programs that run on them can be quite powerful and sophisticated. Since the microcontroller usually doesn’t have a keyboard, mouse, or monitor, we develop their programs on a regular computer, known as a host computer, and then upload the program to the microcontroller to test and finally deploy it.