Quentin Guilloteau

I am playing for the first time with microcontrollers (#arduino #Raspberry_pi pico).

And I am so confused by the amount of things that are hidden from me...
(when installing deps, writing a program, compiling a program, flashing the program, getting the serial output)

When looking online how to things without the arduino-ide, I don't find much.... (i am now using the arduino-cli + a makefile but still a lot of magic in that cli)

Like, sure, I am a microcontroller noob, but not a complete computer noob: where is the tutorial for this kind of audience ? 🙂

Note: I might be so noob that I don't know how/where to find those resources. That's also a strong possibility 😅

Feb 26 at 8:58amWeb
Show threadHankBMar 12

@GuilloteauQ Have you looked into the ESP family? Espressif has done an outstanding job of providing freely available documentation including a lot of example code as well as drivers for a lot of accessories (like sensors.)

You can program them using the Arduino IDE and runtime but I much prefer going directly to ESP-IDF which is accessible via CLI, PlatformIO (with and without VS Code) and is the 'behind the scenes' part that makes the Arduino runtime work. (I recommend ESP32 not ESP8266.)

Show threadHankBMar 12

@GuilloteauQ And FWIW, Raspberry Pi Zero and on up are not microcontrollers but full fledged Linux computers.. They can make decent IoT devices.

HTH