Comments on: Programming Raspberry Pi Pico with VS Code and MicroPython

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:13:59 +0000

In reply to alfred. Great!

By: alfred

alfred — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:23:28 +0000

hi this was helpful thanks

By: saad ahmed

saad ahmed — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:23:32 +0000

hi i want to get the existing files which is inside the pico in vscode

By: Judson Belmont

Judson Belmont — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:55:32 +0000

In reply to JB. Sara, thank you for this excellent lesson. Can you explain how to add libraries such as BME280? Do we 1. download a copy from GitHub, 2. make a folder named “lib” , 3. move the BME280 library into it 4. after moving the folder onto the pico, 5. then lastly adding the firmware? Again, many thanks.

By: Judson Belmont

Judson Belmont — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:52:40 +0000

Sara, thank you for this excellent lesson. Can you explain how to add libraries such as BME280? Do we 1. download a copy from GitHub, 2. make a folder named “lib” , 3. move the BME280 library into it 4. after moving the folder onto the pico, 5. then lastly adding the firmware? Again, many thanks.

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:17:17 +0000

In reply to Ian.

Hi.
Unfortunately, I haven’t tried the VS Code debugging feature.
Sometimes, the code will be underlined, but if you upload it and ignore the red squiggles, it will upload without any problem.
Regards,
Sara

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:00:50 +0000

Hi Sara,
I’m hoping you can answer a couple of questions for me.
I’m using Micropython to program a Pi Pico which has a small PIO program in it. It works fine, but when I edit it in VS Code every line of the PIO program is flagged as an error. Also, if I try to use debug a large red box is displayed saying I can’t import machine as it doesn’t exist. So it seems the debugger is not using Micropython, but something else.
I have MicroPico installed, and also PIO ASM syntax highlighting, just in case that did anything, but I still can’t get the debugger to work.
Is there a way to debug micropython in VS Code?
Thanks, Ian
PS if you are wondering why I’m not using Thonny, it’s because debugging is not supported for micropython in Thonny.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:15:08 +0000

Did you install MicoPico?

By: robert

robert — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:06:21 +0000

Hi – I’ve been using this for a while now. It works – but any library that is micropython specific gets the yellow underline treatment from pylance.

Also because it can’t find the micropython library intellicode can’t give suggestions as I code.

I’m a beginner in both vscode and micropython so how to fix this is throwing me.
Any clues?

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:34:02 +0000

In reply to JB. Thanks :D