The Pico supports a much better alternative: Serial Wire Debug (SWD), accessed through the three pins marked DEBUG on the far edge from the USB connector. These SWD pins can be used for transferring code to the Pico without all that tedious plugging and unplugging of USB cables.

More to the point, it is used to enable on-chip debugging so that you can see how your code is operating on the machine and do useful things like set breakpoints so you can pause the program to check the value of variables and such. This is much better way of debugging development code, but working with SWD on a Mac is not straightforward, so I’ll be covering it separately.

Installing the Toolsįirst, though this is how you set up your Pico toolchain on a Mac. The Foundation documents this, but different parts of the setup are covered in different places, so here is my combined, tested sequence. Run - or install and then run - Microsoft Visual Studio Code.zshrc and add:Įxport PICO_SDK_PATH='$HOME/git/pico-sdk' Run git clone -b master -recurse-submodules.In Terminal, go to your projects directory, eg.As an example, I’ll use the directory ~/git as the base installation location and the project name PicoTest, but you can use whatever paths and names you prefer, of course. Locate CMake Tools by Microsoft and click Install.Create CMakeLists.txt - see listing below.From within Visual Studio Code, open the folder PicoTest.When CMakeTools asks you if to configure project, say yes.When asked to select a kit, select GCC for arm-none-eabi x.y.z.#MAC EMULATOR ON RASPBERRY PI WINDOWS 10#.

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