Pi Pico W with the Arduino IDE | Using WiFi

Use the new Pico W with the Arduino IDE instead of microPython! Article with code: More articles and tutorials: Join the conversation on the forum: Subscribe to the newsletter and stay in touch: On June 30, 2022, Raspberry Pi announced the latest iteration of it’s RP2040-based Pico microcontroller. The Pico W has the same pinout and form factor as the original Pico and has WiFi capabilities. Raspberry Pi also released a new UF2 file and several samples using microPython with the new WiFi chip. However, although they did release a C SDK, there was no update to the Arduino IDE for the new microcontroller. But you CAN use the Pico W with the Arduino IDE by using a new boards manager file that covers virtually every RP2040-based board. And today, I’ll show you how to install that for the classic Arduino IDE 1.8 and the newer