arduino-pico

> Are they more in number and easier to use than the Arduino libraries? It's not either/or, beyond what's in the native SDK RP2 boards also benefit from the Arduino ecosystem via the excellent and well maintained https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico

A bit of background: I don't believe there's any official support from Raspberry Pi for using the Pico with Arduino. Raspberry Pi provides Micropython and a C/C++ SDK. My guess that professionals in the embedded space probably use the SDK directly (it's nicely documented) and do things themselves, but hobbyists like me would like a package manager so we can install libraries easily. Enter Arduino. This isn't Arduino's official support for the Pico either. Arduino made a port based on mbed. It doesn't seem to be used much, based on my searches. Not much about it since 2021. That's because Earle Philhower's "community port," called arduino-pico [1] is nicer. I switched to it to get good USB-Midi support, because it has an option to use Adafruit's fork of the TinyUSB library. But, as a package manager, Arduino can be confusing and PlatformIO

I'm using arduino-pico [1], which has support for the Adafruit fork [2] of this project. I haven't used anything other than the serial port and MIDI out, but it's nice so far. [1] https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico [2] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_TinyUSB_Arduino