Thonny, Installing MicroPython & Hello World | Raspberry Pi Pico Workshop: Chapter 1.6

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

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In this video, we are going to install *Thonny* and then install *MicroPython* on the Pico. Once we have that setup, we will finally get into some code and learn the *print function*, and while doing that we will get ourselves familiar with the Thonny environment and some basic Micropython *Syntax*.

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Installing Thonny and MicroPython
1:44 Selecting the Com Port
2:22 A look at Thonny
3:15 The print() Command
4:37 Basic Syntax

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