Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:44:58 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 29/03/2025 04:18, c186282 wrote:

For today's uses, esp for newbies, the Pico is likely
   one of your best choices.

Getting the SDK installed and working is non trivial. Getting Cmake to
do what's wanted is non trivial...

"Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico-series" 

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/pico/getting-started-with-pico.pdf

If you can't follow that you probably shouldn't be messing with a Pico
without adult supervision.

1. Install VS Code
2. Install the Raspberry Pi Pico VS Code Extension
3. Compile and run 'blink'

"The extension will now download the SDK and the toolchain, install them
locally, and generate the new project. The first project may take 5-10
minutes to install the toolchain. VS Code will ask you whether you trust
the authors because we’ve automatically generated the .vscode directory
for you. Select yes."

On some Linux distros you may have to install python, git, tar, and build-
essentials.

 

Ok if micropython gives you a hardon, there is that...

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/
micropython.html#what-is-micropython


Or CircuitPython.

CircuitPython is aimed at newbies.

https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-pico-
circuitpython/overview

The projects in the documentation follow the RPi MicroPython document so
it's easy to see the differences. I think they're working on it but CP
doesn't support interrupts or threading. Interrupts rather than polling
may or may not be more efficient.

Or the Arduino framework.

https://arduino-pico.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Either the Arduino IDE v1, v2, or VS Code with the PlatformIO plugin makes
that pretty painless.