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MicroPico Visual Studio Code Extension (aka Pico-W-Go)

New Feature: Experimental ESP32-WROOM, ESP32-C3, ESP32-S3, ESP32-S3-Pico and Teensy 4.0 support! (Use the Switch Stubs command to get auto-completion for the ESP32 port of MicroPython.)

MicroPico is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to simplify and accelerate the development of MicroPython projects for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W boards. This tool streamlines the coding process, providing code highlighting, auto-completion, code snippets, and project management features, all tailored for the seamless development experience with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W microcontrollers.

Website: micropico.paulober.dev

Included auto-completion based on Raspberry Pi Pico W MicroPython firmware: RPI_PICO2_W-20250809-v1.26.0.uf2 from the micropython-stubs project

Works with:

Platform	x86	arm64	armhf
Windows	✅	❌	⚠️
macOS	✅	✅	❌
Linux	✅	✅	⚠️

⚠️ Included but unsupported

Features

• Auto-completion with docs
• Pseudo terminal integration for communication with MicroPython REPL on a Pico board (with support for tab-completion)
• Running / Transferring files to / from your board
• Run main.py like after plugging the board in, with its output in the vREPL (Upload and Restart Board / Restart Board and Show Output)
• Built-in virtual-workspace provider for Raspberry Pi Pico boards (does disable Pylance auto-completion)
• Switch between auto-completion and IntelliSense for MicroPython ports RPi Pico, RPi Pico (W) and ESP32 (requires pip installed an in PATH)
• Device Manager UI for managing wifi connection and installing mip packages (only on Pico W; experimental)
• ESP32-WROOM-32, ESP32-C3, ESP32-S3, ESP32-S3-Pico and Teensy 4.0 support (experimental)
• Works with any MicroPython board: pick its serial port with MicroPico: Switch Board if it isn't detected automatically
• Available in English, German, Spanish and Italian (follows the VS Code display language)

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code v1.137.0 or newer

• Python 3.10 or newer

• MicroPython firmware flashed onto the Raspberry Pi Pico:

  • See Raspberry Pi docs for help.

Visual Studio Code extensions:

• ms-python.python | [Install] [Show]
• visualstudioexptteam.vscodeintellicode | [Install] [Show]
• ms-python.vscode-pylance | [Install] [Show]

Environment (Linux only):

On most Linux installations the device file of the Pico serial port is owned by root and a group you normal don't have by default (except on Raspberry Pi OS). This leads to timeout and access denied errors when MicroPico tries to connect to the Pico. There are three ways how to solve this problem:

• See Wiki | Linux for a small guide

Getting started

• First of all open a folder and run > MicroPico > Initialize MicroPico Project command via Ctrl+Shift+P (or the equivalent on your platform) VS Code command palette. This will import stubs for autocompletion and the settings into your project folder. For the autocompletion to work, the extension prompts you (after project configuration) to install recommended extensions mentioned in #Requirements.

• Blink the onboard LED in under 5 minutes:

from machine import Pin
from time import sleep

led = Pin("LED", Pin.OUT)

print("Blinking the LED 10 times...")
for i in range(20):
    led.value(i % 2 == 0)
    sleep(0.5)

led.off()
print("Done.")

• To run the open file, use > MicroPico > Run Current File on Board or the "Run" button in the status bar.

• To stop the execution of the currently running program or other operation, run > MicroPico > Stop Execution. The "Stop" button at the status bar does the same.

• To plot values, run > MicroPico > Open Plotter and print comma-separated numbers, e.g. print("%.2f, %.2f" % (temp, humidity)). An optional first line like print("temp, humidity") names the series.

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Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:…