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Subject: Re: Need help with PI PICO...
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:16:09 +0000
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On 29/03/2024 00:52, Pancho wrote:
> FWIW, I'd also massively underestimated the difficulty of coding the 
> PICO, I'd assumed it was running a multitasking OS, like busybox, but I 
> see it isn't. I guess there are a whole bunch of gotchas there too.

With a single core things might get tricky, but the PICO has dual cores. 
So you can run code on one core that just sits in a tight loop taking 
measurements if you need to, and the other core can take care of 
everything else, such as comms with the outside world.

---druck