Firmware for Pimoroni Pico W and ulab

[ipiriyan2002]

Hey, I am new to this type of work and was wondering if there is a framework for Pimoroni Pico W and lab. I need it for my project and am unsure as to how to do it since I am unfamiliar with C.

Thank you

[v923z]

I think what you have to do is check, whether your MCU is mentioned herehttps://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/blob/main/setting-up-micropython.md. If so, then you look at the workflow files in https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/tree/main/.github/workflows, and see what's under the section corresponding to your MCU.

[ipiriyan2002]

Thank you. I actually got it to work afterwards with pretty much the exact steps you mentioned.

[v923z]

Do you want to contribute your scrip here, so that it would be built automatically?

[ipiriyan2002]

The method I followed included forking the pimoroni pico repo and then adjusting the picow cmake file to include ulab and remove some sensors I did not need. So I am not sure I can really contribute a script per say since it was more of less using the workflow they had in place to generate the uf2 file and since its more specific for my use case.

[v923z]

That is pretty much what would be required here. If you look at the scripts in this repository, they're really simple, most of them just two lines of bash.

[ipiriyan2002]

ok, I will give it a try. Kind of new to bash and c programming so bear with me!!

[ipiriyan2002]

So I am wondering how I would create the bash file if I had manually changed the pico cmake file they already had in a forked repo's custom branch. Something like above. How would I tell the system to look at my forked repo's custom branch?

Again, apologies, I am not the most proficient with C or GitHub actions

[v923z]

I think we would drop the script here https://github.com/v923z/micropython-builder/tree/master/scripts/rp2, and then add one more entry here: https://github.com/v923z/micropython-builder/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml. If you don't want to deal with this, you can just post your makefile and the make command you used, and I would be happy to add that to the workflow file.