arduino-pico VS Ethernet

I managed to get the Arduino IDE to work great with my Pi Pico's using earlephilhower/arduino-pico and TinyUSB in the USB stack. I can code for MIDi and do all kinds of neat stuff... But...

I am trying to build a data logger. Currently my hardware is a Raspberry Pi Pico W, a SHT41 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5776), and a small breadboard. Software is Arduino IDE, arduino-pico (https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico), and Adafruit_SHT4X library (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SHT4X).

The standard Pico w SDK has examples for Bluetooth classic, serial connection, mouse control, keyboard control etc... Everything you need can be found HERE

If you want more guidance, you could use the Arduino framework https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico

If you are using the earlephilhower implementation of the Arduino Core for Pico, wifi is documented here: wifi docs

rp2040 is really powerful its not a conventional "desktop" raspberry pi, its a microcontroller similar to stm32 or the avr boards that the arduino uses. https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico for arduino support.

Do you want to do serial communications along with USB HID (keyboard)? Sure, you can do that with TinyUSB. I've done it with the arduino-pico core: https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico

arduino.cc has a lot of tutorials!

I was gonna say the arduino.cc site but that works too.

When you write your code and compile it, what environment are you doing it in? Are you using an online cloud service like arduino.cc's IoT cloud? Or have you downloaded and installed the Arduino IDE application from arduino.cc's software download page?

There are tons of libraries for the Arduino platform that people have written and there are many available for use with this module, so you don't have to do any super heavy lifting programming-wise. In the Arduino IDE you can download from arduino.cc I installed a couple of libraries just now as a test. The reason I installed them is because almost every library comes with several short example programs showing how to use the various features that their library offers.

Did all of it make sense? Could you do the projects he shows by yourself without starting and stopping the video? That might show areas that you would want to brush up on. Another great idea is to go through all of the commands on the arduino.cc language reference page. Make sure you instinctively understand what each function listed does and experiment with any that you aren't familiar with.

There are also IoT cloud style dashboards at places like arduino.cc that let you add various widgets for dials and controls to represent the data you have locally with your Arduino.

Mentioned at arduino.cc. Designed to generate a periodic interrupt, I'll have to code a little state machine to change the interval at every firing.

Without a good explanation from them I really wouldn't put much stock in it. If anything they're probably just trying to steer people away from CH340 devices in part because they are problem children and because arduino.cc themselves don't use them.

Ontop of this, step 3 and 5 are a must in learning. And don't think "it's just blinking, lame" think more of "what can I do with this?" Use arduino.cc for reference.