Hi,
I have a Plasma Stick with an RPi2040W onboard and have added the board in the arduino IDE as both rPI2040W and Pimoroni Plasma 2040 but cannot find the drivers or examples for the WS2812.
The examples from the github site will not compile on the IDE. I am driving strings of WS8212 LEDs from oher boards without difficulty.
I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks
John
Hello,
Are you using MicroPython, CircuitPython, or C++ on the Pico? I assume it’s one of the pythons, so be aware there are different examples for MP vs CP, as they’re not compatible:
MicroPython - pimoroni-pico/micropython/examples/plasma_stick at main · pimoroni/pimoroni-pico · GitHub
CircuitPython - pico-circuitpython-examples/plasma_stick at main · pimoroni/pico-circuitpython-examples · GitHub
If that’s not the issue, you could try reflashing the Pico to use the other flavour (details on the product page) and see if that works any better in the Arduino IDE. Alternatively you could try another IDE like Thonny (Arduino has you select a device to try to be helpful, but Thonny just has you select the language so there’s less chance of the IDE making assumptions for you).
Hope this helps!