This week I took a dive into the XIAO RP2040. The datasheet was extremely long, but the images help me get the jist of the built in buttons and lights to play around. I’m more familiar with Python than I am with Arduino, and would like to use it in the future, so I decided to get started with Micropython in the Thonny editor. It was pretty straight forward downloading Micropython and getting it to communicate with the RP2040. For reference I followed this guide.

I started by loading the WS2812 code onto the RP2040

Then I followed the instructions to run through different colors on the RGB Led on the bottom of the XIAO

Very simple, but kind of exciting to make it communicate for the first time.