Add sensors and output to your PC using the Pico 2040 with custom firmware Desktop Python and Blinka
Extend your PC into the microcontroller sensor and control realm with Desktop Python Adafruit Blinka and an RP2040 Pico running U2IF firmware. This setup gives you access to the microcontroller component libraries without writing code on the microcontroller itself. No code-download-run cycle is required! Normally, when you want to run some motors, read some sensors or talk to some small displays, attach those elements to a microcontroller running your custom software. Adafruit has made it so that their libraries work with a couple non programmable port expanders. You run standard Python on your PC using their libraries. The Adafruit Blinka software has embedded drivers for boards that present the correct USB HID interfaces. Two examples are the MCP2221A and FTDI breakout expander boards. There is also some open-source U2IF Pico 2040 firmware that turns an RP2040 into an appliance that can be talked to as a HID device. You can use the same Adafruit Blinka software...