Howdy,
If you're looking to stock up on books to cosy up with now that we're in the 'ber months, we've got you covered times two. We know how much you loved our iconic
Code the Classics Vol. 1, so we decided to surprise you with a whole new suite of 1980s-inspired games for you to make yourself in
Code the Classics Vol. 2. It's a real treasure trove, with all the code available on GitHub and fantastic details like graphics and sound effects from game industry pros Dan Malone and Allister Brimble. We even got Eben to lend a hand with some of the games themselves.
We also wanted to help you learn how to make your own board based on RP2040, so we wrote a book just for that:
Design an RP2040 board with KiCad.
As if that weren't enough microcontroller fun, we also released the public beta of the Raspberry Pi Pico Visual Studio Code Extension. It's designed to make your life easier when creating, developing, and debugging projects for our Pico-series boards. Let us know what you think of it in the comments section of the
launch post, written by one of the engineers who made it happen.
Those of you firmly on team Rust will also be pleased to read
Jonathan Pallant's post detailing what he's managed to get working in Rust on our new RP2350 chip so far. And speaking of RP2350, our ASIC Technical Director Nick Francis shared
a little insight into the brains of Raspberry Pi Pico 2.
Peace,
Ash
