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Raspberry Pi Pico Custom U2F

We take a look at the process of building a custom U2F file to allow easy deployment to many Micro Controllers

Why

You may be wondering why you would want to do this, I looked into how to do this when the question was posted on a Discord community server. They had several Pico’s that they wanted to use with various demo files on and didn’t like the prospect of doing them one by one.

How

I did this from WSL on Windows, another Pi or Linux Distro should work fine also, although I haven’t tested it.

Prerequisites

The first thing to do is to get all the bits installed.

apt-get install git
apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib libnewlib-arm-none-eabi
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install cmake
apt-get install python3

Now clone micropython and update it with the mbedtl library

cd /var/host
git clone https://github.com/micropython/micropython.git
git submodule update --init lib/mbedtl

Now enter the micropyton folder and make

cd micropython
make -C mpy-cross
cd ..

Now copy your files (main.py, etc) from your PC to the following folder

ports/rp2/modules.

For Pico

cd ports/rp2
make submodules
make clean
make

For PicoW

make BOARD=PICO_W submodules
make BOARD=PICO_W clean
make BOARD=PICO_W

Once it’s completed building you should have firmware.u2f file in the folder ports/rp2/build-PICO_W or ports/rp2/build-PICO depending on which your targets.

Now you can use the firmware.u2f file as normal. Press the BOOTSEL button on the PICO W and drag the firmware.u2f``` file over and it will flash as normal, reboot and you should see your code run.

Source : https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12559#p68049

  • raspberry
  • pico
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