It’s very much a work in progress, but Geoff Graham and Peter Mather’s MMBasic runs nicely on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Development is mostly coordinated on TheBackShed.com forum.
- Download and manual: Geoff’s Projects – BASIC Interpreter for the Raspberry Pi Pico
- Source: MMBasic running on the Raspberry Pi Pico
It supports an impressive range of displays and peripherals. The project gives me a very distinct “This is how we do things” vibe, and it’s quite unlike any other Raspberry Pi Pico project.
To show you what MMBasic code looks like, here’s a little demo that uses one of those “Open Smart” LED traffic lights on physical pins 14-16 which cycles through the phases every few seconds:
' traffic light on gp10-12 (green, yellow, red), pins 14-16
' set up ports for output
FOR i=14 TO 16
SETPIN i, DOUT
PIN(i)=0
NEXT i
red=16
amber=15
green=14
DO
' green on for 5 seconds
PIN(red)=0
PIN(green)=1
PAUSE 5000
' amber on for 3 seconds
PIN(green)=0
PIN(amber)=1
PAUSE 3000
' red on for 5 seconds
PIN(amber)=0
PIN(red)=1
PAUSE 5000
LOOP
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