Installing Blinka on a Pico W

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Hi Folks.

I’m trying to install Adafruit Blinka on my Pico WH so I can use the Adafruit LC709203F LiPoly / LiIon Fuel Gauge and Battery Monitor.

Using Thonny, when I upload the Blinka/src folder I get a ton of errors like…

Could not write next block after having written 0 bytes to /src/adafruit_blinka/board/orangepi/orangepi3b.py

…and eventually…

PROBLEM IN THONNY’S BACK-END: Exception while handling ‘upload’ (thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back.ManagementError: Command output was not empty).
See Thonny’s backend.log for more info.
You may need to press “Stop/Restart” or hard-reset your MicroPython device and try again.
Process ended with exit code 1.

Enlightenment would be appreciated!

Cheers.

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Problem solved.

The 840kb of free space on the Pico W is too small for the upload of Blinka. The guide does say most files can be deleted but this is after the upload is complete. Instead I created the required folder structure from the Blinka download and then only uploaded the two folders and one file required for Blinka on a Pico.

This info is all there in the guide, just a little vague.

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Hi @Mark285907

Glad to hear that you managed to get the problem sorted!

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