Feat/19 phase a autoflash blank pico - #21
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Today, a brand-new Pico has to be flashed by hand before it can be used: plug it
into a computer, hold a button, and drag a file onto it. This PR makes the Pi do that
by itself.
Plug a blank Pico into the Pi, and about fifteen seconds later it is running.
MicroPython and ready for the existing deployer to pick up. No keyboard, no
button, no file to drag.
It is off by default. It only runs when a file called autoflash-enabled exists.
In the firmware folder, so nothing gets flashed by accident, and it only ever
touches a Pico in bootloader mode, never a USB stick or anything else.
Tested on a dev Pi: with the switch off it did nothing; with it on, a
blank Pico was flashed with nobody touching anything. This only adds
the feature to the code. Nothing changes on the office Pi until
someone chooses to enable it there.