📝 docs(include): add README for project header files

- provide guidance on using header files in the project
- link to official GCC documentation for further reading

📝 docs(test): add README for PlatformIO test runner

- explain purpose of the test directory
- emphasize the importance of unit testing
- link to PlatformIO documentation for unit testing

🔧 chore(vscode): add .gitignore and extensions.json

- ignore specific VSCode and PlatformIO files
- recommend PlatformIO IDE extension for VSCode
- specify unwanted extension recommendations

📦 build(platformio): add platformio.ini configuration

- configure PlatformIO for Raspberry Pi Pico
- set board framework to Arduino

✨ feat(src): add basic Arduino setup and loop

- implement a simple function demonstrating setup and loop
- create myFunction as a sample function for addition

embedded/LoopPedal/.gitignore

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+.pio
+.vscode/.browse.c_cpp.db*
+.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json
+.vscode/launch.json
+.vscode/ipch

embedded/LoopPedal/.vscode/extensions.json

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+{
+    // See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827846
+    // for the documentation about the extensions.json format
+    "recommendations": [
+        "platformio.platformio-ide"
+    ],
+    "unwantedRecommendations": [
+        "ms-vscode.cpptools-extension-pack"
+    ]
+}

embedded/LoopPedal/include/README

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+
+This directory is intended for project header files.
+
+A header file is a file containing C declarations and macro definitions
+to be shared between several project source files. You request the use of a
+header file in your project source file (C, C++, etc) located in `src` folder
+by including it, with the C preprocessing directive `#include'.
+
+```src/main.c
+
+#include "header.h"
+
+int main (void)
+{
+ ...
+}
+```
+
+Including a header file produces the same results as copying the header file
+into each source file that needs it. Such copying would be time-consuming
+and error-prone. With a header file, the related declarations appear
+in only one place. If they need to be changed, they can be changed in one
+place, and programs that include the header file will automatically use the
+new version when next recompiled. The header file eliminates the labor of
+finding and changing all the copies as well as the risk that a failure to
+find one copy will result in inconsistencies within a program.
+
+In C, the usual convention is to give header files names that end with `.h'.
+It is most portable to use only letters, digits, dashes, and underscores in
+header file names, and at most one dot.
+
+Read more about using header files in official GCC documentation:
+
+* Include Syntax
+* Include Operation
+* Once-Only Headers
+* Computed Includes
+
+https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Header-Files.html

embedded/LoopPedal/platformio.ini

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+; PlatformIO Project Configuration File
+;
+;   Build options: build flags, source filter
+;   Upload options: custom upload port, speed and extra flags
+;   Library options: dependencies, extra library storages
+;   Advanced options: extra scripting
+;
+; Please visit documentation for the other options and examples
+; https://docs.platformio.org/page/projectconf.html
+
+[env:pico]
+platform = raspberrypi
+board = pico
+framework = arduino

embedded/LoopPedal/src/main.cpp

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+#include <Arduino.h>
+
+// put function declarations here:
+int myFunction(int, int);
+
+void setup() {
+  // put your setup code here, to run once:
+  int result = myFunction(2, 3);
+}
+
+void loop() {
+  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
+}
+
+// put function definitions here:
+int myFunction(int x, int y) {
+  return x + y;
+}

embedded/LoopPedal/test/README

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+
+This directory is intended for PlatformIO Test Runner and project tests.
+
+Unit Testing is a software testing method by which individual units of
+source code, sets of one or more MCU program modules together with associated
+control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures, are tested to
+determine whether they are fit for use. Unit testing finds problems early
+in the development cycle.
+
+More information about PlatformIO Unit Testing:
+- https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/advanced/unit-testing/index.html