I've been listening to #RadioFreeFedi all day during #OliveHarvest, but couldn't use my phone's touchscreen while wearing gloves, so I thought it'd be a great day for field testing my #RFF display prototype, using a #Pimoroni Pico Inky Pack E-paper display for the #RaspberryPiPico.
It shows the currently playing track, lets me switch between main, comfy and specialty, and I can generate a QR code to take me straight to the artist profile or their music.
Exciting to see #micropython 1.21 arrive. Removal of the u-prefixes and some of the tweaks to board naming are key changes to know about. Just updated the Wikidata entry to add it to the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroPython
Name's Void_Setup, but feel free to call me whatever. I'm just another #tinkerer open to learning new things while building upon what I already know. :P
My main knacks include recent fascinations with #eeg tech [#neuroprosthetics] and #hardwarehacking, #raspberrypi tinkering, and recycling/modifying old hardware with miscellaneous parts I find [which I might have dumpster dove for]. Example: (WIP) Turning an old laptop display into a desktop monitor (shoutout to #DIYPerks)! Plus, MASSIVE #LINUX NERD!! My fav. distro is #voidlinux!
Eee! 🥰 ok, forgive my excitement, but I haven't played with #micropython on a phone before and it is FUN!! Thanks so much @flow3rbadge#CCCamp23 crew! ✨🌈⚡💖⚡🌈✨ Who else has played with Micro REPL? Give me thoughts and stories!
I've been collaborating with #Pimoroni on their new #Picovision. This has 2 #RP2040s on a board with the goal of making HDMI video from RP2040 more accessible.
The "GPU" RP2040 drives the HDMI, leaving you free to write application code (in #MicroPython or C++) on the "CPU". Communication is through shared framebuffers - so no need to chase the beam.
This Friday, don't forget: 10am EST we'll continue to work on pimoroni's badger 2040 W and see if we can display some information from an protected API.
At PyCon AU, I'll be hosting a MicroPython sprint day on the Monday.
We may look at MicroPython/Linux/ESP32-S3 or defining additional boards or adding new features or starting a new port or...what would you like to do? 😜
@PythonLinks The first FPGA-adjacent #micropython task I’d like to tackle would be to provide a good board definition for the QuickLogic QuickFeather. There’s already a bare-bones port for the micro in the EOS S3 but expanding that so you could easily deploy to the FPGA would be very cool, I think!
Would that be useful to you at all?
The #QuickLogic chilps look very interesting. I can run #MicroPython on a hard core Arm, and there is an FPGA for signal processing. 4 x the RAM of the ICE40 line. only 4 multipliers, that is okay, but two microphones. Great. But I prefer PCM to PDM. Less space easier to process. Very interesting for my next board.
Thank you.
I'm super chuffed that I've just found the adorable @smolrobots on the #Fediverse!
(I'm a little bit late to the party)
Go and give them a follow, they could deal with some #fedilove - and you may need some more #smol#robots in your life too!
On a side note: Having beautiful #ALTtext on images has the nice side effect that unconventional Mastodon media browsers like mine get to display them in all their glory (in addition to making them accessible to more hoomans).
One of these days I'd really like to attempt to replace the Pi Zero with a #RaspberryPiPicoW and redoing this in #MicroPython.
I did have a quick go last autumn trying to modify #Pimoroni's "Inky Frame" code to make it work with my "Inky Developer", but couldn't get it to work at the time.
Iirc I somehow got lost between the InkyFrame driver and the PicoGraphics library.
@gadgetoid, would you know perhaps if anyone's used the InkyDeveloper with MicroPython succesfully?
On episode 456: Left Right Symmetry of a Banana ( https://embedded.fm/episodes/456 ), Damien George spoke with Chris(@stoneymonster) and Elecia ( @logicalelegance ) about developing with and for MicroPython while Elecia tried not to spill all the secrets about her client.
Here's an excerpt:
Elecia:
Do you think the large Hadron collider will someday create a tiny black hole that will eat the world?
@stoneymonster
Although most people point out that if that is possible, it would have happened in the sun every day, because the sun is colliding particles with very high energy. So we are pretty safe.
Chris:
And now I am going to stare at the sun, and worry all day long.
Elecia:
Only until your eyes burn out, then you will be fine.
I've reviewed the #pyscript + #pyodide examples and the simple 'hello world' downloads 15Mb and takes seconds.
Anyone has any news about pyscript + #micropython? I read the tests/blog posts several months ago but nothing new since then.
Don't get me wrong, Pyodide and the #scipy stack in the browser is amazing but something lighter (micropython) to create simple webs not depending on pyodide would also be awesome.
Pyodide is working hard to reduce the size but still.