I bought a picoCalc which came with a rp2040 module. I’ve bought a new 2350 module, which does nothing when I plug it in.
How do I make the UF2 switching environment (I don’t even know what this is called there’s so many buzzwords buzzing around this thing) work with the new module?
You want the UF2 Loader. See:
Note, though, that not all applications will work with the UF2 Loader, including PicoMite and the stock versions of my zeptoforth (even though @cathiele is working on a version of zeptoforth which will work with the UF2 Loader).
A Pico2 will not work out of the box, firmware needs to be loaded via its own micro-usb socket (not the mainboard USB-C, that’s for updating the keyboard and backlight stm32 controller)…
Pelrun got an older version of PicoMite running under the u2floader (link below). I’ve still got it on my device though I don’t really use it anymore. So theoretically it could be supported in the latest versions. Doubtful that will happen since it’s now part of the official PicoMite releases, but it’s probably just as well. Seems like folks that use PicoMite don’t end up wanting or using other stuff. I ended up giving up on it since there’s so many other cool firmware options and dev environments for the PicoCalc with the u2floader. I’m glad ernst managed to get PicoCalc support accepted by Peter though – definitely a monumental effort, and I’m sure appreciated by PicoMite fans!
I’m glad @ernst’s PicoCalc updates have been accepted by Peter—it will be nice when there is a new stable release that supports the PicoCalc ‘out of the box’ that I can point people to.
About uf2loader and zeptoforth, @cathiele has been working on support for zeptoforth support for uf2loader on the RP2350; I have not merged his changes quite yet (they will be merged after the upcoming 1.16.1 release) because they involve significant changes to how zeptoforth works that I do not want to put in a mere patch release (which I am largely releasing now because I am impatient about getting a few new features such as Multicast DNS support out).
