Thanks a lot. I installed the firmware with stm32 since it won’t go with Arduino for some reason 
Thanks for responding so quickly!
Your post also made me realize I should put more info on the readme on github, so I added a section for new users since unfortunately Clockwork doesn’t really do a good job of letting people know two critical things they need to do when receiving their PicoCalc:
- update the keyboard BIOS/firmware
- be extremely careful with the screen
I wasn’t originally planning to write all that, but I wanted to be thorough. Hopefully it helps some new users, and maybe even a few screens will be saved in the process.
Anyhow, thanks! I probably should have added that info a while ago, but this gave me the reason to! 
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Another question : is there a permanently way to avoid the flashing led on the Pico board when power is on ?
I tried to put at 0 the pin GP25 ; it lasts until I run another program
option heartbeat off
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Thank you very much.
Hum… I need to grab the manual
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Any progress with the display backlight control @adcockm ?. Note another bugfix release due from Peter soon ! (sound issues similar to what i noted in my beginners tutorial)…
06.00.03 is out for other PicoMite versions. I don’t know if the current PicoCalc version will be updated so I made my own. There are only nine files changed so it’s not a lot of work.
I already merged the code into the PicoCalc repo. I’ll post a new release in the coming days. Looks like the main changes were fixes for the PLAY command and audio bugs, along with some other minor stuff.
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Oh, good! I wasn’t sure if you were only going to release updates for major releases or for minor ones such as this one.
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I’ve only tested the WebMite release, but the new build is available here:
Oddly, I noticed when updating this didn’t clear the flash like many updates do. (Seems to be working fine for me without using the flash nuke though.)
No new PicoCalc specific features/fixes yet for this release, but I figured it was better to get the release out now. Thinking I might finally get back into some PicoCalc fixes this weekend though.
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When Peter “gets its right” the flash is only cleared on an update if either:
- the amount of flash that needs allocating for the PicoMite firmware changes, or
- the arrangement of the data-structures (e.g. persistent OPTION values) stored in that flash changes.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Is there a way to convert the .uf2 release to a .bin that I can use with the Bootloader? Or is there a seperate .bin I missed?
Also, do you know of a way to backup and restore the Options to SD card?
Still audio problems !!. Playing mp3’s fine from both speakers. Yet…
Play tone 2000,1,20 works as expected
Play tone 1,2000,20 just gives a click !
Adding a pause as per the manual doesnt help. Tested with headphones too, both from command line and within a program…
Is it me or are mp3’s playing slightly slower too ??
You are playing the tone for 20mSec - why do you expect anything other than a click?
Lol try it !.. even 2000ms is the same.
You are setting one of the frequencies to 1HZ maybe it is a limitation - what happens with
PLAY TONE 2000,1000,2000:Pause 3000
Your right speaker might be bad. When I play
PLAY 2000,1,2000: PAUSE 5000
I hear the left speaker produce a tone. When I play
PLAY 1,2000,2000: PAUSE 5000
I hear the right speaker play the same tone.
Works, but always has done. 1hz is specified in the latest manual. Same in all builds since march/april.
For background I’m simply trying to play a tone from one speaker or the other while the opposite speaker remains utterly silent to maximise stereo effect in games. I have been using 100 as zero. Zero doesnt work sadly.
Play tone 1,2000,2000:pause 5000 gives nothing. The opposite works.
Yet play an MP3 and it sounds equal from both sides !?. Will try to locate a stereo test mp3 or make one myself…
You don’t say which processor, which version? RP2040/RP2350 W/not-W