I just got my Waveshare RP2040 LoRa module off Amazon. It’s Pico formfactor with a built in SM1262 LoRa module.
MeshTastic has a firmware specifically for it. Just need to modify for the display and keyboard inputs.
I’m hoping to make it a drop in replacement for the factory Pico
I am a 64yrs old engineer and started with computing in 1981 (Apple ][+). During University I „fell in love“ with the then new segment of microcontrollers, they are my hobby til today (mostly Arduino + SAM21D). I like to use them with various type of sensors from temperature to spectrometers.
I‘m planning to use the PicoCalc as a portable GUI for those sensors.
I am happy that Wifi might also work with MMBasic, so I can connect the PicoCalc to my Smarthome items.
I have no idea what to do with it. im hoping i can use it is as a learning tool for the kids. Maybe see if it can connect to some bulletin boards etc. I wouldnt mind trying out lua or basic on it. At the very least when im not using it, it will be an impressive looking paper weight
I would love to use it as an SSH client among other things.
I think I am pretty happy with leaving mine as PicoBasic. I have been using PicoBasic/MMBasic since the Color Maximite days and I am pretty satisfied with it as a programing language. Plus there is a lot of code already available laying around just waiting to be updated for the PicoCalc.
I was considering using pandoc to convert mediawiki from a wikipedia dump into markdown, along with wikitravel, wikivoyage, and any others I can think of. Then, I would pack all that into zim files (since it seems zim can handle anything, not just HTML though that is typical), and then I’m unsure where to go next.
I might use python-libzim, or as you’re saying implement it in mmbasic - the docs at Libzim - openZIM suggest it wouldn’t be too bad. Then I’d need a way to view / browse that markdown.
well now I want to do this too! unfortunately meshcore sounds somewhat useless if nobody around me also uses it.
I really like the idea of a zim reader
If I receive PicoCalc, I will try to port some games from the old Japanese “BASIC Magazine”.
(I would be very happy to run N88BASIC in PicoCalc…)
I started to tinker around with some coding at the momentt. im not having a picocalc just yet but it was experimenting with Lua. I created a little lua framework that can write to my imaginary picocalc display i.e. the terminal with a lua command and print it out. Im looking forward to trying this out with the actualy device this Lua framework of 2 functions LOL
Beyond coding in Basic on the fastest core I can get in there I hope to connect multiple I2C devices internally for RTC, temperature, humidity, heart rate, blood oxygen, thermal camera, wifi/bluetooth scanning and TV control, data transfer etc. I’m aware I might need to provide my own power directly from the batteries tho…
I’d also like to learn python once we have a good fast build, maybe C++ and machine code too…
crickey heart rates, thermal cameras, blood oxygen sounds like some paraphernalia from Mission Impossible @DigitalDreams
looks great @DigitalDreams looking forward to what you come up with!
I was fiddling around with a some c code so that you can write some graphics routines on the picocalc in lua. I have no idea if it will work on a real device yet but i was able to spit some stuff out to the terminal LOL
ive no clue about hardware stuff but it looks impressive!
I wrote a little piano app, and an app that claims to query your search history and send it to the “propper” authorities…
Just fun to play with…
Hoping to make some experimental MIDI sequencer apps, or MIDI effects for use with some hardware synths. Something like Orca Sequencer. A simple MIDI monitor would be very useful too. Has anyone done any MIDI IO on the picocalc?
