Sorry guys but I know I am probably beating a dead horse here been waiting over the 30 day mark for the calculator to be shipped and in the middle of March for the console to be shipped as that would be the 90 day mark. Just excited to get started on projects if only I had the hardware…
Thanks for your time and understanding
Aaron J
The best thing you can do is read as many posts as possible here in the forum and acquire the knowledge gathered here.
This way you won’t get bored quickly…
As @Codiator said, there is a lot to read over on this forum, and I would highly recommend giving this forum a good reading before your PicoCalc even arrives.
One critical piece of advice which you will see elsewhere on here is that when assembling your PicoCalc, be extremely careful, and it is highly recommended that you tape down your screen before inserting the motherboard to keep it from moving within the case and then potentially getting damaged when you screw down your PicoCalc’s case.
Other suggestions include that you probably will want to upgrade to at least a Pico 2W. I personally use a Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W (which has 16 MiB of flash, 8 MiB of on-board PSRAM, and WiFi support) in my PicoCalc, which I use to run my zeptoforth, even though you may not want to use the Pico Plus 2W as it is not officially supported by PicoMite for some reason (even though the Pico Plus 2, without WiFi support, is supported by it).
Also, upgrade or not, the version of PicoMite that comes with the PicoCalc is quite old and there are newer and better versions floating around here; however, as I don’t use PicoMite myself I haven’t kept track of which version I “should” use (and it is hard keeping track of all the relevant threads on here).
Additionally, you may want to use uf2loader with your PicoCalc, so you can keep UF2 files rather than specially-compiled .bin files in the SD card and re-flash your board with them without having to connect to a computer. Note that only some things work with it, though (e.g. my zeptoforth does not support it, as it expects to own all the on-board flash, and neither do some of the PicoMite or MicroPython versions floating around here, even though IIRC there now exists at least one version of PicoMite which does support it).
PicoMite is the uf2 file with “Pico2” while WebMite is the uf2 file with “Pico2_W”
PicoPlus2W can be flashed with PicoMite and WebMite:
PicoPlus2 can be flashed with PicoMite and WebMite:
The versatile choice would be PicoPlus2W because you can load either PicoMite or WebMite to adapt to your needs. The problem with WebMite is that the MMBasic author has not implemented PSRAM in this variant, meaning you can either have WiFi or PSRAM but not both.
Watch this forum, something is going to happen RSN
Thanks for the clarification (as you can see I don’t keep track of everything in the PicoMite/MMBasic space).
I followed this tip but customs or the shipping folk already took my screen out…
Also they bounced it around a bit too much and the one of the channels of the DAC amp is not working for sound..
what are you using to test? the mp3 player firmware only works on one channel because clockworkpi got their own pins wrong
the correct would be:
also, pedantically the PicoCalc has no DAC, its sound output is simply amplified PWM
Aaahhs okay will have a look later when I get a new screen (was looking at article of some one using i2c dac on theirs on well) .. What ide and compiler are y’all using to to do these with… Looking for the windows 11 version….
