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| crazycloud Newbie  Joined: 20/08/2023 Location: United StatesPosts: 37 |
Great! I'm in. I already have the displays. |
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| JohnS Guru  Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3801 |
Does that price include the omitted components? If yes, I'd ike one please. John |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9115 |
So no. |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9115 |
The PCBs have arrived and electrically they work perfectly  Physically they are poor to rubbish  The concept is a single board computer with ultra-fast graphics It supports any of the standard 16-bit parallel TFT displays and includes the usual RTC and audio (including stereo amp). To keep costs down I left most of the non-surface mount off the build by JLC hence the missing bits on the board. The physical issues are: Upright USB socket means that the display has to be spaced off the board using a stacked socket USB connector and volume control too close to the 26-pin expansion connector Speaker connectors too close for individual sockets and not spaced correctly for a 4-pin socket Loading the MMBasic firmware is a bit idiosyncratic. Obviously it uses the PcoMiteUSB firmware variant but doesn't use the standard serial console pins so the process is as follows: Flash the firmware via the USB-A port Connect a keyboard Enter the following commands blind: OPTION PICO OFF, OPTION SERIAL CONSOLE GP28,GP29 Then you can connect to a comuter and finish configuring or continue with the keyboard as per the instructions on the back of the PCB I've re-done the physical layout of the PCB to fix the issue and will post the designs on the PicoMiteUSB github page soon. Cost for 5 boards fully built as pictured £115.   New layout:  |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2914 |
Hi Peter, All, I have been wondering, what are the pink lines and dots I see on many of your 3D renders? Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2135 |
They look like orientation markers for the Pick-n-Place robot. The dots are all near pin 1 of the chips. |
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