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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : A first step with PicoMite and an old TFT module
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Marcel27 Regular Member  Joined: 13/08/2024 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 53 |
Hello guys, My first steps with the PicoMite. I must say it took me some time to get this working due to stupidities, contact corrosion and other strange not related stuff I wasn't aware of. The materials I used were already old and not used very often so there was a lot of distorsion from corroded contacts, especially when your breadboards are almost 15 years old and the connection leads also. My first tip is to start with fresh materials or use Deoxid D5 spray.  Frome the manual I read that there are only 2 simple OPTION lines necessary and an instruction GUI TEST LCDPANEL to test your LCD panel. My problem was to distinguish what is happening when you want to connect the proper signals with each other. In the PDF I listed in a table the connection and it comes down to translation of the name giving on devices. In the end it works! I read/scan through the entire manual and I must say that I never saw a Basic language so full of functionality as MMBasic in relation to an embedded device. Hats off! Build PicoMite with LCD 1_8 SPI 128X160.pdf If you use AI, you lose your mind. |
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| lizby Guru  Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3150 |
Nice work. I have breadboards from 40 years ago (having completed my first CP\M PC build in 1979), but I would not try to plug anything new into them. Whether or not that was true in 1995, it is certainly no longer true. Lots of fun to be had with MMBasic and a host of little devices. Enjoy. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Marcel27 Regular Member Joined: 13/08/2024 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 53 |
Hmmmm, it comes in waves. Maybe now we have the wind at our back for a while but when every AI-[beep] starts programming with AI support and using automatic code builders the same is happening again. Bloaded software and nobody knows what is happening in al those (unsafe?) linked libraries. Sidewalk Take a look at Blackbox Component Pascal (BCP) (Former Oberon) from Niklaus Wirth. The whole language definition fits on one A4 page. Runs under Windows and is amazingly fast. It has an own IDE. The Help is very complete and very theoretical. A good book for BCP is from J. Stanley Warford, Computing Fundamentals - The Theory and Practice of Software Design with Blackbox Component Builder. Just take a look on a winter day. PicoMite I did some fun projects with Arduino and Spark, but from what I've seen now, I prefer the Raspberry Pico or Pico 2 because of the MMBasic interpreter especially when I'm getting older. Marcel If you use AI, you lose your mind. |
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