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andreas

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Posted: 09:35am 29 May 2023

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Hello,

on amazon I found this: RP2040-LCD-0.96-M

Does anyone know whether it runs with PicoMite?

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Posted: 09:49am 29 May 2023

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On first glance I think so. The display uses GP8, GP9, GP10, GP11, GP12, GP25 so no PS2 keyboard. No guarantee for any speed over 133MHz though!
Edited 2023-05-29 19:55 by Mixtel90

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Posted: 10:03am 29 May 2023

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Probably this.
It seems to be an SPI display, uses GP25 for the BL. Is GP25 OK to use once you do OPTION HEATBEAT OFF ?

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Posted: 10:15am 29 May 2023

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Should be able to, yes. There is no LED on that board so there's no other hardware to mess the pin up.

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Posted: 04:11pm 29 May 2023

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Looks interesting but does it work with mmbasic indeed? and cost?

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Posted: 06:21pm 29 May 2023

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I can't see anything that would prevent MMBasic from running on it. However:

The display is ST7735S, which has MMBasic support.

There is no heartbeat LED. GP25 is connected to the backlight.

The only speed specified is 133MHz. It may or may not overclock.

If you are willing to take the risk then go ahead. :)
Pi Hut list it for 15.10 UKP
Edited 2023-05-30 04:28 by Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:44pm 29 May 2023

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Mixtel90 said I can't see anything that would prevent MMBasic from running on it. However:

The display is ST7735S, which has MMBasic support.

There is no heartbeat LED. GP25 is connected to the backlight.

The only speed specified is 133MHz. It may or may not overclock.

If you are willing to take the risk then go ahead. :)
Pi Hut list it for 15.10 UKP

Hmmmm? £15.10 seems ok... if it works ok. Why over clock not work? pi hut... must be ok?
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Posted: 07:37pm 29 May 2023

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nearly ordered one, £3 postage. the display is £8.10. wow ili9341 £24+.
Edited 2023-05-30 06:29 by stanleyella

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Posted: 08:31am 30 May 2023

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I have ordered one (berrybase 17,90€ minus 1€ discount for 100 "Berrys") - let's see how it works

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Posted: 06:31pm 30 May 2023

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Let us know how it goes @andreas It looks nice but someone got to test with mmbasic if it isn't plug n play. not me sorry but if ok I may get one. Looks neat but in reality ??? the display 80 pixels

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Posted: 06:48pm 30 May 2023

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160x80 isn't exactly a gaming display, Stan. :) Good for coloured text and simple animations though.

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andreas

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Posted: 07:17pm 30 May 2023

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stanleyella said Let us know how it goes @andreas It looks nice but someone got to test with mmbasic if it isn't plug n play. not me sorry but if ok I may get one. Looks neat but in reality ??? the display 80 pixels

I think I will get it end of the week and will tell you

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Posted: 07:24pm 05 Jun 2023

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Hello,

the RP2040-LCD-0.96-M is Picomite compatible

PicoMite MMBasic Version 5.07.07
OPTION SYSTEM SPI GP10,GP11,GP12
OPTION COLOURCODE ON
OPTION HEARTBEAT OFF
OPTION DISPLAY 50, 100
OPTION LCDPANEL ST7735S, LANDSCAPE,GP8,GP0,GP9,GP25

(this is out of experimentation, if someone knows a better setup for system spi and lcdpanel I would be very glad to hear!)

Brightness can be tuned by "BACKLIGHT N" N=[0..100]. In the picture backlight is 40%.

> LIST
Box 0,0,160,80,5,RGB(red),RGB(yellow)
Text 10,10,Date$
Text 10,30,Time$
Text 10,50,"..it's working ;)"

> memory
Program:
1K ( 1%) Program (4 lines)
123K (99%) Free

Saved Variables:
16K (100%) Free

RAM:
0K ( 0%) 0 Variables
0K ( 0%) General
152K (100%) Free

> flash list
Slot 1 available
Slot 2 available
Slot 3 available
Slot 4 available

-andreas

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Posted: 08:02pm 05 Jun 2023

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Great to see it working. :)

You've no choice of IO pins for either system SPI or the display IO pins (including GP25) as they are all hard-wired on the module.

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Posted: 08:04pm 05 Jun 2023

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andreas said
the RP2040-LCD-0.96-M is Picomite compatible

Hallo Andreas, das ist fein!
Danke fürs teilen / thank you for sharing.

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Posted: 10:26pm 05 Jun 2023

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Sehr ordentliches Gerät. Ich denke, ich werde mir eins zulegen :)
Nice you got it working :) :)

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Posted: 11:42pm 05 Jun 2023

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anymore info for what pins are user...i2c or any pins that can be used with mmbasic picomite non vga? please, Can the display do more than text, like plot/draw?
sorry there's a box command so must. oops :( ordering one, tidy module.
Edited 2023-06-06 10:37 by stanleyella

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Posted: 01:18am 06 Jun 2023

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Your original link is $53 with postage, ordered one from pi hut and a spare pico with headers, including vat+p&p £22.

andreas

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Posted: 03:57am 06 Jun 2023

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Mixtel90 said Great to see it working. :)

You've no choice of IO pins for either system SPI or the display IO pins (including GP25) as they are all hard-wired on the module.

Hello Mick,

yes the pins on the board are fixed, but there is one degree of freedom for the 4th parameter of the OPTION LCDPANEL:

OPTION LCDPANEL ST7735S, LANDSCAPE,GP8,GP0,GP9,GP25

I took GP0 to write anything, but I'm loosing a gp port this way. Thank you by the way for the display type tip - it has shortened my experiments considerably.

-andreas
Edited 2023-06-06 13:59 by andreas

andreas

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Posted: 04:16am 06 Jun 2023

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Who is the first, who writes a barricade game for the tiniest basic computer of the world?

-andreas

(is it possible to use the two buttons already on the board? ;)

no!

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