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jvanderberg
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Posted: 06:07pm 11 Jun 2026

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A lot of boards (one of mine in fact) won't power the 5V (VBUS) over USB, and the keyboard needs that. Another one of my board does do this when I supply external power over the jack. If you have a USB breakout connector your could inject 5V.

gadgetjack
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Posted: 08:21pm 11 Jun 2026

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That was it!!! I added power to my usb adapter and it ran right away! I never even thought about that myself. Ok , back to playing........Thank You.
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Posted: 08:46pm 11 Jun 2026

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gadgetjack said I am amazed at the code that comes out of these 3 smart men. Some great fun for all of us on the sweat of these guys and their code. I tip my hat to all three of you.
Jack

I am assisted by claude and codex. I am using 30 years of coding experience for design and architecture, but this would probably have taken me a year on my own.

jvanderberg
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Posted: 08:48pm 11 Jun 2026

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gadgetjack said That was it!!! I added power to my usb adapter and it ran right away! I never even thought about that myself. Ok , back to playing........Thank You.
Jack

Now you've got keyboard and a display - full computer!

I am working on a CYD (Cheap yellow board) port - which will just be an original ESP32 port. Probably a lot more limited, but I think it will work.

gadgetjack
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Posted: 10:28pm 11 Jun 2026

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I have 3 or 4 of those boards too so look forward to that release too.
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jvanderberg
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Posted: 10:36pm 11 Jun 2026

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The port itself didn't take long. VGA is a bit of a heavy lift as the hardware is different the memory more constrained. The CYD LCD displays I think will be fairly standard, we'll see, I just ordered a few from amazon. So many dev boards... Some people do wood working, I collect dev boards.

gadgetjack
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Posted: 11:12pm 11 Jun 2026

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You and me both. After I retired I started collecting lots of development boards from ebay and aliexpress. Every once in a while I get to use them for something neat, like game emulators or smart led marquee displays and such. Lot more fun than keeping factory lines running.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:50am 12 Jun 2026

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The trouble with them (apart from their tendency to breed) is that many are designed for C or Python breadboarding and tie up pins that MMBasic would like. Usually perfectly logical ones, nothing silly. Like why split the audio over two different PWM channels? Why put stuff like a UART in the middle of the HSTX so it can't be used? PSRAM has really messed things up - the perfect opportunity to put its enable pin in awkward positions...

Looking forward to the CYDmite. :) I've just ordered a third as I don't really want to wipe ASCII Aquarium yet. :)

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jvanderberg
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Posted: 04:14pm 15 Jun 2026

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Here's a CYD build

https://github.com/jvanderberg/PicoMiteAllVersions/releases/download/latest/MMBasic-Anywhere-esp32-cyd-merged.bin

This should work on any ESP32 classic - the 'CONFIGURE CYD' may work for your Cheap Yellow Display, it may not. it worked for mine. It supports sound, LCD, SD card, and wifi - no TLS, not enough space.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 05:09pm 15 Jun 2026

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Thanks. :)
My new display is with the UK courier now so I should get it either tomorrow or Wednesday, I think.

Mick

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gadgetjack
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Posted: 05:54pm 15 Jun 2026

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It powers up ok but the display is backward and upside down. Never saw that before.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:11pm 15 Jun 2026

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Which version of the CYD are you using? The one with micro USB and USB-C seems to use a different display to the micro USB only version, even though they have the same part number. Then there is the R version of the part number, which I think is different again.

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jvanderberg
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Posted: 06:14pm 15 Jun 2026

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Backwards as in reversed or mirrored? If so I can add an option to toggle that.

You can try:

OPTION LCDPANEL DISABLE

OPTION LCDPANEL ST7789, RPORTRAIT, GP2, 0, GP15, GP21, INVERT

As well to see if that fixes things.

If it's truly mirrored I need that extra setting.

gadgetjack
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Posted: 06:15pm 15 Jun 2026

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ESP32-2432S028. has 2 usb ports

gadgetjack
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Posted: 06:16pm 15 Jun 2026

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It is mirrored

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:28pm 15 Jun 2026

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That sounds like the one I should be getting.

Mick

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jvanderberg
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Posted: 06:47pm 15 Jun 2026

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Give it a few minutes to redeploy, get the new firmware, there will be a new option

OPTION LCDPANEL MIRROR ON

OPTION LCDPANEL MIRROR OFF

gadgetjack
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Posted: 07:55pm 15 Jun 2026

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That fixed it !!! I can't believe how fast you got this port done. I have been working on getting Basic32 on one of these units for a month now. This is WAY more powerful than that version. Another big Thanks !!!
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Posted: 08:38pm 15 Jun 2026

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I know I sound like a broken record at this point , but touch is not working. My board has a XPT2046 touch controller for a resistive touch screen. Options will not take that
as a controller option. This is not a big problem for me , I am going to play with as is right now. I know there are a lot of different types of the CYD modules. Probably going to be a headache.
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jvanderberg
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Posted: 09:22pm 15 Jun 2026

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The CYD port actually defaults to the XPT2046 - the option list is mislabeled. There should be a calibration program on the A: drive, and a gui kitchen sink to test it.

I could have something wrong or non-standard in the way its configured or the way the touch API works - if you've got a touch program that works differently, let me know.

I am pushing a fix that shows the option properly, and allows you to set the touch driver directly, in case maybe your board has it on a different gpio.

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