Automation Hat Mini Display RPi 5
This sounds very familiar. I have a faint memory that in one of the posts here somebody described how to free the GPIO9 pin but I can’t find it now. It has to do with an overlay that claims the pin...
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Thanks I started by just running the analog.py example, so it is not a simple typo. I can add that I get this in dmesg [ 50.803510] pinctrl-rp1 1f000d0000.gpio: pin gpio9 already requested by...
View ArticleEsptool and Thonny
Chrome and recently also Firefox support the webserial protocol. So flashing an ESP32xxx is now rather simple without any additional tools needed.
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I’m a bit late to this party but hit the same brick wall adding Thonny to a new install of a Pi5 and wanting to reflash an ESP32 board. If anyone else is looking for an answer to this… The suggested...
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This might help. # Create ST7735 LCD display class. disp = st7735.ST7735( port=0, cs=st7735.BG_SPI_CS_FRONT, dc=9, backlight=25, rotation=270, spi_speed_hz=4000000 ) # Initialize display. disp.begin()...
View ArticleTufty2350 V3, file copy, wierdness?
It’s wierd because I can edit the secrets.py file, but not main.py. And I was able to copy My App files over OK. I’ll fidle around with it latter on today. Time to put supper on right now.
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You could check that your Tufty “disk” is mounted read-only. Shouldn’t happen, unless there is a problem on the partition/partition-table. Assuming you are still working on a Pi5, run mount | grep...
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Thank you, Bablokb, all fixed!!! Oh to be an expert! Thanks again, hours of frustration saved.
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You are using the wrong values for SDA/SCL. The QW/ST is on pins 20/21.
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Sorry Bablokb, the programme in my previous reply flashes the display colon, not control the brightness although Thonny reports the same errors in either case.
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Hi Bablokb, I am using Thonny 5.0.0 on my MacBook Pro which is running macOS 26.2.2 and Python 3.14.3. The hardware I am using is a recently purchased Plasma2350W. Connected to this via a link cable...
View ArticleAutomation Hat Mini Display RPi 5
I have bought a Automation Hat Mini and attached it on a RPi 5. Analog in works! But, when I try to connect to the display using disp =...
View ArticleTufty2350 V3, file copy, wierdness?
I have just recently flashed my Tufty 2350 with the new V3.0.2 uf2 file. I tried to copy an already edited secrets.py file into the Tufty directory and nothing happens? No prompt that it already...
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4 digit display with RP2350
mickf: display colon Colon control with 14 segment LED displays Support I am trying to use a 4 digit, 14 segment alphanumeric LED display driven from a Plasma Stick 2040W programmed in Micropython via...
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Please also describe your physical setup, and most importantly, tell us the errors that Thonny reports.
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A link to the drivers your trying use may help. This is above my skill level, but there are some sharp tacks here that may be able to help. :)
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New Product ideas
veryalien: Unicorn badgeware anyone? I would be on board for that. =) A smaller matrix would likey result but I’d be fine with that. I have a Tufty 2350, which I use daily as a portable weather...
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I have been experimenting with a 4 digit Sparkfun LED display using ht16k33 and ht16k33segment 14 drivers and have successfully achieved both control of the display colon (see previous posts) and...
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Has anyone asked for, or thought about a badgeware RGB blinky 2350 yet? Unicorn badgeware anyone? Instead of the blinky white LEDs, use RGB LEDs for a multicoloured LED matrix display. Remember the...
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