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stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 9:41 PM

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hm?

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 9:58 PM

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@slender iron I'm trying ot use the PA00 and PA01 pins for something other than the APA LED, is it enough for me to remove the HW_APA102 defines from mpconfigboard.h?

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because I suspect that this might be crashing it...

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:04 PM

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@stuck elbow I think so. Check the list of pins that don't get reset in that file as well

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:04 PM

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I was wondering what the MICROPY_PORT_A was for

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:05 PM

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yeah, those pins don't get reset

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shoudl probably rename it 😃

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:06 PM

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there is one more possibility -- that there is some bug on deinit of spi that makes it crash when a soft reset happens during an spi transfer...

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I will test it on a normal trinket m0 to make sure

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:08 PM

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bugs are possible 😃

floral dagger Oct 21, 2017, 10:10 PM

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huzzah update 2...it works....sort of? So I decided to put it on a bread board and manually pull the pins to the proper values to try and see if that would stop it rebooting. As I was getting some resistors I glanced over and noticed it seemed to be running fine. Checked it out, and sure enough it's good.. BUT whenever it is removed from the breadboard it starts the reboot cycle again.

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 10:11 PM

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@floral dagger hmm interesting

floral dagger Oct 21, 2017, 10:11 PM

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I'm slightly confused lol

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 10:11 PM

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That is odd

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Confused is a correct response

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I just soldered headers onto my Huzzah, haven't tried to flash it yet.

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 10:12 PM

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Mines been on a breadboard since day one. I still have 2.0 on it.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 10:16 PM

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@floral dagger Maybe there's stray solder or something up under the pins that's bridging something but when it's in the breadboard it's forced to be straighter so it works?... I'm reaching here, but it doesn't make sense to begin with.

floral dagger Oct 21, 2017, 10:19 PM

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maybe @idle owl. I even thought maybe the pins are somehow floating and there's just enough capacitance/resistance in the breadboard to stabilize it.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 10:19 PM

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Exactly, something like that.

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:21 PM

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@slender iron the bug is the gamepad module

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@slender iron is there some way for me to run some code before shutdown?

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@slender iron to disable key scanning

floral dagger Oct 21, 2017, 10:22 PM

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I swear, I end up with the weirdest issues sometimes

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:22 PM

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@stuck elbow ah, on reload? its common for implementations to add a reset_* method that gets run when the port resets

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looks for reset_all_pins as an example

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:23 PM

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thanks

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 10:26 PM

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Look at that, @floral dagger has a photo now!

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:27 PM

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no problem @stuck elbow

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:32 PM

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that was it, phew

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a patch is coming

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:33 PM

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👍

umbral dagger Oct 21, 2017, 10:35 PM

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@formal plover Yeah.. I didn't recognise him.

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:40 PM

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@slender iron it should go to master, or also to 2.x?

slender iron Oct 21, 2017, 10:42 PM

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both?

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:42 PM

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ok

manic glacierBOT Oct 21, 2017, 10:53 PM

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #356 Gracefully reset the gamepad module

If a soft reset happens while the gamepad module is scanning for button
presses, there is a moment when the pins get de-initialized, but the
gamepad module is still trying to read them, which ends in a crash.
We can avoid it by disabling scanning on reset.

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #357 Gracefully reset the gamepad module

If a soft reset happens while the gamepad module is scanning for button
presses, there is a moment when the pins get de-initialized, but the
gamepad module is still trying to read them, which ends in a crash.
We can avoid it by disabling scanning on reset.

(cherry picked from commit 470a23d4c9345785bbaa830fdc036b4e982496c6)

Conflicts:
atmel-samd/main.c

stuck elbow Oct 21, 2017, 10:59 PM

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@slender iron that part with resets is commented out in master currently, so I added the code as commented

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:00 PM

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Another silly question, I guess. Is there a 3.0beta library bundle? Or is "latest" ok?

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(I ask 'cause busio has gone away and I need to instantiate an I2C device....)

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LOL. NM. I'm RTFMing. 😃

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:39 PM

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@drowsy geyser 😃

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:40 PM

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@idle owl Yeah, but I think I still need busio, but it isn't in the 3.0beta for the M4.... I'm not sure how to get it. Still looking.

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(I'm starting out by testing the si7021 sensor)

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:43 PM

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@drowsy geyser Hmm, yeah. I'm not sure either. Is it adafruit_bus_device or is that different?

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:44 PM

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No, that just has the i2c_device interface.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:44 PM

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Ah

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:45 PM

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It looks like you need to do something like i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA) and then initialize it with the i2c_device....

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The interface definitely seems to have changed, though.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:47 PM

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Could be it's not included yet? I'm not entirely sure how all of that works so it's only conjecture.

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:47 PM

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Could be. I'll ask Scott when he's done gaming.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:49 PM

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As in I'm not even sure it can be not-included.

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:49 PM

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Yes, I'm not sure either.

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:50 PM

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I'm wondering if it's pin mapping. I know the dir(board) shows some weird stuff. But that seemed more like a REPL issue.

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But I also have no idea how that works.

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:51 PM

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I don't think so. I get a no such module error when I try to import busio

idle owl Oct 21, 2017, 11:51 PM

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Ah

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 11:51 PM

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@drowsy geyser what board are you using?

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:52 PM

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Metro M4 Express.

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 11:52 PM

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Sorry, I didn't back read. Just hopped on

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Oh the M4 hahaha good luck

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:52 PM

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LOL!!!!

formal plover Oct 21, 2017, 11:53 PM

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That doesn't have spi yet either

drowsy geyser Oct 21, 2017, 11:53 PM

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Ahhhh, ok.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 12:04 AM

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@drowsy geyser I think you will find 3.0 has fairly minimal library support at this time.

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I have confirmed that configuring a JLink for samd51 and then trying to use it in a samd21 does not work 😉 even if you try repeatedly!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 12:07 AM

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I never really got it working, but that's good to know since I might have tried going to the Metro M0 to try it.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 12:08 AM

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I wanted to try it with a 2.1 build on metro M0 just to confirm it was all working. It is if configured correctly!

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When misconfigured I had a lot of “can’t halt” errors

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 12:18 AM

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That's as far as I could get. What command do you use to start it?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 12:43 AM

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Hey I got my OLED Featherwing working on CircuitPython!

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 12:44 AM

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hey folks. Trying to use neopixels w/2.1, and I keep getting this errorTraceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/lib/neopixel.py", line 75, in __init__ TypeError: Expected a Pin
Code:```from machine import Pin
from neopixel import NeoPixel

pin = Pin(2, Pin.OUT)
np = NeoPixel(pin, 1)```

Any thoughts on what I may be doing incorrectly?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 12:45 AM

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@floral dagger What board are you using?

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That doesn't look quite right to me.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 12:45 AM

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esp8266

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 12:46 AM

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Ah ok that would be why.

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I haven't used the ESP8266 yet.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 12:46 AM

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@floral dagger use digitalio not machine. This changed with 2.1 to use the new library

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 12:47 AM

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ahhhh...ok. I'll give that a try then. Thanks @solar whale

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 12:48 AM

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http://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/neopixel/en/latest/

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If you really want to use machine you can load the MicroPython neopixel.py

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 12:57 AM

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I must have the wrong neopixel library then. I had to go look for one since it doesn't load from the bundle

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 12:58 AM

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Are you using the new bundle?

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:00 AM

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yeah, just downloaded it a little whileago

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adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-2.1.0-20171019

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:01 AM

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It has neopixel

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:03 AM

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If I remove the one I uploaded, I get this ```from neopixel import NeoPixel
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'neopixel'

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http://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/neopixel/en/latest/_modules/neopixel.html is the one I grabbed

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:04 AM

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Did you upload lib/neopixel.mpy from bundle?

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There is no “built in “ neopixel now

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:05 AM

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I uploaded the library

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I uploaded the whole folder

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:06 AM

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Hmm. I did not think it would fit.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:06 AM

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ampy --port COM12 put C:\Users\tbrad\Documents\Repos\adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-210/lib /lib

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just noticed the wonky slashes..oops

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weird...you're right. Looks like it just created the directory structure but didn't upload the files

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got that sorted, but it still throws the "expected a Pin error"

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:12 AM

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huh???

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not sure waht I said

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post your code

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the language bot is in a bad mood 😉

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:14 AM

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lol

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import board

np = NeoPixel(board.GPIO2, 1)   
np[0] = (255, 255, 255) 
np.write()  ```

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I changed it to that, and that seems to run, but I may need to double check my wiring. Not getting any output on the pixel

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:17 AM

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that should work

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the default is autowrite=True so you don't really neeed the np.write() either.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:20 AM

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oh...that's handy. I'm sure I'm overlooking something dead simple. Thanks @solar whale

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:20 AM

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good luck!

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:23 AM

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it is working, but it's only writing the first value np[0] = (255, 255, 255) np[0] = (255, 0, 255) np[0] = (255, 255, 0) all give red, for example

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np[0] = (0, 255, 0)  ``` green

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:25 AM

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its r g b so (255,0,0) is red , no?

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(0,255,0,) is green

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:27 AM

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all of the first three result in red when used.

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the next two are green

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:28 AM

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odd - just a minute, I'll hook mine up

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:31 AM

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ok, maybe I just got some crappy LEDs. at 255 red is all that I see. If Idrop it to 100 or so, green start to show as well

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:33 AM

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odd - you can try setting the "brightness" to < 1 np=NeoPixel(board.GPIO2,1,brightness=.5)

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works OK on my "jewel" 7 pixel board (255,0,0) is red (0,255,0) is green

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:36 AM

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@solar whale Ok, thanks!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:37 AM

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@drowsy geyser I think we need to be patient with 3.0 ... especially on the M4!

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:38 AM

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right, @solar whale that works fine, but for me (255,255,0) is also (mostly) red

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:39 AM

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@floral dagger its bright yellow almost white on mine

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:40 AM

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Yeah, it's probably just down to my LED

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lol remember how I saidit was probably something stupid?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:41 AM

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GPIO2 has a 10K pullup on it - I am using GPIO15 - may be an issue.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:41 AM

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it was....I had a resistor in the wrong spot. It was on the 5v pin instead of the gpio

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:41 AM

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GPIO15 has a 4.7K pulldown ....

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are you using 5V or 3.3 for the neopixel power?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:43 AM

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@solar whale Well, PhilT, Limor, and Scott wanted me to help test things, so I was starting with sensor I thought were done. I'll go back to more basic circuits and make sure they work first....

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:43 AM

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pullups shouldnt mattter for the control line

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:44 AM

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5v

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:44 AM

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@drowsy geyser sorry - I did not mean to discourage testing and reporting problems.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:45 AM

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I think I was just dropping the current too much going in, so once it passed over the first color there wasn't much left to power the rest.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:46 AM

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I am just using 3.3 for my tests - since the GOIP pin is 3.3 - yo may get beter results using 3.3 for power . If yo want to use 5V tehn oyu may need to level shif the GPIO to 5V as well.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:46 AM

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@solar whale Oh, no, I didn't take it that way! I guess I thought it was farther along than it is. Which is no problem. I'll work on more basic programs and work my way up from there. 😃

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 1:46 AM

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I have a NeoPixel ring I'll test with my HUZZAH tomorrow @solar whale @floral dagger

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:47 AM

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it's working now @formal plover the error appears to have been sitting at the keyboard.

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 1:47 AM

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Scott's working on his toaster right now, but when he starts up again, there's no telling how far it'll go in one session @drowsy geyser

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I gotcha @floral dagger sounds like working-ish

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:48 AM

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Nepixel "should" be at 5V but you can get away with 3.3 but I think it best to be consistent if 5V power then shift GPIO to 5V as well.

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What was the error @floral dagger

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:49 AM

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I was 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:49 AM

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@solar whale What command are you using to get the j-link started?

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:49 AM

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I was the error. I placed the resistor on the 5v line instead of on the gpio input

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:49 AM

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@formal plover I thought he was gaming. But toastering is just as good. 😃 No rush. I know there's plenty to work on!

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 1:50 AM

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Oh yeah, I believe you're correct on that @drowsy geyser. Same thing though, lol he'll crank out some crazy progress when he starts on it again.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:51 AM

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@drowsy geyser Yeah getting blinky working was a huge deal, lol. One mountain at a time.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:51 AM

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@idle owl Mostly, I have been using teh Ozone tool, but I did get it to work with gdb using JLinkGDBServer -if SWD -device ATSAMD51J19

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:52 AM

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Hmm that's what I tried. Blergh.

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Looking at Ozone now

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:52 AM

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what did you see?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:53 AM

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I mean looking at even getting it.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:53 AM

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@idle owl I got the GDB server running using the GUI....

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:53 AM

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I'm on MacOS... I have a Windows machine and I tried the GDB server on that too, and it failed, although I'm not sure I used the right settings

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Ozone exists for Mac. I'm going to at least try it

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:53 AM

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Ahhhhhhh, MacOS. Ok. That's different.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:54 AM

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Yep

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:54 AM

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If you go back to Windows I can give you the settings that worked for me.

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Just let me know if you want them.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:55 AM

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In the meantime, so I could have a success for the day, I got my OLED featherwing working on my Feather M0 Express with CP 2.1. Used a Feather Doubler. So successful soldering today as well.

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@drowsy geyser If Ozone doesn't get me further on Mac, then I'll be asking for the settings.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:56 AM

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Ok, any time. I'll probably be up for a while. 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:56 AM

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I'm 3 hours ahead of you as well 😃

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:56 AM

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Oh that's right. I forgot about that. 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 1:57 AM

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Ok, so Ozone wants Target Interface, Target Interface Speed (MHz)

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I'm assuming JTAG is correct, what speed should it be? It defaults to 1MHz

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No wait, should it be SWD?

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The target interface I mean

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@drowsy geyser Does any of this sound like settings you needed to use?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 1:59 AM

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Target interface should be SWD

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Hang on, I'll pull up the settings...

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:00 AM

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Thank you!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:00 AM

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Connection to Jlink: USB

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:00 AM

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Got that

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:00 AM

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Target device atsamd51j19

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Little endian

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Target interface: SWD

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:01 AM

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It asked for target device first, and hasn't asked for endian yet

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Did you set a speed?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:01 AM

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1000 Khz

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:01 AM

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Ok keen

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:02 AM

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As soon as it connected to the JLink it updated firmware and then was ready to go.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:02 AM

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Oh hmm. It's asking for a Program File (Choose the program to be debugged) and it opens an explorer window...

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:03 AM

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Yes, that's where I stopped. It wants the CP .elf file with the debugging symbols included. I didn't proceed because I hadn't compiled CP myself.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:03 AM

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Oh. Neither have I, that's for sure. Mine says binary file is an option, hmm...

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:04 AM

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Oh, try it. I didn't get that option.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:04 AM

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Yeah about to!

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Nope, the software hangs. It never leaves the new project window and won't let me click on anything in the actual software window. No target connection.

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Owait.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:06 AM

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waiting

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:07 AM

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Oh snap! Ok, so I closed the new project window manually, x-ed it from the top corner. Then I was able to click "Load" on the window offering to load the .bin file I chose. Then nothing happened. So I looked and there was a power-icon button on the top left corner, that said something about connecting and loading, so I clicked it. It did some Things!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:08 AM

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COOL!!!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:08 AM

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Still getting the same error as I did from GDB server though, where it's failing to halt.

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But It did a lot more than GDB server did. Looks like it tried some different things?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:09 AM

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Do you have a breakpoint set?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:09 AM

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It at least thinks it has a target connection, GDB was never able to get that

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No idea, so probably not

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I'm totally new to this, have no idea what I'm doing

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:09 AM

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But it sounds like you're making a lot of progress!

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That's ok, the last time I really used gdb was 1994 when I was using it to debug a running UNIX (BSD 4.2 Reno) kernel on a dual VAX-11/780.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:10 AM

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Nice!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:11 AM

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It was, until I wrote 8 bytes into the wrong memory location. It stayed up.... for a few seconds. 😃

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That's a lot of years of rust I'm going to have to knock off.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:12 AM

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So there's memory information, there's Disassembly information, Registers, and Console. Console says the same errors I got from GDB at the end, but it tried a bunch more stuff before giving those errors.

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I assumed that the j-link could give me some data from the board, and that was my goal today was to get some data.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:13 AM

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That's progress!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:13 AM

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The dialog for the power-icon button is exactly: "Download and Reset Program"

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I ended the debug session to get back to the start state.

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And if I power the M4 off and on again, blinky is still happy!

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So I didn't also break it in the process, which I was fairly certain was a potential outcome.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:14 AM

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Are you blinking the D13 LED, or the NeoPixel?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:15 AM

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D13. I can't figure out what pin the NeoPixel is. I tried a few things and it didn't work, so I stuck with D13.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:15 AM

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I think the NeoPixel is predefined as board.NEOPIXEL. I could be mis-remembering, though.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:16 AM

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It returns PAXX is in use... XX being some number I can't remember from yesterday.

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So it might be board.NEOPIXEL but it's not working at the moment

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:18 AM

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Ok, good to know. I'm going to get blink working tonight, and then try the neopixel.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:18 AM

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Ithere is a NEOPIXEL define in pins.c so it may work - I have not trield uploading the libraries yet.

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I manged to get it working via gdb, but not without a fair amount of failing around....

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:20 AM

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What is breakpoint? I just right clicked on a blank part of the app and it offered Set Breakpoint

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:20 AM

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you can force the code to stop at a specied point in the code so you can examine that state of things.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:20 AM

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A breakpoint is an instruction where the debugger will halt the program.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:20 AM

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Ah

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:21 AM

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You can then print variable values, read (or change) registers, etc.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:22 AM

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Yu really need a "special" version compiled with DEBUG =1 to be able to use many of the debugger tools.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:22 AM

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Ok

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Like I said, I wanted to see some data from the board. I see some data 😃

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:22 AM

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True that. What @solar whale said.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:22 AM

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So goal accomplished!

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Thank you guys so much for the help, I was floundering blind with this one.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:23 AM

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If yo have it set up right - you can see the source code and step though it line by line - very nice...

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:23 AM

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Neat!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:23 AM

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Interesting. My NeoPixel was on but I disconnected the board to put it in a case. Now the NeoPixel is off.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:24 AM

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So I'm powering the M4 off USB, is that part of the issue?

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We were going to try to find a 9v adapter around here somewhere tomorrow because I seemed to remember someone mentioning power issues.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:27 AM

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📎 Untitled.png

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:27 AM

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Mine did not look like that lol.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 2:27 AM

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That's awesome! I love graphical debuggers!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:28 AM

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Tis is Ozone from Jlink - Just getting used to it - lots to learn

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:28 AM

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@drowsy geyser I specifically meant my Ozone window didn't look like that. Not nearly that much info.

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That's the same app I used tonight.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:30 AM

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@idle owl I am using the 9V and USB - and sometime I have to disconnect th USB to get JLink to connect - still not sure what is goin on. BTW - I switched over to using my MAC for this and so far so good. I kept hainging up my Linux box. It si not happy with the USB.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:30 AM

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Ah, yeah unhappy USB will cause issues

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:31 AM

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If you have not built the image locally, yo wont see the source code.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:31 AM

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Ok

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I guess that should be the next goal 😃

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:31 AM

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one step at at time!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:31 AM

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Well I got through this step, so that can be the next one

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Btw, it offered to update the firmware when I first plugged it into Windows, and I said no because I wasn't sure if it would cause issues on the Mac. After not being able to get it to work on the Mac (so many reasons earlier, @solar whale you solved a lot of those then), I plugged it into Windows again, but when I opened the app to udpate the firmware, I had to do it manually and it said it was already up to date. It says it was compiled 6 October 2017 at 16:39. Did it get updated?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:36 AM

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@idle owl I'm not sure - I have seen it update when I first connect, but have not paid much attention. I don't think it will matter where you update since the firware is in the JLink and it should work with both Windows and MACOS.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:36 AM

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Sorry I should have been clearer. Can you check your firmware so I can compare?

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And the more I thought about it, the more I realised, obviously it doesn't matter where you update the firmware, it's irrelevant to what you're connecting it to.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:37 AM

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segger updates the tools often - oh ok - how do you check it?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:37 AM

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When I ran the GDB command line thing, it showed it (even though it didn't finish connecting to the target)

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J-Link is connected.
Firmware: J-Link EDU Mini V1 compiled Oct  6 2017 16:39:00
Hardware: V1.00```

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:38 AM

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Firmware: J-Link EDU Mini V1 compiled Oct 6 2017 16:39:00

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:38 AM

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Nice!

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@solar whale Thank you!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:38 AM

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@idle owl you are very welcome!

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 2:39 AM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request closed: #356 Gracefully reset the gamepad module

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dhalbert

[circuitpython:2\.x] 1 new commit

9bcc105 Gracefully reset the gamepad module (#356) - deshipu

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:40 AM

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@drowsy geyser thanks for your help too! Looking forward to working with this board.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:40 AM

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Earlier I was able to get to the serial connection on the M4 and then get to the REPL. Now, it goes to the serial connection, it works (I can put a print statement in code.py and it prints), but it won't let me get to the REPL. I thought it might be because of the j-link cable so I disconnected it completely but nothing changed. Odd.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:41 AM

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hmm - should work - did you enter conrol-C to stop your code.py from running?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:41 AM

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Yep tried that

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It's not registering any input

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Already reset and reconnected it

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Also if I save the code.py file, it reloads the serial connection, so that seems to be working fine

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:42 AM

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did it come back?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:43 AM

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Yeah after I reconnected to the serial connection

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:43 AM

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alls well that ends well 😉

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:43 AM

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No I meant it came back up. It's still not accepting input or letting me get to the REPL

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 2:44 AM

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Ozone is pretty sweet

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:44 AM

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oh - I'll admit I have had some odd issued with my serial connections - are you using scree to /dev/tty.usbmodemxxxx

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:45 AM

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Yeah

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 2:45 AM

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I have it connecting to the SAME54 board

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 2:45 AM

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I'm wondering if I messed something up with all the j-link attempts.

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And need to reflash it.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:47 AM

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hard to say, but it won't hurt - still if you are gettin goutput, I suspect it is working OK. I'm still not srue about the whole USB connection and how the host computers deal with it. I had to reboot by linux machine often to get it to work properly.

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If it is not too painful try rebooting your Mac to see if that clears of the comm ports

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I think I 've had enough fun for tonight - - good night - I hope you get the REPL back @idle owl

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:00 AM

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@solar whale Thanks for all your help! Have a good one!

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 3:01 AM

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Took most of the day to get everything going, but I finally have a convincing neopixel candle running on circuit python woot!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:02 AM

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@floral dagger Nice job!

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Reflashed and I have the REPL again!

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 3:02 AM

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nice!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:19 AM

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woo

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hey kattni, i'm around if you need any m4 help

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i can also get you set it up with it on arduino if you are interested

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(there's a ton more you can do w/th eboard using arduino)

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:20 AM

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Nice! Thanks for letting me know!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:20 AM

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im going to work on writing a device driver, this will be the first time i write a driver in python before i write it in arduino

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:21 AM

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oh keen! I've never written a driver in either

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:21 AM

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tony wrote a great driver guide

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so im going to follow that

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also its good practice for me, and will be faster than 'duino

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:22 AM

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bonus on all counts

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I'm currently writing cpx library examples of the code in the Introduction to CPX Guide you and JP wrote

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:23 AM

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ow

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er wow

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hopefully not ow

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thats awesome, its a good way to check that everything works

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blinka 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:24 AM

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😃

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There's no equivalent to analog in/out in the API, but I have examples written up for everything else up to NeoPixel. Your NeoPixel example is entirely more invovled than the CPX NeoPixel API can do. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with the example for that.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:33 AM

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can you expose the neopixels as a member of the cpx object?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:34 AM

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No, if I understand the question

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:34 AM

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huh really, thats odd

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:34 AM

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I might not understand the question

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:34 AM

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in c++ you can just make an instance of the NeoPixel object a member of the parent class in a 'public' manner

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then its basically identical to the neopixel object

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just pre-instantiated

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:35 AM

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in the express class it's ._pixels which I think means it can't be exposed in the code? Or am I way off here

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:36 AM

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oof i honestly dont know

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sry :?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:36 AM

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Hey I got one simple circle to work though!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:37 AM

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)

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😃

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k back to hackin, @ me if ya need somethin

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:40 AM

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Will do, thanks!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 3:41 AM

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good luck

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& godspeed 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:41 AM

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thank you, you too! 😃

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 3:53 AM

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@meager fog Thank you (and Phil) for the M4. I hope I can do enough with it to justify it! 😃

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 3:54 AM

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@meager fog what @drowsy geyser said

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 3:57 AM

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Woohoo! Blink works on D13. (It's the little things in life sometimes.) 😉

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:58 AM

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I left it going because it's so satisfying to have it work!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 3:58 AM

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I was planning to do that, too, @idle owl !!!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 4:00 AM

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yay thanks folks - your help will be awesome as we start rolling out updates!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:01 AM

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@meager fog I'm just happy to give back to you and the community!

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@idle owl It looks like neopixel_write hasn't been ported to 3.0/M4 yet. If I try to import neopixel it throws an error. I guess tomorrow I set up the build toolchain so I can compile CP myself and then start looking at how hard it would be to get the NeoPixel support working.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:13 AM

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@drowsy geyser I noticed the same thing. That's what I was trying to do with the REPL when I realised I had lost it

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:13 AM

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Ahhh, I see.

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scampers off to see if his REPL is still working.

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Oh yeah, we're good.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:14 AM

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@drowsy geyser I think I messed with something when I kept trying with the j-link. I reflashed and it fixed it

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:14 AM

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That's entirely possible!

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 4:54 AM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #358 i2c read\_into hardfaults if given bytearray of size zero

yay safemode, here's a code snippet. no i should not be trying to read 0 bytes. but it also should not hardfault :D

Adafruit CircuitPython 2.1.0 on 2017-10-17; Adafruit Metro M0 Express with samd21g18


    self.sgp_run_profile(["iaq_init", 0x2003, 0, 0.01])

    def sgp_run_profile(self, profile):
        name, command, signals, delay = profile
        print("running profile: %s, command 0x%x, %d, delay %f" % (name, command, signals, delay))
        with self._device:
    ...

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:20 AM

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@slender iron made a new sensor driver, not too bad, 2 hours to write a fresh driver from datasheet

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:20 AM

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@meager fog thats awesome! I saw you were doing python to start!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:21 AM

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yah mostly me following tony's guide

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:21 AM

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perfect!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:21 AM

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i think once i get the hang of it, it'll be faster than arduino -

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i have to do the bme680 - might try doing that in python first too

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:22 AM

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awesome! I just demoed it to my friend on windows and it went well too

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:23 AM

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demo'd what, circuitpython or writing driver?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:23 AM

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circuitpython

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:39 AM

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k rad, im done with pcb rev. nite!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:40 AM

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good night @meager fog !

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 8:42 AM

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #356: Gracefully reset the gamepad module

It happens every time you use the GamePad class and do a soft reset. Since that is new, nobody has been using it yet.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 9:22 AM

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Oh hey, that Ozone is a nice debugging tool. I wonder what the "evaluation purposes only" restriction interferes with. Is it worth getting the JLink Base in order to have the full version of Ozone available?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 11:29 AM

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@meager fog You mentioned arduino support for the Metro-M4 - If you are looking for additional testers of the Arduino support, I would be happy to check it out.

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:03 PM

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@drowsy geyser I was wondering about that statement as well. I got the edu-mini partly to eval it with Linux. The propriatariness of Segger bugs me, but if it works well I will likely upgrade to the full/pro version eventually.

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@drowsy geyser I do want to get things running with gdb. That’s the next step I guess.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 1:15 PM

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@drowsy geyser this helps with gdb setup https://learn.adafruit.com/debugging-the-samd21-with-gdb/setup?view=all

Debugging the SAMD21 with GDB

Using GDB to better understand program state and history.

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 1:28 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #356: Gracefully reset the gamepad module

I'll put a warning in the release notes for now, and say it'll be fixed in the next release.

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 1:56 PM

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@drowsy geyser gdb from within emacs to be specific.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 2:54 PM

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@umbral dagger ooh - that brings back memories....

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@slender iron One interesting thing I have noticed is that when connected to my MAC, I do not see the UNB errors from the Metro-M4 taht I saw on the linux box and raspberry pi. Not sure why but the Mac ssems to be more tolerant of the connection.

floral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 3:03 PM

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took the better part of a day and a half, but now my neopixel pumpkin can be controlled via adafruit io using circuit python 2.1

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 3:03 PM

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@slender iron never-mind - spoke too soon - the errors are just different ```HoRNDIS: init: HoRNDIS tethering driver for Mac OS X, by Joshua Wise (rel8 final)
HoRNDIS: probe: probe: came in with a score of 60000
HoRNDIS: probe: probe: this composite device is not for us
AppleUSBInterface: family specific matching fails
AppleUSBInterface: family specific matching fails
AppleUSBInterface: family specific matching fails
AppleUSBInterface: family specific matching fails
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 0x239a 0x8015 0x100
AppleUSBInterface: family specific matching fails

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 3:20 PM

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@slender iron another observation - When I try to use the J-Link - it sometimes says it can't halt the processor. What I have found to work involves a few steps that may or may not make sense. ```
Disconnect USB - leaving 9V power connected
doubletap reset to enter bootloader
then retry JLink and it is able to connect and halt the processor
I can then reconnect USB and resume

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 3:28 PM

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hey @idle owl, have you done any work on tuple for touch yet?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 3:51 PM

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Morning, everyone....

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 3:54 PM

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only for 6 more minutes...

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:55 PM

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@tidal kiln A little. I ended up scramblng to get play_file in and haven't gotten back to it.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 3:56 PM

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@idle owl ok. was hoping to put in some time today on drivers. was thinking of pr'ing that one.

split ocean Oct 22, 2017, 3:56 PM

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and again I thank you for that @idle owl :)

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:57 PM

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@split ocean You're welcome!

split ocean Oct 22, 2017, 3:57 PM

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I may use both play_file and play_tone for the UFO, hoping to finish it up today.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 3:58 PM

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@tidal kiln You're welcome to it if you'd like. I was going to work on that and getting brightness into neopixel today.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:00 PM

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@idle owl NeoPixel on 3.0 or NeoPixel on M4, or both?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:00 PM

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@drowsy geyser Neither. I'm working on the CPX API

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:00 PM

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Oh! Ok. I'll just go back to breakfast. 😃

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 4:01 PM

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@idle owl if you've already started on it, no worries then. i'm going to give priority to getting back to the ads1x15 lib anyway.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:02 PM

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@tidal kiln Ok sounds good. I'll probably need your help anyway, heh

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@split ocean That's awesome!

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 4:03 PM

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sure. bug me whenever. happy to help*.
(*if able to)

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:17 PM

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When someone has a sec, could you shoot me a link to the correct branch/release for CP 3.0 on the M4? I can't seem to "find" it.... I need to figure out how to build my own images.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 4:30 PM

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@drowsy geyser https://adafruit-circuit-python.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=bin/metro_m4_express/

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:30 PM

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Those aren't already built?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 4:30 PM

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oops sorry that is the build - just a sec.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 4:30 PM

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lol ok. I was thinking I totally missed something.

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:31 PM

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😃 Standing by. Thank you!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 4:31 PM

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you build it fron the Master branch at https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython with BOARD=metro_M4_express

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

circuitpython - CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 4:32 PM

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AH! Enlightenment! Thank you!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:01 PM

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<@&370994983664091136> I forgot to mention that using the JLink while connected to USB is a tricky process and can mess with your USB bus. I power my metro separately and have a usb cable I can turn off and on. Once I hit a breakpoint I tend to turn the cable off to keep my computer happy.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:02 PM

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I really should have ordered the 9V plug, heh

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 5:02 PM

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I wonder if the same thing is true under Linux

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:02 PM

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@slender iron What USB cable do you use?

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:03 PM

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I have not had a problem under Windows, but I haven't worked extensively with it, either.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 5:03 PM

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@umbral dagger I think it is - I have had lots of problems under linux.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:07 PM

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@idle owl looking now

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:07 PM

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Thank you

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:08 PM

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I didn't expect you all to pick up the jlink stuff. 😃 I thought it'd only be for emergency bootloader repair

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:08 PM

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I thought it was a strong suggestion. 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:08 PM

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Really? If you give a nerd a j-link....

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:09 PM

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yup, my mistake 😃

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here is a similar cable to mine: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3439

USB Micro B Cable with Data/Charge Sync Switch

Your cell phone charges off of USB, but can you really trust that charging station at the airport? Now you can control when to allow data in or out of your device with this little USB ...

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:09 PM

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Not a mistake - the JLink is way cool....

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:10 PM

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I haven't actually tested it with my setup though. The cable I have is something I got while at google

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:10 PM

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His mistake was assuming we wouldn't try to use it.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:10 PM

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yeah, having jlink skills is good 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:10 PM

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@slender iron Ok thanks

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:10 PM

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now you could implement busio @drowsy geyser 😉

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:11 PM

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True, @slender iron ! I was going to pick on the low-level neopixel support first, though.

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I suppose busio would be more helpful.

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 5:12 PM

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Oh wow, we have a special group now

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:12 PM

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@drowsy geyser check with @timber lion he got neopixel going on the 21 again and was gonna look at the 51 once he got it

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:12 PM

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Will do! Thanks!

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 5:12 PM

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Group within a group. It's a groupception

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:13 PM

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@formal plover Yeah hidden role so we can tag all the testers if needed.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:13 PM

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busio is actually pretty tough too

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its next on my list once I have the uf2 bootloader going

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(thats why you need the jlink, in case I break the bootloader)

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:13 PM

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Gotcha. Say, off topic, how's the toaster oven?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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still in pieces. didn't actually work on it yesterday

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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Ah, ok.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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got a flu shot, shopped for groceris, played PUBG then dinner with a friend

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it was good 😃

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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Excellent!

drowsy geyser Oct 22, 2017, 5:14 PM

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Life is important.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:15 PM

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yup yup, gonna spend an hour or two looking at the bootloader and then head ot the farmers market

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:24 PM

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I'm trying to erase the flash from the Arduino IDE on a circuit playground express.

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When I run "flash_erase.ino

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I get hair message.

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I get an error message

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Sorry… Dictation software misunderstands me sometimes 😃

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:25 PM

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no worries @brisk cairn ! whats the error message say?

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:25 PM

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Arduino: 1.8.3 (Windows 10), Board: "Adafruit Circuit Playground Express"

flash_erase:33: error: 'SS1' was not declared in this scope

#define FLASH_SS SS1 // Flash chip SS pin.

C:\Users\Chris.cy\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit_SPIFlash\examples\flash_erase\flash_erase.ino:36:25: note: in expansion of macro 'FLASH_SS'

Adafruit_SPIFlash flash(FLASH_SS, &FLASH_SPI_PORT); // Use hardware SPI

flash_erase:34: error: 'SPI1' was not declared in this scope

#define FLASH_SPI_PORT SPI1 // What SPI port is Flash on?

C:\Users\Chris.cy\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Adafruit_SPIFlash\examples\flash_erase\flash_erase.ino:36:36: note: in expansion of macro 'FLASH_SPI_PORT'

Adafruit_SPIFlash flash(FLASH_SS, &FLASH_SPI_PORT); // Use hardware SPI

exit status 1
'SS1' was not declared in this scope

This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.

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I need to know the pin number for the flash_ss

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That sketch apparently is defaulted for feather M0

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:27 PM

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ah, I'm an arduino newbie

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:28 PM

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I can't believe you are a newbie at anything Scott 😃

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:28 PM

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I am at a lot of things. Thats how I can focus on others. 😃

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the pin is PB22 on the mcu

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 5:28 PM

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would thsi work better https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SPIFlash/tree/master/examples/flash_erase_express

GitHub

adafruit/Adafruit_SPIFlash

Contribute to Adafruit_SPIFlash development by creating an account on GitHub.

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:29 PM

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My original problem is I tried to put Circuit Python 2.1 on a circuit playground experience that was running 1.0 or perhaps even 0.9 something

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 5:30 PM

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Try the one @solar whale posted. If you're trying to put CircuitPython on it, that's what you need.

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:30 PM

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For some reason a control-C would not stop the previous running Circuit Python program. And loading a new code.py had no effect.

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I will give that a try.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:30 PM

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@brisk cairn with 2.1?

brisk cairn Oct 22, 2017, 5:33 PM

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That's right I loaded "adafruit-circuitpython-circuitplayground_express-2.1.0.uf2". A circuit playground express many continued to run an old IRLibcp that I have looted under Circuit Python 0.9.

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It would not load any new code. So I figured I needed to switch back to Arduino mode, erase the flash and reformatted, and then reload the 2.1.uf2.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:35 PM

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ah ok. yeah, erasing the flash is good way to get back to a known state

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 5:37 PM

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which loading an arduino sketch will do. any sketch.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:37 PM

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@tidal kiln not for an express board

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 5:37 PM

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oooohhhh

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been working with the trinket for too long

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 5:38 PM

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😃

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 5:47 PM

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bob2827

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 5:57 PM

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@solar whale heya you around?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 5:59 PM

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@meager fog yes

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 5:59 PM

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ok u wanna get arduino m4 going? are you on mac or win or lin?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:00 PM

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linux or mac - both available

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:00 PM

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ok lets try mac because i know how to do that

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on your mac get IDE 1.8,5+ installed

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:01 PM

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just installed 1.8.5 is there a + - do I need latest build?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:01 PM

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no just latest

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k if you have adafruit samd support in BSP manager, remove it

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:02 PM

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starting up arduino - slow...

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ok removed adafruit SAMD - still have arduino samd

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:05 PM

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gr8

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make a folder in your ArduinoSketchFolder called "hardware", then make a folder "hardware/Adafruit"
in "hardware/Adafruit" git clone https://github.com/adafruit/ArduinoCore-samd, and rename the folder "samd"
Check you now have "ArduinoSketches/hardware/Adafruit/samd/boards.txt"
git checkout samd51, and check boards.txt contains "# Adafruit Metro M4 (SAMD51)"

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:10 PM

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on my MAc, my sketches are jus in Arduino - is that OK?

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all set in Arduino/hardware/Adafruit/samd

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:14 PM

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yah

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whatever it is called

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:14 PM

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OK - all set to continue

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:14 PM

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Now we need to replace CMSIS! Download https://github.com/adafruit/ArduinoModule-CMSIS-Atmel/archive/master.zip and unzip
Find your Arduino CMSIS, in Mac its "~/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/CMSIS-Atmel/1.1.0/CMSIS" version # may vary, you'll need "Go to folder..." feature in the Finder to get to " ~/Library/Arduino15" as it is hidden. In Windows it is "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\CMSIS-Atmel\1.1.0\CMSIS" Inside is a folder named Device
Inside the downloaded CMSIS zip, go into the CMSIS-Atmel/CMSIS folder, you should see a folder named Device. DRAG THE DEVICE FOLDER ONLY from the zip to your arduino Library folder so that Device is merged with Device. It will replace a bunch of file.
You will also need to replace bossac. Go here https://github.com/adafruit/BOSSA/releases and download either windows exe or mac app of latest bossac. unzip
Replace the binary at "~/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/bossac/1.7.0/bossac" or "~\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\bossac\1.7.0\bossac"

GitHub

adafruit/BOSSA

BOSSA is a flash programming utility for Atmel's SAM family of flash-based ARM microcontrollers. The motivation behind BOSSA is to create a simple, easy-to-use, open source utility to replace ...

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its complex because its a whole new arch and Arduino SAM is not easy to update - hopefully we will be able to make it fully a BSP, might require an "Adafruit SAM" package (which i'd like to avoid but...)

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 6:19 PM

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That got over my head rather quickly. I've used Arduino once.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:20 PM

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now available at https://github.com/adafruit/ArduinoCore-samd/blob/samd51/README.md#installation-on-arduino-ide

GitHub

adafruit/ArduinoCore-samd

Contribute to ArduinoCore-samd development by creating an account on GitHub.

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its not hard, just...detailed 😃

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:21 PM

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I don't want to replace device - but merge files

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:21 PM

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yah

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just dont put Device in Device

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:22 PM

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ok but if I pit it in CMSIS it says one alredy ther OK to replace. Is that OK to do?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:22 PM

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ah

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thats the point

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you want to merge the folders

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:22 PM

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ok

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:23 PM

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but because arduino uses a version # you have to get to the Device subfolder

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otherwise you dont do the merge properly

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:23 PM

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ok - shoudl be all set

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wait - need to do bossac

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:24 PM

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haha! UF2 works!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:25 PM

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@slender iron niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

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do you have commit privs?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:25 PM

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I think so but I'll probably do it as a PR

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:26 PM

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totez

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:26 PM

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OK - all set bossac updated

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:26 PM

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good work - that was faster than expected!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:26 PM

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I reorganized it 😃

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I didn't redo the usb stack which helped

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:26 PM

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@solar whale thats it! try Blink 😃

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@slender iron +4000 points to atmel for mostly-keeping-periphs-the-same

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:27 PM

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wooohoo - giving it a try

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:27 PM

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yup yup

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:27 PM

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@slender iron toss me a .bin when ya like and ill update my m4's

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 6:28 PM

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@slender iron Yay!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:28 PM

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I'm still testing it

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non-debug is finnicky

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:29 PM

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np

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:30 PM

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Sketch uses 11416 bytes (2%) of program storage space. Maximum is 507904 bytes.
An error occurred while uploading the sketch
No device found on cu.usbmodem142431

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am I missing something

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 PM

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turn on verbose upload

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 PM

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ah - I forced it into bootloader (doubletap) and it worked !!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 PM

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gr8!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 PM

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it blinkds

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 PM

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huzzah

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:32 PM

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Thank you - I'll explore

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:32 PM

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sure, everything should work

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so if something doesn't, open up an issue

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:32 PM

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let me know if there are particular things you want tested.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:32 PM

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if you want to use the DACs, they are on A0 and A1 but you have to short the jumper underneath the board

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:33 PM

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the one ad the d in adafruit?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:33 PM

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i think peripherals are most useful to test - I2C, SPI, ADC, DACs...I2S isn't ready yet

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yah

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grab your favorite shield or sensor, check if it works 😃

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:33 PM

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great - lots to try.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:33 PM

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it is very very fast

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neopixel is ported so i know you can try that

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the only annoying thing is the flash is so huge, it takes a while longer to upload sketches

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because it has to erase the entire chip

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:34 PM

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I can live with that 😉

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:34 PM

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i cant even comprehend when we get to the 1MB flash chip

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 6:41 PM

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@slender iron if you get a chance:
https://github.com/caternuson/CircuitPython_ADS1x15/tree/multi
let me know if you think that's going in the right direction

GitHub

caternuson/CircuitPython_ADS1x15

CircuitPython_ADS1x15 - CircuitPython driver for ADS1015 / ADS1115 ADCs

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:41 PM

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@tidal kiln I'll take a look tomorrow

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:43 PM

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@meager fog do I need something special for neopixel - I tried strandtest and got``` Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp: In member function 'void Adafruit_NeoPixel::show()':
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1659:3: error: 'Pio' was not declared in this scope
Pio *port;
^
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1659:19: error: 'port' was not declared in this scope
Pio *port;
^
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1663:29: error: 'pmc_set_writeprotect' was not declared in this scope
pmc_set_writeprotect(false);
^
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1664:43: error: 'pmc_enable_periph_clk' was not declared in this scope
pmc_enable_periph_clk((uint32_t)TC3_IRQn);
^
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1666:5: error: 'TC_CMR_WAVE' was not declared in this scope
TC_CMR_WAVE | TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP | TC_CMR_TCCLKS_TIMER_CLOCK1);
^
/Users/jerryneedell/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel/Adafruit_NeoPixel.cpp:1666:19: error: 'TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP' was not declared in this scope
TC_CMR_WAVE | TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP | TC_CMR_TCCLKS_TIMER_CLOCK1);
^

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:43 PM

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oh wait i think i didnt bump the version

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can you do a git pul from within the adafruit_neopxiel folder

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let me know if that works

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if it does ill push

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:44 PM

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sure - - trying it now

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:44 PM

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er ill do a release

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:46 PM

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@meager fog want a bin to load with a debugger. I haven't fixed the self update code yet or actually tested bossac though I think it'll work

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:47 PM

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sure

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why not #YOLO

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:48 PM

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@meager fog works great!!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 6:48 PM

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@solar whale thank you! i'll push a release. keep on tryin things - if im not here file an issue

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that will be the most helpful thing

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:49 PM

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uf2 for metro m4

📎 bootloader.bin

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use a debugger to load. I'll do the self updater later if I have time

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 6:50 PM

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I'll be happy to - Thanks for the help and providing the test board!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:54 PM

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my uf2 code changes are here: https://github.com/tannewt/uf2-samd

GitHub

tannewt/uf2-samd

uf2-samd - MSC bootloader (based on UF2) for SAMD21 and SAMD51

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 6:57 PM

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Woot woot UF2! Nice job @slender iron

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 6:58 PM

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thanks! Its very untested still but worth a shot.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:01 PM

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@meager fog cool! mcp9808 temp sesnor works fine!

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:01 PM

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yay

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 7:02 PM

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tannewt

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #359 atmel\-samd: Correct the UF2 bootloader offset

when converting bin to uf2.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:02 PM

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jlinkin now

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wait shoot i think i cant jlink this

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:03 PM

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@meager fog How do you use j-link? I don't mean that in a general teach me sense, I mean how do you personally use it... commandline or Ozone or whatever else there is...

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:03 PM

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from within atmel studio

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:04 PM

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Ah

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:04 PM

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ah, I'm fixing up the self updater now

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:05 PM

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yah

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i dont want to gut my arduino zero if i can avoid it

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:05 PM

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yeah, I understand that

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I'm not having jlink connectivity issues anymore

formal plover Oct 22, 2017, 7:06 PM

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We need shirts. "bruh, do you even jlink?"

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:06 PM

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im in atmel start - not a good way to have a sunday

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:06 PM

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@slender iron I the new bootloader something we should try? If so - just load via jlink?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:07 PM

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sure if you are feeling adventurous @solar whale

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gdb may need the elf actaully

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📎 bootloader.elf

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:08 PM

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so just downlaod that to the board - and cross fingers? any special setup

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:08 PM

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yup just load it

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and then quit out. jlink doesn't like the double tap

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it should actually just run the code afterwards I think

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:09 PM

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Also trying it.

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Ozone isn't playing along.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:12 PM

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Ozone worked for me. loaded and now at METROBOOT!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:13 PM

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Oh snap! It claimed it didn't work but it did!

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I used the .bin file

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📎 Screen_Shot_2017-10-22_at_15.13.23.png

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It probably didn't claim it didn't work. I'm sure I didn't understand the results.

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@solar whale Did you use the .elf or .bin file?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:17 PM

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I'm trying to load CP image, ut it is not working - keep rebooting to NETROBOOT

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I used .elf

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:18 PM

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Mine reboots to the bootloader as well.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:19 PM

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info_uf2.txt ```UF2 Bootloader v1.23.0 SFHR
Model: Metro M4
Board-ID: SAMD21G19A-Metro-v0

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:19 PM

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Same.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:23 PM

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able to load image via Ozone

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:23 PM

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I had to fix the uf2 generation too

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so the circuitpython uf2s you build are likely wrong

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:24 PM

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ah

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:24 PM

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📎 firmware.uf2

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:24 PM

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cool - doubletap brings up METROBOOT!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:24 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/359

GitHub

atmel-samd: Correct the UF2 bootloader offset by tannewt · Pull Request #359 · adafruit/circuitpython

when converting bin to uf2.

umbral dagger Oct 22, 2017, 7:25 PM

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I can't wait for my board to arrive tomorrow... I feel like I'm missing all the fun!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:25 PM

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taht UF2 works!!

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:25 PM

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@slender iron It worked!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:26 PM

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ok, wanna review my PR?

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its pretty straightforward

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:26 PM

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Sure

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:26 PM

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then travis' builds will work

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:28 PM

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Do I just say tested and works?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:28 PM

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and sanity check the makefile changes

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:28 PM

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Ok

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:28 PM

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hmm REPL not working for me - won't take input

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:28 PM

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I think thats a debug build

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:29 PM

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crashes if I use ~D

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contro;D

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:29 PM

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weird

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I think it works for me

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is it: Adafruit CircuitPython 3.0.0-alpha.0-25-ga800a25e8-dirty?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:30 PM

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reloading

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:30 PM

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REPL working for me as well

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:31 PM

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Adafruit CircuitPython 3.0.0-alpha.0-25-ga800a25e8-dirty on 2017-10-20; Metro M4 Express with samd51j19
hapier now

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working now

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:31 PM

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huh, weird that it didn't work before

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:31 PM

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@slender iron im sorta in jlink hell. sees the chip, cannot halt it

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:31 PM

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this is why its good to have earlier testers 😃

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oh no! I've been there recetnly @meager fog

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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do you know what you did?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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We all have!!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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to get out of it?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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to get it to halt yeah

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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hacked arduino zero

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what did you flash it with?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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originally? an EDBG

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 7:32 PM

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kattni

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #359: atmel\-samd: Correct the UF2 bootloader offset

Reviewed makefile changes. Tested bootloader and loaded .uf2 firmware successfully.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:33 PM

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did you try to load the bootloader and now it won't halt?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:33 PM

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havent even gotten that far

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this is just the initial connect

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:33 PM

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oh no!

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with a jlink instead of edbg?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:33 PM

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yeah

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did you eventually get the jlink to connect to the chip

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or is EDBG the only anwer

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:34 PM

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I did once I loaded the uf2 on it

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:34 PM

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weird

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:34 PM

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I'm not sure the arduino bootloader has good clocks

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:34 PM

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well, its worth having an EDGB - ill gut a zero

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:35 PM

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@slender iron Do I need to click "review changes" on the file itself and approve it?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:35 PM

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yes please

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:35 PM

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ok

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:35 PM

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so I'm official 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:35 PM

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Got it!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:37 PM

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@meager fog I have been able to get out by doubletapping into bootloader then connecting JLink

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:38 PM

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oh yahh!

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that worked thanks

manic glacierBOT Oct 22, 2017, 7:39 PM

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tannewt

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request closed: #359 atmel\-samd: Correct the UF2 bootloader offset

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tannewt

[circuitpython:master] 1 new commit

a1be272 atmel-samd: Correct the UF2 bootloader offset w... - tannewt

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:39 PM

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i was just about to kil this zero

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:39 PM

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Great!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:39 PM

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@meager fog did you have an arduino sketch or circuitpython flashed after the bootloader?

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thanks for the review @idle owl now the next uf2 from travis should actually work

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:41 PM

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@solar whale are you using jlinkexe or something else

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:41 PM

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I've been using Ozone

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:41 PM

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@slender iron As in I would be building that myself?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:42 PM

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@idle owl if you update to latest master and build it should work too

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:43 PM

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I've never built anything. So that's something I have to learn. 😃

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:44 PM

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ynow

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 7:44 PM

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just type make 😀

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:44 PM

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why risk it - ill try ozone

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:44 PM

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That's what I'm using

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:45 PM

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make BOARD=metro_m4_express from within circuitpython/atmel-samd

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 7:46 PM

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Oh. That's easy.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:46 PM

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@slender iron success. ozone was key

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:46 PM

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👍

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 7:46 PM

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ill test it w/arduino

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:47 PM

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🤞

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:47 PM

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hmmm - just made new build - - boots to CIRCUITPY, but RELPL not working....

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 7:47 PM

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@idle owl yep. once you got a good makefile. tons of magic in there.

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:47 PM

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it dies and unmounts after a few minutes

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:47 PM

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@solar whale sounds like its hanging somewhere

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are you loading through the debugger?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:48 PM

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no - copied UF2

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i pulled the updates

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I think

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:48 PM

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using the debugger you should be able to get a backtrace to where its stopped

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:49 PM

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will try

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:49 PM

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if you are powering separately you'll want ot unplug usb to save your comp from confusion

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:52 PM

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It is working with Jlink loaded version!

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may be issue with UF2 - possible I missed something in the update - will look

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say I'm up to date

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:54 PM

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@solar whale is the jlink loading it at start address 0x4000?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:55 PM

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where can I check?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 7:55 PM

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when using gdb it usually status in the status after load

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 7:56 PM

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J-Link: J-Link: Flash download: Bank 0 @ 0x00000000: 2 ranges affected (40960 bytes)

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disconected Jlink - still boots OK

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rebuiling - will try again @idle owl did it work for you?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 8:00 PM

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I haven't tried building one myself yet

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:03 PM

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not happy with .uf2 files I build.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:05 PM

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@slender iron Metro M4 VID 0x239A PID 0x0020 # bossac only bootloader
PID 0x0021 # UF2 bootloader
PID 0x8020 # arduino
PID 0x8021 # circuitpython

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fyi 😃

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:06 PM

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kk, updated them @meager fog

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:07 PM

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thanks - it doesnt matter for lin/mac - but windows can srsly fall over if you mix up PIDs with different descriptors. askhowiknow

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:07 PM

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hrm, thats good to know. I want to support dynamic descriptors at some point...

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:08 PM

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it is ok if the MI varies

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just not if there's no MI

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:08 PM

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@slender iron I have to go - social duties!! Hopefully something wrong on my end. I'll try it again later or tomorrow. Great progress today!

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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thanks for your help @solar whale!

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@meager fog what do you mean by MI?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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lol bossa destroyed the bootloader or somethin

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the USB VID has a MI version

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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@solar whale thanks for your help! have a good one!

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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No problem - happy to be part of it all.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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@meager fog the boot protection hasn't been set on these has it?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:09 PM

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/standard-usb-identifiers

Standard USB Identifiers

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umm no

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how else would be able to update the boards 😄

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:11 PM

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😃 the uf2 self updater unsets it, flashes and sets it

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:11 PM

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im loading the bootloader.bin

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usin' ozone?

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:11 PM

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on the 51 it looks cool because you can disable it temporarily

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yeah, that makes sense

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at some point we want it on though

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:13 PM

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@meager fog just treid to go back to arduino - bu not able to load - is this a bproblem with tnew bootloader?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:13 PM

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yah ^^^

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:13 PM

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could be @solar whale I haven't tested it with arduino

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@solar whale was the bootloader active? did you double tap before uploading?

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:14 PM

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yah i got this

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man cannot paste

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one sec

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:14 PM

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yes - now won't got to bootloader

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:15 PM

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https://pastebin.com/1gH6ZnT2

Pastebin

Set binary mode SAM-BA operation failed readWord(addr=0)=0x20008f78 readWord( - Pastebin.com

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:17 PM

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weird

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I don't know what read word is trying to do

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:17 PM

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i can have dean take a look

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since he is bossa-master

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:18 PM

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is it a bootloader PID issue?

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:18 PM

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I reloaded bootloader.elf and got back to METROBOOT. I wait for update before trying arduino again.

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Got CP 3.0 running again - gotta run - Thanks for all the fun and help. @meager fog let me know if you learn how to get arduino working again

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:21 PM

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@meager fog it looks like that dump succeeded later

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bye @solar whale

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:21 PM

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📎 METRO_M4_sam_ba.bin

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you'll need to reload the bootloader w jlink

solar whale Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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ok - use taht one for arduino

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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I've gotta take a break for now

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shower + farmer's market 😃

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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@slender iron i dont hink its a PID or USB issue

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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then cooking

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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Sounds delightful

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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i know some addresses changed

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so we just have to #ifdef em

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:22 PM

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k, dean's help would be appreciated. I want to redo their javascript scripts too

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their = uf2 repo

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using node js for basic file manipulation is crazy IMO

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 8:23 PM

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@slender iron hurry. before all the eggs are sold out.

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:24 PM

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@slender iron lol - swapping big endian to little endian requires 290 node packages

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https://pastebin.com/AMTgUJZ9

Pastebin

Set binary mode readWord(addr=0)=0x2002fffc readWord(addr=0xe000ed00)=0x410fc2 - Pastebin.com

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thats 'correct' bossa output

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@slender iron if you pull your changes to our uf2 repo

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:26 PM

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🙄

meager fog Oct 22, 2017, 8:26 PM

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then dean can make changes

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i should fastforward it tho, or you can

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no rush

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do it later 😃

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 8:27 PM

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yup yup, we can do that this week

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kk, later all

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 8:30 PM

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@slender iron later!

tulip sleet Oct 22, 2017, 9:14 PM

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@slender iron we have lots of relatives in town for a cousin's bat mitzvah. I'll be back in the swing of things Monday.

slender iron Oct 22, 2017, 9:26 PM

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@tulip sleet no worries! Glad you are taking a break on the weekend. 😃

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 9:43 PM

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@split ocean I meant to tell you, I was able to update the last code snippet the next day. So whatever the issue was it finally cleared up. 😃

split ocean Oct 22, 2017, 9:44 PM

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@idle owl which issue was that?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 9:45 PM

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@split ocean It wouldn't let me update anything on one page of the guide.

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And I was trying to get all the code linked to github

split ocean Oct 22, 2017, 9:47 PM

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Oh, yes, that. Glad to hear it! This is often the case with odd behavior on guides, they tend to just go away ; )

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 9:47 PM

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Every other time it's gone away in minutes though, not hours. So I was concerned 😃

split ocean Oct 22, 2017, 9:47 PM

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Or Justin and the gang fix them in the background

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 9:48 PM

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Or days, in the end. 😃 But it's fixed!

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 9:56 PM

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Woo, picked up a CPE from Micro Center. Later I'll put CP on the CP

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 9:56 PM

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Nice! Our Microcenter never carried the Express, just the Classic.

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 9:59 PM

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Is arm gcc and atom what I need for esp8266 development on Windows 7?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:00 PM

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That's a solid dev combo in general, but I haven't worked specifically with the ESP8266.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 10:08 PM

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Later this week, I'd like some help getting a Git account set up and whatnot so I can help contribute to the low-hanging fruit of CP

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:09 PM

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Definitely! We'll be around, just ask!

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 10:17 PM

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Circuit Python is compiled from C or C++ ?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:17 PM

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C

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 10:17 PM

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tu

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:25 PM

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@tidal kiln Touch iteration complete. That was a tough one 😃 For me anyway. I had a lot of help.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:28 PM

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@idle owl cool. what was tough about it?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:28 PM

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I'm still pretty new to python.

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I thought I had it figured out but I didn't understand everything that needed to happen, so I was trying to get my initial code to do it, and I needed a lot more with it.

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Learned a lot though! That's what I'm usually hoping for with doing stuff for this library.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:29 PM

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keen

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is the code in the repo?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:31 PM

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Not yet, I'm still cleaning it up. And it needs docs, but I can drop the express to you and explain it before I do all that.

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It'll be in my repo first anyway, I have it forked and do pull requests which likely won't be looked at until tomorrow. But I can get it to you before that.

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I was able to paste in your examples as is, and they work. I assume as you expected them to. But it required two functions - one for returning numbers, and one for returning the pad name (A1 etc). So cpx.touched works like the first two, but the third one requires, at the moment, cpx.touched_padnames which I want to shorten up.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:35 PM

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i was thinking it would just be one or the other

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:35 PM

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lol!

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I did both 😃

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I didn't realise it was an 'or' request. It meant I learned more though! I'm actually laughing out loud over here.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:37 PM

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all good. great way to learn. sorry for confusion.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:38 PM

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Don't be sorry! Should we go with only one then? In my mind, you had a specific use-case for having them return numbers, but I really like having them return the pad names since it's labeled on the board. That's why I did both.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:39 PM

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seems like it's a design decision - so i'd let scott decide

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:40 PM

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He'll tell us to decide. He's left it almost entirely up to me, and then gives feedback later if I'm way off, which I've been a little off once and that was it.

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I think it's a matter of what we want to use

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:40 PM

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i kind of like the pad names

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:40 PM

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ok keen

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:41 PM

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what you see on the board = what you use in code

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:41 PM

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Yeah that's what I went with previously, I thought it made the most sense

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:41 PM

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did you use a dictionary at any point?

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:42 PM

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I don't think so? I can paste what it looks like. Hold on.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:42 PM

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k

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:43 PM

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This is in init: self._pin = (board.A1, board.A2, board.A3, board.A4, board.A5, board.A6, board.A7)and this is the function: def touched(self): self._touch = tuple(touchio.TouchIn(p) for p in self._pin) return ['A{}'.format(i+1) for (i, v) in enumerate(self._touch) if v.value]

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There's another one in express right now for numbers, but they're essentially the same

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 10:45 PM

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atom says to first download and install MinGW . is that correct? is there an adafruit learn guide?

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:46 PM

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@hollow tartan a learn guide for installing atom?

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 10:48 PM

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I am trying to get started helping fix Circuit Python on Win 7.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:49 PM

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have you seen this guide?
https://learn.adafruit.com/creating-and-sharing-a-circuitpython-library/overview

Creating and sharing a CircuitPython library

Share your code with the world

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this one is also worth reading:
https://learn.adafruit.com/porting-an-arduino-library-to-circuitpython-vl6180x-distance-sensor

Porting an Arduino library to CircuitPython: VL6180X Distance Sensor

Learn about porting an Arduino library to CircuitPython with the VL6180X distance sensor.

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@idle owl looks ok. only works with consecutive numbered pins. (classic wasn't like that)

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 10:51 PM

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I found a little something: An Introduction to Collaborating with Version Control https://learn.adafruit.com/an-introduction-to-collaborating-with-version-control/publishing-your-repository?view=all

An Introduction to Collaborating with Version Control

Learn the basics of sharing work with collaborators (like Adafruit!) using Git and GitHub.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:51 PM

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that one's good too @hollow tartan

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and you're returing a list [], not a tuple ()

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:54 PM

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Hmm

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It works with () too.

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Or instead rather.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:55 PM

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really? i'd think the list would work too.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:55 PM

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I'm probably missing what your point was. Did you mean for me to change it to a tuple instead of a list?

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:56 PM

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that's what i'd suggest

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it's a fixed sequence of info

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:56 PM

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Ah ok yeah, then I was saying I changed the [] to () and it seems to work the same.

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Riiight.... yeah we talked about that earlier

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:57 PM

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oh. yeah. they are very similar.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:57 PM

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We changed something else from [] to () for the same reason

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:57 PM

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it's a pretty subtle thing - the difference

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the big one is mutability

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:57 PM

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Ah

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() immutable, [] mutable, right?

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Although now I feel like I remember there being some [] that were one or the other. That it wasn't so black and white.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:59 PM

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>>> foo=[1,2,3]
>>> foo.append(4)
>>> foo
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> foo[2]=5
>>> foo
[1, 2, 5, 4]

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but try it with a tuple:

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>>> foo=(1,2,3)
>>> foo.append(4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'append'
>>> foo[2]=5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 10:59 PM

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And since it exists and we're just using it, we don't need or want mutability.

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Right?

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 10:59 PM

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that my thinking at least

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:00 PM

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No it makes sense. Like I said we changed something else for the same reason, I think we just got onto this and glossed over that detail

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:01 PM

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that's how i typically make the call, "is this a fixed chunk of info?"

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but i'm sure there's more examples of why one vs. the other

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:01 PM

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This general rule makes sense to me.

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:02 PM

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another obvious one is when dealing with color, (r,g,b) vs. [r,g,b]

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and i mentioned a dictionary, as that could provide a useful tool to map between ints and strings

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or anything and anything, really

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:03 PM

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ah

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I've never used one

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that I'm aware of anyway. Could have been built into something I used

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:05 PM

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here's a good example:

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https://github.com/caternuson/CircuitPython_ADS1x15/blob/master/adafruit_ads1x15.py#L42

GitHub

caternuson/CircuitPython_ADS1x15

CircuitPython_ADS1x15 - CircuitPython driver for ADS1015 / ADS1115 ADCs

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configures gain for the ADC

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:06 PM

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oohhhh... ok

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:06 PM

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the ADC regsiter just wants to see a bunch of 1s and 0s

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but it's easier to think in terms of the resulting gain 2/3, 8, 16, etc.

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:07 PM

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right

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:08 PM

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then you can use it like

config |= ADS1x15_CONFIG_GAIN[gain]

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where gain can be set to 8 or 16 and not "what was the bit pattern again for 8 or 16???"

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:09 PM

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ah yeah

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:11 PM

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so for you, was thinking you could map ints to strings:

TOUCH_PADS = {
    1 : 'A1',
    2 : 'A2',
    # etc
}

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:11 PM

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I had thought about doing it that way too, but we came up with the offset in the current code

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:11 PM

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doesn't look all that useful when the ints map straight to the string

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:12 PM

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Oh! Right.. because I thought you wanted both. So I couldn't do that, or it would always return the padname as a constant

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I need to food, my brain is getting melty. Will you be around later?

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:13 PM

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maybe. but also no worries.

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what you have works, so maybe good enough

idle owl Oct 22, 2017, 11:14 PM

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I still want to understand the way you're suggesting. Learn something else new today! I'll ping you later, if you're around we can continue. if not, all good either way! Later!

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:14 PM

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ok. go food. later.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:19 PM

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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The Circuit Playground makes noises when you plug it in

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:21 PM

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wall-e boot sound?

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:22 PM

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I guess. I jumped a mile

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:24 PM

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your robot friend is alive and happy!

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oh wait. i think it's a mario coin sound.

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:26 PM

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Keep it that way. We don't want a robot revolution quite yet

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:26 PM

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been a while since i booted a fresh one

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:29 PM

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I will say, it's a very nice board. I'm impressed with it. It's like the perfect all-in-one education board exactly like I wanted a few years ago when I was first getting started

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My only pet peeve is that it doesn't have 12 dotstars so I can port my neopixel pocket watch project to it

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:33 PM

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The Circuit Playground has always sounded great, but my desires are always more... direct. If it doesn't have a direct purpose for me, I tend to not buy it.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:33 PM

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Yeah, I hear ya

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:33 PM

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Then again, I do tend to learn backwards. "I want to do this. How do I do this. OK, and what will I need for that..."

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:34 PM

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I got it so I could contribute to CircuitPython, but I went through that process to actually get where I am now

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:34 PM

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I'm going to be getting one soon, so I can begin writing up examples for it

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And/or adapting existing examples

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:34 PM

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but there was a period where I really wanted to just... experiment with different modules and sensors and outputs to just see how they fit together

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and this is a lot cheaper than the oodles of breadboard crap and Chinesium breakout boards I got and destroyed

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:35 PM

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Mmm chinesium

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Chinesium is fantastic for when you want to push stuff to see how far it'll go

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:35 PM

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just so you know - contributing to CircuitPython doesn't have to be done with the Circuit Playground Express

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:36 PM

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I know, but I primarily want to work on examples, too, and the only other board I had on hand was an ESP8266 WeMos D1 mini, and CP isn't mature there

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:36 PM

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@tidal kiln This is true, but the Circuit Playground has a LOT of things on it which can be useful for contributing

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:37 PM

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for sure. just wanted to make sure you didn't think that was the only hardware.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:37 PM

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There was a Feather M0 BLE there that I almost got, but that's more like an "I have a project" board

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:38 PM

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Oh, no. I have an Adalogger, two M0 feathers, and an M0 Express feather. Oh, and a bunch of ESP8266 boards.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:38 PM

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They didn't have any Trinket M0s which made me sad

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:38 PM

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Funny story about those - I managed to give myself an error when using those, and looking up the error led me to "Well, you bricked it!" So I bought a few more, then did it again, etc

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:38 PM

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I love Trinkets. I have like 6 and then another literal dozen DigiSpark boards, all gotten on sale

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:38 PM

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Turns out, it was just a wire to the wrong GPIO

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:39 PM

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and the M0 version just makes me weak at the knees for all the cool stuff it does at a similar power draw and more pins available

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:39 PM

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Myself? I have an inherent desire to want ALL of the pins broken out.

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And knowing that a significant portion of the pins on the trinket are "Wasted" annoys that completionist part

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:41 PM

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Yeah, I picked up a Xadow Duino board that I was really hoping to hack... it's an ATMega 32u4 for some kind of prebuilt modular RGBLED IoT system

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but it literally just has i2C broken out, plus one pin for driving Neopixels

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:41 PM

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Minimalism!

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But with I2C, you can do SOOOOO much

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:42 PM

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Why would you even use a 32u4 for that?

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:42 PM

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...USB

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From what I remember when I was looking at micros, the 32u4 was inexpensive, easy to acquire, and already supported with Arudino, and has native USB support

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:43 PM

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Is it that much cheaper than the Trinket/Gemma ATTiny gimmick?

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:43 PM

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Well, no

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But ATTinys don't have native USB support.

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Native USB means you don't have to put in extra hardware for serial conversion

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:44 PM

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Trinkets and Gemmas and DigiSparks and whatnot bit-bang USB

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:44 PM

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Which can be costly and large. Especially important when you're making 10000 of them.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:44 PM

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It's doable, at least well enough

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:45 PM

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Yeah, but that's effort.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:45 PM

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They can't do serial over USB but they can do bootloading

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But it's already been done! Just fork the Gemma bootloader instead of the Leonardo bootloader...

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this really doesn't matter

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I picked up a 32u4 clone board for $3 after this Xadow thing disappointed me

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but dang if it doesn't make me nerd-rage!

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:46 PM

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@glacial bronze Not that simple. Looks like you need a Vendor ID/Product ID to use the USB stuff

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https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/downloads

Introducing Trinket

Introducing Adafruit's mini microcontroller

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Which is... $3500-$4000 ish. Not a huge amount of money for a big company, but it's paperwork, and adhering to standards.

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You know how well Chinesium likes to adhere to standards.

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:47 PM

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Ech. I guess that's fair

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:48 PM

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Who knows, though. Maybe they just got a sweet deal on 32u4s

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:51 PM

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@glacial bronze the newer Trinket M0 and Gemma M0 have hardware USB (not bit banged)

glacial bronze Oct 22, 2017, 11:52 PM

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Yeah I know. I was being imprecise

tidal kiln Oct 22, 2017, 11:53 PM

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well, you did say attiny, and that was true in that case.

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 11:56 PM

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do I want a) atom , b) pythonic atom, or c) atom ide ?

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:57 PM

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I've never used Atom

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How is it?

hollow tartan Oct 22, 2017, 11:58 PM

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what did you use when compiling Circuit Python or a python library?

cunning crypt Oct 22, 2017, 11:59 PM

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I write in Editra. Sometimes Notepad if I'm doing something quick and dirty

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Great thing about Python is it doesn't need compiling

sick creek Oct 23, 2017, 12:00 AM

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VS Code is cool too

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with internal terminal where you can write extensions

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if you like notepad editor

glacial bronze Oct 23, 2017, 12:02 AM

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Notepad++

sick creek Oct 23, 2017, 12:02 AM

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I used notepad++

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instead of using notepad++ i use vscode now

cunning crypt Oct 23, 2017, 12:05 AM

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I like Editra, but it is old. And doesn't look like it's active. So eventually it will stop working

sick creek Oct 23, 2017, 12:07 AM

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VS Code is part of visual studio family

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what is close to atom

tidal kiln Oct 23, 2017, 12:17 AM

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@hollow tartan where did you see those flavors of atom?

hollow tartan Oct 23, 2017, 12:18 AM

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"over-whelming" + " more than 31" + "omg"

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 12:45 AM

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@slender iron do I have to use this in my configuration ? my uf2 code changes are here: https://github.com/tannewt/uf2-samd to build uf2 files?

GitHub

tannewt/uf2-samd

uf2-samd - MSC bootloader (based on UF2) for SAMD21 and SAMD51

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That is did I need to install this somewhere?

hollow tartan Oct 23, 2017, 12:57 AM

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Failed to add an "Open with Atom" context menu in the Explorer and make Atom available for association with files using "Open with...".

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:05 AM

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Say, what's the right command line for building CP for the M4? I'm using "make BOARD=metro_m4_express V=2" but I'm getting an error "cc1: error: -Werror=lto-type-mismatch: no option -Wlto-type-mismatch" I've been looking at this for a while and can't figure out the right option to avoid this error....

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(Ubuntu Bash environment natively on Windows 10, btw)

tidal kiln Oct 23, 2017, 1:09 AM

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make BOARD=metro_m4_express is what was suggested earlier. maybe try with out V=2?

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:10 AM

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Yup, tried that. No change. I read the makefile to see if there was an obvious CTAG I had missed, but to no avail. I figured this was a common problem that's already been solved. 😃

tidal kiln Oct 23, 2017, 1:11 AM

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might be. haven't been able to try building yet myself.

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:11 AM

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No worries. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep trying to figure it out. 😃

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:12 AM

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@drowsy geyser I just do a make BOARD=x clean then make BOARD=x

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Did you do git submodule update —init —recursive

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:14 AM

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Oops. No, I didn't. Let me try that.

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:14 AM

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This are double dash

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—init

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:15 AM

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Oooh , shiny. Lots of updates. 😃

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:16 AM

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No need for V=2

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No idea what that does

tidal kiln Oct 23, 2017, 1:17 AM

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it sets V to 2? but that's just a guess...

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:17 AM

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It jacks up the verbosity so I can see more of the steps it's taking.

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:17 AM

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I use DEBEG=1 if I want to use JLink for debugging

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:17 AM

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OH! Yes, I forgot about needing DEBUG=1

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BTW, I'm writing down all the steps I take in a OneNote page so I can share the knowledge after it's working....

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:20 AM

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Experience is recognizing your mistakes when you make them again 😉

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:21 AM

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ROTFL!!!!

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:22 AM

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Do you folks use -O0 (oh-zero) to disable optimization?

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:23 AM

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I think DEBUG=1 implies that.

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Invokes I should say. Should verify

idle owl Oct 23, 2017, 1:24 AM

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You guys have been busy

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:25 AM

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Not me. I’ve been at a dinner party.

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:25 AM

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And I haven't gotten any actual programming done. I'm just figuring out how to compile CP to use with JLink debugging. 😃

idle owl Oct 23, 2017, 1:25 AM

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@hollow tartan I use Atom with a specific set of packages installed. I have not tried Atom IDE, which if I understand it correctly works almost like a wrapper or package for standard Atom anyway.

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@drowsy geyser That's great though!

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:27 AM

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Huh. Same error. Hmmmmm.

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:27 AM

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@solar whale Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

tulip sleet Oct 23, 2017, 1:28 AM

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<@&356864093652516868> I wrote up an explanation of the colored blinky status RGB LED on the M0 boards with them: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-m0-express-designed-for-circuit-python-circuitpython/m0-boards-faq#faq-8

Adafruit Feather M0 Express - Designed for CircuitPython

Get running faster than ever with the first Adafruit Express board

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:28 AM

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I've been playing Pathfinder, then having dinner. My M4 doesn't arrive until tomorrow 😦 I've been prepping.

idle owl Oct 23, 2017, 1:28 AM

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@tulip sleet That's fantastic!

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:28 AM

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@tulip sleet I read that last night. Very helpful! Thank you for putting it together!

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:28 AM

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@drowsy geyser have you updated arm gcc tools recently?

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:29 AM

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Yes, it's a completely new install.

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I'm wondering if the Ubuntu environment on Windows is out of date, though.

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:30 AM

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@tulip sleet Nice. I've been seeing them and thinking "ah.. problem" then screening in and reloading to see the output

tulip sleet Oct 23, 2017, 1:30 AM

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@drowsy geyser I just finished it?! Where did you read it last night? Maybe I duplicated something Scott wrote.

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:30 AM

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Oh! I was reading a link from ReadTheDocs in the CircuitPython documentation. I thought that's what you were referring to.

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:30 AM

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@drowsy geyser Yes, upgrade your gcc arm stack

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@drowsy geyser I was having the same problem when I went from 2.x to master

solar whale Oct 23, 2017, 1:31 AM

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@tulip sleet thanks for doing that!

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:32 AM

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I'll go read yours now, @tulip sleet ! 😃

umbral dagger Oct 23, 2017, 1:32 AM

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@drowsy geyser I grabbed gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q2-update from the arm site.

idle owl Oct 23, 2017, 1:33 AM

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@tidal kiln I'm back if you're around

tulip sleet Oct 23, 2017, 1:33 AM

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I needed to refer to something in forum support.

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:33 AM

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@umbral dagger oh, that might be it. I'll go see if I can do that.

tulip sleet Oct 23, 2017, 1:36 AM

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@drowsy geyser re WSL: it uses the Ubuntu repos, so it should be up-to-date. But the arm-gcc stuff is in a PPA, so you need to install from that to get the latest stuff. Do you need a recipe?

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@drowsy geyser https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=112975&p=564651 (works on regular Ubuntu too)

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@umbral dagger @drowsy geyser you can use the arm site, but using the PPA will keep you up to date automatically.

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc-arm-embedded python build-essential```

drowsy geyser Oct 23, 2017, 1:39 AM

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OH! Nice. I was downloading the arm package, but I like the automatic update. Thank you so much!

tidal kiln Oct 23, 2017, 1:39 AM

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@idle owl yes