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stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 6:17 PM

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we noticed that kids recognize the blocks visually and feel more empowered

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 6:49 PM

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@sharp hamlet https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-seesaw/pull/9

GitHub

Neopixel functions by pelikhan · Pull Request #9 · adafruit/pxt-...

Needs HW testing... (add ?w=1 to drop white space changes, or do Alt+Shift+F in VS Code to format the TypeScript).

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I've added a function that should allow me to use the seesaw neopixel support

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 6:51 PM

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yup looks right to me, I'll test

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so in makecode we usually want to make things stateless like that right?

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with all the one-time setup rolled into the function

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 6:52 PM

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yes, our neopixel class does all the work

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it's a bit expensive but it makes my life easier

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we can maybe optimize this later on

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you could also add more functions but that's the one i needed 😃

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 6:52 PM

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I think it'll be plenty good for most applications

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 6:53 PM

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i have a question about the buffer in this.write(_NEOPIXEL_BASE, _NEOPIXEL_BUF, buffer);

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 6:54 PM

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sure thing

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 6:54 PM

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(actually answered my own question). We do clone the buffer the write function which is memory intensive potentially

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i'll have to do some work on my side to pad the buffer so that you can just send it along

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 6:58 PM

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ok cool, yea if you're doing that the first two bytes in _NEOPIXEL_BUF would have to be the offset (0x0000 in this case since we're starting at pixel 0)

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 7:05 PM

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so the format is [_NEOPIXEL_BASE, _NEOPIXEL_BUF, 0, 0, color bytes....]

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 7:08 PM

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right

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I tried the function with this code and it works:

forever(() => {
    let offset = 0
    let cmds = pins.createBufferFromArray([(offset >> 8), offset & 0xFF, 0, 17, 64])
    dev.neopixelSendBuffer(27, cmds)
})

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 7:12 PM

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ok got it

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:04 PM

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is 27 the pin address of the on-board neopixel strip?

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what about controlling a full strip connected to the wires?

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:05 PM

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yea pin 27 is the single neopixel on the board

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for that "Neopixel" header there there's a jumper on the bottom labeled "A1 ss"

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the header defaults to being controlled by the CPX, but if you solder that jumper it's controlled by the seesaw chip

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:07 PM

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i see. let's stay away from that 😃

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:07 PM

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yea makecode support for that isn't super necessary

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we could just put a fixedinstance in the crickit module for the single neopix

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:08 PM

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we have something for thta already

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I can just do setColor / setBrightness

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:12 PM

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that'll feed into the neopixelSendBuffer function you added?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:15 PM

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yes

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:19 PM

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how do you get that pixel module?

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mine has one called "light"

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are you on a different target?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:19 PM

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on maker.makecode.com

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:19 PM

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oh yea just found i

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stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:19 PM

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but i think i'll just pull in setcolor/setbrightness

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otherwise it's too many blocks for the crickit category

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:21 PM

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right right ok so we are gonna add those 2 blocks

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I thought you meant the existing blocks in the pixel category would feed into crickit lib somehow

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:22 PM

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yeah but i like to have all the crickit under one roof

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:23 PM

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me too

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:25 PM

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sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:31 PM

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perfect! merged in

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:31 PM

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ok merged again

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and bump

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@plush marsh new blocks for you

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I'm probably going to change the API again

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but it's not important for the CPX

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:36 PM

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the neopix api?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:37 PM

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as much as possible, i'd like to be able to send the buffer without any cloning

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currently, seesaw.write does clone the entire buffer

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:37 PM

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is it the appending the offset?

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because if that becomes an issue I can always add new commands to the seesaw firmware

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:38 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-seesaw/blob/master/seesaw.ts#L362

GitHub

adafruit/pxt-seesaw

pxt-seesaw - PXT / MakeCode integration for seesaw - beta

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:38 PM

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oooooh

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yea

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bad

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:38 PM

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it's deeper i need to reserve 2 bytes in my neopixel implementation

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or maybe fix that i2c api to support 2 buffer rather than 1 😃

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(which will be an easier fix)

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hummm, it boils does to a single mbed call

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need to do something about this

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:41 PM

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you mean fix the i2c command structure to be able to accept the 2 byte command in one transaction and then the data in the next transaction?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:41 PM

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i don't know if that's possible. my knowledge of i2c is too "high level"

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we can certinaly improve the seesaw.write to avoid creating all these buffers

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:42 PM

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it's "possible" but it kinda introduces a lot of problems

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:43 PM

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forget about it

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if we have a helper function to allocate a buffer in seesaw, it can leave space for the command - which gets patched by write later on

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the neopixel API is a bit special

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:43 PM

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yea I think the better fix is at the host buffer level

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:44 PM

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also completely unclear that this is a problem in any case

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:44 PM

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I mean It's kind of a problem with the i2c API that's being used IMO

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oh sorry did you mean changing the seesaw firmware i2c api or the mbed or codal i2c api or whatever that's in use

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because yea fixing the mbed or codal (whatever is running on the host) is a good idea

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:47 PM

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I think i am going to deal with this at the Seesaw API level

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:47 PM

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ok sounds good

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:47 PM

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i would need help there 😃

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it boils down to this: https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/core/i2c.cpp#L33

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

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but I'll take something better 😃

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https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-core/blob/master/inc/driver-models/I2C.h

GitHub

lancaster-university/codal-core

Contribute to codal-core development by creating an account on GitHub.

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let's make sure that it all works now and call the I2C improvement a v2

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I don't think we'll recommend kids to solder the jumper so they would not use the CRICKIT driver

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:50 PM

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yea I agree

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:50 PM

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unless you decide to put a slideswitch instead

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:51 PM

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thats a good idea, all the hardware on this board is up to ladyada though

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:51 PM

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could you support some effects on the single neopixel? like glow, heartbeat, blink?

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since it is a EDU board, soldering a switch is a bit to hard core.

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:52 PM

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yea would those effects be coded in at the typescript level?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:52 PM

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no

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it would be a seesaw command to apply on top of the current color I guess

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not sure how that scales to a full neopixel strip but for the one on board

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the Chibi Chip has these kinds of simple effects

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in fact, it could be that you color the LED based on the animation

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glow would cycle through various colors, heartbeat = red blinking, sparkle = random flashes, etc...

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similar to

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sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:55 PM

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what if we baked it into the codal cplay core instead of into the seesaw chip?

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like of course anything is possible, but I'd like to keep the scope of seesaw as general-purpose as possible

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maybe we can all discuss how to implement something like that when you're around here?

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:57 PM

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for sure

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:57 PM

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just before I forget, the current i2c buffer on the seesaw is 32 bytes

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:57 PM

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seesaw needs "custom" op-codes

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 9:58 PM

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so longer buffers currently will break things

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that can be increased of course, but the firmware was designed to fit onto chips with 4k sram and 16k flash

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 9:59 PM

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oh... right, not important right now

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unless someone tries the neopixelSendBuffer and all hell breaks loose

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 10:00 PM

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it should be fine I think

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 10:00 PM

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I think seesaw should integrate FastLED animation. 😃

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 10:01 PM

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but yea the firmware architecture is modular so like we can add specific things like animations and a bunch of DMA neopixel stuff

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just need to make sure I have a clear idea of what it's doing, and that we're putting stuff in the right place before we start adding stuff

stiff hazel May 31, 2018, 10:02 PM

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yeah we can discuss this later

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our pre-baked animation are very popular with beginners. a lot of bang for your bucks

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and most people don't have the CS skills to create cool animation -- they mostly copy/paste examples

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gotta go

sharp hamlet May 31, 2018, 10:04 PM

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cool, catch you later!

stiff hazel Jun 1, 2018, 9:10 PM

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looks like we're done with it. we're planning to push a release next friday so that package will be available in / at that point

plush marsh Jun 5, 2018, 3:49 AM

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@stiff hazel im back from a trip, what image do you want updated?

stiff hazel Jun 5, 2018, 3:50 AM

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The large hero banner on https://MakeCode.adafruit.com . Having a couple blocks somewhere is something that kids recognize

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

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Nothing urgent

plush marsh Jun 5, 2018, 10:29 PM

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@stiff hazel oh got it - a graphics design request not a learn guide request

stiff hazel Jun 5, 2018, 11:14 PM

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correct sorry for the confusion

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 5:40 PM

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@sharp hamlet you there today?

sharp hamlet Jun 6, 2018, 7:13 PM

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hi @stiff hazel yup im in today

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sorry not usually on discord

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 7:19 PM

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Too many messaging apps

sharp hamlet Jun 6, 2018, 7:20 PM

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yea for real :/

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 7:20 PM

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Seesaw PR is ready for review. Note that we can’t use decimal in microbit v0

sharp hamlet Jun 6, 2018, 7:31 PM

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ok great, just gonna go eat real quick and I'll have a look

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is it different than the one I already commented on?

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 8:03 PM

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i added an optional function handler to get the pin wait logic back

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when it's ready and bump, i can finish the pxt-crickit package

sharp hamlet Jun 6, 2018, 8:11 PM

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ok great I'll bump now

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bumped! thanks for keeping the ready pin logic

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 8:21 PM

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could you remove the "targetVersions" entry in https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-seesaw/blob/master/pxt.json#L18 ?

GitHub

adafruit/pxt-seesaw

pxt-seesaw - PXT / MakeCode integration for seesaw - beta

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( i know our CLI adds it right now but I need to fix that)

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(i just did it)

sharp hamlet Jun 6, 2018, 8:31 PM

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ok @stiff hazel you fixed already?

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sorry, in a different world right now

stiff hazel Jun 6, 2018, 10:33 PM

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the crickit changes are ready. please givie a test on HW as well...

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:05 PM

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@stiff hazel hi - im here now, want me to test microbit + crickit?

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:06 PM

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yes please. the changes are in https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-crickit/pull/9

GitHub

Microbit v0 support by pelikhan · Pull Request #9 · adafruit/pxt...

Requires update to seesaw library adafruit/pxt-seesaw#10

This changes updates a few of the block definition to be compatible with microbit v0. Travis is failing because github is throttling pullin...

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:15 PM

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@stiff hazel hmm that PR has travis sad

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should i merge anyways

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:16 PM

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yeah seems like our CLI is getting throttled by github

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i need to figure out how to put a token in there to avoid this.

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it's probably easiest to merge

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:17 PM

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i have tokens

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you need a token?

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like travis/github push token

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or something else

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i also have paid travis

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we give them $ for services 😃 i could move it to travis.com

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i admit i am not a travis expert tho, still learnin it

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:19 PM

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it's probably deeper - i was trying to cross compile the sources with the adafruit and microbit versions of PXT

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:19 PM

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ok well i kicked it

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:21 PM

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403 is github throttling. i don't think our CLI supports passing github tokens in the request currently

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local build should worl

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:41 PM

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@stiff hazel my ocmputer xploded. back now, merged

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do i have to bump/tag anything

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:43 PM

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you need to run "pxt bump" from that repo

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npm install -g pxt

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:43 PM

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oh i dont have a pxt setup locally

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im on window 7

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its basically impossibe

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:44 PM

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oh.... i can bump

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node.js does not install properly on win7?

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:45 PM

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node does but something with pxt failed, i dont remember what but it was a mingw/path problem that like 99 other people were commenting in an issue

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every week "hey any update does this work now?" for like 17 months

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:45 PM

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where is that issue? 😃

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:45 PM

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jeezlemme see if i can find it

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:45 PM

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i've started tracking the makecode forum in adafruit btw

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:46 PM

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i cant find it but its something with npm gyp

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something like https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/280

GitHub

Win7 MingW · Issue #280 · nodejs/node-gyp

Hi,
I have not the option using Visual Studio but I have the option to use the Win7 SDK or a MingW such as TDM-GCC.
Why is GCC supported on linux platforms but not on Windows?
Thanks

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:46 PM

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oh those, it should safely ignore them

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:46 PM

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you cant install node-gyp and its required

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https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/194

GitHub

Support for MinGW/Cygwin as an alternative to Visual Studio · Iss...

node-gyp just needs make and gcc, which are provided by MinGW/Cygwin.
Is MinGW/Cygwin a viable option for node-gyp users instead of the colossal Visual Studio environment?

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etc etc

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we got a guide up for doing it within vagrant

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but ive not had a chance to do it

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:47 PM

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right, our cli relies on node-serial, keytar and node-hid which have native deps, but those should be "optional-dependencies" so it should work without it.

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i guess we should grab a win7 VM and try it out

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 5:48 PM

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i know like nothing about javascript, i somehow managed to completely lose that part of my dev lif

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skipped straight from tcl/perl to python 😃

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maybe ill tray again later, i gotta work on a bunch of testers today

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and i can tell this is a 'need three hours in a row' typa thing

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 5:52 PM

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no worries

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it was king of a headache to cross-compile crickit accross microbit v0 and adafruit . We need to do some work to make sure this is more seamless.

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i've logged a bug on this

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we can probably delay install these things "on demand"

plush marsh Jun 7, 2018, 7:34 PM

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@stiff hazel hey Q, can the crickit library also work in Maker for the feather m0?

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 7:35 PM

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It should since it builds on seesaw. Give me an hour to refresh Maker with the required changes to the field editors.

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i'm also working on removing those native dependencies

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 9:33 PM

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probably more end of day

stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 11:18 PM

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@plush marsh ready for testing

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stiff hazel Jun 7, 2018, 11:48 PM

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@plush marsh i'm working on getting rid of those native dependencies, you should be able to run "pxt pyconv" from your box

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stiff hazel Jun 8, 2018, 3:23 PM

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@plush marsh could we add a section on maker at https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-m0-express-designed-for-circuit-python-circuitpython/uf2-bootloader-details#updating-the-bootloader ?

Adafruit Feather M0 Express - Designed for CircuitPython

Get running faster than ever with the first Adafruit Express board

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and is there a dedicated "UF2 Uber Guide" page -- we're building troubleshooting guides and don't want to duplicate the work.

stiff hazel Jun 8, 2018, 11:06 PM

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@sharp hamlet @plush marsh we are live....

stiff hazel Jun 9, 2018, 5:18 AM

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hi @sharp hamlet i'll have some questions for you about the PDM code (which we finally integrated)

stiff hazel Jun 9, 2018, 5:43 AM

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@plush marsh updated screenshot for servo in CRICKIT

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protractor angle picker

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sharp hamlet Jun 11, 2018, 2:09 PM

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@stiff hazel yaaaaaaaay just checked it out

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regarding PDM code sure thing ask away, I'll probably have to have another look since that was a little while ago

stiff hazel Jun 11, 2018, 2:26 PM

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What is the best way to turn the data you compute into a “sound level”?

sharp hamlet Jun 11, 2018, 4:12 PM

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oh sorry @stiff hazel you can @ me if you want

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otherwise I might not see

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checking now

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I think this should work:

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#include "SAMD21DAC.h"
#include "SAMD21PDM.h"
#include "LevelDetectorSPL.h"

CircuitPlayground cplay;
SAMD21DMAC dmac;
SAMD21PDM microphone(cplay.io.microphoneData, cplay.io.microphoneClock, dmac, 220000, 22000*16);
LevelDetectorSPL level(microphone.output, 95.0, 75.0, 9);

void
onLoud(Event)
{
    cplay.serial.printf("SPL: %d\n", (int)level.getValue());
}


int main()
{
    microphone.enable();

    cplay.messageBus.listen(DEVICE_ID_SYSTEM_LEVEL_DETECTOR_SPL, SPL_LEVEL_THRESHOLD_HIGH, onLoud);

    // All done. Release this fiber back to the scheduler for recycling. 
    release_fiber();
}

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but you're looking to just get the raw SPL right?

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like read it in a loop

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the LevelDetectorSPL stream has a level property that you should be able to read

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I'm not 100% sure what the correct codal way to read a property in a loop is though

plush marsh Jun 11, 2018, 6:13 PM

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@stiff hazel i was resting this weekend

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will look at messages

stiff hazel Jun 11, 2018, 6:29 PM

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Oh nice did not know there was a LevelDetectorSPL!

stiff hazel Jun 12, 2018, 3:12 AM

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Yo @sharp hamlet you in the office tomorrow? We are in Manhattan all day tomorrow.

stiff hazel Jun 12, 2018, 2:51 PM

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@sharp hamlet what is the range of values returned by level.getValue() ?

sharp hamlet Jun 12, 2018, 2:52 PM

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@stiff hazel yup I'm here!

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you're coming by adafruit?

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getValue() returns a float that should be somewhere in the range of ~52 to ~120

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that's gonna depend on the limits of the particular mic, but I think the one on the cplay has a floor around 52

stiff hazel Jun 12, 2018, 2:54 PM

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we're supposed to come this afternoon but maybe we can get in earlier and work F2F. Michal, Richard, Jacqueline arehere too.

sharp hamlet Jun 12, 2018, 3:04 PM

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yea sure thing come by whenever

stiff hazel Jun 12, 2018, 3:04 PM

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sweet, when are you in?

sharp hamlet Jun 12, 2018, 3:05 PM

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or like @grim stream her or something

stiff hazel Jun 12, 2018, 3:05 PM

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thanks, probably at least an hour before any move here. maybe meet for lunch?

sharp hamlet Jun 12, 2018, 3:05 PM

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works for me!

stiff hazel Jun 13, 2018, 12:06 AM

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Great to meet you in person!

sharp hamlet Jun 13, 2018, 4:49 PM

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@stiff hazel great to meet you too! enjoy the rest of your trip

stiff hazel Jun 13, 2018, 4:53 PM

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I’m working on that UART and other broken stuff I saw 😃

plush marsh Jun 13, 2018, 5:12 PM

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@stiff hazel im taking another stab at installing pxt on win7

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using this guide but it could be im wrong

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https://learn.adafruit.com/installing-makecode-for-adafruit/installing-on-debian-derived-desktops

Installing Microsoft MakeCode for Adafruit

A quick overview of installing MakeCode for local use or development.

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but yeah still stuck on npm gyp stuff. and im super node.js ignorant

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ladyada@ladyada301-PC MINGW32 /c/Users/ladyada/Desktop/makecode/pxt
$ npm install
npm WARN prefer global node-ninja@1.0.2 should be installed with -g

> leveldown@1.4.6 install C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\leveldown
> prebuild --install

prebuild WARN install The system cannot find message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2.
prebuild WARN install \\?\C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\leveldown\build\Release\leveldown.node
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp_main.py", line 13, in <module>
    import gyp

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ImportError: No module named gyp
prebuild ERR! configure error
prebuild ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
prebuild ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:345:16)
prebuild ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
prebuild ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
prebuild ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12)
prebuild ERR! not ok
prebuild ERR! build Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
prebuild ERR! build     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:345:16)
prebuild ERR! build     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
prebuild ERR! build     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
prebuild ERR! build     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12)
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"ia32"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: leveldown@1.4.6 (node_modules\leveldown):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: leveldown@1.4.6 install: `prebuild --install`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 3221225477

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but you said maybe gyp's not required?

sharp hamlet Jun 13, 2018, 5:20 PM

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also @stiff hazel I think the pxt npm package may be broken for linux

dean@dean-MS-7995:~/makecode/pxt-adafruit$ node
> 
(To exit, press ^C again or type .exit)
> 
dean@dean-MS-7995:~/makecode/pxt-adafruit$ pxt install
/usr/bin/env: ‘node\r’: No such file or directory
dean@dean-MS-7995:~/makecode/pxt-adafruit$

plush marsh Jun 13, 2018, 5:20 PM

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OMG CRLF STRIES AGAIN

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@sharp hamlet try dos2unix 😃

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is this following brennen's guide?

sharp hamlet Jun 13, 2018, 5:22 PM

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sort of, I'm doing most of the same stuff but from what I did before more than from the guide

plush marsh Jun 13, 2018, 5:22 PM

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okk

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yeah brennen doesnt run pxt install

sharp hamlet Jun 13, 2018, 5:23 PM

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I think dos2unix is only for text files 😦

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I'll need to run pxt commands eventually though

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yea def looks like it's the pxt binary trying to call node with the line ending tacked on

plush marsh Jun 13, 2018, 5:45 PM

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ooh relly

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yah

stiff hazel Jun 13, 2018, 6:41 PM

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Yeah we’ve got a bunch of notes and ideas to improve the experience

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 2:37 AM

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@sharp hamlet i've got a bunch of fixes for you

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update your local pxt-adafruit clone, npm install and build again

git pull
npm install
pxt buildtarget --cloud

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then pxt npminstallnative will correctly install the node-hid library

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-- or -- you can the serial blocks in the editor. They'll do UART over the serial pins.

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in the editor, go to Extensions, add the Serial package to get those blocks.

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it's also live on https://makecode.adafruit.com/beta

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 5:50 AM

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@sharp hamlet try updating your "pxt" package to 0.5.1

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some CRLF sneaked in

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npm update -g pxt

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@plush marsh you can drop the "typings" steps in your install... but really we should write this bash script for you (and test/maintain it with travis)

sharp hamlet Jun 14, 2018, 2:30 PM

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@stiff hazel thanks for the fixes! I'll try in a bit.
the pxt update didn't seem to fix the line ending issue for me :(

sudo npm update -g pxt
/usr/bin/pxt -> /usr/lib/node_modules/pxt/pxt
+ pxt@0.5.1
updated 1 package in 0.244s
dean@dean-MS-7995:~/projects/makecode$ ls
pxt  pxt-adafruit  pxt-common-packages
dean@dean-MS-7995:~/projects/makecode$ cd pxt-adafruit/
dean@dean-MS-7995:~/projects/makecode/pxt-adafruit$ pxt
/usr/bin/env: ‘node\r’: No such file or directory

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 4:23 PM

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@stiff hazel lemme know if yer around today

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im also taking a stab at installing pxt

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i get a lot of

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> prebuild --install

prebuild WARN install The system cannot find message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2.
prebuild WARN install \\?\C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\leveldown\build\Release\leveldown.node
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp_main.py", line 13, in <module>
    import gyp
ImportError: No module named gyp
prebuild ERR! configure error
prebuild ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
prebuild ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:345:16)
prebuild ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
prebuild ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
prebuild ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12)
prebuild ERR! not ok
prebuild ERR! build Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
prebuild ERR! build     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:345:16)
prebuild ERR! build     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
prebuild ERR! build     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
prebuild ERR! build     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12)
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"ia32"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: leveldown@1.4.6 (node_modules\leveldown):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: leveldown@1.4.6 install: `prebui

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gyp sads

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ok dean suggests not using mingw, doing again

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ooh that worked

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 5:31 PM

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i'm here

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actually in the latest versions of PXT, we do not install any native module

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so you should not require gyp of any sort

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 5:53 PM

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@plush marsh give us a day or two to discuss the build / package writing situation

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what is this command? "> prebuild --install"

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 6:47 PM

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@stiff hazel oh heyy!

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i hope i didnt miss you

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yeah we're debugging

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and hid console is not working

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the signals that used to work dont anymore

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 6:48 PM

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i got docs coming your way https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt/pull/4479

GitHub

pxt Gdb docs by pelikhan · Pull Request #4479 · Microsoft/pxt

A straw man docs. @mmoskal can you beef up?

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 6:48 PM

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these things

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📎 unknown.png

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so trying to get hid console up

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still getting errors tho

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C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit>pxt hidserial
Using target adafruit with build engine codal
  target: v1.1.38 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit
  pxt-core: v3.19.4 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\
pxt-core
INTERNAL ERROR: TypeError: hid.devices is not a function
    at getHF2Devices (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_module
s\pxt-core\built\hid.js:60:23)
    at HidIO.connect (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_module
s\pxt-core\built\hid.js:138:24)
    at new HidIO (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\px
t-core\built\hid.js:132:14)
    at hf2ConnectAsync (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modu
les\pxt-core\built\hid.js:80:29)
    at initAsync (C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\px
t-core\built\hid.js:98:18)
....

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 6:51 PM

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right, "hidserial" in particular relies on node-hid which is a native NPM module so that won't work for you

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use the new "serial" blocks (add the extension) and do traditional UART printf debugging

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 6:51 PM

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ok

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but i need the printfs within my seesaw.ts

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will that work?

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ok added

📎 unknown.png

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@stiff hazel so

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📎 unknown.png

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?

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 6:55 PM

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yeah, then you can use "console.log" in seesaw

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 6:57 PM

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where do i attach?

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i tried sending messages and dont see anything on TX but my code is running

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📎 unknown.png

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simulator has messages but nothing on my skope

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@stiff hazel ??? :/

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im using RX and TX pads on CPX

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:01 PM

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yes it should work on TX/RX but i added that yesterady on the plane and I haven't test it yet

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:01 PM

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oh

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ok

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:02 PM

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https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/serial/serial.cpp

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

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https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/serial/serial.cpp#L57

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:03 PM

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@stiff hazel well, i want to debug one thing at a time 😃 is there any other way to get console messages?

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even the hid console would be bettern nothing

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:04 PM

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if you are able to install "node-hid", this would work. but it seems that you can't get the gyp stuff to work. We should really fix this serial.

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lemme see if i got the pins right

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:05 PM

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i think you got the pin right because it pulls high

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:05 PM

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    export const PIN_RX = DAL.PB09;
    export const PIN_TX = DAL.PB08;

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:06 PM

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one moment

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:06 PM

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oh... is there anything in https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/serial/serial.cpp#L36 ? it's going to be much more reliable to rely on UART than node-hid

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:07 PM

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dont understand your Q 'is there anything'

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:07 PM

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is there any kind of configuration on the TX/RX pins we can do in the constructor of WSerial to fix the pull up issue?

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:07 PM

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DAL pins are right

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nono the pull up is good

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it means that the TX pins has been 'set' somehow

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it is normal

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the TX pin is being driven

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just no data coming out

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i mean, i dont know if the pinmux is being set right but having the pin driven high is a sign that at least the right pin is being twoddled with

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:10 PM

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yeah, i think there's a default pull sepcified in CODAL and it might be the culprit here

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:10 PM

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i dont know that my hidserial problem is gyp related

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seems like its a mismatched type?

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i mean id rather have serial too

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just FYI

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C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit>pxt hidserial
Using target adafruit with build engine codal
  target: v1.1.38 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit
  pxt-core: v3.19.3 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\
pxt-core
INTERNAL ERROR: TypeError: hid.devices is not a function

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:12 PM

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right basically we failed to load "node-hid" -- which is very strange because I taught to have fixed this :)
try

pxt hidserial --debug

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:13 PM

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C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit>pxt hidserial --debug
Using target adafruit with build engine codal
  target: v1.1.38 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit
  pxt-core: v3.19.3 C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\
pxt-core
debug mode
INTERNAL ERROR: TypeError: hid.devices is not a function

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i may not have installed something

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i dont know nodejs or npm at all

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luckily typescript is c-like enough i can write the code 😃

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just not the workflow

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:15 PM

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try

pxt npminstallnative

let's see if those tools install.

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i feel bad wasting your time here

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we're having a discussion about improving this.

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:18 PM

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yah i did the npm installnative thing

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ok heres what i get

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C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit>npm install node-hid
npm ERR! path C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\node-h
id\build\Release\HID.node
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -4048
npm ERR! syscall unlink
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop
\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\node-hid\build\Release\HID.node'
npm ERR!  { Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\Users\ladyada\Desk
top\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\node-hid\build\Release\HID.node'
npm ERR!   cause:
npm ERR!    { Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\Users\ladyada\De
sktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\node_modules\node-hid\build\Release\HID.node'
npm ERR!      errno: -4048,
npm ERR!      code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR!      syscall: 'unlink',
npm ERR!      path: 'C:\\Users\\ladyada\\Desktop\\makecode\\pxt-adafruit\\node_m
odules\\node-hid\\build\\Release\\HID.node' },
npm ERR!   stack: 'Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink \'C:\\Users\\la
dyada\\Desktop\\makecode\\pxt-adafruit\\node_modules\\node-hid\\build\\Release\\
HID.node\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -4048,
npm ERR!   code: 'EPERM',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'unlink',
npm ERR!   path: 'C:\\Users\\ladyada\\Desktop\\makecode\\pxt-adafruit\\node_modu
les\\node-hid\\build\\Release\\HID.node',
npm ERR!   parent: 'pxt-adafruit' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\ladyada\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-06-14T19_15_3
7_977Z-debug.log

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we'll figure this out eventually

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maybe ill try cmd as admin

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:19 PM

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lunch time here

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:19 PM

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yah me too!

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i got a bagel roll tuna melt

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its gooooooooooooood

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:19 PM

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but i'll try to dig into this UART thing

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:20 PM

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oki

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i want to add stepper support

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:20 PM

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cafeteria food, ymmo

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:20 PM

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hmm nope i cant isntall node-hide in admin mode either

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 7:20 PM

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it's a dead end, UART is more universal

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 7:20 PM

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yah ok

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i will take a break

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and do other stuff!

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 8:04 PM

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yes please

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let us try to get UART working from here

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 8:21 PM

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We did a pass on the docs to use GDB to debug a MakeCode generated firmware: https://makecode.com/cli/gdb

Microsoft MakeCode

pxt-gdb Manual Page - Microsoft MakeCode

Attempt to start OpenOCD and GDB

sharp hamlet Jun 14, 2018, 8:26 PM

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very helpful, thanks!

plush marsh Jun 14, 2018, 9:03 PM

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@stiff hazel ok can you send an emal when you feel that UART is ready to test?

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 9:07 PM

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we're looking into it. trying to find USB to TTL cable

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if crickit has issue right now, we could go back to a previous working tag

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would give us a bit more time to fix this

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 10:55 PM

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it was a silly bug on my side, fix coming in 20 min

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 11:27 PM

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here's the fix . https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/serial/serial.cpp#L49 we'll have to dig deeper what goes on in the codal layer

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

stiff hazel Jun 14, 2018, 11:58 PM

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I've bump the fix in. pull the repoes and try again

#

@plush marsh fyi

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v1.1.39 in https://makecode.adafruit.com/beta

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

ionic ocean Jun 15, 2018, 2:12 AM

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Hello! I'm trying to get my feather to work with the muscle sensor. I copied the code from the "sup brows" exercise, but it's not working... maybe because I have an nrf52?

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 3:54 AM

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Is that in maker.makecode.com?

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@sharp hamlet try to uninstall the PXT package (local and global with -g) and npm install -g again

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 4:31 AM

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@stiff hazel I heard a rumor you had a tough timer bug. I live in Ballard (in Seattle) and would be happy to visit Redmond to help hunt it down.

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 4:32 AM

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That’d be great! We’d love to have you as guest. What day works for you?

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 4:44 AM

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@stiff hazel Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays are best

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 4:51 AM

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Tomorrow is open if that works you. I get in around 10ish

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 4:52 AM

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@stiff hazel I can do that. Email me scott@adafruit.com what time and where. 😃

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:00 PM

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@sharp hamlet "pxt hidserial" is back alive in pxt-adafruit 1.1.40. I've also added "pxt console" that does HID+serial.

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that's assuming installing those actually succeeds on your box

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:16 PM

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@stiff hazel thanks - dean's out today

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ill check the serial stuff later!

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@stiff hazel do i have to re=run any npm commands or just git pull all three pxt-* repos

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and then pxt serve --cloud

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:20 PM

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well unless you are trying to make changes in our repoes, you should be good by doing "npm install" from "pxt-adafruit"

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no linking required

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:21 PM

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no changes to yer cod

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ok did npm install and then serv

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@stiff hazel hmm trying to DOWNLOAD my serial demo code from yesterday

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but..not working?

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like DOWNLOD Button is spinner

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and console sez

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---------------------------------------------
opening http://localhost:3232/#local_token=334aa0f8-a3a8-4b81-a080-970e65559260&
wsport=3233
offline HEX not found: C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\built\hexc
ache\47eb158323e163296e3cec91ed32b95a408274d7cc990d2965f028c3b67ab959.hex
offline HEX not found: C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\built\hexc
ache\47eb158323e163296e3cec91ed32b95a408274d7cc990d2965f028c3b67ab959.hex
offline HEX not found: C:\Users\ladyada\Desktop\makecode\pxt-adafruit\built\hexc
ache\47eb158323e163296e3cec91ed32b95a408274d7cc990d2965f028c3b67ab959.hex
ws connection at /334aa0f8-a3a8-4b81-a080-970e65559260/hid

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:24 PM

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oh crap, hold on

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:24 PM

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do i have to clean anythin

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:24 PM

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let me try to reproduce your environment and test it on my side. i'll ping you when it's fully tested on my side

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:25 PM

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oki

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i could have Done Something Wrong

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(shrug)

#

l8r alig8r

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:28 PM

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this one seems to work:

let i = 0;
serial.attachToConsole()
forever(function () {
    console.log((++i).toString())
})

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jhalleux@PELI-YOGA MINGW64 /c/gh/pxt-adafruit (master)
$ pxt console
Using target adafruit with build engine codal
target: v1.1.40 C:\gh\pxt-adafruit
pxt-core: v3.19.6 C:\gh\pxt
monitoring console.log
HF2: Connected; msgSize 256B; flash 0kB; application mode
HF2: Board-ID: SAMD21G18A-CPlay-v0 v1.22.0 fSFHR
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hold that's receiving data through HID

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:32 PM

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still not compiling?

#

📎 unknown.png

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:33 PM

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we did check on the scope yesterday and UART seemed to work fine there.

#

it should be immediate

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:33 PM

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maybe ill restart pxt

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:33 PM

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on https://makecode.adafruit.com/beta

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:33 PM

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how do i clear cache

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nono im on local

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so i can debug/add stuff

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:35 PM

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yes if you are local, make sure to "git pull" both microsoft/pxt and microsoft/pxt-common-packages

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:36 PM

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yeah i did...

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:36 PM

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fix was here: https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/0fa1a89fe71f4dcb246886e12a26edf321a660bd/libs/serial/serial.cpp#L49

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:36 PM

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📎 unknown.png

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 6:37 PM

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env PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages arm-none-eabi-gdb-py ~/repos/circuitpython/ports/atmel-samd/build-metro_m4_express/firmware.elf

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:37 PM

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yeah somethign is super weird - not even able to load pxt locally anymore

#

📎 unknown.png

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ill quit browser

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:38 PM

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run "pxt clean" to nuke the built folder

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:38 PM

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ok done

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 6:39 PM

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.gdbinit

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source ~/repos/PyCortexMDebug/cmdebug/svd_gdb.py
define svd21g
  svd_load ~/Downloads/Atmel.SAMD21_DFP.1.2.280/samd21a/svd/ATSAMD21G18A.svd
end
define svd51g
  svd_load ~/Downloads/Atmel.SAMD51_DFP.1.0.70/svd/ATSAMD51G19A.svd
end
define svd51j
  svd_load ~/Downloads/Atmel.SAMD51_DFP.1.0.70/svd/ATSAMD51J19A.svd
end
tar ext :2331

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:40 PM

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@stiff hazel ok launches but...still no dowloadin'

#

📎 unknown.png

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:41 PM

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if you press F12 (Chrome has the best debugger), you should see some error messages

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did you launch "pxt serve --cloud" ?

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:42 PM

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yah

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Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://localhost:3233/334aa0f8-a3a8-4b81-a080-970e65559260/hid.

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:42 PM

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use http://localhost:3232/index.html?dbg=1 to turn logging

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 6:42 PM

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@hollow oracle can you post the svd gdbinit changes you made?

hollow oracle Jun 15, 2018, 6:43 PM

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here's my file. you need to fetch the other files from the usual places

📎 gdbinit

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 6:45 PM

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kk, we got it going

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:53 PM

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@plush marsh do http://localhost:3232/index.html?nolocalhost=1 to disable HID

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:58 PM

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hey i gotta go to some meetin's

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but ill try again later tonite!

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thanx 😃

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 6:58 PM

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i'll look into this HID thing. the server should gracelly fail since you don't have it installed

plush marsh Jun 15, 2018, 6:59 PM

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np 😃

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 10:20 PM

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@stiff hazel I made a MakeCode role to add you as a separate list on the right side

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let me know who else to add

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 10:23 PM

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cool

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@sleek rampart

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 10:41 PM

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added @sleek rampart

stiff hazel Jun 15, 2018, 10:42 PM

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that's it for now, unless Dean wants to join.

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 10:43 PM

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kk, repo is here: https://github.com/adafruit/samd-peripherals

GitHub

adafruit/samd-peripherals

samd-peripherals - A thin API above SAMD peripherals that is uniform across SAMD21 and SAMD51

sleek rampart Jun 15, 2018, 11:02 PM

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@tenn

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@snow island thanks for adding me! You look much older in the picture 😉

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 11:03 PM

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😃 its the black and white

sleek rampart Jun 15, 2018, 11:03 PM

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yeah... you tell me ;))

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 11:06 PM

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there are definitely asf and micropython leaks into this code

hollow oracle Jun 15, 2018, 11:48 PM

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@snow island do you want to eventually remove "MicroPython" refs from the samd-peripherals boilerplate and #include guards?

snow island Jun 15, 2018, 11:48 PM

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yup

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just wanted to get it split out first

stiff hazel Jun 16, 2018, 1:41 AM

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It is going to take some time to find a contractor anyhow. Thanks for jumping on this!

pearl oasis Jun 16, 2018, 8:36 PM

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Hi

I'm trying to run my own version of PXT-Maker on a Heroku server, does anyone know the commands needed to do it or do you have an example?

stiff hazel Jun 18, 2018, 4:17 PM

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you can use pxt staticpkg to generate a "static file web site" from the editor

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@plush marsh I have update README.md with simpler instructions to get a local server running

sharp hamlet Jun 18, 2018, 9:30 PM

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@stiff hazel pxt on linux is fixed now after removing existing files and reinstalling, thanks!

sharp hamlet Jun 18, 2018, 9:58 PM

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yay I got hidserial working again as well

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just FYI I switched pretty much exclusively to linux due to all the build environment problems I had with various projects, so I'll be trying to develop the makecode stuff on there as well

stiff hazel Jun 18, 2018, 10:00 PM

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Michal is on Linux and we've got some Mac users so you should be good.

sharp hamlet Jun 18, 2018, 10:01 PM

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great! so pxt serve --cloud works fine

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but what was the extra commands I had to run in order to build codal stuff locally?

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jake something something

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I just forget the order and don't want to mess it up

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or wait I think maybe I don't have to do any of that

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I just did pxt serve and I think it built

stiff hazel Jun 18, 2018, 10:06 PM

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do you need codal locally? unless you write C++, you don't need it

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in the latest version, you can simply do "pxt serve"

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and it will use our cloud to build by default

sharp hamlet Jun 18, 2018, 10:07 PM

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yea I don't need it really

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just wanted to try

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but it's fine I'll stick with the cloud compile until I need to mess with codal

stiff hazel Jun 18, 2018, 10:09 PM

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you build locally by doing "pxt serve --local" but you'll need to setup CODAL first

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and that's another story

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i beefed up the readme at https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-adafruit

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-adafruit

pxt-adafruit - Microsoft MakeCode editor for Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

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also you can use "console.log(...)" in your code and see the output using "pxt console"

sharp hamlet Jun 18, 2018, 10:10 PM

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great I'll try that soon when I need to do stuff. Thanks!

vital flame Jun 20, 2018, 12:58 AM

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Augh, has something changed recently? Broken extension...

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namely, code that used to work now no longer shows the included library drawer.
The project that defined it in custom.ts now no longer shows the drawer either.

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@stiff hazel do you have any insight? URL is https://makecode.com/_caFEHKauDEfs

PXT/adafruit

CLIQ - Microsoft MakeCode

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 1:18 AM

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It seems to load for me. What are the missing blocks?

vital flame Jun 20, 2018, 1:37 AM

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The CLIQ block defined in custom.ts

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err, the drawer of blocks - it should be yellow

vital flame Jun 20, 2018, 2:01 AM

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I expect to see this, but I don't.

📎 img_5b148ca7f00c7.png

vital flame Jun 20, 2018, 4:55 AM

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@stiff hazel do you see the drawer in your window?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 5:27 AM

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ok i can repro the crash, looking

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 5:44 AM

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looks like a regression introduced in the latest update. i've filed an issue

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https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-adafruit/issues/782

GitHub

Namespace with capital letter not showing up in toolbox · Issue #...

The custom drawer does not show, but renaming "Cliq" to "cliq" fixes the issue. https://makecode.com/_caFEHKauDEfs

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renaming your namespace from "Cliq" to "cliq" in typescript fixes the issue.

plush marsh Jun 20, 2018, 6:36 PM

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@stiff hazel @sleek rampart ok i know im doing somethign wrong but i cant figur eout what 😄

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my win7 install was in dethspiral so i -> win 10

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but now i can do webusb!!!

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so i went to https://makecode.adafruit.com/beta?webusb=1

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

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in Chrome 67, but it isnt webusbing

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i thought ya'll mentioned chrome re-re-enabled it?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 6:42 PM

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Right something changed and it does not seem to work in win10 right now

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@sleek rampart fyi

plush marsh Jun 20, 2018, 6:47 PM

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oh ok whew thats fine

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:15 PM

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hey @stiff hazel q for you

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:15 PM

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yo wassup

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:15 PM

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looks like some stuff in pxt-seesaw got broken when microbit support got added

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:15 PM

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heads up: i'm leaving on vacation friday, back in september

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yeah i might have done that

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:15 PM

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mainly

function getFormat(pychar: string, isBig: boolean) {
        switch (pychar) {
            case 'B':
                return NumberFormat.UInt8LE
            case 'b':
                return NumberFormat.Int8LE
            case 'H':
                return isBig ? NumberFormat.UInt16BE : NumberFormat.UInt16LE
            case 'h':
                return isBig ? NumberFormat.Int16BE : NumberFormat.Int16LE
            //case 'I':
            //case 'L':
            //    return isBig ? NumberFormat.UInt32BE : NumberFormat.UInt32LE
            case 'i':
            case 'l':
                return isBig ? NumberFormat.Int32BE : NumberFormat.Int32LE
            //case 'f':
            //    return isBig ? NumberFormat.Float32BE : NumberFormat.Float32LE
            //case 'd':
            //    return isBig ? NumberFormat.Float64BE : NumberFormat.Float64LE
            default:
                return null as NumberFormat
        }
    }

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:16 PM

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do you use those values? microbit does not support floats

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:16 PM

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so this:

public digitalWriteBulk(pinSet: number, value: boolean) {
            let cmd = packBuffer(">I", [pinSet])
            if (value) {
                this.write(_GPIO_BASE, _GPIO_BULK_SET, cmd)
            } else {
                this.write(_GPIO_BASE, _GPIO_BULK_CLR, cmd)
            }

        }

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is a 32 bit number

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what should I do to avoid having to use that?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:16 PM

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right...

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try uncommenting those lines

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and we'll figure out microbit

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:17 PM

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ok sounds good to me! wow long vacation

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that sounds great

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:17 PM

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it's like a special treat when you've survived microsoft for a long time

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:18 PM

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:+) have fun!

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using the uart logging right now soooooo helpful

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thanks!

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:19 PM

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knocking down the basics

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hopefully, webusb comes in soonish

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:29 PM

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ok I've fixed pxt-seesaw and bumped the version req for pxt-crickit

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maybe I did everything right this time

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 9:29 PM

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one way to know: test it in the editor with a new script and look into the Explorer

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 9:34 PM

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just can't get travis to pass: https://travis-ci.org/adafruit/pxt-seesaw

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o

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seesaw.ts(90,69): error TS2339: Property 'UInt32LE' does not exist on type 'typeof NumberFormat'.```

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ok well I'm just gonna remove the microbit testing for now...

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because we already know I just broke it by adding in things it doesn't support

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and typescript isn't into #ifdefs

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so there's no way fir the typechecker to know which architecture we're on

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right?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:01 PM

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nope not right now. they need to be added and shipped in microbit.

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@vital flame you problem is fixed in https://makecode.adafruit.com/beta

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

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@sharp hamlet one way to fix this is to completely skip this packBuffer stuff

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for this particular function

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:04 PM

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yea I would have to do all the buffer creation further up in the call stack

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just make sure no 32 bit numbers are getting thrown around

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and any time one would be created just make a buffer[4] and use buffer.fill() or whatever

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:06 PM

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our buffer class has functionality to read and write numbers with a particular format

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of course.... it's missing those Uin32 definitions.

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lemme see

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:07 PM

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other quick q does makecode forever loop run on a timer?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:08 PM

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pseudo code?

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:08 PM

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when I do ```forever(function () {
crickit.signal1.digitalWrite(false)
crickit.signal1.digitalWrite(true)
})

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:08 PM

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it runs a fiber with a 20ms pause

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:08 PM

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ok that was my guess

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:09 PM

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control.runInBackground(() => {
   while(true) {
            f()
           pause(20)
}

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:09 PM

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I get a duty cycle wit like 29ms/2.6ms

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(29ms high and 2.6ms low)

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:09 PM

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https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/0f3a9faaff49cf42eab172d6f72e7981dc7a01ce/libs/core/codal.cpp#L138

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:10 PM

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doesn't matter at all we're not gonna bitbang with blocks I was just curious and wanted to verify

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:11 PM

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pause is imprecise, you want control.waitUs for real time sleep

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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cool so for now removing the microbit tests is acceptable right?

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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yeah

sharp hamlet Jun 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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and when we get the microbit hardware we'll make it work or something

stiff hazel Jun 20, 2018, 10:16 PM

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yes, you'll just need to implement those specific API or clone the pacakge until we ship the updated editor formicrobit

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which will have floating point and make things easier to share

vital flame Jun 21, 2018, 12:14 AM

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Thanks @stiff hazel I'll do the workaround for now.

serene birch Jun 25, 2018, 10:41 PM

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Hello, anyone who can help me to code a simple GATT periephiall with two services

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?

snow island Jun 27, 2018, 6:53 PM

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@sleek rampart Is this blocked on a rebase? https://github.com/Microsoft/uf2/pull/2

GitHub

Convert to Python3. Use PEP8 naming conventions and formatting. by...

I've been playing with CircuitPython and the Circuit Playground Express. Wanting to flash the device with a new build I ran across this script.
As a courtesy I've converted it from Python 2...

mellow herald Jun 27, 2018, 6:55 PM

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does anyone know how I can type keys like windows key and crtl with the make code keyboard extention

sleek rampart Jun 27, 2018, 8:51 PM

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@snow island yes, it was against an old version. I started porting latest version but didn't finish - too much python for me... see https://github.com/Microsoft/uf2/pull/7

GitHub

[DNM] Start Python3 port by mmoskal · Pull Request #7 · Microsof...

CC @tannewt

snow island Jun 27, 2018, 8:52 PM

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@sleek rampart anything specific I can help with?

sleek rampart Jun 27, 2018, 8:53 PM

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yeah... just run it 😉 when converting I get the wrong file size, probably something about unicode

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I would like it to work on p2 and p3

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not very high priority for me right now though...

snow island Jun 27, 2018, 8:53 PM

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kk, I may have time today to look

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I have python2 setup less and less so its a pain that it doesn't work with python3

sleek rampart Jun 27, 2018, 8:54 PM

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right, makes sense

snow island Jun 27, 2018, 8:56 PM

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I'll try and look at it this week

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on the hunt for memory optimizations at the moment

austere flame Jun 28, 2018, 5:21 PM

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is there a way to read slide switch position? (other than the event driven block)
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=137576

hollow oracle Jun 28, 2018, 7:42 PM

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@austere flame doesn't look like it, but you could set a variable in the event-driven block to record the state. Have two event blocks: one for move left, one for move right, both set the same variable to different values

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@austere flame do you want to answer it or me?

austere flame Jun 28, 2018, 7:44 PM

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neat hack! you can if you want.

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guess the same trick would be needed for buttons A/B

hollow oracle Jun 28, 2018, 7:45 PM

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there is a "button A/B is pressed" value block, but there is not something similar for the slide switch; seems like an oversight

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there is even a "button A/B WAS pressed" value thing

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@austere flame answered

austere flame Jun 28, 2018, 7:58 PM

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thanks!

hollow oracle Jun 29, 2018, 2:40 AM

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@stiff hazel See https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=137576 There doesn't seem to be an easy way to check the slide-switch position without using an event block in CPX in MakeCode. Where should we file an issue for this kind of thing? Tnx.

sleek rampart Jun 29, 2018, 3:10 PM

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@hollow oracle file it in pxt-adafruit github. Should be easy to fix.

hollow oracle Jun 29, 2018, 3:11 PM

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@sleek rampart Forum poster has already filed a PR with you: https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/pull/369

sleek rampart Jun 29, 2018, 3:57 PM

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Oh, thank you! Merged into common packages but will take a while to get into CPX editor release

narrow bay Jun 29, 2018, 4:06 PM

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👋 PR filer here. How often are the releases?

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No rush or anything, I found another workaround... just curious

sleek rampart Jun 30, 2018, 2:12 AM

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@narrow bay we usually release one target every week; there is around 6 targets

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(target is editor like CPX or Microbit)

plush marsh Jul 3, 2018, 12:54 AM

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@sleek rampart ping are you around?

sleek rampart Jul 3, 2018, 1:00 AM

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@plush marsh yes

plush marsh Jul 3, 2018, 1:00 AM

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hiii!

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w.r.t. arcade+pi is that still ok to post

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i wanted to wait since you had some things, i didnt see an announcement?

sharp hamlet Jul 3, 2018, 6:47 PM

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hey hey @sleek rampart I have a Q for you:
jamesdevine updated some I2C stuff he says should be just for the circuitplayground board and not for other samd21 boards but if I update this file
https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages/blob/master/libs/core/platform.h
to override the I2C object and use the new one I think it will mess up I2C for all non-cplay samd boards

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-common-packages

pxt-common-packages - Common packages for Microsoft MakeCode editors

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do you have any idea how I might be able to override the I2C object for just the cplay boards?

sleek rampart Jul 3, 2018, 6:48 PM

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@sharp hamlet All SAMD21 boards in MakeCode use the codal-circuit-playground codal target.

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It's a bit confusing...

sharp hamlet Jul 3, 2018, 6:48 PM

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ok gr8 I will pr then

sharp hamlet Jul 3, 2018, 7:16 PM

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@sleek rampart do you know of a stepper motor package that exists for makecode?

sharp hamlet Jul 3, 2018, 9:00 PM

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@sleek rampart never mind on that ^
but do you know if there's any way to show typescript errors in the web editor?

sharp hamlet Jul 3, 2018, 9:17 PM

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wait can I not use the modulo (%) operator in makecode???

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nm that's not it... the issue is that typechecker isn't throwing errors in VS Code or when I run pxt deploy but when try to use in makecode it's saying the file has an error, but won't tell me what the error is

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ok the issue was I was doing array.length() instead of array.length

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not sure why it passed one and not the other

sleek rampart Jul 3, 2018, 10:09 PM

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@sharp hamlet go to Explorer on thr left, built, output.txt

snow island Jul 13, 2018, 5:05 PM

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@sleek rampart https://github.com/Microsoft/uf2/pull/8#pullrequestreview-135144671

GitHub

Move to python3 by tannewt · Pull Request #8 · Microsoft/uf2

queen steppe Jul 14, 2018, 2:27 AM

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hello

void zenith Jul 14, 2018, 11:06 AM

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hi everybody i wanna learn this coding

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does anybody has a great tutorial

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cuz im stuck

void zenith Jul 14, 2018, 12:37 PM

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ok i found some source

peak ermine Jul 14, 2018, 1:37 PM

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It would be great if there was a way to add comments to the MakeCode programs. Commenting is, in MHO, a critical and often overlooked aspect of writing code.
Comments help clarify code (especially when advanced techniques are used), help others understand what the programer’s intent was, and help the programer remember what they were thinking at the time. Any chance a commenting command could be added to MakeCode?

hollow oracle Jul 14, 2018, 1:40 PM

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@peak ermine If you right-click, you'll get a menu that includes "Add Comment".

📎 unknown.png

peak ermine Jul 14, 2018, 2:41 PM

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@hollow oracle Ok Thanks, I totally missed that one. However, I would like to see text that you could leave ON the screen next to a block of code. I have been using the "Advanced->Text->Text Bubble" to accomplish this but it's not a very elegant solution.

hollow oracle Jul 14, 2018, 2:44 PM

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I am not sure what you mean. The comment rectangle added by "Add Comment" does stick around. Here's an example: https://makecode.adafruit.com/52156-31424-70837-37197

PXT/adafruit

Untitled - Microsoft MakeCode

peak ermine Jul 14, 2018, 2:50 PM

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@hollow oracle OK, just been playing around with it and found you can add comments to ALL the blocks. Need to do more investigating. I did not realize the text would stay on the screen until you tell it to go away. Thanks!

hollow oracle Jul 14, 2018, 2:51 PM

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sure, no prob. I did not right-click on the block, I right-clicked on the background. But I see there are attached comments and standalone comments

📎 unknown.png

peak ermine Jul 14, 2018, 2:56 PM

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@hollow oracle OK, Got It! Thanks again.

sharp hamlet Jul 16, 2018, 8:46 PM

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hey @sleek rampart I've got pxt-crickit and pxt-seesaw working on microbit!
https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-seesaw
https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-crickit

GitHub

adafruit/pxt-seesaw

pxt-seesaw - PXT / MakeCode integration for seesaw - beta

GitHub

adafruit/pxt-crickit

pxt-crickit - pxt package for crickit platform - beta

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do you know how we can get them to appear in the microbit extension manager?

sleek rampart Jul 16, 2018, 8:58 PM

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@sharp hamlet there is some approval process. Jonny Austin would know more...

sharp hamlet Jul 16, 2018, 9:02 PM

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ok I'll email him then, thanks!

lime plaza Jul 21, 2018, 9:51 PM

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What is involved with creating a MakeCode extension for Bluefruit LE? Is it reasonable to pull pxt-seesaw from Git (https://github.com/adafruit/pxt-seesaw) as a starting point, and then replace the seesaw.ts file with one that largely draws from Firmata PinI/O?
Referencing:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BLE_PinIO
or
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BLE_PinIO/tree/master/examples/CircuitPlayground_nrf51822

The extension probably would look a lot like Networking.Serial with an event handler and a Send() function.

Any tips or advice before jumping into this?

GitHub

adafruit/Adafruit_BLE_PinIO

Adafruit_BLE_PinIO - Modified Firmata code to work with Adafruit's Bluefruit LE Modules

GitHub

adafruit/Adafruit_BLE_PinIO

Adafruit_BLE_PinIO - Modified Firmata code to work with Adafruit's Bluefruit LE Modules

sleek rampart Jul 22, 2018, 1:41 AM

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@lime plaza copying seesaw sounds like a good idea; best to avoid C++ - sticking to TypeScript generally makes things simpler in MakeCode

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@lime plaza you can take a look at pxt-common-packages if you wonder how to specify blocks etc

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@lime plaza we're working on authoring packages hosted on github directly in the browser, so this should be much simpler in a month or so

snow island Jul 23, 2018, 5:40 PM

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@sleek rampart https://github.com/Microsoft/uf2/pull/8

GitHub

Move to python3 by tannewt · Pull Request #8 · Microsoft/uf2

sleek rampart Jul 23, 2018, 8:43 PM

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@snow island merged; sorry for delay

snow island Jul 23, 2018, 8:49 PM

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@sleek rampart thanks! no problem

dusk coral Jul 25, 2018, 11:05 PM

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Yay Python 3 😃

eternal dune Jul 26, 2018, 5:03 PM

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Any ideas why makecode would be having issues with a servo on crickit? All it does so far is twitch.. tried both the web version and the windows app...

plush marsh Jul 27, 2018, 1:16 AM

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@eternal dune can you try circuitpython? some people have had issues but not sure exactly whats up. i think its a bug in the makecode library - and the crickits are fine 😃

eternal dune Jul 27, 2018, 2:31 PM

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@plush marsh I think the bug is in the library too. The Crickits are working GREAT with circuit python, just wanted to test functionality on both systems so my students have options in the fall. Thanks!

mellow herald Jul 28, 2018, 1:43 PM

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I'm getting significant slowdown on the Makecode for CPX app on Windows. Almost unusable.

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My PC is definitely powerful enough to run this.

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📎 unknown.png

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After a reset on the same program

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📎 unknown.png

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Something is chewing up resources

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Unusable

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This is completely unresponsive and I can't figure out why.

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Also my mouse cursor disappears occasionally.

slow rivet Jul 30, 2018, 4:16 PM

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@austere flame Might as well move the thread here. I'm still getting that same behavior.

plush marsh Jul 30, 2018, 4:38 PM

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@eternal dune when you have a moment please share the makecode you're using with the crickit - so we can test it here too

eternal dune Jul 30, 2018, 7:41 PM

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@plush marsh Makecode, Javascript, uf2?

eternal dune Jul 30, 2018, 8:03 PM

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📎 Darman1238.uf2

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📎 Makecode_Crickit_Servo.PNG

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and I forgot an extra pause at the end.... nvm

storm monolith Jul 30, 2018, 9:16 PM

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I was having trouble with makecode on the crickit this weekend. Specifically motors not turning off. Things worked fine with circuit python.

plush marsh Jul 30, 2018, 9:51 PM

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@eternal dune can you toss another pause after the second move

eternal dune Jul 30, 2018, 10:41 PM

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@plush marsh I did, and it works now... whoops

plush marsh Jul 30, 2018, 10:43 PM

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oh gr8!

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does that make sense?

pearl oasis Jul 31, 2018, 12:30 AM

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Hi Does anyone have an example of how to read via SPI in makecode?

eternal dune Jul 31, 2018, 2:09 PM

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It makes total sense, I was just brain farting and needed some rubber duck debugging on here 😛

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@pearl oasis Are you trying to read after sending a command? I found this block under pins. Not sure if that's what you want? Block desrciption is:
"Writes a given command to the SPI bus, and afterwards reads the response."

📎 spi.PNG

pearl oasis Jul 31, 2018, 3:16 PM

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@eternal dune Yes, but I do not know exactly how it works, it has two input buffer arguments

pearl oasis Jul 31, 2018, 7:39 PM

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I have SPI working, but in the SERCOM4 default pins, how can I change that?

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📎 IMG_20180731_134912839.jpg

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the change in config.ts does not work

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How do I choose the SERCOM?

sleek rampart Aug 1, 2018, 12:54 AM

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@pearl oasis SERCOM should be chosen automatically depending which pins you select, but as I said it seems mbed doesn't do it very well...

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@mellow herald there is an issue in Edge (which is also used to render the app) on RS4 version of Windows; it's fixed in RS5 (not yet released) and will be backported to RS4 I'm told; not sure about the timeline. I suggest to use Chrome in the meantime...

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@mellow herald you can use this for auto-flashing in that case https://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneClickDeployForMakeCodeAndTheAmazingAdaFruitCircuitPlaygroundExpress.aspx or try webusb

One click deploy for MakeCode and the amazing AdaFruit Circuit Pla...

There's a ton of great open source hardware solutions out there. Often they're used to teach kids how to code, but ...

mellow herald Aug 1, 2018, 1:02 AM

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@sleek rampart I simply set my chrome downloads folder to the CPX

sleek rampart Aug 1, 2018, 1:06 AM

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yeah, that also works

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I guess simpler

pearl oasis Aug 1, 2018, 1:14 AM

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@sleek rampart Can change directly on the mbed code? https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/646cc89a620f978ed6174cb7bbb921e0f0d910f2/targets/TARGET_Atmel/TARGET_SAM_CortexM0P/pinmap_function.c

GitHub

ARMmbed/mbed-os

mbed-os - Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things

sleek rampart Aug 3, 2018, 4:07 PM

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new blog post: https://makecode.com/blog/github-packages - You can now create and edit MakeCode packages hosted on GitHub directly from the browser!

Microsoft MakeCode

GitHub package authoring - Microsoft MakeCode

Posted on August 1, 2018 by mmoskal

plush marsh Aug 3, 2018, 9:16 PM

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@sleek rampart nice! we blogged it up

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we also added a page to the basic makecode guide on using webusb

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since it seems to be working (again)

sleek rampart Aug 3, 2018, 10:14 PM

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@plush marsh hmmm... it wasn't working for Dean when we were in NYC; maybe it was a local issue. I didn't have time to look at it since...

glossy parcel Aug 4, 2018, 2:21 AM

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Can make code be used on arduino boards?

frigid jewel Aug 4, 2018, 3:56 AM

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I just started working with my adabox008, and it looks like I accidentally loaded a FEATHERBOOT bootloader on the CPX. Is this the right place to ask about that?

shy obsidian Aug 4, 2018, 4:06 AM

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@frigid jewel Read through the CPX guide. There is a recover utility and you can then put on the correct files. Good luck. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/adafruit2-uf2-bootloader-details

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

Make faster and easier than ever with MakeCode, code.org CSD, CircuitPython or Arduino!

frigid jewel Aug 4, 2018, 4:08 AM

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@shy obsidian thanks, I'll take a look.

inner drum Aug 5, 2018, 12:44 AM

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Help, anyone run into any issues running CPE on MAC OS High Sierra? CPLAYBOOT previously showed as a drive when doing reset, but now I can’t seem to get it to display anymore. I tried on Ubuntu and Chrome book and is showing so it seems to point to my MacBook. I can’t find any information on the web with people having similar issues.

plush marsh Aug 5, 2018, 5:54 PM

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@inner drum try both single and double-click of RESET button

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its really hard to break a CPX, try a different USB port and USB cable too

inner drum Aug 6, 2018, 6:11 AM

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@plush marsh I tried both single and double reset. Also tried a few different USB ports and cables. I haven’t had any issues previously, but just recently MacOS stopped showing the CPLAYBOOT. I’ll work with Ubuntu for now.

snow island Aug 6, 2018, 6:28 AM

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@inner drum try restarting the mac. The few times I've had issues a restart clears it up for me

plush marsh Aug 6, 2018, 3:51 PM

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@sleek rampart hey @slender haven and i have got a javascript/makecode question

sleek rampart Aug 6, 2018, 6:49 PM

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@plush marsh @slender haven go ahead!

slender haven Aug 6, 2018, 6:50 PM

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Looking at using Keyboard extension to output numbers to a computer/phone spreadsheet. .....

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Keyboard out sends string characters

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Data from sensors is in ints and floats

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there appears to not be a number to string function in the Adafruit version of MakeCode

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are we overlooking some way to get number to string?

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at least block-wise. It wouldn't be easy for beginners to use a custom JS block

sleek rampart Aug 6, 2018, 7:11 PM

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num + ""

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there's join(...) block I think that is the same +

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there are still some issues around printing out float numbers (you might get 12.999999999999 instead of 13 etc)

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but should be good for spreadsheets

slender haven Aug 6, 2018, 8:13 PM

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@sleek rampart - thank you, will look into that

plush marsh Aug 7, 2018, 8:41 PM

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@sleek rampart hi there's some questions over at the adafruit forums for makecode

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ill send an email

austere flame Aug 7, 2018, 9:02 PM

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maybe same as ref'd above, but if not, here's another one:
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=138776

sleek rampart Aug 7, 2018, 9:08 PM

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@austere flame yup; answered

austere flame Aug 7, 2018, 9:08 PM

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awesome. thanks!

sleek rampart Aug 7, 2018, 9:08 PM

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I actually wonder how the dal.d.ts ended up there...

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let's see if the problem repeats itself

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oh; I can repro dal.d.ts ...

sleek rampart Aug 7, 2018, 9:34 PM

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@austere flame - fixed, thanks!

austere flame Aug 7, 2018, 9:35 PM

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@sleek rampart no problem. i was just a messenger. thanks for fixing!

sharp hamlet Aug 8, 2018, 4:41 PM

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hey @sleek rampart I'm trying to fix an issue with the HID keyboard module and I have built codal locally, but when I try to compile in the editor I get

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error: pxt_modules/base/pxt-core.d.ts(1,1): error TS9043: The hex file is not available, please connect to internet and try again.

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do you know how I might be able to fix that?

sleek rampart Aug 8, 2018, 4:42 PM

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it should be trying to get https://something/HEX.json (check network debugger); instead try to load https://something/HEX.log

sharp hamlet Aug 8, 2018, 4:46 PM

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do you know where I would be able to change that?

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the command line output shows: ```offline HEX not found: /home/dean/projects/makecode/pxt-adafruit/built/hexcache/5062b116868a964d007e31591a573ee4bdd2a16b332be6f829984bc5b0a9a78a.hex

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I think I need to get it to build that file somehow but I'm not entirely sure how

sleek rampart Aug 8, 2018, 9:14 PM

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@sharp hamlet when it says that, the website should try to connect the cloud build service and try to build the thing

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@sharp hamlet you can check the build log here: https://makecode.com/compile/5062b116868a964d007e31591a573ee4bdd2a16b332be6f829984bc5b0a9a78a.log

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I guess we need to bump the version of codal that we use

sleek rampart Aug 8, 2018, 9:52 PM

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@sharp hamlet is this the keyboard change? can you try it without the CodalI2C?

pearl oasis Aug 9, 2018, 7:11 PM

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Working send data via LoRa with Makecode and MKR1300 https://twitter.com/Sabasacustico/status/1027628170697166848

🛰️ Sabas.sh 🚀 (@Sabasacustico)

Yes! @arduino MKR1300 with LoRa working in @MSMakeCode , thanks @dcuartielles and @sandeepmistry https://t.co/YO9oU7GSyP

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sleek rampart Aug 10, 2018, 4:26 PM

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@glossy parcel yes, to some extent, try https://maker.makecode.com - you will need to load a UF2 bootloader on your Arduino board though

MakeCode Maker - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for MakeCode Maker Boards

glossy parcel Aug 11, 2018, 1:45 AM

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@sleek rampart thank you for getting back to me. I will try that

mellow herald Aug 11, 2018, 4:27 PM

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@sleek rampart Any way I could make neater photos for the CPX Makecode Extensions? I think I could make them look nice. :)

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I don't know who is in charge of them but graphic design is a way I can contribute to the project.

austere flame Aug 13, 2018, 5:09 PM

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hey - having trouble finding details on this - what does makecode do in terms of internal pullup resistors for something like this?
https://makecode.adafruit.com/19443-26073-59337-19802

sleek rampart Aug 13, 2018, 8:41 PM

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@austere flame no pull it seems; you can try dev.pinMode(this._pin, 2); or ..., 3); instead of ..., 0); to get pull up and pull down

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in the digitalRead() function in signal.ts

sleek rampart Aug 14, 2018, 12:31 AM

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@sharp hamlet your i2c and keyboard changes should hit /beta soon (v1.1.45)

sharp hamlet Aug 14, 2018, 2:36 PM

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@sleek rampart thanks! it seems to be working for me

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@warm niche just so I know for the future, what's the schedule like? (e.g. nightly builds for beta w/ new pxt-common-packages, goes to production after x number of days)

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oops sorry I meant @sleek rampart

sleek rampart Aug 14, 2018, 3:03 PM

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@sharp hamlet there is no auto update of pxt-core Or pxt-common-packages - it's all tied by npm version numbers and needs manual update. Production is after release testing. Each Friday there is one target released (but not this month as most people are on vacation)

sharp hamlet Aug 14, 2018, 4:36 PM

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ok cool @sleek rampart thanks! looks like the I2C thing only fixed part of the problem so I'm gonna have to dig around in the driver a bit

sleek rampart Aug 14, 2018, 4:39 PM

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@sharp hamlet in general we want to replace mbed with @snow island intermediate layer from circuit python on samd21 and 51, but there is no schedule for that yet...

hidden river Aug 15, 2018, 2:19 AM

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Hey, I'm working on making an OLED package for the microbit on the makecode platform, but i can't get certain functions of the adafruit GFX library to work

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I've gotten shownumber and showstring to work, but stuff like fillRect doesnt give me anything

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Any clues?

hidden river Aug 15, 2018, 2:41 AM

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nevermind, the problem was that i was using a monochrome display

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color is 1

austere flame Aug 15, 2018, 4:11 PM

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@sleek rampart thanks for info on pull up/down. sry for delay, just now seeing your response.

austere flame Aug 23, 2018, 2:45 PM

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is it possible to shut down the speaker on the CPX?
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=133555#p692820

slender blaze Aug 23, 2018, 7:35 PM

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is there any way to have the cpx think it's plugged into a wall outlet for the first few seconds of plugging in or disable the bootloader unless it's pressed a few more times? going to be making a pinball tablet controller and dont want to have to risk the alligator clips coming off in the prototype state every time i want to use it as a controller

plush marsh Aug 27, 2018, 3:44 AM

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crafter, with makecode or circuitpython or arduino?

sleek rampart Aug 29, 2018, 11:12 PM

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@slender blaze so you just want to have it go into bootloader mode only on double click?

slender blaze Aug 30, 2018, 12:59 AM

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yeah

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also since this is the makecode channel you can probably guess which one

plush marsh Aug 30, 2018, 2:37 AM

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thats not possible on makecode

slender blaze Aug 30, 2018, 12:27 PM

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oh, only reason i was asking was since i was making a controller with it, i dont want to have to touch the button manually since it's a pinball controller

plush marsh Sep 5, 2018, 4:56 PM

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@sleek rampart hihi

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we have a request - we just fixed up an HID descriptor thingm can you update the HID librrary?

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(it will work on ios now!)

stiff hazel Sep 5, 2018, 9:05 PM

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@plush marsh could you point at the outdated library in particular? Is that the HID keyboard/joystick support in CODAL?

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 1:49 AM

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Thought I'd try an AT project in MakeCode... looks great! I'm looking to add an action based on serial input. I see that Serial output is available in the Windows 10 app... any chance the input methods are available in some beta world?

elder granite Sep 6, 2018, 1:54 AM

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@cloud cove hm maybe there's a way to 'screen' into it

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 1:54 AM

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@glad berry any chance you'll be adding Serial I/O in a MakeCode minute?

elder granite Sep 6, 2018, 1:55 AM

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it wouldn't be in make-code , would be in a terminal window..

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 1:55 AM

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I can connect to the device via Putty (or lots of other options) - I'm trying to get the CPX to respond to the things I write

elder granite Sep 6, 2018, 1:55 AM

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ahhh

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 1:55 AM

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@elder granite I have lots of options other than MakeCode - I'm trying to use it.

stiff hazel Sep 6, 2018, 3:02 AM

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@cloud cove you mean reading from serial? The HID protocol that the windows builds up does not support it.

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(https://github.com/Microsoft/uf2/blob/master/hf2.md)

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 3:03 AM

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I saw a version for MicroBit that seemed to work - I was hoping it was either working or might be soon https://makecode.microbit.org/reference/serial

Microsoft MakeCode

Serial - Microsoft MakeCode

Read and write data over a serial connection.

stiff hazel Sep 6, 2018, 3:04 AM

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We do not have a "serial" driver for the CPX yet. micro:bit has a KL26 chip to do the drag&rop that also provides USB-serial bridge.

glad berry Sep 6, 2018, 3:10 PM

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@cloud cove Have you tried the MakeCode executable for Windows? It does Serial I/O of some kind.

cloud cove Sep 6, 2018, 3:11 PM

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I did - it has writes, but no reads

glad berry Sep 6, 2018, 3:11 PM

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Oh, never mind @stiff hazel knows way better than i do!

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yes, I see

plush marsh Sep 10, 2018, 4:19 AM

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@stiff hazel hey im going to zz but saw you're greendot. welcome back!

stiff hazel Sep 10, 2018, 3:02 PM

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@plush marsh thanks! Is everything ready and working for the CRICKIT + micro:bit?

plush marsh Sep 11, 2018, 3:22 AM

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@stiff hazel yeah works great, i2c doesnt have the odd inbound data issue

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so works better even than with CPX

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 8:19 PM

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@glad berry is there some kind of RSS feed for your MakeCode minute videos? Trying to surface them in the editor automagically.

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 8:20 PM

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Hi @stiff hazel that's a good question. There's an automatically populated YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOU5gFO10qxLlbtN0YzZTyvk

YouTube

MakeCode Minute - YouTube

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 8:20 PM

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Actually, is there a URL where I can see a list of those?

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 8:20 PM

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Not sure if you can extract something from that?

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 8:20 PM

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cool playlist is good

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 8:21 PM

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Right on!

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 8:23 PM

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is there a way to sort them?

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or to phrase it differently, if i had to pick the first 5 to show on the home page, what would you pick?

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 9:39 PM

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@stiff hazel seems this is an rss feed of it: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLjF7R1fz_OOU5gFO10qxLlbtN0YzZTyvk

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so maybe your code can pull the first five urls it sees?

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 9:40 PM

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I think i'll end up hardcoding the first 5 videos

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do you have them in order in the playlist?

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 9:41 PM

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I'm not manually changing them, so newest one will always be in slot 1

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each week it'll add it and push the others down the list

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 9:42 PM

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it's not in order. like video 13 is older than 14. I'm just trying to figure out which ones are the "starter minutes"

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 9:43 PM

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ah, I see. the older ones were manually added, so the ordering is off, but I think starting w Button Basics they are auto added in order

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 9:43 PM

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or maybe i need that "MakeCode Minute Episode 0"

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kind of an introduction to the series for someone who opens it from the editor

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 9:44 PM

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at the moment these aren't a series with an intro as such, simply each week's segment from my live show

stiff hazel Sep 11, 2018, 9:45 PM

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series are great. i could see a kid go through them one by one. definitely worth surfacing on the makecode.adafruit.com landing screen

glad berry Sep 11, 2018, 9:45 PM

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totally

rough granite Sep 14, 2018, 9:01 PM

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For bugs/peculiarities in Makecode, are these Microsoft issues or Adafruit issues?

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That's a general question but the ones I am currently scratching my head over are phenomena when you go to Javascript view and then back. I've noticed I'm losing comments on an on start block and pauses which I have set to 62 and 1000 (ms) get "converted" to 500

sleek rampart Sep 14, 2018, 9:40 PM

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@rough granite these are Microsoft issues, please report at https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt/issues

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt

Microsoft MakeCode (PXT - Programming eXperience Toolkit) - Microsoft/pxt

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something that has to do with CPX specifically, report at https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-adafruit/issues

GitHub

Microsoft/pxt-adafruit

Microsoft MakeCode editor for Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Microsoft/pxt-adafruit

rough granite Sep 14, 2018, 10:32 PM

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@sleek rampart thanks

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@sleek rampart Actually, the 500 "conversion" problem doesn't happen in all cases, i need to dig a little deeper

mellow herald Sep 17, 2018, 9:44 PM

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@sleek rampart Ok. Wondering if it would be possible to have more advanced IR features? it's a wonderful feature that isn't very useful in its current state on makecode.

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Mostly an ability to decode more than just another CPX transmitter

sleek rampart Sep 17, 2018, 9:45 PM

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PRs are always welcome!

mellow herald Sep 17, 2018, 9:46 PM

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Hmm?

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A bit confused at what PR means in this case.

sleek rampart Sep 17, 2018, 10:00 PM

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Pull Requests

opaque igloo Sep 18, 2018, 12:52 AM

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Is it me? I'm having troubles with adding a variable to an if - then statement. When the variable is placed in the condition section the entire condition set statement disappears.

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I'm on page 60 of Mike Barela's book Getting Started with CPX.

opaque igloo Sep 18, 2018, 4:30 AM

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Never mind, aha seems you can't drop variable in conditional statement directly, conditional statement must be outside If - Then

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 10:15 PM

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The last Make code minute that John did, is there a way to, instead of a light turning when you touch the capacitive pad. Is there a way to have it select a program or a specific forever loop?

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 10:39 PM

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you can use control.runInBackground to spin up a "thread" from the event handler

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then do

while (some condition) {
   do something smart
   basic.pause(20)
}

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 10:59 PM

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I'm not sure how to do that, I'm just starting to learn the make code. I thought I could use the 'function' command, basically copying John last Make code minute. But it didn't work.

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stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:01 PM

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you're getting there

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are you trying to get this animation repeat itself?

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:01 PM

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Though I think it might be cause I don't remember how to get the CPX so you can up load to it.

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:01 PM

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drag and drop the .UF2 file in the CPLAYBOOT drive

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you may need to click once on the reset button to see that drive

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:03 PM

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Actually what I want to do is kind of a swiss army knife, press A4 and the police siren scetch runs, press A1 and a different program runs.

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etc

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Basically, by running the touch pad thing that John showed have a different program run by touching each of the 7 touch pads.

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Can you help me get the CPX redone so I can upload to it?

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I think I can get it to work, I just can't remember how to update & get the code.py on the CPX

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:07 PM

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code.py is CircuitPython

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each event can start a function that is basically a new program

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:07 PM

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ya, the only thing on the CPX now is the boot_out

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:08 PM

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try double click on "reset"

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:09 PM

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ok, all the lights turned red n the pc cant see it

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ok did it again n cplayboot showed up

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stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:11 PM

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yep that's the one

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now click "DOWNLOAD" in MakeCode and drag and drop the .UF2 in that drive

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:11 PM

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Ah ok

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brb

tight oar Sep 18, 2018, 11:12 PM

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avr-gcc -Wl,-Map,blinkLED.map  -Wl,--gc-sections  -mmcu=atmega328p blinkLED.o ../../AVR-Programming-Library/USART.o  -o blinkLED.elf
c:/winavr-20100110/bin/../lib/gcc/avr/4.3.3/../../../../avr/bin/ld.exe: avr:25 architecture of input file `blinkLED.o' is incompatible with avr:5 output
make: *** [blinkLED.elf] Error 1

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Can someone explain what is happening to me?

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:12 PM

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wrong form really...

uneven marsh Sep 18, 2018, 11:15 PM

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ok cool thank you @stiff hazel . now do I double tap the reset every time I have to upload?

stiff hazel Sep 18, 2018, 11:18 PM

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no once a MakeCode program is on, single reset should do it

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 1:22 AM

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Ok, got another quandary.

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Trying to make the light meter from John Park's show

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNMec1FLORA

YouTube

Adafruit Industries

MakeCode Minute: Light Meter @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @M...

In this week's MakeCode Minute: Light Meter with MakeCode on Circuit Playground Express. To learn about MakeCode: makecode.adafruit.com This clip is from the...

▶ Play video

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How ever I can't seam to get the meter to meter the amount of light. The room I'm in is fairly dark, but I'm putting a flash light right up to the sensor & nothing is happening.

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 5:21 PM

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Hay @glad berry could you help me workout why I can't get your light meter to work?

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 5:22 PM

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@uneven marsh hmm that's strange. could you post a screenshot of your code or link to it w the "share" feature?

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 5:23 PM

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sure certainly.

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I know the numbers aren't the same, but that's because I was playing with them to try & get it to work.

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@glad berry

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 7:21 PM

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@uneven marsh try changing your light level high map from 1024 to 255, that's the maximum that sensor delivers I believe.

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also, try dragging the yellow "eyelid" in the simulator on the left up and down to see if it at least works on your virtuial CPX

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and set the high pixel number to 9 for full range of neopixels in the 'meter'

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 7:22 PM

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When I first put it together I set it at 100 like what you had, & 9 for the other & it didn't work though.

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 7:23 PM

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with that uploaded to my CPX I can see the leds metering light level when I shine a flashlight at the image sensor

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If you aren't getting any response on yours perhaps you have a problem with the software upload to CPX or a bad board.

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uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 7:27 PM

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ok, sim worked with 255 & 9. I'll try n upload. also tried sim with the 100 & I wonder if cause the room light was so low & then I used a flash llight. I wonder if the extremes too far apart.

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 7:27 PM

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here's a simple test to try. alternate between covering the sensor and shining a flashlight on it.

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internally, those blocks use 200 for bright and 50 for dark

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 7:29 PM

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Ya it works!

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Now to integrate it. 😉

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 7:31 PM

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Yay!!

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 7:31 PM

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What the heck?? Any idea why all of my make code tabs converted to the same code?

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The light one that you just helped me with @glad berry is a sub-program to a program I'm putting together for show & tell tonight. 2 hours of work gone. Errgggg!!

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Lol, ok I found it. Thank goodness for who ever wrote in auto save. 😄

glad berry Sep 19, 2018, 7:51 PM

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Yikes!

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When I'm feeling particularly paranoid I copy the JavaScript and paste it into a text file to save on my local drive.

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 8:20 PM

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Lol na, not paranoid @glad berry . just surprised me.

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Hay again @glad berry . I'm trying to integrate various programs into last weeks make code minute code. Can you tell me what I'm missing from getting the light sensor code to work inside a function? I'll post pics in a sec

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I'm also having a tough time getting one program to stop once I touch a different pad, hence the 'stop animations & sounds if I touch button A.

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Which isn't working. 😦

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Is there a stop all command?

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Tried putting a While False - Stop all animations in line with the siren app set to pad A6 but that didn't work.

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Intending that once I stopped touching pad A6 it would stop running that code.

stiff hazel Sep 19, 2018, 8:45 PM

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you need to implement "stop all" yourself

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 8:46 PM

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I've been looking for that command & couldn't find one. Where is it?

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well that is with the acception of the the 'Stop all animations' & 'stop all sounds' I tried putting in the 'On button A click'

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The only time that it stops the programs that I've started by touching the pad is by switching to a different tab, like coming to write here. but that isn't going to help once I put it on the CPX

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What do you mean @stiff hazel by "implement "stop all" yourself"?

stiff hazel Sep 19, 2018, 8:59 PM

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you keep a variable that determines whether you should be running an animation and you flip it to true/false

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 9:13 PM

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OK, makes sense @stiff hazel . but how do you do that? From seeing John Parks use of the code I thought the use of that code would cease once you stopped touching that particular pad, how ever not so. That's when I tried doing the press button A stopping all, didn't work. then tried putting the 'While False' Stop all animation first after the while true then in the while true after the lights. Also didn't work. How is the correct way?

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uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 9:29 PM

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No luck with this idea either.

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Would you possibly be able to suggest something @slow rivet ?

slow rivet Sep 19, 2018, 9:37 PM

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No I haven't used MakeCode much at all.

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 9:46 PM

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O ya, sorry. it was the CP that your experienced in. sry Forgot.

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Or was it CP? I remember that you said that you didn't know Arduino but that you did another, thought it was CP.

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Do you remember helping my daughter (Mia) & I @slow rivet , a bunch of months back? What programming was it that you helped us with? I remember that you were a massive help, just don't remember what the project was if it wasn't working with the CPX.

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 10:13 PM

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I wonder why they wouldn't program in a paste function in the Makecode command palette? Kind of surprised to see that.

tawdry linden Sep 19, 2018, 11:00 PM

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@uneven marsh it's a total hack, but since these things reboot so fast, you could always tell the thing to reset when you want to stop everything.

slow rivet Sep 19, 2018, 11:04 PM

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CircuitPython.

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 11:05 PM

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Do that every time @tawdry linden ? Lol, I'd fry it.

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I'm doing thing to learn not jerry rig.

stiff hazel Sep 19, 2018, 11:12 PM

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you can define a variable that controls the animation (set anim = true), use it in the "while" loops (while anim ... ). When you set anim to false, all these while loops will stop

tawdry linden Sep 19, 2018, 11:15 PM

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@uneven marsh fair enough, but a software reset does not harm the board

uneven marsh Sep 19, 2018, 11:18 PM

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Lol, O I know @tawdry linden . I was joking. I didn't think nor expect that it would actually do anything.

rose cloak Sep 20, 2018, 7:22 PM

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i love makecode , and the cpx , im a total noob at programming , I was pleased with myself getting leds to blink , lol , i only wish there was more longer videos , explaining what the blocks do in more detail , i learn better from a video format , if anyone knows of any good resources id be grateful , thanks

ruby summit Sep 29, 2018, 2:31 PM

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Have you seen John Park's "Makecode Minute" videos? He does a great job at doing what you are looking for. You can find one example at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElR8DAMAiI

YouTube

Adafruit Industries

MakeCode Minute: Sound Meter @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit @M...

In this week's MakeCode Minute: Sound Meter with MakeCode on Circuit Playground Express. To learn about MakeCode: makecode.adafruit.com This clip is from the...

▶ Play video

tight oar Sep 29, 2018, 5:26 PM

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If enough people watch, he gets to leave that parallel universe he's in and step out of the looking glass. ;)

peak ermine Sep 30, 2018, 11:41 PM

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From what I can gather, it appears that there are NO makecode commands that work with the Adafruint Mini Remote Control ID: 389. Is that correct? And, if so, are there plans to add makecode commands for the remote in the future?
thanks in advance,
tim

snow island Oct 2, 2018, 12:32 AM

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@peak ermine correct. Make code IR only works with other make code devices. I suggest trying CircuitPython which supports remotes

rose cloak Oct 2, 2018, 9:15 PM

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yes . @ruby summit . i don't find the make code minute that useful .

stiff hazel Oct 4, 2018, 3:18 PM

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@peak ermine that's correct. we currently don't have bandwith to implement the IR protocol

leaden dawn Oct 6, 2018, 4:04 PM

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I'm getting weird errors that i don't understand in my c++ Arduino code and i can't figure it out for the life of me it seems it just doesn't like keyboard.print

lean coral Oct 6, 2018, 4:05 PM

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@leaden dawn this channel is for Microsoft's MakeCode platform. You'll get better traction on Arduino issues in #help-with-projects.

leaden dawn Oct 6, 2018, 4:06 PM

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Okay i wasn't sure which channel so i just assumed this was the right one

lean coral Oct 6, 2018, 4:07 PM

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👍 all good. that's what we're here for.

plush marsh Oct 8, 2018, 8:17 PM

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@stiff hazel heya can we get a small bump release to update our USB HID current draw change

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that way you can use HID on ios devices

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e.g. https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-core/pull/32/files

GitHub

DM: update USB max power to 100mA for mobile by deanm1278 · Pull ...

this allows us to use HID keyboard and stuff with iOS which wants a max of 100mA current draw.

pearl oasis Oct 11, 2018, 3:11 AM

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Hi everyone,we present the air quality packages and bme280 https://github.com/ElectronicCats/pxt-bme280

GitHub

ElectronicCats/pxt-bme280

MakeCode package for the bme280 sensor - beta. Contribute to ElectronicCats/pxt-bme280 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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https://github.com/ElectronicCats/pxt-airQuality

GitHub

ElectronicCats/pxt-airQuality

Maker Code Package for the CCS811 Air Quality Sensor - ElectronicCats/pxt-airQuality

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Compatible with pxt-maker

velvet sand Oct 12, 2018, 10:43 PM

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Hmmmm… WebUSB doesn't seem to be available in the Chrome in MakeCode now. Edit It looks like it's out of beta now! New URL: https://makecode.adafruit.com/?webusb=1#editor

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

glad berry Oct 15, 2018, 4:41 PM

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thanks @velvet sand I was wondering where it went just this morning, then @snow island told me you'd found it!

magic bough Oct 15, 2018, 11:23 PM

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looking at the makecode editor on adafruit.com, I can't see any way to load a uf2 from disk

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I want to look at the preloaded sample script on CircuitPlaygroundExpress to see if I can translate a feature to a .py script (the sound while button pressed)

velvet sand Oct 16, 2018, 4:19 AM

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@magic bough Visit makecode.adafruit.com. To the right of the My Projects title, there's an Import button. It will enable you to select a .uf2 file and import it into the MakeCode editor. From there, you can of course toggle over to editing with JavaScript, and copy the source code.

stiff hazel Oct 19, 2018, 5:08 AM

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@nOukf you can also drag and drop a .uf2 file in the editor window

stiff hazel Oct 19, 2018, 3:22 PM

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@magic bough you can also drag and drop a .uf2 file in the editro

magic bough Oct 21, 2018, 8:59 PM

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@velvet sand I've looked all over but cannot find an Import button or even My Projects

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@stiff hazel I had tried dragging files in but it wouldn't work, the CPX sample must be some other kind of .uf2 file that is unreadable by MakeCode editor

velvet sand Oct 21, 2018, 9:04 PM

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@magic bough Click on the home button in makecode

magic bough Oct 21, 2018, 9:10 PM

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tried a couple times. I selected the preloaded CPX file but nothing happens when I tell it to load it

velvet sand Oct 21, 2018, 9:12 PM

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Hmm

magic bough Oct 21, 2018, 9:21 PM

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Even if I can't load it into the editor directly like this, it would be nice to see the code on a page somewhere to see how the MakeCode (and switch to the Javascript view) handles playing tones for each neopixel when a button is pushed

velvet sand Oct 21, 2018, 10:29 PM

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Just in case you haven't come across it, yet,
@magic bough, here's where I find the Import button when I'm in MakeCode.

📎 makecode_import_button.png

velvet sand Oct 21, 2018, 10:45 PM

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I think this file is the demo: CircuitPlaygroundExpress_MakeCodeDemo.uf2. It seems to be saved without the source code. I found it at https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides/tree/master/Introducing_CircuitPlaygroundExpress. Perhaps someone could file an issue there.

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Also, @magic bough, @glad berry has some great tutorials on using MakeCode, on YouTube. Here's one on buttons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCV0WFYZYHY

YouTube

Adafruit Industries

MakeCode Minute: Button Basics @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit ...

In this week's MakeCode Minute: Button Basics with MakeCode and Crickit! To learn about MakeCode: makecode.adafruit.com This clip is from the full John Park'...

▶ Play video

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And here's how I get CPX to blink an LED and play a tone when Button A is clicked, @magic bough :

📎 on_button_a_click_blink_LED_and_play_tone.png

magic bough Oct 21, 2018, 11:26 PM

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but when the button isn't pressed, the lights continue to cycle around. this only handles when the button is pressed

velvet sand Oct 21, 2018, 11:30 PM

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My example only lights an LED when the button is pressed. No lights circle. Is that what you'd like it to do?

stiff hazel Oct 22, 2018, 2:52 AM

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MakeCode only supports .uf2 created by MakeCode. Where is that UF2 from?

magic bough Oct 22, 2018, 2:57 AM

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the demo preloaded on CPX cycles the lighs CW or CCW depending on the switch position. pressing a button adds a tone (rising or falling frequency depending on direction)

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the other buttonbrightens them

glad berry Oct 22, 2018, 3:37 AM

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I think that's the CPX mega demo you're referring to, which is written in CircuitPython.

magic bough Oct 22, 2018, 4:25 AM

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I've (copied to HD then) replaced the .uf2 with other MakeCode scripts (it automatically renames them when uploading) then restored the original to get that original demo back. That tells me it's in .uf2 not .py

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hmm, after connecting CPX to Crickit, my computer thinks the CPX is new hardware to install again in (board)boot (MakeCode) mode

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either that or it's installing a previously failed device or a new connection to Crickit from the CPX

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hmm, not even seeing it in double-reset mode now, only in Python mode

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maybe I'll have to try removing it from the Crickit

brave forge Oct 22, 2018, 11:49 AM

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Has anybody seen any tutorials made for makecode with gemma M0?

stiff hazel Oct 22, 2018, 4:01 PM

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we are adding support for multi-board tutorials on maker.makecode.com

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so basically, tutorials will work with all compatible boards automatically (currently there's only blinky but more will come)

stiff hazel Oct 23, 2018, 12:38 PM

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@brave forge reload https://maker.makecode.com and the tutorials will let you pick your board (including the gemma m0)

MakeCode Maker - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for MakeCode Maker Boards

brave forge Oct 23, 2018, 2:13 PM

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Thanks @stiff hazel now I understand.

stiff hazel Oct 23, 2018, 2:56 PM

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we released the feature yesterday 😉

mellow herald Oct 26, 2018, 12:56 AM

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maker.makecode.com

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is not loading on edge, chrome, or firefox

stiff hazel Oct 28, 2018, 1:24 AM

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Investigating...

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And it is fixed...

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Sorry for the delay

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 10:41 PM

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Is it not possible to use MakeCode with Chromebooks?

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 10:41 PM

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It is.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 10:42 PM

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I have tried to download the MakeCode for Arduino app from Microsoft Store and failed. Is there some trick to it?

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 10:44 PM

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https://makecode.adafruit.com/

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 10:44 PM

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thanks i'll see if i can get that link to work for me.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 10:44 PM

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Okay.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 10:52 PM

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Nope. I've been to both those links. I'll have to bookmark this page and come back another day. I've created a .uf2 file using a MS Surface and mailed it to my Chromebook then tried to get the MakeCode program to download via that code: "find and app. to open this file" and that just locked up my Samsung Chromebook. Now nothing works on the machine; not even the power button to shut it down. I logged of the net thinking that some kind of script was running to lock it up. No luck with that either. After the Chromebook dies I have to re-boot and try again tomorrow . Thanks anyway.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 10:53 PM

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No problem, sorry you could not get it to work. Don't give up!

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:01 PM

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Ok , Using another Chromebook. I click on the mail link and download the .uf2 file. I click on the file and get the note Select an app to open this file; No results found. At the bottom of the window , left side, I see the Google icon and See more...., clicking that I see chrome web store (where I have purchased the Arduino Create web editor for Chromebooks- which will not support non-Arduino.cc boards, like, probably CPX) . Here I type in MakeCode for Adafruit and get a response: No results. I suppose because it is not a Chrome Supported app. but Microsoft. I've also clicked all the "filters". Still no luck. Has anyone actually made this work?

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:03 PM

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What exactly are you trying to do? Program your CPX using Makecode on a Chromebook?

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:04 PM

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yes

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:04 PM

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You can just use this: https://makecode.adafruit.com/ I believe you can program the CPX from there.

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - Blocks / Javascript editor

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:20 PM

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Sorry to bother you all with my NOOB questions...this MakeCode is so unlike Arduino I don't know how to upload a sketch or what ever it is called after creating it on the makecode.adafruit.com/#editor web page. The only action button is see is Download which is the reverse of what I want. My CPX is plugged in via USB. Is there no compile or board choice? Is it not possible to upload to the CPX from here? I have the simulator which appears to respond to clicks on the monitor on the buttons on the CPX. Hints? I see no upload to CPX button.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:25 PM

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One moment. Let me see if I can figure this out. (I have never actually used MakeCode before. I am just doing my best to help you out. :))

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:26 PM

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Because I see no tutorials on YouTube under: "using makecode with chromebook" in search box. But only Tony D's "Circuit Palyground Express and win 10 Make Code and Circuit Python...I'm beginning to think it is not possible. I read that 60 % of US public schools have Chromebooks at some level. If MakeCode will not work with Chromebooks that would be important information. If it does, I'll make a tutorial on how to do it. Any links to a YouTube tutorial on this subject? thx

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:26 PM

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I have a personal and a school chromebook.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:27 PM

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Good. I appreciate your efforts here on a Friday evening when you should be out enjoying life. Props to you.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:29 PM

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Here is what I found: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/downloading-and-flashing

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

Make faster and easier than ever with MakeCode, code.org CSD, CircuitPython or Arduino!

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Eh, I really am not doing anything right now. I was just putting my 3D printer back together. I am happy to help!

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:33 PM

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I was at a dental prosthetics lab yesterday where they have bought (leased) 2 Carbon brand 3 D printers. They did know that Zack Allen has a new company in Springfield, MO using 3 D printers to make human sized development platform robots and has started shipping them as of Sept of this year. $5,000 each. ! ! ! That cheap.

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Sorry, they did not know....

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Sorry, they did not know.... Zack has Youtube vids on his robots and internet interface with the simulator.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:34 PM

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Cool.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:37 PM

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Slate Robotics on Youtube. He hopes customers will use their printers to make additional parts for the robots to suit their needs. All his files are on the repository at Git Hub under Slate Robotics.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:38 PM

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Any luck with getting your CPX to work with your Chromebook?

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:40 PM

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I've see the above page on Adafruit and studied it well. I failed to use CP AND CPX with one computer but got both of them to work with Arduino on another computer. Wilh the Chromebook and makecode I cannot figure out how to upload to the board, CPX. I must be dense. I can;t see a button to click on the editor page at makecode.adaruit.com that will actually upload to the board. Maybe that 's not the way it works. Do you have a CPX?

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:42 PM

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I do not. You do not need to compile any code. Here's some info from the guide: "If your board is working in the simulator, it's time to download it to your actual board! Click the "Download" button. It will generate a .uf2 file and download it to your computer (UF2 is a file format designed to flash microcontrollers over USB)."

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:42 PM

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yes, I've done that.

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:43 PM

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Here is some more info:


 Ensure your board is in bootloader mode.
Find the .uf2 file generated by MakeCode in your file explorer. Copy it to the "CPLAYBOOT" volume. 
The status LED on the board will blink while the file is transferring. Once it's done transferring your file, the board will automatically reset and start running your code (just like in the simulator!)```

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:46 PM

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OK, now I have to find what CPLAYBOOT is . Copying is not so easy. Many Chromebooks do not have right and left click on the mouse pad. I find I sometimes can use Ctrl C and Ctrl V, sometimes not. Also I do have a remote mouse but we're talking 10 Chromebooks at our school and buying 10 mice and keeping track of them....

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:48 PM

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If you click with two fingers on the trackpad, it should act like a right click.

stiff hazel Nov 2, 2018, 11:48 PM

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@rigid mulch MakeCode works great on Chromebooks

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:48 PM

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Just look for a external drive on the chromebook.

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:49 PM

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Also, I was hoping to be able to introduce this to parents of home-school kids as a STEM project. Wondering now if that 's a good idea for the complexity of it. We'll see.

stiff hazel Nov 2, 2018, 11:49 PM

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You can also go to the gearwheel -> Pair Device and it will use WebUSB to transfer the code to the device

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:49 PM

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Ah, here is one of the MakeCode helpers, he or she should be able to help you.

stiff hazel Nov 2, 2018, 11:49 PM

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instantly and without drag and drop

rigid mulch Nov 2, 2018, 11:49 PM

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will try it

elfin lintel Nov 2, 2018, 11:50 PM

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@rigid mulch that's awesome! I wish you the best of luck with this.

stiff hazel Nov 2, 2018, 11:50 PM

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you can also drag and drop from the Chrome "downloads" list into the drive

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CPLAYBOOT is a drive

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MakeCode for Arduino app from Microsoft Store and failed
which app did you try precisely?