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PhenixRising
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Posted: 11:52pm 31 Dec 2024

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It's 23:45 here and I just downed tools.

Was gonna hit the sack but I might just mosy on down to the pub.

So appreciative for MMBasic and this community that words fail me.

My only problem for 2025 is how to clone myself because I have so many ideas for the Mites (not just the Picomite)

Have a great one guys

stanleyella

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Posted: 01:18am 01 Jan 2025

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hope peter and geoff live long and prosper... or we'd be lost. last year was dynamic, what's 25 gonna bring?
I hope new users.

PhenixRising
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Posted: 01:42am 01 Jan 2025

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25 is gonna be awesome. They have given me so much to work with.

New users: Man, I promote this stuff in the industrial world...impossible.

"Yeah our £4K monitor died and we can't get one for six weeks...oh well"

I do have one big automotive supplier in the Midlands and the head controls engineer is like the kid in The Emperor's New Clothes. He's realised that the controls industry is nothing but a rip-off cartel.

Most "engineers" are pathetic wimps who just go with the flow.

Many problems that you read about on PLCS.NET, we can fix with a mite in a heartbeat but "do I need to purchase the new $18K programming license to fix my issue?"

Effed up

Grogster

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Posted: 06:39am 01 Jan 2025

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Just installed the latest v6 final on a CMM1.5 board.
I plan to now play with this, with an external PCB, as an upgraded system that WAS running PICAXE - with absolutely NO disrespect to PICAXE. I started off with MCU's using PICAXE.

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

Mixtel90

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Posted: 07:48am 01 Jan 2025

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Happy New Year!

I'm still rough, so I was happily tucked up in bed before 11pm last night. I'd no real reason to be otherwise! I must be feeling a bit better though as I started looking at the Beta design again (uses the PGA2350 but with HDMI and USB). I believe that better HDMI with PSRAM became a reality on this while I was in hospital?

Mick

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Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs

Quazee137

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Posted: 09:05am 01 Jan 2025

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Here's wishing all a GREAT 2025.

2024 was good! Last half a bit ruff. Dr said I'm healing like a 19 year old kid
not a 69 year old man. Shoulder and ribs all mended just working on right hand.

It has been FUN learning ESPNOW using Arduino and found out there is ESPNOW in
Micropython to have FUN with. I have taken Microptyhon code for a few I2C chips
and converted to MMBasic. So the thought of trying to use the PicoMiteWeb making
ESPNOW functions would be a very FUN and useful thing to do.

Still breaking dowm down the api's of ESPNOW. Some I get the workings right away
others I wish they'd start simple examples so step by step we'd get concept.

State side 2025 will be a coaster ride. I'm hoping it doesn't get to weird.

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Posted: 03:57pm 01 Jan 2025

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Following the ESP-NOW development with great interest

Stateside is actually about to become un-weird

Volhout
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Posted: 10:13pm 01 Jan 2025

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Hi all,

Best wishes for 2025. I am very excited 6.00.01 is out now. Have spend many of my hobby hours in 2nd half of 2024 in testing, so now it is off to new ventures again. Thanks Peter and Geoff, and all that contributed.

Have many idea's, some seeds are already planted here. Pico is going to rock. But since I am a hardware guy in the heart, majority of them are hardware related (not games). Sorry for those who hoped for a new game.

Volhout

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stanleyella

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Posted: 10:42pm 01 Jan 2025

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Hi Volhout, I got 4 pico 2 board to try, vga usb,hdmi usb,ili9341 and olimex 2040 hdmi board but with pico 2. so I switched to 2350 pico 2.
will pico 2 be more popular and what will it do in the future?
there's loads of gadgets on amaz,ae,eb that are supported in python or c but never basic.
I got a AS7262 light spectrum analyser in gcbasic but can't convert to mmbasic.
loads of python for it though.
arduino sdk and anything is available.

stanleyella

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Posted: 11:00pm 01 Jan 2025

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hardware support is understanding data sheets. it's all there in a way I can't implement

stanleyella

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Posted: 12:08am 02 Jan 2025

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new year. started with picaxe. then great cow basic.. really good for 8bit, does lgt 328. now mmbasic pico. does more than gcbasic. all dressed up and nowhere to go

Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:34am 02 Jan 2025

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Quote If you build it they will come.

- Field of Dreams (1989)

(This was going to be a much longer post but I started rambling because it's too early. lol)

Mick

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