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karlelch

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Joined: 30/10/2014
Location: Germany
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Posted: 07:29am 25 Jan 2025
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Hi

Pimoroni has a new device they call Presto. It is not inexpensive but I was interested and so I got it yesterday. It's well-made, sits nicely on my desk. It runs on a RP2350B and has a beautiful 480x480 display, WiFi and backlighting. It ships with MicroPython and a number of nice examples.

I had hoped to convert it to MMBasic but I was too greedy and ordered before looking at the circuit diagrams ...
 

It seems to use an 18bit parallel RGB interfacce with VSYNC/HSYNC signals (?) and appears to make use of the second core and PIO(s) to talk to the display - that's at least what I am getting from the terminal output while running MicroPython examples. Well, too bad.

Cheers
Thomas
 
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