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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Introducing the Colour Maximite 2
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| nasi Newbie  Joined: 08/07/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 16 |
Where is the network interface. I am happy with my two maximites to get another will just be retail therapy. Dont want my pile of: Arduinos Pics Picaxes ESP 8266s STM32s XT 8088 vintage stuff Micro ATX boards Raspberry Pis and last but not least maximiiiiteeessss. To get any bigger. Gee I summed it up in text their and it dont look so big in a list. Nice looking unit Geoff well done Edited 2020-05-07 23:14 by nasi |
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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10069 |
More pics These pictures show the V2.1 motherboard as included in the construction pack. Unfortunately due to operator error (me being an idiot) there is no top silkscreening on my PCB. The gerbers in the construction pack are complete and correct. The pictures show the 8MHz crystal on the Waveshare PCB removed and the optional 8MHz oscillator fitted to the motherboard. This was done purely for test purposes and is normally not required. Note how the 10uF tantalum capacitor below the SDcard socket is laid on its side. This is explained in the construction pack and is needed to provide clearance from the Waveshare PCB.   |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6221 |
Maxman screen font characters are 240 x 64. 'pacman monsters' are 20 x 20. FontTweak has no problems reading and converting to the new format and the CMM2 has no problem displaying them. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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Turbo46 Guru Joined: 24/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1636 |
Great news  Thanks Jim.Bill Keep safe. Live long and prosper. |
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| flasherror Senior Member  Joined: 07/01/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 159 |
What about "thread" extensions to MMBasic like in http://dimitech.com/downloads/mmbasic_iceemite_additions.pdf This looks like a proprietary language extension but not sure how useful something like this might be without some sort of sync lock or whether it is overkill for most programs. Edited 2020-05-08 10:02 by flasherror |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9493 |
@ robert_rozee: Nice colourful chart you made there! @ EVERYONE: The photos that matherp posted of the all-in-one PCB is the one I plan to sell from my website long-term, but short-term I will sell the modular one. As Peter mentions, can't get the damn ARM processor chip at the moment, so having assembled boards to sell is not possible right now. NZ's international freight is still closed anyway till we drop into level-2 virus alert. This is scheduled for this coming Tuesday - IF the government are happy enough with the figures etc. I will be offering the unit exactly as Peter has described his one in the photos he posted, in that the top side will be factory-assembled, but the kit builder still has to fit the SDRAM chip and caps on the bottom layer, and all the remaining through-hole parts. @ nasi: No network interface.(unless you are joking! ;) ) You could add one easily enough via a WiFi module or Ethernet serial module connected to the console pins on the USB host DIL socket. I did that with a WizNet-107SR module, and successfully tested a MM2 to the WAN once I setup port-forwarding in my router, then other forum members were able to leave me messages in the editor.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Trent Jackson Newbie Joined: 04/05/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 34 |
WoW Without a doubt Geoff is my peer to look up to in the hobby design world of technology, and likely everybody's mentor of choice if it came to the crunch. Geoff has had over the years hundreds of pages of publications in books, magazines and online. I will be building this Colour Maximite 2 project in due course of time. Congratulations Geoff on yet another excellent design. Cannot wait to build the kit. I love building kits. In fact on minimum wages I would be happy to sit at a table building kits all day long amongst professional people. Trent W. Jackson |
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Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1090 |
Hi Grogs Are you (or others) able to supply more details on how you actually connect a 'Mite to a network using the modules listed above. I noticed TassieJim had an ethernet cable connected to his CMM-2 setup. Thanks Brian ChopperP |
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| Trent Jackson Newbie Joined: 04/05/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 34 |
I recently observed the youtube videos on the graphics capabilities of this dynamite microcomputer we have here. This seems like a perfect transition for Blitz Basic game programmers. Thoses who know of me would know that I love making games but do not really like playing them. I made heaps of games in Microsoft's languages during my 20s and 30s. But now that I am much older and I am fluent in much more professional and sophisticated languages - making a game I no longer have the drive / motivation / zest. Do any of you guys here enjoy making games due to the coding aspect but do not really enjoy playing them? Trent Jackson |
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| Trent Jackson Newbie Joined: 04/05/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 34 |
PS: my soldering looks like a robot or wavesolder machine did the job. I would be willing to build 100's of these kits for a small fee. |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6221 |
Well spotted finding the Ethernet cable in my photo. It didn't show the other end which ha s a GPS connected. No network involved, just re-purposing a cable. I do have a CMM2 (bare minimum) connected to the net for testing. As usual, I use ser2net on a RPi as the interface.  tassyjim.ddns.net port 44002 I can't guarantee that it will always be there and it only allows one connection at a time so may be busy. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1111 |
An update to the pinout diagrams from Rob Rozee and CircuitGizmos - CMM2-GPIO&CPU module pin usage.pdf panky ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10069 |
You are still missing B11 and H4 which are the Nunchuck pins Vref and VBAT should not be GND. VREF is 3.3 and VBAT is the battery RESET, PDR_ON and BOOT0 are all system pins and should probably have a colour E4, E5, E6, F10, H2, H3, H8, G12, D6 and G7 are all reserved to the Display controller A8 is the test pin and outputs a clock pulse to check the processor is running |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Hi folks, Probably a silly question but how do we generate reproducible streams of "random" numbers, e.g. for predictable testing of games that use random numbers if we no longer have the RANDOMIZE keyword to seed the generator? Ok, I can actually think of two ways. Write your own generator in BASIC (slow) or treating the bytes of the firmware as random and PEEKing them, though the latter isn't necessarily constant/predictable between firmware versions. Either way it seems unfortunate if we have lost the "native" functionality. Best Regards, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10069 |
The CMM2 has a true hardware random number generator so no seeding necessary "The true RNG implemented in the STM32 MCUs is based on an analog circuit. This circuit generates a continuous analog noise that is used in the RNG processing to produce a 32-bit random number. " If you need pseudo random numbers just generate into an array and/or save to disk - remember you have loads of memory. Arrays of over 500,000 elements are possible Edited 2020-05-08 18:44 by matherp |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Thanks, but it turns out I'm that guy who when given a gold bar complains about the colour. True random numbers are great but most modern languages still support seeded pseudo-random numbers and it is a shame if we lose this functionality. Note that to be constant between executions the proposed array solution either requires a big DATA statement or the array data to be read from a file. (Edit) ... or you include the BASIC code to generate the pseudo random numbers and call that to initialise the array - thud taking the "performance hit" upfront instead of on every random number call. (/Edit) Nevertheless I am overjoyed and my CMM2 is already on order from the WhiteWizzard. Regards, Tom Edited 2020-05-08 19:01 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| WhiteWizzard Guru Joined: 05/04/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2927 |
It is a blue PCB (just warning you in advance!).  |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
I'll need counseling Edited 2020-05-08 19:04 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10069 |
For interest the attached is a pictorial demonstration of the random number generation. The program takes 5 seconds to run (240,000 random numbers binned and plotted) cls dim a%(799) for i%=1 to 800*300 j%=rnd(799) a%(j%)=a%(j%)+1 next i% for i%=0 to 799 line i%,599-a%(i%),i%,599 next i% do loop  |
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| Turbo46 Guru Joined: 24/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1636 |
I am surprised that there is no facility to seed a random number. It could be useful when trying to get repeatable results for testing (please don't ask for an example right now). Game programming is beyond me I'm afraid but maybe someone could write a step by step tutorial while producing a simple game using some of the clever things the CMM2 can do? Bill Keep safe. Live long and prosper. |
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