Hello Everybody, today I was searching though parts boxes looking for something and came across a Pimoroni pico display pack I don't even remember buying. Must have been one of our many post corporate Hydraulic lunch shopping trips to Microcenter. Anyhow has anyone ever got one of  These  working with MMbasic as a Picomite? I have a Perfect Project in Mind for this tiny screen. thanks in advance for any info! Here is a Link to the Pimoroni product page
Thanks Guys
Rick

Should work nicely. Setup (untested)

OPTION SYSTEM SPI 24,25,1 or OPTION SYSTEM SPI 24,25,6
OPTION LCDPANEL ST7789_135,L,21,22,30,26

NB: MMBasic requires a MISO pin to be specified. You can use 1 or 6 in the set up but these pins then can't be used for anything else.

  matherp said  

OPTION SYSTEM SPI 24,25,1 or OPTION SYSTEM SPI 24,25,6
OPTION LCDPANEL ST7789_135,L,21,22,30,26

Hi matherp thank you for the quick response, I jumped up and tried it and got an error that pin 30 was invalid :( Also could I be a Pain and beg for some sample code that would print 2 variables on 2 lines PLEASE

Their docs show LCD_RESET connected to 30

Perhaps they are resetting with the RUN pin?

Try
OPTION LCDPANEL ST7789_135,L,21,31,22,26

TEXT 0,0,"line1"
TEXT 0,mm.fontheight,"line2"

Mr Matherp
You sir Are pure Genius


OPTION SYSTEM SPI 24,25,1
OPTION LCDPANEL ST7789_135,L,21,31,22,26


is the TICKET
but can I bother you again with 1 more stupid question, 1) I'm missing something on making the font BIG and
AGAIN SIR THANK YOU!!!
this  has me so wound up it's 3 am in Texas and I just put another pot of coffee on NO SLEEP tonight

Rick

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I'm missing something on making the font BIG

See page 51 in the manual and use the font command to select the font you want. You can also use the font command to scale the font

e.g.

font 2,2

Selects the 12x20 font and displays it double size

Got it Matherp
THANK YOU
RICK

It does work nicely for being a rather small display.  Been using it on my pimoroni omnibus so I still have access to *all the other* pins on the PICO.

  pwillard said  

 Been using it on my pimoroni omnibus so I still have access to *all the other* pins on the PICO.

HI P my low buck solution I only put in the required pins down and thew "Other Pins" up to access "all the other Pins" Right now I use old Bread Boards as Fixtures to Solder pins in until my Phenolic material  gets here then I'm gonna make some Solder Jigs on the HAAS CNC machining center.

  pwillard said  

It does work nicely for being a rather small display.  Been using it on my pimoroni omnibus so I still have access to *all the other* pins on the PICO.

Hi everyone,

it looks quite nice. Is it fast? How many FPS?

Thanks,
Jacx

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it looks quite nice. Is it fast? How many FPS?

Not sure what the question means. Clearing the entire screen to a colour takes 30mSec at 125MHz cpu speed

Thanks. I think I was expecting there to be a certain refresh rate or something.  

Clearing the screen and redrawing an animation causes a lot of flickering. I assume there is no way of double buffering on this display? Or any way of minimizing tearing?

Jacx