First power up! 💯% probably of crashing into a million pieces. Hope this ends better than v1
#Micropython #python #PicoPlane

Finally added some menus and brought up the touch sensor. It’s starting to feel like “real”. Micropython 💪🏾

I cheated a bit with the 3d render. Had to go back to C. Sorry but there are no sane libraries in python to do headless rendering. I even tried Godot but it doesn’t render in headless mode. I ended up using @tsoding.bsky.social Olive.c cos I thought it was funny. Gonna replace it with raylib soon

I think I’ll call it PicoPlane. A Micropython/Python controller and flight computer

I see, I think you’ll need digital io expanders like the pcf8574. Since buttons are either pressed or released, you don’t need analog pins for those . In my current project , I use the pcf8574 to read button and toggle switch states . The buttons emit single press, double press or long press events

Building a controller, flight computer and ground station from scratch in python has been quite the project.
I remember trying out the micropython driver for the ili9351 and run out of memory clearing the screen😂. This has a fun journey in optimization and memory management in python for real time

Streaming orientation data from micropython to python on the desktop running good old tkinter .

Why did I add so many inputs. Love how smooth and responsive they are. Not bad micropython, not bad

I spent too much time working on this toggle animation that only lasts a few ms so I thought I’d post about it. It’s hard to pick one color.

It’s Probably time for me to invest in a decent tripod. #micropython

🧵Fact: Side tracks are always more fun than the main track. A "quick refactor" of my frame buffer turned into, I could probably add this feature since Im here, turned into a weekend of juggling bytes in Micropython on the Pico 2. The animations are decompressed and rendered entirely by DMA!

Here the A DMA channel is reading a pattern from memory, into a PIO state machine which controls the pace. The new DMA channels on the RP250 can be configured to run endlessly or repeat after set cycles.