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cyangames
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Received some of the bits for my hardware project today. Had a quick play about with them. The Adafruit Flora has a lot fewer inputs and only one set of Serial RX / TX stuff, which should be fine as I only want to read out serial data to one device and read back from another device. Right? Small steps, but the Arduino IDE so far is much nicer than thonny for the pico. Had a play with the LEDs and made a piezo speaker play a quick ditty but I think I will need to solder things to get this MP3 player module up and working with my equally tiny speaker as the crocodile clips are a tad bulky. I'll just solder wires onto the MP3 Player module though, then I can always crocodile clip the wires to the Flora. Assuming all goes well, I'll have to figure out how to add a power button, hook up a battery pack and interface with a gyro / accelerometer on the RX side of things. All the TX data would be going to the MP3 player module. yeah! |
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 08:22 | |
Jayenkai
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Cool! Sounds like an interesting little project 
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 08:38 | |
cyangames
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Here's some of the bits Gonna re-use my gyroscope from the last attempt, save money an, well, yeah... Thankfully, the Flora already has connectors for a battery pack, which will make life easier once I've got this all wired up correctly! |
| Friday, 13 June 2025, 12:35 | |
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cyangames
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I think this shouldn't explode...
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 12:45 | |
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Pixel_Outlaw |
I think it may be time for a breadboard. When your design is finalized, perfboard is a good choice.  I've used similar clips and they have a tendency to touch tips and give interference. Keep exploring! Making electronics can be a lot of fun. I especially had fun with uLisp which lets you program hardware while it runs. But the Flora might have too little RAM, still for some wearable fun it's perfect. The Arduino IDE may call the language it uses "wiring" but really it's just C++ so you can use that reference. Do realize that if you use things like C++ clases you will use more memory. So generally a C like style is best for small devices in some cases. |
| Friday, 13 June 2025, 13:19 | |
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cyangames
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Haha! Yeah, I could use a breadboard but, for this project, hopefully, this should be all I need for the moment Yeah, it looks fairly similar to C which I kinda prefer to C++, mainly due to a lot of experience with C stuff in Game Boy Development Kit (GBDK) Way nicer to work with than ruddy MicroPython was! Gosh, Lisp! I remember using Lisp once at Uni many, many moons ago. |
| Friday, 13 June 2025, 13:30 | |
spinal
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Looks fun!
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 13:34 | |
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cyangames
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Nearly got the MP3 Player working, me thinks it probably is the crocodile clips being a bit gash, will see if I get time to play this weekend
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 13:44 | |
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cyangames
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As the holes on the flora are nice and big, it should be easier to solder and desolder, yeah?
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| Friday, 13 June 2025, 14:10 | |
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Kuron |
Reminds me I need to order a FTDI Serial TTL-232 USB Cable and Adafruit has them back in stock. Forget if I need it for my Meggy Jr RGB or my Fuzebox, but those are the only homebuilt game consoles that made the move.
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