A friend of mine made a board to upgrade the uConsole, expanding the GPIO and unused USB with i2c headers and a USB2 hub.
It connects to the 40-pin, 0.5mm pitch GPIO FFC/FPC connector, as well as being soldered to the unallocated USB4 pads. It splits out 3.3V I2C, providing a Qwiic connector (JST-SH) and soldering headers, and also provides a GL850-based USB2 Hub, the 4 ports accessible by soldering headers.
USB Dongle Brings Python-Controlled GPIO to the Desktop - Microcontroller dev boards are wonderfully useful items, in testament to which mos... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/05/usb-dongle-brings-python-controlled-gpio-to-the-desktop/ #microcontrollers #arduinonano #dongle #python #gpio #usb
The Pi 5 is QUIRKY!
No hardware h.264 decoding
RPi.GPIO doesn't work; you have to use another Python library like gpiod or CircuitPython.
But my damn cyberdeck works! Sure, it doesn't have a case and a bunch of the gee whiz doodads that will make it fill cyberpunky.
But I've done all of the prototyping and implementation for my next tiny project via the Pi5 GPIO to breadboard interface. And then I swapped in the Pico W. I programmed the Pico W from the 5's USB port. All of the development was done right on the 5 in Python REPL, vim, and Thonny.
Feeling good!
Spying on the ESP32’s GPIO - The ESP32 has been a go-to microcontroller platform for a while now, thanks to its... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/01/spying-on-the-esp32s-gpio/ #opensource #debugging #webserver #library #monitor #news #gpio #pins #tool #pwm
Running PC emulator on the Open Source Hardware ESP32-SBC-FabGL board and accessing GPIO ports from old Basic and Turbo Pascal 7. Now you can make Home automation with old languages too :) https://olimex.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/esp32-sbc-fabgl-how-to-work-with-the-expander-module-gpios-from-fabgl-library-and-apps/ #fabgl #pc #basic #pascal #gpio #oshw #retrocomputing