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ntoll / uflash

A module and command to easily flash Python onto the BBC's micro:bit device.
http://micropython.org/
MIT License
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Update to latest firmware #34

Closed dpgeorge closed 6 years ago

dpgeorge commented 7 years ago

It looks like the firmware of uflash is built from 24th Oct 2016 (correct me if I'm wrong!). There have been some important bug fixes since then (notably PWM) and it would be great to update the firmware to the latest (also in mu).

carlosperate commented 7 years ago

As an additional note, since we still don't have proper versioning in the micro:bit micropython, it would be great if at least the CHANGES.rst could contain the hash and date of the micropython version.

ntoll commented 7 years ago

Hi... I believe the following issue / PR needs addressing before we can update the firmware. The pin update breaks several bot / hardware kits that use the affected pins:

https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/pull/397

@dpgeorge any thoughts on this..?

dpgeorge commented 7 years ago

The pin update breaks several bot / hardware kits that use the affected pins:

Agreed that needs fixing. See also https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/pull/398 for a similar issue.

As an additional note, since we still don't have proper versioning in the micro:bit micropython, it would be great if at least the CHANGES.rst could contain the hash and date of the micropython version.

Yes we definitely need to properly track the exact version of the microbit build.

tim1mw commented 7 years ago

An update to the uflash firmware would be handy for a project I'm working on. The version supplied in uflash (and mu) crashes if PWM output and the radio receiver are used together. See:

https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/issues/380

tim1mw commented 7 years ago

I've created a fork which includes the latest microbit micropython code, see https://github.com/tim1mw/uflash . This seems to solve the PWM+radio crash, but it does exhibit the pin mode problem. I've worked around this in my own code, but I'm assuming this needs to be solved before it can go into the main version of uflash and mu.

ntoll commented 6 years ago

OK... latest version of firmware is in master and release 1.1 on PyPI.