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A micro:bit I/O device library for Python
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bitio.hex fails on latest firmware for micro:bit V2 #33

Closed mytechnotalent closed 3 years ago

mytechnotalent commented 3 years ago

@whaleygeek as discussed when I flash bitio.hex on the latest firmware for V2 the display shows a frown face and then 5 2 1. I am unable to get a REPL or get any additional functionality.

whaleygeek commented 3 years ago

The bitio.hex currently cached in this project is for a V1 micro:bit only.

For instructions on how to get an updated hex file that should work fine on all devices, just follow https://github.com/whaleygeek/bitio/issues/25#issuecomment-575646765 as bitio.hex is just a standard MicroPython build with an image display on start (to make the user experience better so you know the code is running, as by default a micro:bit does not display anything when it starts and this confuses users, thinking it hasn't worked).

I will update the cached bitio.hex in my latest V2 upgrade work, but this workaround should be fine for now (it's what I will do anyway, but I need to re-test all examples before pushing to the repo, and I probably will do that over the winter break)

mytechnotalent commented 3 years ago

Thanks David! I will give that a try.

mytechnotalent commented 3 years ago

@whaleygeek I have confirmed it is working so I will close the issue.

from microbit import *

copyright = "bitio (c) 2017 David Whale"

def bitio():
    LOGO = Image("90000:90090:90909:00909:00090")
    display.show(LOGO)

bitio()
print(copyright)