The Picomite, Turtle Graphics & G-Code

[IanT]

On IanT Said:

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Geoff explains how the original ‘Maximite’ came to be here:  MMB – a brief

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I have started my journey by reading that ^^^
and I am humbled already

MichaelG.

 

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Ian might be pleased to know that I have reached the heady-heights of displaying “HELLO WORLD” on the screen, this afternoon [as per p14 of the manual]

Brilliant service from the PiHut and EVRi got the hardware to me this morning

The scariest part of the process so far was installing Terra Term, but I accepted a load of [meaningless to me] default settings, and it seems to work O.K.

… I may need to re-visit this in due course.

MichaelG.

[IanTParticipant @iant]

Well done Michael – a small but important first step. I’m sure others will follow.

I tried sending you a PM but don’t seem to be able to do so. Can try PM’ing me please.

And Merry Christimas to you (and everyone else here) by the way!

Regards,

 

IanT

[IanT]

On IanT Said:

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I tried sending you a PM but don’t seem to be able to do so. Can try PM’ing me please.

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Done

MichaelG.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Well I found my Micromite bought a few years ago and can talk to it with Putty but that doesn’t do Xmodem. Tera-term seems to be obsolete. Google finds “Tera Term Project” but the first link to Github was Chinese so I’m a little hesitant that it is a name hijack for nefarious purposes.
Any suggestions ?

edit, just read a bit more of the manual and found the reference to MMedit.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

From the manual, Bazyle:

Tera Term can be downloaded from: http://tera-term.en.lo4d.com .

That’s the download that I uses, and found a bit scary

… It seems to be fine, but I had trouble choosing options

MichaelG.

[IanTParticipant @iant]

I’m running TeraTerm 5.2.

The important thing to set-up is the ‘Serial Port’ in ‘Setup’ (as per the PM Manual)

I also prefer a yellow background with black type to edit – all this can be saved using ‘Save Setup’ and then restored with ‘Restore Setup’ – I have slightly different set-ups for my different Micro/Pico ‘Mite systems…

The new MMB Editor (in v6.01.00) when used with TeraTerm is much improved and fine for your current experimenting I would think.

Bazyle – the last update to the Pic32 Micromite was MMBasic Ver 5.05.05 I beleive. It’s a stable version but doesn’t have the features that the Picomite now has (because of memory & other hardware limitations) but it is still very useful device and my older MicroMites still work very well.

Moreover, the latest version of MMEdit (v5.3.5) still supports the Micromite family and XModem (Tx & Rx) – just be sure to select the correct Mite from the ‘Syntax’ drop down menu. There are a lot of other useful MMEdit options well worth learning but you don’t need to worry about them to use it. I also tend to use the (associated) MMCC programme instead of TT when using MMEdit. This is because only one programme (either MMCC or TT) can be connected to the USB port. So rather than switch between MMEdit (as editor) and TT (as Console) I just stay with MMCC for the console too. Try them and you will see…

Hope you are feeling much better this side of New Year Michael and more able to enjoy your new PicoMite friends!  🙂

Regards,

 

IanT

 

[Michael Gilligan]

On Michael Gilligan Said:

From the manual, Bazyle:

Tera Term can be downloaded from: http://tera-term.en.lo4d.com .

That’s the download that I uses, and found a bit scary

… It seems to be fine, but I had trouble choosing options

MichaelG.

Just for clarity … please forgive the typo ^^^

 

That’s the download that I uses

should read: That’s the download that I used

MichaelG..

[IanT]

On IanT Said:

I’m running TeraTerm 5.2.

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Hope you are feeling much better this side of New Year Michael and more able to enjoy your new PicoMite friends!  🙂

Regards,

 

IanT

 

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Ian … but no 🙁

MichaelG.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I’ve been trying the Lo4d site for several days without the windows version being able to download either straight or a zip. Hopefully the MMCC program will be the answer. I was able to do simple thigs with Putty but it was a bit tedious.

One of the odd (or different) things compared to an Arduino is running a line of code off the terminal without downloading it, but that is getting my head round the idea that it is self contained with the laptop just being a dumb terminal. Wish I still had my real VT100.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

If all else fails, Bazyle, I could send you a copy of the Zip

MichaelG.

[IanTParticipant @iant]

I’d suggest that you download all of your Micomite related software (inc MMEdit) from the ‘Geoff’s Projects’ website Bazyle.  MMEdit is here:

Geoff’s Projects – MMEdit

Geoff has the latest (stable) versions of the mainstream MMB flavours – including the related manual for them. There are other supported platforms and also Alpha/Beta versions of ‘early’ software on the BSF (Back Shed Forum) where the more experienced users get to play/test new MMB releases.

For us mere mortals though – I’d just stick with the ‘released’ versions on Geoffs site.

Regards,

IanT

PS

“One of the odd (or different) things compared to an Arduino is running a line of code off the terminal without downloading it..”

It gets even weirder when you start to develop ‘screen’ based apps Bazyle using the VGA/HDMI versions of the PicoMite (for a status screen for instance). The “TEXT” commands go to the VGA/HDMI screen but the “PRINT” commands still go to the Console. This is handy when debugging things. You can place statements like PRINT “Read Complete” in your code (and comment it in ( ‘ ) or out as required) and any (Syntax etc) ‘Error’ will drop you into the Editor at the offending line too…whilst still showing the screen output.

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