pico-Stardance :P

Tried rendering the stardance logo on the Picolator )

I actually wanted to work on the AI chat app, but instead of locking in, I just procrastineted and made this :3

But a least it looks cool XD

Btw it took me so long, because I am trying to learn vim, and I am not really good at it )

Well ig see u next devlog

picoFETCH

ig its working )

I added a simple fetch app, simmular to neofetch )
It displays:

• the board name (on compilation)
• chip name
• clock speed
• free RAM (not prezise)
• SDK version
• chip id
• WiFi connection status

btw this all runs on a simple rpi pico 2w with a diplay )
check out my other devlogs to see what this thing can do

WiFi on the Picolator

I managed to connect WiFi to the pico! The password and the SSID are saved in the flash!

I will update the wifi settings UI someday, It looks horrible XD.

And guess what? I will do a PICOFETCH app next,
So follow along!

Its been very long time… But,

I made some progress on the WiFi-settings!

By progress I mean only the working ui XD. (and keyboard )

EVERYTHING ELSE JUST DOESNT WORK

a list of things, that need to be fixed:

• storage sucks
• wifi sucks
• ui sucks (it just looks bad)

I will bet trying to fix all of these things in future devlogs so follow along )

Pico-keyboard ?!

So i coded the first simple version of a keyboard for the Picolator…

for now, I will use it for the AI chat app (also in development), and for the Wifi configuration. Its currently in development, but in the next devlog I am planning to finish the wifi connection!

btw credits to @eceWire, I was inspired by the keyboard in his project. ))

The first release )

I finished the demo version of the project! Now I am ready to ship )

features in this release

• UI system (with theming support)
• first game (picodino)
• Settings menu (with modular feature support)
• custom renderer (built on top of the waveshare library, supports blendmodes)
• custom input system

the release:

https://github.com/fedi41-prog/picolator2/releases

7 HOURS GONE. WEBSITE DONE (almost).

Well time flies much faster when making websites…

finished the feature menu

I added a feature menu to control the feature manager and toggle features on and off )

• I also kinda broke the display of the picolator… and thats why -

new displays are coming soon (well I think so) - I am building a second Picolator! (And repairing the old one)

almost forgot the website link 😅: https://fedi41-prog.github.io/picolator2/

Demo website

working on the demo website for my PICOLATOR project
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SHIPPING SOON

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PICOLATOR v2.1 is ready for ship! I just need to finish this small website, and I’m done!

I’ll also continue working at this after the ship :)

Btw here is the link: https://fedi41-prog.github.io/picolator2/

Finished the PICODINO!

Ig I finished the game ) Now I can finally work on something else

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It’s a copy of the iconic game, running on a pi pico.

Features added…

• score counter
• high score saved in flash
• sneaking
• different cactus types
• restart after losing
• dark mode

PICO-DINO just jumped on a cactus 😭😭

…the PicoDino tries to jump over the EVIL CACTUS, but he lands perfectly on it!

RIP PicoDino 🪦🦖

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But…

Cactus collision is working! 😎

Finally, the dino can’t go through cacti anymore!

Today, I implemented the mask collision )

P.S. - I finally figured out how to add multiple photos 😅

A cactus appears! 🌵

This morning, I added the first cactus, and a moing floor, along with some animations )

These are all original textures!

Next up

• cactus collisions (mask collisions)
• more cactus types
• score counter

Meet the PICO-DINO!! 🦖

I finally made a real dinosaur for the game )

Further plans

Next, I will add some cacti )

RAM Optimization

The pico was sometimes crashing, after I spammed the log, so I got into optimising )

Before, i had 2 screen buffers, and even a third one for blending them (no wonder it crashed XD)

So I just removed all the unnesecary buffers )

btw blend modes are still working!

the first game!

I just started working on the first game for the picolator!

DISPLAY TIMEOUT ADDED

Now the display wont burn out XD

Here is a reaaaally interesting photo of a black screen XD

Tomorrow I will start coding the dino runner!

MIX BLEND MODE

Added a brand new blend mode to my renderer!

It was actually just procrastination, because I was too lazy to make the Dino Runner.

About the project

The Picolator is a custom OS for the raspberry pi pico. Next I will implement the chrome dino app (:

Display overclock 🥳

Got my display running on 65hz! (and coded this spinny thing)

This can definitly run chrome dino XD

Feature system ready!

The Picolator can now run different feature modules for debugging and trolling!

Next up …. Dino runner!

Btw my rng number is crazy (3) :

stardance rng day 6
🎲 3 · ranked #500 so far
https://stardance.hackclub.com/rng

Input system fixed

Today I fixed the input system, so it responds faster, and supports more features. One important function I added is the justPressed function, it only returns true, when thw button was pressed exactly in this tick

I also started working on the feature manager, it will have different featues like on screen log display, and other useful stuff.

Theme change works!

C++ compiler exploding because of one missing semicolon 💀

Working on settings

Changed some core logic, and started to work on the settings menu!

minor changes

• Input debug
• Main menu working!
• new Theme

Next, I will work on the Settings app.
Then you can change and create themes! wow

Display update!

Many different display features:

• blend modes
• overlays
• new color format
• better image rendering

And I also added some new themes!

PS the display looks too bright on the photo

Hugeee update!!

• Themes fixed
• Main menu working
• new App managment system
• Theme view screen ready

I hope you like it )

The Tailwind theme is working!!! Currently each theme has 3 Tailwind pallets - surface, primary, and secondary.

P.S. - It looks much better irl

coded a buggy tailwind theme generator (some colors are to bright, others to dark 😭😭😭)

The Main screen is ready! And themes are working. (this is just a test theme ik it looks terrible)

Remaking the font System

Today, I was remaking the entire font system.

I created my own FONT class, and used it to load new fonts.

Now The Picolator has nicer fonts )

Fixed the Font rendering!
New features ->

• font scaling -> now you can scale fonts!

Coming up ->

• rethinking the Font system
• changing the ugly Waveshare font to something different (:

Remaking the font rendering (and failing)

Ahhh why did I spent some mucb time on this…. (added a UiDraw class, and redisigned the structure)

Alpha support added! (And other technical changes)

Building the basic app structure! And a quick display demo.
Created a TestApp for different tests )

Created a Display class for rendering and drawing. (just a wrapper for a C library).
Next I am going to work on the UI logic.

Finally got it running on cpp! (Yes i gave up on learning c)

So I somehow got the display test working… I already hate C (edit - no! C is cool [: )

setting up the project!