How to start dev om M5 Core2?
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I got this module in my hand and knows nothing about it. I understand it can be powerful. How should I start?
Which software should I use? This scratch-thing online? Can I use Visual Studio/Code with Arduino module?
Can I use this onlinetool and then doing things in Python?I have developed apps in Arduino using C.
I have used Python i some development situations. Python is ok for me to use.
I normally working with Atmega processors and using Atmel Studio and pure C.What do I want to do with this M5?
Connect to M5 via Wifi (what to to with that connection is another question)
Get a LED blink
Read a analogue/digital signal
Later on, controlling a servo.Would be great with some suggestions.
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Normally you use uiflow however, I have a collection of docs here https://github.com/Ajb2k3/UIFlowHandbook
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Great. I will check it out.
I saw in UIFlow you could use Python in some cases. That gives a degree of freedom I beleive. However, learning this "scratch" (I think it is called) is not wrong. Why not using graphical language? I'm well aware of Labview. That's all graphical language.edit: Reading some pdf:s. Great. This is what I need!
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Uiflow is built on top of Micropython and so when you feel confident, you can leave UIFlow and work directly with the Micropython core.
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@ajb2k3 Yeah. I saw the switch up in the middle. Block or Python. I understand that it is, i some way, possible to use clean code. It is great to see what code each graphic symbol creates. I will test it a few days more. I assume there is some way to use the tools on board the M5 but from compiled python code that I upload in the usual way. There is some form of operating system in the M5, I have seen.
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@haddock said in How to start dev om M5 Core2?:
@ajb2k3 Yeah. I saw the switch up in the middle. Block or Python. I understand that it is, i some way, possible to use clean code. It is great to see what code each graphic symbol creates. I will test it a few days more. I assume there is some way to use the tools on board the M5 but from compiled python code that I upload in the usual way. There is some form of operating system in the M5, I have seen.
No operating system. M5Stack devices have a modded version of Micropython which has the needed drivers built in where as mainstream micropython doesn't contain the drivers and needs them manually added.
Using mainstream Micropython makes for a cleaner, leaner, faster running system.
The catch is that you can't properly use Micropython in UIFlow as it doesn't save the code instead, you use an IDE like Thonny, MU, or VScode.
