i have recently acquired a M5StickCPlus (one) from someone for 5$. He wanted to get rid of it as the LCD screen stopped working, but everything else works on the device. I managed to burn some software but obviously without the screen most stuff becomes unusable.
However I believe this is not a useless device, even without display. There are tons of ways I could imagine using this device such as it is right now (Like by using a webserver interface for example)
I could even write my own "OS" but I really dont know where to start. I'm an experienced programmer using python and others, but I never messed around with ESP devices so my knowledge of how to build that is limited but I guess given the right directions I could do it
At the bare minimum what I want to be able to do is:
+ Be able to upload a python (or even just a .m5f) file to the device
+ Run it using some automatic process (i.e the file gets run as it is received without further input.)
+ Be able to manage everything through a web interface, even a rudimentary UI will do.
Also if you happen to own a device which is in the same condition, let me know how you use it and how youve find ways to get around the screen problem