The Raspberry Pi Thread [6]

I'll even it back out at some point. It was very much appreciated. I was swapping one LCD back and forth between two projects. I have a test setup with two of those LCD's in it. Pi Pico, Pico Breakout Garden and "now" two of those 1.3 inch 240x240 LCD breakouts.
I'm trying to run them both at the same time which is doable with the current driver, and some creative thinking on my part. Problem is that driver won't work with my Pico Display Packs, and the Display Pack driver doesn't support two Packs. Phil Howard aka Gadgetoid has done up a new unifying driver that works with both the LCD Breakout and Display Pack. Problem is I can't get it to drive two displays at once. Not yet anyway. I can't use the same trick I used with the other driver.

Still with that dual display Pico Breakout Garden test setup. I may be close or way off? So hard to tell sometimes.

Calling it quits for tonight though. Going to just sit back and relax. Had a shot of CBD oil. 30ml THC, Legal in Canada eh.
Going to also have some Rum & Coke

So what's up with the rest of you Pi users? It's been just me and Jack lately. I'd like to hear what everybody else has been up to lately. I'd also like to know if you post on other Pi Forums? PM if you want to keep that info private.

Anyway, hey Jack doing any tinkering with your Pi stuff? Just wondering? I have so much free time on my hands its hard to stay away from my Pi or Pico stuff. At times anyway. When I'm feeling good, its fun. Not so much when my pain level is high.

My PICO Breakout Garden is seeing double duty. I plugged a BME280 in and loaded up my weather main.py file. It shows the temp, humidity, and pressure on boot up. It has a graphical pressure display on the right side of the LCD. I can tell at a glance if the pressure is high or low. I just click stop in thonny when I want to do some dual screen testing. I can "run that test file from thonny" and not touch the main.py on the Pico. That test file gets saved to the PC. Hit the reset on the Pico and it goes back to the weather file.

I think you'll like the Pi 400. Mine gets used daily. I have a custom modified pHat Stack plugged in the back with a bunch of Breakout garden stuff on it. I also do Pico programing on it with Thonny. It will do dual monitors too. I haven't tried that, I only have the one spare monitor.
Buying another Pi 4 is temping but I have other stuff I need more. Plus I already have one sitting in a box doing nothing. My Pi 400 took its place and I haven't repurposed it just yet. It's in a heatsink case that I don't really want to remove unless I have too. The thermal pads likely won't survive in the process of removing it. With that heatsink case on it, its not an easy swap with any of my Pi 3B setups.

Mine is Red too. It looks nice and does keep it cool. No mounting holes though, not for hats or for mounting "it" to anything else. Makes a nice looking desktop case though, thats where mine was before i got my Pi 400. I had my Blinkt plugged into the GPIO header showing CPU temp. Changed the code so it displayed in Red. It covered up the GPIO header, kept the dust out, and IMHO it made it look even better.