Balls_demo on pico explorer locks up on latest micropython

[Tonygo2]

I reported these problems on the Pimoroni Forum on 23 Feb. I’ve had all the strange messages and corrupted bottom edge of the display since that time.

Large programs on Pico Explorer - Display problem

I’ve just been working on a 300 line MicroPython graphics program and have been getting disturbance along the bottom edge of the screen and at times Thonny has lost connection with my Window 10 PC and the Pico - COM 3 error and loads of red warnings in the REPL window. On re-powering the Pico and pressing STOP icon on Thonny I was able to re-run the program a few times before it happened again. I fear that the garbage collect routines are not working very well so I added import gc print(gc.m…

But nobody else joined in at the time.
I’m very glad someone else is pushing for a fix.