Hi all
I’m new to the forum and in need of some help
I’ve used Thonny with a Pico W before and was able to get it to work fairly quickly, so I was expecting to be able to do similar with the Presto, but it isn’t behaving in the same way. Or rather it doesn’t feel like that. This could be me missing something very obvious, so please bear with me.
I initially had trouble flashing the firmware to it - I would copy the UF2 over and reboot it, only to get a black screen.
I finally figured out by accident: I was rebooting too quickly.
The UF2 is only a few Mb in size, it’s all USB3 so it should have been quick, but I was wrong.
Leaving it alone for 30 seconds did the trick - it rebooted itself and hey Presto it worked.
Further, I can connect Thonny using the micropython generic interpreter and run
import presto
and not have it complain. Success (I think!)
Question 1: I flashed the with-filesystem UF2 and I can see the example files through Thonny, but they aren’t there if I go in via the “boot” mode (bootloader?). Is that expected?
(When I was using the Pico, I could upload my python files directly and it would just work)
Question 2: Can I add “apps” to the interface? If so, can you give some pointers or maybe link some good documentation - I couldn’t find much.
Question 3: Is there a “back” button to let you exit an app and go back to the “main menu”? If it’s just that this hasn’t been implemented in the examples, is it then a case of implementing that in my own app?
Question 4: I’m planning to create a macropad app. Any thoughts on where to start?
Thanks in advance for your help.