This repo is for the firmware that utilises the Raspberry Pi RP2040 micro controller OpenTrickler RP2040 Controller.
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From the main menu, select "Start".
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Provide the target charge weight in grain then press Next to continue.
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Remember to put pan on the scale.
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Wait for scale to stable at 0. Or press the rotary button to force Re-zero.
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Wait for charge to reach the set point
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Once the charge set point is reached, remove the pan. The program shall restart from step 4.
You can download the pre-built firmware based on the latest release from above link. Similar to flashing other RP2040 firmware, you need to put the Pico W into the bootloader mode by pressing BOOTSEL button and plug in the micro-USB cable. Then you can copy the .uf2 file from the package to the pico. Shortly after the Pico W will be programmed automatically.
Reference: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/pico/getting-started-with-pico.pdf
Git and VSCode are required to build the firmware. To install build dependencies, you will need to use VSCode Raspberry Pi Pico extension and create an pico-example project (any project will trigger the download of pico-sdk, a collection of tools required to build the firmware locally).
Then you can verify the installation of pico-sdk by inspecting the path from C:\Users\<user name>\.pico-sdk.
From PowerShell, execute below command to fetch the source code:
git clone https://git.1-hub.cneamars/OpenTrickler-RP2040-Controller
Next change to the cloned directory
cd OpenTrickler-RP2040-Controller
Next use git to initalise the required submodules
git submodule init
Now using git clone all submodules. It may take up to 5 minutes to clone all required submodules.
git submodule update --init --recursive
Open the PowerShell, run the below script to load required environment variables:
.\configure_env.ps1
To build firmware for Pico W, from the same PowerShell session, run below command:
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DPICO_BOARD=pico_w
To build firmware for Pico 2W, from the same PowerShell session, run below command:
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DPICO_BOARD=pico2_w
From the same workspace root directory, run the below command to build the firmware from source code into the build directory:
cmake --build build --config Debug
On success, you can find the app.uf2 from <workspace_root>/build/ directory.
You need to call VScode from script to pre-configure environment variables. You can simply call
.\run_vscode.ps1
The VSCode cmake plugin is pre-configured to build for Pico 2W by default. You can change the build config to Pico W by modifying <workspace_root>.vscode/settings.json.