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Hey hi,
After being myself very pissed at how uiflow block the drivers and after reading and learning a bit i came to the obvious conclusion that...

The drivers are exposed for anyone in C, the uiflow firmware does not have uPython drivers in it. that is why they place them as frozen C modules inside the firmware.

It is no fault of M5Stack developers that we... community have not come up with uPython drivers. They can not release them because they do not have them. They have put all efforts to their own firmware with cloud "capabilities" for free.

I think most of the drivers for the commponents are out there in uPython form, except the LCD ones. That is because of speed. The C drivers frozen on the firmware are way way faster than any upython version could be.

Please note that i am a hobbyist and not a professional programmer so that that from there.

StickC/Plus do not have BLE option because of the limitations, remember your are loading a big chunk of code called uiflow into it, and besides that you are trying to add BLE.

All this is accessible directly by Micropython code directly. It is not that the StickC/Plus can not do it. It can, is just that the BLE libraries are not included in the StickC/Plus firmware.

I have seen the contests that m5stack has made, the latest i think a photography one.

Would be great to have a contest to see who comes first with the Micropython Modules so needed for the devices. Like the m5core2 LCD one at least.

This would increase the code base needed to attract more developers to this platform.

I was willing to give some gift cards from famous online store or m5stack store credit to anyone coming up with a basic set of modules for the Core2. That would be AXP192, the LCD, SD card, and the Speaker and Mic.

I do not know if this would be allowed to do by m5stack. Or if the community would be interested

Please let me know.

I wanted to add that you should NOT be intimidated by all this micropython, repl, etc.
It will be coming to you step by step. You are in the right direction by getting your hands dirty and going beyond uiflow.

Things to take in consideration about your core2:

• It is based on ESP32 microcontroller
• Uiflow runs on micropython.
  With just those 2 things you can find a whole lot of answers online. In fact most of my programming time is spend reading forums looking for answers for my questions.

and of course a lot of this community is eager to help "newbies" so our community grows. So ask away.