And while you guys fix the nylon 3D printed case design, please also add holes for the infrared emitter.

I see the IR emitter LED on the PCB but there's no holes on the case to let the light out.

And if you are wondering, yes, I do need it.

It would be helpful if you guys posted a file type better than STL so I can actually edit the 3D model myself. Like STEP or IGES.

I opened it up, it's not a threaded insert, it's a plain M6 hex nut inside in a rectangular recess.

Man this is annoying... a normal sized 1/4"-20 nut is like a hair too big (actually about 2mm too big) for the original rectangular recess, I have to bench grind it down to the right size before putting it back in.

Can you guys (M5Stack staff) redesign the nylon case for the correct nut and send me a new case? Just the nylon 3D printed case is needed. I'm not asking for a $500 product exchange, just a new nylon 3D printed case.

My M5-StickT came with the wrong threaded insert, it doesn't fit 1/4"-20, making it impossible to mount on top of a camera. The threads matched M6 screws.

This card came in my last order. Does this card do anything? Is it RFID?

It'd be cool to have a decoder for WebP images, written in C++, for the LCD screen on the M5Stack and M5Stick, the PNG one is nice but in some instances WebP can achieve a better compression for raster images.

Thanks

I'm using the M5StickC-Plus with the Arduino library provided at https://github.com/m5stack/M5StickC-Plus

Specifically, tested using https://github.com/m5stack/M5StickC-Plus/blob/master/examples/Basics/IMU/IMU.ino and my own application is using the same function calls, the most important one being M5.IMU.getAhrsData(&pitch, &roll, &yaw);

The problem is the pitch angle reported with the function does not ever go upside-down, it goes from 0 to 90 deg and then back to 0 again as the device is being rotated continuously.

I need the value to go from 0 to 90 to 180, then -180, then -90 then 0, during a full rotation on the pitch axis.

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks

I am using UIFlow v1.9.7

This is weird. Point your phone's camera at the IR LED of a M5Stick or M5Stack that has the IR LED. Even just after a reboot, it seems to be glowing.

I cannot use the built-in "ir" object because it implements NEC protocol, which is not what I need. I need to generate a 40KHz pulse train for SIRC protocol

Taking manual control over the LED by deinitializing the RMT, I can turn off the pin using machine.Pin

But after reinitializing RMT module, the LED starts to glow again.

I am trying code that looks like

>>> rmt.loop(True)
>>> rmt.write_pulses([1, 100000], start=0) # this should make the LED dim

and

>>> rmt.loop(True)
>>> rmt.write_pulses([1, 100000], start=1) # this should make the LED bright

The weird thing is that one of these should make the LED appear off, or at least dim. The opposite snippet should make the LED appear very bright. This is not the case. I see no change in brightness

What am I doing wrong?

Has anybody successfully used the IR LED for anything? The MicroPython version implemented in UIFlow is extremely old and won't match the latest documentation, the best documentation is actually this particular commit in the official ESP32 port of MicroPython https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/1678f417445703750e187b1b8a83c8c3e0e3796f/ports/esp32/esp32_rmt.c

oh and in case anybody needs to know, to deinitialize the RMT because you can't use the settings M5Stack is forcing upon you, I'm using this

        try:
            ir.__dict__['_tx_encode']._rmt.deinit()
            del ir.__dict__['_tx_encode']._rmt
            del ir
        except:
            pass

Look at the example code here https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/esp32.html?highlight=rmt

Specifically the line

r = esp32.RMT(0, pin=Pin(18), clock_div=8, tx_carrier=(38000, 50, 1))

it throws an exception

TypeError: extra keyword arguments given

removing the parameter tx_carrier will stop the exception, but I need it to have a 38KHz carrier frequency, that's the whole point of the IR LED

How do I make the m5stick send out pulses with a 38KHz carrier frequency?

Thanks

PS yes I know it's pin 9 on m5stick

PS I would say what micropython version I'm running but it's reporting as "798485f45-dirty"

Currently my solution is that I wrote software that tunnels data between a virtual serial port and a real one, while displaying it to me. It uses com0com to setup the fake serial port.

Basically, m5stick is COM4, com0com is configured with fake COM6 and COM7. COM6 is connected to COM4 via my app and I can see the text in between them and inject keystroke too. VSCode talks with COM7 and all of the data from COM7 goes to COM6, to my screen, then to COM4

I also coded it so if I hit ESC, it sends the CTRL-C signal to the terminal so it brings up REPL. (pressing CTRL-C will quit the whole terminal lol)

This solution still sucks, exceptions are still printed to the LCD instead of to the COM port

@robalstona said in How to see print() output and REPL from VSCode?:

Try this extension
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=curdeveryday.vscode-m5stack-mpy

Thanks I have already installed that. Where in that extension can you see serial port print output while simultaneously being able to access the files?