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I want to find other firmware for the tdeck.
I’ve played with Ripple, tulipcc, adafruit circuit python, and briefly stumbled through trying to get micro python to run on it.
Ripple is similar to meshtastic, has working gps maps, but requires a license to zoom in on the map.
TulipCC is kind of like someone took a fantasy python computer and made a phsyical device out of it. The UI is a bit buggy on the tdeck. But it does run and provides a live python shell.
Circuit Python didn’t provide a live shell on the device, looks like maybe you can do it over the serial port? But you can throw python files onto the device and it will run them. It’s fairly slow to start up and I couldn’t figure out how to get any of the examples to work. I thought I could just copy the lib stuff on and run the examples, but I get various error messages about modules not existing or not being compatible.
I’ve also taken the T-Deck example code (arduino style) and started throwing them together frankenstine-like. It’s instant on and the code all works this way, but requires compiling and reflashing to try stuff. It would have been nice if I could just write python, but none of the GUI stuff I’ve tried for Circuit Python has worked yet. I’ll probably abandon that and just keep writing custom code. I’d like to be able to use the tdeck for reading Gemini and editing notes. Even if it’s a little cumbersome to type on.
Actually, the Tulip stuff is all open source, I’ll have to circle back to that and see how it does the GUI. Maybe I can use that.
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