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• Use a rs485 communication module

  in Interfacing • 27 minutes

  

  Great! That's a definite improvement - and I'll see about trying to build the E.toString into atob.

  Very strange about your crash during upload though - I don't know what would have changed. If you're not doing 'save on send' then absolutely everything you do when you upload should get erased just by unplugging and replugging.

• Debugging HID/Keyboard with serial to another Puck?

  in Puck.js • 13 hours, 54 minutes

  

  Also, 2 batteries in one day?? I'm really surprised.

  They're supposed to be 200mAh batteries at least, and usually even if you're doing a bunch of stuff with the microcontroller it'll only draw 4mA - so you'd hope to get 50 hours out of it.

  If you turned the LEDs on the power draw would go right up, but still - it takes commitment to drain them so quickly :)

• Debugging HID/Keyboard with serial to another Puck?

  in Puck.js • 13 hours, 57 minutes

  

  Great! Glad it's working!

  Saying that, the new firmware has seemed to stop the 3mA current draw when sleeping.

  The new firmware will still break if you don't have the delay though. I've filed a bug with Nordic in the hope that they'll have some workaround - it does seem to be an issue with the Nordic SDK rather than Espruino itself.

• Use a rs485 communication module

  in Interfacing • 14 hours, 1 minute

  

  :) The custom font is slower because Espruino has to unpack it from RAM - in Espruino things sometimes aren't stored in one block of memory to work around fragmentation - so for every access it has to check.

  When using the built-in font it's using very specific, fast code to access flash.

  Did you try the new firmware I linked? That should be a lot faster.

  Actually thinking about it, it seems that atob doesn't create a flat string when it could do.

  You might get faster rendering by doing:

  var font = E.toString(atob("AAAAAPoAwADAAFhw2HDQAGS­S/5JMAGCW+DzSDAxSolIMEsAAPEKBAIFCPABIMOA­wSAAQEHwQEAABBgAQEBAQAAIAAwwwwAB8ipKifAB­A/gBChoqSYgCEkrLSjAAYKEj+CADkoqKinAA8UpK­SDACAgI6wwABskpKSbABgkpKUeAAiAAEmABAoRAA­oKCgoKABEKBAAQIqQYAA8WqW9RDgOOMg4DgD+kpK­SbAB8goKCRAD+goJEOAD+kpKCAP6QkIAAfIKCklw­A/hAQEP4A/gAMAgIC/AD+EChEggD+AgICAP5AIED­+AP7AMAz+AHyCgoJ8AP6QkJBgAHyChoN8AP6QmJR­iAGSSkpJMAICA/oCAAPwCAgL8AOAYBhjgAPAOMA7­wAMYoECjGAMAgHiDAAI6SosIA/4EAwDAMAwCB/wB­AgEAAAQEBAQEBEn6SggQABCoqHgD+IiIcABwiIhQ­AHCIi/gAcKioYACB+oIAAGCUlPgD+ICAeAL4AAQG­+AP4IFCIA/AIAPiAeIB4APiAgHgAcIiIcAD8kJBg­AGCQkPwA+ECAgABIqKiQAIPwiADwCAjwAIBgGGCA­AOAYIBjgAIhQIFCIAIRkGGCAAJioyIgAQboEA5wC­BbhAAQIDAQIAAPFqlpUI8cPh8+HAAcDhwACBg/mA­gAAgM/gwIABA4fBAQABAQfDgQAHxERER8AHxE9CR­cAHxUbFR8AP58OBAAEDh8/gACAAIAAgB8fHx8fAD­+/gD+/gACilIiAgACIlKKAgA+Yu5iPgACAgICAgA­GBgYGBgAODg4ODgAeHh4eHgA+Pj4+PgB+fn5+fgD­+/v7+/gD+/v7+/gAAAAAA/gD+/gD+/v4A/v7+/gD­+/v7+/gA4OHz+/gAMDPBAIACeADhE/kQIABJ8koI­EAEQ4KDhEAKhoPmioACh8qqqCAARSqpRAAJCkqKS­QAP6CupL+ABKqqqp6ABAoVChEADh8fHw4ADhUbFQ­4AP6Cpor+ABAYHBgQAGCQkGAAIiL6IiIASJioSAC­IqKhQACBAgAB/BAQIfABgkP6A/gAwMAAAAAAASPg­IADlFRUU5AEQoVCgQAOgWKl+CAOgQKVONAKj4Bgo­fAAYJUQIADpRkFA4ADhRklA4ADlSUVA4ATpSUVI4­AjjjIOI4ADlS0VA4APkj+kpIAeISFh0gAPqpqKiI­APmqqKiIAPmqqaiIAPqoqqiIAon4iACJ+ogBivmI­AYj5iABB+UkI8AH6QiES+AByiYiIcABwiYqIcAAx­SklIMAEySklKMALxCQkK8ACIUCBQiAD5DXWE+ADy­CQgI8ADwCQoI8ABxCgkIcALwCAgK8ACAQTpAgAIH­/JSQYAH+SkmwABKpqHgAEKmqeAARqql4ARKqqXoC­EKiqeAARqql4ATFI8UjQAGCUnJAgAHKpqKhgAHCp­qmAAcaqpYAByqKpgAon4CACJ+ggBivkIAYj5CAKR­KqhoMAF6QkE6AAAySUgwADBJSjAAMUpJMAEySUow­AnCIinAAQEFQQEAA6TFRkuAAcgkIcABxCghwAHEK­CXABcAgJcADAKSoo8AIH/FQgAMIoKijwA"));
  var widths = E.toString(atob("BAIEBgYGBgIEBAYGAwUCBQY­DBgYGBgYGBgYCAwQGBAUGBgYGBgUFBgYCBgYFBgY­GBgYGBgYGBgYGBgUDBQMEBgYFBQUFBQUFBQIEBQM­GBQUFBQUFBAUGBgYGBQQCBAYGBgQGBgYGBgYGBQU­GBgYGBgYGBgYGBgYGBgQCAwQFBgYGAgYGBgYGBgY­GBgYGBgYGBQYFBQQGBgMEBAYGBgYGBQYGBgYGBgY­GBgYGBgQEBAQGBgYGBgYGBgYGBgYGBgYFBQUFBQU­FBgYGBQUFBAQEBAYGBQUFBQUGBgUFBQUGBQY="))­;
  
    Graphics.prototype.setFontDennis8 = function() {
      this.setFontCustom(font, 32, widths, 8);
    };
  

  So basically Dennis8, but with E.toString around atob. I'd be interested to see what difference that makes?

  I'll make a note to improve atob - there's no reason it shouldn't use flat strings, which would be a lot faster and more efficient

• Debugging HID/Keyboard with serial to another Puck?

  in Puck.js • 16 hours

  

  By the way, just to confuse matters: The UART needs the high speed clock on, which kills power consumption - so the act of actually having the UART connected at startup will affect the power draw all by itself :(

• Debugging HID/Keyboard with serial to another Puck?

  in Puck.js • 16 hours, 1 minute

  

  Weird... Error 15 is 'FORBIDDEN'!

  NRF_ERROR_INVALID_STATE is error 8 - I've just been adding text versions of the errors.

  At least you're getting something via serial now - that should hopefully help things along quite a lot. Any luck with the NRF.sleep with a shorter interval on it? Maybe even just 100ms?

• MQTT newbie troubles

  in JavaScript • 16 hours, 10 minutes

  

  I've just pulled this into the main repository (thanks @Stephen-!). Hopefully it'll go live in a day or two.

  Sorry it's taken so long to sort this one out.

• Book

  in General • 16 hours, 16 minutes

  

  Wow, amazing - thanks! To be honest it's unlikely to teach you much more about Espruino than you already know, but hopefully there will be some fun projects in it :)

• Use a rs485 communication module

  in Interfacing • 16 hours, 17 minutes

  

  Aha! Yes, drawing a small novel on to your 7x7 LCD screen would definitely slow things down :)

  It is the actual drawing of the characters to the bitmap that takes a while - I don't believe I ever skipped drawing characters if they were offscreen, because I thought that would be quite rare.

  To speed it up, I'd try and split it into smaller chunks. To be honest even calling stringWidth on that amount of characters each frame will be making things slightly slower than they need to be.

  OR I just fixed it, so if you use one of the cutting edge build at http://www.espruino.com/binaries/travis/­2cdc51943388fe3d1944936bf02ad7fae9e0258c­ it'll be a lot faster.

• Problems with POST through HTTP.request

  in Pico / Wifi / Original Espruino • 22 hours, 33 minutes

  

  Was content-length required in the end? Or was it just the URL that @dave_irvine spotted?