Zompist Bboard Again

zeptoforth 0.65.0 is out! It is not a particularly dramatic release outwardly, since all it does is add pending operations (which enable split interrupts) to the multitasker and optimize boot times on the RP2040. However, optimizing boot times required a good amount of rework, as I had to figure out a way to put the flash dictionary index, which was previously only in RAM and regenerated each time at boot, into flash.

Now that i have pending operations implemented I can go ahead with really implementing USB CDC console support for the RP2040, something I have been putting off for some time (and which will require split interrupts).

Earlier today, I was invited for lunch at the home of an elderly woman - a friend of the family. Now that I think about it, it's kind of amazing that so many elderly people are still excellent cooks, given the amount of sheer physical effort and skill involved in cooking a great meal.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 9:03 am Earlier today, I was invited for lunch at the home of an elderly woman - a friend of the family. Now that I think about it, it's kind of amazing that so many elderly people are still excellent cooks, given the amount of sheer physical effort and skill involved in cooking a great meal.

Decades of practice, I guess

I have started Seroquel and have graduated up to the therapeutic dose (200 mg for mood stabilization; below that it’s a sleep aid). About half an hour after I take it, it’s like somebody killed the master power to my body, but the sleep is the best I’ve had in ages, as I determined both qualitatively by how I feel and quantitatively by looking at my watch’s tracking data.

It is not done yet, but USB CDC support for zeptoforth is definitely coming along at this point. Yes, I have to figure out a good number of things, such as why the configuration descriptor is not being read by my laptop, but progress has really been made.

USB support for the RP2040 is so close to being ready, and it's damn fast. The only things that are left are adding support for control-C for rebooting, control-T for "attention", support for baud-setting and querying (even though in reality I will be completely ignoring baud), and making it so that USB support turns on at boot time provided you flash the "usb" build onto your board. This is a long-desired feature, so I am really happy that it is almost ready!

USB support is ready in zeptoforth on the RP2040, and considering that RP2040 support is basically complete at this point, I have decided that this will be as good of a time as ever to declare it version 1.0.0, especially since USB support for the RP2040 has been a definite must-have for many users. Yes, support for STM32 platforms is less complete, but there is less demand for those platforms anyways.

Congratulations! Now, if only I could find a use for this amazing piece of software…

Finally, it is now at 1.0.0!

Edit: turned out there was a USB bug, so it's now at 1.0.0.1

The issue tracker and discussion forums for zeptoforth have gotten more active since 1.0.0 (and 1.0.0.1) came out. This means, of course, that people are more actively using zeptoforth (and that they're willing to give me bug reports or, in one case, a comment on the wiki being out of date).

zeptoforth apparently is now being used commercially (not in products but in internal applications).

My CYW43439 driver for zeptoforth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W is now receiving packets from a connected WiFi AP using WPA2. Now what it needs is an IP stack...

And now, I'm successfully receiving ARP and IPv4 packets!

Note that that doesn't mean I have an IP stack yet; rather, I just am receiving the frames from the CYW43 driver and have a bit of code which is successfully decoding them.

Now I am almost done implementing ARP, ICMP echo requests, and receiving UDP packets...

I can now ping my Raspberry Pi Pico W running zeptoforth!

I just saw the trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s. I am definitely interested. It looks like they’re going for a retro sensibility—they’re not interested in some sort of contrivance to make the story more “realistic” but rather are just rolling with the conceit as it is, and I’m actually kind of happy about that.

I’m happy for Scott; FNAF was his Final Fantasy. He earned this.

I’m over the moon for CORYxKENSHIN (the taxi driver at the end of the trailer). Guy was really young when FNAF came out and he’s one of the few lets players I ever followed. He’s had…a rough go of things mental-health-wise to boot. And now, he’s gone from playing the games on YouTube to appearing in the film.

What did I post yesterday over in the Venting Thread?

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 12:33 am The tasks I have set for myself today include dusting a bookshelf, with five individual shelves, filled with a lot of books and, I think, even more DVDs (yes, I'm still using DVDs in 2023, so sue me), each of which will have to be dusted individually. Sigh.

OK, it's a day later than I had hoped, but I have now completed that task!

I can now receive UDP packets and then echo them back to the sender - w00h00!

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:25 am I can now receive UDP packets and then echo them back to the sender - w00h00!

Amazing work!