Question about repo

[Kickbut101]

Hey @andrei-tatar thank you for putting this repo together. I have a few ideas and projects in mind for these displays and I had more of a question than an issue. Feel free to delete this if you wanted to keep it strictly to issues.

Some questions, sorry for the barrage here:

• The firmware you have listed, is that a dump? (I assume not?) of the original CC2510 chip? or is that a new firmware to write over it. And if it is a new firmware what working features does it have now?

• Does it make use of the NFC chip at all?

• What is the main method of displaying data to the EPD now with the new firmware: do you use a wifi interface or does it still need to be hooked up to a programmer?

[andrei-tatar]

@Kickbut101

The firmware you have listed, is that a dump? (I assume not?) of the original CC2510 chip? or is that a new firmware to write over it. And if it is a new firmware what working features does it have now?

It's not a dump. It's a new fw I started writing at some point. The only features it has so far is toggling some IO pins and a using a timer + interrupt.

Does it make use of the NFC chip at all?

No

What is the main method of displaying data to the EPD now with the new firmware: do you use a wifi interface or does it still need to be hooked up to a programmer?

I didn't get so far with it.

CC2510 is not very friendly, last time I checked pretty much all the tools were closed source and proprietary (some needing paid licenses). I didn't progress too much with it out of lack of time and a good project to use it for.

Any contributions are appreciated.

[Kickbut101]

You mentioned you did get some minor progress on the firmware, but you said the software to write it are closed source/proprietary. Can you list the software/IDE you used?

Thank you for responding too btw!

[andrei-tatar]

I used vs code with SDCC. It's actually bundled in this repo.

Also found this repo: https://github.com/fishpepper/OpenSky

This should be a good starting point for a custom firmware.

[Kickbut101]

Oh you're right I do remember seeing that it's in this repo already, that was a dumb question of mine, thank you again for the response!