micropython-samples/pyboard_d

Unofficial guide to the Pyboard D

Note: official docs may now be found here so I expect to remove this guide soon.

LED's

The board has one RGB led. Each colour is addressed as pyb.LED(n) where n is in range 1 to 3.

Accel

These boards do not have an accelerometer.

WiFi

After a power cycle a connection must be established with explicit credentials: the board behaves more like ESP32 than ESP8266. If a WiFi outage occurs it will attempt automatically to reconnect. The following code fragments may be used.

wl = network.WLAN()
wl.connect(my_ssid, my_password)
wl.active(1)
print(wl)

It can be in state down, join or up. down means that it's not trying to connect. join means it's trying to connect and get an IP address, and up means it's connected with an IP address and ready to send/receive. If the AP disappears then it goes from up to join, and will go back to up if the AP reappears. wl.status() will give numeric values of these states:
0=down, 1 and 2 mean join (different variants of it), 3=``up`.

You can also debug the wlan using tracing:

wl = network.WLAN()
wl.config(trace=value)

value can be a bit-wise or of 1=async-events, 2=eth-tx, 4=eth-rx. So:

wl = network.WLAN()
wl.config(trace=7)  # To see everything.
wl.config(trace=0)  # To stop

This will work on both STA and AP interfaces, so you can watch how two PYBD's connect to each other.

Setting antenna type and TX power

wl = network.WLAN()
wl.config(antenna=value)  # 0 internal 1 external
wl.config(txpower=value)  # In dbm

Variants

I am aware of two variants distinguished by the sticker on top of the CPU.

1. SF2W (blue). This has about 178K of free RAM and 2MB of Flash.
2. SF6W (red). This has 432K of free RAM. Also has 2MB Flash.

Bootloader

To put the board in booloader mode, either execute pyb.bootloader(), or hold down USR during reset and letting go of USR when the LED shines white. The red LED then flashes once a second indicating bootloader mode.

• then upload the DFU as usual: tools/pydfu.py -u firmware

Code emitters

Based on quick tests the Native, Viper and inline Arm Thumb assembler features are supported.