{"id":17107,"date":"2022-11-04T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17107"},"modified":"2022-11-14T22:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T03:41:42","slug":"micropython-on-the-seeed-studio-wio-terminal-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/micropython-on-the-seeed-studio-wio-terminal-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroPython on the Seeed Studio Wio Terminal: it works!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while back, Seeed Studio sent me one of their Wio Terminal devices to review. It was pretty neat, but being limited to using Arduino to access all of it features was a little limiting. I still liked it, though, and wrote about it here: SeeedStudio Wio Terminal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wio Terminal, doing a thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There wasn’t any proper MicroPython support for the device as it used a MicroChip\/Atmel SAMD51 ARM\u00ae Cortex\u00ae-M4 micro-controller. But since I wrote the review, one developer (robert-hh<\/a>) has worked almost entirely solo to make SAMD51 and SAMD21 support useful in mainline MicroPython.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey!<\/strong> Development is still somewhere between \u201cnot quite ready for prime time<\/em>\u201d and \u201cbeware of the leopard<\/em>\u201d. MicroPython on the SAMD51 works remarkably well for supported boards, but don’t expect this to be beginner-friendly yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I’d revisit the Wio Terminal and see what I could do using a nightly build (downloaded from Downloads – Wio Terminal D51R<\/a> – MicroPython<\/a>). Turns out, most of the board works really well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What doesn’t work yet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n