I bought a Pinecil so I could run it off a battery. I really came to appreciate the excellent temperature control and rapid heating, and use it instead of my soldering station for jobs away from the bench.
I have felt absolutely no need to touch the firmware. I try to forget that it is more powerful than my first three personal computers combined. Plug in, turn on, get hot. It meets my needs and exceeded my expectations. I suppose I could run a website from it if I wanted to make a point but as long as it doesn't require wifi and phone home to verify the license and leak my biometric data I expect to use it until I wear it out.
zoobab 1 day ago |
Jlink is closed source.
Better use dirtyJTAG on an rp2040.
zeafoamrun 1 day ago |
It's been a long time since I messed around with this stuff, proprietary JTAG devices and debuggers used to be leaps and bounds ahead of open source ones. Is it still the same?
Sweepi 1 day ago |
Good to see an "organic" J-Link + RISC-V use case :)
I have felt absolutely no need to touch the firmware. I try to forget that it is more powerful than my first three personal computers combined. Plug in, turn on, get hot. It meets my needs and exceeded my expectations. I suppose I could run a website from it if I wanted to make a point but as long as it doesn't require wifi and phone home to verify the license and leak my biometric data I expect to use it until I wear it out.