PicoCalc - A modern hand-held retrocomputer

The PicoCalc is a modern, hand-held computer with some serious retro vibes. Powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico and the PicoMite MMBasic operating environment, you can code like it’s 1985 all over again, but without the 30lb CRT. Almost every day it seems a new firmware is announced that targets the PicoCalc hardware. There’s an NES emulator, MicroPython, Lisp, a Unix-like environment, an MP3 player and more. PicoCalc https://github.com/jvanderberg/picoca... Picomite firmware https://github.com/madcock/PicoMiteAl... PicoMite user manual https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite... Mandelbrot demo https://github.com/jvanderberg/picoca... Demo Source code https://github.com/guidouil/PicoCalcS... Contents: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 File system 01:40 Mandelbrot Basic demo 02:00 MMEdit full screen editor 03:00 Laamaa demo 04:10 Flashing firmware 05:48 NES emulator fail! 06:00 Disassembly and internals 08:00 Display breakage issues 08:57 Re-assembly 09:50 NES emulator success! Ms Pacman and retrogaming 11:08 Other firmwares 12:00 Open source firmware 12:30 Hackable hardware 14:35 Build in .mod and .mp3 player 15:20 Overall physical impressions 15:47 Screen sharing via USB terminal 17:00 Summary and conclusions #raspberrypipico #nes #retrogaming #mmbasic #picocalc #clockworkpi #diyelectronics #basic