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@larryplatzek9017 Hi Larry. mydecorators.py is the library file of decorators that I've created. I've made a (rather long) video all about decorators which should explain everything if you're interested. Here's the link th-cam.com/video/gGDxZr7X_JY/w-d-xo.html

@larryplatzek9017 Hi Larry I replied to this comment and included a link. Sometimes this means that you-know-who will delete my comment even if I'm commenting on one of my own videos on my own channel. This is very annoying!!! If you get a moment, let me know whether you got my previous comment and, if not, I'll just tell you the title of the video.

@@charlotteswift yes i see both emails, but if I hit reply it brings up the video. both of these videos have good information Thank you!

@larryplatzek9017 Hurrah!!

@keithlohmeyer No, Keith. What you mean is that you just like to wear neopixels😁Thanks for watching

@@charlotteswift So true. I ran into a problem with my 60 pixel string using the pio code. Both mine and Paul's code glitched on the 60 string. It seems iterating through a list of pix colors is too slow for a long string. I think the pio gets caught up and the break signals to the string that we are done and starts over when data resumes. I have reworked the code using the array module. The array stores the data in the shifted format *(g<<16) + (r<<8) + b* and you can *sm.put* the whole array at once. I will have a vid describing the problem soon.

@keithlohmeyer I won't take a look until I try it myself otherwise it would be cheating. Step one: Locate neopixel string🙃

@@charlotteswift Locate neopixel string? Found it! I wear it as a boa.🐍

@wendygrant2735 All the time? Or just on special occasions?

@keithlohmeyer Thanks, Keith. I thought you would like it but you're probably the only one though😿 Maybe I should have said "I'm making this video for Keith and myself"😁

@bobingridshaw5361 Hi Bob. The code that deals with deciding which state machine(s) can be used is in my previous video for lesson 100 from about 11 minutes. I hope it makes sense.

@johnganci933 Old? You call that old? One of my favourite sweatshirts is one that I bought in Cannes in 1993. It was half price because it was promoting a 1992 film (Nikita). I never watched the film but I still love the sweatshirt👍👌Thanks for alerting me to my out-of-datedness. Maybe I ought to move on fron Python 3.10 too.

@@charlotteswift I meant old in computer terms. What you buy today is obsolete tomorrow.😀

@leeg.1402 Thanks, Lee. I hadn't realised until I made this video how many inconsistencies there are between python and micropython. Do Americans say 'jolly good'? Maybe nobody says it apart from me😿

@wendygrant2735 Thanks, Wendy. I hope you didn't watch it all - that would be 40 minutes of your life that you'll never get back!! I hope you had a good Christmas and you're keeping warm. It's jolly cold here.

@peterkarlsson7801 It's surprising what you can find on old scraps of paper😁

@jameslewellen150 Thanks, James. The video is horrendously long but I wanted to put in everything as a reference for myself. Probably most people will stop watching way before the interesting (imo) bit😿

@wetheproz5422 That's very kind of you. Glad you liked it.

@leeg.1402 Ah, I have an ulterior motive. I'm hoping that you'll send me the blueprints when you design the robot that can do housework. Have a good Christmas and don't eat too much turkey.

@peterkarlsson7801 Yes, I realised that having the asm program inside the class was what was causing the problem. I've made another short video explaining why. NOOOO to nop() !!

@bigbogeyface Thanks, Mr Burger. That's about as good as I can be bothered to make it unless I can manage to put the for loops within the assembler bit. 🤔

@charlotteswift You're very welcome 😊 🙏 Hmmm 🤔 For loops in the state machine 🤔

@bigbogeyface Thanks, Mr Burger. I've worked out what the problem was. Everything is working fine now. Hurrah!!!

After re-reading this I may be describing a static method rather than a class method. I always get them mixed up.

@keithlohmeyer @paulmcwhorter Thanks for your thoughts. It wasn't until I looked at Arnold's very simple solution that I realised that I had put the asm_pio inside the PIO class which was very stupid. 🙃🙃 I just grabbed everything to do with PIO etc and stuck it in the class. Must do better next time!!

@jyvben1520 I agree with what you've said. I just mentioned being able to put a semi colon at the end of a line in micropython because I get fed up with people whining about the syntax being different in micopython and C++. I don't tend to use a semi colon to join lines because, yes, it does make it more difficult to read. Personally, I don't use #TODO because I find it quicker to type three dots and they're easy to see. (I am a VERY lazy typist). Even if using semi colons like I said is a stupid idea (I did say in the video that it was probably a stupid idea), I'm quite pleased with my idea of bending the button leg😁 On the subject of being difficult to read, when I opened the email containing your comment, TH-cam/Gmail had scrunched it all together with no new lines or tabs. Aargh!!!! Thanks for watching/commenting.

@keithlohmeyer I always have to do things differently😁 Paul did only ask us to make the servos move like old fashioned windscreen wipers which I suppose is what everyone did. [If my wipers moved like my servos, I would buy another car]. The lessons are moving soo slowly! One lesson to create a class then another lesson to make it into a library. How hard is it to move the class to another file, save it to 'lib' on the pico and put in an import statement? Paul will have to implement independent operation otherwise the whole exercise will have been a waste of time. And why would anyone want a program that can't do anything other than move a servo? I don't think timers or interrupts would work with PIO and I can't see him getting into asyncio. So I think he'll have to create the equivalent of a for loop manually, use a generator or do everything within the state machine. This would be tricky but possible, I think. I was contemplating the matter in the bath last night🛀

@keithlohmeyer That would seem very strange to me but maybe you're right. I have no 'take on the docs' for obvious reasons😁I hope you're wrong because otherwise this video is total nonsense🙃 Did you see my pinned comment about my mistake? Note to self: Never 'tidy up' code without testing it afterwards! Thanks for watching.

@@charlotteswift Busy with grandkids this weekend but I have some ideas on how to test it. I will let you know what I find. You could add a dozen NOP to your code and see if it still works.

I DON’T USE NOP!!!

@@charlotteswift Well ok then 😁

@keithlohmeyer No need to test it. I combined my PIO challenge program using 20 instructions on state machine 1 with my lesson 98 servo program using 7 instructions on state machine 0 and the servo chugs away happily while I press the up and down buttons to change the binary display. Thanks goodness I'm using the little board that Brian MADE me buy. I only had to add another 6 wires to the rat's nest. On a normal breadboard setup, it would have been another 12 wires and 4 resistors. I rather like having the servo doing its thing and being able to turn the lights on and off. I might leave it running on my desk permanently👍😁There again, Frankie the cat, would probably attack it🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

@quaternion-pi Thanks, Carter. Using PIO is quite strange. It's complete overkill for many things (servos included) and far, far too difficult for a mere mortal like me when trying to do complicated things. Probably the best application of it is for controlling Neopixels but then you can just use a library. Paul seems to be enjoying it though. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to be a Swiftie!!

@johnganci933 Thanks, John. I suppose the grown-up way would be to use asyncio but it makes my head hurt🤕

@keithlohmeyer Thanks, Keith. It was probably a waste of time because I'm sure that it would be much better to do everything in the state machine but I feel that I need another register (or two) or a better brain🙃

@@charlotteswift I really think all that math would be too much for the state machine.

@keithlohmeyer I don't know about the state machine but I think it would be too much for me🙃I need to look into storing several things in the osr/isr and taking them out from each end. Probably it isn't possible😿

@leeg.1402 Thanks, Lee. I don't know how many people appreciate the value of generator functions. Since making this video, I've looked at other solutions and everyone has done it in the 'lame' blocking way. I hope that I haven't made any enemies👺btw I'm going to look at Paul's latest Arduino lesson (before he issued the warning). I believe that the Freenove projects board has all the protection built in. I'll warn you if mine blows up.

@@charlotteswift Generator functions were covered in the “Fluent Python” book (and your earlier post), so I know a “little” bit about them. It’s nice that you used one, so we can see a practical application of them. If other people don’t want to use them, that’s their loss. I’ve been concentrating on the Pico lately, rather than the Arduino. I listen to Paul’s Arduino lectures just to pick up anything new he has to offer. Most of it he has gone over (several times) in earlier lessons. My New Year’s project is to build a robot car (from scratch - not a kit), hopefully putting everything I’ve learned in these lessons to use. Will probably need a fire extinguisher for all the smoke I’ll be generating! 😊

@leeg.1402 I had forgotten that you had 'Fluent Python' but, more importantly, I had forgotten that I had 'Fluent Python' 🙃🙃I'm not that interested in robots unless they could do the housework. HAVE FUN!!

@johnganci933 Hi John I replied to your comment but it does not show up in the YT stats. It a pretty poor show when your own comment gets blocked from your own channel. I'll delete it and try again. That didn't seem to work so I'll try commenting via the video instead on via studio. I said .... ah, yes, that was a bit of a howler! I did wonder at the time why it didn't seem to do anything. In my defence, I was doing it in a rush just before the lesson because I didn't want people to think that I had just copied Paul's solution. I changed my method halfway through and forgot to change the first bit. MUST TRY HARDER!! B-.

@quaternion-pi Thanks, Carter. It definitely isn't you! After seeing your (and other solutions), it has dawned on me why sideset would be a good idea. I will be adding PIO to my home grown servo class (if I can ever find it again🙃) and then it would be good to get the number of instructions down to 8 or less so that 4 instances can fit on each PIO block. One obvious use for servos is to have 3 (yaw, pitch and roll). I could cut my 12 instructions down by using sideset (10 instructions) and maybe not setting the initial value of the pulse width (8 instructions). I doubt whether it achieved anything anyway. Your idea of using exec instead of having any instructions before wrap_target (6 instructions) would also help but then I would be wasting 2!😿 Probably the days of uncomprehending googler(s) have passed because the lessons are getting more complicated. I look at other people's solutions and when I see a solution that isn't quite right and then, the next day, there's another one that has the same fault, I smell a rat🐀

@@charlotteswift This PIO is kind of addicting, if not very practical. A work colleague chastises me for "playing with LEDs", as he spends hours on Wordle. Interestingly (at least to me) is that the WSJ (Wall Street Journal for you youngsters) had a recent article on "Googling is for old people. That's a problem for Google". I haven't really got much out of TikTok to help me with state machines. However, StackOverflow and Reddit - not bad.

@quaternion-pi Unfortunately, despite the fact that I sound like a 13 year old on my videos, I am no youngster😿

@bigbogeyface I had to do it before Paul's lesson otherwise everyone would have thought that I had cheated!

@@charlotteswift No no! Charlotte is no cheater. Never!⛔

@@wendygrant2735 Hey Wendy 👋 How the devil are you? 👋😃

@wendygrant2735 You can quite often tell when someone's googled something and copied it without understanding it. 😁We've probably got a couple of months of PIO ahead of us and, by the end, I'll DEFINITELY be cheating!!

@@charlotteswift You have to remember Paul is only a step ahead of the rest of us on this. I commend him for putting out these videos. All his Python related vids have made me learn new stuff. The PIO is the latest. Pauls gift is to break down the lessons into chunks. With the current servo project I believe he will end up with something very close to the PWM class example in the examples linked to on the Micropython PIO docs page. I have stopped posting vids or putting much thought into this project as I believe the hardware PWM on the Pico already does the job without blocking and with less coding. Thanks for the video.

@bigbogeyface Thanks, Mr Burger. Maybe I should have said 'shorter than usual'. Rat in my kitchen was too hard🐀

@bigbogeyface I know that you don't know anything about politics but have you heard about the petition to call a general election because Starmer et al are li*rs, thie*es and totally us*less. I've signed it and so should everyone else! It's got over 2.6 million signatures since Thursday.

@johnganci933 Thanks, John. TH-cam has obviously decided that I post too many boring videos and comments. Any comments with links to my videos get deleted almost instantaneously and most of the others suffer the same fate unless I mention cute animals. When YT gets wise to this, I'm going to have to call everything 'The best chocolate cake recipe in the world, ever' or 'How to knit an umbrella' 😸I look forward to seeing your cat - much more interesting than PIO. Paul's made 16 lessons about it and he's not done yet😿He probably did them all in a weekend but 4 months of the same stuff is driving me to chew my left arm off! Sorry about the lack of kittens🐈🐈🐈, ducklings🦆🦆🦆 and puppies🐕🐕🐕

@jannatulnayeem7289 Thanks. That's very kind of you. Whenever I get a comment on one of my old videos, I'm dreading that someone is going to ask a question about it. My memory is so bad that I can't remember and I have to watch my own video to remind myself how to do things🙃

@wendygrant2735 You said that you were quite poorly and then you went quiet. l’m a worrier - the kind of person who keeps poking their grandmother when she’s asleep just to make sure that she hasn’t snuffed it. Luckily, I don’t have a grandmother! Thanks for watching (and for not snuffing it). I should have put in some jokey emojis but I can’t find them on my iPad.

@@charlotteswift I can be your grandma if you want me to.🧓🧓🧓

@wendygrant2735 That's very kind of you but I'm more of a cat person🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

@@charlotteswift Cats are not allowed by Mr McWorther. You walk a very thin line there.

@wendygrant2735 My channel, my rules😁

@VeryUsMumblings Sorry about that🙇‍♀️

@bigbogeyface Thanks, Mr Burger, but just imagine how good it would be with a burger-shaped blob of solder🍔

@charlotteswift 😲🤯 Holy Burgerino Batman 😃 🤤 That wound be super dooper awesome 🍔 😋👌

@lorisrobots Thanks, Lori. I don't often use other people's work but I made an exception for this because it was too hard🙃I don't know much (anything) about capacitors. Paul doesn't seem interested.

@@charlotteswift I think it is fine to learn from other folks and leverage their work. Just need to provide attribution IMO. I am hoping Paul will do a circuits type course one day. But that probably won't provide the views he needs for his patreon support. I plan to work through "Make: Electronics" by Charles Platt to improve my understanding of basic electronics and circuits.

@lorisrobots Is that a book? You don't need to answer that. I've just realised that I have Make: Easy Electronics, Make: Electronics & Make: More Electronics, all by Charles Platt. So you recommend him?

@keithlohmeyer Thanks, Keith. It's not exactly very useful to you as you don't have an R4

@keithlohmeyer Strangely, my reply disappeared off my own video😿The YT peeps must REALLY hate me. I said that I won't make a habit of it.

@VeryUsMumblings I've been rummaging around and I found a 330nF ceramic capacitor in my Monk's Makes Starter Kit for the Raspberry Pi (the very first kit that I ever bought in a big fairly empty box😿). The legs were very short so I had to put it on my breadboard with leads going to grd and pin 7 but ......... IT WORKS!!!!

@@charlotteswift Congratulations! 👍

@VeryUsMumblings Agreed!! Variables and documentation are for wimps!! When I'm feeling REALLY lazy (which is most of the time), I just convert by dividing by 4 but I've just found out about analogReadResolution so I didn't need the conversion bit either. On the down side, 'analogReadResolution(8)' takes longer to type than '/ 4'. Thanks for watching (and commenting)👍

@peterkarlsson7801 Ah, yes, I know that it would have been better to have used some variables but I wanted to see whether I could do it without any at all. I did say that 'This is how you COULD do it, not how you SHOULD do it'😁 Normally I would do it all in one line without using functions but the homework was all about using functions. In fact I already had written the program which consisted of 2 variables, 1 line in setup and 1 line in loop. I hate typing!!! You ought to look at Delta_G Robotics's stuff. Like you, he actually understands the documentation. Thanks for watching (and commenting).

@leeg.1402 Thanks, Lee. It would be really good to get it working with a finger. I don't know whether I've got any touch sensors included in various kit and I don't really understand the ins and outs of capacitors and what the differences between the ceramic ones and the electrolytic ones. The trouble is that the R4 hasn't been around long enough for other people to have done all the hard work for us😁 And Keith doesn't have one😿👎

@johnganci933 I just watched your video. It's a lot more grown up than mine😁 Thanks for watching.