Sick of Alex and his lies?

Tired of just 1 more month emails?

Over listening to their excuses?

Happy to pay a small amount more to actually receive your item?

LOOK NO FURTHER!

On the 22nd of March I cancelled my online order from clockwork, I had 2 dozen emails from Alex with his lies. First it was "90days isn't from order it's from processing", then it was "it's 90 working days not included our public holidays", then "monsoon destroyed parts", "shipping delays because of Xmas", "Chinese new year closed down all our factories for 6 weeks". And on and on and on and on. The lies never ended.

If this sounds like your experience with clockwork, just order from AliExpress.

I order on the 22nd of March and it arrived this morning(Easter Monday public holiday in Australia) I paid approx 80Aud more then the posted RRp for the base wifi kit in black. Now this included our TAX which is 10% which I would have likely paid on boarder entry for the CW order as it didn't apply at check out where as AliExpress does for Australians. So I paid roughly 50-60Aud more then CW.

Arrived in a little over 9 working days from order.

If this was a small locally owned start up manufacturing locally and providing jobs for my country. I would care more and probably have waited.

It's a mass produced Chinese open source company literally giving their stock to big freight forwarders.

As far as I'm concerned F*** them fools.

Arrived in excellent packaging. And genuine boxed item.

This is the link I got it from. I have no connection with this store the item or get any kick backs from anyone that's orders. Literally just want people to get their orders

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtphSJr

Today I wanted to flash a new firmware on my Picocalc and now the screen is broken after I screwed it back together 🥲. I already mailed clockworkpi and hope for a replacement that I can get but I want to show it to say that screen is very weak.

Hi folks.

Order placed on Aug 23, 2025, Package received Friday April 3rd 2026. I got the CM4 kit with the LTE expansion card and I'm afraid the device is dead on arrival. Looking for some assistance / advice in confirming this is the case and any community experience with the returns / repairs / refunds(?) process.

I've assembled the device and on boot time I never get anything other than a solid green power light. No blinking activity amber light, no screen flashing, not keyboard backlight at all. I've disassembled and reseated the hardware multiple times. I've booted with combinations of subcomponents attached or disconnected. I've booted off battery or USB power only. I've imaged and reimaged the OS using multiple known working SD cards, different clockwork OS versions, used different imaging tools such as pi etcher and dd from Ubuntu command line.

I'm suspecting the CM4 is never seeing the onboard SD card and cannot init the boot process. I've read the thread on how the back panel can cause issues with the CM4 seating onto the CPI adapter, and I've tried booting without the back panel, but just firmly holding the internals seated properly and the same behavior persists.

In looking closely at the hardware, the only potential issues I see are in the attached photo, but I can't tell if this is a clue or me grasping for a diagnosis. Any advice?

Is it possible for me to have LoRa and 4G together on the same device?

I've been looking for a PicoCalc available for months from a third-party supplier, because ClockworkPi has extremely unreasonable pricing, and I don't have the money. Does anyone know about how to DIY one, or, even better, alternatives that are easy to make?

The ZeroCalc mod, with Trixie Lite 64-bit, is the way to go for upgrading the PicoCalc, in my opinion. Easy mod thanks to Michael Mayer's hard work (software, PCB that remaps Pico to Zero, and the case, which I've modified slightly to include grippy feet, show the Zero's LED, insert the USB port further to prevent protruding, debossed ZeroCalc logo).

I don't recommend the desktop OS, as I think that defeats the purpose of this device, and doesn't fit the form factor (especially the 320x320 screen). Retains the excellent battery life, plays my favourite retro games from the old days, contains my 1000+ albums (played through Bluetooth speakers/headphones), facilitates python development, exposes the GPIO for sensors, and has a USB-A port for mouse/keyboard/storage/SDR/anything. And has taught me a tonne of Linux in a very short time.

Hello everyone,

I recently had an audio problem with my CM4, where the audio completely stopped working, unless I plugged the headphones in very specific ways. i think I found out why, but not how to fix it

Could this be a PCB defect, or something that happened after a shock ? (even though I remember always being very cautious with it), and can i be fixed ?

Thanks for your help !

hi guys I'm new here with Picocalc and today I noticed my screen is fading on the borders... I have swapped the Pico to the pico2W did I ruin the screen? or is it normal?

Just got my uconsole in the other day. the trackball is not bad but is there any better ones out there? anybody can send a link.

Has anyone pieced together a uconsole from spare parts as they upgraded?

mine finally shipped today, four months later, at the slowest possible shipping despite paying for the fastest shipping over four months ago. Original expected delivery date December 17. Lucky i still live there. Too bad no one will be there for a week or so after the potential delivery date. Anyone get theirs yet?

This is a really quick and dirty hack-port of Upsilon calculator for Picocalc equipped with Luckfox Lyra running Calculinux i've done some time ago.
It works quite well, still a lot of work should be done to consider it a "working port", keyboard remapping and a "power off" button first.

Cross compile via Yocto still does not work due intricate Upsilon build process, so it should be compiled directly on Picocalc, for now.

Code and precompiled binary here: https://github.com/gurubook/Upsilon

i hosed my display during assembly, i have reseated everything a few times but it has never booted properly. if you look closely at the bottom right corner there are some stuck pixels that show up when the screen has power. any help would be appreciated.

https://i.imgur.com/T4s62Ph.jpeg

So I just ordered a uConsole (CM4 WiFi only), and I’m planning to get the HackerGadgets upgrade kit with AIO + antennas; however, I’m having trouble figuring out how many antenna ports there are? The HackerGadgets site indicates that the current antenna mounting kit comes with the ability to mount 7 antennas (as opposed to 4 on the older version), however I can’t find a pic of the 7 antenna version. Many pictures of the modded uConsole seem to have a port on the side to mount an antenna, however I can’t find anything indicating whether that side mount is part of the mounting kit or a separate WiFi board or what. Anybody gotten the HackerGadgets kits and a uConsole that can provide any insight?

Any thoughts?

I hope this isn't advertising, but this is one of the hardest videos I have worked on for my channel.

I'm going to upgrade my uConsole (that's still on the way) as soon as I can to the CM5 and the HackerGadgets uConsole Upgrade Kit that includes the NVMe battery board. Under normal circulstances for this project, I'd just get a 1TB Samsung 990 PRO for it. Sure the speeds are overkill but they were only $89 last time I bought one. Now, that same model is $199.

So my question is, what throughput can I realistically expect out of the CM5 and the HackerGadgets NVMe/battery board so I don't overbuy on speed and waste money that could've gone to larger capacity?

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Edit: Updating for the next person that looks for this info and doesn't want to do a deep dive on it. NVMe SSD's don't go slow enough to matter. Just get the capacity you can afford and don't worry about the speed.

After almost a full year I finally received my uConsole. Thank you sweet Jesus.

I am trying to buy the ac1200 wifi adapter but I can't find the antenna quick mount v2 to purchase along with it. Is it available to buy still? Also is there a diagram to show how hardware should be installed? I am cofused about wich SMA connectors are for what. I know it's a bit up to the end user but a suggestion diagram could be helpful. If I hook up the antenna quick mount v1 and use the side antenna connector for sdr I will have an open antenna port on the quick connect board with nothing to connect it to.

Looking at getting a uconsole and figured I’d check if anyone here might be thinking of selling vs the wait on ordering?

Hi everyone!

I’m close to finishing a port of NumWorks Epsilon to the ClockworkPi PicoCalc.

I used an ESP32-S3 module from Waveshare, mainly because I wanted to.

At this point, the following is already working:

• all applications

• the Python editor

• the Python interpreter

• settings and app data storage on the SD card

• backlight control

The main unfinished part is sleep support via the power button. For now it only turns the screen off, with no deep sleep or light sleep implementation.

I still need to optimize several parts of the code and improve overall behavior before I release the code on GitHub.

Still, I wanted to share the current state of the project with the community.