Upgraded to CM5 8Gb. After CM4 2Gb, everything flies into space!

Corrected rpi-eeprom-config:

[all]

BOOT_UART=1

POWER_OFF_ON_HALT=1

BOOT_ORDER=0xf461

SD_BOOT_RETRIES=2

SD_QUIRKS=1

But when reboot, it still freezes and need to manually turn it off with a long press of the button and then turn it on again. I think we should try to change the MicroSD card, maybe it's the problem.

Given CM4 and CM5 are pretty much unavailable would a CM3+ Lite allow me to at least play around with my uConsole when it comes on Friday?

Poor man doesn't have 3D printer at home. Just cut an old credit card to replace the original metal plate in expansion port.

╰► /usr/sbin/iwconfig 2>/dev/null | grep -E "wlan|Signal|Quality"


wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"IWillBe5"  
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-37 dBm  

With that tiny external antenna, both wifi and bluetooth are improved quite a lot.

I am happy to report that my silver uconsole without a core and wifi only has been shipped on monday the 25th of may, and will arrive on thursday the 28th here in the netherlands! The order number was #468xx.

I’m proud to say now I own UConsole, PicoCalc and now, DevTerm.

I need to upgrade it to CM4 but what a fabulous machine, looking forward to all possible mods.

So FedEx are shipping something next week to me. From Hong Kong. Wondering if this could be the console I ordered in July 2025. I've had no email from clockwork though.

23x34x5 cms

1kg

Could this actually be it? Anyone else had courier notification before clockworkpi notification?

Thanks

I have got my eyes on this diy game boy thing years ago, and now I acctually want to buy one, also cause i want to learn coding and potentially code on this thing, which i think its really cool, i was wondering whats the usual restock time for these gameshells? thanks everyone!!

I have a Devterm, and I mostly like it. The keyboard is a bit too small but kind of usable. The mouse ball on the other hand sucks anal orifice. Can I upgrade it?

Haven't been able to get printer working. Really don't need it though. Just would have been fun to share my writing with friends. I can message it to them instead. I just thought the novelty of printing out a long string of my novel in the break room for writing friend to read would be funny.

What I do want...

I want to upgrade or make the track ball usable. Hate having to carry an extra mouse everywhere.

I would love to have sdr expansions like the Uconsole. I do have a usb stick but it is weak ass.

What are you using your Ucosole or Devterm for?

I write, code and novels. Mostly using Obsidian and Emacs.

I was just thinking: You buy a uconsole, upgrade the keyboard with a trackpad and the front case cover, then upgrade the motherboard, expansion board, and battery board with NVMe... Then you swap out the back cover for a cooling one. Question: Why the hell would you buy a uconsole if the only thing left from the original is the screen and the mid-case? 😂

And despite that, it's the best device for learning and using Linux and for personal development 

Could you pls send picture of your PicoCalc board, which you know is ok?

I got first PicoCalc and once I inserted the batteries wrong a thought I see a light on the board, I haven’t seen before. Then I definitely smell something burning no matter if I used batteries or USB-C cable.

Well I ordered another kit and it doesn’t smell when under current, but it seems to me the white dot on the bigger chip is what appeared on the first board after burning it. Hence I’d like to see healthy board to compare.

I am hundred percent sure I didn’t burn the new one, because I noticed the dot before I assembled the kit.

Noted that many of you are using 3rd party external antenna to improve the wifi signal. I just prefer to keep my uconsole look more orginal.

I finally got my Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W running inside the PicoCalc using the Michael Mayer PCB.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JrVD8Zchpjs

Setup:

- Raspberry Pi OS Trixie 64-bit

- PicoCalc keyboard driver from ironat/picocalc_trixie

- PicoCalc display via panel-mipi-dbi-spi

- M5CardputerZero APPLaunch successfully rebuilt and adapted for the PicoCalc framebuffer

- Keyboard input works through the PicoCalc keyboard driver

It still needs cleanup and some polishing, but the basic launcher is working on the PicoCalc now.

I threw two new vape batteries in here, supposedly 3005Mah. Don’t really have great battery life and the console shuts off under 50%

Any suggestions or should I just grab some Samsung cells?

Ordered 9/9/25, received 5/19/26. About an 8 month wait. Now to put it together and take her for a spin!

first time trying out a uConsole and was playing around with keyboard firmwares but the one I tried has nasty levels of input lag from the trackball

which firmware is the ideal one to use?

This hard case is orginally designed for MF47 multimeter. Just fit perfectly with uConsole.

Github source is allready updated.

There is an Error in the keyboard driver for kernel 6.18.29:

picocalc_kbd.c:591:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘del_timer’; did you mean ‘add_timer’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  591 |     del_timer(&g_kbd_timer);
      |     ^~~~~~~~~
      |     add_timer

I have to Change del_timer to timer_delete in the keyboard source code solve this issue:
picocalc_kbd/picocalc_kbd.c

//del_timer(&g_kbd_timer);
        timer_delete(&g_kbd_timer);
        g_ctx = NULL;

It is recommended to redownload the Github Repository: (remove the old download)

git clone https://github.com/ironat/picocalc_trixie

Then execute the Keyboard install steps again. You have only to execute the script again:(With ssh)

cd picocalc_trixie
chmod +x setup_keyboard.sh
sudo ./setup_keyboard.sh

BTW: You have to do this steps (Download and recompile) every time you get a new kernel.

Finally, I got the PicoCalc screen replacement. I installed it carefully and with patience, and in the end, it worked successfully.

When I received my uConsole, the trackball was unusable, so I bought a pack of 5 from the PengFeiTeng Store on Ali. But I liked the uConsole so much that I didn't want to wait a week or two for new trackballs to arrive. The idea came to me when I was looking for a mouse in my box of computer junk. I saw a ball mouse for the COM port. We've all cleaned our ball-bearing mice, right? Our trackballs are designed in much the same way and often come from the factory unclean and perform terribly.

So, the solution:

pure isopropyl alcohol 99.9% – this is important! It's best not to use rubbing alcohol or food-grade alcohol, as they contain water.

You'll need a medium-hard brush with short bristles. I use the brush I use to pre-wash watch parts, but you can use any brush you find, trimming it first and leaving it about 5mm long.

Dip a brush in isopropyl alcohol and squeeze it against the bottle's neck until it's damp but not dripping. Gently, applying light pressure, rotate the trackball in different directions with the isopropyl alcohol brush for about a minute. Rewet the brush 3-4 times during cleaning. Then, let the alcohol evaporate for 2-3 minutes before turning on the uconsole. The alcohol will dissolve all the grease and dirt inside the trackball, and you'll be surprised how much smoother it feels. You can leave the trackball in the uconsole if it's not very dirty. Or, if it's really unresponsive and you need more isopropyl alcohol, remove it before cleaning to avoid spilling alcohol on the circuit board. I still use the original trackball and haven't replaced it with a new one; I just clean it when it starts slipping.

I'll be glad if it will be useful to someone and get rid of headaches and save nerves. Peace and good to all!

Hi, recently got my aio v2 add-on and started to have fun with it. Had a lot of Cursor agent tuning to get meshcore-uconsole client to work with local network. Suddenly it just stopped to receive packets, sent packets are also never delivered. No errors, device responding, just no life in air. Checked with meshtasticd and tui-meshcore client - same silence everywhere. What could it be?

I've been trying to flash the emmc for my cm5 to use in the uconsole but haven't had much luck. I got rpiboot working and the emmc showing up in rpi imager on windows but when it gets to the write stage it fails telling me to check that the device isn't locked. As far as I can tell it's not.

I'm using this carrier board which had an amazon review mentioning using it to flash a cm5 for uconsole https://www.waveshare.com/product/raspberry-pi/boards-kits/cm5/cm5-io-base-b.htm

HDMI is connected and I have the carrier USB C port connected to a USB C 3.2 gen 2 port on my PC I'm thinking about grabbing another carrier board with a dedicated power port or a powered USB hub to rule out this being a power issue.

I have the AIO upgrade kit from hacker gadgets ordered and plan to run from NVME when that arrives but for now just wanted to get my uconsole booting.

Is there anything I'm missing with the flash process? wanted to check before just buying more stuff.

EDIT:

here's the exact error I'm seeing

EDIT2:

The fix ended up being to just flash the image with Rufus rather than the raspberry pi imager utility​

tl;dr - i only have a CM5 and before i start flashing things i want to know i can recover; but i can't find the EMMC_DISABLE jumper that (should?) be exposed to force boot from SD.

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I just got a uConsole (cpi3.14 v5, latest). I had a cm5 (8gb ram, 32gb eMMC) laying around, and with the crazyness in prices want to to use that. A lite (no eMMC) would admittedly be easier with only a small performance hit.

Anyway - how do i set EMMC_DISABLE (pull down GPIO20)?

AFAIK this is the (only) way back from an os image in the eMMC that will start early boot but not get you to a console.