Getting started using your Jumperless
(at this point some of the stuff in that guide is a bit out of date, but generally is good advice)
Reading in strings of nodes from an Arduino (or whatever) has always been kinda flaky because the UART gets out of sync. Now the Jumperless will send acknowledgements after getting each set of nodes. It should still work with existing code, but in general it's much better to wait for the ack so you don't lose part of the netlist. Check out the Arduino examples.
Now it's fast as hell (and doesn't skip any connections):
IMG_0256.mov
ArdTermout.mov
There are now menu shortcuts for connecting and disconnecting the Jumperless's UART Rx and Tx lines up to the Nano header's D0 and D1
a = disconnect UART
A = connect UART
Also you can just have the Jumperless read which row the probe touches and print it with j
There will be new releases to support this awesome project
(which will hopefully become a generalized Python library in the future)
Anyway, let me know how you like the new UI or have any requests for things to add/change or if you run into any problems on the Jumperless Discord server
The firmware now has an option to load the slots you had last time it was running. You'll find that option in the debug flags menu by entering 'd' in the main menu.
Also, for my macOS peeps, I think I was able to get this packaged in universal2, so it should run on both intel and Apple Silicon macs. And I put together a little DMG installer with some ZX Spectrum stripes.
