Using MicroPython with NM-CYD-C5
1. Hardware Preparation
Before you start, you need to prepare a NM-CYD-C5 board.
2. Deploying MicroPython Firmware
Next, we will guide you through how to deploy the MicroPython firmware on the NM-CYD-C5.
2.1 Install esptool
You need to install esptool first. If you already installed python3, open a terminal and enter the following command.
pip install esptool
Second, before installing MicroPython on the NM-CYD-C5, use the following command to erase the Flash first.
esptool erase_flash
2.2 Install MicroPython firmware
Step1. Get micropython firmware on MicroPython ESP32_GENERIC_C5
We can choose the Release Version ESP32_GENERIC_C5-20260406-v1.28.0.bin
Step2. deploy the firmware to NM-CYD-C5, Notice, the starting address of ESP32-C5 is 0x2000.
esptool --baud 961200 write_flash 0x2000 .\ESP32_GENERIC_C5-20260406-v1.28.0.bin
After deploy ESP32-C5 firmware, you can connect the Board with Serial Port, default baudrate is 115200, you can see ESP-ROM info from putty.
3. Develop MicroPython
You can choose to install Thonny IDE or RT-Thread MicroPython on Visual Studio Code.
With RT-Thread MicroPython installed on Visual Studio Code, you can see the Tools below:
3.1 Run ST7789 Screen Demo
You can get the screen demo from github RockBase-iot
The ST7789 driver from MicroPython LCD Driver in Python, which support many boards.
To run with NM-CYD-C5, you can get tft_config.py from tft_configs/nm-cyd-c5.
Before run the rotations.py example,
- Create a MicroPython Project
- Device connect: connect nm-cyd-c5 with serial port;
- Then you should Sync the *.py files to nm-cyd-c5 board;
- Run the example.
