// firmware · hardware · experiments
MMBasic firmware for the PicoMite and the Colour Maximite 2, the Pico Computer 3 and the other boards it runs on, and notes from using AI as an everyday engineering tool.
> PRINT "Hello from mather.host" Hello from mather.host > FILES picomite/ ........ RP2040 / RP2350 pico-computer-3/ . RP2350B + HDMI cmm2/ ............ STM32H743 pcb/ ............. EasyEDA Pro ai/ .............. tools & experiments > _
Each section collects the firmware, hardware and write-ups for one area.
MMBasic for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and RP2350: VGA, HDMI, WebMite and USB builds, with manuals and game ports.
cd /picomite →An RP2350B home computer with HDMI, USB, audio and PSRAM. It runs MMBasic, MicroPython or FUZIX.
cd /pico-computer-3 →MMBasic V7 for the STM32H743 CMM2, with a C compiler, loadable programs, a 386 PC emulator and design files.
cd /cmm2 →Open hardware in EasyEDA Pro, with Gerbers, bills of materials and placement files ready for a board house.
cd /pcb →AI-assisted firmware and OS ports, design documents written with AI, and local language-model benchmarks.
cd /ai →Contributions to emulators, Forth and SQLite, MMBasic for Windows, and a 3D-printing preset converter.
cd /projects →The newest board, and the one most of the recent software targets.
A complete small computer built around the RP2350B: HDMI output, a USB hub for keyboard, mouse and drives, 8 MB of PSRAM, stereo audio, a real-time clock and an SD card. It boots into MMBasic, MicroPython or the FUZIX Unix-like OS, and it can also act as a VT100 terminal.
Peter Mather has spent more than four decades building computer systems. He started on real-time hardware and software, including plant monitoring for nuclear power stations and an early digital radiography system. He then moved into finance, and as IT Director of the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) he led the team behind APT, the first system to automate open-outcry trading.
Senior technology roles followed at Bankers Trust, Nikko Europe, Commerzbank and PwC, where he was Global Leader of Enterprise Core Systems. Today he is back close to the metal, writing MMBasic firmware for the Colour Maximite 2 and the PicoMite and designing the boards it runs on.
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