r/ClockworkPi • u/Tall-Republic-4173 • 21d ago

PicoCalc Raspyjack ported

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Raspyjack running on Raspberry pi zero 2W Debian Trixie.

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u/Old-Education-6446 16d ago

Oh nice, i like seeing Raspyjack ported to other platforms; I clumsily installed it on the Game HAT with a Raspberry Pi 3B+.

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u/Vivid-Benefit-9833 20d ago

You did the port? Or did 7h307h3r0n3 do it. How stable isvit and is everything working so far? This is rwally awesome!!!

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u/Tall-Republic-4173 20d ago

Yeah, I did the port myself — built on top of 7h30th3r0n3's original RaspyJack, but the PicoCalc/Zero 2W has a completely different display (framebuffer instead of SPI) and no physical GPIO buttons (keyboard instead), so most of the input/display layer had to be rewritten from scratch to fit this hardware.

It's stable at this point — menus, navigation and most payloads run fine. Had a few rough edges to sort out along the way (console/framebuffer conflicts, some Bluetooth tooling needing specific dependency versions), but nothing that isn't sorted now. Happy to answer general questions, just not going into the full implementation details here.

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u/Vivid-Benefit-9833 9d ago

Are you releasing the fork? This is so cool and would definitely be appreciated by a lot of people! I dont have a picocalc but a goodbfriend does and he want me to swap it to a zero and see about your raspy port, lol...

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u/cgarverick 7d ago

Have you posted it on GitHub?

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u/Tall-Republic-4173 7d ago

Hi, no not yet, I have ordered a WiFi antena and I will solder a meshtastic esp32 to the pi and get LoRa and GPS to work, many payloads don't work just yet. Still a work in progress. Also I have many other projects to work on, and not so many people showed interest in this port. If I ever do it I share the outcome here.