A Whole New PicoRuby😎

Almost one year has passed since the last release. We have been working on improving the PRK Firmware!

Breaking Change 💣

• No breaking change in this release

New Feature 🎉

• On startup, if you connect a terminal emulator to com port, you can skip starting the keyboard task by pressing s according to the message on the terminal
  • This feature is useful when your keymap.rb breaks and hangs up the keyboard
  • Note that s key should be sent from the other keyboard that is working fine. This means you have to have multiple keyboards (I'm sure you do)⌨⌨⌨⌨

Improvement 🔈

• Replace PicoRuby with a new one:
  • The Ruby parser is now Prism!
  • Many bugs are fixed in the virtual machine and libraries
  • Stability should be improved a lot🤞

Full Changelog: 0.9.23...0.10.0

Load external libraries by `require`

require and load🧐

• It is now possible to load external libraries by require and load. See wiki/require

Full Changelog: 0.9.22...0.9.23

cocot46plus works!!!!

Software (Bitbang) SPI

• PicoRuby now supports software SPI because cocot46plus takes advantage of pins other than the hardware SPI of RP2040. See the example keymap.rb in picoruby/prk_cocot46plus

Mouse 🐭🖱🖲️

Mouse class with I2C, SPI, and ADC

• Now you can configure any device such as a trackball, touchpad, and joystick as a Mouse by taking advantage of hardware peripheral features like I2C, SPI, and ADC
• Currently, a Mouse instance on the partner half of a split-type keyboard does not work. We are investigating how to implement
• Because this Mouse feature is experimental, the API design may change during the implementation to make it work on both halves
• Take a good look at wiki/Mouse

The mass storage drive is re-implemented with File class of PicoRuby

• The name of the drive is changed from PRKFirmware to PRK DRIVE
• keymap.rb is no longer deleted on re-installing PRK's uf2
• This re-implementation basically should not affect any other keyboard behaviors

Known issue

• Although the drive's functionality is sanity, the host computer sometimes recognizes the drive name as USB Drive instead of PRK DRIVE. Send us a patch if you could fix it!

What's Changed

• rake setup && upgrade picoruby by @hasumikin in #160
• Use filesystem-fat gem by @hasumikin in #161
• I2C and Mouse by @hasumikin in #162
• Add .editorconfig by @shugo in #167
• Update Dockerfile and Rakefile for pico sdk 1.5.0 by @yujiyokoo in #164
• Sqlite3 by @hasumikin in #171

New Contributors

• @yujiyokoo made their first contribution in #164

Full Changelog: 0.9.20...0.9.21

Fix start-up bug and deprecate the one-way UART

Bug fix 💡

• The instability when start-up especially upgrading uf2 is fixed

Deprecation

• Hardware one-way UART on split-type is deprecated. Instead, software mutual UART is now the default and the only option
  • Keyboard#mutual_uart_at_my_own_risk= no longer takes any effect

What's Changed

• Deprecate hardware UART by @hasumikin in #156
• Move Ruby libraries to picoruby/mrbgems by @hasumikin in #157

Full Changelog: 0.9.19...0.9.20

Working on macOS and iOS again 🍎

Bug fix🐛

• An issue that PRK isn't recognized by macOS and iOS from version 0.9.15

Improvement 🔈

• Sounder pitch might become correct than before but the author experiences somehow unstable behavior until now. Please ping us your opinion from an actual usage

What's Changed

• Update package database on Docker by @buty4649 in #145
• Fix build process by @hasumikin in #151
• Get rid of cdc_task() by @hasumikin in #146
• Take out Joystick report by @yswallow in #152
• Fix Sounder pitch issue by @yswallow in #153
• Fix: invalid key input when modifier press by @hasumikin in #154

New Contributors

• @buty4649 made their first contribution in #145

Full Changelog: 0.9.18...0.9.19

RGB Matrix, Sounder and Music Macro Language🌈🎸🎼

RGB Matrix🌈

See wiki/RGB Matrix.

Sounder🎸 & Music Macro Language🎼

See wiki/Sounder and wiki/Music Macro Languagel

Keyboard#inject_switch

You can arbitrarily inject a switch position of the matrix as if it was tapped.

See wiki/Keyboard#inject_switch.

[Experimental] BIOS mode🛠️

See wiki/BIOS mode.

Many thanks to @yswallow !!!!

Consumer key, Rotaty encoder & Debug print

Consumer key 🔈🔇🔊

See wiki/Consumer key

Keyboard#send_key🎛️

It now accepts multiple keycodes.
Good for combining with rotary encoders. Check an example on wiki/Rotary encoder.

PRK_DESCRIPTION📝

Version number, built date, and revision hash are shown on the serial console at boot time.

PicoRuby version 3.1🔥

The programming processing system, PicoRuby, upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1.
This shouldn't affect any external behavior regarding keyboard (hopefully🤞).

One beneficial thing to users is that the functionality of exceptions improved.
Let's say you mistakenly write kbd = Keyb_oard.new, not kbd = Keyboard.new, an error message will show on the serial console:

In such a situation, your keyboard doesn't work as a keyboard but the PRKFirmware storage drive keeps alive. Until version 0.9.16, the drive was unexpectedly unmounted and you might have difficulty rewriting your keymap.rb.

Again, we strongly recommend using a serial console when your keymap.rb doesn't work. See wiki/Debug print

Bug fix🐛

• An issue related to "Startup time reduced⌨💨" issues/120
• An issue of RGB issue/122
• Improve serial console print that used to be often tangled

Big thanks to @yswallow and @techmech-keeb

[Experimental] Startup time reduced💨

Improvements

• The startup time has been significantly reduced😎
  Because this is an experimental improvement, we really hope all guys try this version and report to us if there's a problem of any kind🙏

🕹Joystick and more👾

Joystick

• See wiki/Joystick

Improvements

• Changeable default layer name. See wiki/Layers-and-mode-key#Changing-default-layer. Thanks to @harukasan
• Suppress RGB random flicker on startup. Thanks to @techmech-keeb

Bug fix

• A bug that some alias keycodes didn't work issue/106
• Some fixes of VIA. Thanks to @yswallow