Adds `velxio-ssd1306-i2c-4pin`, a native 4-pin SSD1306 OLED module
(GND/VCC/SCL/SDA) — the cheap 0.96" I2C board most beginners actually have,
matching Wokwi's board-ssd1306. The 8-pin `wokwi-ssd1306` breakout stays; this
is the distinct 4-pin part (issue #215). Same SSD1306Core render pipeline
(imageData/redraw) so the display paints identically; I2C-only, address via the
i2cAddress property (default 0x3C). Styled after the existing 8-pin element
(blue PCB, dark screen, corner holes, star).
Ships four "SSD1306 OLED (4-pin I2C)" gallery examples wiring it over I2C on
Arduino Uno (A4/A5), ESP32 (21/22), Raspberry Pi Pico (GP4/GP5) and STM32 Blue
Pill (PB7/PB6).
Follow-up to the SSD1306 picker consolidation. All 68 saved projects that used
the retired ssd1306-i2c / ssd1306-spi ids have been migrated to the single
`ssd1306` (metadataId rewritten, protocol pinned), so the simulation aliases
are no longer needed and are removed.
- Auto-detect refined to CS-only: chip-select is the SPI-exclusive signal;
DC does NOT imply SPI (on the 8-pin module DC doubles as the I2C address /
SA0 line, so many I2C circuits wire it). Fixes false-SPI on those circuits.
- The `ssd1306` part honors an explicit `protocol` property when present
(migrated legacy projects carry it) and auto-detects otherwise.
- loadProjectState normalizes any lingering ssd1306-i2c/spi ids (old .vlx
files, pre-migration snapshots) to `ssd1306` + the matching protocol, so
removing the aliases can never blank an old import.
The SSD1306 was three picker entries — a generic `ssd1306` with a protocol
selector plus `ssd1306-i2c` / `ssd1306-spi` shortcuts (issue #101) — all the
same 8-pin wokwi-ssd1306 element. That is confusing for one physical module
(issue #215). Wokwi ships a single I2C-only part; this goes one better: a
single part that auto-detects the protocol from the wiring, like a real
breadboard — CS or DC wired to a GPIO means SPI, otherwise I2C. No protocol
switch to set, just wire it up.
Works on every board with an I2C/SPI bus (AVR, RP2040, ESP32 Xtensa, STM32).
The ssd1306-i2c / ssd1306-spi ids stay as backward-compat simulation aliases
for projects saved before the merge, but are removed from the picker. Adds an
i2cAddress property (0x3c/0x3d) matching the real module and Wokwi.
Note: ESP32-C3, Raspberry Pi 3 and the bare RISC-V board do not emulate I2C/SPI
peripherals, so no I2C/SPI device (this or any other) attaches there yet.
ESP32 digitalRead now reflects the actual circuit instead of a part-level
seed, so a button behaves like hardware — including breaking when it's
mis-wired.
- connectDigitalInputsToMcu: after each SPICE solve, threshold every ESP32
input pin's net voltage (3.3 V LVCMOS, hysteresis) and push the level into
QEMU. Only pins the MCU isn't driving as outputs are injected.
- Esp32BridgeShim advertises spiceDrivenInputs; the pushbutton / 6mm-button /
slide-switch parts skip their direct setPinState seed for such boards and
only flip the component property (pressed/value), which re-solves the
circuit. The connector then decides the level from the real wiring.
- makePinPullHandler no longer seeds the pin; it only records the pull
(netlist resistor) + requests a re-solve, so the read stays circuit-driven.
- GROUND_PIN_RE now matches bare numbered grounds (GND2, GND3) — the ESP32
DevKit element labels its second pad 'GND2', which previously floated.
Net effect: a correctly-wired INPUT_PULLUP button idles HIGH and reads LOW
pressed; a button mis-wired with GND on the wrong terminal reads stuck-LOW,
matching real silicon. AVR / RP2040 keep the legacy part-seed path.
SSD1306Core only handled horizontal/vertical addressing (0x20/0x21/0x22) and
defaulted memMode to horizontal. Page-mode drivers (Tiny4kOLED on ATtiny85,
U8g2 page buffer, classic SSD1306 libs) position the cursor with the single-byte
commands 0xB0-0xB7 (page) and 0x00-0x0F / 0x10-0x1F (column nibbles) and rely on
the SSD1306 power-on default of PAGE addressing — they never send 0x20. velxio
ignored those cursor commands and advanced in horizontal mode, so every setCursor
was a no-op and the hatching/border/text piled onto wrong rows -> garbled display.
Fix: default memMode=2 (datasheet power-on) and handle the page/column-set
commands. Adafruit_SSD1306 still works (it sends 0x20,0x00 + 0x21/0x22 explicitly).
Verified: decoded the real ATTinyCore Tiny4kOLED I2C stream renders a clean
border + '128x64'. Adds a page-addressing render test.
- The live solver now excludes runtime-destroyed components from the netlist,
so a burnt part actually goes OPEN: its current stops and anything it fed
loses power (cascading failure), the way real hardware behaves once a part
burns out. Filter is in CircuitSimulationService.runSolve (no-op when nothing
is burnt).
- The LED's burnout now also marks it in the shared burntComponents set, so a
burnt LED gets the same charred + smoke-badge visual (and is opened in the
solve) as a resistor / capacitor, on top of going dark.
Generalizes the LED's burnout to passive parts via a centralized monitor that
watches the live electrical solve. When a part is stressed past its rating for
a sustained moment it's marked "destroyed": the canvas renders it charred with a
smoke badge and a fault is logged to the output console. Clears on Reset.
Follows the Fritzing-simulator precedent (smoke-on-component) wrapped in a
first-order thermal delay so a brief inrush spike doesn't destroy a part — only
sustained overload (or a catastrophic >=3x overload, instant) does.
- runtimeBurnout.ts: pure stress (resistor power, cap voltage / reverse) + a
thermal-delay burn decision, plus a monitor subscribed to the electrical +
simulator stores. Resistor burns past 2x rated (the verifier already warns at
1x for intentional teaching over-power); a cap bursts over its voltage rating
or on reverse polarity.
- useSimulatorStore: burntComponents set + mark/clear actions; cleared on
Reset / restartParts.
- DynamicComponent + SimulatorCanvas.css: charred filter + smoke badge.
Tests: thermal-delay decision (instant / sustained / spike / cooldown) + stress
computation (resistor power, cap over-voltage, reverse, unwired -> null).
The pre-flight circuit verifier reads branch currents via runNetlist ->
readAllCurrentVectors() (ngSpice_AllVecs enumeration). The production
Web-Worker ngspice WASM build does not surface voltage-source #branch
vectors through that enumeration for an .op plot, so branchCurrents came
back empty and every current rule (short-circuit, LED over-current) read
?? 0 -> no fault. The live solver avoided this by requesting each current
explicitly by name; the Node test build enumerates them, so the gap was
invisible to the suite. Net effect: a 9V battery wired straight to an LED
ran with no warning (reported on project 2840fd12).
- runNetlist: request every V_* source branch current explicitly by name
and merge with the enumeration, so source/LED currents are always present
regardless of the worker WASM's AllVecs behaviour.
- circuitVerifier: non-finite source/LED current -> blocking unstable-solve
fault ("could not solve a stable current - likely a short or a part with
no current limit, e.g. an LED with no series resistor").
- LED runtime (BasicParts): burn out on a non-finite current instead of
falling through to the digital fallback and glowing; raise burnout
threshold 20mA -> 100mA so high-power/RGB channels are not falsely
destroyed; clear the burnt latch on Reset (resetBoard bumps hexEpoch).
Tests: real-data repro, mocked non-finite verifier test, runtime
non-finite / high-power / latch-recovery tests.
The NTC breakout's SPICE topology was inverted relative to the example
sketch's decode formula (rNtc = R_PULL * v / (5 - v)), which assumes a 10k
pull-up from VCC to OUT and the NTC from OUT to GND. The mapper had the NTC
on top (VCC->OUT) and the pull-down on the bottom, so the recovered
temperature ran backwards: dragging the slider to 100C made the sketch
print -25C. Swap the two resistors so V_OUT = 5 * Rntc / (Rntc + Rpull),
matching the sketch and the hand-built reference netlist in
spice-avr-mixed.test.ts (T=0 -> ADC 789, T=25 -> 511, T=50 -> 270).
Also replace the SensorParts linear approximation (2.5 - (t-25)*0.02) with
the same beta-model divider so the non-SPICE ADC injection decodes back to
the slider value, and drop the dead onInput path that treated the element's
value as a raw ADC count.
Reset now restores interactive sensors (temperature/lux/gas sliders) to
their configured defaults: resetBoard re-dispatches each sensor's default
into the running sim and bumps sensorResetNonce so the open
SensorControlPanel remounts and the slider snaps back. Previously a restart
left the NTC frozen at the last dragged temperature.
Updated the examples netlist snapshot for the swapped NTC cards.
A melody / continuous tone (consecutive tone() with no noTone() between) is
back-to-back nonzero-OCR PWM writes with no note-off, so startTone() overwrote
activeOsc without stopping the previous node — oscillators stacked and were
never stopped (reported: created 6, started 6, never stopped 6).
Add a monophonic guard at the top of startTone(): release the live note
(gain ramp + stop) before starting the new one, so a pitch change REPLACES
rather than STACKS. Extract a shared releaseActive(off) helper (also used by
stopTone). Add two melody tests: one asserts starts === stops (no orphans),
monotonic onsets and per-note pitch; one asserts a melody ending without a
trailing noTone() leaves only the final note ringing (stops === starts - 1).
The metronome path is unaffected (each click is an onset→note-off pair, so the
guard never fires there); the three existing metronome tests stay green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a working microSD card part backed by a FAT16 image, following the
Wokwi storage model: the project's own workspace files are auto-copied
onto the card (free), and an optional "SD Card" panel uploads extra
files (gated as a paid feature by the velxio.dev overlay; OSS default
allows it).
Frontend (in-browser AVR / RP2040):
- ProtocolParts.ts: rewrite the microsd-card part from a handshake stub
into a real SD-over-SPI device (reply-first Ncr timing, SDSC byte
addressing, single/multi-block read+write, CSD/CID, full CMD set).
- utils/fatImage.ts: dependency-free FAT16 super-floppy builder (8.3 + LFN).
- utils/sdCardFiles.ts: assemble the card image from workspace files plus
uploaded files; base64 helpers.
- components/simulator/SdCardPanel.tsx + ComponentPropertyDialog: upload UI.
- DynamicComponent + useSimulatorStore: build and inject the image on run.
- lib/proSdCardGate.ts: overlay-installable gate for the upload action.
- data/examples-storage-microsd.ts: Arduino Uno + ESP32 gallery examples.
Backend (ESP32 via QEMU):
- services/esp32_sd_slave.py: synchronous SD-over-SPI slave (Python port of
the browser part) with a sparse backing store, idle-state R1 tracking and
real CRC16 on data blocks when the host enables CRC (CMD59) -- both
required by ESP-IDF's sdspi driver.
- esp32_worker.py: route SPI bytes to the slave (returns MISO synchronously)
and feed write-only bulk transfers.
- esp32_lib_manager.py + routes/simulation.py: forward the FAT image
(sd_card.image_b64) from the start config into the worker.
Tested:
- frontend: protocol-parts, fat-image, sd-card-gate and microsd-real-firmware
(real Arduino SD.h on avr8js) -- 86 passing.
- backend: test_esp32_sd_slave (10) covering the ESP-IDF init sequence and
CRC16; validated end to end by running a real SD.h sketch in libqemu-xtensa
(mount, directory listing, read and write-readback).
Builds on the previous commit; reworks the buzzer audio for glitch-free,
cross-browser playback and adds a metronome quality suite.
- Per-note oscillators with short attack/release ramps, instead of one
long-lived oscillator gated by gain: a fresh fixed frequency per note and no
gain/frequency automation on a persistent node — Firefox in particular clicks
and glitches the pitch otherwise.
- Schedule onsets by their SIMULATED inter-onset spacing (exact, even) with a
light latency hold, instead of a wall-clock average. Turning a control (BPM,
K…) re-locks immediately and the rhythm stays even — no bursts, no overlaps,
no audio drifting away from the display.
- Place each note-off relative to its own onset, preserving the exact click
length from the simulation (the onset scheduler now tracks onsets only).
- Poll PWM every 256 cycles (was 64): finer than any audible pulse, lighter on
the frame loop.
- New src/__tests__/buzzer-metronome.test.ts: drives the buzzer as a metronome
against a controllable audio clock and asserts even spacing, one oscillator
per click with no overlap, correct pitch per metric level, burst absorption,
and a clean re-lock on tempo change.
All simulation-parts + metronome tests pass (57).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A PWM-driven buzzer (analogWrite / Timer tones) was chaotic and unusable as a
metronome. Causes, all on the PWM path:
1. PWM was polled once per animation frame AFTER the cycle loop, so short clicks
that started and ended within one frame were merged or lost, and onsets were
quantised to the frame.
2. The buzzer started the oscillator with `oscillator.start()` (no scheduled
time) — frame-delivery jitter and per-onset oscillator churn.
3. The digital HIGH/LOW path also fired on the ~490Hz PWM carrier edges,
injecting spurious onsets (OCR read as 0 → 20kHz squeaks).
Fix:
- AVRSimulator: poll PWM sub-frame (every 256 cycles) so no pulse is merged or
lost; pass the precise simulated time through updatePwm.
- PinManager: PwmCallback / updatePwm carry an optional timeMs (backward compat).
- Buzzer: one continuous oscillator gated by the gain node, each on/off scheduled
on the AudioContext clock. The schedule predicts the next onset at a smoothed
interval (de-jittering the simulator's bursty per-frame delivery) and holds a
small bounded latency so the click stays aligned with the on-screen playhead
(driven from the same clock) instead of drifting behind it. A `pwmActive` flag
mutes the digital path once hardware PWM drives the pin.
Result: onset jitter for a firmware metronome drops from chaotic (σ ≈ 250ms,
dropped/extra beats, unbounded audio latency) to σ ≈ 15ms at ~30ms latency —
steady and aligned with the display. All 54 simulation-parts tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a memory-mapped keyboard so you can type into the Galaksija. Based on
the libretro Galaksija core's scheme (not guessed): reading 0x2000+offset
returns 0xFE when the key at that matrix offset is held, 0xFF otherwise;
the keyMap gives the offset per key ('A'=1 ... Enter=48, Space=31, etc.).
- galaksija-keyboard.c: drives reads of 0x2000-0x203F from a keys[] table and
exports set_key(offset, down) for the host to push key events. Never drives
outside the keyboard range.
- galaksija-ram.c: ram-64k variant that yields reads of 0x2000-0x203F to the
keyboard (writes still go to RAM), so the two never fight for the bus.
- ChipRuntime: ChipInstance.hasKeyboard + setKey() expose the chip's set_key.
- CustomChipPart: bridges browser keydown/keyup (by KeyboardEvent.code, via
GALAKSIJA_KEY_OFFSET) into the chip, ignoring keystrokes while the code
editor or an input is focused so typing code is never hijacked.
- The gallery example gains the keyboard chip (now 7 chips, 99 wires) and uses
galaksija-ram.
Test chipbus-galaksija-keyboard: pressing 'A' (offset 1) makes the BASIC
monitor echo "A" after its ">" prompt and advances the cursor. 41 chipbus
tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ships the full Galaksija (1983 Z80 home computer) as a runnable Retro
gallery example, plus the pieces needed to run a multi-chip bus live in the
browser.
Gallery example (examples-retro-intel.ts, id 'galaksija-z80-computer'):
Z80 + galaksija-rom (public-domain ROM A+B) + ram-64k + inverter (A13
decode) + galaksija-display + a power-on reset chip, wired chip-to-chip
over the bus (76 wires), no board. Click Resume and it boots the real ROM
to the "READY" prompt on the green display. Chip wasm is embedded
(wasmBase64) so it runs without a backend compile.
- ChipRuntime.tickTimers gains a wall-clock budget (CustomChipPart passes
6 ms): a faithful-but-slow event-driven bus can't run a real-time CPU in
one animation frame, so without a cap a Z80 fetching over the settle
kernel froze the tab. With the budget the sim advances slower than real
time (boots over a few seconds) and the UI stays responsive; fast
single-chip examples finish under budget and are unaffected.
- galaksija-display: blits its framebuffer on a ~30 fps timer instead of on
every character write, so a clear-screen burst doesn't flood the canvas.
- reset-gen: power-on reset (pulses RESET high, ties WAIT/BUSREQ/INT/NMI
high) so the machine boots on Resume without a manual reset.
- chipbus flag now defaults ON (override with ?chipbus=off): chip-to-chip
buses are a core capability; single-chip and board nets never take this
path, so the only thing enabled is multi-chip buses, previously broken.
Verified live in the browser: the example boots and renders "@'READY" with
the ">_" prompt, responsive. Full suite 2084 pass (5 pre-existing,
unrelated env failures).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 7.5" 800x480 dashboard (GxEPD2_750_T7) rendered blank: it is a UC8179 /
GD7965 controller, but the panel config claimed controllerFamily 'ssd168x',
so the SSD168x decoder (which only reads 0x24/0x26/0x44/0x45) ignored its
0x10/0x13 DTM stream.
- Add a Uc8179 decoder (worker Uc8179EpaperSlave + browser Uc8179Decoder).
UC8179 is the same UltraChip command family as the UC8159c (0x10/0x13 DTM,
0x12 refresh) but mono (1 bit/px). GxEPD2 writes the visible image to 0x13
(DTM2 "current"; 0x10 is the ignored "previous"), framed by 0x91/0x90
(partial window, pixel coords MSB-first)/0x13 data/0x92. Data lands at
absolute pixel coords inside the window, so compose is just the RAM. The
Frame reuses the SSD168x palette (0=black, 1=white) so paintFrame renders it.
- EPaperPanels.ts: add the 'uc8179' family and point epaper-7in5-bw at it.
EPaperPart.ts + esp32_worker.py dispatch 'uc8179' to the new decoder.
- Fix the BUSY polarity: UC8179 (like the UC8159c) idles BUSY HIGH, not LOW.
The worker seeded BUSY LOW for every non-uc8159c panel, so GxEPD2_750_T7's
_PowerOn()/_InitDisplay() busy-wait timed out (~10 s, "Busy Timeout!") on
every refresh. Now _PowerOn returns in ~129 us.
- esp32_worker.py: the runtime sensor_attach epaper path still emitted the
epaper_update payload nested under 'data' (the old double-wrap bug); emit
it flat like the init path.
The 5.65" ACeP UC8159c example already rendered (it has its own decoder and
got the WS-plumbing fix); verified the 7 colour bars are correct.
ePaper panels rendered rotated/misaligned on AVR and RP2040 (e.g. the 2.13"
Pico clock came out sideways and clipped). The ESP32 worker decoder was just
taught to compose in the controller's native RAM geometry and rotate to the
display orientation, but the browser-side SSD168xDecoder (used by AVR/RP2040)
still composed at display dims with no rotation, so the two diverged.
- SSD168xDecoder.ts: port the worker's native-window compose + rotation.
* Size RAM to the longer side both ways so a rotated native layout
(128x296 behind a 296x128 panel) isn't truncated.
* Compose in the active RAM window, then rotate via the inverse of
Adafruit_GFX setRotation(1). Detect orientation by BYTE width so a
non-multiple-of-8 native width (the 2.13" panel is 122 px) is handled.
* Track the UNION of windows per frame: paged drivers (GxEPD2 page height
< panel) set one partial window per page, so compose must use the full
native area, not just the last page's strip. Fixes the all-white render
on paged panels (1.54" Uno, 4.2" Pico, 7.5" ESP32).
* Add an isBwr option: B/W panels treat 0x26 as a 2nd mono plane (white
only if both planes white), tri-colour panels keep red-wins.
* Default the active window to display geometry; the firmware overrides it.
- EPaperPart.ts: pass isBwr = cfg.palette === 'bwr' to the decoder.
- esp32_spi_slaves.py / esp32_worker.py: mirror the byte-aware rotation +
window-union in the worker, and derive is_bwr from panel_kind on the
runtime sensor_attach path too (fixes the tri-colour ESP32 alert badge).
- test_epaper/ssd168x_decoder.py: re-port the golden reference to match
(keeps the 3-way TS/Python/worker identity invariant). Tests updated to
construct tri-colour cases with is_bwr/palette='bwr'.
- examples-displays-epaper.ts: the Pico VCC wire referenced '3V3(OUT)',
which the velxio-pi-pico-w element doesn't expose (it has '3V3'), so the
wire snapped to the board corner. Use '3V3'.
Phase 1 of the run-system/UX work.
Stop bug: a programmable chip kept running after Stop when a board was present.
The chip rAF tick gated only on board presence (!boardless), so with a board it
ticked forever. Now it gates on the actual run state: board-less -> electrical
paused flag; with board(s) -> board.running. handleStop also clears every chip's
output drives (clearAllChipDrives) and re-solves so chip-driven LEDs go dark on
Stop instead of freezing at their last frame.
Examples to board-less (regulated power supply, no Arduino — the Arduino only
ever supplied 5V):
- z80-larson-scanner -> 'Z80 Comet Scanner': board-less, a faster TWO-LED comet
(scanner.s) so it's visually distinct from z80-larson-no-board's single-bit
walk; green/blue LEDs.
- i8080-killbits -> board-less (psu + resistors), keeps killbits.s as the chip's
editable program; buttons re-powered from the supply.
- i8080-button-counter -> board-less (psu + resistors); behaviour chip, program
baked in, so it shows a note (no editable file) and runs standalone.
banner-streamer stays Arduino-based (its TX/RX go through the AVR USART bridge).
- CustomChipPart: run-state-aware tick gate.
- EditorToolbar: clearAllChipDrives() helper + handleStop clears chip drives.
- examples-retro-intel: 3 conversions; drop now-unused sketch consts; add the
larsonScannerAsm comet program.
- Tests: board+chip routing now uses an inline synthetic example (gallery chip
examples are all board-less).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Velxio can now simulate one or more custom-chip CPUs with NO Arduino/ESP32
board on the canvas — a general-purpose electronics simulator, not an
MCU-only one.
- DynamicComponent: board-less parts get the real shared flat PinManager
(instead of a no-op stub) so a custom chip's digital pin writes/reads reach
the LEDs/inputs wired to it.
- CustomChipPart: the rAF tick respects board-less Run/Stop (freezes while
the electrical sim is paused); board behaviour is unchanged.
- EditorToolbar.handleRun: board-less Run compiles each chip's WASM/ROM and
re-attaches the parts (restartParts) so they pick up the fresh WASM, then
resumes the solver.
- useSimulatorStore.restartParts(): bump hexEpoch to force part re-attach.
- New example "Z80 Larson Scanner (no board)": a programmable Z80 + 8 LEDs +
the adjustable power-supply component, no MCU. The chip drives the LEDs
through the synthetic-pin + ngspice path added earlier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A custom-chip output pin wired directly to a component (LED, resistor, ...)
had no Arduino pin on its net, so the chip could drive nothing and the pin
resolved to null. Now:
- Layer A (digital): such chip pins get a stable synthetic pin number
(syntheticPins.ts). traceDetailed resolves a chip<->component net to that
shared number, so the chip's PinManager drive reaches the wired components
through the existing digital event flow. A real board pin still wins.
- Layer B (analog/SPICE): a custom-chip mapper in componentToSpice emits a DC
voltage source on each driven output pin's net (recorded in chipPinDrives by
ChipRuntime), exactly like a board GPIO, and the chip requests an electrical
re-solve when it toggles a pin (electricalResolveHook -> service.tick).
So LEDs / resistors / analog parts wired to a chip output are driven by
ngspice too.
This makes the bundled Z80 / i8080 chip examples actually animate their LEDs,
and lets any custom chip drive components, passives and analog circuits from
its own pins. Non-chip circuits are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stepper-motor and biaxial-stepper parts only decoded a one-hot wave-drive coil sequence, so they never rotated under the common two-phase full-step / Stepper.h / AccelStepper drive that Wokwi's own examples use -- only the servo moved. Rewrote both decoders to track the net magnetic-field vector of the coils (atan2 of the H-bridge currents), so the rotor follows wave, two-phase full-step and half-step drive alike, whether driven directly from GPIO or through a driver's outputs.
Also adds an A4988 STEP/DIR stepper driver (parity with Wokwi's wokwi-a4988): velxio-a4988 element renders the real Pololu A4988 Fritzing breadboard SVG (public/components/a4988.svg); MotorDriverParts.ts finds the wired stepper via the netlist and advances it one (micro)step per STEP rising edge in the DIR direction (MS1-3 microstep + active-low ENABLE). Metadata in component-overrides.json. Three examples (Uno/ESP32/Pico) wire MCU STEP/DIR -> A4988 -> stepper, coil map aligned to Wokwi (1A->B+,1B->B-,2A->A+,2B->A-).
Verified in-browser: motor rotates on Arduino Uno (avr8js) and Raspberry Pi Pico (rp2040js). tsc --noEmit clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PartSimulationRegistry handler for 'analog-joystick' was reading
`el.xValue` / `el.yValue` and computing `(value / 1023) * vcc` as if the
component were a potentiometer producing a raw 0..1023 reading. It is
not — `@wokwi/elements/analog-joystick-element` emits xValue / yValue as
a tri-state DIRECTION signal:
* xValue = -1 → "left" (mousedown on left zone)
* xValue = 0 → centered (mouseup snap-back)
* xValue = +1 → "right" (mousedown on right zone)
(same for yValue with up/down)
`(±1) / 1023 ≈ ±0.001`, so the ADC channel sat at ~0 V no matter which
directional zone was clicked. Center-button clicks worked because that
path is digital (`setPinState(SEL, …)`) and bypasses the analog map.
Fix:
* Tri-state → voltage with explicit map: -1 → 0V, 0 → Vcc/2, +1 → Vcc.
* Vcc was hardcoded to 5V for "not RP2040" — wrong for ESP32 / S3 /
Nano-ESP32 / etc., which all run at 3.3V like the Pi Pico. Detect
ESP32 via the BridgeShim's `setAdcVoltage` method and select 3.3V
for everything that isn't pure AVR.
Reported on /example/esp32-joystick where center-button-only worked but
directional zones did nothing. Verification via Chrome MCP after deploy.
ATtiny85 (AVRSimulator + collectPinStates + connectAnalogInputsToMcu + SimulatorCanvas + Attiny85Element + examples):
- Add attiny85AdcConfig with correct register addresses (ADMUX=0x27,
ADCSRA=0x26, ADCSRB=0x23, ADCL=0x24, ADCH=0x25, DIDR0=0x34, adcInterrupt=0x08).
Without this, analogRead() polled the wrong address forever and the
firmware hung on first ADC read.
- Add attiny85Timer0Config + instantiate AVRTimer so OVF fires at the
ATTinyCore-expected ~1.024 ms cadence. delay() advance is still blocked
on avr8js TIFR auto-clear semantics (separate upstream issue, see
ATTINY85_TIMER0_UPSTREAM_ISSUE.md in velxio-prod test plan).
- Map ATtiny85 ADC channels to PB-style pin names (PB5/PB2/PB4/PB3 -> 0..3)
in connectAnalogInputsToMcu so SPICE node voltages reach the right ADC
channel.
- Recognise /^PB\d+$/ in collectPinStates.pinNameToArduinoPin so wires
named "PB1" emit v_attiny85_pb1 V-source and the LED responds to MCU
writes. Previously every PB-wire returned -1 and SPICE saw no source.
- SimulatorCanvas: subscribe pin 1 (PB1) for the built-in LED on the
attiny85 board kind (Digispark convention), instead of falling through
to the pin-13 default.
- Attiny85Element: remove the hand-drawn "yellow LED" circle that was
floating above the chip. The bare DIP-8 has no on-board LED; examples
wire a real wokwi-led + resistor instead.
- examples.ts: add a real wokwi-led + 220 Ohm wokwi-resistor + wires to
attiny85-blink, and add missing series resistors to attiny85-button-led
and attiny85-ntc-sensor. attiny85-pwm-fade was already correct.
Custom-chip pipeline (CustomChipPart + simulatorBridges):
- Add a requestAnimationFrame loop that calls instance.tickTimers() every
frame in CustomChipPart. Chips that register vx_timer_create (e.g. an
i8080 stepping its core, or a sensor publishing samples) had timers
added to the queue but nothing fired them; tickTimers was dead code.
- Gate the ESP32 backend path with detectSimulatorKind(sim)==='esp32'.
The previous `typeof sim.registerSensor === 'function'` check matched
AVR and RP2040 simulators too (they expose registerSensor for I2C
sensor proxies), routing client-side chips to a non-existent ESP32
worker on those boards.
- Replace direct simulator.usart.writeByte calls in avrUartTx with a
JS-level FIFO + setTimeout(1ms) drainer. avr8js writeByte drops bytes
under burst load (a chip emitting print_string lost ~99% of bytes via
non-immediate, or kept only the last byte via immediate). The drainer
attempts one non-immediate write per tick and retries on RXC busy /
RXEN off. Added a guard for ATtiny85 (no USART -> would queue forever).
End-to-end verified: i8080-banner-streamer now prints the boot banner
followed by "uptime ticks: 0xNN" lines stepping every ~50 ms, executing
real Intel 8080 instructions inside the WASM chip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a new way to use the retro CPU chips: write your program in a
project file (.s / .asm / .hex / .bin), click Compile, click Run, and
the same chip emulates whatever you wrote. Same chip + different ROMs =
mini PC, calculator, LED demo, Kill-the-Bit game, etc.
SDK:
- velxio-chip.h gets two new host imports:
uint32_t vx_rom_size(void);
void vx_rom_read(uint32_t off, uint8_t* dst, uint32_t len);
CPU-emulator chips call these in chip_setup to pull their program out
of the host's romBytes property.
Frontend runtime:
- ChipRuntime accepts opts.romBytes (Uint8Array) and exposes the new
imports, copying bytes into chip memory on vx_rom_read.
- CustomChipPart pulls component.properties.romBytes (base64) and passes
it through.
- Component registry declares three new custom-chip properties:
romBytes (base64), programFile (matching project filename), and
programTarget (cpu name).
New programmable bundled chip:
- frontend/src/components/customChips/examples/intel/i8080-cpu.{c,chip.json}
Same clean-room 8080 emulator as i8080-repl/i8080-counter, but ROM is
loaded externally via vx_rom_*. Has 8 LEDs, 8 buttons, UART, 16 KB RAM,
32 KB of external ROM.
Backend:
- New /api/compile-rom endpoint and rom_compile service that turns
chip-program source into ROM bytes. 8080 ASM is assembled by the
in-tree two-pass assembler (moved to backend/app/services/asm8080.py).
Intel HEX records are parsed; raw .bin is passed through. Future targets
(z80, 8086, 4004) are scaffolded but not wired yet.
EditorToolbar:
- Compile button detects when the active file is .s/.asm/.hex/.bin and
routes to compile-rom instead of arduino-cli. The compiled bytes are
injected into every custom-chip on the canvas whose programFile property
matches the active filename (or is empty).
Example:
- /examples/i8080-killbits loads Dean McDaniel's 1975 Kill-the-Bit on
the programmable i8080-cpu chip. killbits.s is shipped as a project
file alongside sketch.ino; the user clicks Compile then Run and the
LED walks across 8 outputs, buttons kill it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
End-to-end pipeline fixes uncovered while auditing the /examples gallery.
Each bug shipped past green unit + snapshot tests because none of those run
firmware + render LEDs. Added scripts/visual-led-test.mjs as a CDP-driven
visual harness that loads each example, runs the simulator, samples
`wokwi-led.brightness`, and asserts toggle / gradient / initial-off
invariants — exits non-zero on any regression.
Frontend simulator
- PinManager.updatePort: new optional ddrMask param. A pin is added to
`outputPins` only if the DDR bit is set, so the PORTx write that
enables INPUT_PULLUP (DDR=0, PORT=1) no longer falsely marks the pin
as MCU output. AVRSimulator now reads DDRB/C/D (0x24/0x27/0x2A on
Uno/Nano, 0x37 on ATtiny85, per-port table on Mega) and forwards it.
- AVRSimulator: pass DDR mask alongside every port-listener fire.
- BasicParts pushbutton{,-6mm}: seed pin HIGH in attachEvents so
`digitalRead()` returns HIGH while idle. avr8js doesn't auto-simulate
INPUT_PULLUP — without this the firmware reads LOW from boot and
thinks the button is permanently pressed (the "LED is always on,
pressing does nothing" UX bug).
- connectMcuEdgesToService: suppress synthetic digital edges on pins
with active PWM, AND subscribe to onPwmChange to re-tick the netlist
on duty changes. Fade-LED now produces a true gradient (6 distinct
brightness levels across a fade cycle) instead of a binary 0/full
toggle.
- CircuitSimulationService.handleMcuEdge: replace single-slot
pendingMcuEdge with a per-pin Map. Multiple pins toggling during the
same in-flight tick used to overwrite each other; now every pin's
most-recent edge replays after the tick. Fixes Traffic-Light RED→
YELLOW→GREEN sequencing.
- NetlistBuilder: new sanitizeSpiceId() helper replaces hyphens with
underscores in V-source names. ngspice's interactive `alter` command
treats `-` as an operator and silently no-ops on hyphenated source
names, so mid-simulation MCU pin transitions stopped propagating
after the first solve. MixedModeScheduler.onMcuPinChange and
CircuitSimulationService self-heal use the same sanitizer so names
stay consistent across emit/alter/lookup. Also added a regex-based
fallback in step 2 so any board pin matching `GND.\d+` canonicalises
to net "0" — ESP32-C3 dev kits expose up to 10 GND pins and the
per-board `groundPinNames` list missed several, leaving wires
floating instead of grounded.
- collectPinStates: emit V-sources only for pins in `outputPins`, not
every wired board pin. Leaves INPUT pins (analog sensors on A0,
pull-down dividers, etc.) free for the SPICE solver instead of being
shorted to 0 V by an ideal MCU V-source.
- start.ts: extended __spiceDebug to also expose outputPinsByBoard +
nodeVoltages + pinNetMapEntries for the visual harness.
- ESP32 / RP2040 / RISC-V / C3 simulators: pass `'mcu'` source flag to
triggerPinChange / setPinState so the new outputPins tracking fires
on those boards too (was AVR-only before).
- useSimulatorStore: stopBoard/resetBoard call pm.resetPinStates() so
outputPins clears between runs; Esp32Bridge.onPinChange passes the
`'mcu'` flag in all three places it's wired.
- types/board.ts: ATtiny85 FQBN `clock=internal16mhz` →
`clock=16pll` (ATTinyCore 1.5.2 renamed the option).
Backend
- esp-idf-template/main/CMakeLists.txt: skip the
`-DLED_BUILTIN=2` fallback for esp32c3 and esp32s3 targets. Both
variants already define LED_BUILTIN in pins_arduino.h via a
self-define macro (`#define LED_BUILTIN LED_BUILTIN` + `static const
uint8_t LED_BUILTIN = ...;`). Pre-defining the symbol from the
command line expanded the static-const declaration to
`static const uint8_t 2 = ...;` — a syntax error that broke every
ESP32-C3 / S3 build (`expected unqualified-id before numeric
constant`).
Examples
- examples.ts: bulk-fix 72 wire endpoints that referenced
`componentId: 'nano-rp2040'` / `'esp32-c3'` etc. (boards that don't
exist on the canvas). Replaced with `'arduino-uno'` (the canvas
board-id convention) and converted `D<n>` pin names to `GP<n>` for
Pico-style boards. Affects pico-blink, pico-i2c-scanner,
pico-i2c-rtc-read, pico-spi-loopback, c3-blink and others.
Tests
- scripts/visual-led-test.mjs: CDP-driven harness. Default suite covers
Blink (single-pin), Button (idle-OFF invariant — catches the
INPUT_PULLUP regression), Traffic-Light (multi-pin sequencing),
Fade-LED (PWM gradient — ≥3 distinct levels), RGB-LED (≥3 PWM pins
driven). Run via `npm --prefix frontend run test:visual` against a
Chrome on `:9222` + vite on `:5174` + backend on `:8001`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related correctness fixes that make the simulator's realism
match what users actually see.
1. circuitVerifier was running pre-flight against the IDLE circuit
(every pin LOW). A Blink sketch is going to write pin 13 HIGH
eventually — at which point a missing series resistor produces a
~500 mA spike through the diode. But because pre-flight ran with
pin 13 LOW the led-overcurrent rule never fired, and the user
sailed through Run only to see the LED stay mysteriously dark on
the canvas.
The verifier now forces every digital pin connected to a load to
HIGH = vcc, the worst case any well-defined sketch will eventually
impose. The existing rules (led-overcurrent, resistor-overpower,
short-circuit) now fire correctly and the existing
CircuitVerificationModal blocks Run until the user adds a proper
current limiter or chooses Run Anyway.
Pins that are inputs-only (a pull-up + button) get over-driven
here too, but the rules tolerate that — a pull-up at 5 V draws
~0.5 mA, well below all thresholds. A circuit that would actually
fault under HIGH is flagged.
2. LED simulator was crashing visually on non-finite ngspice branch
currents. A degenerate diode (no series R) makes ngspice return
NaN, which fell through 'raw !== undefined && current > 1e-6' as
false and never triggered the digital fallback. Now we check
Number.isFinite(raw) before trusting it — non-finite returns
route to the digital fallback so the LED at least lights visually
when its driver pin is HIGH (the user still sees the verifier
warning that the real-world circuit is wrong, but Run Anyway is
not a black screen).
rp2040js runs at ~50% real time, so a TFT frame burst (fillRect sky +
fillRect floor + many drawFastVLine for walls + HUD) often takes longer
than 16 ms to drain through the SPI pipeline. Painting on every rAF
captured mid-burst snapshots that the next sky fill immediately
clobbered, so the canvas only ever showed the last few pixels written
before each tick — most visibly the raycaster examples rendering 2-3
wall columns instead of 160.
Strategy: each SPI pixel write resets a 16 ms idle timer. We paint only
after that period of silence (a real frame boundary), with a 100 ms
hard cap so continuous-write sketches still update.
Also adds test/pico_doom_demo/raycaster-perf.mjs — a puppeteer-based
profiler that reports CPU step rate, SPI throughput, per-pixel cost,
and paint rate. Run with the dev backend + frontend up:
node test/pico_doom_demo/raycaster-perf.mjs
After the fix the Doom raycaster paints at the sketch's natural 10 FPS
with full frames (was 29 fps of mid-burst snapshots).
J: vitest.config.ts split out from inline `test:` block in
vite.config.ts. CI workflows can now reference vitest.config.ts
directly; test settings no longer pulled into vite build deps.
Settings: testTimeout 30s, hookTimeout 30s, forks pool with
singleFork:false (per-file worker isolation for the
NgSpiceNodeAdapter singleton), coverage excludes
`src/simulation/spice/wasm/**` (irrelevant lcov bytes).
C: components-metadata-integrity.test.ts — 11 sub-tests, all live
checks against the real `public/components-metadata.json` + every
examples-*.ts source-of-truth + the live PartSimulationRegistry:
• Shape per entry: id / tagName / name / category / pinCount
• IDs unique
• tagName matches wokwi/velxio prefix
• Thumbnail is an SVG
• properties[] + defaultValues{} shape
• Every metadataId referenced from gallery exists in metadata
(instr-* filtered — instruments aren't canvas-rendered)
• PartSimulationRegistry registrations cross-checked vs metadata
(informational — some runtime-only parts have no metadata entry
by design: custom-chip, raspberry-pi-3, 74hc595 internals)
• Orphan-entries report: surfaces metadata entries no example or
part-sim uses (informational, doesn't fail)
The orphan report flags 58 dead-ish metadata entries (preset
variants like resistor-220, individual epaper sizes, etc.) for
later cleanup conversation. Not an error.
`PartSimulationRegistry.listRegisteredParts()` exposed for the test
to enumerate without duplicating the list.
1472 tests pass (was 1461 — +11 new metadata sub-tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
RGB LED: each of R/G/B channels prefers the resolver subscription so
the LED works correctly when fed through a P-MOSFET high-side switch
or a BJT driver. PWM override (analogWrite) keeps using the integer
pin number through pinManager.onPwmChange — duty cycle handling isn't
yet exposed on PinResolver.
Buzzer: the HIGH/LOW edge subscription (tone() going active) now
flows through the resolver when available. Same PWM caveat — the
onPwmChange hook stays on the raw pin number to track when duty
drops to 0 and stops the oscillator.
Both fall back to pinManager.onPinChange when the resolver isn't
provided (tests / Phase-0-less builds).
Phase 5 progress: 19 of ~22 handlers migrated. Remaining handlers
are pushbutton / switch (input-only — no migration needed) and the
protocol-driven sensors (DHT, BMP, SPI/I2C/UART — stay event-level).
This is effectively the migration plateau.
260 tests pass across simulation-parts, component-to-spice,
mixed-mode-bjt-switch, logic-gate, flip-flop, and examples-digital.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five control pins (DS / SHCP / STCP / MR / OE) now subscribe through
PinResolver when available. Rising-edge detection on SHCP / STCP
keeps working — resolver.onChange only fires on real state
transitions, so a 'HIGH' event is the rising edge.
Refactored the pin subscription pattern into a tiny `PinSub` helper
(getInitialHigh + onHighLow) so each pin's enable / disable / data /
clock / latch role reads the same shape. Falls back to the legacy
pinManager.onPinChange path when the resolver isn't provided.
Seeds initial register/active state from each pin's
`getCurrentState()` instead of assuming LOW at attach — important for
canvases that start with MR or OE statically wired to GND/VCC, so
the chip's output is correct before any pin transitions.
Phase 5 progress: 17 of ~22 handlers migrated. Remaining handlers
(pushbutton, switch, RGB LED, servo, sensors, neopixel, OLED) are
mostly protocol-level / input-only and intentionally stay on the
event-level fast-path. The output-style migration plateau is
essentially reached.
131 tests pass across simulation-parts + examples-digital.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
twoInputGate (AND/NAND/OR/NOR/XOR/XNOR), nInputGate (3/4-input AND/OR/
NAND/NOR), edgeTriggeredFF (D/T/JK), and the standalone NOT gate all
now prefer PinResolver input subscriptions. Output side (setPinState
on Y / Q / Qbar) is unchanged — digital propagation between gates
keeps flowing through pinManager.
Why this matters: logic gates are the biggest beneficiaries of Phase 3
logic-family thresholds. A gate input driven through a BJT collector
or MOSFET drain now reads the real SPICE voltage and converts to
HIGH/LOW per the board's logic family — instead of relying on the
legacy trace's `[C, B]` shortcut.
For flip-flops, rising-edge detection on CLK works identically with
resolver.onChange: a state transition to HIGH is exactly the rising-
edge event the original `!prevClk && s` was watching for.
All migrated handlers fall back to the legacy pinManager.onPinChange
path when getPinResolver isn't provided (tests / Phase-0-less builds).
Phase 5 progress: 16 handlers migrated this session (LED, 7-segment,
led-bar-graph, AND/NAND/OR/NOR/XOR/XNOR + 4 multi-input variants +
3 flip-flops + NOT). Remaining: 74HC595, buzzer, RGB LED, servo,
neopixel, sensors, motor drivers. Once the output-style handlers are
all on PinResolver, the `[C, B]` shortcut in PASSIVE_PIN_PAIRS can
be deleted.
113 tests pass across logic-gate-parts, flip-flop-parts, and
examples-digital (which exercises real ngspice on multi-gate
topologies like the 3-to-8 decoder).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same backwards-compatible pattern as LED and 7-segment migrations.
With the resolver path each of the 10 anode pins now sees real SPICE-
resolved HIGH/LOW when driven through an active device. Legacy
pinManager.onPinChange path is kept as the fallback.
Seeds initial values from resolver state at attach time so the bar
graph renders correctly without waiting for the first edge event.
Phase 5 progress: 3 of ~12 handlers migrated (LED, 7-segment,
led-bar-graph). Next likely candidates: 74HC595 (more complex —
needs edge detection on SHCP/STCP), simpler output-only parts
(buzzer, RGB-LED).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 7-segment display was the canary case for the original problem:
multiplexed displays with BJTs driving digit-select pins (COM/DIG)
required the `[C, B]` shortcut in PASSIVE_PIN_PAIRS to even discover
that the COM was wired to an Arduino pin. With this migration the
handler asks the resolver for HIGH/LOW directly — and the resolver
upstream of an active device routes through SpiceResolvedPinResolver,
which threshold-converts the real SPICE collector voltage using the
board's logic family.
Matches Phase 0's LED migration pattern: prefer the PinResolver path
when getPinResolver is available (Phase 0+ harness), fall back to the
legacy pinManager.onPinChange + getArduinoPinHelper for tests / builds
without it. Backwards-compatible — both digit-select (COM.1/COM.2 on
1-digit, DIG1..DIGn on multi-digit) and segment (A-G + DP) subscriptions
now flow through the resolver when available.
Seeds initial state from resolver.getCurrentState() so static-wire
topologies (e.g. COM directly to GND) work at sim-start without an
explicit edge event.
Phase 5 progress: 2 of ~12 *Parts handlers migrated (LED, 7-segment).
Remaining handlers (pushbutton, switch, 74HC595, etc.) follow the
same pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decouple per-component handlers from direct pinManager.onPinChange +
getArduinoPinHelper subscriptions by introducing a small PinResolver
interface. The Phase 0 default impl is functionally identical to the
legacy path — it just routes through PinResolver instead of being
inlined in every handler. Zero behavior change.
The point is to make Phase 1 possible: swap the default impl for a
SPICE-resolved version that watches node voltages and threshold-
converts to digital events, without rewriting every handler.
Files:
- simulation/PinResolver.ts (new) — interface + default factory
- parts/PartSimulationRegistry.ts — additive 5th arg to
attachEvents (getPinResolver?), legacy 4-arg signatures keep
working unchanged
- components/DynamicComponent.tsx — assembles the PinResolver from
the wire-trace logic + PinManager subscriptions + board Vcc
lookup, passes it as the 5th arg to attachEvents
- parts/BasicParts.ts — LED handler migrated as proof of concept
(resolver-first path, legacy 4-arg path kept as fallback for
tests / unmigrated harnesses)
- __tests__/pin-resolver.test.ts (new) — 8 unit tests covering
FLOATING / GND / HIGH / LOW / GPIO subscriptions / unsubscribe
Vitest: 8/8 pin-resolver tests pass. 1300+ existing tests still pass;
the one pre-existing flake (spice-rectifier-live-repro timing out >60s)
is unrelated to this commit — verified by running the test on plain
HEAD without these changes (same timeout).
See project/sim-mixedmode/phase-00-pin-resolver.md (in the velxio-prod
repo) for full phase context.
The MADCTL handler in 6edc715 applied MX/MY/MV as three independent
flags, then mirrored physX/physY post-swap. That double-applies the
mirror for setRotation(3) (which Adafruit sends as MX|MY|MV|BGR=0xE8):
expected formula for rotation 3 is
physX = 239 - curY
physY = curX
but the flag-by-flag approach computed
physX = 239 - curY (correct by coincidence)
physY = 319 - curX (mirrored — should be just curX)
so every landscape-rot-3 sketch rendered horizontally flipped. The
user's Pico Doom title screen looked mirrored even after the previous
fix landed.
Replaced with an explicit per-rotation table derived from
Adafruit_ILI9341's setRotation() source:
rot 0 MX|BGR : (curX, curY)
rot 1 MV|BGR : (curY, 319 - curX)
rot 2 MY|BGR : (239 - curX, 319 - curY)
rot 3 MX|MY|MV|BGR : (239 - curY, curX)
Selects the case based on (madMV, madMX, madMY) bits, which is
straightforward because Adafruit only emits these 4 specific values.
Other drivers that set arbitrary MADCTL combinations (e.g. with the ML
or MH bits) still fall through to the closest of the four — good
enough for the screens we actually run.
Build verified (vite OSS+pro, 285 SEO pages).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The simulator's 7-segment part used to write segments straight into
element.values[0..7] regardless of how many digits the display has and
without considering the COM/DIG select pins. That meant:
- Multi-digit displays (digits=2/3/4) only ever lit digit 0; the
other digits stayed dark even when their DIGn pin was driven.
- For 1-digit displays multiplexed via shared A-G bus + per-display
COM.1 transistor (the canonical Arduino clock pattern), all four
displays showed the same rapidly-changing segment pattern and
rendered as flickering gibberish because COM.1/COM.2 were ignored.
This rewrites the part:
- Per-element state: live segments[] (Arduino-driven A..DP), per-
digit latched digitValues[][], and digitEnabled[] flags.
- Subscribes to the right digit-select pins for the digit count
(COM.1/COM.2 for digits=1, DIG1..DIGn for digits=2/3/4).
- On segment-pin change: writes to segments[] AND mirrors into
every currently-enabled digit's latched slot.
- On digit-pin LOW->HIGH (= enable, transistor-driver convention):
latches the live segments[] into that digit's slot so the first
refresh after enabling reflects the current pattern.
- When NO digit-select pin is wired to an Arduino pin (pure direct
drive, COM tied to GND): all digits default to enabled so segment
writes propagate immediately — preserves the old behaviour for
the simplest single-digit case.
- Rebuilds element.values as a flat array of length digits*8 (the
shape wokwi-7segment-element expects: indices d*8..d*8+7 = digit
d's A..DP).
Result: multiplexed 4-digit clocks built with 4 separate 1-digit
7segments + transistors actually render the four digits as the user
intended. Direct-drive single-digit displays still work unchanged.
The ILI9341 emulator hardcoded SCREEN_W=240 SCREEN_H=320 and silently
ignored every command except CASET/PASET/RAMWR/SWRESET. The block
comment even bragged about it ("All others are silently accepted —
init sequences, DISPON, MADCTL…").
That's fine for portrait sketches, but every landscape demo —
including the new Pico Doom raycaster — calls tft.setRotation(1) or
setRotation(3). Adafruit_ILI9341 translates those into MADCTL 0x36
with the MV (row/column exchange) bit set, then issues CASET windows
with X∈[0..319] and PASET windows with Y∈[0..239]. The emulator's
bounds check `curX > colEnd` would let curX reach 319, but the
buffer write `id.data[(curY*240 + curX)*4]` would land in a slot
that belongs to a different row — and worse, the SCREEN_W=240
ceiling silently truncated everything past column 239. Net result:
black screen for any rotated sketch.
Fix: parse MADCTL (0x36) and treat CASET/PASET as LOGICAL coordinates.
At pixel-write time, remap (curX, curY) → physical (px, py) using the
MV/MX/MY bits, then write into the still-physical 240×320 imageData.
SWRESET resets MADCTL back to portrait defaults (matches the
datasheet's reset semantics).
MADCTL bit Mask Meaning
D7 MY 0x80 row mirror
D6 MX 0x40 column mirror
D5 MV 0x20 swap X/Y (landscape)
Verified by rebuilding (vite OSS+pro). The fix is data-flow only —
no API change, no new dependency. Pico Doom should now actually
render its title screen + raycast frames in /examples on the
raspberry-pi-pico board.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Implemented `i2c-esp32-real-firmware.test.ts` to test ESP32 I2C communication via backend and WebSocket.
- Created `load-example-transitions.test.ts` to ensure proper loading of examples between board-less and board-based contexts.
- Added `CircuitVerificationModal.tsx` to display circuit verification results before running simulations.
- Developed `circuitVerifier.ts` to perform pre-flight checks for circuit safety, identifying potential issues like short circuits and component overloads.
- Introduced minimal ESP32 I2C master sketch `esp32_i2c_writer.ino` for testing I2C transactions.
- Implement HD44780Decoder for decoding I2C commands to HD44780-compatible LCDs.
- Add bmp280_bridge_reader.ino to read BMP280 chip_id and status registers via I2C.
- Create i2c_scanner_multi.ino to scan I2C addresses and report responding devices.
- Introduce lcd_i2c_hello.ino to demonstrate basic LCD functionality with I2C.
- Implement pcf8574_bidirectional.ino to test bidirectional communication with PCF8574.
- Add pico_i2c_master_reader.ino for reading BMP280 from a Raspberry Pi Pico.
- Create rtc_lcd_clock.ino to display time from a DS1307 RTC on an I2C LCD.
Previous fix added an ESP32-specific code path inside ili9341Simulation
to subscribe to the QEMU worker's spi_event stream. That made the LCD
work on ESP32-CAM but left the underlying issue unsolved: every other
SPI part (custom chips, future SD-card emulators, the SSD168x ePaper
already in the codebase) would also need its own per-board branching.
The right shape: every simulator exposes a `.spi` member matching the
SAME SpiBusLike interface, and SPI parts hook .spi.onByte without
caring which board they're attached to. AVRSimulator already had
this — now everything else does too.
frontend/src/simulation/SpiBus.ts (new)
Defines the contract — `onByte: (mosi) => void | null` plus
optional `completeTransfer(miso)`. Documents the single-listener
semantics that AVR has had since day one.
frontend/src/store/useSimulatorStore.ts
Esp32BridgeShim gets a lazy `.spi` getter that wraps
bridge.onSpiByte (the per-byte WS event from the QEMU worker).
completeTransfer is a no-op because the worker drives MISO via
its own _spi_response global. Covers ESP32 (Xtensa), ESP32-S3,
ESP32-CAM, ESP32-C3 — every kind that routes through Esp32Bridge.
frontend/src/simulation/RP2040Simulator.ts
Adds a lazy `.spi` getter that re-routes rp2040.spi[0].onTransmit
through the adapter. Default loopback (the prior behaviour) is
preserved when no part has accessed `.spi` yet — only consumers
that opt in see their handler invoked. Covers Pico and Pico W.
frontend/src/simulation/parts/ComplexParts.ts
ili9341Simulation no longer has an ESP32 special case. Single
code path: `simulator.spi.onByte = handler`. Works on AVR,
RP2040, all ESP32 variants. Same pattern is now available to
every future SPI part — ssd1306, sd-card, oled, etc.
The Esp32Bridge.ts spi_event field-name fix from 6afa62e (msg.data.event
instead of the non-existent msg.data.data) stays in place — that's what
makes the per-byte stream actually arrive in the bridge.
Verified: ILI9341 + ESP32-CAM gallery example renders the live webcam
preview after a hard refresh. The same simulation code works on Arduino
Uno + ILI9341 (the existing ili9341-test-sketch in example_zip).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ILI9341 part simulation only hooked AVR's SPI peripheral. For
ESP32 the simulator is Esp32BridgeShim (no .spi member), so
attachEvents bailed early and the LCD stayed black even though the
firmware was driving SPI traffic correctly.
The QEMU worker already emits per-byte spi_event WS messages
(see backend/app/services/esp32_worker.py::_on_spi_event), and the
Esp32Bridge already had an onSpiEvent hook — but the bridge was
reading msg.data.data (a non-existent field) instead of decoding
the worker's {bus, event, response} format. Fixed.
Two changes:
1. Esp32Bridge.ts: decode the spi_event payload correctly. The
worker encodes byte transfers as `mosi << 8` (op = low byte = 0x00)
and CS-line changes as `((cs<<1)|level) << 8 | 0x01` (op == 0x01).
Added onSpiByte (per-byte) and onSpiCsChange callbacks alongside
the existing onSpiEvent for backwards compat.
2. ComplexParts.ts ili9341Simulation: detect Esp32BridgeShim via
`getBridge()` duck-type check. When present, subscribe to
bridge.onSpiByte and feed bytes into the same processCommand /
processData pipeline used by the AVR path. DC tracking via
pinManager.onPinChange already works for ESP32 because the bridge
fires triggerPinChange on every gpio_change WS event.
Verified end-to-end: ESP32-CAM + ILI9341 example in the gallery now
renders the live webcam preview to the simulated TFT (160×120 RGB565
centered in the 320×240 panel) at ~3-4 fps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Implement UC8159cDecoder for handling 7-colour ACeP panels.
- Introduce painting functions for UC8159c frames in EPaperPart.
- Update EPaperPart to handle both SSD168x and UC8159c frame types.
- Add integration tests for EPaperPart and UC8159cDecoder.
- Create example sketch for 5.65" ACeP 7-colour panel.
- Enhance error handling in test cases for library dependencies.
- Introduced EPaperPanels.ts to define configurations for various ePaper panels including dimensions, refresh rates, and controller details.
- Implemented SSD168xDecoder.ts to handle the decoding of SPI commands for the SSD168x family of ePaper displays.
- Created EPaperPart.ts to manage the simulation of ePaper panels, integrating with the existing simulator architecture and handling events.
- Added example sketches for 2.13", 2.9", 4.2", and 7.5" ePaper displays, demonstrating basic functionality and text rendering.
- Ensured compatibility with AVR, RP2040, and ESP32 platforms, with appropriate pin configurations for each.
- Implemented `esp32_spi_chip_demo.ino` to demonstrate SPI communication with a 74HC595 shift register.
- Created `esp32_uart_chip_demo.ino` for UART loopback testing with ROT13 transformation.
- Added Python tests for compiling chips and sketches, ensuring valid WASM output and successful compilation for various board families.
- Developed end-to-end tests for ESP32 with custom chips using I2C and SPI, validating synchronous communication through the backend.
- Introduced GPIO bridge tests to verify serial communication and GPIO state changes.
- Ensured all tests validate the expected behavior of the custom chips and their interaction with the ESP32 firmware.
The SPICE emitter already reads properties.lux (default 500, 100 nA/lux)
but the UI had no way to set it — the static dialog rejected the "range"
control type and there was no entry in SENSOR_CONTROLS for the live panel.
- Add photodiode entry in SENSOR_CONTROLS (slider 0-1000 lux)
- Register a minimal PartSimulationRegistry handler that forwards slider
values via emitPropertyChange so the netlist memo invalidates
- Switch the photodiode lux control from "range" to "number" so the
static ComponentPropertyDialog renders an editable input
- Modified the index file to reflect the new naming convention for Velxio components.
- Changed JSX declarations to use 'velxio-' prefix for various components.
- Updated component overrides to replace 'wokwi-' with 'velxio-' for logic gates and other components.
- Adjusted SVG generation script to use 'velxio-' prefix for BMP280 and Raspberry Pi components.
- Marked submodules as dirty in QEMU and RP2040 libraries.
- Added .prettierignore and .prettierrc.json for consistent code formatting.
- Introduced InstrumentComponent with support for Voltmeter and Ammeter, including pin information handling.
- Replaced syncStoreProperty function with emitPropertyChange to decouple parts from Zustand store.
- Updated relay component mapping to ensure proper handling of coil and contact states.
- Added new test cases for half-wave rectifier and relay-controlled LED to ensure correct functionality.
- Introduced InlineComponentSVGs for schematic-style icons of various components.
- Updated submodule references for qemu-lcgamboa, rp2040js, and wokwi-elements to indicate dirty state.