The Fruit Jam sports an HSTX connector for digital video, two USB ports, and a microSD card slot. Better yet, because of the RP2350's HSTX peripheral, a single microcontroller can perform the video and USB tasks at the same time.
You can use this pre-compiled UF2 file to load the firmware onto your Fruit Jam:
Otherwise, you can compile the code in the Arduino IDE by setting up Arduino, and adding the Adafruit-DVI-hstx library through the library manager. While you're at it, make sure the Adafruit GFX library is up to date. There is a special version of the code available on GitHub here.
Once the firmware is all set on your Fruit Jam, either with the UF2 or manual compilation, you can:
- Follow the steps for setting up your SD card, then insert it into your Fruit Jam.
- Plug a standard keyboard into one of the USB ports.
- Plug an HDMI cable into the HSTX DVI port on the Fruit Jam. When it comes to the display, you'll need one supporting 1280x720 resolution. Plug it into the DVI port.
After following these steps, restart the Fruit Jam. You should get a text display on your monitor & be able to type with your keyboard.
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