Using the boot pin is the only part that might be a jackpot issue. Even if the genuine esp32 works, this is an open source project and people will use whatever esp fits. Changing a param file is easiest now (when there are only 100 copies).
There may be something like adding a 3.3V pullup to the JP board that would solve this and let you keep using the boot pin.
The other thread on this showed that with that esp32, it would boot with 1 driver in X,Y,Z, but not with two. I think IO4 starts floating, and your evidence that it boots when it isn’t connected to the jackpot supports that.
The other weird thing from the other post is that connecting via fluid term fixes it. I am sure fluid term is calling for it to get rebooted, but I don’t know how it is escaping from the bootloader then. Unless fluid term sends a command to the bootloader to just boot?
I’m in to help test. I’m going to order another jackpot. How do I order at least a couple of the USB-C boards you have excess? Then I can perhaps order one of your genuine ESP32s after they get to you on Monday.
That sounds like a good idea.
Adding a pullup or maybe a jumper on the jackpot to enable a pullup, sounds like a good idea.
When I was watching with fluidterm on the jackpot I put on my JL1 laser, it seemed to be looking for the weird edge conditions to deal with them. I bet there’s a lot going on there that could be instructive. I need to study it a bit more.
Multi-body stuff. Where is my spacecraft in relation to the planet we’re arriving at? What’s happening all through the 30 minutes of terror as we arrive and burn our 6 rocket engines to get into orbit?
Where’s that pesky moon that we get close to? Where’s the sun? Where’s the earth? Have we passed beyond line-of-sight back to the earth (So I can see the telemetry as to whether or not we shut down the burn, or if we had faults or blew up)
Yes, all the good dynamics folks simplify this in their head to a bunch of ‘simple’ 1-body type problems that they then iterate on interactively. That actually sounds worse to me than feeding it into my analysis tools and letting the computer tell me. To each thier own.
If you can get Hohmann transfers working well (Earth to Mars?) then you’re off to a really good start.
Shoot I only ordered 3 of the real deal ESP’s. I am assuming another is not needed for destructive testing on the jackpot, I might do some soldering on some ESP’s though to test.