ELECFREAKS Pico:ed have a display but also Alligator Clip

[dglaude]

Should we consider a 7x17 LED matrix to be a display?
I believe only LCD or OLED display should be tagged as having a display.
However I added the Alligator Clip friendly as it looks like a Micro:bit.

[dhalbert]

I think @deshipu would say that LED matrices are displays. They are low-resolution, but they can be used for gaming and scrolling text display.

[dglaude]

One could say that the 5x5 from Micro:bit is a display... so it is hard to put a limit. My idea was that OLED or LCDs are screen, and a bunch of LEDs is not.

I did see the pewpew from @deshipu and I did not react the same way as for Pico:ed or the two mixgo_ce_* so I am obviously biased, maybe the joystic presence made it clear to me that this was a "screen".

Maybe for display it is not such a big deal, if it is visible in the picture, and not the kind of display the user expect, it will be discarded. For other feature, if a board pretending to have Wifi, but wifi that is not supported by CircuitPython... then I would prefer to have that feature not tagged for that board (and it is the case for the only offender I know off, the Wio Terminal).

If we decide this board has a screen, then I still need to add the "Solder-Free Alligator Clip" but it can be another PR.

[makermelissa]

One could say that the 5x5 from Micro:bit is a display... so it is hard to put a limit. My idea was that OLED or LCDs are screen, and a bunch of LEDs is not.

Generally that's true. We should probably add the display feature to the micro:bit as well. A lot of the example code uses that as one, albeit an extremely low resolution display. Because one of our goals was to keep the feature list to a minimum, I think we should err on the side of calling a bunch of LEDs arranged in a matrix a display rather than create a new category.

The way I think about it is if somebody is filtering for boards with displays for some project and they saw a few with LEDs would they be okay with having that as an option?

[dglaude]

The way I think about it is if somebody is filtering for boards with displays for some project and they saw a few with LEDs would they be okay with having that as an option?

Feel free to discard/close the PR not matching that or maybe let's put the question as "In the Weed" and wait for a decision there.

[makermelissa]

I'd like to think about this some more before closing or merging.

[makermelissa]

For the terms, let's go with:
Built-in Display
External Display Connector

"External Display Connector "could be added to the bare metal Raspberry Pi SBCs and similar boards as well.

[dglaude]

Keeping the PR open for the Aligator Clip feature that was missing, but not removing the Display as discussion on 20220829 decided those LED matrix are small display.

[makermelissa]

I'll create a new issue for the Display name thing.

[makermelissa]

Actually, I'll use #1032.

[dglaude]

@makermelissa If you could review this change, that "ELECFREAKS Pico:ed" has a "Display" but is missing Alligator Clip feature until merged.

[makermelissa]

Oh right, looks good.