On the contrary, We are slowly but surely building up a thorough documentation to make it easier for developers and also releasing the necessary files for development. In uiflow we have added the custom blocks function so third party developers can create easy to use blocks for their compatible hardware, this is in it's early stages but will become more feature rich as time goes on.

I intend to do a video series on how to go from a proto board to getting your module fabbed by a pcb house. Some of our Japanese users have already developed their own midi module for the device and are selling it commercially https://necobit.com/denshi/m5stackmidimodulefamicomsynth/ and another Japanese user developed a usb host module.

Suggestions on how we can better facilitate this process are more than welcome.

Do you mean to suggest a function on uiflow that would show the camera stream when pressed?

Hi Slumnit, sounds very unusual. Which firmware are you using? and do you have anything connected to the gpio ports of the m5stack?

Hi @yellowelise are you planning on designing your own firmware? of course, when you flash your m5 device with our burner software it is flashing a .bin file a .spiffs file and a few other files, you can also do this by command line if you choose with esptool. It would be good for you to expand on your questions more so we can better help you.

Hi @tkl can you communicate with the device over serial when the usb cable is attached. Which version of the M5stack are you using? fire, gray, basic? have you tried other usb cables?

Hi @frangimeno2000 not quite sure what you mean. Do you want the M5stack device to turn on when USB is connected or to put it into deep sleep and wake it up again when some condition is met, such as shaking the device or pressing one of the A, B or C buttons?

Which browser were you using? safari tends to have some issues on Ipad, I generally use chrome browser on ipad

Hi Rob, is it the case for the proto module you need? You can find it here if that's the case https://github.com/m5stack/M5-3D_and_PCB

Do we have the source code for this?

Sorry to hear your having issues with your m5stack. A few questions to see if I can diagnose the problem. When you turn the device on and it beeps, despite the screen being black you should still be able to see the backlight on the screen, can you? when you attach the device over serial and burn the firmware are there any error messages? have you opened the device to see if anything seems lose or disconnected inside?