CPU clock speed, USB OTG

[nutshell]

the board has been ordered and currently awaiting its arrival
few questions:
is it possible to have access to the CPU clock speed ?
i also read comments dating back to 2013
that OTG cannot be accessed ? has there been a work around so far ?
and finally the is it possible to use a 2 x 16 lcd screen like any microcontroller
or it only works with the LCD and touch-sensor skin ?

[dhylands]

the board has been ordered and currently awaiting its arrival
few questions:
is it possible to have access to the CPU clock speed ?

You can use:

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>>> pyb.freq()[0]
168000000

to get the CPU frequency. With recent firmware you can also set the CPU frequency.

i also read comments dating back to 2013
that OTG cannot be accessed ? has there been a work around so far ?

I'm not sure about OTG.

and finally the is it possible to use a 2 x 16 lcd screen like any microcontroller
or it only works with the LCD and touch-sensor skin ?

There is some code over here: https://github.com/dhylands/python_lcd/tree/master/lcd (for GPIO and I2C variants). The I2C variant is for a particular I2C chip, but it should be fairly easy to adapt to other chips.
See this thread: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic. ... &hilit=LCD

[pythoncoder]

My multi threaded library includes support for HD4480 displays wired using a four wire data bus (rather than serial or I2C). If the thread support isn't needed it would be easy to adapt the code for the LCD driver.

https://github.com/peterhinch/Micropython-scheduler

Regards, Pete