m5stack-tab5-sorting-algorithms/README.md

# M5Stack Tab5 Sorting Lab

Touch-controlled visual guide to Bubble, Insertion, Selection, Shell, Merge,
Quick, Heap, and Radix sort. Each algorithm animates the same 48 shuffled
values and reports comparisons, moves, and elapsed time. **RUN ALL 8** ends
with a fair operation-count chart.

Controls: **Pause/Resume**, **Redo**, **Next**, **Run All 8**, and
**Algorithm Menu**. **No Visual** reruns the selected algorithm without any
animation, touch polling, or intentional delay during the timed section and
reports its duration with microsecond-derived precision. The bar animation is
rendered through a PSRAM-backed canvas for tear-free updates. Build with
`pio run`, upload with `pio run -t upload`.

The PlatformIO platform is pinned to the `54.03.21-2` maintenance release,
which includes esptool 5.0.2 and avoids the Click API error present with the
original `54.03.21` package on some Windows installations.