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   gbulmer
   Moderator

   Though it was a bizarre coincidence, I was pleased to see your progress on P14p.
   http://groups.google.com/group/python-on-a-chip/browse_thread/thread/b8033bd6e9bd0153#

   One of the reasons I had adopted Maple is because of the STM32F, and one of the reasons that I like the STM32F is because of P14p.

   I had done almost nothing about P14p this year, and I felt guilty, and got persuaded (I am pleased to say) a week ago to go to PYCON UK which started Friday evening (UK time:-).
   I did some lightening talks about using embedded systems in education, and I found a guy who offered to help me get started with P14p (my Python is weak).
   So I asked some questions at the P14p forum, and then tonight read there that you guys had been hacking on P14p!-)

   So, that is a genuinely impressive act of mind reading.
   What am I thinking of now? When will you have a proof-of-concept?

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikep
   Member

   I haven't tried it out, but this might qualify as a "proof of concept":
   http://leaflabs.com/2011/09/pymite/

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mbolivar
   LeafLabs

   we are very interested in getting python running smoothly on our more recent boards (which have the memory to accommodate it). do you have any links to your talks? we'd love to hear more about what other people like about the idea.

   edit: personally, i'm really enticed by the idea of hitting a similar sweet spot that python on the PC sits at, where you can do most of the work in python, and rip out the performance-sensitive parts for C. similarly, we could get the real-time parts handled in e.g. interrupts written in C or C++, with the glue held together in python. that seems like an idea with legs.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   gbulmer
   Moderator

   mikep - sorry I was trying to make a lame joke.
   Yes, that is more than good enough as a proof-of-concept.

   ---- long explanation, only fun for one or two people, and I am one -----

   So, that is a genuinely impressive act of mind reading.

   It *was* absolutely amazing.

   One week earlier I was chatting to a an Open Source guy while getting some cables/leads for our Software Freedom Day event in Rugby.
   He mentions that he needs the cables back soon because he is an organisers of a Python event, which is on the following weekend.
   I mention that I am interested in a very small Python on microcontroller.
   He tells me PYCON UK is on the following weekend, in the town I live in, 10 minutes drive from my house!
   He suggest I come and do a lightening talk to see if anyone is interested.
   I think this is brilliant, "a sign":-)

   A week later, I was in a pub, asking PYCON delegates if they are interested in Python-on-a-chip, and meanwhile you publish that blog.

   I missed your blog over the weekend, because PYCON conducts quite a lot of technical work in bars :-)

   I found someone at PYCON UK who said they might be able to help!
   So I started asking questions on the P14p forum.
   I was so focused and intent, I still missed your blog.
   Then in between my questions, Dean published a link to your blog.
   I would probably have missed it for a bit longer if he hadn't :-)

   It was such an amazing, funny, delightful coincidence, that "the only possible explanation is you read my mind":-)

   Your blog was very welcome, and delighted me.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   gbulmer
   Moderator

   mbolivar - I did a lightening talk which isn't published anywhere, though I believe the video stream will become available.

   I explained in a few slides that:
   - I teach children to program, and have been for several years, using Arduino's,
   - when building electronics and programming, inexperienced programmers find it very hard to debug, and C/C++ doesn't help,
   - I would like to experiment with a programming language which has a read-evaluate-print loop as that might help them
   - I had concluded that Python is one of the tiny number of viable languages (I will post on my blog at some stage about this)
   - would anyone like to help?

   Posted 4 years ago #

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