On 16/01/16, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Jan Kurik <jku...@redhat.com> wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Micro Bit = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Micro_Bit > > > > Change owner(s): > > * Kushal Das <mail AT kushaldas DOT in> > > > > Enable the use of BBC Micro Bit on Fedora systems. Users will be able > > develop, and put in new code to their micro:bit devices using Fedora. > > > > == Detailed Description == > > Micro Bit (or micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by > > the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to > > every class 7 students in UK. This change will make sure that they > > simply use Fedora to use their devices. > > This is a very limited description of the intentions. The way it's > intended to be used in the UK is via a programming web interface > written by Microsoft (apparently it'll be open sourced!) which will be > the standard, but it'll also support micropython [1] and I suspect > some form of ardrino style programming, but being a Cortex-M series > processor is obviously not capable of running Fedora itself so I think > for this to be a feature you need to actually specify how it's > actually going to be supported and what tools rather than a handy wavy > "support" outline. My mistake of not putting in all the details on time. It comes down to packaging uFlash, the tool which can be used to flash the device with Python scripts, and MicroPython runtime. The second package is called mu, which is actively being developed, it is very simple editor, which can be used to write and flash the device with the Python scripts. mu removes the dependency to the internet connection, it also has repl which connects to the device.
Optionally we can package any addition packages required to develop MicroPython itself on Fedora. Kushal -- Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer CentOS Cloud SIG lead http://kushaldas.in -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
