On 21/01/2021 08:11, Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 07:59:12 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: >> I notice that it doesn't have WiFi, and I wonder if it could be programmed >> from the Arduino IDE as 'c' is mentioned. Perhaps that will come. I have > Do you not compile the C code before uploading it to an Arduino or similar? > I've never used an Arduino but have always assumed that the compiler was in > the IDE not the device. > >> been using a Wemos D1 which has some of these features plus Wifi, and >> programmed in c. > That's an interesting device too, albeit a lot less capable than this latest > offering. > > The microPython is the attractive thing. When i was evaluating the options > at > WMT in 2016, I plumped for the RPi Zero because it was half the price of the > cheapest Arduino, but more importantly it supported Python. > > Since the WMT is largely maintained by volunteers, I didn't want to use a > language that might be hard to use for novices. Since Python was going up > the > popularity charts even then, and is quite powerful, I felt it was the right > choice. I still do.
This is a very interesting product. That said, I agree with you Terry in that I think it would have been hard to even get Ethernet to work with something like this, let alone talking to a MySQL database - probably unsuitable for the River System, or at least the direction it went in given the hardware we had at the time. I must admit I struggle to see the difference between a microcontroller and a very low end SoC/SBC, apart from the analogue inputs (but AFAIK some SoCs/SBCs include analogue inputs too). Hamish
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