Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project. > > Performance requirements are minimal. I need to monitor a few switches, > control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 > minute period to 1/10th second accuracy. Nice-to-have (but not > essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 > words. > > The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available > today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? Things like > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are > more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget.
Rasberry Pi is available, some have arrived, mine will arrive on Monday or Tuesday (I'm talking about UK here). I think getting python to run on an arduino device would be quite a lot of effort even if it's possible. You might want to avoid C but the 'sort of C' on the Arduino is very simple indeed, hardly more difficult than Python. -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
