Here is my SS: 259 71 2451 On May 26, 2012, at 9:22 AM, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
