Here is my SS: 259 71 2451 On May 26, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run >> Python on today? > > Not counting the Rasberry Pi, then probably a wireless router or one of > those cheap media streaming boxes running custom firmware. > >> 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. > > Unfortunately I don't think any of these devices would have the GPIO > pins you'd want for such a project. > >> 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. > > The Arduino uses an 8-bit micro-controller, so probably not. (The ARM > emulator based port of Linux probably doesn't meet your performance > requirements.) > > I think you may need to either wait for the Rasberry Pi to become > generally available or increase your budget. You should also consider > whether any of these devices have Python bindings to interface with > their GPIO pins. If not you'll probably have to end up writing some C > code anyways. > > Ross Ridge > > -- > l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU > [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca > -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ > db // > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list