Here is my SS: 259 71 2451 On May 26, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: >> The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available >> today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? > > No. YOu want a 32-bit platform with an OS and perhaps 1 meg of memory. > And by the time you port Python to it unless it's there already, you may > as well have just written your application in C. > > If you want something even cheaper than an Arduino, look at the TI > Launchpad. But you can't program that in Python either. There is > a standalone interactive Forth for it, if that's of any interest: > http://www.somersetweb.com/4E4th/EN.html > > There are some fairly cheap ARM boards around that could run Python, but > they will be battery hungry compared to a Launchpad or Arduino, and > again, may not be worth the porting hassle if there's not an > already-done Python port. > > Lua might be another scripting language of interest (www.lua.org). Sort > of the same idea as Python, not quite as nice, but smaller and easier to > embed. I think it wants around 50-100k of ram, still way out of the > Arduino range. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
