Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-05 Thread lucio
I'm looking for something based on ARM or MIPS and that has some useful connection to the external world in the form of GPIOs. SPI, I2C, and analog I/O would be nice to have too. Olimex in Bulgaria manufacture and market worldwide a very wide range of AVR and ARM based boards and

[9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-05 Thread Brian L. Stuart
I'm teaching a special topics course this fall I'm calling Computing in the Small. Right now, I'm leaning toward conducting it on a platform that runs Plan 9. I'm looking for something based on ARM or MIPS and that has some useful connection to the external world in the form of GPIOs. SPI, I2C,

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-05 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 5 August 2015 at 21:39, Brian L. Stuart blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: Obviously, the Raspberry Pi is a candidate. I think the big advantage of the Rpi or Rpi2 (for speed, memory and cores) is that there's a wealth of published projects for them, including hardware ones, and other stuff, and

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-05 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
RPI's running something like plan9-bcm (check github) where gpio is exposed should work. I'm going to try plan9-bcm this weekend; i'll keep you posted. I like ODROID hardware, but obviously there isn't a Plan 9 port for it. Arduino Yún (MIPS+AVR) could make a cool device for Plan 9, but the MIPS

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-05 Thread Shane Morris
Lib9p to ESP8266 would be quite good. I got two NodeMCU Rev 2 boards from LearCNC here in Oz, I'm planning on using them in little vacuum cleaner robots. On 8/6/15, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: RPI's running something like plan9-bcm (check github) where gpio is exposed