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What adafruit board would be best for a beginner (at circuit python but long time developer otherwise) dad and his 8 year old kid?
What adafruit board would be best for a beginner (at circuit python but long time developer otherwise) dad and his 8 year old kid?
from a programming point of view, all are the same. But if you want to introduce your kid to play with sensors and other stuff, I'd get Playground Blefruit[1] [1]: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4333
To be fair, this is really mostly just a rebranded MicroPython...
If scripting for microcontrollers become more mainstream, it can enable new applications and use cases that do not require a forced firmware re-flashing to change the code.
To be fair, this is really mostly just a rebranded MicroPython...
While yes, its forked from MicroPython, saying it is just rebranded is almost like saying Ubuntu is just rebranded Debian. The biggest difference is how they handle core modules... rather than having a per-port/board they have a common set of core modules. There are also a lot more of those modules and it seems to have a fairly robust set of hardware/boards that are supported. I'll be the first to admit that I don't…
[1] https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/122/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/c/linuxconfau/featured
I've used CircuitPython for one production hardware project which is in the wild. Safe to say that the increased draw on the included battery and higher memory usage weren't a concern here, but they are both significant. Developer productivity is through the roof though. I'd say the biggest pain points for me (unless I'm missing something/they've added more stuff recently) were created by the lack of support for what…
What adafruit board would be best for a beginner (at circuit python but long time developer otherwise) dad and his 8 year old kid?
That’s a very misleading headline. I got the impression this was something akin to VHDL or Verilog or SystemC in python. “Programming Hardware” the way it’s used here is pretty much the same as vanilla python, though I suppose a lot in this industry constantly need reminding of that.
There's MyHDL. Turns Python into a hardware description and verification language: https://github.com/myhdl/myhdl
That’s a very misleading headline. I got the impression this was something akin to VHDL or Verilog or SystemC in python. “Programming Hardware” the way it’s used here is pretty much the same as vanilla python, though I suppose a lot in this industry constantly need reminding of that.
> “Programming Hardware” the way it’s used here is pretty much the same as vanilla python
One can only hope so, since the project is a fork of MicroPython. Neither CPython or MicroPython are meant to be a long departure from Python itself.
What adafruit board would be best for a beginner (at circuit python but long time developer otherwise) dad and his 8 year old kid?
from a programming point of view, all are the same. But if you want to introduce your kid to play with sensors and other stuff, I'd get Playground Blefruit[1] [1]: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4333
maybe an arduino board plus a raspberry pi?
To be fair, this is really mostly just a rebranded MicroPython...
I like to think that MicroPython is more like a base project without a standard hardware library/abstraction layer. CircuitPython took MicroPython and built a hardware abstraction layer on top. It makes hardware level access more standardized and you can take your project to a different microcontroller board. CircuitPython only supports a limited number of boards. If scripting for microcontrollers become more mainstr…