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MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by tacticalturtle »

surajrmal wrote: post #43
tacticalturtle wrote: post #5

Serious recommendation: I would not have R. Kelly anywhere on your project page. If you’re trying to give a 30 second elevator pitch about what your project does, you should not have a name be a guy spending 30+ years in prison for child sexual abuse.

Where do you draw the boundary? Can I no longer enjoy watching space jam because it contains songs by R Kelley? A WiFi SSID which is a pun from a popular song seems pretty far removed from promoting or celebrating R Kelley.

I knew this comment was coming on HN.

The answer, as the other commenter suggested, is that I’m providing feedback for technical communication.

If your documentation or marketing materials are making me focus on unreadable font choices or poor color schemes, it’s not doing it’s job.

Similarly, if your marketing materials are making me think about a convicted sex offender instead of your project, they’re not doing their job.

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Citizen_Lame wrote: post #49
opless wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In countries other than the USA there are strict controls on personal information. The UK/European countries have GPDR for example.

This has nothing to do with GDPR, but nice try. By default you need to provide your details for domain registration, to hide these details is optional. Nothing wrong with that, but coupled with hiding yourself on open source project as well and coupled with host which proudly advertises: Dedicated Servers & VPS with DMCA Ignored Hosting No, thanks. Probably Russkis but still.

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Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by joezydeco »

Citizen_Lame wrote: post #49
opless wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In countries other than the USA there are strict controls on personal information. The UK/European countries have GPDR for example.

This has nothing to do with GDPR, but nice try. By default you need to provide your details for domain registration, to hide these details is optional. Nothing wrong with that, but coupled with hiding yourself on open source project as well and coupled with host which proudly advertises: Dedicated Servers & VPS with DMCA Ignored Hosting No, thanks. Probably Russkis but still.

Having the support chat on Telegram is really sketchy. No thanks.

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by cyberax »

travisgriggs wrote: post #10

I work on the micros that aren’t plugged I to a grid. So solar and batteries and the like. In that world, power consumption is everything. Interrupts and aggressive sleeping of your processor are you biggest tool. Does anyone have any experience with current draw of typical pieces of “firmware” using this? I see that it’s on the larger side of what feels like micro, BUT tomorrows micro has been growing heaps over yes…

I have a charger "controller" that I developed in MicroPython for an SAMD51 board. It can do sleep just fine, as long as you set up interrupts properly.

But I just need to do a bunch of ADC readings and some simple if/else conditions, so it doesn't require any real non-trivial computations.

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by nomel »

q3k wrote: post #35

Given my experience with micropython's reliability... no thanks. (in general actively using a heap in a constrained environment is just asking for trouble... fragmentation _will_ get you!)

I've never had a problem, but I use it for microcontroller type things. Do you have any GitHub issues related to this?

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by tacticalturtle »

nomel wrote: post #56
q3k wrote: post #35

Given my experience with micropython's reliability... no thanks. (in general actively using a heap in a constrained environment is just asking for trouble... fragmentation _will_ get you!)

I've never had a problem, but I use it for microcontroller type things. Do you have any GitHub issues related to this?

I had a problem with the ESP32 implementation specifically. The micropython implementation itself runs as a task under ESP-IDF, rather than bare metal, which is the case on some other microcontrollers like rp2350. So it doesn’t have access to the full resources of the board - as a good chunk is reserved for IDF.

I had a project where I had would make repeated API calls, which returned small to moderate json payloads.

To avoid running out of heap, I had to constantly force python garbage collection. That took a long time, so I wasn’t able to call the APIs on the intervals I needed.

Eventually I gave up and moved to using ESP IDF directly, which IMO was super easy to do - Espressif has made a great integration with VS Code. If anyone’s on ESP32, i would skip micropython.

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by opless »

Citizen_Lame wrote: post #49
opless wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In countries other than the USA there are strict controls on personal information. The UK/European countries have GPDR for example.

This has nothing to do with GDPR, but nice try. By default you need to provide your details for domain registration, to hide these details is optional. Nothing wrong with that, but coupled with hiding yourself on open source project as well and coupled with host which proudly advertises: Dedicated Servers & VPS with DMCA Ignored Hosting No, thanks. Probably Russkis but still.

Actually the entire whois database is "privacy protected" because of GPDR (if my memory is correct)

Thankfully, because I used to get postal scams for the hundred or so domains I used to host.

You good for tinfoil bro?

Re: MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

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Post by rangerelf »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #14

"Android-like" term is pejorative these days. What do you mean? Closed app store with throwing out old software because so?

If only you'd bothered to quote the rest of the sentence:

"Android-like touch screen UI with gestures"

Could have used also "IPad-like..." or "IPhone-like..." and it would have meant basically the same. Maybe author is more familiar with Android?

PS: What's with all the outrage manufacturing?

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