Espruino

Looks like a new espruino just launched on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-pico-javascript-on-a-usb-stick?ref=category_recommended

Frederick

Go to the road test page when you are logged into your account. On the top right hand side you will see a list of everyone who applied to the road test, the first 10 names are the people who won. Your name will be there (it may be on the second page of the list) and next to your name is a hyperlink that says write a review. Click that and away you go. Enjoy

Hello,  can anybody tell me where can i add my review?  its the first one for me and i cannot find the link to create it anywhere, any help would be awesome...

From the Terms and Conditions:

Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.

So, I'd say you got two months from July 9th.

I didn't receive my board till the 9th of July, I do hope this means I still have a little time to finish my review as it is nearly finished. Anyone have any info on this??

Lol! I want to see if I can get my beaglebone to program it on the fly at some point!

The way I understand it, is that if you send the dump() command to the Espruino, it basically sends the program information back to your computer as text through a virtual serial port on a physical USB connection. You just need the computer to interpret that information as a HID interface instead of a serial connection and then the data it would see would appear as keystrokes for instance. From there, I would look at utilising the function that the Espruino has to send that information and build on it. I'm sure there's many ways to skin the cat though!

Good Luck!

Thanks for the reply!

I have indeed already posted in the Espruino forums, but I've yet to get a reply. Fortunately I'm not in a hurry.

If it all comes down to it, and I can't afford to grab an Arduino Micro ($25 is a lot more than free for a board I already have!), I will definitely just code my own driver. The project I was going to use it in involves a Raspberry Pi, so there's probably a generic driver I can tweak to work with the Espruino.

Hey,

The reason the Arduino Leonardo and Micro can be used as HID's (virtual keyboards etc..) is that that connect through a virtual serial port. The same is also true with the Espruino.

If you look at the documentation for the Arduino's You'll notice that you need to install some drivers on your computer in order to use that functionality, I'm not sure that you can find any compatible drivers for the Espruino to act as such and you will probably be stuck with having to write your own as well as write software to run on the Espruino itself too.

As you say, there's nothing to say that you can't do it, but being faced with having to write drivers for the target computer would make it a great deal more challenging. If there's a standard IC(processor) that you can connect between the Espruino and computer, then I would be tempted to use that solution. (an external IC would probably be easier to write code for on the Espruino too).

Your best option would be to ask the question on the Espruino forum, maybe somebody could shed more light on whether there are drivers already available and point you in the right direction.

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have tried and had any luck getting the Espruino to act as a HID natively (Like the Arduino Leonardo and MIcro). I can't find anything saying it can be a HID without a separate processor (like with most Arduinos), but I also can't find anything telling me it can't.

Theres some more battery and ground connections on the board that are unpopulated, you could use any socket an connector, just solder them on ( I desoldered the olimex socket last nite since none of my batteries have that connector)

Great! Thanks a lot!

Buying it at Farnell is not really my first choice, I need to spend at least € 50,- I'll try to find one in an old electronic device....

Hi Reinoud,

Farnell sell these, here is the housinghousing and crimp terminalcrimp terminal. Although usually a special tool is needed, these are large enough that they can be just gently crushed with pliers and then soldered.

According to their site, they use the Olimex convention. Here is a photo of an Olimex LiPo, the pinout can be seen here:

Does anybody know where to find the JST PHR-2 2 Pin connector and what the pinout must be (power and ground)?

My board has just arrived, maybe I could use my HC-06 for bluetooth options

Here too!! it really is a compact little board

Nice! Hoping mine comes before I get back from vacation, it would be a nice surprise, my hc-05 Bluetooth module showed in the mail today!

Just checking in to say that my Espruino has arrived.

Ordered the Bluetooth module as soon as I got the email, really can't wait for it

Wow! Thank you very much! Me and my son are looking forward to receiving the Espruino it so we can get started! If he gets the hang of it we will try to combine this with Lego Technics and have a cheaper alternative to Lego Mindstorms.