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Espruino: JavaScript for Things

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Do you enjoy Javascript *and* microcontrollers!  Well, you are in luck:

 

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Espruino: JavaScript for Things

"The world's first JavaScript microcontroller for beginners or experts, now Open Source. Be creative with intelligent control!"

I just backed this Kickstarter to get an early bird board for $28 shipped:
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I think event-based JS code is a good approach to low power microcontrollers as it is mostly sleeping while waiting for inputs or timers to occur.
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Anyone else excited about this?
cheers,
drew
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  • Is this something compatible with BoneScript, using Node.js? That way you could get a broader community.

    Event based programming is a nice concept, doing it all the time in C. For me this isn't interesting, but I hope the event programming is well-designed, giving fast microcontrollers the credit of power they deserve.

  • in reply to vsluiter

    We're trying hard to make it as compatible with Node.js code as we can, so hopefully libraries will end up being quite portable - there are some compromises because we're trying to run with a LOT less RAM/Flash than Node.js though.

     

    We're basing things like the filesystem and HTTP API on Node.js, but we're trying to make hardware access look a lot more like Arduino (Wiring) as I feel this is a bit more established for things like SPI/I2C, and is really the area that Espruino sits in (effectively an interactive Arduino).

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  • in reply to vsluiter

    We're trying hard to make it as compatible with Node.js code as we can, so hopefully libraries will end up being quite portable - there are some compromises because we're trying to run with a LOT less RAM/Flash than Node.js though.

     

    We're basing things like the filesystem and HTTP API on Node.js, but we're trying to make hardware access look a lot more like Arduino (Wiring) as I feel this is a bit more established for things like SPI/I2C, and is really the area that Espruino sits in (effectively an interactive Arduino).

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