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by nickovs
Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:48 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi microcontroller boards
Topic: get_pulses and put_pulses
Replies: 7
Views: 4222

Re: get_pulses and put_pulses

I have been thinking about writing a machine.DMA module myself, partly because (as Roberthh points out) its helpful to be able to add an IRQ handler and partly so as to play nicely with other modules that makes use of the C SDK's dma_claim_unused_channel function. Most of the DMA examples that have ...
by nickovs
Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:49 pm
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: Espressif announces ESP32-S2
Replies: 3
Views: 4617

Re: Espressif announces ESP32-S2

Is anyone aware of any development work to port MicroPython to the ESP32-S2? There seem to be some significant differences, like having one CPU core instead of two, and USB OTG support, both of which might need a reasonable amount of work. It has less RAM and internal EEPROM but the fact that it app...
by nickovs
Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:06 pm
Forum: Programs, Libraries and Tools
Topic: slimDNS: a pure Python mDNS implementation
Replies: 2
Views: 8299

slimDNS: a pure Python mDNS implementation

For some time I've been frustrated by the lack of multicast DNS support in the MicroPython implementations for the ESP8266, and more recently the ESP32, so I finally decided to do something about it. To that end I'd like to present slimDNS (Simple, Lightweight Implementation of Multicast DNS). It's ...
by nickovs
Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:15 am
Forum: Other Boards
Topic: Our new dual band WiFi/bluetooth module
Replies: 4
Views: 7566

Re: Our new dual band WiFi/bluetooth module

This certainly sounds interesting. I would love to have a reasonably powerful MicroPython device with a Bluetooth interface and API stack. Do you have an idea what sort of price you would sell this at? The WM-BAN-BM-13 has NFC functionality too; is this connected in the device that you created? Give...
by nickovs
Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:46 pm
Forum: MicroPython pyboard
Topic: Ideas for next evolution of pyboard
Replies: 75
Views: 71100

Re: Ideas for next evolution of pyboard

I'd like to add my support for a LiPo battery charger. Many of the projects I have built myself or seen from others have been 'stand-alone' devices which need to be battery powered. A built in charger circuit so that all you need is to plug the battery in makes doing this very simple. As many other ...
by nickovs
Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:27 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer
Replies: 7
Views: 6117

Re: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer

platforma wrote:Just FYI, this was added in https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/2502
Excellent. Thanks!
by nickovs
Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:38 am
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer
Replies: 7
Views: 6117

Re: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer

I managed to get the tool chain working and build my own version of the ESP8266 port. Simply adding the one #define to the mpconfigport.h file seems to be sufficient to make this work and it seems to be working fine on my card. Hopefully this can get switched on by default in the main line builds of...
by nickovs
Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:13 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer
Replies: 7
Views: 6117

Re: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer

It would be useful to have the buffer object. In the meantime you can use the machine.UART(0) object to access the serial in a binary way. Yes, I realise that I can reach the raw UART directly by name but that makes the code non-portable. I'm trying to communicate with a variety of boards from anot...
by nickovs
Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:08 am
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer
Replies: 7
Views: 6117

ESP board doesn't support std{in,out,err}.buffer

Is there some reason why the builds of MicroPython for the ESP board don't support the stdio 'buffer' support for raw access to the terminal? The standard stdio streams do a bunch of translation between '\n', '\r' and '\r\n' on input and output, which is desirable for certain console operations but ...
by nickovs
Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:12 pm
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: Driver for Adafruit GSM FONA module
Replies: 3
Views: 12544

Re: Driver for Adafruit GSM FONA module

Has there been any progress on a network/socket driver for the FONA module? The device supports abstracted TCP and UDP connections as well as DNS lookup, so much of the work is already done in the module. I can't find any documentation regarding how to write network drivers but if someone can give m...