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Also > excellent documentation of WiPy I would not quite agree. There is some documentation, but it is not great. Another big difference (which I noted when porting code from RPi to Wipy), is that the Wipy processor is much slower than RPi; so if computation speed is part of the equation, this shoul...

PyCharm is by far the best python editor I have found. Having a tab with a console running the telnet, plus the automatic ftp transfer described above should make a sweet setup. My experience trying PyMakr was a total fail. I do not understand why a company as small as pycom spends time into creatin...

Great, thanks for sharing the example !

Alright, got things working.
The main issue I had was: the LED jumper on the development board.

Found
http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic. ... 3&start=10

once removed, got things running smoothly.

Now I am facing performance issues (LED animations are too slow).

Hi all, I have a chain of neopixels; instead of normal RGB these are RGBW pixels. The provided WS2812 library worked fine for RGB pixels, and now I am trying to modify it to handle RGBW pixels. I did a similar port for the RPI2 library ( https://github.com/rodrigob/rpi_ws281x/commits/master ), but f...

Since Wipy has access to internet, it has access to ntp.
Quick question: what is a reasonable way to handle timezones ?

I could not find a micropython library for that, and I understand it is a hairy topic to get done right.
It is there maybe a webservice to do so ? What would you recommend ?

I see
https://micropython.org/resources/docs/ ... neral.html

not super convient, but at least it avoids disaster.

But what worries me, is that if, for any reason, the wifi connection fails or get stuck; I cannot fix/update the code anymore.
Seems like an easy path to have a "bricked wipy".

Just received my wipy board, and trying to setup the code inside. The micropython board behaves as a disk when connected. Updating its code is as simple as drag and drop. The default wipy behaviour also makes it easy to drag and drop files, via ftp this time. According to https://docs.pycom.io/wipy/...

Yey !