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And here's a video of Roz walking, powered by one of my custom MicroPython boards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL9w-wTjzeM

This is definitely the first step in what I hope will be a lot of software updates for this robot.

A number of years ago, I built a bioloid-based quadruped walker robot which I called Roz. Originally controlled using an Arbotix (Arduino-like) board, two years ago I updated it to be controlled with a Beaglebone Black running Python. Programming robots in python is great, but running full-blown lin...

This is awesome - I can't wait to try it with my bioloid robot Roz. A couple years ago I converted Roz from an Arbotix controller to a Beaglebone Black, so I could control it with python, but having a robot that runs an actual OS is kind of a pain. Now I should be able to convert it once again to us...

I actually prefer the transparent stencils for small boards (especially one-offs where you don't need to build a frame). You can actually see the pads through the material, so its much easier to align properly. A quick swipe with a razor blade of paste, and you're ready to place components. I've pro...

You can get a flexible transparent paste mask (stencil) made from a number of places, for a lot less. Lately I've been using https://www.oshstencils.com/ for that...

I have C code that implements via a finite state machine, a reflow oven controller here: https://github.com/dhylands/projects/tr ... eflow-oven

Its pretty simple, and it works great - I've built 100's of boards with my oven. Shouldn't be too hard to convert to python.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect its either (2^30) - 1 or (2^29)-1.

Large integers, like floats, require memory allocation.

One of my blog posts about NanoSeeker got onto hackaday.com today. It includes a link to micropython.org. So far today I've gotten 3500 page views, which is about 30-40x my normal volume - hopefully it will spark some more interest in MicroPython... http://hackaday.com/2014/10/25/a-compact-underwate...

So my new board came in yesterday, and last night I sat down and populated one. It appears to work, and best of all I can pair with the bluetooth module. http://www.huv.com/nanoSeeker/NanoSeeker_v21_PCB-small.jpg http://www.huv.com/nanoSeeker/NanoSeeker_v21-small.jpg You can see large versions of th...