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This post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the "Playing with Interrupts" thread that it was attached to, so I split it off into a separate thread.

Does the GPS have an option for an external antenna?

For the quadcopter, it probably doesn't make sense, but for a ground based vehicle, it does.

If the VBAT line is the only special line, then you could still use it in the Y position by using a jumper wire.

To the best of my knowledge the pyboards don't ship with the network firmware.

You need to flash an image from here:
http://micropython.org/download/

I ran: make build-PYBV10/py/parse.pp I missed such rule being present, but shouldn't it be build-PYBV10/py/parse.i ? It seems many build systems don't bother with it. I find it just useful enough to put it in. The rule is here: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/py/mkrules.mk#L4...

Hello. I am currently working on porting micropython to IAR Workbench environment. Naturally I encountered numerous errors, though I can't resolve all of them without help. For now I have a trouble understanding how parse.c and grammar.h works - DEF_RULE macro just blows my newbie mind. The error i...

What are you trying to accomplish by running multiple instances?

This is not currently possible (as micropython assumes that it owns the entire processor).

There is a pyb.elapsedMillis() that takes rollovers into consideration.
http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/l ... sed_millis

The original Macintosh (you know - the one with the 68000 and 128K of RAM) had a compacting heap. They did it by using double indirection. So instead of getting a pointer to an object, you got a pointer to a pointer to an object. They used a Master Table, which had all of the pointers to the objects...

So it turns out that the Cortex M4 has some DSP instructions:
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.js ... DIGAC.html
Look for table 3.2

I'm running linux as well (and I tried 1.3.5 and it seems to be fine).