mu editor
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 1:02 am
I am currently delivering tech education courses in a number or settings like schools, universities and council tech hubs. The courses are mainly robotics and programming and mainly for children between age 10 and 18 depending upon the course.
I want to do some micro-python stuff for high school kids on ESP32 as ESP32 is so cheap making it very affordable for me to give away the hardware at end of course for the kids to take home and keep.
I have done a little with some Adafruit boards using circuit-python and programmed using the mu editor which is a nice simple editor for kids to learn to use easily that is capable of running python live, downloading to the board and also has a serial terminal and plotter.
I am trying to use mu editor to program ESP32 board that has a wroom module at it's heart and I have installed this binary "esp32-idf3-20210202-v1.14.bin". When I start mu editor it detects micropython on esp32 connected and I can type code into the editor and hit run and it works correctly (I assume this uses put and paste mode of micropython) and I also can type in to the serial terminal at repl and it works but I am unable to download the .py file like "main.py" to the board with the mu editor.
I think it might because the ESP32 doesn't show up as external drive like the Adafruit boards did. Is there a binary for ESP32 that does mount as an external drive??
Does anyone here have experience with using mu editor on ESP32 or can suggest another IDE that would be good for teaching kids
I want to do some micro-python stuff for high school kids on ESP32 as ESP32 is so cheap making it very affordable for me to give away the hardware at end of course for the kids to take home and keep.
I have done a little with some Adafruit boards using circuit-python and programmed using the mu editor which is a nice simple editor for kids to learn to use easily that is capable of running python live, downloading to the board and also has a serial terminal and plotter.
I am trying to use mu editor to program ESP32 board that has a wroom module at it's heart and I have installed this binary "esp32-idf3-20210202-v1.14.bin". When I start mu editor it detects micropython on esp32 connected and I can type code into the editor and hit run and it works correctly (I assume this uses put and paste mode of micropython) and I also can type in to the serial terminal at repl and it works but I am unable to download the .py file like "main.py" to the board with the mu editor.
I think it might because the ESP32 doesn't show up as external drive like the Adafruit boards did. Is there a binary for ESP32 that does mount as an external drive??
Does anyone here have experience with using mu editor on ESP32 or can suggest another IDE that would be good for teaching kids