Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by paulg » Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:02 pm

I really appreciate MicroPython and would like to support the project. However, having chosen the ESP32 platform, I do not need to purchase a pboard or accessory at this time. How about adding a "Donate" item to the official store? This would give people such as myself a way to contribute. It would be nice if a short message could be sent with the donation, possibly to indicate a (non-binding) preference for what the donation is to be used for.

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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by rcolistete » Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:58 am

Pyboard D has many advantages with respect to ESP32, so it is worth to have at least 1 or 2 Pyboard D + accessories to compare with other microcontrollers (ESP8266, ESP32, etc).

A "Donation button" is also ok.
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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by P@T » Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:06 pm

Hi all,

why micropython on a RPi zero ?
To not have the layer raspbian ?

thx

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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by Kip » Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:28 pm

P@T wrote:Hi all,

why micropython on a RPi zero ?
To not have the layer raspbian ?

thx
I was also interested and found this; https://github.com/boochow/micropython-raspberrypi/

Looking a the ref; https://github.com/boochow/micropython- ... icroPython

It looks like the pi zero would have a very different use case to the Pyboard. No ADCs or DACs is a problem for me, for instance.

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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by pythoncoder » Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:46 pm

P@T wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:06 pm
...why micropython on a RPi zero ?
To not have the layer raspbian ?...
Bare metal ports are generally much faster. Interrupt latency might be ~10μs rather than ~800μs. Most OS's have a pre-emptive scheduler which grabs chunks of time at will, so program execution is not deterministic. This matters in some applications.
No ADCs or DACs is a problem for me, for instance.
You can get breakout boards with converters. But I'd go for a Pyboard in preference if I needed them.
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Re: Would a pyboard purchase support the project?

Post by BricoMs » Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:47 pm

You can also donate on the github repo.

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