On 07/22/2018 03:26 AM, Joe wrote:
Joe, please forgive me that I forgot to click "Reply to list". I have NO
valid excuse why I keep doing stupid things like that. :(
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:15:12 -0400
cyaiplexys <cyaiple...@sitesplace.net> wrote:
I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker
with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post).
I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find
much (at least not of interest to me).
I did download the IDE from Elegoo and their tutorials and libraries.
But it's all in C/C++. While I do know C and C++ (to some extent),
I'm very bad at it (I admit to not using it very much, maybe once
every other blue moon and lately we haven't had any blue moons that
warranted using C).
I recently been doing stuff in Python (especially for work, which is
not Arduino related in any way). I am really getting to like Python.
I have created my own Python Libraries for other things (again
unrelated) and even compiled them to .so (binary) using the 'cython'
compiler.
While I could create C source of a Python script using cython, I
don't know how to compile the resulting C source and upload it to the
Arduino board. I would like to use gcc.
Is there a cross-platform compiler for Arduino and gcc that anyone
has had experience with that works or they can recommend?
Or some way to program in Python?
Sure if I was going there I wouldn't be after starting from here...
I've seen your later post, and you may indeed be overestimating what
the Arduino can do, it's basically a very well developed ecosystem for
a microcontroller, with lots of real-world interfaces available. Just
for tinkering with electronics, it's fine.
If you're after a more powerful (i.e. PC-like) tinkering gadget, you
might be better looking at the Raspberry Pi (Pi for Python) and the
subsequent similar devices. More expensive than the Arduino, but still
pretty cheap. The Pi runs more than one OS, but the Raspbian version of
Debian is probably most widely-used. The Pi also has a great many
interface devices available, and Python is the expected scripting
language.
I will probably end up with one of those sooner or later. A friend as a
Pi (I thought Pi meant 3.14...)
I keep hearing about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and always wondered what
they were all about. So I chose to experiment with Arduino first. I know
*nothing* about either at the moment. Still in the learning, Googling,
asking stupid questions, etc. phase. :)
I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the
WowWee RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully
programmable computer and robot all in one.
I don't mind using C, but am pretty bad at it. Maybe this is the time to
finally get better at it.
