On 2010-09-06, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > VGNU Linux, 06.09.2010 13:02: >> Can Python be used for embedded systems development ? > > It can and has been. > > What kind of embedded system with what set of capabilities are you thinking > about? TV sets? Mobile phones? Smart dust?
[The OP never showed up on my sever for some reason] If you google for "deeply embedded python", you'll find some raterh old links: http://tucs.fi/magazin/output.php?ID=2000.N2.LilDeEmPy http://groups.google.com/group/python-on-a-chip/web/list-of-small-python-implementations http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/1999-August/000157.html A few years ago I used Python on a prototype for a bicycle computer with GPS, four buttons, and a small LCD screen. It was more or less comparable to a PDA with Linux running on an 200MHz XScale with something like 16MB of flash and 32MB of SDRAM. IIRC, that project used OpenEmbedded, and all I had to do was build the Python package that's already there in OE. I don't remember if I was using PySDL or PyQt for the UI -- I remember experimenting with both on desktop hosts at the time. I don't think that product ever saw daylight. There was just now way they could have competed with Garmin. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
