On Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:34:19 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project. > > Performance requirements are minimal. I need to monitor a few switches, > control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 > minute period to 1/10th second accuracy. Nice-to-have (but not > essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 > words. > You might take a look at the work being done by Dean Hall (with others) on the python-on-a-chip project: http://code.google.com/p/python-on-a-chip/
Many platforms have been ported to, including Arduino Mega, RedBee EconoTAG, Teensy++ 2.0, Microchip PIC24/dsPIC, among others This route may be more work than others, but considering budget may be attractive. > The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available > today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? Things like > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are > more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget. On Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:34:19 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project. > > Performance requirements are minimal. I need to monitor a few switches, > control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 > minute period to 1/10th second accuracy. Nice-to-have (but not > essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 > words. > > The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available > today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? Things like > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are > more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget. On Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:34:19 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project. > > Performance requirements are minimal. I need to monitor a few switches, > control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 > minute period to 1/10th second accuracy. Nice-to-have (but not > essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 > words. > > The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available > today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? Things like > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are > more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget. On Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:34:19 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project. > > Performance requirements are minimal. I need to monitor a few switches, > control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 > minute period to 1/10th second accuracy. Nice-to-have (but not > essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 > words. > > The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available > today. Can you run Python on an Arduino? Things like > http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are > more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
