micropython-ulab VS microkeys

Hi guys, So I'm trying to program a Mikrobus rp2040 with PyCharm and I can run some basic code with it. What I need help with is installing the ulab for the numpy-like array operations that I need for my project. I tried all the instructions there, I'm not very experienced with manual installation of these libraries.

https://freertos.org/ for example is a popular OS, that has realtime capabilities and fits in 9KB of RAM. https://micropython.org is basically a µC OS too, understands Python 3 Syntax and works with 16KB of RAM already. It might appear more convoluted at first, but you can get it to be real-time too by following the same principles as in any RTOS (react to stuff by means of ISR, allocate memory only initially and then work in place to prevent fragmentation, switch of GC and so on). Image processing is just linear algebra for the most part, and there's even an Numpy equivalent available to crunch that. There are also two decorators in Micropython that allow for compilation for most of the Python syntax, which would work for stuff that can not be written down in a vectorized way.

Has anyone of you managed to install a micropython version with ulab for your esp32? I tried the procedure on the ulab github but without any succes. When I try it stops at sth like: "no submodule. stop."

or if you want simpler, faster to implement and faster to compute, try micropython-ulab

Or maybe youre doing data science?

I wrote MicroKeys[1] out of a similar frustration. Granted, I never got past the POC stage, so it's not as feature rich as AHK, but it solved a very specific itch I had. I debate if I should flesh it out further, or try using AHK again.

[1] https://github.com/seligman/microkeys

And with a little bit of coercing, it can be used the other way: To embed Python in Desktop apps giving you a fairly light-weight Python interpreter.

I used it for a little Windows macro program ( https://github.com/seligman/microkeys ) . I got it to a POC stage to solve the precise problem I have, basically I needed to be able to do some simple text parsing on whatever's in the clipboard and type out the results, so I'm happy. I'm always curious if it potentially fills a need for others as well.

I'll join in:

I'm building a tool called MicroKeys. It's a macro program, for Windows right now. It uses MicroPython as the script engine to let you register hot keys that do things. It's very much a work in progress right now.

I'm writing it to fill a very specific niche I have, but if it's useful to others, I'd love to hear feedback on what it could do to be better to help it come to fruition.

https://github.com/seligman/microkeys

I'll be working to progress MicroKeys, my Windows MicroPython based macro program. It's ready for others to play with, if barely, but I do need to work on how it handles exceptions, and improve the debugging experience a bit.

I'll be working on progressing my MicroKeys project, a way to create macros for Windows and declare them using Python.

For a while I've been working on a little pet project, MicroKeys. It's a Windows app that embeds MicroPython, allowing the user to create macros that run Python functions in response to keys. The GIF on the readme shows the basic idea, when I hit Alt-Z, it runs the function and types out the result.