MicroPython VS BIPES

Just putting my hand up to say that MicroPython is awesome (and runs on the RP2040). https://micropython.org

Gah, I just ordered one on impulse [1]. I've wanted to build out a WiFi PDA for quite some time now and I like this hardware.

I'm quite liking the idea of running tulip MicroPython [2] on it, or going back to pure MicroPython [3] and writing some drivers. Apparently something like ampy can be used to upload/download Python files [4].

Threads could be quite exciting for running multiple programs at once [5], although I have no idea what it means for two programs to fight over GPIO! It does seem as though MicroPython can only utilise a single core [6].

[1] https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck?variant=43087936487605

[2] https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc/tree/main/tulip/tdeck

[3] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro....

[4] https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/maker/projects/micropython-basi...

[5] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/_thread.html

[6] https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/8197

If you really want to engage in the travesty that is shoehorning a high level scripting language into an environment that has 512 bytes of RAM and less clock cycles than an electric toothbrush, there is micropython.

There is some work to implement a common CAN interface in micropython but it's some way off yet: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/13149

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/ links to a PDF about connecting to the interwebs with a pi pico.

micropython/micropython//ports/rp2/boards/RPI_PICO_W: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/ports...

raspberrypi/pico-sdk /lib: btstack, cyw43-driver, lwip, mbedtls, tinyusb https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/tree/master/lib

raspberrypi/pico-examples//pico_w/wifi/access_point/picow_access_point.c:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/blob/master/pic...

There's an iperf opkg pkg, or is it just netperf (which works with fluent)?

raspberrypi/pico-examples//pico_w/wifi/iperf/picow_iperf.c:

Needed for hobby project, maintained by very small team. Haven't decided on specific microcontroller. Needed for general bit-banging, speed and code size are not priorities.

So far have considered MicroPython [0] [1] and Lua [2] [3], but open for suggestions for others.

What are experiences?

[0] https://micropython.org/

Python is also a general-purpose programming language. It's typically used on desktop / laptop computers. But Micropython is a variant that can be used to program embedded devices.

Hey u/okayElectronics , if I embed wokwi inside an iFrame, is there a way "API" to control it? For example, getting the serialized project or load a project to be parsed? I wish to integrate it with BIPES, so one could both use wokwi to simulate the circuit and program the actual board through the browser (using serial, tcp/ip or bluetooth (MicroPython)).

I have a WebBluetooth implementation channel.js (docs), webbluetooth class. It communicates with a terminal (xterm.js), but you could adapt to interpreter the message at line 697 and calling the gmaps API. Note: It comes in chunks, not complete line, so watch for "\n" to find the end of each packet.

If you need some visual help with MicroPython, you can try the web based BIPES ide (opensource, source). What you want to do look will look like this there (I made a silly tutorial to illustrate).

With this in mind, BIPES is a fully open source IDE (sourcecode), that tries to ease the (self) teaching of control theory by providing an all-in-one solution with sketching (both visual and scripting programming) and plotting, connecting to any MicroPython device via Serial, Bluetooth or TCP/IP, like the ESP32.

A full working demo is available at bipes.net.br/beta2/ui, the code at github.com/BIPES/BIPES and documentation at bipes.net.br/docs (generated with sphinx).