[Snek] Is EV3 port of Snek a good idea?
Mikhail Gusarov
dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Thu Jan 23 13:36:52 PST 2020
Hi.
I've got Lego EV3 brick lying around
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_EV3).
It's got enough hardware to run full Linux, but I haven't found a good
interactive development
environment that is not a dead-end for learning how to code.
Now I wonder whether it makes sense to make Snek run on it.
- it's got some hw configurability: sensors/motors can be plugged into
the ports, but the
detection is pretty good, everything needed is available in /sys, so
the configuration of
available sensors can be done on startup.
- It's got USB and Bluetooth, and fw already provides USB-CDC and
Bluetooth PAN setup, so there is IP
networking.
- It's got LCD screen , so I suppose I could add several functions like
8-bit BASIC-era for text printing,
for drawing dots and lines on the screen.
What's the best way to interact with running Snek in this environment? I
can start it from UI, should it
open a listening socket and wait for snekde to connect to it?
Best,
Misha.
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