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Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler?

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On 07/22/2018 03:26 AM, Joe wrote:

Joe, please forgive me that I forgot to click "Reply to list". I have NO 
valid excuse why I keep doing stupid things like that. :(

> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:15:12 -0400
> cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am getting the Elegoo Super Starter Kit (Arduino Uno R3) to tinker
>> with (it's on order as of when I'm writing this post).
>>
>> I looked in the Debian repos for stuff on Arduino and didn't find
>> much (at least not of interest to me).
>>
>> I did download the IDE from Elegoo and their tutorials and libraries.
>> But it's all in C/C++. While I do know C and C++ (to some extent),
>> I'm very bad at it (I admit to not using it very much, maybe once
>> every other blue moon and lately we haven't had any blue moons that
>> warranted using C).
>>
>> I recently been doing stuff in Python (especially for work, which is
>> not Arduino related in any way). I am really getting to like Python.
>> I have created my own Python Libraries for other things (again
>> unrelated) and even compiled them to .so (binary) using the 'cython'
>> compiler.
>>
>> While I could create C source of a Python script using cython, I
>> don't know how to compile the resulting C source and upload it to the
>> Arduino board. I would like to use gcc.
>>
>> Is there a cross-platform compiler for Arduino and gcc that anyone
>> has had experience with that works or they can recommend?
>>
>> Or some way to program in Python?
>>
> 
> 
> Sure if I was going there I wouldn't be after starting from here...
> 
> I've seen your later post, and you may indeed be overestimating what
> the Arduino can do, it's basically a very well developed ecosystem for
> a microcontroller, with lots of real-world interfaces available. Just
> for tinkering with electronics, it's fine.
> 
> If you're after a more powerful (i.e. PC-like) tinkering gadget, you
> might be better looking at the Raspberry Pi (Pi for Python) and the
> subsequent similar devices. More expensive than the Arduino, but still
> pretty cheap. The Pi runs more than one OS, but the Raspbian version of
> Debian is probably most widely-used. The Pi also has a great many
> interface devices available, and Python is the expected scripting
> language.

I will probably end up with one of those sooner or later. A friend as a 
Pi (I thought Pi meant 3.14...)

I keep hearing about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and always wondered what 
they were all about. So I chose to experiment with Arduino first. I know 
*nothing* about either at the moment. Still in the learning, Googling, 
asking stupid questions, etc. phase. :)

I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the 
WowWee RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully 
programmable computer and robot all in one.

I don't mind using C, but am pretty bad at it. Maybe this is the time to 
finally get better at it.

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Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 16:40 +0200
  Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-07-22 17:20 +0200
    Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:40 +0200
      Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-22 20:30 +0200
        Re: Arduino and Python or gcc compiler? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 22:50 +0200

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