The standard ESP32 MicroPython port gets built for a generic ESP32 board. Compared to a generic board, pyBox has more to offer, most of which is not supported out of the box. Some of these additional features like the blue LED (GPIO 13), are easily accessible. Others, like the display need support libraries that would […]
Month: December 2022
pyBox Specification
Smallest viable MicroPython Computer? Dallas Semiconductor, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002, was a company that designed and manufactured analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductors. They had also designed the TINI board, a 68-pin SIMM, approximately 103 mm wide, 32mm tall, and 10 mm thick. Uniquely, the TINI board ran Java programs, well Java byte-code, almost natively. […]
Installing Java on macOS 13 Ventura
For some time now, Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that. As I’m writing this, Java 19.0.1 is the latest version and Adoptium is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries. Adoptium was known as AdoptOpenJDK, before the project was moved to the Eclipse Foundation. All available versions for supported platforms can be found here. […]
Introducing pyBox
Could there be a computer that is as nimble as it is useful, and still be fun and distinctly easy to program? pyBox, a small single-board computer, connected to a frugal 16×2 character display may be just that. pyBox is remarkably small, just about the size of a deck of cards, and also entirely transparent, […]