Could there be an effective computer for students that are REALLY on a budget?

At some point during my last high school years, I caught the computer bug, and I couldn’t stay away from programmable devices.  Late-afternoon bus rides back to the city, followed by 20-minute walks to the local university, finding an unlocked door, sneaking in, trying to look a little older, and finally finding an unattended terminal […]

Programming pyBox

Probably the easiest way to develop software for pyBox and iterate reasonably fast, is using the PyCharm IDE with the MicroPython plugin enabled. Create a new project, enable MircoPython and create three files: boot.py, main.py, and app.py. Remember, during the boot process, once the filesystem is mounted, boot.py is executed. Don’t do too crazy things […]

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. […]