Esp8266 is the super cheap chip which can run Micropython. You can buy it on Amazon for as little as €8 or less, and as little as $5 or less on Bangood/AliExpress. The ESP8266 (ESP-12E spec) has a 4MB Flash RAM and about 96KB of RAM. One nice thing is you can use an async …
UPDATED and BUGFIXED! MicroPython Repl command line is very nice, because you can telnet to the chip and read-and-evaluate python code. It is a great way of learning embedded IoT. The bad thing you cannot copy file while it is running, so experimenting get bad. Also an automatic module update would be a very nice thing to …
After months of esp8266 experimentation, I “just” discovered this little chip has also a I2S Audio digital interface. To discover it you must install the Arduino IDE adapter and code directly in C++ (brr, ok not a breeze but not boring like Java :) I2S is a digital protocol to send your digital music to …
Arduino is a great hardware for a lot of reason: easy to use, difficulto to break, it is a very solid 5-Volt board. But it a way too much and it has a very limited amount of RAM. So I started exploring other more “different” solutions. I need an economy chip with some RAM …
