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GAME CHANGER. sorry for caps but this is huge. I have used arduino heavily but I can tell you it has its specifics and a universally accepted language with nice syntax like python will generate a massive uptick in projects and creativity.

That being said I would love to contribute.

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Do you know the eLua Project? It might also correspond to what you want.

http://www.eluaproject.net/

interesting thanks

I like it too! It sure beats running Javascript or Basic. That said, this board is pretty fast to begin with - 168MHz, so its not like they run this on an Arduino Uno.

I have some projects that run off batteries and must be low-power, so I'd really love to have a low-power Lua stack running on much more constrained hardware than this thing.

Edit 1: and along comes eLua. Thx!

Edit 2: in case anyone wondered, eLua requires least 256k of Flash and at least 64k of RAM

I fail to see how it is any different from Forth, Basic and Pascal offerings for micro-controllers that we have since the early 90's.

The only thing that failed in those controllers was to get the market Arduino was able to.

Basic has been an easy language but python has dominance. This is key, for one reason another be it timing, era headlines IDK they never got the traction python did.

The language is key and if someone can plug it in and per-se "not be afraid" to hack as many are I think its a big deal.

Energy is an issue - sure, but its v1 and a nice processor.

I'm very excited about this.

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