On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 21:26:26 +0800 Ben Coman btc@openinworld.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:37 AM, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
And now I have my ESP8266 with DHT22 temp/humidity sensor publishing ok. Arduino c++ is really quite an amazingly unpleasant language. We need Smalltalk on these things!
How small could we conceivably make the VM to fit on one of these...? https://www.arduino.cc/en/Products/Compare
Perhaps by upgrading to a better chip? https://getchip.com/pages/chip https://getchip.com/pages/chippro
Lower left of monitor (used $7) is a C.H.I.P. computer ($9) with VGA ($10) plug-in. With $10 keyboard and used mouse, the most expensive parts were the USB hub and connectors. Running Cuis Smalltalk on Linux (https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev) but you could possibly run Squeak.
A bit slow. Kinda like going back to the 90's. but a much more comfortable hobbyist/DYI/maker sw development environment.
Note that the Cuis core development image has less than 500 classes, and you can shrink from that.
If you run the old (pre-spur) VM and don't need Unicode, you can make a pretty light-weight image.
$0.02, -KenD
