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Thanks! Yes, one of the major design motivations wasn't so much to make a phone, but to make a nicely packaged device hackers can use at the hardware level for

Thanks! Yes, one of the major design motivations wasn't so much to make a phone, but to make a nicely packaged device hackers can use at the hardware level for other purposes (we are practically locked out of modern phones for a variety of reasons). Apps: The end goal is to embed a Python interpreter in the firmware, and then it would be a matter of interacting with an API in Python. Right now it's C++. I'm not sure what you mean by "connect an API for a smartphone to an Arduino". Do you mean: What does the plumbing look like between the code that calls the API and some physical pin?

saagarjha 8y ago
Can Arduino run Python? Seems a bit heavyweight for an embedded system like the ESP32…
- catherd 8y ago
  The ESP32 can run something like MicroPython or CircuitPython.
neltnerb 8y ago
Yeah, I think I meant the plumbing in the sense of providing simple ways to create and draw a UI and call functions when actions are carried out. It sounds like python and perhaps FreeRTOS? I've never programmed Android or iOS, only embedded systems, so even FreeRTOS is getting a little high level for me. My question might be phrased extremely poorly. I mostly ask because in my experience writing graphics drivers for LCD displays by hand is that it is very hard and slow to run, last time I had to make a touchscreen interface it was like writing in QBasic again the functionality was so primitive. Seconds of lag because of the serial interface and all.