Develop strategy for beginning to work with hardware

[vkottler]

There are two classes of hardware that can be interacted with:

• microcontroller development kits (Arduino, Raspberry Pi Pico, dozens of others)
• single-board Linux computers (Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc.)

We ideally come up with workflows for both.

Tasks

• determine if WSL can interact directly with a Beaglebone
• some kind of deploy / automation for running code or communicating with the Beaglebone
• Look into tooling for Raspberry Pi Pico and other hardware

[vkottler]

It might make more sense to just continue work on: https://github.com/vkottler/console/issues/4

[vkottler]

Need to look into MicroPython and CircuitPython (and whatever else the XAIO RP2040 supports?).

Taking some notes here: https://github.com/project-81/workspace/wiki/Sensors-and-Electronics-Brainstorming

[vkottler]

https://github.com/compuphase/Black-Magic-Probe-Book

[vkottler]

https://wiki.segger.com/Raspberry_Pi_RP2040

[vkottler]

Need to try building https://github.com/neovim/neovim from source on the Pi 2's, need to see if we need to do this on the 3 as well.

[vkottler]

Was able to build neovim on all of the pi's. next would be to try out bootstrapping on the BeagleBone boards. Need to get some more SD cards for that

[vkottler]

Look into a setup where we can provision via command-line https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/tree/qml#telemetry

[vkottler]

We should experiment with: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen

See if we can get certain things pre-built into the distro. looks like Raspberry Pi Zero is crashing when trying to compile neovim

[vkottler]

After installing neovim (whether built from source or not), we should run plug install

[vkottler]

We want to get neopixels working on the pico with this: https://github.com/blaz-r/pi_pico_neopixel/tree/main

[vkottler]

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/rp2/quickref.html#neopixel-and-apa106-driver wondering if the "neopixel" is the same thing as the LEDs on the LED strip(s)

[vkottler]

need to read more about the PIO module

[vkottler]

Would be neat to use Python to figure out some ELF parsing and manipulation.

Need to look into the C ABI as well, it would be cool to be able to generate instructions / functions from Python (or even just C code that needs to be compiled)

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0013/d/Application-Binary-Interfaces

[vkottler]

Might be a good time to start working with Rust?

[vkottler]

Got Rust installed via the bootstrapping stuff.

[vkottler]

Need to look into how to get micropython files to be saved in flash / run on boot. We have a script to reboot to bootloader from the Python which is pretty legit

[vkottler]

Overall made a massive amount of progress. Defer the rest of things to:

• https://github.com/project-81/workspace/issues/19
• https://github.com/project-81/workspace/issues/18
• https://github.com/project-81/workspace/issues/17