[Karl] liked his mbed – a small bit ARM-powered microcontroller platform – however he desired an interactive programming environment. fundamental just wasn’t cutting it, so he chose to bring eLua to his mbed.
When selecting an interactive advancement atmosphere for microcontrollers, you typically have two choices: old or huge. Sure, there is a middle ground with Python on an ARM, however why not utilize something explicitly developed for microcontrollers?
To get eLua running on his mbed, [Karl] downloaded the most recent version as well as plopped it on his mbed. The present version, 0.9, doesn’t have support for an SD card, seriously limiting its usefulness. [Karl] got around this by wiring up an SD card to the mbed, providing him gigabytes of area for all his advancement work.
While the AVRs as well as PICs of the world are stuck with languages like C or worse, the new ARM boards offered are much more than capable of running a total eLua advancement environment, with whatever available with a terminal. [Karl] even composed his own editor for the mbed as well as he’ll soon be working on a few lots embedded jobs he has in mind.