> Project Sun SPOT (mirror at http://www.sunspotdev.org/ ) was exactly for such > a scenario
thanks, I did not know about that project. what happened to it? There is another platform I used 20 years ago: Parallax Basic Stamp. Not sure what happened to that either. David On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 1:09 PM, David G. Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 28, 2016, at 3:57 PM, David Moshal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know of any other embedded platform capable of supporting that >> use case, or that abuse, do you? >> I mean, that's literally the ultimate newbie scenario - completely new >> to programming! > > Project Sun SPOT (mirror at http://www.sunspotdev.org/ ) was exactly for such > a scenario. With the NetBeans IDE and plugins for Sun SPOT development on > NetBeans that enabled code-completion, and in-line help, plus tutorials, we > had lots of kids developing on Sun SPOTs. Search for ‘spaughts’ on YouTube > for a bunch of fun videos of stuff people did with them. > > dg > -- > David G. Simmons > (919) 534-5099 > Web • Blog • Linkedin • Twitter • GitHub > /** Message digitally signed for security and authenticity. > * If you cannot read the PGP.sig attachment, please go to > * http://www.gnupg.com/ Secure your email!!! > * Public key available at keyserver.pgp.com > **/ > ♺ This email uses 100% recycled electrons. Don't blow it by printing! > > There are only 2 hard things in computer science: Cache invalidation, naming > things, and off-by-one errors. > >
