This sounds a lot like the WiPy from Pycom … Not sure what they’re using under 
the micropython interpreter though.

dg

> On Jun 9, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sterling Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> On 8 Jun 2016, at 10:35, Wayne Keenan wrote:
> 
>> On 8 June 2016 at 17:14, David Moshal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> David you make good points, though I have to say, sadly, that serial
>>> vs JTag is the least of MyNewt's worries when it comes to targeting
>>> the Maker market, if indeed that is your target market. Just saying.
>>> 
>>> I'm happy to explain that statement further if anyone is interested.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to hear more please, it's very relevant to aspects of my mission
>> at the moment...
>> 
>> To make things simpler for the Maker market I have a MicroPython prototype
>> up and running on MyNewt.   It comes with a couple of Python modules for
>> accessing GPIO (very basic) and configuring BLE (support for:  uuid16 or
>> uuid128 bit GATT Services/Characteristics and Eddystone beacons) it also
>> has a simple Python 'single line eval' (a not yet multiline indentation
>> tolerant REPL) on serial.
>> 
> 
> That’s awesome!! Anyway I can play with this?
> 
>> So from this perspective the only thing to flash might be the text of a
>> Python Script in part of a flash filesystem, but, I'd still like to be able
>> to upgrade the MicroPython 'app' using a boot loader that was always
>> present for app recovery/reflashing.
>> 
> 
> Absolutely.  Depending on what board you’re targeting, I imagine the Python 
> scripts would either be a file, or just a flash blob.  The host OS image 
> should be separately upgradable.
> 
> Sterling

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