Pymakr... Time of Death : 09/02... ;-)

[mo-seph]

I'm looking at the LoPy for educational use, and having everything all together in Pymakr was quite useful - it becomes much harder if we have to support student's individual IDEs and strange setups. It's probably manageable though, if we come up with a single, cross platform supported solution.

The thing that is really tricky, though, is the FTP uploads, as they need to be done over the LoPy's wifi, and in a room with 20 LoPys that becomes really challenging. Is anything planned for doing file uploads over the USB serial?

[bucknall]

@mo-seph What we will likely do is have a pre-packaged IDE (likely Atom) that already has everything installed after you download it. This way you can just direct your students to navigate towards our software page and download everything you need pre-installed.

We're working on file upload over USB Serial, this is on the roadmap. In addition to this, the SSID that each device broadcasts will be written on the sticker on top of the LoPy (as well as the other devices) for the next production run of devices.

[mo-seph]

@bucknall Great! BTW - I have some feedback and suggestions for improvement on the boards. Where's the best place to send it?

[bucknall]

@mo-seph Is it specifically related to the hardware or firmware? I'm still working on streamlining the forum categories so might need a new one!

[exquisitus]

how come are these 4 the "most popular"? you gotta be kidding me...
eclipse and idea?

[mo-seph]

@bucknall hardware.

[bucknall]

@mo-seph I created this just for you https://forum.pycom.io/category/30/hardware ;-) Hope we can help resolve this!

[happyday]

This is the way to go. I use PyDev within the Eclipse environment. Do you see a plug in developed for this? (Thank you).

[Bajoja]

When a beta?
Anxious for a beta because Pymakr does not work here.

[TravisT]

I tend to like to plug in my board when doing a lot of development. So my tools are Atom and rshell. This is partly because I write on multiple processors and USB is the simple common denominator.
https://github.com/dhylands/rshell

[juriw]

Great news! We have had some problems with Pymakr and are looking forward to an Atom plugin! Where to look for the release of Atom plugin? Have tried to find the project on Github without any luck.

[bucknall]

Hi @juriw,

It is still under development but should be coming in the next month or so! I'll make sure to keep you updated!

[juriw]

@bucknall Sweet! :) Looking forward to working with it.

[Innocenzo]

@bucknall Very good news. There are some release dates?

[fos]

@danielm

Very interesting news. It is moving in a positive direction. Maybe you could update your "Getting Started" documentation.

I am using the WiPy 2.0 via telnet and a simple editor.

Are there any plans to support WingIDE?

Thank you,
v/r
Jeff

[bucknall]

Hi @fos,

We're just waiting for the first builds of the new plugins to arrive - however, we will put up a notice about Pymakr in the documentation to reflect this!

Right now we're looking to start with these 4 IDEs/Editors but we shall see going forward!

Will keep you updated!

Thanks,

Alex

[juriw]

@bucknall Have you thought about talking with Zerynth (https://www.zerynth.com/) about them integrating your boards? I think their IDE and environment looks really sleek!

[nextcloud]

Hi Alex,

Do you plan to support for editors open source software? The editors mentioned are either proprietary closed source software or in case of Atom editor - raise significant privacy concerns. From Wikipedia: 'Atom reports usage information to Google Analytics, including a unique UUID v4 random identifier.'

Thanks.

[bucknall]

Hi @nextcloud - We're definitely open for suggestions down the line. We're trying to hit these 4 specific editors as generally they are beginner friendly and allow anyone to get up & running quickly. Once these 4 are finished, we'll start looking into other editors that we can support.

If you have suggestions, feel free to share them here! If we know what the community want then we can help support you!

Thanks!

[jasonriedy]

@bucknall Same suggestion as previously: Command-line tools we can wrap from our preferred environment (e.g. Emacs, vi) and deployment chain.