Makers, developers and hobbyists that enjoy building electronic projects might be interested in a new JavaScript development board called the Espruino Pico which takes the form of a USB key and can be integrated into projects quickly and easily.
The Espruino Pico is a tiny micro controller board that has been specifically designed to run JavaScript and comes with everything you need preinstalled, allowing it to be used from virtually any device with a USB port.
Gordon Williams based in the UK is responsible for the creation and development of the tiny Espruino Pico JavaScript development board which measures just 32mm x 15mm and can run for over 10 years on a single AA-sized 3v lithium cell. Williams explains a little more about the new board.
“This is the first time you’ve been able to get a scripting language in such a small package, and it opens a whole world of possibilities. Rather than just writing code, deploying it to a board and hoping it works, you can now interact with the hardware directly – querying and changing voltage levels and interacting with external components until you get everything just as you want it.
This is all made possible by the Espruino firmware, which is so compact that it can fit inside a single chip – reducing power consumption, cost, and size.”
Features include :
– 22 GPIO pins : 9 Analogs inputs, 21 PWM, 2 Serial, 3 SPI, 3 I2C
– All GPIO is 5 volt tolerant (Arduino compatible)
– 2 rows of 8 pins, with 12 pins on double-sided end connector
– On-board USB Type A connector
– STM32F401 CPU – ARM Cortex M4, 256kb flash, 64kb RAM
– On-board 3.3v 150mA voltage regulator, accepts voltages from 3.5v to 20v
– Current draw in sleep: <0.1mA – over 2.5 years on a 2500mAh battery
For more information on the new Espruino Pico javascript board jump over to the Kickstarter website for details via the link below.
Source: Kickstarter
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