in reply to I failed today

I failed to convince my team at work to use Perl instead of Python

Python does seem to be getting everywhere...

The Raspberry Pi Pico doesn't have Perl, and all the API documentation for OpenAI uses Python - the two things I have been trying to work with recently...

For a brief moment, I even considered learning some Python for these two purposes but I quickly came to my senses and wrote a Perl module to do what I wanted with OpenAI. The Pico will be more of a challenge!

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Re^2: I failed today
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 27, 2023 at 10:54 UTC

    I’ve also picked up several pico based devices (Adafruit has a neat usb dongle with a couple rgb leds and some capacitive pads for buttons that’s about 6$) and yes they’re all micropython or some flavour thereof. Basically all it runs is a python interp (as opposed to an RPi that’s got a Linux kernel and env); someone with arduino or other µcontroller experience might could look at porting but given the resource constraints of the hardware I don’t think Perl is going to fit well (primarily RAM limits would be my fear).

    Edit: not strictly a pico (but runs circuitpython) and it’s 7$ but https://www.adafruit.com/product/4870 if anyone is interested. Also note there’s all of 32K of ram on this thing.

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      I've not bothered buying a Pico because they do not run Perl...

      But I've been mighty tempted as getting hold of a Pi Zero W here in the UK is pretty much impossible. Although there are signs of a few supplies emerging.

      I might have to look to one of the other little devices that are around in increasing variations!

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        Take a gander at rpilocator.com; using it I've managed to grab a couple zeros (but still watching for some Cm4s to populate a little mini cluster) and as I type looks like several places us an EU have gotten batches.

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