[Microbit-Python] Play Simple Slalom

[Damien George]

Slalom and maze scripts have been added to the examples directory.

I got 13 on the slalom!

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Damien George
<damien.p.george at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> Thanks for the great feedback!  Just quickly to respond to a few points:
>
>> Finally, it'd be deluxe to be able to upload just the text payload, rather
>> than the entire firmware--that's speed things up immensely.  It looks like
>> the firmware format allows specifying the offset; could we emit a
>> supplemental firmware.hex that just overwrote the program text area but left
>> the actual Micropython alone?
>
> Yes, I think that would be possible.  Just make a standalone .hex with
> the script.  I didn't yet try it.  The show stopper would be that if
> the device erases all its flash pages before coping the .hex.  I don't
> know the details of how it works to know about this point.  I guess it
> just need experimenting!
>
> BTW, you will like tools/pyboard.py: it's a script that allows to
> download your own script to the microbit (from your PC) and execute
> it.  Eg:
>
> python3 ./tools/pyboard.py /dev/ttyACM0 my_microbit_program.py
>
> Caveats:
> - Since it uploads the script all at once there must be enough RAM to
> hold the script *and* to compile it.  For this reason large scripts
> won't work this way.
> - You may need to reset the microbit (using its reset button on the
> "back") between runs of pyboard.py (don't know why yet, probably due
> to memory issues again).
>
> Cheers,
> Damien.