Smallest/cheapest possible Python platform?

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On May 26, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Roy Smith  <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>> What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run 
>> Python on today?
> 
> Not counting the Rasberry Pi, then probably a wireless router or one of
> those cheap media streaming boxes running custom firmware.
> 
>> Performance requirements are minimal.  I need to monitor a few switches, 
>> control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 
>> minute period to 1/10th second accuracy.  Nice-to-have (but not 
>> essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 
>> words.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think any of these devices would have the GPIO
> pins you'd want for such a project.
> 
>> The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available 
>> today.  Can you run Python on an Arduino?  Things like 
>> http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are 
>> more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget.
> 
> The Arduino uses an 8-bit micro-controller, so probably not.  (The ARM
> emulator based port of Linux probably doesn't meet your performance
> requirements.)
> 
> I think you may need to either wait for the Rasberry Pi to become
> generally available or increase your budget.  You should also consider
> whether any of these devices have Python bindings to interface with
> their GPIO pins.  If not you'll probably have to end up writing some C
> code anyways.
> 
>                    Ross Ridge
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