[Microbit-Python] Current state of play - a summary and straw man

[Damien George]

In response to "regarding MIDI": yes I've implemented UART recently
and I just checked that it supports 31250 baud, 8n1.  So it would be
pretty trivial to write MIDI in and out code directly in Python right
now.  Eg:

from microbit import *
uart.init(31250, pins=(pin0, pin1)) # setup uart, tx=pin0, rx=pin1
uart.write(b'\x90\x10\x25') # note on
cmd = uart.read(3) # read whole command

A caveat: there is only 1 uart on the nrf51 and so configuring it to
go to pins 0 and 1 (tx,rx respectively) disables the REPL.

I don't have any midi devices so someone else will need to pick up the
ball on this if it is to proceed further.

Regarding MIDI USB: we would need help from ARM to do that, since they
'd have to write the code for the freescale host chip.


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/13/2015 04:46 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
>
> On 13/10/15 12:44, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> The C API is documented on my Bitbucket page, and the Python API won't
> be very different.  I also describe the problems the objects are meant
> to solve.  Is that sufficient for now?
>
> URL..? (I did try https://bitbucket.org/larryhastings/ but get a 404 and
> I presume your repos is private anyway!)
>
>
> It's public--hidden in plain sight.  Here's the URL, posted to the list for
> the third time.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/larry/microbit_game
>
>
> /arry
>
> _______________________________________________
> Microbit mailing list
> Microbit at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/microbit
>