[Microbit-Python] Creating Hex File from Mu?

[Jonathan Austin]

On 1 Nov 2016, at 16:17, David Whale <david at thinkingbinaries.com<mailto:david at thinkingbinaries.com>> wrote:


Yes just leave micro bit unplugged and when it says 'find microbit' just navigate to the folder to save it. It will create a local micropython.hex that is the file that would have been flashed.


Admittedly this is a valid workaround, but I wonder if it might be more useful to have a “save as” style
dialogue where you can choose ‘hex’ or ‘python’ ? The nice thing about saving hex is that you know that file
will work - I recently had to go and fetch an older version of Mu in order to build a python file that had
previously built but was now running out of memory.

Jonny

David

On 1 Nov 2016 3:46 pm, "Nevil Hunt" <nevil.hunt at hotmail.co.uk<mailto:nevil.hunt at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to generate a Hex file from Mu, rather than just downloading it directly?


The reason why I'm asking is that once I've finished a program I like to keep the Hex file so I can quickly reload it without access to Mu.

I've been doing this by developing in Mu but once complete copying-and-pasting into the Web Python Editor to generate the final Hex.

I've now just started using the Radio module and the Web tool doesn't yet support Radio!


Alternatively is there a way to read the Hex file off a micro:bit? Then I could program using Mu and save the final Hex file by reading it back from the micro:bit.



Cheers,


Nevil

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