Raoul Duke wrote:
hi,
I'm curious to know how folks have fared in attempting to get things
onto sundry embedded systems. E.g there are inexpensive-but-limited
things like the Parallax Propeller which would be possibly neat to
program via something like Termite.
You should probably describe more precisely what you want to do.
From what I read, the Parallax Propeller currently has 2KiB (512 32-bit
words) of per-core memory, and 32KiB of global RAM which, if I
understand correctly, is not directly executable by the cpu. (The next
version of the Propeller is said to get 256KiB of global RAM.) This
directly leads to two conclusions:
Think of termite and ant colonies, and bee hives. Intelligence seems
to arise from dumb little insects sharing smells with each other. So
too you can create intelligence with a vast army of "termites" with
Scheme running on a mini-itx or other single-board computer playing the
"mother-ship" role. Of course, each object is simple so you can
effectively model the system before building any hardware.