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My Pico W powered capsule will celebrate its first birthday soon
Feb 11 · 3 months ago · 👍 skyjake, lykso, norayr, fab, aRubes, johano, numb3r_station, nonausami, CitySlicker · 🤘 1 ❤ 1
👤 AnoikisNomads · Feb 11 at 14:51:
oh neat! what do you use as gemini server? do you have ny practical numbers on power consumption?
Also, I suspect the pico is online 24/7, or did you figure out a clever way to wake it up when there is a request?
😈 dimkr [OP] · Feb 11 at 17:37:
@AnoikisNomads It runs a very simple server written in Python, 24/7, and I have no idea about power consumption
🚀 numb3r_station · Feb 11 at 20:02:
that's super cool :) I wonder since Gemini is so lightweight if we could have autonomous capsule in remote location with solar panels and sim card
A Gemini capsule on an ARM Cortex-M0+? That sounds really cool, congratulations!
Mine runs on an Orange Pi Zero. Not nearly as impressive, but Gemini was a nice usecase for it.
😈 dimkr [OP] · Feb 12 at 09:17:
@xavi Previously the same capsule ran on an ESP32, but I wanted to go smaller :)
🚀 nonausami · Feb 12 at 19:41:
I am kind of imagining that I will get around writing my own for the rp2040 someday soon (on freeRTOS) as i really like that setup.
👤 AnoikisNomads · Feb 12 at 20:36:
@dimkr is the python code online somewhere? I'm curious :)
😈 dimkr [OP] · Feb 13 at 06:20:
@AnoikisNomads There's a link at the bottom of my capsule, gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com
👤 AnoikisNomads · Feb 13 at 19:28:
sweet! thanks a ton. that's not a lot of code :D
on power consumption there is famous research and according to it, go, pascal, c are the best, and python and perl are worst, i think tcl and some others too were at the end.
so to me it's a pity when something is written in python and not in go. especially it is interesting why such choice was made when the author wrote incredible software in go. (:
— article about the research which features the table.
😈 dimkr [OP] · Feb 17 at 13:50:
@norayr Pico W can run C code written against the SDK, or Python code on top of MicroPython. Go is not an option. When I wrote this server, the Pico W was still new and the SDK was hard to work with. And I think Python is better from the educational perspective, many students (+ many Pi users) start with Python (or learn only Python), so open-source Python code is in some ways more "open" compared to C.