JavaScript on Microcontrollers

A presentation at HalfStack New York in August 2019 in New York, NY, USA by Niels Leenheer

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JavaScript on Microcontrollers HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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I am Niels Leenheer HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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I’m from The Netherlands HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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I tweet at @html5test HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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I the web HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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I electronics HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Why should I care about this? HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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electronics + web = HALFSTACK NEW YORK IoT

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JavaScript on Microcontrollers HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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but HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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sloooo Microcontrollers are slow. HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Raspberry Pi Zero W 1 GHz CPU and 512MB RAM HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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micro:bit 16 MHz CPU and 16KB RAM HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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60 x faster HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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30.000 x memory HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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“ JavaScript on microcontrollers? Are you crazy? Me – two years ago HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Microcontrollers are very power efficient. HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Microcontrollers only need to be fast enough to solve the probem. HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Microcontrollers do not have an need 45 operating seconds tosystem. boot. HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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how HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Espruino HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers. HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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demo HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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Experimental technology HALFSTACK NEW YORK

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