JavaScript on Microcontrollers

A presentation at HalfStack Vienna in September 2019 in Vienna, Austria by Niels Leenheer

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I am Niels Leenheer HALFSTACK VIENNA

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I’m from The Netherlands HALFSTACK VIENNA

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I tweet at @html5test HALFSTACK VIENNA

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I the web HALFSTACK VIENNA

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I electronics HALFSTACK VIENNA

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Why should I care about this? HALFSTACK VIENNA

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electronics + web = HALFSTACK VIENNA IoT

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JavaScript on Microcontrollers HALFSTACK VIENNA

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but HALFSTACK VIENNA

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sloooo Microcontrollers are slow. HALFSTACK VIENNA

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

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micro:bit 16 MHz CPU and 16KB RAM HALFSTACK VIENNA

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60 x faster HALFSTACK VIENNA

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30.000 x memory HALFSTACK VIENNA

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

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Microcontrollers are very power efficient. HALFSTACK VIENNA

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

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

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how HALFSTACK VIENNA

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Espruino HALFSTACK VIENNA

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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers. HALFSTACK VIENNA

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demo HALFSTACK VIENNA

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Experimental technology HALFSTACK VIENNA

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