07-11-2016, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2016, 05:03 PM by MarkHaysHarris777.)
The micropython (PYBv1.0 STM32F405RG pictured above) is an excellent peripheral plug-in for your PineA64 board. This little jewel has Python3 running on the bare-metal; has built-in accelerometer, ADC, DAC, i2c, SPI, pwm GPIO and even with all the header pins I've installed on mine, weighs in at a whopping 10g. It is being powered by the usb here, and can be programmed in three ways (onboard, on PineA64, on serial console !).
I have the pyboard powered up here via the 5v rail on the PineA64 ! I plan to use this board as the low lever controller (will have three of them) for my quad drone. But this little board makes an excellent low level controller for the PineA64 too, freeing up the PineA64 for analytics; while the MicroPython micro-controller handles the real-time critical low level stuff...
marcus