[Haskell-cafe] Embedded haskell?

[Mike Meyer]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
> Another option would be to use Atom. I have successfully used it to
> target the arduino platform before. Running the entire OS on the
> embedded system seems dubious. Assuming you are using something the 9x
> family of transmitters -- they are slow and have very little internal
> memory. Plus trying to programming using a 6 buttons would be a royal
> pain. If you really want in-field programming, then you might at least
> using a raspberry pi with a small bluetooth keyboard and have it
> upload to the transmitter.

Atom does look interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

The target transmitter is the Walkera Devo line.  These have much more
capable CPUs than the various 9x boards: 32 bit ARMs at 72MHz with
comparable amounts of storage.  Some have 9x-like screen/button
combos, others have touch screens. The deviationTx software runs on
all of them.

Settings are stored in a FAT file system that can be accessed as a USB
drive. I'm thinking that a traditional configuration interface on the
transmitter, storing the config information as program text. The only
actual programming would be done by replacing the virtual
channel/switch feature with expressions or short programs.