Is there a way to make the Puck more resilient to programming errors when running for a long time? Automatic reboot?

Hi,

You can use http://www.espruino.com/FlashEEPROM to write data to flash memory, so data can be kept even after reset.

There is a proper hardware watchdog timer in most microcontrollers that you can use as well - once set up, if it's not called every so often then it'll reset the device.

Espruino has two modes - one is automatic (if the interpreter doesn't return to the 'idle' state then it'll reboot), and the other requires you to manually 'kick' it:

E.enableWatchdog(0.5); // automatic mode                                                        
while(1); // Espruino will reboot because it has not been idle for 0.5 sec

E.enableWatchdog(1, false);                                                         
setInterval(function() {
  if (everything_ok)
    E.kickWatchdog();
}, 500);
/* Espruino will now reset if everything_ok is false,
or if the interval fails to be called */

This wasn't implemented on Puck.js until this morning (it'll be in firmware 1v94), but if you install the latest firmware from http://www.espruino.com/binaries/travis/­master/ it should have the feature in it.