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Hi!
As there are more Espruino boards with sensors on them like accelerometers (Puck.js, Bangle.js, RAK boards, Micro:bit, etc) it's seeming like more of a problem that each one has its own sensor API.
If you're writing code for one device it's not a big deal, but I've been looking into an Espruino App Loader like the Bangle.js one, and it'd be nice if one single app could work across a bunch of different devices... Not to mention the ability to have a single block for graphical programming, or the benefits of having a tutorial be usable on any device.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Perhaps the easiest solution might be to have a lightweight module which converted all the different APIs into one coherent API - for instance
Device.*.Or, I could add the common API to all new firmwares and deprecate the old API. However on some devices we're a bit short on space and it could be problematic. Not to mention the fact that a lot of devices are used with the firmware they come with and not updated.