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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
@Robin
Sun 2021.09.19
A brief history summary to respond to several questions in subsequent posts that follow.
Microcontrollers started to hit the consumer market during the mid 1990's. I was busy programming 8051 and 8255 using assembler. Norton and PKWare zip were popular then. The switch from bulletin board modems to ISP and the introduction of smart cells phones was underway.
The PIC microcontroller was developed in the year
1993by Microchip Technology. The term PIC stands for Peripheral Interface Controller.A decade later, while in my favorite Radio Shack scrounging parts, I spotted the introduction of a tool for hardware geeks. The year was
2005with the introduction of the first Arduino board. I added this to my X-Mas list as a back burner project.(I had books on the PIC but hadn't drawn the relationship with Arduino at that time. With life in the way and running out of remaining years, I picked up on Espruino in 2016 and finally purchased that X-Mas wish in 2017 !)
The popular Arduino Nano was first released in
2008consisting of an ATmega328 8-bit microcontroller by Atmel Microchip Technology.Gordon would have his inspiration start to evolve using the STM32 microcontroller integrated circuits by STMicroelectronics with the
2013successful Kickstarter campaign.Espressif Systems developed their Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microprocessor and released the ESP32 in
2016Current day
2021, we have a myriad of microcontrollers developed by many manufacturers.