One Lambda to rule them all

From wolfpaulus.com 2 years ago in Blogs

Whenever I got a new laptop or was (re-)installing Mac OS from scratch, a Java JDK, IntelliJ IDEA, and Tomcat, the “pure Java” HTTP web server environment, were always among the 1st things I installed. How times have changed. Now it’s Docker, Python3, PyCharm, and AWS and SAM CLIs that...

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Could there be an effective computer for students that are REALLY on a budget?

From wolfpaulus.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs

At some point during my last high school years, I caught the computer bug, and I couldn’t stay away from programmable devices. Late-afternoon bus rides back to the city, followed by 20-minute walks to the local university, finding an unlocked...

Programming pyBox

From wolfpaulus.com 2 months ago in Blogs

Probably the easiest way to develop software for pyBox and iterate reasonably fast, is using the PyCharm IDE with the MicroPython plugin enabled. Create a new project, enable MircoPython and create three files: boot.py, main.py, and app.py. Remember, during the...

Tomcat

From wolfpaulus.com 3 months ago in Blogs

Installing Tomcat on macOS 13 Ventura Apache Tomcat 10.1.4 implements specifications that are part of the Jakarta EE 10 platform. Please note that applications that ran on Tomcat 9 and earlier will not run on Tomcat 10 without changes. Java...

Porting MicroPython to pyBox

From wolfpaulus.com 3 months ago in Blogs

The standard ESP32 MicroPython port gets built for a generic ESP32 board. Compared to a generic board, pyBox has more to offer, most of which is not supported out of the box. Some of these additional features like the blue...

pyBox Specification

From wolfpaulus.com 3 months ago in Blogs

Smallest viable MicroPython Computer? Dallas Semiconductor, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002, was a company that designed and manufactured analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductors. They had also designed the TINI board, a 68-pin SIMM, approximately 103 mm wide, 32mm tall, and...

Installing Java on macOS 13 Ventura

From wolfpaulus.com 3 months ago in Blogs

For some time now, Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that. As I’m writing this, Java 19.0.1 is the latest version and Adoptium is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries. Adoptium was known as AdoptOpenJDK, before the project was...

Introducing pyBox

From wolfpaulus.com 3 months ago in Blogs

Could there be a computer that is as nimble as it is useful, and still be fun and distinctly easy to program? pyBox, a small single-board computer, connected to a frugal 16×2 character display may be just that. pyBox is...

Micro Python on ESP8266 (HUZZAH ESP8266)

From wolfpaulus.com 6 months ago in Blogs

The ESP8266 is a low cost 80 MHz microcontroller with a full WiFi support. It can be found on several breakout boards, with Adafruit’s HUZZAH ESP8266 being one of the better ones. For about $10 you can own a small...

Onward to conversational applications

From wolfpaulus.com 11 months ago in Blogs

About 37%, or in numbers, 95 million U.S. adults have smart speakers in their homes. Half of them are daily active users. However, in the last two years, user growth has only been at 4%. (Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report...

Installing Java on macOS 12 Monterey

From wolfpaulus.com 11 months ago in Blogs

For some time now, Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that. As I’m writing this, Java 17.0.3 is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version and Adoptium is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries. Adoptium was known as AdoptOpenJDK,...