RE: Advocating Lua on an embedded systems fair

Looks good – I’ll investigate your website and maybe contact you about participating. Seems to me the key to the price point is getting a solution with the memory on the same chip as the processor (full system-on-a chip – SOAC). This cuts down BOM costs and also greatly simplifies the PCB. On your stated resource requirements, the AVR32 seems to achieve full SOAC for a USB or Serial connection, and with just one additional chip, Ethernet. I’m sure the ARM based products will catch up with this level of integration within the next year or so.

From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Bogdan Marinescu
Sent: 09 February 2009 10:34
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Advocating Lua on an embedded systems fair

That's pretty much what we're tying to do with eLua (http://www.eluaproject.net). Making it for under $30 might be a bit of a problem though :)

Best,
Bogdan

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> In passing, it would be useful to have an open-source "Lua Chip" offering
> on the pattern of the Arduino project (google it!), but aiming at the
> higher-end of the microcontroller spectrum. A full Lua system with
> networking, USB and extensive analog and digital i/o for under $30 should be
> a feasible proposition! Anyone interested in a project to this effect?

There was some talk here about a LuaChip a few years back. I don't know
whether anything came out of that, though. Search the lua-l archives.