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Order Up

By dragoncoder047

I’ve been tinkering with David Johnson-Davies’ uLisp interpreter for a while now. It’s designed to be small first and foremost, so that the core part that fits on the rather wimpy ATmega328 (i.e. an Arduino Uno) will still achieve maximum usefulness. Most of the optimization is achieved …


LILduino

By dragoncoder047

Congratulations, you have reached the end of this series.

I finally found a programming language that I can use on my Arduino: LIL, written by Kostas Michalopoulos. It’s a lot like Tcl (but not quite), and it has a simple to use C API so I can add custom …


uLisp Thoughts

By dragoncoder047

For a while I have been trying to work out some bugs in David Johnson-Davies’ uLisp interpreter for Arduinos. I ported some macro and quasiquote extensions for an older version of uLisp to the current version, and apparently I did not do something right – it crashes whenever I try to …


Two Down, A Zillion More To Go

By dragoncoder047

I have finally written code that actually compiled and ran on the little ESP32 board I bought, and I hate the blasted thing already.

For starters, the process is slow, annoying, and tedious:

  1. I click UPLOAD, and the Arduino IDE begins compiling by … dumping preferences.
  2. It then has to shuffle …