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A Compact Scheme System for Microcontrollers. Work in progress to port it to Arduino
PLEASE NOT I'M NOT THE AUTHOR OF THE PROJECT. YOU CAN FIND THE ORIGINAL PROJECT HERE: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit The reason why this project was imported without forking on GitHub is because picobit was not on GitHub at the time and I wanted to work with Git to port it to Arduino.
This is a very small Scheme system designed to run on small microcontrollers, currently the PIC microcontroller.
It consists of
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a bytecode compiler which compiles Scheme source code to bytecode. The bytecode compiler is run using the Gambit-C Scheme system, usually on a PC/workstation.
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a bytecode interpreter which can be either compiled to run on a microcontroller, or to be run on some common operating systems, at least GNU/Linux (Windows support hasn't been tested in a while, though, and especially the networking part might not work out of the box).
USAGE:
- Install the dependencies:
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Gambit-C: needed to run the bytecode compiler. See http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/
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libpcap: optional, to test networking on PC's (GNU/Linux) Be sure to also install the package containing the headers (libpcap-dev or similar). (TODO: add to makefile somehow)
2a. Targetting a PC/workstation for testing:
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Build the VM: run make
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Compile and run a Scheme program: run ./p schemefile
2b. Compile and run a Scheme program on PIC:
SEE ALSO:
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S3 (Small Scheme Stack) : A Scheme TCP/IP Stack Targeting Small Embedded Applications http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~stamourv/sw08-tcp.pdf
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Slides from the presentation given at the 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~stamourv/s3.pdf
and maybe you find the papers about the BIT and PICBIT systems interesting, which have been written before PICOBIT and share some common concepts:
http://w3.ift.ulaval.ca/~dadub100/
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