Python on the Chumby Hacker Board
I picked up a couple of Chumby Hacker Board beta units from Adafruit for a project I'm working on, and of course I'm looking to use Python to write my app for the project. Turns out it's not all that tough. I'll skip over the basics of getting your CHB talking to your PC over a serial connection- Adafruit covers that on their wiki page . I will, however, add a note to their method to say that, unless you're planning on doing a vast amount of Chumby hacking, you might be better served making an adapter to connect your FTDI cable to the CHB rather than rejiggering the connector. It's pretty easy- if the CHB header had two pins between RX and GND instead of one, you'd be able to plug it in directly, as the FTDI cable has the pins in the proper order. By the way, I find putty a more palatable terminal program than HyperTerminal for this process, but that's just me. Also, it may be a good idea to install the gcc environment on your board before installi