Smallest/cheapest possible Python platform?

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On May 26, 2012, at 9:22 AM, tinnews at isbd.co.uk wrote:

> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>> What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run 
>> Python on today?  I'm looking for something to use as a hardware 
>> controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C 
>> for this project.
>> 
>> Performance requirements are minimal.  I need to monitor a few switches, 
>> control a couple of LEDs and relays, and keep time over about a 30 
>> minute period to 1/10th second accuracy.  Nice-to-have (but not 
>> essential) would be a speech synthesizer with a vocabulary of maybe 50 
>> words.
>> 
>> The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available 
>> today.  Can you run Python on an Arduino?  Things like 
>> http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7250 are 
>> more than I need, and the $129 price probably busts my budget.
> 
> Rasberry Pi is available, some have arrived, mine will arrive on
> Monday or Tuesday (I'm talking about UK here).
> 
> I think getting python to run on an arduino device would be quite a
> lot of effort even if it's possible.  You might want to avoid C but
> the 'sort of C' on the Arduino is very simple indeed, hardly more
> difficult than Python.
> 
> 
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