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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

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by Lio

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Given the name I was hoping this would be something specific to Arm hardware.
Oh well I guess the Archimedes wasn’t that we’ll known.

by uoaei

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So it's software to write firmware, not software to design hardware. Not sure how ambiguous that was to others but I got the wrong impression from the title.

by gugagore

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Are the 50 for loops truly necessary in the manual C code example of a Kalman filter? At least introduce a few functions (that could be inlined and loop-fused) for some matrix operations?

by dcreater

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Its specifically meant for control systems no?
hardware engineering is a very broad field and the title is misleading

by mkoubaa

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What's the relationship between this and Model Based Systems Engineering, if any?

by krapht

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by anigbrowl

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(Side note: While running Python itself on a microcontroller is growing in popularity for educational and hobby applications, there’s no real future for pure Python in real-time mission-critical deployments.)
Bridging the two could be a real win for people using hardware like the M5Stack ecosystem, which has a wealth of peripherals and a robust Python stack.