Let's make a P2 hardware cookbook
Andrey Demenev
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I started putting together a simple web site that will serve as a community maintained Propeller 2 hardware cookbook.
The idea is this: a git repository with a bunch of markdown files, each file being a recipe. Recipe can belong to one or more topics and a difficulty level. There is some code that converts the file into a site where visitors can browse the recipes by topic and/or difficulty. Contributors can fork the repository, add recipe(s) and submit a pull request
I am just getting started, the site is not available online, I just want to validate the idea. Please let me know if you think this can be useful, and more importantly if you would contribute.
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I like your idea. I'm constantly reminding my new/inexperienced programming friends to just "play" with small experiments and small bits of hardware -- it all adds up in the end.
BTW, with the pin functions in the P2, you don't have to set the dir bit -- it's handled by the function.
Also, newcomers might be confused by the schematic having two boxes marked LED. May I suggest:
Ada created a neat website for P2 assembly instructions that allows one to type and find -- it's very convenient. That kind of site with small examples for instructions would be excellent for new Spin2 programmers.
-- https://p2docs.github.io/
I wonder... can you have multiple code sections so that you can move from verbose to refined?
If I may, I'd like to see a little more whitespace in listings. It costs nothing and aids readability.
Very small contribution attached. This shows three iterations of the same button input program. I don't know the rules of the mark-up language you're using so I just tried to mimic what you did in your example.
@JonnyMac Thanks
I am not ready to add actual recipes yet, I want to make the app first. Actually, that single recipe I have was ai generated, I just needed something that looks realistic, not necessarily correct or polished
Yes, absolutely. As many code sections as needed.
Maybe a web version of something like this:
https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/175417/
There are already so many places where some information might be hidden for P2. Isn't it possible to use obex or the forum? Perhaps a new category has to be implemented?