Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

(pinetreelabs.github.io)

94 points | by i_don_t_know 18 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • Lio 15 hours ago

    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.

  • dcreater 17 hours ago

    Its specifically meant for control systems no?

    hardware engineering is a very broad field and the title is misleading

    • ok123456 17 hours ago

      It's C codegen using casadi under the hood. Most embedded systems can compile some form of C.

    • i_don_t_know 17 hours ago

      It’s the title of the blog post and I didn’t want to change it. But yes, it seems to focus on the specific subset of hardware engineering that’s control systems.

  • uoaei 8 hours ago

    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.

  • mkoubaa 15 hours ago

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

    • f1shy 2 hours ago

      What are the similitudes?

  • krapht 14 hours ago

    Good luck displacing MATLAB, it's great there's an OSS alternative here.

  • anigbrowl 13 hours ago

    (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.