mbit

An experiment into tinygo and how it works on the BBC Micro:Bit platform.

Important

tinygo only runs on a single thread. goroutines must either perform IO or make intrinsically blocking calls to trigger other goroutines. an alternative is calling runtime.Gosched()

Useful links

• MBit docs: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/microcontrollers/microbit/
• TinyGo tips & gotchas: https://tinygo.org/docs/guides/tips-n-tricks/
• TinyGo bluetooth: https://github.com/tinygo-org/bluetooth/
• TinyGo concepts: https://tinygo.org/docs/concepts/

Setup

brew tap tinygo-org/tools
brew install tinygo

point your env's go installation to the tinygo install.

IJ IDEs can use the TinyGo plugin to automate this

Plug in a macrobit, and then deploy away! It Just Works!