Promuda is a wireless programmable electronic platform aiming for easy and simple embedded aplication development.

The main target audience for this board are everyone who has a mobile phone! No more bulky PC's needed.

Promuda is designed to be able to programmed using a mobile phone out of the box. It has an application launcher and easy to use wifi manager. Just install a code editor and a downloader apk, and you are ready to go.

Features

All ESP8266 + Micropython features

4 Way directional button

2 Action button

Buzzer

Tri-color RGB LED

96x68 Monochrome display + backlight

Promuda application launcher

8 Digital I/O (selectable through jumper)

1 ADC input (selectable through jumper)

Rechargeable 1200mAh li-poly battery (so you can code on the go)

Our recommended code editor for Android:

NotePad Pro

It is the only text editor in playstore with whitespace marking option, which crucial when we works with python! Also no ads and no IAP.

Application downloader

Download it here Promuda Programmer for Android

Getting Started

Connecting to the board

Turn on your Promuda board

Go to Settings --> WIFI Info

Set your mobile phone SSID and Password

Turn on mobile hotspot

Press the reset button on the Promuda board

Write your first code

Open your favourite code editor on your mobile phone

Write your code! a simple hello world would be

from promudaCore import Display as d

d.printlcd('Hello World!',1,True)

"Save as" your file with this format: app_.py

Download your first code

On your Promuda board, check WIFI Menu. It should shows your board IP address

Open Promuda Programmer app

Edit the default IP address to follow your board IP address e.g change:

ws://192.168.4.1:8266

to

ws://192.168.43.8:8266

Click "Choose File" and locate your first code file

Click "Send to device" and wait until it completed

Run your first code

On your promuda board menu, go to "App"

It should shows your freshly written app name in the list

Select it --> Run

Your applicaton will run automatically after the board turned ON

To go back to Promuda menu, hold "A" button then press "RESET" button.

Debug your code

If your promuda application caught an exception when running, the backlight will be blinked continuously. Then we need to find out why by debug it.

Oh, we can do that?

Unfortunately there is no debug feature, yet. But you can see the last error/exception from your code by clicking "Get last error" button in the android app.

Force boot to Promuda menu

Hold "A" button while your Promuda board booted up.

Repair bricked devices

Although this is rare, but your devices can be bricked. Too many write process to the filesystem will ramp up the risk! To make it minimum to none, avoid any "write to file" process in your application. The recovery process is TBD.