Tag "punchthrough"

Playing slow catch with the Bean

Projects · 02 April 2017

A while ago I wrote about how to use PlatformIO with PunchThrough Lightblue Bean in a post here on how to use the new Bean Loader CLI from PlatformIO. Of course the reason for that was not merely being able to do it, but having a agile development environment to do something useful with them. I've been looking for a paper I had read a few weeks before I started playing with the Beans....

Using the new Bean Loader CLI from PlatformIO

Learning , Tutorial · 03 October 2016

Last Thursday PunchThrough, the people behind the LightBlue Bean and Bean+ boards, released their new Bean Loader, the application that allows you to upload new sketches to your beans. The great news about this is that, for the first time (!!!) the Bean Loader supports Linux!!! Yeeeha! So I quickly looked for my 4 Beans that have been sad and forgotten in a components box for the last 2+ years and put them to work....

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