Bug#906450: RFP: uflash -- module and command to flash micro-python onto BBC's micro:bit

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-cc: Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@gmail.com>

Cc to the owner of WNPP request <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/901461 >,
a request for mu, a simple python editor with support for flashing
micro:bit, as he might be interested in uflash too.

* Package name    : uflash
  Version         : n/a, git repo without tags
  Upstream Author : Nicholas H.Tollervey
* URL             : https://github.com/ntoll/uflash
* License         : BSD
  Description     : module and command to flash micro-python onto BBC's micro:bit

A utility for flashing the BBC micro:bit with Python scripts and the MicroPython runtime. You pronounce the name of this utility "micro-flash". ;-)

It provides two services:

 1. A library of functions to programatically create a hex file and
    flash it onto a BBC micro:bit.
 2. A command line utility called uflash that will flash Python scripts
    onto a BBC micro:bit.

All the python dependencies for the uflash program is already in Debian.
To be very useful, it uses a prebuilt firmware.hex file, which is a
precompled micropython binary.  I'm not sure if it is already included
in Debian.

I recently got my hands on micro:bit, and would like to have the tools
needed to program it in Debian as official packages. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen