We are proud to annunce the release of eLua v0.8

eLua is an effort to expand the presence of the Lua programming language in the embedded world, especially on microcontroller-based platforms. It is meant to be a complete MCU development environment. It currently runs on a number of ARM variants (including Cortex-M3), AVR32 (and i386 as a proof of concept).

The main changes from v0.7 are:

• Added the RFS (Remote File System), a new file system which allows sharing a directory on the PC with the eLua board.
• Added a serial multiplexer which allows using more virtual serial ports over a single physical UART connection.
• Added Lua and C interrupt handlers support.
• Added linenoise support (eLua and Lua shell command line history and navigation)
• Added generic I2C support and docs
• Added hardware flow control and runtime configurable buffers for UARTs.
• Added support for new boards: mbed, EVK-1101, Mizar32, EK-LM3S1968
• Added SPI and SD/MMC support for EVK1100 and EVK1101 (AVR32)
• Added I2C support for STR-E912 (STR912)
• Added support for require() and autorun from SD/MMC
• Added external memory support for STR912
• Added long filename support for SD/MMC
• Added version() function to elua module
• Added RTC (real time clock) platform specific support for str9
• Added support for AsciiDoc in the doc builder
• Tutorials and new projects added to the eLua User Labs wiki
• Demo files were moved out of the distro to http://wiki.eluaproject.net/Projects
• Added a 'media' page with eLua related media on the project site

The main eLua resources are:

• Main site: http://www.eluaproject.net
• eLua wiki: http://wiki.eluaproject.net
• Mail list: https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/elua-dev
• Web builder: http://builder.eluaproject.net
• Issue tracker: http://tracker.eluaproject.net
• Other: http://www.eluaproject.net/en_comunity.html

You made my day! I was looking after such a thing for a while now - I'm always struggling with doing things more dynamically than in C/C++.

Is there a list of which peripherals are available? From the discussions of the preliminary port it seems that SPI and networking are missing- is that still true? In the sources everything is there (SPI, emac), but in the web builder I cannot select networking.

Hi,

The list of modules is here:

http://www.eluaproject.net/en_status.html#plat_modules

SPI is indeed implemented but for some reason appears as "not implemented" in the link above. I'll fix that, thanks. Networking is really not implemented, unfortunately.

Best, Bogdan