[DIYbio] python language based $4 wifi microntrollers for lab gear, education, tinkering (CROWDFUND PLEA)

Python language is a helpful standard of sorts. It's more general than biologists want for experiment design, but it is popular
enough.

Python can be a standard for doing lab gear protocol translations because many implementations of networking physical layers exist
in desktop python, and now micropython is coming along so the lab gear can run python code also. Add some documentation to a
collection of python translator libraries and you have a good start at standards for lab automation.

Please tell all the professors and high school teachers you know that deal with tiny computers about the kickstarter to create a
port of micropython to the $3.60 wifi-computer FCC certified module ESP8266 here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micropython-on-the-esp8266-beautifully-easy-iot
because the more early support they get, the more low-level to high abstraction code work they will do this spring and summer that
runs on tiny micros, that will be release MIT licensed permissively open source. This is a FOSS/no hardware project to enable
development.

The FCC and CE certified radio hardware is available for $4.50 shipped qty 1, and $3.60 each shipped qty 5:
http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20160214100822&SearchText=ESP-WROOM-02

Crowdfunding can make a big difference with little contributions and it matters now because once it is released into the free open
source wilds, the incentive for many is gone to pay for development. After the crowdfund campaign ends the support for new
development can come from hardware vendors giving a sliver of profits on gear that uses the underlying code. I plan to do that,
but right now there are no profits to divvy up, so consider promoting micropython by telling who you know.

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