The Python Connected Little Box takes shape

I’ve been making Connected Little Boxes for ages. Up until now they’ve been powered by a large a complicated C program that I wrote a while back. I thought it might be fun to convert the code to Python and run it in a Raspberry Pi PICO. So last week I started putting it together.

The code controls an embedded device and is based around pluggable manager components which are automatically discovered and loaded when a device starts. Managers can have dependencies so that the MQTT manager won’t do much until WiFi is working, etc etc. There’s setting management, messaging and a console command interface too. It’s all coming along splendidly at the moment. I’ll have everything on GitHub once I’ve made it work.