Lua Scripting

If you read the Welcome screen in Lua module of Kipling, it explains that the Lua interpreter & compiler are actually ON the T7.  That is, the T7 allocates a significant portion of its memory to storing an eLua interpreter/compiler which accepts plain text input, and compiles it within the T7.  Based on this architecture, it would be impossible to store a Python compiler inside the memory space of the T7's processor.  There are no plans to attempt to store two separate compilers inside the T7.  If you want to code in Python, there might be tools available that will convert python code into Lua code, which you could then paste into the interface in Kipling, and send to the T7.

The short answer is yes.  The longer answer is that we are in the early stages of testing this capability.  Basically our goal is to make it possible through Lua scripting to post data to cloud services/Internet of Things(IoT) services.  The difficulty has been to decide exactly which services(companies) we want to support, or to just enable low-level access to the Ethernet stack, so users can construct their own strings and parse responses within script.  Exposing the Ethernet stack and allowing users to parse and compose their own strings is the most flexible option, but it would also consume a LOT of script length, with potentially sinister memory/runtime errors.  The other option is to create a few premade functions in firmware that communicate with several different IoT APIs, and limit the options/flexibility.

Do you have a particular cloud/IoT service that you'd like to use?