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MOGWAI NANO 0.10 is out. It brings some very visible new features: a way to work with the date and time, new options for TFT displays, and a program parser that is 5 to 10 times faster. But the most important change in this release is less flashy: I went back over the way the … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.9 is out. This one is a “screen and fingers” release: your ESP32 can now drive a TFT colour display wired over SPI, and read a capacitive touch panel wired over I2C. All of it is programmed in MOGWAI, with French accents supported, and without recompiling anything. 0.9 also brings the onboard RGB … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.8 is out. Its headline feature is an integrated step-by-step debugger: you run a program in debug mode from MOGWAI NANO Studio and follow it instruction by instruction while it executes on your ESP32. The instruction about to be executed is highlighted in your source code, and you can pause, advance one step, … Read more

Just a short video to show you MOGWAI NANO in action. In this video, we’re having fun blinking an LED connected to GPIO 4 of the connected device (here an ESP32 S3). The first part of the video shows interactive mode (activated with the mogwai.keepAlive command). From there, you can interact live with the device … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.6 is available on the GitHub repository. What’s new The engine can now load libraries on the fly — just not yet in practice. mogwai.using dynamically loads a set of compiled .pe files (a library plus its dependencies, in the order laid out by a manifest) straight into the running CLR, without ever … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.4 is out on the GitHub repository. What’s new A real library system makes its debut. Units let you store reusable MOGWAI NANO code directly on flash — an RTC helper library, a sensor wrapper, any piece of logic you don’t want to copy-paste from project to project. Installed remotely from Studio, executed … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.3 is out on the GitHub repository — the densest release since launch. What’s new A display makes its debut. The SSD1306, the most common 128×64 OLED display on the market, is now natively supported — text, pixels, lines, filled or outlined rectangles, and 1-bit-per-pixel image drawing. Rather than drawing pixel-by-pixel in RPN, … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.2 is out on the GitHub repository — the first update since going public, and it brings real substance. What’s new I2C makes its debut, with seven primitives covering the essentials — opening and closing a device by name, reading and writing raw data or specific registers, scanning the bus to discover what’s … Read more

Building MOGWAI NANO taught me a lot about .NET nanoFramework — not from the official documentation, but from the field, through multi-hour endurance tests and bugs that only surfaced after twenty minutes or two hours of runtime. Some of these behaviors are documented somewhere, quietly. Others, I found nowhere before living through them myself. This … Read more