Beyond Arduino (Ruby for Atmel Tiny Family)?

[kzm]

Hey.

Landing on RAD homepage gave me a thrill.. this is a really nice
initiative! Even though Arduino-C is not difficult, it feels like a
relieve to be able to use Ruby. I was wondering if it is also possible
to target Atmel chips directly? I have a AVRISP mk II and use AVRdude
to upload hex files. Does anybody know, if there is a project like RAD
but then targeting AVR in general?

Thanks a lot..

Niels

[JD Barnhart]

I don't think so...

[Niels Wolf]

> I don't think so...

hmm.. alright. So RAD is pretty unique.. i dont understand the inner
workings of RAD. But I assume, it translates Ruby to Arduino-C and
then compiles it using may be avrdude? Does not seem like a
stone-far-thrown to translate Ruby to C and compile it using avrdude,
thats why I asked.

Niels

[Brian Riley]

RubyToC translates the rad file to a .cpp file the Arduino tool chain
is then invoked. That compiles to an .asm file via gcc which produces
the .hex file. avrdude is invoked to load the hex via the Arduino
bootloader.