Extending Tiny BASIC on the Arduino

Published on 2011-12-25 by Mark VandeWettering

I was intrigued by @monsonite’s challenge to extend Tiny BASIC for the Nanode. I don’t have a Nanode, but I do have some Arduinos, and extending Mike Field’s Tiny BASIC port to include some additional Arduino functionality seemed pretty straightforward. An hour or so staring at the code told me pretty much all I need to do, so I went ahead and added a DELAY statement to duplicate the Arduino delay() call, a MODE keyword (duplicating pinMode()) and WR (duplicating digitalWrite()).

If you put all these together, you can write simple LED blinking programs entirely in BASIC. Check it out:

I might see how far I can take this idea during my vacation.

Addendum: Why does YouTube always choose a frame where my eyes are closed as the default marquee image?