Loading a machine code API onto an 8-bit virtual machine to enable new functionality

A method involving a chain of a plurality of virtual machine devices that are chained together in serial fashion, and wherein each of the virtual machine devices comprises a microcontroller that executes a script interpreter, the method comprising:

• (a) relaying a first direct script instruction through virtual machine devices from one virtual machine device to the next down the chain of virtual machine devices such that the first direct script instruction is supplied to a selected one of the virtual machine devices;
• (b) interpreting the first direct script instruction on the selected one of the virtual machine devices thereby putting the selected virtual machine device into a direct mode;
• (c) relaying an amount of code from one virtual machine device to the next down the chain of virtual machine devices such that the code is received onto the selected virtual machine device;
• (d) loading the amount of code into the selected virtual machine device while the selected virtual machine device is operating in the direct mode;
• (e) relaying a second direct script instruction through virtual machine devices from one virtual machine device to the next down the chain of virtual machine devices such that the second direct script instruction is supplied to the selected one of the virtual machine devices;
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• (f) interpreting the second direct script instruction on the selected one of the virtual machine devices thereby causing the selected virtual machine device to exit the direct mode.