MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by ...

While you don’t necessarily need a Pyboard in order to use MicroPython, the microcontroller is one of the best and easiest to work with when it comes to hardware programming.

While the writeup is only about blinking a LED with a microcontroller, they’re doing it with Python, interactively, and at runtime. The build uses the Maple Native board the team is developing.

Slimmed-down version of Python, rebuilt from the ground up, is designed to run fast and lean on microcontroller hardware The Python programming language’s flexibility and ease-of-use have made ...