Arduino IDE more your jam? Yeah, well, remember how Arduino has a MicroPython IDE now? It’s decently usable, so if you got used to the Arduino keybindings, you might like it.

The IDE is extensible using “Jama Funcs” and can handle the flashing operation from inside the IDE. Of course, there is an IDE from Arduino (but not the Arduino IDE) that handles MicroPython.

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence. # ...