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.

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 ...

The Python program then asks for the com port it should be using for this session. The source package, including the code which runs on the microcontrollers, can be found at the project repository.

[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, tak… ...