In case you haven’t heard, about a month ago MicroPython has celebrated its 11th birthday. I was lucky that I was able to start hacking with it soon after pyboards have shipped – the first tech talk I ...

MicroPython is a wonderful Python interpreter that runs on many higher-end microcontrollers, from ESP8266 to STM32 to the RP2040. MicroPython lets you build devices quickly, and its latest release, ...

I have organized the relationships between Python's PyPI and pip, and MicroPython's micropython-lib and mip. First, an overview is shown below. I previously felt that Python's pip was like MicroPython ...

There's a reason for many of the differences from CPython: the interpreter needs to be able to run on devices with low resources. Additionally, the project applies several optimizations. One of these ...

Install required tools: Python 3.10 or later, CMake 3.20.0 or later, Ninja, DTC, west, and the Zephyr SDK toolchain. Install dependences: ...

There are currently around 600 programming languages to choose from, so picking the one that’s right for you can be pretty difficult. But if you’re looking for a language that’s incredibly popular, ...

At PyCon 2017, Kavya Joshi looked at some of the differences between the Python reference implementation (known as "CPython") and that of MicroPython. In particular, she described the differences in ...

While languages such as Ada and C++ have gained some adoption in certain circles, for the most part embedded software is still dominated by the procedural and dangerous C programming language. A few ...