Modern microcontrollers like the RP2040 and ESP32 are truly a marvels of engineering. For literal pocket change you can get a chip that’s got a multi-core processor running at hundreds of meg… ...

CircuitPython is a full Python compiler and runtime that runs on the microcontroller hardware. “This is the third beta release of CircuitPython 6.0.0. It is relatively stable overall.

Until recently, however, it simply wasn’t a viable choice in the embedded space. That’s begun to change with projects like CircuitPython, and now it’s available on the Teensy 4.0!

The Adafruit team have this week announced the release of CircuitPython 8.0.0, the latest major revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release.