University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter ...

A new release of MicroPython has been made available by the Adafruit team bringing with it a number of new features including command line remote-control tool called “mpremote”.

Figure 2 – REPL Terminal with LED On commands One of Python's advantages it isn’t just a scripting language; Python is an object oriented programming language. A developer can, for example, create an ...

While Micro Python supports a broad range of the language features of both Python 2 and 3, some features are still missing. For instance, Unicode support for strings hasn’t been implemented yet.

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 ...

On the ESP8266, because it’s all in Python, the code is similar. In fact, the same basic code would work between two computers running vanilla Python just as well as the ESP8266 running MicroPython.

Pyboard micro-controllers are aimed at developers who know Python, the world's third most popular language behind Java and JavaScript, which is sweeping the developer world right now.