He had a project in MicroPython that needed a very fast FFT on a micro controller ... He thus ended up with a python library that could do the FFT 50 times faster than the the pure Python ...

Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as Micro Python and will allow ... make a pan and tilt mechanism, for example, to aim a webcam.

MicroPython, on the other hand, uses a syntax similar to Python but doesn't have the advantage of the extra features found in its larger cousin. For example, MicroPython can’t access the ...