Makers and musicians searching for a new project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in a new metronome built using the CLUE sensor-packed development board and CircuitPython code.

[Andy]’s keypad uses the very affordable Seeeduino Xiao, a tiny board that natively runs Arduino code. Since it has a SAMD21 processor, [Andy] chose to run CircuitPython on it instead.

CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting and learning to code on low-cost microcontroller boards. One of its main advantages is that there are no upfront desktop ...

As Scott explains, CircuitPython prides itself on being equal parts code and community. In other words, it’s friendly and inviting all the way around. Developing in CircuitPython is easy because ...