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 ...

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.

MicroPython, on the other hand, is a lean and efficient use of the Python 3 (aka Python) programming language that's optimized to run on microcontrollers and embedded systems.