Programming small electronic systems is easier than ever. MicroPython makes it simple to program affordable microcontrollers, from the Raspberry Pi Pico to Wi-Fi-enabled ESP32 boards. MicroPython is a ...

And yet, my feeds on X and Threads are full of people mad about losing their Gold status. I think it’s fair to say that if you introduce something that is tangibly better for your customers, and they ...

I’ve worked with hardware before, so the electronics themselves were never the problem. What consistently slowed me down was the software side. C, C++, and the Arduino ecosystem always felt like too ...

The Joy-it Explorer Set Raspberry Pi Pico RB-P-XPLR has a color display with a resolution of 160x128 pixels in addition to buttons and other components. With the circuits I developed on a small ...

OpenMV has launched two new edge AI camera boards programmable with MicroPython: the OpenMV AE3 powered by an Alif Ensemble E3 dual Cortex-M55, dual Ethos-U55 micro NPU SoC, and the larger OpenMV N6 ...

The Biden administration is reopening an updated version of a migrant sponsorship program it paused abruptly earlier this summer due to concerns about fraud, Department of Homeland Security officials ...

In case you haven’t heard, about a month ago MicroPython has celebrated its 11th birthday. I was lucky that I was able to start hacking with it soon after pyboards have shipped – the first tech talk I ...

The world of microcontrollers is set to experience a significant shift with the upcoming release of MicroPython v1.23, which will introduce support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core ...

The latest true-crime docuseries to hit Netflix charts shot to the No. 3 spot on the streamer's most-watched list last week as more than 7 million people tuned in to "The Program: Cons, Cults and ...

Micropython is only needed on the device You need a tool to upload your source to the device, like mpremote (see below) You need stubs only to take advantage of autocompletion and linting, but not for ...

smolOS (pronounced small OS) is an open-source, lightweight MicroPython program that implements a POSIX-style (Linux-like) command line interface for the ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller. Krzysztof ...