Check out this new exciting project on Kickstarter !
The Python language made lean and fast to run on microcontrollers. For beginners and experts, control your electronic project with ease
What is Micro Python?
Micro Python is a lean and fast implementation of the Python programming language (python.org) that is optimised to run on a microcontroller. The Micro Python board is a small electronic circuit board that runs the Micro Python language. The aim of this Kickstarter campaign is to make Micro Python open source software so you can use it in your own projects, and also to fund a small manufacturing run of Micro Python boards so that you can own one for yourself!
Python is a scripting language that is very easy to learn, yet highly expressive and very powerful, and has a huge existing community. Running on a small microcontroller, Micro Python allows you to effortlessly blink LEDs, read voltages, make motors and servos move, play sounds, write data to SD cards, communicate wirelessly, and be the brains of your robot, among countless other things. It is the perfect choice to control your next project!
When building an electronics project, like an intruder detector or a smart robot, a microcontroller is used as the "brain", and does all the decision making and control. There are two kinds of things that a microcontroller typically needs to do. It must do low-level control of lights, LCD displays, motors, etc, as well as high-level tasks such as reading and writing data and images, communicating wirelessly, and being an artificial intelligence. Micro Python allows you to do both low-level and high-level control, by augmenting the Python language with inline assembler and native types, as described below.
