While you don’t necessarily need a Pyboard in order to use MicroPython, the microcontroller is one of the best and easiest to work with when it comes to hardware programming.

While the writeup is only about blinking a LED with a microcontroller, they’re doing it with Python, interactively, and at runtime. The build uses the Maple Native board the team is developing.

Slimmed-down version of Python, rebuilt from the ground up, is designed to run fast and lean on microcontroller hardware The Python programming language’s flexibility and ease-of-use have made ...

Evidence of a larger push for simple, instant flashing to microcontrollers without an installed IDE can also be found in the Tessel, a Wi-Fi-enabled board that has made twice its crowdfunding goal ...