MicroPython lets you build devices quickly, and its latest release, 1.23, brings a number of improvements you should be aware of. The first one is custom USB device support, and it’s a big one.

It is now possible to run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers. Opening up a wealth of new applications across ...

Not only that, but MicroPython requires far fewer resources and doesn’t have to rely on an operating system because MicroPython itself acts as the OS for the Pyboard or any other microcontroller.

Unfortunately, Micropython has historically lacked a decent high-level GUI library. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case, with [amirgon] porting LittlevGL to the platform.

The differences between the Python and MicroPython programming languages are minute, but they make a powerful difference.