If you want to learn the basics of hardware programming and start working on your own projects as soon as possible, MicroPython is for you.

The MicroPython folks really got the user-experience part right: tab-completion brings up an object’s methods, up-arrow recalls the last command for editing, and so on.

If you’re really stubborn, like [amirgon], and really want C and Python to play well together, you can make use of his new tool which can bring any C library to MicroPython.

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