[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, taking up ...

Arduino is a popular brand of open-source microcontrollers that can be used for a variety of DIY projects, from educational settings to home theater to smart home management. The microcontrollers are ...

The team at LeafLabs was looking for something cool to do with their new ARM development board. [AJ] asked if anyone had ever played around with Python, so [Dave] cooked up an implementation of PyMite ...

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 it ...

University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter, the ...

You can program the ItsyBitsy microcontroller breakout board in Python using a simple text editor. No installs, IDE, or external compiler is required. On the one hand ...

Canonical has released Ubuntu 22.10, an update to the company’s Linux distribution that introduces MicroPython support on a variety of microcontrollers. Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu” and announced October ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested in a new project called LEMPA or the LEan Mean Programming mAchine, created by developer Roey Benamotz. This innovative project features a custom PCB that ...

While languages such as Ada and C++ have gained some adoption in certain circles, for the most part embedded software is still dominated by the procedural and dangerous C programming language. A few ...