MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by ...

Texas Instruments’ 16-bit MSP430FR57xx looks like most microcontrollers except it only has one FRAM memory block for code and data. Shades of core memory.

Many of us have run a Blink program on a microcontroller before. It’s effectively the “Hello, World!” of the embedded space.

Both efforts indicate tiny revolts in the non-networked IDE programming norm for microcontrollers of today. Opening the microcontroller world to browser-based code flashing and sharing along with ...

When students at Cornell University wanted to play Human Tetris (and ace a final project to boot), they taught a 20Mhz, 8-bit microcontroller how to follow their moves.