Building With CircuitPython & Constraints of Python for Microcontrollers

Can you make a version of Python that fits within the memory constraints of a microcontroller and have it still feel like Python? That is the intention behind CircuitPython. This week on the show, we have Scott Shawcroft, who is the project lead for CircuitPython.

EXCELLENT Guest Speaker re: circuitPython on MCUs !

IT’S NOT AN EASY TASK to explain circuitPython on MCUs in a VIDEO…

IT’S even HARDER to explain circuitPython on MCUs on a PODCAST…
…but THIS episode of REAL PYTHON does an EXCELLENT job!

EXCELLENT choice of GUEST…

EXCELLENT explanations of FOUNDATIONAL TERMS: Python, microPython(s), circuitPython, C++, Adafruit, PCB, SBC, microcontroller vs microcomputer, compiled vs interpreted code, and more…

EXCELLENT compare & contrast of microCONTROLLERS vs microCOMPUTERS…

EXCELLENT ANALOGIES and CORRECTIONS and CLARIFICATIONS from the Guest re: devices-as-APIs (I DESPISE how SLOPPY an entire generation is about the MEANINGS of such critical terms, so THIS Guest’s SOLID and EASY grasp of these topics RENEWED my faith in the current generation!)…

EXCELLENT handling of all the sometimes-on-topic, sometimes-OFF-topic comments, understandings & questions the interviewer asks…

Would RECOMMEND to new and veteran Python-on-MCU developers !

- Mark Vogt, Principal Solution Architect/Data Scientist, AVANADE