Just as its name suggests, MicroPython is a compact version of the popular programming language that was designed to work hand-in-hand with microcontrollers.

While the writeup is only about blinking a LED with a microcontroller, they’re doing it with Python, interactively, and at runtime. The build uses the Maple Native board the team is developing.

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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.