Phi, a browser-native and desktop game engine with a Blender-style editor, Python scripting, and built-in Claude AI, has been released as a single opaque engine.wasm or native executable. The engine i…
MicroPipe, a dependency-free Python re-implementation of the Pipe language core, now runs on a $5 ESP32 microcontroller, verified against the real pipe v0.9.4 binary. It supports ~59 curated builtins,…
Embedded firmware engineer Kim Mansfield argues that mainstream edge AI frameworks are too heavy for real microcontrollers and proposes a lean C++ approach for bare-metal, dual-core execution. Mansfie…
Coinkite disclosed a Coldcard firmware flaw on July 30 that could generate Bitcoin wallet seeds with insufficient entropy, and researchers linked three waves of thefts totaling 1,367 BTC (about $88.6 …
Coinkite, the Canadian manufacturer of Coldcard hardware wallets, disclosed a critical security flaw that allowed attackers to drain approximately 1,128.4717 $BTC (worth about $71.1 million) from over…
Coinkite, the maker of Coldcard hardware wallets, reported that a build error caused seeds to be drawn from a software fallback instead of the hardware generator, leading to an estimated loss of 594 B…
Fabian Kuebler used Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model to generate a port of MicroPython for the SNES, achieving 430 out of 468 core tests. The port runs at 0.8 fps after a 20-second boot, demonstrating…
A developer proposed PAL, an open standard that gives AI agents direct control over physical hardware via a Python REPL running on an ESP32-S3. The architecture splits real-time safety-critical operat…
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter's ICYMI edition highlights topics including Code Like Hemingway, CircuitPython MCP, and a MicroPython Editor, reaching 12,370 subscribers worldwide.…
A developer questions whether programming language choice matters as AI increasingly generates code, suggesting that if agents write most code from prompts, developers only need to verify output rathe…
A developer explains the internal architecture of CPython, the standard Python interpreter, detailing how Python source code is tokenized, parsed, compiled into bytecode, and executed by the Python Vi…
LEGO Education will retire its SPIKE Essential and SPIKE Prime sets on June 30, 2026, with software support continuing until 2031, as the company shifts focus to a new Computer Science & AI kit. The r…
Simon Willison released version 0.32a3 of his LLM command-line tool on June 9, 2026, with the new release almost entirely written by Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model. The update adds features to both …
A marketer who built a custom operating system for a Pimoroni Presto device using AI coding tools discovered he could not fully understand or debug the software he created until he integrated analytic…
Simon Willison released an alpha package called micropython-wasm that runs Python code in a sandbox using WebAssembly, along with a Datasette Agent plugin called datasette-agent-micropython that uses …
Datasette released version 0.1a0 of datasette-agent-micropython on June 2, 2026, enabling MicroPython execution within a WASM sandbox as a tool for Datasette Agent. The alpha release aims to allow the…
On 2 June 2026, a developer released micropython-wasm 0.1a0, an alpha package that bundles a customized WebAssembly build of MicroPython with a wrapper for executing code via the wasmtime runtime. The…