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Just Finished My Python Course : Can you run Pythin directly on any Arduino?

dubbie

I have just finished my Introduction to Python Course put on by FutureLearn which was not too difficult and I think I might have learnt something. Now I want to try out a few things - I still do not know how to blink a LED in Python yet.

 

What I would like to do is to run Python programmes (scripts?) directly on an Arduino. I have looked on Google and so far I have not found anything that indicates it might be possible. I know that Python is interpreted but does anyone know if there is a powerful enough Arduino that has had Python ported to it? I know the Raspberry has and probably other boards as well.

 

Dubbie

 

PS My Java course, also on FutureLearn started this week, hopefully learning two languages in such a short time will not be too confusing.

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  • The lead developer for Circuit Python that Adafruit forked from MicroPython lives here in Seattle and I see him from time to time.  They have a number of boards that run Python on the microcontroller - microcontrollers that will also will run under the Arduino IDE.  I have posted a couple of projects here on element14 that use Circuit Python, most recently Xut the Penguin that is based on a board Adafruit handed out at a conference I attended.  Python on a microcontroller needs a lot of memory and an 8 bit Uno won't do it.  I see Circuit Python and Micro Python as best for learning and simple projects like Xut.  More complicated embedded Python projects are better done with a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Bone.  Adafruit is probably selling more microcontrollers with stripped down Python for microcontrollers than anyone else right now and they have lots of libraries but there are others including the original MicroPython.  Adafruit Circuit Python also will run on the Pi if I remember correctly.

     

    Frank

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  • The lead developer for Circuit Python that Adafruit forked from MicroPython lives here in Seattle and I see him from time to time.  They have a number of boards that run Python on the microcontroller - microcontrollers that will also will run under the Arduino IDE.  I have posted a couple of projects here on element14 that use Circuit Python, most recently Xut the Penguin that is based on a board Adafruit handed out at a conference I attended.  Python on a microcontroller needs a lot of memory and an 8 bit Uno won't do it.  I see Circuit Python and Micro Python as best for learning and simple projects like Xut.  More complicated embedded Python projects are better done with a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Bone.  Adafruit is probably selling more microcontrollers with stripped down Python for microcontrollers than anyone else right now and they have lots of libraries but there are others including the original MicroPython.  Adafruit Circuit Python also will run on the Pi if I remember correctly.

     

    Frank

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