Make: Volume 74

Community, Education, Creativity

The other big advantage of using Python on

hardware is the people that come with it. Lots

of new users are coming over from the Python

community, many of whom have little or no

experience with hardware. For developers who’ve

never touched a microcontroller, something like

the Circuit Playground Express (CPX) allows them

to experiment with the joy of DIY sensing systems,

blinky lights, and buzzy music without needing all

the tools, electrical engineering knowledge, and

fabrication skills to put together a circuit.

There’s also the cultural aspect: Python is well

known as a language that has a comparatively

diverse, ...