I'm giving a talk on MicroPython

[obdevel]

I'm giving a talk on MicroPython to my local PUG in Cambridge, UK in a few weeks.

They've never had a talk on this subject before. What's the one thing I should not leave out ?

(And yeah, I'll be using a Pico for the demos :) )

[ricksorensen]

Interrupt handline

[jimmo]

If it's a PUG then hardware specific stuff might not be quite the same impact as it would for a hardware/electronics group. i.e. my normal quick demo is using the REPL to discover board functionality / probe i2c devices / toggle GPIO, which is only really impressive if you've used Arduino or other C-based vendor tools.

In general when I demo MicroPython to Python people they need a bit of convincing that it is "actually Python" so maybe showing language features like f-strings, classes, comprehensions, async/await, etc and standard library features like json, zlib, asyncio.

One of my absolutely favourite things to demo is mpremote mount and generally the way filesystems (and the VFS) are handled in MicroPython.

[scruss]

I wouldn't leave out physical computing entirely, though. It's reassuring to have MicroPython around to do embedded stuff in a familiar language. What passes for C in the PIC/AVR community would scare most programmers away, because it's mostly setting bit-masks according to values stored in huge datasheets.

[obdevel]

Thank you for your thoughts. I think some people have tinkered with Arduino and similar. It's an online meeting so I will setup a separate camera to show some visually appealing stuff (LED matrix) as well as some switches and LEDs to show asyncio/interrupts and aiorepl (which I think will impress), and talk generally about how embedded dev differs. It's a fairly tech audience, just not in embedded.

How do I answer the potential question: "where is micropython being used for real world stuff, not just hobbyist projects ?". Are there any examples I can talk about ?

Thanks again.

[mattytrentini]

You can allude to the company I work for, Planet Innovation. We have used MicroPython on multiple projects for development of medical devices.

[arbobeck]

How about this talk from Christine Spindler called "How MicroPython went into space": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_5Lz1mLq8

She talks about both ESA and Spacebel

[bidrohini]

Here is a slide on the use of Micropython in IoT. This may give you some references:

https://www.slideshare.net/jacquessupcik/micropython-for-the-iot

Since, you'll be featuring a Raspberry Pi Pico, you must talk about the Raspberry Pi Pico Dual Core Programming with MicroPython

https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2022/05/raspberry-pi-pico-dual-core-programming-with-micropython.html

[scruss]

Since, you'll be featuring a Raspberry Pi Pico, you must talk about the Raspberry Pi Pico Dual Core Programming with MicroPython

I'd give that a hard swerve myself. This is an intro talk, you don't want them horrified and demoralized from the get-go. As the old joke goes: "Programming problem? Try threads: now two you problems! have"