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Yay... great to see MicroPython on the micro:bit getting some love. In case you're interested, here are the docs for MicroPython on the board -- you can do a remarkable amount on such a small device: https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

(Caveat - I was involved in the MicroPython side of things. So good to see the other dev environments represented in the comments here.)

Hurrah! :-)

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I wonder whether it would be possible to make MicroPython functional on an original 1980s BBC Micro, which has a 6502 and a whole 32K of RAM. The "beeb" stores interpreters on pluggable 32K ROMs.

Cute idea. Care to suggest a URL of two about pluggable ROMs for interpreters?

In the 80s they were called "language ROMs"

There's some high-level stuff here http://beebwiki.mdfs.net/Paged_ROM (see "Languages") and I have asked my BBC Micro developer friends to send me some more useful docs, which I'll forward to you as soon as I get them.

Edit: Actually that page has some pretty low-level stuff on it as well, which may keep you busy for a while.

Here's a couple of emails from people who know more about it than me:

https://pastebin.com/y2k4zYx2

Thanks to MicroPython adoption rate, I see it as the BASIC of IoT. :)

Nice work.

Unfortunately there is a lack of easy to use tooling... Mu for the microbit is nice, but other platforms don't have an easy to use editor and file uploader

Do you mean other hardware platforms upon which MicroPython runs, or other software platforms that target the micro:bit? If the former, work is in progress on that front (I am the maintainer of Mu).

Hi! I've been working on adapting mu for other platforms (askvictor/eduvik). My main concern is other hardware platforms (microbit support is great) - there's nothing which 'just works' for esp8266 and other serial-based devices, so any students I point in that direction have to get through a heap of unnecessary technical hurdles to get up and running.

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