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    Building code for microcontrollers

    May 04, 2021 3 minutes

    This month we take a look at CircuitPython, a programming language designed to simplify experimenting with low-cost boards. On a fresh install of Raspberry Pi OS we need to open a terminal and run a few commands to ensure our system is up to date and ready to install CircuitPython:

    Then we install/upgrade setuptools, a Python toolkit to manage Python package installations:

    Next we make sure we’re in our home directory (/home/pi), then we use the Python packaging tool, pip3 to install Adafruit’s Python Shell tool:

    The final two installation steps are to download an installation

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