July 2022 Meetup

Matt delivers the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien announces support for the Raspberry Pi Pico W, Andy covers EuroPython 2022…and there is an ‘in the weeds’ discussion on BLE.

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June 2022 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien discusses MicroPython v1.19(.1), Andrew reveals that PDB support may be here - and there is some additional content for the regulars.

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September 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien goes in-depth on upcoming MicroPython cache optimisation improvements. The subsequent group chat was also recorded, for the diehards!

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August 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien discusses the latest MicroPython release, v1.17. Jim covers two features coming in v1.17. The subsequent group chat was also recorded, for the diehards!

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June 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien discusses the latest MicroPython release, v1.16. Matt briefly covers some handy unit test techniques.

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May 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien discusses the awesome mpremote tool that helps interact with a MicroPython device from a PC.

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April 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup and gives a brief WebSerial demo. Damien discusses the latest MicroPython release, v1.15. Also a big thanks to Lachlan and Oliver for sorting out the video with the new hardware - including using an ATEM mini for mixing video feeds and fancy Rode wireless lapel mics for much better audio recordings!

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March 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien shares some of the recent MicroPython developments. Nick discusses the current state of WebUSB. Seon gave a demo of SAM, his latest voice-controlled project!

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February 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien shares some of the recent developments (since v1.14) in MicroPython.

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January 2021 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Damien discusses the exciting new Raspberry Pi Pico and the MicroPython port for the new micro!

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July News Roundup

Check out Matt’s slides that cover the lovefest between LEGO and MicroPython, M5Stack’s latest releases, sponsorship of the MicroPython project and more.

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May News Roundup

Matt gave a news update including MicroPython’s successful application to Google’s Season of Docs, a brief summary of ARM devices, a look at the new ESP32-powered TTGO watch…and more! (No video)

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January 2020 Meetup

Matt presents the latest MicroPython News Roundup. Jim gives a super deep dive on the MicroPython Garbage Collector.

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January 2019 meetup

Matt presented the news roundup and Damien explained some highlights of the (any day now!) v1.10 release of MicroPython. We then had presentations from a few members about their projects; Rafal talked about Raven his MicroPython-powered R/C handset, Sean discussed his WiLED project and Seon covered the TinyPICO Tester.

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November 2018 meetup

Matt presented the usual news roundup. Lachlan and Brian discussed the Parallax Propeller 2, a powerful microcontroller with some unique characteristics particularly well suited to concurrent solutions. It doesn’t - yet - run MicroPython but it could be a good fit for a port. We were fortunate enough to see a demo on one of the first 10 ‘glob top’ chips. Damien explained how to use the _thread module, recently overhauled on the ESP32 port.

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September 2018 meetup

Matt gave the usual news roundup. Damien dropped some MicroPython testing knowledge on us. Andrew brought together two favourites: Jupyter and MicroPython. Peter rounded out the presentations with a LoRaWAN demo running over the CCHS gatgeway.

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July 2018 meetup

Guido’s big announcement kicked off the meetup with plenty of other topics to wade through. Matt walked through his uPTV project that puts MicroPython to good use.

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June 2018 meetup

On a cold Wednesday in June, Matt shared some MicroPython news and Damien gave a live coding demo on how to wrap a C module so that it can be used from MicroPython. Slides and video below.

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March 2018 meetup

At this meeting Damien discussed a collection of tools that are commonly used to transfer files to a MicroPython board. In no particular order:

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