To start the journey on programing, I will start by simply blinking a LED that is located on the Pin 0. This blinking will happen every second and will only turn on and off the LED

To start using a local input, we can use the button on the pin 27 to create a binary status based reading. If the button is pressed it will be read as 1 (HIGH) or 0 (LOW) if not pressed. In this case, if our button is pressed, the LED will be on, else will be turned off.

To create a communication between our microcontroller and the computer, we can use the serial terminal to execute and read prints that could be send from our microcontroller. For example, let’s create a counter where we read how many times we push a button. If we get to 3, let’s print “Hello World” and start the counter back to 0.

Finally, lets create a binary counter using the three LED’s that are located on our board. To do this, First we will need to initialize all 3 LED’s as output pins and create a loop to count from 0 to 7 (3 bits). Then we will use a conditional to turn on the corresponding led. We will use the bin() function to convert from a integer to a binary number.

It’s been a while since I last program a microcontroller and I’m Really happy to finally got back to it and remember what I liked the most about it. At the beginning I was worried I wouldn’t remember all of it, but I most say it was really exciting to do so. This was the first time I used Micro-Python but is really easy and the most challenging part was the last exercise to get to the idea to use the string’s character position as the indicator to turn on or off the LED.

Comparing Python and C

This is the first time that I am programming in Python, although I’ve used it before for different applications it was a new experience. At the beginning I felt weird as I am more experienced in C and have used other languages like Matlab. However, I felt that python could be really easy to use and debug as I felt that is easier to understand the syntax and overall structure.

	C Programming	Python Programming
Pros	Efficient memory usage Fast execution speed Widely used in embedded systems More forums on the web Direct hardware access	Simple syntax and readability Rapid prototyping Big library support Easy to learn and use
Cons	Difficult learning curve Manual memory management More verbose syntax Less flexibility for high-level tasks	Slower execution speed Higher memory usage Limited support for low-level hardware access Dependency on runtime environment My first time using python for this