the Micro Python board  University of Cambridge theoretical
physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is
more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry
Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted
version of Python known as Micro Python and will allow users to
simply paste lines of text code onto the board to make it work.
"The board has a USB port which allows you to easily connect it
to a PC. You don't need any software to program it: it behaves
like a USB flash drive, and you just copy a Python text file to
it and it runs," George explains. Other features of the board,
which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, include a micro SD card
slot, two buttons, 4 LEDs, 30 input/output pins for interfacing
with sensors, a real-time clock, an accelerometer for sensing
angles, and output lines to control servo motors used in
robotics.  The idea for a simple Python microcontroller came to
George while he was building a walking robot. "I needed
something very small, but p