MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by ...

While the writeup is only about blinking a LED with a microcontroller, they’re doing it with Python, interactively, and at runtime. The build uses the Maple Native board the team is developing.

When students at Cornell University wanted to play Human Tetris (and ace a final project to boot), they taught a 20Mhz, 8-bit microcontroller how to follow their moves.