Source: https://mokxi.com/learn/micropython-course
Updated: 2026-11-11

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MicroPython

# A MicroPython course on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Real Python on a microcontroller: blink and the REPL, buttons, PWM, the ADC and an I2C screen, ending in a reaction game you write yourself.

Free In your browser 2 courses, 14 lessons, about 8 hours

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Overview

## How you will learn it

MicroPython puts Python on a chip with no operating system, so you can control pins from the same language you would use on a laptop. It is the quickest way into embedded for anyone who already knows a little Python.

MicroPython on the Pico runs on a simulated Raspberry Pi Pico. Each one teaches a Python idea and a hardware idea together: if with a button, loops with a PWM fade, lists and functions on an LED bar.

Outcomes

## What you will learn

- Use the REPL to talk to the board and try code a line at a time.
- Read buttons, fade LEDs with PWM and read a sensor with the ADC.
- Drive an OLED screen over I2C.
- Write a complete reaction game in MicroPython.

Your route

## The courses and lessons to take

Every lesson opens in the editor right away, signed in or not, and the simulator checks each step.

- Step 1 · 7 lessons · 3 h

### MicroPython on the Pico

The whole MicroPython course.

- Blink, and talk to the board Your first MicroPython program blinks two LEDs, then you type Python straight into the board with the REPL.
- Loops and a PWM fade A for loop with range() steps an LED from dark to bright and back, using PWM to fake the levels in between.
- Read a sensor with the ADC A knob on GP26 turns into a number with ADC, and that number sets the LED brightness. Then a little math turns it into a percent.
- I2C to an OLED screen Two wires carry a whole conversation: find the OLED and a weather sensor on I2C, then draw text on the screen.
Every lesson in the course
- Step 2 · 7 lessons · 5 h

### Python from zero

New to Python? Learn the language first on a Raspberry Pi.

Beginner Python on a Raspberry Pi: print, variables, decisions, loops, lists, functions, dicts and strings, then a button with gpiozero and a working pedestrian crossing.
Every lesson in the course

Keep going

## Guides and tools on the same subject

Guide

### Raspberry Pi Pico MicroPython in your browser

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Guide

### ESP32 MicroPython simulator

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Simulator

### MicroPython simulator

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Track

### Embedded track

Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi Pico and STM32: pins, timing, buses, motors, WiFi, registers and debugging, every lesson checked on a simulated board.
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Questions

## Questions people ask

Is MicroPython the same as Python?

It is Python 3 with a smaller standard library and extra modules like machine for pins, PWM, the ADC and I2C. The syntax is the same.

MicroPython or C++ for the Pico?

MicroPython is quicker to learn and try. C++ runs faster and is what most products use. Embedded on the Raspberry Pi Pico teaches the same board in C++.

Do I need a Pico to take the course?

No. It runs on a simulated Pico in your browser, and the same code runs on a real Pico.