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MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
Interesting.

https://micropythonos.com/

https://github.com/MicroPythonOS/MicroPythonOS

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/9GGXNF-micropythonos-...

Indeed much better resource than this ads ridden page…
Does it support the threading module?
Wow, these preassembled ESP32 plus touchscreen boards are extremely cheap, and there are tons of them in all kinds of different form factors on Amazon. I didn't realize this kind of thing was so plentiful, this seems like a great way to bootstrap many kinds of electronics/IoT projects
Any commercial products using ESP?
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Looks better than any Python GUI framework I’ve seen..
It uses LVGL https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl
Can we port it to Intel, I wonder...?
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Love me some MicroPython. Building a product line of small farm security devices that use uPy and MQTT.
Does it run on the CYD? https://github.com/witnessmenow/ESP32-Cheap-Yellow-Display
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45525804
how does it compare to https://github.com/wasp-os/wasp-os?
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I'd use it. I'd be curious to see how close to daily driving it is for stuff like calls, SMS, and email. Something not driven by a giant data mining company would be splendid.
I would love to have this, but Lua not Python.
Mathematicians don't build GUIs, and nobody else can stand starting their arrays with 1.
Lua also let's you start arrays at 3.
As does Perl with `$[`[0][1]

[0] "This variable stores the index of the first element in an array, and of the first character in a substring."

[1] With the caveat: 'As of Perl v5.30.0, or under "use v5.16", or "no feature "array_base"", $[ no longer has any effect"'

You can start your arrays in Lua at 0. Conventionally you don't, but you can.
Will MicroPythonOS also work with CircuitPython?

CircuitPython docs > Differences from MicroPython: https://docs.circuitpython.org/en/latest/README.html#differe...

Also, there's pipkin: https://github.com/aivarannamaa/pipkin#pipkin :

> Tool for managing distribution packages for MicroPython and CircuitPython on target devices or in a local directory.

> Supports mip- and upip-compatible packages, and regular pip-compatible packages

Hopefully - for 3 types of packages - pipkin supports GPG signatures, PyPI's TUF, and/or sigstore attestations like pip?

Just checked; pip doesn't support checking PEP740 attestations yet either?

pipkin: https://github.com/aivarannamaa/pipkin

trailofbits/pip-plugin-pep740: https://github.com/trailofbits/pip-plugin-pep740

> Android-like user experience

so crap. No inovation those days.

What would you have wanted to see?
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At the first look: clear delimitation of UI elements, usable scrollbars.
I mean I kind of get your frustration, but I don't think innovating the user interface is not really the goal of this project, the opposite actually, it's moreso trying to provide a well-known user interface to devices where that was previously hard, so the goal is to be similar.

I would like to see some fresh ideas in UI though, everything is the same nowadays... :(