MicroLua – Lua for the RP2040 Microcontroller
MicroLua allows programming the RP2040 microcontroller in Lua. It packages the latest Lua interpreter with bindings for the Pico SDK and a cooperative threading library. MicroLua is licensed under the MIT license. I wanted to learn about Lua and about the RP2040 microcontroller. This is the result :)
MicroLua – Lua for the RP2040 Microcontroller launched on November 3, 2023 with 121 votes, #481 of 4,333 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
MicroLua enables programming of the RP2040 microcontroller using Lua instead of C. It bundles the latest Lua interpreter with bindings for the Pico SDK and includes a cooperative threading library for managing concurrent tasks. Built by someone learning both Lua and microcontroller development, MicroLua is released under the MIT license and targets developers who prefer Lua's simplicity for embedded systems projects on the RP2040 platform.
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From the sources
Lua for the RP2040 microcontroller. Contribute to MicroLua/MicroLua development by creating an account on GitHub.
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