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I released TinyEdit, a text editor for Thumby. It's available from the Thumby arcade.
I've been writing a game for ages. It's not ready yet, but it spawned TinyTunes, a music editor, because I wanted music in the game. Then I wanted to edit a level file. I had to connect the Thumby to a computer. "I want a text editor on Thumby!" So I wrote one.
One issue is that there's very little memory. So there's a fair chance if you open a big-ish file that it crashes. Maybe the Micropython memory management isn't great because it isn't consistent about which files are too big.
I've learned a bit of Python, and bumped against some of its quirks. And it's fun working round the limitations of the device. For example, the final thing I'm working on for the game is improving the animation of a character who's only 9 pixels tall.