diff --git a/examples/micropython/Makefile b/examples/micropython/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1bd38786ead7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/Makefile
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+# name of your application
+APPLICATION = micropython
+
+# If no BOARD is found in the environment, use this default:
+BOARD ?= native
+
+# This has to be the absolute path to the RIOT base directory:
+RIOTBASE ?= $(CURDIR)/../..
+
+# select MicroPython package
+USEPKG += micropython
+
+# include boot.py as header
+BLOBS += boot.py
+
+# configure MicroPython's heap size
+MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE ?= 8192U
+
+# MicroPython needs a larger stack
+CFLAGS += '-DTHREAD_STACKSIZE_MAIN=THREAD_STACKSIZE_DEFAULT*4'
+
+# use miniterm (instead of the default pyterm) in order to support control
+# characters (CTRL-D ...)
+RIOT_TERMINAL ?= miniterm
+
+# enable modmachine support for peripherals if available
+FEATURES_OPTIONAL += periph_adc
+FEATURES_OPTIONAL += periph_spi
+
+include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
diff --git a/examples/micropython/Makefile.ci b/examples/micropython/Makefile.ci
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f89fbf3203c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/Makefile.ci
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+BOARD_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY := \
+    blackpill \
+    bluepill \
+    calliope-mini \
+    i-nucleo-lrwan1 \
+    microbit \
+    nrf51dongle \
+    nucleo-f030r8 \
+    nucleo-f031k6 \
+    nucleo-f042k6 \
+    nucleo-f070rb \
+    nucleo-f072rb \
+    nucleo-f302r8 \
+    nucleo-f303k8 \
+    nucleo-f334r8 \
+    nucleo-l031k6 \
+    nucleo-l053r8 \
+    opencm904 \
+    saml10-xpro \
+    saml11-xpro \
+    stm32f0discovery \
+    spark-core \
+    stm32f030f4-demo \
+    stm32l0538-disco \
+    #
diff --git a/examples/micropython/README.md b/examples/micropython/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..56f5e68cfac1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Overview
+
+WARNING: RIOT's MicroPython port is currently quite incomplete!
+
+This application provides an example on how to use MicroPython with RIOT.
+Please see the documentation of pkg/micropython.
diff --git a/examples/micropython/boot.py b/examples/micropython/boot.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3f3c50a4c83f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/boot.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+print("boot.py: MicroPython says hello!")
diff --git a/examples/micropython/main.c b/examples/micropython/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be5b7c00d235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+ * directory for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     examples
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       micropython example application
+ *
+ * @author      Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *
+ * @}
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "thread.h"
+
+#include "micropython.h"
+#include "py/stackctrl.h"
+#include "lib/utils/pyexec.h"
+
+#include "blob/boot.py.h"
+
+static char mp_heap[MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE];
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    int coldboot = 1;
+
+    /* let MicroPython know the top of this thread's stack */
+    uint32_t stack_dummy;
+    mp_stack_set_top((char*)&stack_dummy);
+
+    /* Make MicroPython's stack limit somewhat smaller than actual stack limit */
+    mp_stack_set_limit(THREAD_STACKSIZE_MAIN - MP_STACK_SAFEAREA);
+
+    while (1) {
+        /* configure MicroPython's heap */
+        mp_riot_init(mp_heap, sizeof(mp_heap));
+
+        /* execute boot.py
+         *
+         * MicroPython's test suite gets confused by extra output, so only do
+         * this the first time after the node boots up, not on following soft
+         * reboots.
+         */
+        if (coldboot) {
+            puts("-- Executing boot.py");
+            mp_do_str((const char *)boot_py, boot_py_len);
+            puts("-- boot.py exited. Starting REPL..");
+            coldboot = 0;
+        }
+
+        /* loop over REPL input */
+        while (1) {
+            if (pyexec_mode_kind == PYEXEC_MODE_RAW_REPL) {
+                if (pyexec_raw_repl() != 0) {
+                    break;
+                }
+            } else {
+                if (pyexec_friendly_repl() != 0) {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        puts("soft reboot");
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/examples/micropython/tests/01-run.py b/examples/micropython/tests/01-run.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..067029d74a7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/micropython/tests/01-run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+from testrunner import run
+
+
+def testfunc(child):
+    def get_time():
+        child.sendline('utime.time()')
+        child.readline()
+        res = int(child.readline().rstrip())
+        child.expect_exact('>>>')
+        return res
+
+    child.expect_exact('boot.py: MicroPython says hello!')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    child.sendline('print("echo this! " * 4)')
+    child.expect_exact('echo this! echo this! echo this! echo this!')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    # test riot.thread_getpid()
+    child.sendline('import riot')
+    child.sendline('print(riot.thread_getpid())')
+    child.expect_exact('2')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    #
+    # test xtimer integration
+    #
+
+    child.sendline('import utime')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    # testing timing over serial using the REPL is very inaccurate, thus
+    # we allow a *large* overshoot (100 by default).
+    def test_sleep(t, slack=100):
+        before = get_time()
+        child.sendline('utime.sleep_ms(%s)' % t)
+        child.expect_exact('>>>')
+        duration = get_time() - before
+        print("test_sleep(%s, %s): slept %sms" % (t, slack, duration))
+        assert duration > t and duration < (t + slack)
+        return duration
+
+    # get overhead from sleeping 0ms, add 10 percent
+    slack = int(test_sleep(0, 1000) * 1.1)
+
+    test_sleep(50, slack)
+    test_sleep(250, slack)
+    test_sleep(500, slack)
+
+    # test setting timers
+    child.sendline('import xtimer')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+    child.sendline('a = 0')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    child.sendline('def inc_a(): global a; a+=1')
+    child.expect_exact('...')
+    child.sendline('')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    child.sendline('t = xtimer.xtimer(inc_a)')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    before = get_time()
+
+    child.sendline('t.set(500000)')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    child.sendline('while a==0: pass')
+    child.expect_exact('...')
+    child.sendline('')
+    child.expect_exact('>>>')
+
+    duration = get_time() - before
+    assert duration > 500
+
+    print("[TEST PASSED]")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(run(testfunc))
diff --git a/pkg/micropython/Makefile b/pkg/micropython/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f29342605e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/micropython/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME=micropython
+PKG_URL=https://github.com/kaspar030/micropython
+PKG_VERSION=5c45688d431a4d0f626d86478ad490cfb6d8ac30
+PKG_LICENSE=MIT
+
+CFLAGS += -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-error
+
+.PHONY: all
+
+all:
+	@mkdir -p $(PKG_BUILDDIR)/tmp
+	BUILD=$(PKG_BUILDDIR) "$(MAKE)" -C $(PKG_BUILDDIR)/ports/riot
+
+include $(RIOTBASE)/pkg/pkg.mk
diff --git a/pkg/micropython/Makefile.dep b/pkg/micropython/Makefile.dep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..af55a869531d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/micropython/Makefile.dep
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+USEMODULE += xtimer
+USEMODULE += stdin
+
+# MicroPython doesn't compile for <32bit platforms
+FEATURES_BLACKLIST += arch_8bit arch_16bit
+
+# This port currently requires ISR_STACKSIZE and thread_isr_stack_start
+FEATURES_BLACKLIST += arch_arm7 arch_esp32 arch_esp8266 arch_riscv
+
+# The port currently doesn't compile for mips
+FEATURES_BLACKLIST += arch_mips32r2
diff --git a/pkg/micropython/Makefile.include b/pkg/micropython/Makefile.include
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b19a7006b775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/micropython/Makefile.include
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# configuration
+MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE ?= 16384U
+
+CFLAGS += -DMP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE=$(MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE)
+
+# include paths
+INCLUDES += -I$(RIOTBASE)/pkg/micropython/include
+INCLUDES += -I$(PKGDIRBASE)/micropython
+INCLUDES += -I$(PKGDIRBASE)/micropython/ports/riot
+
+# The port currently doesn't build with llvm
+TOOLCHAINS_BLACKLIST += llvm
diff --git a/pkg/micropython/doc.txt b/pkg/micropython/doc.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4daafcf9de1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/micropython/doc.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/**
+ * @defgroup pkg_micropython MicroPython RIOT port
+ * @ingroup  pkg
+ * @brief    MicroPython - Python for microcontrollers
+ *
+ * # MicroPython RIOT package
+ *
+ * "MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3
+ *  programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard
+ *  library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained
+ *  environments."
+ *
+ * @see https://micropython.org
+ *
+ * ## Status
+ *
+ * MicroPython on RIOT has to be considered experimental. While the basic
+ * interpreter works fairly well on native and Cortex-M, it has not seen much
+ * testing.
+ *
+ * ## Configuration options
+ *
+ * Use the following environment variables in the application Makefile
+ * or from the command line to configure MicroPython:
+ *
+ * MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE: heap size for MicroPython, in bytes. Defaults to 16KiB.
+ *
+ * Example on the command line:
+ * ```
+ * MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE=2048 make -C examples/micropython
+ * ```
+ *
+ * ## Implementation details
+ *
+ * The RIOT port of MicroPython currently resides in a fork at
+ * https://github.com/kaspar030/micropython (in branch add_riot_port). It is
+ * based on Micropython's "ports/minimal" with some extra modules enabled.
+ * It re-uses the gc_collect code from ports/unix, which has special support
+ * for i386 and Cortex-M. On other platforms, it uses setjmp() to collect
+ * registers.
+ *
+ * ## MicroPython's test suite
+ *
+ * It is possible to run MicroPython's test suite for testing this port.
+ *
+ * Steps:
+ *
+ * 1. make -Cexamples/micropython flash
+ * 2. cd examples/micropython/bin/pkg/${BOARD}/micropython
+ * 3. git apply ports/riot/slow_uart_writes.patch
+ * 4. cd tests
+ * 5. ./run-tests --target pyboard --device ${PORT}
+ *
+ * ## MicroPython modules
+ *
+ * Currently, the port enables only a subset of the available MycroPython
+ * modules. See "ports/riot/mpconfigport.h" for details.
+ *
+ * For now, the utime module has RIOT specific code and should work as expected.
+ *
+ * ## RIOT specific modules
+ *
+ * Currently, these are implemented:
+ *
+ * ### thread_getpid()
+ *
+ *     >>> import riot
+ *     >>> print(riot.thread_getpid())
+
+ * ### xtimer
+ *
+ *     >>> import xtimer
+ *     >>>
+ *     >>> a = 0
+ *     >>> def inc_a():
+ *     >>>   global a
+ *     >>>   a += 1
+ *     >>>
+ *     >>> t = xtimer.xtimer(inc_a)
+ *     >>> t.set(100000)
+ *     >>> print(a)
+ *
+ * ## How to use
+ *
+ * See examples/micropython for example code.
+ *
+ */
diff --git a/pkg/micropython/include/micropython.h b/pkg/micropython/include/micropython.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9c4839166cf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/micropython/include/micropython.h
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *               2019 Inria
+ *               2019 Freie Universität Berlin
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+ * directory for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     pkg_micropython
+ *
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       MicroPython RIOT specific API
+ *
+ * @author      Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ */
+
+#ifndef MICROPYTHON_H
+#define MICROPYTHON_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#ifndef MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE
+/* use a reasonable default heap size */
+#define MP_RIOT_HEAPSIZE (16U*1024)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef MP_STACK_SAFEAREA
+#define MP_STACK_SAFEAREA (128U)
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * @brief   Initialize RIOT MicroPython port
+ *
+ * @param[in]   heap        ptr to heap MicroPython should use
+ * @param[in]   heap_size   size of heap
+ */
+void mp_riot_init(char* heap, size_t heap_size);
+
+/**
+ * @brief   Execute a string as MicroPython code
+ *
+ * The string will be executed on the global MicroPython instance.
+ *
+ * @param[in]   src pointer to Python code
+ * @param[in]   len length of src
+ */
+void mp_do_str(const char *src, int len);
+
+#endif /* MICROPYTHON_H */
+/** @} */