 on hardware news. The first part of this is don't forget to subscribe to the newsletter. Katnig's guest editing. Along with the cover report to Katnig. Paul C. Yeah. And this week, CircuitPython A2O release candidate one. You can check out the changes and more. There's an enhancement at Synth.io and the RP20 alarm sleep memory. Of course, bug fixes. Yeah. There's a cool interview with Phil Howard, who did the Bluetooth, micro Python stuff. Check that out. And then some of the folks that were in the Chantel, we have some highlights. You can check out this continuous cap touch controller circuit. And yeah. And then lots of Python projects. Of course, and more. But this week, the thing that I wanted to ask you about, because we're working on this, is something that was in Haxter. Hey, look, I know that baby arm that's working. Haxter covered this. This is one of the things that we've been working on for a while. It's what we think the first Python powered baby toy. Also, you can do lots of neat things with it. So I was going to ask you, let's go to the overhead. This is our board right here. Yeah. So this is the, this is a well-known kind of infant toy that a lot of people have seen. This is the baby Einstein, you know, take a long tunes. So we have the board off. And we're going to, this is a coming soon product. So we took the PCB out of it. And we have a replacement. So I'm going to turn it on. And this runs circuit Python, but it does a couple interesting things. There's Wi-Fi and Webflow. And then there's SD cards. When you press the button, so normally this would be a part of the sealed up and be part of the toy itself and everything. But when you press this, that's playing off the internal memory. Yeah. And then we have our own custom lights that you can program on circuit Python stuff. And then let me, I don't know if you can hear that. Could the audio, you might not be able to hear this because you have audio. But this is the kid version of Nine Inch Nails Heart. And somebody makes these. I think it's like rock about. So one of the biggest complaints or like comments about these types of things is like, oh, the songs are repetitive. I'd really like to be able to change them. But they're always like baby toys. Yeah. So there's, there's two things on one place music. And then the other thing is there's a, there's a Wi-Fi capability. So once it's sealed up, so how does this work and why it's Python on hardware, the right choice for this instead of other or a choice for this instead of other things? Well, Python is definitely the fastest way. And it's also the most user friendly, I think, to modify it. And we have Wi-Fi workflows. So once you set it up to connect to your internet, you can log into it and like easily type stuff and like change the lighting and you know what the button does and how it acts. So it's, it's mostly about a speed of integration. And also again, like native Wi-Fi workflow means that you can, you know, edit and change the files, something that if you're using something like Arduino or Zephyr or whatever, you can do over the air programming, but you can only change like all the firmware at once. You can't edit the file, like you can't drag and drop files easily. You'd have to do a lot of work to get that kind of functionality going, but it's built into CircuitPython. So that's kind of nice. And also playing audio and doing audio mixer support with I2S is like built in. So that's also super easy. It's like you just import, you know, audio core and you're ready to go. And the Opix was support, you can have animations. So basically everything was just ready to go. It made it really easy. I can, you know, the hardware was hard, but doing the software only took half an hour. So I think this is going to be a neat reference platform. We're not getting into the baby toy business, but it's a neat reference platform for people who want to do audio. They want to have things light up and they want to have the interaction only be maybe with a phone or not computer or have it over wireless in some way and with components and things that are available, understandable storage that you can upgrade over time if needed. And then it runs off batteries and you're working on low power mode. Yeah, the next step is next step. I mean, it's got, I fixed the power supply, so now it runs off of doubly batteries or USB worth before it wasn't working off the batteries very well. So the next thing is, is, you know, figuring out how I want to do light sleep and deep sleep mode. So probably it'll do light sleep for, you know, two minutes. So it's like, if you press the button, it'll immediately start playing. But if you, you know, don't, don't do anything with it. If you, you know, stop playing audio and you press the button in like two minutes, it'll go into a deep sleep mode. And that way you don't have to remember to turn it off as we left it on and forget the batteries. So I thought this would be like a really good real world example of like, we say Python on hardware, like, well, what can you actually do with all this stuff? And putting these things together is really hard. Yeah. This is why, you know, kind of the joke that Lady A and I talked about is so over 15 years ago, maybe, when make started, every, I don't know, month or so, we'd get an email and make, I was there at this as a senior editor, like, oh, I'm gonna have a kid soon, I'm gonna totally hack baby toys and like do all this stuff. No, it never does. It's really hard if you don't have, because you're busy with kids and stuff. And there was really no, no way to do this as certainly not that, that a mere mortal could do. So now, you know, almost two decades later, it seems like all the pieces are together now. So we think this will be cool reference board. We'll talk about this in the product section, because it's going to be coming soon. Future product designer could be for classes. We don't want to do injection molding or anything like that. We wanted to have that's fit into something that people could get. And then when I kind of pulled informally, everyone has one of these. Yeah, they're everywhere. They're in the back. So they're very, very calm. Yeah. I was talking to someone who's doing a guide with us. They're like, oh, I have two. I don't even know where they came from. So that's this week's Python on hardware, some real world examples. Don't forget to sign up for the newsletter delivered every single week. Adiferdaily.com is where you do it. It is our spam free resource for all things Python and other newsletters that we have as well.