 It's Python on hardware time. All right, so this week in the newsletter, we have a Cirque Python 7 update, 732. Has a bunch of bug fixes. Yes, Dan Hover has been actually fixing a lot of issues with airlift boards and libraries and just cranking through a bunch of stuff. So even though we're working on eight, which has a lot to do with Wi-Fi and workflow and adding ESP32 support, we are still keeping up to date with 7.3 series and of course all of those changes will be in eight as well. So if you're up for it, please use eight, but we definitely recommend if you're still on seven to upgrade to 7.3.2, particularly if you're using airlift boards. Yeah, so we noted that we hit our latest milestone and discord. Thank you everybody. We have about almost 5,000 people there at any time and then altogether 35,000 people. Our discord is a little different than other discords for folks who are multiple servers. So our goal isn't to have like 35,000 people all there at once. And I know like discord will give you a certain perks if you're a community or server or brand or company. If you have like massive amounts of people at the same time, what we usually have is people who come in for help showing their projects and then they go and make stuff. So we don't have as many of the discord perks that they give you, but we do have a lot of members. We just don't have them all at the same time, but we still have quite a bit. So anyways, if you're wondering like why we don't have all the same flare buttons and stuff like that, there's a panel inside of discord that says you need to have like for the number of people you have, you have to have more people on at the same time. I've tried to explain this to discord that we're a little different, but I get it, like we're unusual for how we use things. We always kind of use things and maybe how they're not intended, but that's why we're all here. So anyways, tons of projects and more. I thought there was a pretty neat entry in the newsletter and did a post and also put it in there. It's like, how do you steer all of Python? So there's an article about- It's a big project. Yeah, there's an article. It's like, how does it actually work? What does the steering committee do? What does the Python software foundation do? What's the benevolent dictator role in the past? You know, all those things. So check out all the different stories and more, all the things that we do every single week. Oh, that's nice. Milmot are- There's a little blink of snake. Yeah, that's nice graphic. She wants a TB-661, too. Lots of e-ink and badges and more. And then Joey's been kind of like doing a real time thing with like, here's how I do drivers with Circuit Python. So all that being said, the thing that I'm really excited about is Circuit Python Day, which is August 19th, Friday. Coming up in about a month. And this is from Kmatch. And these are the Circuit Python-powered tablets and we're given away. And here is a note from Tim. Hello, everybody. Foamy Guy here. Today, I'm excited to share the details for the Circuit Python hack tablet giveaway. There are links to this announcement and the entry form in the description below. To summarize, you may now enter to win an ESP32-S3-powered hack tablet using the entry form linked below. On August 3rd, we will select the first three individuals to receive tablets, giving priority to those willing to help test or develop this functionality for two out of those three tablets. On August 26th, we will select two more individuals to receive the remaining tablets. Everyone who didn't get chosen on the 3rd will be automatically entered, along with anyone who submits an entry form prior to the 26th of August. Thank you for watching and special thanks to Kmatch for making this giveaway possible. That's kind of a big deal. We're gonna have Circuit Python-powered tablets that we're gonna send out to some folks. They recycle, toss out stuff. So there was a question in chat. We'll bundle this up into the Python on hardware section because I think it's interesting from your point of view, Lady Eda, because you're one of many people who work on Circuit Python. But when do we decide to do something like, oh, Circuit Python 732 is solid enough. When do we say it's time for eight? Well, eight's being worked on right now. The question is when eight's ready and the answer is when we have enough people who've used it, given us feedback, and we've finished up the bug list. We have a bunch of issues and bugs tagged in Circuit Python. People who are beta testing open them and also we find them and also there's stuff that we wanna get finished in development. We'd like to get an alpha or something or a release candidate or a beta out Circuit Python day. So the thing that you can do to help is try out eight. Alpha, whatever we call it. Mainline, latest release and let us know what doesn't work so that we can fix it and then I'll get us closer and closer to the release. Just like maybe in your experience seeing other open source projects or even our work with Circuit Python, do you think it's an amount of time where we're like, oh, seven is stable. Let's start experimenting with eight or is it like a combination of two? Like we want people to break eight because we have a bunch of changes. Like when, is it time? Is it use? It's both. We do major releases when we have major changes. So for example, I think the MPY format might be changing because we keep upstream with MicroPython, right? So when they make a big breaking change or something that really changes the experience that's a major revision. Otherwise we just keep using the version we're on right now. For eight, we're adding this Wi-Fi workflow. It's a pretty big change. We're adding ESP32. It's a different way of using Circuit Python board. It's a new family of chips. And so for that, we wanted to go in this MPY change. There's a couple of other breaking changes, I think. So what we tried to do is if we remove something that kind of goes into a major revision as well. So that's how we know when to move from seven to eight. Yeah, and then let me go to adafruit.com slash new. For folks that are super fans, so we don't have a lot of these. So that's why we're not putting in a new product section, but I'll put this in the Python on Hardware section. So if you scroll down because this was a coming soon product, you will notice, did I pass it? No, I didn't. Okay, there's only 14 left, but we have Circuit Python eight posters because we tried to make sure we have posters for the team. And this one, we got special permission from Expressive to do a Circuit Python launch poster. So there's only 14 left, and that's probably gonna be it. Yeah, we don't make more. Yeah, probably gonna be it. So if you were wondering when eight's gonna be out, usually a poster happens and then a few things happen later. And that's this week's Python on Hardware. Don't forget, you can get this delivered to your inbox every week. It's a completely separate site because we don't believe in spamming or anything like that. And that's this week's Python on Hardware, lady. Thank you, Blinka. Okay.