 It is now time for some Python on hardware Blink-a-blink-a-blink-a big news we have Circuit Python 5 which is out and it also means we are now up to 116 boards here's a preview of some of them circuit Python 5. What are some highlights? I'm glad you asked well first off. Yes, we added a ton more new boards We really strengthened our nrf 52 support Bluetooth was almost completely reworked. It's not better than ever We added IMX support for the IMX RT 10 10 series So all the NXP chips are starting to go in they're starting to come in slowly But so they do work people have a teensy for please try it out. You can Install circuit Python on it. So that's new in 5.0. We also added some more. We added STM 32 Support so STM 32 f4 series chip, which are very popular with makers Very popular in industry as well. So if you have boards that use those chips you can add those Intent and we also sped up a lot of stuff. We improved display IO quite a bit. I think some memory management some back and you know Speed ups and behind the scenes with how we manage interrupts. So you should see better performance It's a really solid release and a lot of improvements. So I definitely recommend people update to 5 Okay new boards the nano 33 that's from Arduino is Supported by circuit Python now the circuit brains basic and deluxe the feather m7 You already mentioned this in the spark fun CMD 51 thing plus Yeah, we tested a bunch of new boards and more coming in like every single week. Okay. We also have our new project This is pilot on it's an open-source bike computer easiest best way for you to learn all about Bluetooth and do things like heart rate and miles per hour and Cadence cadence and you also get music So it's a demo of like if you have four Bluetooth devices you can connect to all them at once very powerful Bluetooth demo. Okay Here's a couple other Shots Open hardware summit is coming up. The badges are completed. We saw some photos online We'll do an update on our blog, but here is one from drew. This is it working with All sorts of things so you've got humidity pressure altitude temperature All sorts of different sensor information they get in it's also wearable and of course it runs and all these drivers are ready to go It's so easy. Yeah, okay The new board that we wanted to get out is out. It's sold out instantly. It's probably gonna be a top seller It is the feather nrf 52 840 Blue fruit sense so you can check that out sign up. We'll have more in stock very very soon Yes, they went fast, but they are going to be very popular. I think so we'll be making tons soon Okay, Python slizzers over to Android. There is a Python for Android application that you can try out. This is from the folks over at Pi beware and also I think the Python Foundation helped fund this so if you wanted to do Python on Android You can check out there The article that we mentioned last week in hackspace is now online. It's by drew. It's called Python on hardware the future is serpentine and It is I think gonna be one of the articles that people refer back to and say I remember when I heard about Python on hardware I read it in hackspace or whatever and now everything has Python on it. So check that out. It's online. We link to it the PDF is available the whole issue, but then sometimes they also post up articles Okay, this is kind of neat. This is from Matt Matt posted this up The tinker squad decided to teach kids Python and you can see they were using move They were using circuit playground and they were using circuit playground express. So this is sound and Python all working together and if these kids can do Python on hardware you What I like is you can see everybody has different Color LEDs on their circuit playground, which means each person was able to customize the code They're not just following the instructions and like pasting in the default They're then changing it to customize it. So like the girl has the pink mattress or sweater Next up if you posted up is doing a new potential project. It's called Well, it's called the big It's called the big honkin buck button. Yeah, and will it run circuit Python? Yes for easy hacking so if you want this check out the Twitter link and Let you know that this is a project you would like to see it's a module. It's a synth. You press the button and it makes a sound Peak mom is working on getting clue to work with the bright wearables line of wearables So you can see it here. It's sound reactive the screen works Plugs in since the micro bit compatible as far as the connector you can do things like testing voice activation Play things on the screen and more Testing testing speaking of compatibility. We got the little plan box from Japan working with the clue So it was made for micro bit, but since the clue is in micro bit format We can use circuit Python to control this cute little humanoid robot. We'll show a longer video later on show Some Bluetooth controlled psychic paper this shows, you know, if you're a doctor who fan, you know all about this this is a doctor and then the Text shows up as a different doctor and yes, they're regenerating. Yep It's important if you're if you have multiple different physical and Ken, you know instantiations You have to have a flexible ID card. Yep. Oh, you don't get stuck Here is circuit playground Cricket and circuit Python all working together for this very cool blue fruit cricket robot Effective Quick note, I can just post it up. We are still on for Python. It's in April unknown For everyone how COVID is going to affect more events, but since it's out in April They've been working with the folks in Pittsburgh so far so good Do check out the Python blog look at their posts. I have to hand it to Python They are excellent about giving information to all the attendees the sponsors and everyone if all events did that I think there'd be some less less uncertainty in chaos. So good work. I con. Thanks for keeping everyone updated Todd went to an event and this is a like massive neo trellis using circuit Python and controlling this tower of Neopixels This one I have to post a little bit more. Someone made their own circuit Python VS code extension Yeah, and so it's in you can you can just download and use it right away I'll link to it. There's a there's an update, but you can check this out We link to it in the newsletter and our site. This is a cool little board. It's called the commander It's a 16 megabyte flash sd accelerometer for about 9 led a little device that runs circuit Python You know place keystrokes off the sd card. Yeah, I thought it was interesting It's like it's it's you know, there's hid built into circuit Python So it's very easy to read files of an sd card and then immediately type them out It's actually like a 50 line code project So I think this could be for like automating certain events if you want to plug it in and then say like okay I want to install Software set up a Chromebook or something people use things like this to do that automatic scripting tools. Okay quick feather This is the quick logic EOS s3 open hardware of Alboard. This is from the quick logic Corp It's an FPGA that was spotted at a better world by Drew. It had a cortex m4 microcontroller runs effort in feather format Check this out. It'll be coming out soon and also check out awesome dash feather on github You just search for that. There's also a horse named awesome feather No relation to our awesome feather list, but it is kind of cool. Should we call quick feather? Yeah, the coolest horse. Okay. This is neat This is a ritual mask of predator. So they use this is what it is So they made this on their own and it uses the monster mask or the hollowing I Inside of there so you can see Okay, great Next up. There was a really good article about Python as a programming language cool thing is It's now number two Python wasn't singled out in these rankings from Redmunk That often because it just keeps growing and it's steady and this time it's a little different for this quarter It spent four years in fourth place and then it jumped up to third place three years ago until this month For the first time in history of these rankings, which began in 2012 There is a non Java or JavaScript entry in the number two slot that is Python So it was JavaScript and Java. Yeah, then Python then like looks like C++ C CSS Yep, okay. See rust catching up there. Okay. Go rust and lost up if you want to celebrate Women's history month and women's history day. There is a really cool Workshop that the Beirut digital district is doing and it's part of the Beirut hack space and You can if you happen to be in the area you're there, but you can also probably catch it online We linked to that and more and that is Python on Harvard this week All right, okay