 All right next up Python on hardware. It's mostly It's mostly people getting Pico's and saying I want to do projects on it and with it Yeah, so That's kind of why we made circuit Python like what's cool is you have all these choices you can write and see you do Micro Python you get to circuit Python, but when folks want to do projects One of the things because we have a lot of guides and code and tutorials. Is there using? Circuit Python, so a few things that we covered There was good little podcasts. Yeah, everyone's in the the podcast tours there was discussion with the designers of the RP 2040 Chip designer folks over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. So you can learn the history about it Look at their desktops. Look at their desktops on their desktops. Yeah, so I think it's Liam Frazier and A few others and you can check that on the Raspberry Pi blog They also talk about yeah, like how they went through this arm process to get the The core of the chip and then add peripheral because they wanted to do the PIO stuff and like how do you merge that with the arm? Cortex core so people are like, why didn't they go with risk five? I don't watch this video Yeah, I think a lot of the hot take tweets that People they should maybe just read some of these interviews or the videos or watch them Yeah, yeah, cuz I think a lot of it is answered in these places like oh, why'd you do this? Why'd you do that? Yeah, I see that happened a lot of electronics where Someone spends a huge amount of time on something There's obviously design decisions and they spend a lot of time on documentation say why they did something And then nobody and then people get discouraged and they don't want to do hardware or software anymore So this is pretty rare. You don't get to like see and hear interviews This is quite where I look with other chip people who've worked on chips Here's the deal. There are people at you know microchip at mal nordic You know ST that define the chip. I have no idea who they are. I will never talk to them like They're they're hidden right and good for them They should hide because like why answer people's questions if you don't have to so I'm really impressed with us don't because they Don't they don't want to deal with it. No, I do that That's why it's so great. Yeah that the Raspberry Pi folks like they all came out and they're like Here's what I worked on and talking about the process. Yeah, and you know, it's actually kind of funny They're like a little decompressing. They're like kind of doing therapy because it's been like a four-year long project But now we and we you know at the end there's just like this chip and it's like really small But it took four years. Yeah, so Anyways, I think it's also gonna change the way microcontroller Makers have to compete because you can't just you can't just hide behind a crummy data sheet and like endless like weird You know, there's well, there's a story behind a lot of these things and I think This changes. I'd like the openness The amp-hour also has a podcast they could check out the January 2021 Melbourne micro python meet-up Happened so we usually post this up and our newsletter Damian talks about the micro python port for the Raspberry Pi Pico we mentioned the Adafruit AR overlay. This is really handy. We're seeing kids like a lot of kids have iPads Yeah, and they have Pico so they're able to look at all the pins and more Every Friday Scott has a deep dive. You can check out that one The latest was the RP 2040 audio and the DMA debugging and then around the web We've been collecting up all the examples. We've seen And then this is that Tim on project with the LED beauty lamp, so it's a neopixel inside Yeah, this is different. This is a not Pico project like one way through This is spot actually people like this is a soil moisture indicator using off-the-shelf electronics and it's cool because it's like You know existing code just worked people got circuit Python working with the display on on the Pimeroni Explorer There's an NES emulator if you want to play with that Folks are doing HAD and LEDs and neopixels all stuff that we have working really well in circuit Python So cool stuff. Yeah So that's what we've been other Python keeping track of the other thing. I thought that was neat Someone collected all the bitmap fonts From demo where and then there's there's a couple more examples where you can just like type into Form and then all the fonts come in. I think that'll be neat for like really small devices Well, the project that we just did Carter did for the co2 Display that we showed off last week. He didn't use a font because he had to have like the pixels look a certain way So he actually made a sprite map font. Yeah, so this would be the same technique. We work really great All right, we're up to 297 libraries will be up to 300 pretty soon That's kind of exciting and then as usual we have some of the upcoming events and more Open hardware summit is lots of virtual mode Geopython, Pycon, US and more you could check all this out on Adafruit daily I think it's the biggest Python on hardware newsletter out there and in case you're wondering Python on hardware already happened It's now getting distributed because hey, no it is like what this is something that we thought was gonna happen yeah a few years ago and The fact that there's gonna be millions of microcontrollers Specifically like if you add up the yeah the Pico the RP 2040 And then you add like the Nordic and then you add the ESP 32 and then you add the Atmel microchip ones. I mean we have like 200 250 boards Yeah, so if you go to circuitpython.org you can see the boards But it happened fast or it happened incredibly slow depending on if you're working on it Like if we're done something it's like bye. This would be working on it for years but as far as What we've seen and this is kind of neat from the newsletter is New chip comes out new board comes out Pico and then right away. There's examples that you can literally cut and paste circuitpython being one of the examples of Yeah, the ease of doing this and then I saw the things that people ask What IDE you don't need an idea you don't when when you use circuitpython for example, you don't need an idea You can use a text editor. You can use any idea you want But you're not tied into any an IDE and I think that's one of the things that I've been seeing in some of these Interviews with folks. They're they really like the idea of a repel That they could do real-time stuff and they also really like not having to compile and Then upload to a board like I keep saying it's amazing that micro python was a first-class Development environment for this chip never happened before. This is the first chip where Python hardware is is the first-class language of use. It's not like the quote-unquote toy fun like oh weird hack It's like this is official. This is how they expect people to program this chip. Yeah, so I think you know January was kind of a big month for a lot of this stuff like that's that's when I think the the next chapter really started like we Are like whatever like the makers hackers are doing like on the weekends Eventually it comes mainstream and mainstream in this case is the Python foundation did a chip and shipping on the chip is Python yeah, it's good stuff and that is the Python hardware news for the week Thank You Blinka