 Hi, Jebler here. I'm working on the latest improvements to the SynthIO module, which in CircaPython 8.1 will have a whole lot of new features. And by the way, this stylish board is the Adafruit Prop Feather with an RP2040 and a dedicated I2C sound amplifier, among other goodies. Anyway, the next feature is called ring modulation. So first I'm going to play a sample without ring modulation, and then I will bring the ring modulation in. And so initially it's a fine tone, but it doesn't have a lot of life to it. But with ring modulation, there's just a lot of depth added to the sound with the interplay of those two waveforms. So look for these improvements in a port request to CircaPython coming soon. I'm testing out this new I2S amp BFF for QDPi boards. This one has a Max 98357, which is an I2S 3 watt amplifier. I love it because it's just just a couple of passives. This chip connects three pins to the I2S peripheral and you're ready to go. And these are QDPi boards. You've got them in all sorts of varieties, SAMD 21 and RP2040 and ESP32S3s. This is an ESP32, and what's nice is it has got Wi-Fi, so when I connect this up, it's playing music, but it's not scored on the ESP. This is actually streaming an MP3 from Bandcamp. This is the album that we have at Adafruit by Bartlebeats, and it's featuring Adabot and all of our electronic friends. So this is working really well. Streaming MP3s to I2S and M to this nice speaker. Smallest streaming MP3 player. Yeah. What is this? This is me testing out a I-SPY adapter I made for QDPi boards. So QDPi boards are our seed shell compatible mic controller boards, and they come in all sorts of different configurations. We've got ESP32S2s and SAMD21s and RP2040s and all that good stuff. This one happens to be RP2040, and this is an I-SPY adapter. So on the back, there's all these jumpers in case you want to change the configuration, but it has all the pins necessary to connect to pretty much all of our display boards. So you can connect to the SD card, SPI, I-squared C, IRQs and all that good stuff, and there's no soldering required. You're telling me this tiny thing is better than this thing here. There you go. So coming into the Adafruit shop makes it so easy to connect displays. Early data was this. This is me testing out our new prop maker feather. It's an RP2040 feather. So it's actually running off a battery right now, although you can run it off of USB program it that way too. It's got it megabytes of flash, the RP2040, systemic QT, and it's got a bunch of cool accessories like an I2S amp, an accelerometer, and pre-soldered terminal blocks to make it really easy to make props. So for example, three of the pins here are for Neopixel, and this is 5 volts, and it's even level shifted 5 volt output. And then here's a switch input, you know, and I can test that all the LEDs turn white. That's what my code's doing. And then I've got that I2S amplifier, so I could have this play audio clips. And these are stored on the RP2040 and the 8 megabytes of flash. And with the I2S amp, the audio sounds really good. Early data was this. This is me testing out the prop maker feather, but this time instead of testing it, the forest is in Arduino, this time I'm testing it in Circuit Python. So I've got some LED animations going on here, and then I have the accelerometer changing the angle of the servo. So testing the servo and the onboard accelerometer as well. This is the servo port over here. And I'm also testing out I2S and the mixer capability. So what's really cool about Circuit Python is it has really good audio support. And so for example, I can read this potentiometer and use that to adjust the volume through a digital mixer so you get like really good quality. And of course you can mute, fast forward, you know, play different tracks. So, you know, you can move it up and down and do digital volume control. So, so far everything's working out really well. I've tested pretty much everything on this board and it's ready to get ordered and put into the Adafruit shop. Early data, what is this? This is an ANO style rotary encoder. It's got this like clicky wheel and then five directional buttons up, down, left, right and center. It's kind of reminiscent of classic iPods and it uses a lot of pins. It has like, you know, 11 pins for all of the bits and pieces that are built into this navigation switch. So I designed this StemAQT based board that will basically do everything you need to control and read it over iSquad C. And here's the tester. So it's got the, all the Pogo pins go into all the pads required and this is a Metro M0 running our UPDI uploader code. So I will place this like so and reset it. And it connects over UPDI to program the onboard ATtiny816 and it finishes in just a few seconds. This is now ready to test the rest and get into the Adafruit shop. All right, I posted this photo. This is you and our kiddo in front of your computer. You're designing stuff. The joke that I'll probably keep doing for a little while is AutoCAD is now charging Lidiata two seats because, you know, two people are designing hardware now. Here's kiddo and a little snack. And, you know, well, every dude is complaining on Twitter about stuff or like, you know, just being a direct worshipping hardware, open source hardware. And this is for the Circuit Pirate. This is probably going to be a pretty popular product. We're going to release it into the public domain. And also breaking news, July 26, we're going to do a hack chat with Hackaday about the Circuit Pirate. We posted up a little bit about what's going on with Lidiata. We'll talk about it in a second. I had some graphics that we didn't really get to use for a pirate radio thing that we were going to do. So I revisited these and working with our designer, Bruce. Here's some ideas for the logo. I like the little, you know, pirate hat looking one. I also liked a little circle thing. And then there's also this. So we haven't decided on the logo yet. What is the Circuit Pirate? The Circuit Pirate is, it's a revisit of a very old project where I wanted to try remaking the Bus Pirate, which is a very popular pin twiddling, bus twiddling tool, like it's kind of like a multi-tool Swiss Army knife for electronics that was designed by Ian Lesney of, I'm saying that wrong, sorry, Ian Lanay, of Dangerous Prototypes. And it's over a decade old. This is a design I think in 2010. It was very popular, but unfortunately was recently, I think, discontinued until further notice because it probably component shortages, although I'm not 100% sure why, but we used to stock it and now we are not, we're not able to get it anymore. And so I was like, oh, you know, this could be a good opportunity to revise the design and maybe kind of bring it up to date and redo it with an RP2040. So this is just a rendering. I like to do a 3D rendering, especially when there's big connectors of what it might look like to have a RP2040 base, but still like shape and pin compatible Bus Pirate board. And maybe we'll call it Circuit Pirate. We have just had that because Scott had some ideas for some naming stuff. Really? I'll call some else? Well, something similar maybe. But it'll still use the logo, don't worry. I can only have one thing. I can only work, I do skull logos and skull shape logos. Skull shape, skull logos and skull logo accessories are here. It's got a STEMIQT and it's got the boot and reset button. It's got a mode switch so you can maybe like have it turn off the rebel because it's going to be running again Circuit Python. But the pinout is compatible. And you know, a lot of the work I did was just trying to make it fit so a non-5 volt compliant board. Anyways, more coming soon. You can see a chat about it on the desk. It'll probably be on a couple desk. Okay, that's our giant top secret section this week. Don't ask. It's not out yet.