 All right, Python on hardware. Blinka, Blinka, Blinka, I made you out of Python. Blinka, Blinka, Blinka. I'd like to evaluate your REPL. That is, that's pretty good. I don't know. He thought of that on the fly. Look, I'm going to stick to the engineering, okay? So big news, Open Hardware Summit 2020 Badges circuit Python power. That's big news. Just drop the biggest news first, why don't you? The end, guys. No build up? Thanks everybody. Okay, fine. So here's some renderings. Before it got sent out. So you can see, Bluetooth, B&O055 sensor. Yeah, I'll go back to that. APDS sensor, four buttons. Yeah. Environmental sensing. Yeah. This is jam-packed. It's got a quick connector even. Yay. Yeah. And so what I think is cool. What's cool? Is it's the number 100 circuit Python board. Which we did not plan. It actually just happened that way. The 214th open source hardware certification. Grantee. That's looking number two. Yeah. It has DigiKey as a sponsor. Sparkfund and Oshpark are working on it. Making it. And I think best of all, as we were able to make something together as a community like circuit Python. And I saw the project log. And there was a bunch of different choices that the team who's working on this could make. And they evaluated all the things. No one picks things all the time because they like us. I assume they like us. But maybe let's assume they don't. Doesn't matter because you get so much with circuit Python. I think. Yeah. It was chosen because it was the best possible thing. It wasn't because like Adafruit asked for it. It wasn't because we had anything to do with it. In fact, on our list, circuitpython.org slash downloads. Yeah. There are more non Adafruit boards than Adafruit boards. True. There's 59. I will say, I think, you know, Drew has done a bunch of badges before. I think he's project managing or kind of like he's working on this project. And I think his last project, he used the SP32, which is a great ship. I love the SP32, but because it doesn't have native USB, it can be challenging to get files on and off of it. And I think, you know, he was trying to have people change their photo and text on the badge. And I think like they had to come back to the desk to do it or use like a special tool. And that's why I think he liked the idea of circuit Python where anybody, once they had this watch slash badge, you could quickly modify, hack it, adapt it. And I think that's the goal of circuitpython. People are like, what's circuitpython about? It's about ease of use. In five minutes, you can get something done. You have the ease of use of Python and beginner friendliness of circuitpython, which also means experts find it easier to use as well. If you like rapid prototyping, if you like having great documentation, you like having lots of code. You want to just get to it? Sure. But I like that if you're doing a badge for the open hardware event, you kind of have to pick the most open stuff. You kind of have to pick the things that people will be able to do the mess with. And we didn't know about this. We didn't know anything about it other than it's like, hey, we're doing this now. So I thought that was cool. And it's one of my favorite quotes is be so good they can't ignore you. And I think that if you do a good job with firmware and code and lots of things, people will use it because they're like, well, like this is just the best thing. And that's how I feel about Feather and Stemma and Circuitpython and lots of other things in the electronic community. But this is neat. And I can't wait to get mine. We will. All right. Next up. Keith Packard is doing a very cool crowd supply. I was about to say crowdfunding because kicks are and all that, but it's on crowd supply. Well, there's a cool rendering. Meet the Snackboard. The Snackboard is a Circuitpython compatible board. It runs Snack. It is Python on a very, you know, small micro controller. And it's a great tool for teaching hands on robotics and programming for young and old. Here's all the stuff you can do. Build Snackboard out of Lego parts. And if you're interested in this, you can use Circuitpython or the Snack language. And it's available on crowd supplies. So we're a backer already. I think this is interesting because, you know, yes, of course Snack, this is a really cool low cost way to use Snack or Python on hardware. But the EV3 module from Lego, like their official programmable brick, is also now MicroPython compatible. That's new. Like a couple of weeks ago we announced that. So I think it's interesting to see how kind of everyone is sort of meandering, but eventually getting to the point of like, you know what, Python is a really good way to get people programming robotics and electronics. And you said before that robotics, you know, if you have to calibrate sensors and test motors, doing it in rapid iteration with Circuitpython is really great. Yeah. If you have to change one little value to make the servo do one more angle and hit compile and save it and all these things come up and then it transfers down and then has to boot up. Per iteration, you're looking at days and weeks just to do the same thing you can do live with a REPL. So I think wherever this electronic world ends up, I think live coding and REPL and a scripting language, Python like or Python, is going to be where it's at. And because that's where it's going too. It's not like, it's not we're making this up. We're actually just reporting on what's happening. Yeah. It just hasn't been distributed yet. It is. Like Bill Gibson would say. Okay. So that's going on. All right. Next up. So we have some massive updates on Circuitpython.org. Yeah, we've skinned up. It's cool. Blinka shed her skin and grown a new one. Yeah. So the things that are in there, there's a homepage with that has descriptive text on why Circuitpython is easy to use all the folks we thank and all the links to the different efforts that are out there. Special thanks to Damien George from MicroPython. That's where we got our start with Circuitpython. Downloads features over 100 boards and now has a counter of how many boards that are supported. Same for Blinka. There's a board counter and there's over 35 libraries. The Circuitpython library bundle contains all the current libraries available for Circuitpython over 200. Hand you links for how to contribute. The latest news. And I put in an RSS feed. Thank you, Justin. You've always wanted an RSS feed. Everybody should have an RSS feed. You're welcome. Links to awesome-circuitpython as a resource. The newsletter with all the past issues we've ever sent out. Help link discord server and how to get started. Go check it out. New boards. Circuitpython snakes its way to the seed. Seed we know. How do you think? The shell. The shell. Yeah. Okay. It's a minimal and low cost board uses that Mel, Sandy 21. Guess what? You weren't Circuitpython. It's a red one. But if you want to do some space stuff. So Max and Zach are doing an event. It's the robot exploration lab and Kubos and Lough Orbital. They're the host. And if you want to learn all about PyCube, the Circuitpython powered satellite board and why they chose Circuitpython, check it out. There's some slides and more that you'll be able to see on the tweets. But I posted up the event bright link and resources and more. This is kind of cool. There's a Laura watch coming soon. Open source Laura communicator and out of the box, out of the gate. Guess what? You could be doing something really important. They're saying Circuitpython is going to run on it. So they have posted up some renderings. I thought that was cool. That was nice. And here's the 3D one that spins around. I think it's like, yeah, it's very similar to the one. It's very similar to the watch. So this is so cool. We didn't get around to doing a watch yet. No problem. Someone else's. So that's cool. Nice work. Also, here's a cool video that was posted up. It's all about the Adafruit Itsy Bitsy NRF 52840. And watch the whole thing later. But this is a nice community made video that shows all the cool features and all the things you can do. Smaller than a 9 volt. There's some really neat games. We've had the Pie Badges and Pie Gamer out for a while. And it's a really cool game. And it's a really cool game. It's a little bit weird, but it's really a cool festival. And students are making pretty cool games. This is Joe in the jungle and Snackabobs Bongo Bonanza. It's a circuit python game, an old-school video game for Pie Badge. And it's made with the second circuit python and stage library to create a guitar hero-like game. This is the egg collector. Okay, I need eggs. Yeah. So you go and Go get the egg. Guess what you're gonna do? Oh, collect the eggs. Don't get the bomb. Don't get the bomb. Uh-oh. Tough. How do you get both eggs? Okay. It's tough. So the other thing that we've been trying to do, and again, it's like, I think I said this on the show on top, when people talk about stuff that are using it, they usually come up with better words than the people who are making it. So this is neat. You know, I always have to remember, like, what do people say about CircuitPython and Python on hardware? And John on Twitter was just talking about this. And someone was like, oh, what's the CircuitPython thing? And they said, it's super nice to be able to reuse the same libraries on the microcontroller as on the server and desktop. And that's what we did with CircuitPython and with Blinka, so that's nice. Here's the CircuitPython project. This is the NeoPixel strip matrix. It's animation with Neo Spray, bitmap-driven animations. We link to that in the forums and GitHub and YouTube. And you can see how this is made, and it uses CircuitPython. Up next. This is a 240 by 240 mini-pi TFT as a piehole with a BME 280 on a StemAQT with CircuitPython. This is cool because it's exactly what it's meant for. It's an ad blocker, but also connect up a sensor to the plug and then run our example code and you can immediately get a sensor there. Tom created a CircuitPython library for the FFT code based on SuperCon AudioBadge project. Using the Adafruit guides made super easy. You can check out the code and this is a little bit of a snippet from what it can do. Next up, lots of neat combinations. This is Evan's project. It's a Sphero RVR in CircuitPython working together. The metro and four over there. Yeah. Arturo of NXP chip fame, feather NXP fame. Had a neat thing. Took five minutes to add support for a new display, CircuitPython. That's how easy it is. Yeah. Five minutes. There you go. Like that? There you go. Your replant. This is from Deshipu, one of the most talented console makers for CircuitPython. This is a case mod that someone in the community did. It's really neat. The maker movement now just makes BabyYotus. It's 100% BabyYotus. This is a 3D printing project and this was from MicroCenter and they used a Circuit Playground to animate it or BabyYota. It's kind of cool. This is an LED little black dress with a sound reactive mode and other patterns by GeekMom Projects. It was made with a Circuit Playground blue fruit. Here is a first rev of Bluetooth LE air quality monitor using our stuff, Adabox right of Christmas. And here's another quote, crazy how much you can get built these days just using Python. That's right. You can build it with just Python. Other stuff going on and hardware that we thought was neat. There is a lot of really cool companion bots, it's from Angela and you can see this really cute bot. This is a bunch of feather stuff. The tail has a power cord in it, super cool. Over on the MicroBit world, Micromag.cc, there are now open for more contributions. So if you'd like yourself some MicroBit and some MicroPython of that, you can read an article. Couple neat projects. Some LEDs, NeoPixels and Resin, good for a project like Valentine's Day related soon. This is kind of neat, this is some 3D printing in NeoPixels. Yeah, I like these fans. It's so cool, it's like a different shape and style, I've not seen this kind of thing. And you know we had a recap of a lot of the guides, this is CircuitPython, PoweredCube and that is the Python on Hardware news this week. Thank you Adabot and Nerva.