 All right, it's Python on a hard time this week Lady Aida, we've got a lot going on in the world of Blinka Circuit Python and more Let's go over to our newsletter. So this week One of the things that we did last week was talk about the 100 libraries in the community bundles So that was breaking news like news last week I do want to thank everyone who's in our discord. We're up to 37 Thousand people. Thank you. It's one of the biggest open Discords, thanks for keeping it a good safe place for everyone um And this is kind of a neat project. We're starting to see a lot of Especially Python based projects that use hardware with chat gbt and again, you know our point of view In case you're all wondering is this is a fantastic thing to generate gobs of text for fiction So, um, this is kind of neat. Uh, this is a raspberry pi That'll pretend to be clippy and move around and say things. So, you know, if you want to paper clip the talk Chat gbt might be for you. Um, and then we watched some of the, um, Arduino it was Arduino day and it was also Um, Hackaday, Berlin a lot going on I think it was Saturday Even with time zones and there's a new arduino Uno r4 unclear Theoretically it could run micropython. It could it could run micropython. It's um arm cortex, which is which is good And it's got a 32 k of ram, which is enough. I mean that we have the samd 21 with 32 k of ram So it's not, you know ton, but it's comparable to samd 21. What's interesting about this chip Uh, it's a cortex. Sorry. It's a cortex m4. So it's much more powerful than the samd 21 And it's a five volt logic microcontroller, which is it's a rare thing, right? Not a lot of microcontrollers that are arm cortex run at five volts and have usb Um, so it'd be interesting if something, you know, there was a lot of demand for five volt logic level Support this would be like the chip you could use it with. Yeah, we'll see if folks want this This is a different direction for adrino. We shall see Um, and then some new firmware for micro bit a good comparison on some hobby pc vendors Um, I asked and to put this in the newsletter this week because we get asked a lot It's like, oh, I wanted to send out my pcbs, which ones and like You know, we'll we have we like oshpark, but then someone went through and just like here's the one from digikey Here's oshpark. Here's this one. Here's this one. I love these. He's also had like really like that that um pastel purple Joystick color. It's kind of cool. Um and was on the haxter cafe and then I wanted to have you Lady to talk about the new things that we just added We're adding in circuit python. There's the gift thing and then the imx Yes, we've got a couple good things. It's like today. I'm all translucent. Um, yeah, I really like this This is a very comfy green shirt. So sorry. I I know I always wore black If we're just so transparent You can just you can see right here. Um, okay. So number one, um gif i o Um, it is now merged into, uh, the latest builds and will be in the beta one release Um, thanks, I think mark and an and dan jebler who all helped out getting gif i o and so it's cool You'll be able to play gifts natively from within circuit python to any display. It's super cool. Um And we also have optimized memory management now So you can switch up gifts because it's like gifts are gifts are kind of weird So you can play them from disk and also jebler, um, did a bunch of work to add i2 s And pwm output for the imx rt series Which is also really neat. Um You can play he did some tasks. I was like, okay, this is a 500 megahertz processor with the cortex m7 and like, you know It has all the The fpu dsp commands that come with the cortex m7. So it should be able to play a lot of audio very quickly um So I can currently I think play four to eight Concurrent wave files off of an sd card where the sd card is clocked at 25 megahertz. So I think it's limited by that speed of the sd card and there's no sdio support On for at the same time. That's pretty cool. Yeah four to eight. You'll be able to do. Yeah, which is just pretty good Concurrent wave playback. Um, so the next thing would be to you know, if you're limited by um the disk size actually wonder if mp3 might be a little bit better because With mp3, it's a tenth of the um disk size, but there's no more cpu requirements So like it kind of depends on whether it's cpu bound or if it's disk bound Um, I might have jeb lor try that out next So, uh, those are the two of the things that I think I mean everything is wonderful and so yeah But I'm very excited about those two things. All right, so check that out. Um, the newsletter comes out every single week We deliver it to your inbox. Just go to adafruitdaily.com separate site We don't want anything to do with your email address So we put it over there and it doesn't do if you're online store We don't do pop-ups or any of that nonsense because we don't like that either