 It's time for Python on our news Okay, so as always, please go to aid for daily check out the newsletter. There's a lot going on I so This was one of my favorite projects of the week. This is you wear this to the club and it says God I just like that light blue look that it's like it's a very Tron cyber. It's like it Yeah wire and then I saw our friend Eva from the EFF. She's like I'm gonna make one It's gonna say arm and it starts beeping Counting down. Yeah, so anyways, there's a lot of stuff going on in newsletter But this week I wanted to make sure we focus on a couple of things Actually one more thing. I thought that this was a really neat project and I thought the hackaday folks came up with a great title Macro popsicle melts in your desk not in your mouth and this is a little circuit Python to key Keyboard it's like a 2% milk, but it's frozen. It's so cute So there's a lot going on and I'll say this like the amount of stuff that we're seeing that people are doing with circuit Python right now It's getting really hard to keep up with an amazing job on the newsletter So sign up, but we do have to talk about 2022 and what we want to see. Yeah circuit Python. So I Thought I'd start this week. So this is what I would like in circuit Python 2022. Okay, I would like to be able to plug in an HDMI cable into a circuit Python board And that'll be the output from the board and then plug it into kind of like what I'm doing now Like right now there's a camera plugged in we have an overhead over here what I would like to be able to do is switch over to that video feed and Have it do all sorts of video effects and by video effects I mean like neat patterns and be able to do like video mixing with it maybe I would pump the audio through it and Maybe there would be a line going across the screen and when the audio would be picked up from the video board It would start to make you know like a little thing like a visualizer Yeah, but I wanted to to be live in real time and I want to be able to overlay that on things like this So I'm currently buying a few of these like video since and there's software ones that are hard to use and expensive And you need like a m1 pro processor and then there's some that are like they're kind of okay They're kits and their DIY ones some of them use a raspberry pi some of them do some other things But I really want one that's circuit Python base so circuit Python with HDMI out support with Scriptable things that you can do almost like You know like processing you can kind of do some neat stuff with graphics Something like you turn a knob and it makes the display go weird and then you would overlay that onto OBS or something Like that just to do like live art stuff. I thought that would be kind of neat like a video toy So that's my circuit Python Yeah, so that's that's that's my request okay the other thing that we wanted to talk about this week because this is a special edition The Python on hardware is we got a lot of floppy stuff going on So we're gonna do two for two here one is the work that we got done on Friday and then this is like hot-off-depressed Jephler Got circuit Python working with five and a quarter floppy disk So I'm gonna play this back-to-back and that'll be our Python on hardware news for the week if you like retro hardware if you like being able to Archive stuff and upload it online so people can share computer science history You're gonna like all this stuff take it away present and future and past us Related to what is this this is a feather and for and it's on a Tripler board with a floppy feather wing connected to This floppy drive. It's got a diskette that I've got some files in it And this feather is actually running circuit Python at the build that Jephler just gave me because he just Implemented a different floppy which is hardware native support for eating MFM floppies. So let's We run the code and It'll actually list all the files I put some old frack text files and I have a little bit of a ASCII code here that will let me Page through the text file. So it's reading the fat. It's reading the files I can read my old text files very like on a diskette and this is coming soon to circuit Python So we have native floppy disk file system support Nice work. Thanks Jephler Hi, Jeph here with a very stylish vintage Microsoft MS-DOS 5 upgrade floppy and A program in circuit Python that likes to pretend it is a vintage operating system So let's see what we can do with the version of circuit Python. I've been cooking up We can list a directory and I suppose we should probably read the instructions Anyway, that's about it. Can't wait to see how you'll use circuit Python To work on any archival floppies that you might have that are still of interest Thanks, and have a good one. And that's Python on hardware news this week And again, don't forget you can get this delivered in your mailbox. There's Blinka the friendly snake That'll deliver it for you and you do that at Adafruit daily.com where we do not spam We do not trick you. It has nothing to do with your store account. We did that on purpose