 Do some Python on hardware news. Okay speaking of. Okay, big news. 70 single board computers now support CircuitPython. That's right. If you want to check out Tom's hardware, Scott, the lead developer on CircuitPython, he was on Tom's hardware and then they did a separate story about Scott being on there and they're like, hey, CircuitPython might just run on a Raspberry Pi. Yeah, he did leak his idea, which is he wants CircuitPython to run raw on the dot com chip. Yeah, we have Blinker, which is basically libraries and it's like, you know, CircuitPython for Linux and then being able to like treat a Raspberry Pi as a microcontroller. It's an interesting idea. Well, I mean, the Pi 400 would be an amazing, like, you know, little tote CircuitPython board. You know, I get it. I see why this is a fun idea. But check it out. I mean, I think it was a really good round table. I listened in. They talked about CircuitPython about Blinker RP 2040 about like, what's what's coming next? Right? A lot of people are like, you know, I think there is a lot of excitement for this year. I think, like you said, people are like, they want to have stuff happen. They're like, they're ready to do stuff again. I think like the whole world has that feeling right now. And so this was it was a really cool, positive video chat. Yeah. So 70 single board computers now support CircuitPython. That was our big news. Blinker brings CircuitPython APIs, CircuitPython libraries to single board computers. Another milestone, 2000 people in our CircuitPython subreddit. Thanks to everybody who's there. We try to cover like greater Python news. Yeah. I mean, like, like, you know, Blinker it runs on CPython. So we're I'm always interested in what's going on with Python in general. And it's interesting. It's like, what, what does the, you know, I have my own opinions about Python, but I want to hear about what other people think. So some survey results came in from 2020, 85% main language for secondary language. Why do they like it? Simple syntax is to learn syntactic sugar. Python experience, 20% of folks have been using it for three to five years. So anyways, check it out. That's from the Python Foundation and JetBrains. Raspberry Pi turned nine. Yeah. And actually in Gadget just turned 17. Wow. I was second authored in Gadget 17 years ago. It can drive. Yeah. It gets around. In Gadget, yeah. In Gadget is around. I was doing writing a popular science, I think. I think I was, yeah, I think I was a senior under a popular science and Pete Rojas was visiting Microsoft. I was there in an event and it wasn't even site wasn't even really released. And he was going through some names and he was asking me what I thought about in Gadget. I'm like, oh, that's a good name. He had left Gizmodo or was leaving Gizmodo back during the blog wars. Yeah. I love my grandmother to the blog wars. Nick Denton versus Jason Calcanus. So no matter who dies, you win, right? So anyways, that was 17 years ago for in Gadget. And then Hackaday I started when I was doing stuff with in Gadget. That's like, it's the 14 years now? How is that? That is a 16 year old because it was pretty fast. Oh, man, yeah. And it's still around. It's just going strong. Yeah. And then other you know, other anniversaries Raspberry Pi nine years ago totally transformed the way we were doing a company in electronics and more. We got into it. I jumped on it real fast. I like this is cool. There was a lot of scarcity for the Raspberry Pi when it came out. So we decided to do something completely different. Instead of trying to hoard them and try to sell them and disappoint people, we just had it. So if you order $300 and more on our site, you get a Raspberry Pi. So that was that was that was unique and weird and interesting. And a lot of people did it. Yeah. So it was good. Worked out. So happy birthday, Raspberry Pi. We were thinking about talking about like the Chumbie at the time. And that was the first Chumbie. Yeah, that was like the beagle bone. That was the first like Linuxy thing that we were like, OK, this is this is where it's going. And then Raspberry Pi. You can still see my learn guide on the Chumbie. I was like, OK, here's how to connect an accelerometer to the I squared C port. I mean, it was pre Blinka, but it was like the idea was still there was like, how can we you know, how can we use Linux sort of like an Arduino like a microcontroller? Right. And I think it was it's a it's a powerful idea. You know, it's actually interesting. So here's like, I'm going to give people story. So there was, you know, an open hardware slash Arduino summit. And it was like around nine years ago. Because I remember like the Raspberry Pi had just come out. And I remember that folks were sitting around like, what's the future of Arduino? And I remember it wasn't me, but somebody said Raspberry Pi, like the idea of a Linux computer being able to do all the things that an Arduino can do is is the future. And I think we actually turned out to be it is the future, but it also it's shared, right? I mean, Arduino is now it's from like 15 years ago. But I think it's it's great for people. Some folks use Arduino, some people use Raspberry Pi. It's good to have, you know, multiple options. And especially now with a circuit Python, I'm trying to combine the two. You can see my Linux Australia Linux Australia conference talk 2021. And I go through all this in about 45 minutes. Okay. Other stuff. Don't forget tomorrow. Scott is doing his deep dive. Circuit Python. All about Tamil news around the web. JP stream is tomorrow. But you can see some of the things that he's been working on, especially specifically circuit Python stuff. Okay, this video's got posted. Check them out. Yeah, Deborah had some of her works and more using circuit Python and podcast gates presentation. Sony is doing a webinar on April 8th, had a program of microcontroller using circuit Python. You can check out all the things that Sony's up to. It's kind of cool. Sony's adopted circuit Python for their Sony's presence board. You can lots of stuff going on in the world of micro Python and circuit Python with Pico. So this is a galloping horse animation on the Pico using circuit Python. This is a cutie pie USB media knob and rotary encoder. That's using circuit Python. Are you filming guys streaming? He's been streaming. Yeah, that was a cool library pull request and development of the Lora radio project stuff that's going on. And this part was cool. So this is BTC thing. So I found this. So there's a person on Etsy selling matrix portal like a box is basically kitted up with like, you know, Bitcoin or whatever, like, you know, Wall Street bets a meme stock on it. I just thought that was cool. That's like neat there. And they even say like, you can configure this really easily. You just it plugs in and you change a disk like a file on the disk to change what whether you want Ethereum or you want Dogecoin or you want, you know, what what stock ticker number you want. And I thought it was neat to see like Etsy, right, this craftery making site selling completed circuit Python projects. And I thought it was I thought it was cool. It's like, it's that easy to use. So there's lots of bad things about this pandemic. There is. And there's lots of bad things about it. And one of the bad things about it is some of the things that you used to do, you don't get to do anymore. So if I were to write an article about circuit Python or Python on hardware, just like I used to back in the day of other things. And, you know, right now there's a different razor focus. So you can't you can't you can't write some of the articles about this thing that's been happening in the world of electronics. You can I think right now your choice is either do it or or write about it. You can't like do both, at least not for me. So one of the things I would talk about is this was one of my tests a long time ago on how I would talk about electronics. Yeah. So back in the day when I was at make one of the things I used to say and this was when make and Etsy were the same size and we're in like, they're in the same building. We're in the same building together. And I said, once the quarter style, well, I was like, once makers are using electronics from the maker world in their Etsy store sales to power things that they're just selling, they're not going to they're not selling electronics and how to write code. They're selling animatronic things or signs or something that is, you know, it's more considered a handcraft that's not in electronics. Etsy wasn't an electronics marketplace, although I did try to do make.etsy.com other side story. But one of the bits of success is if you're making a technology that allows artists to put electronics into something, that's when you know you did a good job. So Arduino had some of that success. And now like as we bring Python to hardware, you're seeing that now someone's using your, in this case, circuit Python idea of like, oh, just plug it in. It shows up as a drive. And that's where you configure stuff. And you don't even need to know how to code, but it's powerful enough where it could just be used like that. You did a good job. So I thought that was neat. And that'd be an article. I would write, you know, Python is coming to the craft world and coming to the world where you need to power it with electronics, but what is the programming language that you would ever use? How would you do this? Yeah. Anyways, it's cool. To that matrix portals. That's how you know. That's how you know it worked out. All right. Also, I got some plotting lips. Thanks. Thanks for the contribution. The circuit Python, micro Python plotting. This is interesting. Embed did a questionnaire and it's very embed focused, but it did have some interesting stuff because it divided up, you know, academic, hobbyist, and professional and asked it shows some of the differences. I thought there was some interesting stuff, even for folks who are not using embed within the embed ecosystem, but they're using micro controllers. Very interesting stuff. So check out the developer survey. And they had a lot of responses, too. It's a big community. You can check out some of the new hardware. This is a Pymeroni Tiny 2040 board. Got a lot of RP24. So we're going to see a couple months of this as folks get so many. Yeah, but this is another thing, too. It's like if you're going to have a product like Kibo with a Pico, what's easiest thing to use and happens to be circuit Python? Yeah. So that's kind of cool. All right. All right. So this is needed. L cars for E Inc. Check out our AR app. Full color POV display with a PyPico and that's our LED tape. And then Twitch stream playing around with new hardware and circuit Python, a MIDI interface, and a Citron maker PyPico. It's got everything built into it. It says everything. Okay. And we have some coming soon. We're going to be talking about soon. On our show, some more projects, 302 libraries, and with that is your Python Harbour News this week.