 It is time for Python on hardware. Yay Blinka. Yeah. All right. First up. Happy Halloween from the circuit Python book from Japan This is one of the many characters that's used for the book. Yes. I love she's witchy today Wishing you a happy Halloween. We saw this on the author's site which he wishes and Thank you for sending this. We wish you a happy Halloween as well. Next up Circuit Python snakes its way to the Sony's presence That's right. This chip from Sony and this development board has now added circuit Python support So if you have one of these boards, would you like to try out this cool new chip? They use an RTOS to add support, but it's got the basics. It's got a repel going on It's got an long game put digital IO. I think it's got I squared C as well you can check out The PR and build information We'll have a guide in the next couple weeks on how to get started with circuit Python on this board Yeah, and if you just go to circuit python.org slash downloads, you'll be able to see all the boards for up to 80 something It's pretty cool. Next up circuit Python snakes its way to the Arduino nano 33 BLE Sense you did this one. Yeah. Well, I well Dan Albert did it and I just QA and checked it This is the new nano 33 BLE sense, which uses the nrf 52 840. It's in a module from you blocks It's neat because it's got all these sensors built in which I think is super cool And we picked one up of these and we're like, oh, you know, if you put you have to boot load on it You could run circuit Python which could be really handy. It's it's got like a nano form factor So it could be useful for some people. We don't have any nano form factor circuit playground boards at this time. So this would be the first and you will need a J-link in order to put the uf2 bootloader on it But once you do because you need to add the soft device as well once you do you can load circuit Python Quite easily and we tried it out and use some measurements from the sensors and even test out the microphone. Okay, that's not all Sir if I found snakes its way to the spark fun quick micro at CMD 21 development board This is yet another board that circuit Python is running on this makes the let's see At least the fifth or sixth board from spark fun that now runs circuit Python That's in addition to some of the feather boards that they've been making so we're really excited about this You can check out the guide. You can pick one up and this Yes, and it's got a quick connector on the end She's great because we're having all these quick slash stomach QT Compatible sensors coming out and it has a spot in the bottom that you can solder in some SPI flash if you'd like cool and Issue 24 hex base magazine LED matrix modules with circuit Python if you want to add 64 pixels of output using circuit Python You can go to page 80 and 81 on the latest issue of hex base magazine And it's a free PDF download or of course you can buy an issue or if you subscribe for a year You get a free circuit playground express okay, we've been doing an entire month of open-source hardware posts and One of the companies that we covered was electronic cats and one of the reasons we covered is because Not only do they do open-source hardware and software, but they adopted Circuit Python. So this is it's called meow meow. I like to call it meow meow And if you want to read about This company and all the cool stuff they're up to check out our series of posts on a to fruit comm slash blog You were doing some power testing with the news circuit Playground blue fruit lady. What's going on here? These are some neat little charts. These are some charts So the next generation of circuit playground blue fruit Which we have the alpha version out now and like the next version is kind of like the release candidate We added a transistor a fat to turn off Power to the neopixels and some of the sensors It keeps the accelerometer on because a lot of times if you're doing the low power you still want to have accelerometer active and There's still a very small power LED which I am not willing to remove but it uses very little powers couple microamps I got my cramps. And so What we did is we we checked to verify that when we turn the transistor off It's on by default. We turn it off You know all the neopixels turn off and then the power is very low. So I think we got down to If you go back to the previous page you can show Yeah, it was 0.3 milliamps, so 300. It's pretty good 300 microamps Which is pretty good and we might try to improve that a little bit But given that there's an LED that's on all the time I don't know if we can get much lower than that But it does mean that we'll be able to do some projects such as very you know, we can do machine learning We can do very low power just recognition or maybe voice sensing and in between we go to sleep So that your battery will last a long time. So this is kind of neat because it's a Developer platform for learning, but can also do low power. Okay This was my favorite tweets Arturo who does the Serpentay Has a customer he makes a board that happens to run circuit Python and this person said Exactly what we've been going for sometimes your community says it even better than you can so he's like hey hashtag Circuit Python live, but I'm like I wonder what he's wondering. That's what's it records do James Said it's essentially what I want from Arduino. So this person was able to rapidly prototype in a matter of minutes something they wanted to do and This is why we made this because you're spending more time making your things and you're not downloading ideas You're not compiling stuff. So that's really cool. So thank you for that I guess we might do a hashtag circuit Python life. We'll see Also in France the national programming language is Python and there is an article on one of the school sites We translated it because it's in French and it's called circuit Python in high school and alternative to Arduino and The translation is this article presents a set of hardware and software offerings as an alternative to the Arduino in high school It's strengths are native Python programming total computer independence and true analog output for sound generation check that out Next up micro Python. That was another Article series that we did for open hardware month In addition to the early days of micro Python Video that Damien did we go over some of the things like here's the first bit of open source hardware that Micro Python did here's their pipe board. So yet another big It's milestone or just like not in the open source belt This was one of the people and one of the organizations and one of the efforts that got us all here Especially recently with Python on hardware Happy birthday MQTT Did you know that was MQTT's birthday? No, I didn't. How is it 20 years? Wow. Yeah, so 20 years ago the first version of MQTT was published We like it and it's one of those Cool protocols that you can use for publishing subscribe and it's not very low low bandwidth and it just it just works Okay, making the rounds a lot. This is the open book project My headline was open book project takes flight because it's a feather based Open book project and it's an open source version of Kindle I love this silk screen. It's got everything going on. Yeah, it's like that soap that people talk about There's a soap that has like all the ingredients everything on the back. Yeah, it's cool So also Congratulations to our friend Jerry and the entire team there for tilt 5 they hit their goal And as they were about to hit their Kickstarter goal for their Kickstarter, which is these like cool AR glasses we We had a countdown that made it really easy to show the power of the Pipe portal and with the pipe portal you can do a project like this in like five minutes So they did a contest and if someone just tweeted a photo of a pipe portal that they had with a Data feed yeah, and you can use you can do you can do an API thing or you can Yeah, but they got t-shirts. So I love this font. Yeah, not cool classic Alright, next up lots of Halloween stuff. Of course. That's our Halloween show. These are eyes Baby eyes. Yeah, that's funny monster mask. Here is some cool music. This is from Fiat and this is a new circuit Python library So you can see and hear some of that bleepie bloop. Yeah, Sean Heimel made a End of this project is now is now out and you'll be able to check it out, but it's a it's a pumpkin that Farts and makes sound and it's all for the hack of pumpkin contest and then this is a mandrake. This this is a cool little Motion-activated mandrake when you pull it out of the ground it just screams. Yeah Using our guides and tutorials this is using the prop wing and you could see a couple cool light shipper projects Also This is Eyeball that fits perfectly. It's right in there for Halloween. Here's a helmet that uses neopixels Here is a wind-up doll and it makes noises when you wind it up and Couple events that are going on TensorFlow world is right now and some of our hardware is there you'll see some of the Electronics and some of the posts about it on our site soon and then super cons coming up November 15th to 17th You will see a lot of 8 of your hardware Python powered in particular There as well. Okay. That's the Python. Oh, so much going on