 Python on hardware time. Okay. All right. The big and only news we're going to talk about this week is CircuitPython 8 beta 1 and all of the Pico W stuff that's going on. Yes. So what can people do? They can watch the show and tell and see what Jephler showed off. But why is this such a big deal? What can they do soon? Okay. So, CircuitPython 8 has been expressive and Wi-Fi based. So a lot of it is about Wi-Fi workflow, adding more Wi-Fi chip support. And so we did 80 beta 1. We've been doing a lot of bug squishing. Dan Halbert has just been like crushing the bugs and Jephler is helping out as well. Good work on them. And then thank you everybody for submitting bug reports. We might also update to Expressive 5x. They did a new IDF release. We're still chatting about it because we only want to do that if it helps squish some more bugs. We have to think a bug list about 30 to get through before we feel like 8 is in a really stable spot. So that's on the expressive side. So Dan Halbert's been working on that, fixing a lot of stuff. We fixed a lot of low power stuff. I was a little bit adamant of like, no, we can get 70 micro amps. Like, figure out why Dan. And he actually like went out and like spent a week on it and figured it out and got that fixed. So low power for Expressive is also working. And I think he's working on some pin alarm stuff. And on the PicoW side, the PicoW's been out for a couple months and people were like, where's Circuit Python? And we're like, we just got this board the same time you did. But one of the things we wanted to do is once we had Wi-Fi workflow and a couple other things going, we wanted to go back and make sure that the PicoW had Wi-Fi support in Circuit Python because our Wi-Fi stack in Circuit Python is really good. We have a lot of helper libraries and like example codes for like tokens and authentications and our request library is really nice and handles all sorts of exceptions. And people have been able to like download and like stream MP3s and stuff. Like it was very good. We have a really good job of lots of IoT projects, made for the IO support. We've had the Azure demos lately, which I want to redo with the PicoW. Anyways, so the good news is that Jephler has been spending a lot of time working on the Wi-Fi stack. So for this Broadcom chip, you know, we had to use this firmware and we have to communicate with it over SPI. Last week, we had HTTP working. So you could open up TCP and I think also UDP sockets with unsecured connections. And that was a really good start. We always love to start with that. But of course, it's important for TLS 1.2 support everywhere that we also support that as well. So as of today, Jephler, if you should watch the show and tell, did a demo where you can securely connect to an HTTPS site with SSL and it checks the certificate authentication. So it will let you know we actually have a certificate bundle that we've used with expressive chips and the NINA firmware and we copied that into the circuit Python firmware. So it'll also not just connect securely, but it will verify that the certificate you got is signed by a root certificate that is stored within the firmware itself. First off, we can update the bundle very easily. But also, it's like really trustworthy security so people can't man in the middle it or woman in the middle it. And then we're going to be working next on adding self-signed certificate support for people who do want, you know, you'll be able to say in a self-signed certificate, check this fingerprint or check this certificate public key and also client-side authentication. And then, you know, it's important for us to have a good security for IoT. We really, you know, chips are good enough these days to do SSL. The pull request is still making its way through CI, but I think on Monday people can check out the circuit Python meeting or look at the pull request in circuit Python, you can see a draft PR, subscribe to it, anyone's ready for people to check out. I think especially with SSL that opens up. Basically, the entire Internet, we would love to know if it doesn't work on a site, we'll add the certificate. Okay. Okay. And that's this week's Python on hardware. I mean, of course, do check out the entire newsletter, but I did want to... Great projects in this newsletter, by the way. Mention that specifically. Yeah. Projects are epic. And on, and on, and on. And one of the neat things is, especially with the Pico W, which has been pretty available in low cost, you'll be able to do kind of more of these advanced IoT projects that before you needed a heftier device or something that... Maybe you had a screen or something that was designed just for that, but now you can do all these projects. 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