 Okay, the big news. We are counting down to Circuit Python Day. It is August 19th, 2022. We'll have all-day events, virtual around the world. If you like Python on hardware, this is the event for you. Right now, we're doing all the coordination. You know, one day, we would like to have an in-person event, but we still know that it's a little bit challenging. That's okay. We've been doing virtual ones from the start. So check out the Adafruit blog, circuitpython.org, the newsletter that you can get on. AdafruitDaily.com. You'll see all the events we have planned. Lots of folks in the community will probably be doing talks and more. So that's coming up. It's a Friday. It's also a holiday for Adafruit. There's no holidays in August. So we invented one. So we invented one. And that's Circuit Python Day. So, okay. Big news, I guess I would say, is more Python on hardware. This one is from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. So the Pico W. What's Python-y about it, Ladiator? Yes. There's a new Raspberry Pi Pico. This one, which is called the P-Cow, apparently, is the name that people like to call it. Because there's the Pi 0W, and this is similarly named. Move over. That's utterly delightful. It is now the Pico. So it looks just like the Raspberry Pi Pico, the RP2040-based board, except the bottom half, instead of being kind of mostly empty, now has a Wi-Fi module under a 10, which does look a little bit like the module on the Raspberry Pi 4. And that's not coincidence because it's the same chip. It's the Cypress Infineon CUIW43-439, which has Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Wi-Fi support. Inside of that chip, in addition to this radio, a dual-core ARM Cortex chip set, which can be loaded with firmware. And on the Pico W, what happens is that we load firmware on it that lets it communicate back and forth with the RP2040 to give it wireless capabilities. So the long story about this is, you know, on launch, we basically didn't have access to the firmware before launch. We do now, so we can take a look at it. But for launch, it comes with MicroPython support. The MicroPython support's really good. It's only Wi-Fi right now, but they're working on BLE and Bluetooth Classic. And we are not actively, actively working on adding the circuit Python support for this wireless chip because we're really focusing on the web workflow, and we're kind of like in a good groove right now. We don't want to stop that and work on some hardware. But if there's people who are interested and want to help do the porting, we're happy to help folks out with it. It is in the MicroPython core, so it has to be, massage a little bit to move into circuit Python core, but it's not, you know, a ground-up port. It's more just to make it compatible with circuit Python sockets. We use a thing called socket pool. But there's no reason why it wouldn't work in circuit Python. Again, it just, somebody needs to help with the port to get it from MicroPython to circuit Python. And there's also going to be a header version eventually, but right now there's this cast-alated version with the module, but it's cool. You now have wireless support. It's inexpensive. You can sign up. We will have some at Adafruit. We did not put any in because we wanted to prioritize getting some Raspberry Pi 4s out. But this week, you know, we might put some in. So sign up. All right. So, you know, it's interesting in the world of microcontrollers now and in the world of Raspberry Pi, what's shipping Python? Yeah. And it seems like that's the way a lot of folks are going to start their coding journey, but then experts can do quite a bit too. Yeah. Oh, and circuit and micro, and Arduino support, just MicroPython. Circuit Python is, you know, we're thinking about it, but there's no active workflow on it. And Arduino is being worked on, I think, actively. So Arduino should have that support too. All right. In the newsletter, this was one of our bigger newsletters. Good work. Yeah. RGB Hex keyboard powered by Circuit Python. Tom's hardware had their pie cast. And if you're familiar with GeekMom and all of the things that she does, check it out. You can see adding a web server to Circuit Python. That's the thing that Scott talked about on the show and tell. We also had the QMK keyboard firmware update that MicroPad has supported. You can check out the latest from, we try to keep track of what's going on with the Python software foundation, because we're all connected to it and we're also one of the people who sponsor and donate. You can check out the latest thing there. They added some new board members. List of our shows that's going on. And then what's going on with the latest Circuit Python show. Check out Paul's interviews that are usually every couple of weeks or so. And then Raspberry Pi, PicoW projects. List over there, put together a list of projects that you can check out. So if you're just getting one of these now or you're about to get one of those, you could start to figure out, well, what exactly do you want to put on these things? So folks are already like, they're using JSON, they're using MicroPython, and they're displaying text on things, so they're getting started. The googly eyes that you saw from Mark, that's in the newsletter. And it's just kind of an unending series of projects. I think one of the things that folks could probably do is, if you're just getting into this, because there's more people that are getting started with a lot of things, is subscribe to the newsletter and just scroll down really fast and just look at the projects and then figure out what you want to build and then learn the code based on that. So anyways, it's unending. So don't forget, we have Circuit Python Day coming up. Subscribe to the newsletter. 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