 All right, Python on hardware time blinka blinka blinka blinka blinka. Let's get right to it First up we have a refresh of our site CircuitPython.org all sorts of things to explore and Do and learn and subscribe to and see the latest libraries the number of boards downloads of the counter number of Linux boards that Blinka is supported by so we thought you know what this is a lot of stuff We should make like a one-minute video that shows all the cool things about CircuitPython We totally should Phil and Nome Pedro did an excellent job. They did it. So take it away Nome Pedro Welcome to CircuitPython.org CircuitPython is an easy to use programming language for microcontrollers Here you can see the best boards that you can use to make projects The downloads page now has over a hundred boards so you can see all of the latest hardware There's a counter so you can see the number grow when more get added from the community There's also a ton of Linux boards that will work with Blinka so you can use all of the library CircuitPython has to offer Use the downloads link and grab the library bundle You want to use the latest libraries to keep your projects up to date? Check out the contributors page to get involved and see all the latest pull requests and open issues For all things CircuitPython related check out the links in the awesome list You can listen to podcasts chat on the discord server and subscribe to the newsletter So go to CircuitPython.org and get your projects up and running And that's just the beginning so a lot more in store for CircuitPython and all the sites and properties That we have okay. I'm excited We showed a little bit of this last week because it was breaking news but an arm. Yeah a circuit board arm chip I'm chip on an arm chip. Yeah, so Michael and Alex and Drew are working on the open hardware summit badge It's a wearable. It's a watch and it runs CircuitPython circuit Python powered over in discord We added new emojis that I just posted up the open source Heart the open source hardware logo the OSI logo and blink it was already there but that's what the badge is gonna look like you could follow the progress on Twitter on our newsletters and more and Get a preview of what's gonna be at the open hardware summit coming up in March Mu has an update this update for Mu is basically to fix some stuff. Catalina We're all just dealing with Catalina and that's okay So if you're on a Mac and you're having problems with Mu, you'll want to download the latest version of Mu It is 1.03. It's a bug fix release with new features They didn't want to do release This soon, but you know with oh it was x You have to kind of keep up with what's going on. Yeah, so that's out there But I wanted to draw attention to something the developer of Mu amongst other things now has the GitHub sponsors thing So we sponsored sponsor we did great immediately sponsored So we sponsor a couple people we do we sponsor bunny we sponsor star from bullport. We sponsor a turtle we sponsor and Toll Nicholas, so here's the thing. I've heard this a lot of times in the open source community. Oh I can donate to you, but especially if like it was a match Yeah, so GitHub sponsors is now active and live if you want to support a open source multi-platform Application that's very helpful and useful great for students free to download But you know just because free download doesn't mean it's free to support somebody has to spend that time that love the attention So check it out You can find this on github and it's github.com slash sponsors slash and toll you look at it on our Blog and a newsletter and more so here's the thing There's there's besides us. There's only one other person is sponsored Nicholas. Yeah, everyone can do a little bit better Don't go everybody. We could do better. We can do better. We do better Hackspace magazine latest issue is out and Serpenti gets 10 out of 10 congratulations at Toro Nice big debut 10 out of 10 really hitting hard So where are the gates? So one of the things they compare boards and so we don't do that because if we did like comparisons People would say here's you can pick data for one all the time Even if it was like a good review like we know strengths and things to work on with electronics So this was really nice to see because this has nothing to do with us other than circuit Python runs on it And our tour gets all the benefits of that to focus on the hardware, but it got 10 out of 10 Yeah, out of the gate. Good work 8 10 snakes out of 10 snakes. Yeah, and then we Also noticed that there is an article three ways of blinking LED user circuit Python Ben wrote a really good article in there Hackspace is free, but you can subscribe to it if you do you get a circuit play ground express The latest issue is available now for download or purchasing or subscription, and it's the best Raspberry Pi projects Okay, we added some more boards to circuit python. This is the arm con It's a it's a conference batch. You can't get it if you didn't go to error 52 840, but it's super cool It's got an ink display. That's great. And here's another example of because They use circuit Python They got all the benefits of all the things that we did with the NRF 52 840 So anything that works with Bluetooth or neopixels or eink. You got all that stuff out of the box and this badge Can be updated and updatable forever Because it's part of circuit Python VIP next up me a bit me a bit now runs Python I did a little demo. We even did a demo. So let's let's play a video of past us Hot off the the kitten press That's what it is I do like squishing kittens, but like gently alright lady. What is this? Hey, this is a circuit Python Sunday I'm testing out a new port quest to add support circuit Python. You can see blink up there to the meow bit This is like a micro bit Kind of compatible also worked with arcade from kitten bot. It's a really adorable design You can see you can make the arcade games of the d-pad But for this demo, I'm using display IO So we get the terminal and I'm printing out the data from the built-in accelerometer gyro and temperature sensor and then you can go to the repel and You can you know print things? All right So everything's working out so far So you're gonna see this merge into circuit Python real soon download it and install it onto your meow bit okay, also we have a now playing display demo that you can use with circuit playground blue fruit shows your current song Information on the screen. So this is part of the projects that JP's doing to show all this cool Bluetooth low-energy stuff That you can do you know, we've been doing the the Python on a hardware newsletter for a few years now and Every single week. There's yet another thing that is powering electronics or hardware using Python so Boston Dynamics just released their spot SDK its open source and its Python powered so if you want to Ever control or work with one of these pack box pack box that I said I would I would want to understand what's going on inside of it So I think this is good So there's a Python quick start we link to that and more and here you could see Adam Savage who I think Has won a loan for a while and they're gonna put it through its paces, but it's on github and Here is some cool custom front panel stickers for The thermal camera project that Cedar Grove did that just looks good Alex is working on a sock puppet robot using circuit Python and cricket and circuit playground Here is an asteroid game. So there's a few schools that are using Python for Instructional use, you know learn out of program But with the Python on hardware things that are available now like the pi gamer You can do a full-featured game. So this is a 11th grade class game and it's asteroids So it's exactly what you expect and kids made this Other things that we saw in the community this week This is kind of a neat idea. So musical instruments if it's too humid they start to bend and warp and they sound different So I'm not even enough. Yeah, or it's not even so an educator made this really cool humidity sensor using a circuit playground and circuit Python That's kind of cool This is the glass cube that was making the rounds. This is a 4x4 led cube all programmed with you guessed it Circuit Python program with other things, but I'm glass one of the things that they showcased is it's easy to change in program using circuit Python It's a cool project. This is a Prototype of a community art installation and when you press the buttons on the pipe portal It controls the music and audio. That's inside garage band. So as you press stuff, they'll beep beep, you know goes changes and will play different things inside of installed on all maps This is kind of neat so We're always trying to figure out like how do we describe what circuit Python can do. Luckily people usually do a better job even than we could because they're They're using it for the first time and they're just hitting Twitter and just like wow Circuit Python users are living in the future already plug-and-play Python PNPP on hardware IOT under five minutes great documentation examples and wonderful Community support. This is an a true pie badge connected to the internet using ASP 8266 airlift feather wing so the other part of this was they were able to do something really complex and About two minutes and less than 40 lines of code. So we're in a good spot That's where we want to be being able to do that first five minute project like blinking an LED in less than a in less than a minute That's old now. That's easy Not for other things but for circuit Python is but then IOT projects in matter of minutes. It's powerful powerful Pops testing out the winter bloom module so Here is a view from a piece cigar box sense, I think and it's using this really neat Soul MIDI CV module and it's coded Joey who won the take flight with feather Contest is working on all sorts of things. This is the Babel board It's basically a chip with a lot of the font information on it and it's a little feather wing that plugs in the back so you get all the fonts and all the ways to Display text on a screen very easily also this week here is an in-progress of the NXP based feather Arturo and radiator working on that stuff RT 1011 RT 1011 and We also got Clue running on a bright board. So Clue is a micro bit shaped board We'll talk about that later on in the show and we wanted to make sure it worked with some of the micro bit accessories And it does the cool thing about this. You can drag and drop your own image on there I happen to like power puff girls. So I put that on my board And then this week coming up Scott's gonna be doing a talk at pie cascades February 8th and 9th So if you're in Portland check it out if it's streamed or anything else, we will a nice small local less intense Okay, that's Python hardware this week quite a bit going on all right