 It's Python on hardware time. Lots of news. This is a snippet from our weekly community chat, our newsletters, our blog posts. It's about everything we do in the world of Python on hardware. Congratulations to Damian and MicroPython. The latest update is out, MicroPython 1.12. It's released. There is for PyBoards BLE, Little FS, Dynamic Native Modules, SAMD PowerPC, and more. It's a nice update. You could check out the GitHub's and you could check out the forum post from Damian. We'll have that in our newsletter. We are now up to 94 boards. We are getting so close to 100. So close we get by the end of the year. But there's now 94 boards on circuitpython.org. And one note that I think is really important. Less than half of them are from Adafruit. Correct. So there's 40 Adafruit-made boards and 54 from everyone else. So if anyone thinks that this is an Adafruit thing, no, it's a giant community ecosystem. And there's lots of companies, lots of people, lots of individuals, entire businesses being built around using circuitpython. When we started, it was a lot of Adafruit stuff because we were recording it. Yeah, we had to get started. But now, actually, on a weekly basis, we get one or two new boards. And we don't make one or two new boards a week. So we're, yeah. Success for us was more boards from everyone else than just the core Adafruit ones. So right now, there's 40 from Adafruit, 54 from everyone else. And that number from everyone else is just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. So check it out, circuitpython.org slash downloads. Here's a preview of we're going to do a little update on the site because the boards are so cool, the site's going to look even cooler. So this is just a little bit of a, you know, just a little bit previous on a sort of section, but maybe later. So it'll be coming soon. We have a circuitpython 4.1.2 release. Minor stable release, it updates Adafruit underscore circuit playground frozen library for circuit playground express. Shouldn't break any code compatible with the previous releases. If you don't have a circuit playground express or a PyRoller or a board with frozen libraries, there's no reason to update, but if you like having the latest stable. Yeah, we just made some improvements. I think it also shrank the size by making some optimizations. So four, but you know what? If you want, go up to five. We're getting ready for release candidate. Speaking of. Speaking of. Circuit Python 500 beta two is released. This is beta two proves our initial file system definitions might over existing files. So make sure you back them up before updating. The beta releases are pretty much feature complete at this point and they're meant for testing. So do check it out. All right, we have another update to our blue fruit playground app. If you have a circuit playground blue fruit and you've downloaded the app on iOS, you can just click update and it'll, or it's already pushed an update to you. And we just have a few new things already. So you can control LEDs, color and animation, view light sets of readings, view state of the built-in buttons and switch, turn the circuit playground blue fruit into a musical instrument, orientation based on Excel and Robert data, view temperature readings and much, much more. All right, circuit Python snakes its way to hack space magazine again. So this is their latest issue. And in this issue, they have a really big feature on making music with circuit Python. Yes, there's little buzzers and like you saw with make a minute, you can make tones with them. And we even have an RTTL library so you can like play wing tones. Yeah, just use some math and a bit of code to create your own waveforms. Pay 74, 75, support them. This is free magazine, but you can subscribe. You can also buy it. And if you want to see cool magazines that support the maker and hacker world, this is one to subscribe to. And if you do, you get a circuit playground express. They don't pay us to say this or anything. I just think it's a good idea. And people are really happy because they get a magazine and they get electronics. All right, this is from itep arcade. And this is a cool cardboard controller handheld for a game, 100 yard dash. And it uses circuit Python and circuit playground. Each row of LEDs represents the 20 yard line. And you press the left and right sides to the field to move your player while avoiding the defenders. Ooh. Yeah, kind of neat, right? This is way better than your phone. Then everyone's getting their Aida boxes and we have an ornament inside of it. So folks are putting their family photos in there. This is from Scott. This is funny because people really like cart. Like, you know, we're like, oh, people put the gizmo in and they'll beam a photo over. But what people really like is the snowflake demo. They're like putting this snow on it. This is kind of neat. This is a Zucks, an animatronic penguin. And you can control it with a half-tox, half-killer robot. Yeah, and you can control it with a pie badge. Sorry, edge badge, because we have pie badge and edge badge. Almost there. This is called IoT Makers Israel. They had a circuit Python hands-on workshop and meetup. And you can look at some of the coverage and some of the slides and more from the event. I covered this last week, but I wanted to mention it again because we have a better logo. This is someone's putting together these circuit Python libraries and more to control the open Roomba port. There's a physical port that you can do stuff with and there's circuit Python for it. This is kind of cool. This is a circuit Python brushless nerf Titan 50 mod. And I like how the catcher's on it. Cache is like, damn. So this is. I'm about to get nerfed. Yeah, so this is a mod, yeah. This is a mod that is circuit Python powered. And then in a second or so, all these nerf shoes sound. It's gone. It's gone. Cats actually in another state by now. It's already. It's gone, friends. Like, hey, pick me up. I'm out. We're out of here. Let's go, go, go, go, go, go. Yeah. And then this is a really cool neopixel cosplay. This is a monster hunter. Yeah. And you can see all this. What a cool outfit. Yeah. It's really neat. And this is the neotree. This is a. Oh, it's robotic. Neotree tree and it goes up the pole here. Wow. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah. And there's music in the background, but I turned the music off because I think it's music that the content ID stuff would pick up. So I figured we could just do narration over it. So you can control it, do lots of different things. All sorts of effects. Yeah. Facility effects. Yeah. It's really neat all the things that you can do with this tree. All right. The Getting Started Guide on Hacksters and Posted from Robotic Masters. This is if you have the Robohat MM1 and you want to use Secret Python with it. They have the pinout maps. They have how to get started. If you want to pick one up, find it on CrowdSupply. This is neat. Thanks to Sean, who introduces Topher. This is from ZSK Technical Textile Embroidery. Yeah. And we're in communication with them. We've covered this before, but now I have an intro. But it's nice and easy for them. Yeah. So we're going to do some trading. So I think we're going to get one of these in person here to play around with. And it would kind of be neat to add things like Circuit Python and Circuit Playground Blue Fruit to do things that are not only capacitive, but also could be wireless. You can do some combination of those things. So we'll have one of those soon and we'll have a little segment on our show about it. This is a PyPortal app launcher. This came in a little while ago, and I just saw it now. So if you want to control all the apps on your computer, you can use a PyPortal and Circuit Python for that. This is a DNA launch, GWZ, you know, my ball. Yeah, well, he had the eyeball for a while, but now he's got the sand ahead of him. Yeah, he'll have the sand ahead of him. So it's festive. And then this is a MicroPython-powered cat toy. So this moves a little laser around, and as it moves the laser around, the cat's like, I'm going to get this. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. This time, this time, I'm getting it. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. It was funny. It only worked on him for like 4.8 seconds, and he's like, oh, forget it. It's not all. Yeah, he was like, he was quickly, he was quickly disappointed. It was exciting, and then it wasn't. So anyways, just on the show and tell, but I thought I would just mention this again. This is that cool Raspberry Pi-powered clock that has all the different modes. Cedar Grove and working on this really neat. Adapto. Yeah, you use the Pi badge to control it. Cricut. And you can control all the servers, all motors, and the people. Yeah, it's a little Adapto Stemma Grove thing. This is one of those cool infographics, but it takes like two minutes, and it starts at 1973. So I just took a screenshot right at 2019. So right now, most popular programming language, Python, followed by JavaScript, Java. You got C, PHP. You got C sharp, but interesting. You're more popular than T-cards, but you can see. So check out the whole thing, the animation and more, because you can see like Fortran was there from time. Bunny's book is out of print, so you can now download it. That's correct. I think we have like one copy left in the store. If you want to really pick it up because this is it. This is the last one. He's not making it anymore. Typical bunny fashion. He just said, okay, we're out of print. So let's let folks download it. This is beginner guides to microcontrollers. This is from GenFox and Foxbox Industries. And it covers our stuff and a bunch of other stuff. So we bought a copy, read it. It's good. Our endorsement, buy it, and support an independent publisher like GenFox and Foxbox Industries. And we have linked up. It's also on our website. If you want to pick up a copy and more. Got some more updates. This is from the learning system. This is control. Some holiday things like Reese and more with a circuit playground blue fruit. The updated guide is up for the EasyMade controller of it. I think the Titanic is not supported in it. And then speaking of, we now have support for Piper Card on the Titanum bigger screen. A little bit of reminder of stuff that's going on. We have a bunch of libraries. We have like 208 now. 108 libraries. So if you want to get started with electronics, it is now the most fully featured libraries. It is batteries included. We're actually now getting to the point where there's more libraries for circuit Python than we've written for Arduino. I mean, total, there's more for Arduino because it's been around for like 12 years. But we, we caught up. But we're, you know, we're getting there. Like we're no longer hearing from people like, oh, I wish this library existed. It's like, no, it does. Or somebody's written it. We also have a contributor bundle, a community bundle. And people are adding and writing their own libraries there. So this is what's happening. Especially thanks to everybody who's been smashing that star button on GitHub. We're up to 1500 things. It does nothing other than just let us know that you're like in what we're doing. So thank you everyone who's been doing that on GitHub. You can go to github.com. Slash Adafruit slash circuit Python and hit that button. Scott will be speaking at PyCast Gates in 2020. It's February 8th and 9th, which seems like a long way away, but it isn't. It'll be in like a matter of hours. That's like days. And then April 15th to 23rd, PyCon, a lot of our teams gonna be there that's coming up. That's Python on hardware news this week. Yay. Okay.