 All right, it's Python on hardware time. All right, so we'll have, there's going to be a song for each section. That's why you got to keep watching the show. Okay, I know something to look forward to. Yeah, so this week's newsletter, it is GMPAC. Not going to spend a lot of time on it because we have two big chunky bits of news. So first up, CircuitPython 730 release candidate zero is release please, try it out please, try to break it and please let us know if you do. Big updates, RP2040 PIO, lots of stuff that Jepler did. He's on break and he'll be back, but before he left, he added Floppy IO and did background support for PIO. We also merged in MicroPython 1.18 and we did, there's a couple of little things here and there and then MDNS, which is part of Scott's project over the next few months to work on Wi-Fi workflow, which will be very interesting. So you can check out the Raspberry Pi, Pico learning path that's on the Pi site. We have the PyCon US 2022 highlights, some news from the Python software foundation, running Python in the browser and there is this a bunch of stuff in the world of Python and hardware from individual projects to events to all the things that's going on across anything that can run Python, check that out. But the big news is a follow up from last week. So last week we talked about MicroPython needing monthly support on GitHub sponsors and I was a little disappointed that we tried to do a fundraiser to help them out like last year and it was still basically the same number of people, there was 84 people and it was pegged right before it got to the 5k. They're just looking for $5,000 a month so they can pay developers. We asked you to contribute. And you showed up 116. So it went from 84 to 116. And I want to give a special shout out and thanks to Fred over at PyCon. Thank you so much Fred. You were one of the folks that put them over the edge over the top. Over the top. And it was really nice, PyCon uses MicroPython and this is the way, this is Fred and Bettina. And I just wanted to say thank you because there's a lot of companies that use MicroPython and I've contacted a bunch of them and you know, crickets. But y'all, you said, hey, this is great. And now there's a way for organizations to contribute. And so the only bad news with this is I was talking to Damian, the founder of MicroPython. He's like, oh, once you hit the goal, it doesn't say how much is there and you can't tell where you need to reach it. So they set a new goal of $10,000 a month. So they're halfway there, of course, because they got to the 5k mark. And if you want to join, great. We're going to continue to help out MicroPython in all the ways that we can. And if you enjoy using any form of Python on hardware, this is the base that we all build our stuff off of. So there's a lot of cool companies, PyCon's one, Pimerone's one, Interference one, that is putting the money where our mouth is. We all say we like open source. But even if it's just, you know, even if you're a company and times are a little tight, you could do 50 bucks a month, you can, you just can. So please do that. Think about all the free development time that you get from having MicroPython, which is so well supported for so many different boards. Works so well. I know a lot of companies and makers are basing their products off of MicroPython or CircuitPython. Speaking of. We don't take donations, but MicroPython does. Speaking of, and like you were saying, there's so many boards. So many boards. We just hit 300 compatible CircuitPython boards. And just to be, you know, horn tootin, not about Adafruit, just about what this community did. Thank you everybody. There is 300 and more than half are not from Adafruit. So when you look at all the boards, even the popular, many of the popular ones. No, it's popular one, Pico. Yeah, and so I think it's. See, we now shall. Yeah, so I think this is. Teen C-41. This is an indicator of when you build a good community, it's okay if there's other people playing together. And that's the whole point. You know, this is like the skateboard ramp and we all have our different boards, literally. And I think that's one of the things that MicroPython, CircuitPython, we're very aligned. I think that's why, you know, you see merges and you see collaborations, you see all that. But if you wanna help support all of this, you could buy a board from us. You can, when MicroPython has boards again, there's your shortage, buy some boards from them. We resell their boards. You could buy a board from us and we're buying boards from them. Or you can do the thing that would help them out the most, which is sponsor MicroPython. Bam. Even if you're an individual, 10 bucks a month, no big deal. And, you know, once again, I wanna thank everyone who did that and thank you MicroPython for building something that we could base Micro, CircuitPython off of. And now there's 300 boards. And like I said, more than half aren't even from Adafruit. Love it. And that is Python on hardware. Don't forget, you can sign up at AdafruitDaily.com. We don't spam, we don't harvest your email. This is a completely separate site and we deliver this every single week to your inbox via a pink snake. Snakes as a service. Yeah, SaaS. Okay.