 Python on hardware time. So this week's Python on hardware, a little special, because, well, I'll go through a couple things and then I'm going to bounce over to probably what a lot of folks who like Python on hardware are going to ask. I'm going to surprise her with some questions. What? Yeah. So, of course, Python, we'll get to that in a second. But if you're interested in Python, there's a developer survey result. You can start to see what are people really doing with Python across the world? What things should you consider? How are they using it? What's interesting is more and more people are using it for embedded development that was never on there. It's going up. I mean, it's not a big number, but it's going up. Yeah. Yeah. And the people that are using it are using a lot. That's the other thing, of course. You know, half is for work. There's 28% that's personal use. A lot of it uses it on Linux. So this just gives you, like, here's the landscape of Python, especially if you're thinking, like, oh, what are people using it for? So it's useful. We put a newsletter. It's open hardware month. We'll talk about that in a bit. And you can catch up on some of the open hardware news. We have a bunch of certifications. Again, I'll talk about that once we get to the open hardware section of our show. October. October. Yeah, there's a bunch of opportunities. You can do just about anything around the circle of Python world. So check it out in the newsletter and get it for daily. It's the latest. Or you can just search for October. And then there's Libre PCB. This is another free tool. More free tools, the better. Yeah. Interesting. I'm like, I'm into it. You know, I will admit I currently do not use other tools. I'm still using Eagle. I'm still kind of slowly playing with that CAD. We're eventually going to get to it. I'm definitely going to eventually get to it. But you know, I'd love to see more tools. There can never be too many options for people that are not or CAD or Altium. Oh, and well, this is great. The question is actually one of the things I was going to ask. This is good. It's about the Python. And of course, go check out all the projects. There's a lot going on. But what I wanted to do because a lot of, a lot of, I'll just kind of break it down. Good news, bad news. It's cool that there's a new Raspberry Pi out. I think the challenge is people need to know because before it was like, oh, it's going to be educational computer. Now, obviously it's kind of like they're adding all these things. And it's a lot faster. And yes, it can be used for education, but there's a lot more. And then there's our world, which is like, what can you do Python stuff on it? So the question that just popped up in the chat was the same thing I was going to ask you is. Wow. So, yeah. So in context of one, the Python and hardware newsletter, but just generally speaking, what are the elements of the Pi five that, you know, you're interested in or excited about? And then what does this mean for people who do Python on hardware? Like we have Blinka, maybe you can talk about that a little bit. But what do you think is like lady to engineer is interesting about the Pi five? There's a couple interesting things. For stuff, I will say I do not, I'm not a beta user. So I do not have a Pi five. And I'm not, I'm basing this only on like the photos and information that's out there. I also have not watched. So I know there's like hour long interviews. I haven't had time to listen to this either. But from just reading the specs and looking at the photo, the stuff that is most interesting to me is we now have four lane MIPI and CSI. So big displays, big cameras, you know, very fast data transfer. Um, secondarily, um, the PCIe slot, I think it's also very neat. I think people who are using the CM4 modules were like, Hey, you know, there's PCIe connecting cellular modules is not going to be very easy before you kind of go through the USB and like it's not as easy and fast. And maybe you can't take advantage of there's a lot of stuff for the laptop market that would be able to plug into an M2 format and use the PCIe bus. And so, um, I think that there's definitely this kind of collision of like the Raspberry Pi five and a laptop computation capability, but they didn't keep the GPIO, which I think is great. And I think the thing that's going to be very interesting is the RP one. And I think that's a little bit of like, um, um, like a silent strike. I don't know what the word is, but it's like, there's, it's like, what is this chip? Oh, it's a Southbridge. Okay. But knowing what they did with the RP 2040 and knowing that obviously they must have taken everything over the RP 2040 and integrated into the Southbridge chip, I think that it's going to, it, they're, they're very smart and they know the kinds of projects people want to do with Raspberry Pi. They know the constraints that they've had in the past because GPIO on single board computers is, and the Raspberry Pi, it's fairly fast, but in general it's very slow and it's very clunky. It'll be very neat to see if they add analog inputs, if they add PWM outputs, maybe pulse inputs, maybe, um, they have, you know, neopixels on the PIO, you can control like multiple, you know, neopixels through the GPIO, having a really tightly coupled RP 2040 for that the PIO speed, um, you know, motor control, neopixels, PWMs, analog inputs, you know, PWM outputs, all that good stuff with the horsepower of the Pi 5 main processor and RAM. I think it could be, you know, it's a really big step up and it reminds me a little bit of the interesting stuff that the Beaglebone block did where the Beaglebone had this built. They filled the void because they were, you know, they're, they're a part of TI, so they're already like, let's make something that's not just like a Raspberry Pi thing, let's like kind of go to the next level. Yeah, this built-in PRU and I think that that was like this Ethernet communications, but I think the Raspberry Pi folks, they know, they know this stuff, like they have now full control, um, and, you know, it's, it's funny, it's like, you can tell that the silicon shortage, they were like, you know what, no, we're just gonna make our own chip, like we are tired of negotiating and fighting and to get the, the millions of quantities that we need at the price we have to hit. And I think they, they, I mean, I don't know this, I'm just guessing, right? So like, don't, I'm not speaking on behalf of Raspberry Pi, but if I were them, having gone for the last few years, I would be like infuriated that I'm like never again. You're so dependent on a third-party vendor because you're like, okay, I've designed in your chip and, you know, they're making millions and millions and millions of Raspberry Pi's a year and it's like if they're designed in and then now they're, they feel like they're, they're not, I don't want to say held hostage, but they're reliant on another company. I think that one thing that, uh, from what I know about, um, Raspberry Pi folks is they don't like, they really like to chart their own path and they don't like to be reliant. So I think this was a really, it's gonna be very interesting with it. They're gonna break the bolt of what a single board computer can do with hardware interfacing and as a grant, but like, no, this is, you know, here's the thing. Yeah. And so I'm about to say something. This is not a ding on all the coverage out there. There's a lot of good coverage, but there's also a lot of coverage which is just like, here's a Raspberry Pi five and they just read off a spec sheet. Like that's not kind of our style. So like, yeah, like the processing speed to me, I'm like, okay, cool. That's not interesting. I thought it'd be good for like, you know, Lady Aida until I talk about like, this is a good question. Like what's interesting to you? And then as we get these, um, whether it be the end of October, however, these are gonna get shipped out to the resellers, um, we'll have this type of in depth stuff because what we don't want to do is just like, quick, get a video up so we can show that we have specs on it. Like, I feel like the community that's out there that's that really does electronics, they can always read the spec sheet, but I think there's, there's other pieces of this that, you know, you're like, here's how you can actually use it. And here's the things in some context. Yeah, it's a little bit like, you know, you play a video game, like, you know, like you play a video game and you're like, there's this like weird tool that you pick up and you're like, I don't, you know, what is this? But you're like, somehow you're like, I know I'm going to need this for the boss battle. Right. It's always like, like the glass sword. And you're like, wow, this is, this is so weird. I know that this is going to be something that I use. Like it's the most powerful tool in the entire game. If I just like, learn the magic spell to unlock it. And I think that's where the RP one is for me. Okay. So stay tuned to the newsletter because we're going to be putting a lot of the stuff in, especially as the pie ships. It's part of it for daily. It shows up at your mailbox every single week.