 All right, it's Python on hardware time lady. Okay, Blinka Blinka Blinka Blinka me up Yeah, it's Python on hardware and as usual they're gonna go over the newsletter. They're gonna then have a discussion About things. We'll talk. We'll chit chat This week circuit Python 7 oh beta released we're in a beta. All right, so some of the big things Since the 630 support for circuit Python development workflow over BLE camera support on ESP 32 s2 Curio QR decoding Keypad scanning module real-time customization of USB devices I was merging in of the micro Python fixes and enhancements of micro Python as of 1.16 the great merge hence the poster to blinkers Two snakes one blinker. Yeah, I don't think the orange snake has a name and they don't use any more Yeah, the nameless snake, but a blinker's name Next up simplification for the RGB status and LED codes Anything else like unicone file name support. I think it's a good one I think it's still being worked on and it depends be a couple modules, but yeah, there's a lot big things our camera support BLE one-time keypad One-time USB and updating micro Python the rest is a little bit kind of behind the scene stuff Oh, yeah, Jeffler was asking is it pronounced curio so curio I did a blog post about I worked on these Sony Robots a million years ago, and then we decided to do a product because Sony abandoned everything and curio Was a specific word that I always wanted to use him before Sony and I think that's how it's pronounced curio curio Yeah, curio or qri. Oh, that's what I well. This isn't this is not really about. This is the same. Yeah But if folks want to see non Boston Dynamics robots doing stuff check out just do a search on our blog look for curio They were dancing robots. They'd read stories of kids and I tried to smuggle one of them out, but Sony stopped me Anyways, so you can look at the rest of the newsletter more stuff on whippersnapper. That's our beta if you want to participate You can do it on discord We have a little bit of a recap of the latest hack space magazine so make music with pico and circuit python There is a bunch of stuff going on in the world of keyboards and circuit python because that's one of the things it does A lot of people are doing things like make a 3d printed Like jeppler did from show-and-tell 3d printed keyboards keycaps. Yeah keycaps. You name it because now we have a micropad So that is the news and the newsletter do subscribe. We're getting really close to 9,000 subscribers So if like 10 of you subscribe, we'll probably hit it next week more keyboards Here's the numpad 4,000 mechanical key switch data entry device you guys by John Park But the topic of the week and I think this is maybe some of the biggest news But there is no such thing as independent press in electronics anymore So no one really gonna write about stuff because everyone's owned by someone else So we try to cover the things that we think are interesting. So our dweeno is doing python That's right And you're probably saying for a bit but now they're doing more by well first up Are those little feather boards? No. Do they look like feathers? Yes. And is that python? Yeah So what's the destination with a lot of microcontroller efforts? It's scripting languages on feather-shaped things and I think this is a big deal because we were like hey Arduino We're going this direction. We're going this direction not only from our form factor But also going to a scripting language python. So this is with open MV Yeah, so this is this is interesting because it's like a python and It's it's interesting because Arduino is kind of going Similar to the route that they had with the Arduino IDE and Arduino hardware where you know You don't have to use any particular IDE with with circuit python or micro python You can use any any basically any IDE although Thonny is pretty popular because it is file management But you can you know, it's a repel and it's you know file uploading system through the repel and so the ID doesn't matter that much but Having an ID that's That is controllable Let's them have add-ons and other capabilities that they want to add one of things about their Arduino IDs It's not a very complicated ID, but it has a couple of add-ons that make it suitable for use with Arduino boards and so Sort of similar to you know Arduino hardware and Arduino ID where they're you know, they're two pieces of the same development Tooling they're going the same way with the micro python and python on hardware support Specialized tooling specialized ID even though it isn't required. I think they're kind of pushing people towards that So, you know it we always said like oh well I do we know idea of our support python and the answer is no But what they did do is they're using open and visa ID, which is a very lovely ID that you can use To do, you know open machine vision stuff But it's also a fairly good micro python ID to begin with and I you know I don't know if they're using the open MV fork of micro python or the core But I think these are the nrf 52 840 boards and nr 52 840 has good micro python support has BLE Support and of course in circuit python. We have support as well So in addition to the portana now there and the RP 2040 which of course has First-class micro python support now they're going back and saying okay Here's earlier boards that we're going to bring in so now I think they have maybe five boards total that are given Python hardware native support, so it's it's you know and and going forward the Hardware coming forward coming out from now on almost certainly will as well because only can get more powerful more RAM more capability Yeah, so it's one of those things where it's like Interpretive languages are on microcontrollers. They're here to stay and I think Some people get caught up like what's the differences between Start off with the project you want to do and there might be an easier better faster way to do it And what's the value of your time? And and what things do you want to get done? And there's some programming languages that are just like more net net native than others. Yeah, so anyways I'm excited about this because I wrote the Why are doing the one where it's here to stay a million years ago at this article and make and so far Harry Seldon style, you know foundation like the the whole big movement of things are still the same something might not be called Arduino in the future, but as you can tell it's like if things are moving towards a certain type of form factor and Certain type of programming languages and it's making things better and easier and some people Some people like it yeah, some people some people want the member back in the day I don't know like a decade ago Or less when you would get a dev board. It was like $500 and it had like This lockdown IDE you couldn't do anything with it. Everything was like complicated and hard and expensive. Yeah Some people really like that way. We don't I think that the the market has spoken. This is what the market wants Yeah, okay, and that is our Python or hardware news. Oh the week. Okay