 Okay, it is Python on hardware time. There's a lot going on in the world of Circuit Python. So I'm going to start off with that. Next month, August 19th, we are once again celebrating Circuit Python Day. We have an entire day's worth of activity. It's Friday, August 19th. We'll have stuff going on all during the day. We'll have show and tell, we'll have giveaways. It's tuned into all of the shows between now and then, and you'll get a chance to probably win one of those Circuit Python tablets. And then we have a full day of folks who are just doing cool stuff with Python on hardware. And so that'll be our Circuit Python Day coming up. Sort of big news, I think, anyways, because this is always interesting. This is the lead story in the newsletter, the Pi 5 RIS 5 A6 project. And this is an open-source hardware chip, and they're making a community-driven... Well, they're describing it as a community-driven RIS 5-based microcontroller with the ability to easily support Circuit Python and MicroPython. So, Lady, do you know a little bit about these things? Why is this interesting? Is this the future of chip development? It could be. This is interesting because... Well, it's interesting for two reasons. One, RISC 5 is a microcontroller architecture that has got a lot of attention lately because it's starting to be picked up by big industry partners like Western Digital, you know, makes chips with RISC 5 and High 5 does as well, a couple other companies. Espresso, FESP, and there's some a bunch of other chip companies that are making RISC 5 cores and especially pairing them with machine learning and AI stuff. And, you know, usually with free cores, people do stuff like in 8051, which is an Ape in my controller. Maybe you can expand it to 16. But the RISC 5 is like a true, like, complete RISC architecture chip. It's 32-bit, it's quite advanced, it's got a full instruction set, and it's completely free. No royalties required, unlike the ARM Cortex series. And so, you know, even though the RP2040 isn't, like, explicitly designed for use with Circuit Python and MicroPython, there's a lot of design decisions they made that do make it a really great embedded Python chip. And so it's interesting to see, you know, that's a dual Cortex M0. It's interesting to see, can we make true, fully open-source hardware that can run interpreted languages? And, you know, I think people have come up with theoretical designs for the RISC 5, but I think they're actually going to try to manufacture and ship a chip that is specifically designed for, I mean, of course they'll be able to run other languages, but designed for running high-level languages using a fully open source from top to bottom core. And theoretically, this could be one of the first truly open-source hardware, like, laptops. Yeah. I mean, you know, like, back in the day, there was Transmeda and, like, there was a lot of things for the old-timers. But this is an open-source hardware chip. It could run open-source software like Circuit Python, and it's an interpreted language like Python, and the full stack from hardware to software could be open-source. Yeah, I think it's very interesting. I mean, the tough part is the peripherals. If they've got the time and you can't get chips, you might as well sit down and do them. It could be really, it could be very neat. I think it's interesting that they're deciding, you know, let's try to support MicroPython or Circuit Python. I know there's, I think, the FOMU is an FPGA that supports, that runs a WISC 5 core that runs Python. So it could be, I mean, maybe it's the SOMU. I don't remember, they're very similarly named. But I think this is really neat. So check it out. I think they're doing some fundraising right now. All right. So you can check it out on Groupgets and also you can watch their progress on Hackster. Banana for scale. Raspberry Pi staff made some RP2040 lightsabers. They use Featherwing, Circuit Python, some 3D printing. We have some Pico add-ons. We're calling those bells. If you saw our video last week, we debuted cowbells. And you could see some of the logos and a little bit of the story behind it. We just saw, we've got cowbells. There's more cowbell. I got a FEVA that will only be cured by some more Raspberry Pi Pico pie bells. And you can check out the rest of the newsletter with a gigantic, massive amount of projects. One of the bits of kudos we got that someone said is they called us a fair broker because we celebrate and have all types of Python on hardware, not just Circuit Python, not just MicroPython, not just Desktop Python, but whatever people are putting Python on and there's a few different ways to do that on devices and we've written about this before. 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