 It's Python on Hardware Time. Okay, this week on the Python on Hardware Newsletter, by the way, please sign up on AdafruitDaily.com. It's free. We deliver this newsletter to you every single week. We don't spam. We don't do anything like that. Go to AdafruitDaily. I think we got about 9,000 subscribers. I think it's the most popular Python on Hardware Newsletter right now. I think it's the only one. We have 500 total, actually more than 500 total certifications. It's way more than 500 now. But we'd like to celebrate the big numbers. So Adafruit got to 500 first and we have 500. So right now, we're currently the most certified open source hardware company. Why do we do it? Well, you could talk to the talk and say, we love open source. We like to be open. But if you just put your files up and put a license on it and then use their little certification thing, you can have your hardware certified. So I think it's an easy, good thing to do. Why do we do it? I'll be straight up. There's a lot of people who say they do open source and they don't. They don't. And so for us, it's like, well, here's at least a group. Here's a way that people who do this agree that it's open source. You know, I think it's good to show also a lot of people say like, oh well, you know, I was gonna open source it, but after I recouped my investment and if the business is successful. But I wanna show like Adafruit, I think a lot of people can say it's a successful business. We employ a lot of people. We do it right by then. We were in a meeting with an open source company and they said, well, we're not gonna be open source until we recoup our money. And it's just like, well, imagine. But what is that? What is that? Imagine if we did that. When will we recoup the investment of Adafruit? Well, never. Never, right? There's always something, right? So I think it's good to show, you can be a successful business and do open source hardware. These are actually two separate things that don't, you can be open source and not have successful business. You can be successful and not do open source, but you can do both. It is possible. The other reason we did it is we want people to build off of our hardware and make their own devices and own businesses. And that's why there's a flourishing Circuit Python community. There's more Circuit Python boards from other companies than Adafruit. Yes, easily. In fact, tonight, one of the things I'm gonna share is there's a Circuit Python show. It's nothing to Adafruit. I didn't mean to organize it. So our Circuit Python 720 Alpha 2 is released. There is some beta stuff that you can play around with Raspberry Pi. I think the cool thing that you mentioned on the show that you did was Raspberry Pi also stood for Python. It did. Yeah. It does. Sorry. Yeah. No, that's cool. The Pi spelled PI, but it actually stands for Python. And that was a big thing that pushed us towards Circuit Python, Blinka having Python as being the next step up. Cause we wanted to have an interpreted language. And then I'll be honest. Like I didn't really, I was like coded in Perl and I coded a little bit in Lua and I coded in Tickle. And Python wasn't like a big thing for me, but this kind of cemented it. It's like, okay, the Raspberry Pi is going with Python as their official library, as you know, official interpreted language. Let's do it. And it's working out. There's some benchmarks. 32-bit versus 64-bit for the Raspberry Pi for folks that are into that. This is the episode that we were talking about on Tom's hardware. Joey has this really neat crowd supply. We're a backer of this watch. This is the watch at Circuit Python compatible. I love seeing him work on it. It'll be one of the first, yeah, it'll be one of the first Circuit Python powered wrist watches. And then the thing I wanted to show, besides all the projects, so I guess I should scroll through these real quick. There's too many projects every single week where we are at that point. So I have to pick one thing each week. There's a bunch of macro pads. I think that's one of the things to check out. But the thing that I picked this week was the trailer for the Circuit Python show. So I'm gonna play the trailer and please check it out. Man, this guy, this mailing was jam-packed. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on. So here we go. I'm gonna play the trailer and then that'll be our Circuit Python and Python on her news this week. Welcome to the Circuit Python show and an independent podcast hosted by me, Paul Cutler. Each episode I'll have an interview with someone in or around the Circuit Python community. In season one, I'll be talking to Catney Rembore, Professor John Gallagher, Todd Kurt and more guests to be announced. Season one of the Circuit Python show starts the first week of March. You can find more information about the show at CircuitPythonShow.com or follow the show on Twitter at CircuitPyShow that's CircuitPyShow. CircuitPyShow. Use your favorite podcast app and hit subscribe today. And that is Python on hardware. We're like Marvel now where this is like the multiverse trailer just dropped. Well, there's a lot of variants just like a Python one. Two more weeks.