 All right, it's Python on hardware time. Blink up, blink up, blink up. Yeah, you'll see some familiar things here. So we are celebrating 200 libraries. Yay. It's actually 201 now. But yes. At least 200. At least 200. It's a big milestone for us. A lot of people, the reason they like CircuitPython is because everything just works. There's lots of libraries. Similar to why folks adopt Feather if they want a GPS. Not only is there the hardware, but there's a software library for it. So thank you to all our community contributors and our entire team. We've been working on that 200 libraries as a big deal. This is some experiments we're doing. This is called the Magic Lightbulb. It's a Bluetooth Blue Energy Lightbulb. And we are controlling this via CircuitPython. So we're working through all the services that Bluetooth has. And we're getting our CircuitPython devices to work with it. This is from a community member. They have a Feather. And they're doing the hide and seek because they said I don't have two Circuit playground blue fruits. So I'll make my Bluetooth Feather and my Bluetooth Circuit playground. They have one of each. They have one of each. So the proximity sensor. So it's a neat little proximity sensor with that. So you can do all this stuff with a Feather and also with a Circuit Playground Blue Fruit. Arturo was busy. And this is a CircuitPython driven cube. And he was working on this cube. I think it was from a fellow independent maker. And after he assembled it, he's like, well, I got to test it. So he was running CircuitPython on it. So I tossed that in there. We have a new board that's supported in Blinka. And Blinka is our CircuitPython for Linux. This is a cool, yeah. This is one of those USB user. It's a host adapter. Yeah, it's a host adapter that it's like a toolkit for lots of different things. So this is actually kind of a lower cost and more open and scriptable version of the kind of host adapters that the company that does Beagle, I can't remember their name. But they make these little adapters and basically you plug this into your USB computer. And then you can run a Python script to control iSquad C or SPI or GPIO devices. So they basically made one. And it's now CircuitPython Blinka-compatible, which means that you can run all of those 200 CircuitPython libraries from your computer. So again, if you want to automate testing or analysis of hardware from a computer, you don't want a microtron in the middle. You plug this in and it's USB on one end and then GPIO on the out. This is neat. This is a board that a person made. And it is a random number generator. Yes, and there's a random pixels. Yes. It's based on a Trinket M0. And you can get the code on GitHub. You can learn a little bit more about it on our site and on the newsletter. This, we're going to show a video later, but this is kind of neat. We're getting closer to being able to just run Python absolutely everywhere. And this is the MCP2221 USB to iSquad C converter that you're working on. Yeah. We've had the FT232H, which again is a USB to GPIO converter. And we love the FT232. It's wonderful. But it's a little expensive. It is fast. I think it does high-speed USB maybe, but it's a very fast chip. But maybe you just want something that's low cost and simple. So the MCP2221A is like $1.25. And it gives you USB on one end and then iSquad C on the other. And then we just got this working with Blinka as well. Carter and I, we had fun reverse engineering the USB protocol, which was not very well documented. But we got it working. And so you can write in a couple of guides now on how to use Jupyter Notebooks with this device. You can run Circuit Python libraries from Jupyter Notebooks. We'll have a little sneak peek video at the end of the show. Make has a bunch of Circuit Python in it. Make, my old job, make is back, by the way. And they had two things. And this is Geekmon projects. And also in the toolbox section, it has our ruler that happens to be Python powered. The latest issue is called Shixar Planet. And Make is now shipping magazines again. So that was good to see. Make shipping and also Circuit Python stuff. Eight of boxes are out there. Don't forget, you can order one. We just had a couple openings, because we're shipping right now. But folks are getting them. So look away if you don't want to know what they are. But there are some surprises, especially thanks to Matt and team who posted up the Melbourne MicroPython Meetup. There is three months worth of videos and notes and more. Probably one of the best resources and the most active communities in the world of MicroPython. Join the Lura Alliance. Yay. Yay. I'm always nervous when organizations have us as members. But this worked out. I would never join the Alliance that would have me. But we do a lot of things with Circuit Python and the Things Network, and we have a lot of Lura hardware. And so we just wanted to make sure that they knew about us, and we also had a way to get in contact with them as we do more stuff with Lura. Speaking of, Andreas, who did a great video about Circuit Python, just released a video a couple days ago. Public Lura satellite doesn't work. So there is a public Lura satellite as it flies over, folks can tune into it. That's cool. It is pretty cool. This is also neat. This is the Ant and MicroPython. So these folks, they have a PCB milling machine, and they wanted to show that they can make a fully functional board that comes out of it. Yeah, it's kind of neat. Our friends at NumWorks, they have a contest. So this is a MicroPython powered calculator. And if you do a cool script, you can win something. I have a drawing program with the Python. You can actually just make little reindeers and all that stuff. The other thing that I found out is there is an emulator for iOS. So technically, you can get MicroPython on iOS, which is super weird, because normally, Apple doesn't allow emulators inside for programming languages. But for this, they did. So I'll show that to you later. That's how that's cool. This is a book that Evan is working on at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This is called The Classics. And this is all games that you can do with Pi Zero and Pi Numer Zero. And you can make your own classic games. Well, that's cool. We'll show this off on the show until this week, but this is using Pillow and animated graphics to show this on a Charlie Plex. Folks are making their own games, so we have a bunch of edge badges out in the wild. And people are making their own. I think this might be for this is David Stell's game. They loaded the other game. This one, they load another one? Yeah, this is another one. And there's a whole series of games. Yeah, this is from Mr. Floaty or Floaty Guy. Floaty Guy, OK. And speaking of edge badge, Alex over at Hackster was at the ARM AIOT Summit. And this is just another neat example. This is a feather compatible, speaking of feather earlier on the show. This is a machine learning conference badge, so it can do voice recognition right on it. And then this is a Tamagotchi circuit Python device where you can feed a little cat into different things and powered by circuit Python. This was a fun surprise. Someone made a really neat Neopixel resin cube. And when you put it on a wireless charger, yep, it lights up. That is cool. I kind of think I kind of imagine like it shows up like the plan of the apes like thousands of years later. They're like, what is this technology? We worship this cube. This is a board that allows you to do conversions from the quick to wire to circuit Python link. Yeah, somebody made Blinka compatible libraries for the quick to wire boards. This company went out of business, I think, where they closed shop. But they were making Raspberry Pi accessories, like hardware accessories that were kits. And so somebody, we already have libraries for most of these things like this chip, I think, is the MCP or PCF something, something. So we have a library for this chip already, so they just wrote up examples using Blinka because I think the quick to wire libraries might be not Python 3 compatible or something. Okay. Handheld Kim's Line workshops are starting up at STEM at Cell Robotics. This is in Normal, Massachusetts. If you have a person in your life, especially a young person who would like to take these courses, we have all the information on our site. One of the things that is important to us when we start circuit Python is can artists use it? Well, this artist who folks may remember from a previous project where they took a recalled toy and had the recalled toy with a Pi portal on it that did a broadcast of all the recalled toys. This is called engineered sandwich, a smaller chargeable freestanding light emitting sculpture. It's 3D printed, it fits between two little wood buns and a circuit Python script controls randomly, RGB LEDs. So another cool little art project. I like artists being able to do stuff they want with the light. Also, a couple of guides and more. There's an MQTT data logging zero to hero with circuit Python and MQTT, that's over in Hexter. The orange pie is still cranking along. This is another feather compatible. Blue fruit is getting out in the world and so what people are starting to do with it is make Bluetooth control dog collars. That's a good idea. Yeah, so this dog has its own Bluetooth collar that you can control on a circuit with the ground, Bluetooth express, and or your phone. This was some of the tests we were doing. This is the TFT Gizmo circuit playground, blue fruit and we were able to get some connections. So I took some quick photos. If you zoom in really close, you can see the food delivery that I have ordered is late and it told me that on my little device. Good. And that is it for Python on hardware. Lots of libraries up to 250 soon. Okay.