 Alright, so we're going to do this one a little different this week. This week, I wanted to, I picked a story out of the newsletter and the video, there's a lot, but I think that's interesting, so this is a new board. They called it a SBC small bar computer, but it's actually just a microcontroller board, and why don't you talk about why this is interesting. I'm just going to do one sentence about why it's interesting, but you have more. So here's why this board is interesting. It's the next chapter on how electronic manufacturers are, the trend that we see, are sending out dev boards, and that is it comes with a scripting language, and the scripting language happens to be Python. Yeah. So tell us about this. What is this? Well, I think it's interesting because I buy a lot of eval boards, like I have many eval boards, and I use them for I and MPI. And there's one thing that's kind of universal about eval boards, they're always kind of expensive. They're this big, they're expensive, and they require a giant tool chain. That's a mess. Well, no, they actually don't even require a tool chain. Usually you're stuck with some Windows software. Usually it's only one platform, Windows software. Sometimes, some are now doing multi-platform, but if you even have a Mac or Linux, usually you're out of luck. And it's kind of a little clunky, and it feels a little bad for the companies because it feels like every eval board, they have to start from the beginning and design the whole user interface just to talk to this chip. And what I thought was interesting about Trinamic is we featured them and they make these really great stepper drivers. They want people to try the stepper drivers. They are a stepper driver chip company, not a Windows GUI software company. What are they good at? Stepper drivers. What are they probably not so good at? Windows software. And so if you wanted to have a way for developers to be able to quickly test out your stepper drivers or your industrial control drivers, using something like a pie board might be really useful because you can give them scripts and you don't need an IDE and you don't need a web tool or a GUI tool. You just tell them, hey, drag and drop this thing, open up a grapple, use the serial port, and you can... Plug in a eval board in your computer, it'll show up as a USB drive. Like that's number one, like oh my gosh. And then using any text editor or IDE... Edit the Python file. And the thing is that it's not that different than what we just we realized with Adabox and with doing RLtracks is like, there was a limit. Like we actually couldn't get people going with Arduino. Like it was just too limiting because it was like, you have to install Arduino and some people are like, I'm on a Chromebook and I'm like, OK. Or they're like, I don't have admin apps that can't install software. OK. Or like, they're at a library, right? So how can you... Or they're on a parent's computer. The parents don't want them to install software. They can't download software, but they can edit a text file or they have an IDE that they're already allowed to use. Right. So how could they edit a script? So the things that make it easy for students... You know, it's funny because it's like the... You know, I always tell the joke of like, well, you know, we make it really easy for like students and kids to use CircuitPython, which means it's also possible for PhDs to use it, right? Because it's actually like kind of the same user base, in a sense. The same stuff that a very advanced engineer and a beginner it's actually the same user experience they want. Like, I actually don't want to install a tool chain. Like when I was like in that medium stage, I was like, yeah, I'm going to sell a tool chain. I'm going to explore this thing. Now it actually like gives me the willies, right? I don't want to get MSP430 to take over my computer. I just want to like have a thing do a thing. I just want to test it out to see how it works and get a feel for it because I don't want to integrate it into my own product. So I think MicroPython is a good use case for this. This is actually like basically a re-spin of the pie board. They call it MotionPy and even in the name, they're like, hey, Python, so this is happening. It's an STM32F405, so you work with CircuitPython too. And it's basically just kind of like they took the pie board and they just sort of added all this other stuff to it to make it good for industrial automation. And it's probably just running MicroPython like plain because the pins are the same thing. And then it's just got like the buttons and SD cards. It's just gets split apart and designed just for automation. I think it's interesting. It's interesting because this is actually the one use case it's very good for. I always thought like eval boards were such a waste of resources for a company that does not, they're not an eval board company. They're a stepper driver company. They should not be making eval board software. They should be making stepper drivers. There's more people that can do Python code too than embedded, like see, you know, there's like, there's a bigger community audience and talent pool as well. So anyways, this is interesting to us. This is like, you'll look back at this in years and be like, oh yeah, I saw this on like Ask the Engineer. And then it's like the softwares on GitHub. It's very interesting to me because Trinamic, you know, they just got bought by Maxon but they're not a big company, right? This isn't TI. So it's interesting to see like these small scale companies, you know, are they like Digi like Trinamic, they're gonna start doing MicroPython and embedded Python scripting languages. And then seeing how, because they're more agile than the bigger companies, will it trickle up until eventually you're gonna see you know, big companies use Python on hardware as a way of doing rapid development for their chips. All right, other things in the newsletter because that is in there is 6.2.0 for beta. Please try it out. Go to Ada for your, sorry, go to circuitpython.org slash download. Fixing bugs like bananas. We love fixing bugs. RP2040 fixes are the big ones. USB 3.2 S2 fixes as well, a lot of USB stuff. Keep putting in any bug reports. We are patching and preparing and we're gonna move on to seven. Yeah, if you got a... Circuitpython. Open hardware summit, Goodybag last year, they shipped last week or so and you can run Circuitpython. Now here's the interesting thing, it's been a year and there's been a lot of Circuitpython updates since then. So you get the latest firmware and your device does even more. So this is a little Circuitpython powered badge that also function as a watch. I think Scott had these on his deep dive, he did an unboxing. Here you can see the front and back. Does it update the latest Circuitpython? I mean, I think it forwarded out then, now it's up to six. Cool. And also there's an unboxing. Alex was on our show and tell. You can also check out the open hardware summit swag bag unboxing that has everything else. Deep Dive with Scott this Thursday, we mentioned that before. News from around the web. This was a round table from Digikey for Pi Day. You can see a bunch of folks including JP. This is a contentful blog, e-ink display with Circuitpython and IoT. This is a Circuit... So I tried to make her PyPico and Circuitpython measures soil moisture. This is a Raspberry Pi, mouse regular. Sensor when you're in the bath. We have other PyPico projects that are coming in. Micro-Python, thermal cameras, thermal printers, displays. More people doing Circuitpython with RP2040s, which is cool. PyLadies has some good stories on their blog. It's the PyCorder, we had that on the show and tell. This is cool, it's a Chrome repel. So more people are doing web serial, thankfully. Web USB, long live it, but web serial is better. People playing with Pycos and off-the-shelf hardware. Space, this is cool, there's like a plant shaped or like an egg shaped sensor. People love eggs and sensors, they kind of go together. And if you want to check out Tim. He's doing streaming. You can check out the bitmap tools and the neat little widget gadget thing that he's working on. And then check out the rest. We have a review that I think this Russian site did of the Adafruit Feather RP2040. Tom's hardware also did a review of it. It wasn't as PyBase, was it? Yeah, here is a very small version of a schedule library for Circuitpython. You can use the PyPico to make an affordable screen deck. This is a 3D printed one. Here's an ESP32 OLED display with MicroPython. And more and more and more and more and more. Keybos with Circuitpython, Keybos with Circuitpython, Zubo with Circuitpython. We have a guide on how to do Wi-Fi with the Pico and then Tom's hardware also has an article guide on how to do it. So uses Circuitpython, uses Wi-Fi, uses Adafruit Airlift, and you can then get your Pi online. I had sent this to the team. Audacity 3.0 is released. Oh yay, it's our favorite open source. Yeah, so we use this for all of the audio file edits and more. One of the cool things about Circuitpython and Python on hardware is you can play Wi-Files. Yeah, you can also play other types of files. But you also often want to put them in the right format to speed things up. Yeah. And we talked about that. We had some coming soon. We're going to be talking about it on the show tonight. We have some new learn guides and we are up to 306 Circuitpython libraries. That's right. Check out the new boards and which ones are most popular on circuitpython.org slash downloads. And then we have some events coming up. PyCon USA is coming up, EuroPython, PyOhio, and then of course. It's still virtual and then maybe throughout the summer we'll see some in-person events popping up. And that is Python on hardware news this week. Thank you, Blanca.