 There's now time for Python on hardware. We do newsletter every single week, and this is our recap with videos and more. There's so much going on, so I try to pick the best. Here we go. Okay, first up, this is one of the Pythonistas, one of the organizers, Felice, who made these earrings using a circuit Python. Next up is Pikachu, and this is the master mouse. Big news, MicroPython is now on the Feather STM32. We have it on GitHub, we have it on YouTube. Yeah, it's got merged in, so next release of MicroPython will automatically make binary builds for this. And past us even made a video about this. Go past us. Hey, what is this? This is MicroPython flies on a feather. Okay. We have finally got our feather STM32F405 MicroPython variant merged in. Damian George just thank you two days ago. And so now I can run MicroPython on my feather board. Yeah. And we still have a couple libraries for MicroPython like for OLED and this temperature sensor library happened to work. So if you would like to use MicroPython in a feather format, I think this is the first one other than the ESP32 and 8066. This is 168 megahertz STM32F405 and it's the same chip used in the pie board now featherified. We're going to be focusing on circuit Python on this, but I like having MicroPython available for the folks that like that. Cool. Okay. Last week was national 4-H week, so we had a bunch of sales and we had a lot of information. If you didn't know already, we have a official 4-H version of Circuit Playground Express. It is identical except for its green and it took a long time for us to get permission working through the US Department of Agriculture to get this on there. So please, please, please if you're in 4-H, please let everyone know in 4-H about this. Professor John had a class and in this class they were making an app and for 80 Love Lace Day, they decided to put all these amazing women on this app and I thought this was good because recently there was a Forbes like top business leaders list and they accidentally forgot, I assume it was accident, women out. So the students and the professor made their own version. So I thought that was cool. Nice. All right. Next up also in that class, they got 100 Circuit Playground Blue Fruits. So we were wondering what would happen if you have 100 of these? Can they pair because they're Blue Fruits? Would they be able to figure this out? The answer is yes. Next up. In PyCon, DE, Berlin, there's photos. There was an excellent meetup for all the folks from MicroPython. I have a report to Christine from MicroPython who put in a pull request for this newsletter. So we got a chance to add this in here so you could check out the photos more. And then Adafruit was a sponsor for PyLady's workshop. So you can see all of them here with some of the Adafruit stuff that they made. Speaking of events that are going to be coming up soon. Supercons coming up. And if you look in the top middle of this, you can see Scott. Scott will be doing a talk about Circuit, Python on Retro, Hardware and more. Supercharge your hardware old and new with Circuit, Python. So you can meet Scott there. That's coming up pretty soon. And we have Hardware going there. So if you're thinking about going to Supercon, you should. And there's also some familiar faces on there. Can't really see Mitch. He just spotlighted Mitch on our open hardware Daily Post this month. Also coming up is TensorFlow World. October 21st, you will see some Adafruit Python powered badges there. And that's all we can say about it at this time. It's a little bit of a surprise. PyCon April of next year is coming up. They just posted up about their financial aid. And we'll be posting up more things as the clock ticks down. We'll probably be doing something big there next year. Okay, this is neat. This is Circuit, Python. And it's a Circuit, Python poster that's powered by Circuit, Python. So here is a little clip from the folks who put it together. And here's the team. So you can see this on code and solder on Twitter. But excellent work. What a cool idea you take the poster. Blink of dancing. Yeah. Blink of dances. And you learn about Python and microcontrollers with a poster that's powered by Python and microcontrollers. Congratulations to C Grover. This is the string car. It is almost done. It's a feather string car M4 express. The most powerful string car ever. The most powerful string car. And what's neat is we've been watching this in development over like last year or so. So I'm looking forward to not only having one of these, but using one of these. Speaking of new Circuit Python boards, Arturo is making a ton of cool boards and there's already variants. And if you like Arturo's work, like we do, you can sponsor Arturo on GitHub. This is a new thing just like Patreon, but it's for GitHub. And Arturo posted he's like, Hey, they took my application on GitHub. They said I can get sponsorship now. And now Arturo can get sponsorship. So if you're thinking about it, this is a way to say thank you to some of the folks that do cool hardware in the world of Python. And we're a supporter already. So maybe you can be too. Tia Flowers made the Circuit Python driver for the analog devices, AD 5, 6, 8, 9, 16 bit deck. Check that out. And also there's a board coming. This is a new feather. It's a power feather wing. Yeah. Feather takes flight. High power. On the six to 36 volt power supply feather wing supplies five volts up to one amp from six to 36 volts and a feather factor chunky. Okay. This is a bird. And then this is the video of the bird. This is a Circuit Python powered Raven. Oh, it was it was like an off the shelf thing. And then they decided to change it and modify it and then you circuit Python to have it move and do things. And this is kind of a two parter that I wanted to talk about because this is exactly what I think young people or anyone, if they wanted to get into like animatronics and more, this is the way to go. And it's very easy to do that now with Circuit Python. So we posted up this Raven and in the same week, very same week Khan Academy has this thing called Imagineering in a Box. And it's a bunch of high level videos. And then the type of things that you would need to do. The only thing missing is the stuff in the box. So I'm going to email them and say, Hey, y'all are doing these imaginary stuff. We got these. We got birds. We got this bird. We got cricket. We've been doing a ton of robotics. We even did animatronic and Imagineering like projects for one of our past eight boxes. I'm going to email them and see you should email and be like a blank in the box. You just need something inside of the box. Yes. Okay. This is cool. This is the easy make oven controller. This is using a pie portal to control a toaster oven. I'm looking at these like beautiful UI. It's like here's the plot and here's how it follows and you can see the temperature. You can make one of these with everything from A to fruit, except for we do not sell toaster ovens at this time. Okay. There is a lot of Circuit Python stuff going around. This is a Circuit Python going to event. And these folks make these little cute creatures at the Circuit Python. So a capacitive touch. Maybe like place audio effects or something. Yeah. Who is on the show and tell also should this off make a Bluetooth control color changing Jack Lantern. You guessed it. Circuit Python and you can control it with your watch. All right. This is the FT 232 H less posted up about this and showed a bunch of cool things that you can do with Circuit Python on a desktop computer and control things without even using a microcontroller. Circuit Python libraries for any PC. Okay. Python snakes its way to the AWS deep racer. So deep racer is this new AI self driving car. We ordered one a year ago. It just arrived. We haven't taken it apart yet. We will soon. But it looks like already it runs Python. So this is one of the reasons that we decided let's make sure Circuit Python runs on everything. We just posted up about Blinka running on AWS as one of the examples. So Blinka snakes its way to AWS IoT. So you can expect to see lots of Python on things like self driving cars because a lot of the TensorFlow things and more are all in Python. Okay. Scott posted up two videos. So I combined them into one and you can watch the latest and greatest of what's going on with Circuit Python and Bluetooth with advertising and broadcasting and all the cool beacon things that you can do with Bluetooth. Neat stuff. All right. Take it away. All right. Circuit Python Circuit Playground Blue Fruit BLE update on this Friday. First, I've got four blue fruits here. One in the foreground and three in the background. The one in the foreground is broadcasting what color the other three should be. This is known as in Bluetooth land as a broadcaster and three observers. Now, if I just click the button, I can switch and now you can see that like I'm white and the other three are white. If I keep going, now they're pink. One hasn't heard me. Now they're all three blue. That's really cool for synchronizing which animations things are doing and if I can go back. The other thing that's really neat is that multiple things can broadcast what the color they want to be. So I'm going to take this green one. Actually, let's make it red for for Blinka. Let's put this red one over here. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this other one and I'm going to switch the slide switch which will put it in broadcast mode and click it and now you can see it's off and the other two are flickering as I move it closer. It listens better and let's change this to purple. So now you can see that if I put this one here, these two are flickering because they're kind of equally between the two. But if I take this one and I move it over here towards the red one, it became becomes red. If I take this other one and move it more towards the purple, it stays purple. And of course, I can still change the color of the individual one. So that's just a quick update on Bluetooth with Circuit Python. Okay, here's a quick Circuit Python BLE update and working on scanning and advertising and just want to show these two devices, the Feather NRF 52 840 and the Circuit Playground Blue Fruit, they're not connected. They're only listening for advertisements or advertising. So this one here is listening for advertisements and this one is advertising manufacturer specific data and the data is what color it is. So if I click A or B, I cycle through the colors that I've set up and the other device follows along. The goal for tomorrow's work is to get more than one device working so that we can synchronize one device like this with a bunch of other devices all at the same time using the same advertising message. And don't forget we still have the Code Academy Circuit Python courses going on and that is the Python on hardware news for this week. There's a lot. Okay.