 Speaking of, we got a special treat for you all this week for Python on hardware. It's something that would normally be part of our top secret segment, but it's not. It's going to be part of this segment. So first up, I have to remind everyone, please go to it for daily. It's a completely separate website that has nothing to do with your shopping account. We do not spam. We do not remarket. We don't even use tracking on the sites. We don't need to. We have Google Analytics on our store, but we're trying to un-Googleify and untrackify anything we can where we don't need something. We don't use that information. So why store and why track people? For a different daily, you can sign up anytime, cancel. This is, I think, the only consistent Python on hardware newsletter. We have thousands of subscribers. Do check it out. We have a bunch of news. Evan was hinting at an RP2040 successor, a new PyCompute module. These are all things that you're going to run Python on. You can see some interesting things going on with the Python Software Foundation is like, hey, what do you mean open source authors might be liable for code and stuff like that? So they don't like that. You can check that out, the news stories. And then all the things that you expect, like projects that use CircuitPython and RP2040 and Raspberry Pi. You can check out the CircuitPython show, highlights who's on the show next. And then what things that we're doing with Playground, which is our place where people can post stuff, tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of projects. Yeah, but this week, we're going to do some a little different. I'm going to ask Lady Aida to show off. This normally would be top secret, but this is kind of a big deal for us. This is a completely Python powered digital camera. Oh, hold on. User interface, yeah. Let me get rid of it. How do I get rid of the interface? There you go. Sorry. So this is our Python powered digital camera. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. So this is, I'm going to remove this. This is a battery, but this is a camera that uses CircuitPython and it like acts like a digital camera, like a, what was that camera you had? Quick take? It's better than a quick take, though. It's 5K pixels. So it's got a 5 megapixel. A completely open source Python camera, I think the first and only. Yeah. It's got the OV5640, which we've been selling for a bit. This one has autofocus mode. You have microSD cards for storage. You can connect hardware and longer digital input or I squared C. It's got an ESP32S3 and it's got great CircuitPython support and also has hardware support for communicating with these cameras. There's a little spot here for the battery and the battery just sits nicely on top. On the back here, I have the protecting case on it, but there's four up-down, left-right buttons, okay, and select a little piezo. This is the shutter button. There's also a reset button and a hardware on off switch. And when it turns on, you'll see it boots into CircuitPython. And then the SD card won't be loose on the final version because I'm debugging and stuff. You can see it's taking the photo of what's underneath. And what's cool is that this has autofocus mode. So let's see if I can get it to, yeah. So you saw it'll be able to take close-up pictures of stuff. And then there's also going to be a LED ring light. And the idea is that you'll be able to do a lot of stuff. People have opened for more for their cameras. But if you want to write your own image filtering or you want to make a little gift camera or a JPEG camera, or you want to have something that connects to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth that you can control and you don't have to go through some third-party website, this is a Wi-Fi-capable chip. And so it can send data, like it can SMS you an image or upload it to Adafruit.io or it can take commands from the internet over Bluetooth. So I think it'll be kind of neat to have like fully open source, like true open source firmware camera that you can code up yourself. Yeah. And for the folks out there that are like, well, you know, I really want to own my electronics. I want to know what metadata is being put on photos. Well, I don't think there's another another thing that comes close. You could build it yourself. You can upgrade it. You can do all the things. I think because cameras are so good, you got to go the other direction. Yeah. And this has something kind of retro. Let me see. It can do some mode. So that's going to come through. So this is inverted mode. It's it's very bright. The screen's right. Yes, this is like inverted. Yeah, make your own filters. You could do all sorts of neat stuff. Black and white mode for like, oh, you know what? I didn't have the latest firmware. There's a dither mode that just got added to like a Game Boy camera, like sepia tones. And then, you know, using micro lab, which is like NumPy. You can add your own filters if desired. Yeah, like your Instagram filter style. So, you know, one thing that I'll say about things like this is I don't know how we're going to teach the next generation of product designers to make things without stuff like this, because everyone's kind of growing up with like, here's a, you know, 30 megapixel camera in my phone. Someone has to learn how to make these things. And it's not just going to be like Apple and Google forever. It's a good idea to understand how these things are made and teach other people to do it. So this is like part of that curriculum or journey where it's like, you learn how to make your own keyboard. You learn how to make your own, you know, blinking LED thing. Then you learn how to, we're going to have a, you know, a cell phone, Python powered cell phone or something like that. You learn how to make your own Python powered digital camera. So all this stuff that you'd be able to build on your own and understand it. It's not going to be the thing that you shoot your vacation photos on, but maybe. But it is the thing that you're going to be able to. Cool, like retro, like Holga-esque, you know, like, again, Apple quick take stuff. This isn't to use as a USB camera. You can actually, what's interesting, you can have it act as a Wi-Fi camera. It actually doesn't have, you need to have USB high speed to do like a true webcam, but you can transfer data across. It just isn't like, it doesn't show, you know, we try to have it show up, but you can have it act as a VNC, I think, and then you can have it appear on your computer. And then one day, you know, of course, it's chips evolve and stuff like that. You know, we tend to have a platform. This will be like the Memento platform for cameras, open source cameras. So somebody asked about half press for shutter. So it doesn't, it's not, there's no, we couldn't afford to get like a custom half press button, but if you hold down, it autofocuses. So long press is autofocus and short press is snap. Yeah. But you can change that, right? You can, we can do whatever you want. So I think this just kind of fills what, again, one of the boxes. You can kind of make your own computer that's Python-powered. We've had projects like that. You can make your own keyboard that's Python-powered. Now what about your own digital camera that's Python-powered? So we think this would be a neat thing for schools, for just about everyone who's looking to say, here's the fundamentals of what a digital camera is. You can teach theory, like here's photons. Here's how they, you know, go inside of a chip. And here's how they make the image work. So we think this will be kind of cool to, to explore and we'll say, hello. Hi. Okay. That is our Python on hardware this week. Snap, snap. Delivered each week in your mailbox. 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