 It is Python on hardware time. Blink, blink, blink, blink. Okay, like every week, I try to pick out a few things from the newsletter, and then I have something I focus on. This is kind of neat. Blues, wireless swan, a powerful circuit Python compatible board and a feather form factor. I showed this is like breaking news last week, but one of the things I thought that was kind of neat, Andrew noticed. He said, Interfrew, wondering if you caught Ray Ozzy, the CEO of Blues. Wireless, showing off his new feather board at Edge Impulse Imagine conference. It can run circuit Python too. That's pretty neat. That's right. They did a PR to add support for this chip, which was so awesome. Thank you, folks. Yeah, so I mentioned this, I think, in a past show, but I also want to mention something. So when Mosfet, our cat, passed away, Ray Ozzy donated money to the cat shelter that Lady Aida got Mosfet from. Yeah. He got his cat from the same shelter. We were exchanging emails. I know it's silly, but it meant a lot because it was devastating. I miss Mosfet. The fact that someone... I mentioned Mosfet today. I refer to a 10-pound weight. I was like, that's one Mosfet. Yeah, that's how we measure things. And now Ray is the CEO of this electronics company, and they're doing feather stuff, and it has circuit Python. Anyways, maybe check it out. If you like cats. Anyways, Raspberry Pi released a new datasheet, the RP2040 datasheet. It is gigantic, so check it out. It has everything. Next week, Aida Lovelace Day. I'm going to show some of this video. We did a virtual factory tour. So stick around for the show tonight, and you'll see the rest of it. I thought this was neat. Python 3.10. They had a release party, and they're starting to do these cool... 3.10. Sorry, 3.10. Oops. They're starting to do these cool graphics where it has some of this stuff that has something to do with the... I think this is cool. I think we should have like tattoos, like temporary tattoos for release. Yeah. We have a poster, and I'll talk about that for each thing that we do. The Halloween Hackfest with DigiKey and Hackaday and Aida Fruit. That's still going on, and it's open hardware month. Talk about that again. Make sent out a big old thing, getting started with Python on hardware. And this is kind of a teaching Python podcast made this circuit Python error bingo card. So if you are learning a programming language and you get an error, normally it's like, oh, no, I am the worst. I can't believe this is happening to me. The folks over at Teaching Python podcast decided to make it into a fun game, and I think that's the way to do it. If we can normalize making mistakes, it would be way better than the alternative. And then catch up the rest of the odds and ends. I think there was one more thing I wanted to show. Oh, yeah. The Pico system. It's a pocket-sized handheld console built around Raspberry Pi RP2040. It uses things like C++ and MicroPython, and of course, CircuitPython. And so that is the newsletter news. And then speaking of launch graphics, so the Python 310 graphic thing is there. We have friendly snakes. We have the Great Merge poster, so 7, CircuitPython 7. It's out now. And we wanted to show that MicroPython and CircuitPython are on a collision course together, and they're like one snake. One snake absorbed the other snake, so it's one snake. So a lot of the MicroPython stuff is now on CircuitPython. Next up, I'll play this video from Jepler. We have a cool camera thing. Hi, Jeff here. I've been working on supporting another camera module in Adafruit CircuitPython. This time it's the OV5640. I had to put it on a long extension cable to get the shot I wanted of the LCD, and that's what's leading to the glitches that you're seeing here in the video. What's working is RGB, YUV, and grayscale capture, and of course, display to LCD. You can also control the saturation level and turn on special effects such as sepia, negative, and test pattern. Next up is implementing JPEG image capture at a startling 5 megapixels. The library will be added to the CircuitPython bundle when it's ready. See you around. Okay, and then there was a question. Is there a name for this snake Hydra? No. In fact, I tried to find out if there was a name. There's not a snake Hydra. There's two snakes. Yeah, but they're kind of like... Oh, the MicroPython snake? Yeah, well, so... It's called the MicroPython snake. Yeah, so I asked Amy and she said there's no name for it, and we redrew the snake form because I think he had the artwork, so he made one for him. It's two snakes. It's Lincoln and MicroPython snakes. Yeah, but they're kind of like... No, no, no, they're not. If you look carefully, they crawl out. No, I know, but it looks like it could be a two-headed snake, and that happens in nature quite a bit, at least more than maybe other types of animals. Anyways, so back to the camera stuff. So here's more photos from the camera. JPEG photos, testing out some different JPEG modes. Yeah, and I think it's a... That's not bad, not bad. This is a very low-cost, couple-dollar camera module, and it works quite well. Yeah, I think it'll be neat when you're able to build your own DIY camera. Yeah. Anyways, and that is a Python harmonious this week.