 hardware okay big news circuit python 8 alpha 1 is released this is the start of the next version of circuit python please test it please give us feedback it's you know pretty stable but there's some fixes and there's going to be a bunch of stuff for the final revisions you could check out the entire list of things but and i'm going to get to the the big news i'm going to skip this part do you want me to talk about the what's the big changes yeah why don't you do that and then i'm going to talk about it's in front of you yeah um so when we go to a major revision change which is the first letter the first number from like five to six six or seven seven to eight it means that we've introduced breaking changes that means that code will have to be updated you know if it's a if it's a medium or a minor number change or a bug fix number change usually code doesn't break usually it's us fixing things this is actually where we're changing stuff so for example gamepad shift which was um uh deshi poos library to manage you know gamepads that use the shift register uh we're now using our more generic and powerful keypad library that has um it has more support for different configurations um the functionalities there but the code needs to change and also one wire has moved um from bus IO or bit bang IO into one wire IO that's because it is kind of like bit bang it's not really it doesn't only fit neither and also we had some space considerations um and also we're starting to add um dot end which is um environmental setting support and this is in prep for uh the wi-fi workflow that we're going to be adding in eight okay and i'm going to skip this other news here um i leave it's now available in the app store this is the easiest most fun way that you can get code from your ios ios device to a bluetooth device like the blue fruit or the clue uh check it out it makes it really fun and uh super easy kind of like circuit python if you think about how easy circuit python is even easier this is even easier and we know not everyone uses computers some only use phones so this is our first attempt of many to help people who are using their phones for their primary computing device okay pi ohio talks were announced um the board election dates for 2022 for the python software foundation you can do nominations you can um help out you can vote there's a lot of things coming up uh if this is important to you we have it all in one spot there's some new updates to python that might make it faster some people are really into that wow it's almost twice as fast yeah um and was on the circuit python show get tuned into that ten makes things had uh some streaming with circuit python and then just oh look at this rgb ball on ending projects with python on hardware if you jellyfish yeah if yeah there's there's a lot going on there's also um another ti calculator that uses python um in france it's pretty much well it is the national programming language this seems to be what's happening in the rest of the country in the world too but the big news that i want to talk about uh this week is is just a grand release this is the yeah this is the big deal so circuit python eight has a new poster we have a poster for every version of circuit python starting with version three and special thanks to expressive we reached out to them we said hey this this version of circuit pythons can have a bunch of stuff in it that works well with your chips and more and we're big fans so they sent us over the branding logo user guide guidelines we put together a couple different ideas that we thought that would uh be an homage to uh expressive and um you know they let us go with this one they let us do it it's pretty cool they let us do it so i wanted to zoom in in some of the features and some of the things on this so this is going to be a poster in our store and on our show later we'll talk about this as a coming soon product um but what i wanted to do is just give you an idea of uh just the history of some of the the posters just so you could see what um and i'm just gonna search for poster yeah i started from poster so let me go back to our um thing here and you can just see the thumbnail so this is uh circuit python eight we have um oh speaking of uh there's eight left of circuit python poster these are these are all limited we only do a small run um i think my favorite one is circuit python seven because it's the the great merge with micro python and circuit python um hot air balloon uh this is air lift five this is when we worked with nordic they were kind enough to give us permission to use their logo too it feels like it was just yesterday yeah and then um the circuit python three poster that's the first one i think yeah and then this is a poster that i did a long time ago make robot friend not robot enemy that was from the sony engineer who said tyron son very important don't make robot enemy make robot friends um and then we had a lot of robot posters 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