 some Python on hardware. All right. So we have our Adafruit Daily newsletter. We do this every single week. You can go to Adafruit Daily and you can get it via RSS. You can get it on GitHub. You can get it sent to you via email. Completely separate site. We have our highlights of Python on hardware projects. This is a submarine hunting game with Circuit Python. We have had a fail at Circuit Python. This is a very cool guy. Post your projects on Playground. There's a bunch of it in Squid, who I think is in the chat. Posted a project. Super cool. Live. And how to check code failures on Circuit Python. We want to have the easiest best place for you to post your projects, worry about ads or for some people to log in to see stuff. But anyways, one of the things that we like to do is cover kind of all the ways to run Python on hardware. So we have this Raspberry Pi 5 review from PC World. I'm going to get to this other things in a second. But one of the things that is in the news right now, and I thought this would be kind of funny, and when I asked Lady Eater what does she want to talk about for this week, she said, oh, I'll talk about one of the articles we link to, which is here is Raspberry Pi alternatives. Now, we didn't time this or anything, but the meme that's going around, which I think is interesting. There's a meme. There's a meme that's going around. I think this is interesting. And then I'll bridge the gap here. So there is the Apple Vision Pro that came out, and there's the MetaQuest. And I think each company has their own thing. And each company has their own figurehead. There's Cook from Apple. There's Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. Google has their guy and Microsoft has their guy. And so the interesting thing is Mark Zuckerberg just did a very, I'm going to say Ada Fruitsdahl video, which is the founder talking about stuff. So what I thought was interesting was that just with kind of not, maybe they spent a lot of time on it and it made it look like it was like off the cuff, like not at it. But it was like, he's like, okay, here's someone, they're just going to record me and they're going to have, and I'm going to talk about the Apple Vision Pro and what I like about it and its strengths and weaknesses and all that stuff. That's actually really cool. Yeah. And I thought how interesting it was that the CEO, the founder of Facebook would do that because Tim Cook from Apple is not going to do that. He's not going to say, hey, I tried the quest, the MetaQuest, and here's what I think about it. It's just different style. Totally. But I thought it was interesting that like, Mark Zuckerberg, he's using the Apple Vision, use the Apple Vision Pro and he's like, hey, this is why I think that the MetaQuest is better and he complimented his competitor and the strengths and weaknesses. And so I don't get a chance to talk to the Raspberry Pi folks that often, but I actually think Evan from Raspberry Pi should do something like this because I actually think he has the ability to talk straight to the camera and say, well, here's what's good here and admire competitors and all that stuff. I think it'd be interesting for Evan to say, hey, here's the Raspberry 5. Here's Raspberry competitors out there. Here's what's good with them. Here's other things because I think that's kind of where we're at. There's the companies that they need to polish videos and they will never do the comparisons. And then there's some people who can look at a camera who really know and what matters most of the time is the founder that gets their hands dirty. And so I think that's why like, Marcus Zuckerberg was able to do this, this comparison with Apple Vision Pro and MetaQuest because he's kind of in, he's, you can tell that he's really into this stuff, not that Tim Cook is, and this is different. So when Lamora said, oh yeah, I'll talk about the five best Raspberry Pi alternatives in 2024, it's not because we don't like Raspberry Pi, it's just, this is interesting for us. And we also, we'll tell you things that are, if you want, yeah, we'll tell you, you know, GPU powered. Yeah. I like the Nvidia is going to and of course we're going to recommend Raspberry Pi five stuff, you know, for, for what makes sense. But I think that that's one of the differences, like companies, there's, there's companies of founders that are technical founders that are, that are going to able to be able to talk to people and some people like that style. So people don't, whatever. But I think this will be interesting. So when this came up, you're like, oh yeah, I'll talk about the alternative. So Lady, I took it away. There's, there's other Raspberry Pi alternatives. Yeah. We have a blog post and some sums it up zuff, zuffly. Yeah, there's a whole article. But what is interesting is, well, first off, you know, I've used some of these and like, you're not going to have as much support as with the Raspberry Pi. I mean, like the Raspberry Pi, like it is just, there's millions of users and so there's, there's more support, there's more projects. But the Orange Pi, it's like really, really popular. Can you scroll down? It's used. No, you can just, they're fine. Yeah. The Orange Pi, you know, and you'll see like some of these have like, you know, different things that you can like, you know, they're, add on like, it looks like there's like a built-in battery on this one. It has a smaller connector. This is the rock chip. Okay, scroll down. All right. And a lot of these, like, some of these actually can like run Windows and stuff. The Udo Bolt. And I think it has like two PCI slots or no, it has can ECC RAM. So you can actually add like, a significant amount of external RAM. And it has like, it looks like Grove connectors on the bottom. All right. So then go down. There's the Leap Potato, which is... We're going to tie this all together with Circa Pi found in a minute. Yeah. This one is actually like, open source hardware. This is the Amlogic, which is also used by the Orange Pi. It's a chipset. And it's like hardware compatible and it has the two by 20 header. It looks like it also has infrared input. And there's, they kept the AV outputs. And they have a serial port. It's a nice console. And then the Odroid, which is like really a beefy processor. It looks like it has a real-time clock, audio output built-in, infrared as well. So long as they're good for like media servers or external control. This also has a DC power input. It's kind of nice. You want to power it from not USB, from a DC power plug. It looks like it has a buck converter. So probably can handle it. And of course, the NVIDIA Nano is for, you want GPU performance and you want to do AI. This is definitely going to have, it's basically equivalent of like, basically, you know, the specs, but Raspberry Pi plus a co-processor core type of device. Now, the thing that's a challenge though is for microcontrollers, you kind of have to have a different programming language, a different thing. But one of the things... Oh, by the way, all these have different hardware interface layers. All of these are very complicated, except for, we kind of knew this was coming. So one of the things we have is... We have... I think four out of five of these are on Blinco already. So if you go here and you type in like orange, you see we have all orange pies. So the five, the five plus, the light, the one, totally just supported with Blinco. And so, you know, if you want to do GPIO, iSport, C, SPI, and use all of our libraries, we have like hundreds and hundreds of libraries. A lot of example code will just work out of the box. Now, not everything, everything will work because like sometimes they have like very specific weird interfaces for stuff, but a lot of the basic GPIO and hardware interfacing will work if there's analog or PWM support. We usually have that as well. And we have guides, especially for the orange pie, and you can look for the Nvidia Jetson Nano. We have support and we, you know, we try to get it so that you can use sensors, displays, OLEDs, no matter what Raspberry Pi compatible, incompatible, Linux, single board computer using. And that's like a big deal because they didn't like believe when we did the initial port for Blinco, that was not true. A lot of them, they all have their own little like weird ass GPIO hardware interfacing forks that are like fork of a fork of a fork, and they like tweak some like register values and then they're like chip it. So the, you know, in summary, one of the things that I think is important is like, especially when you're in this like maker world and you like Adafruit, like we're always going to do open source and we want to make something. So whether you pick a Raspberry Pi or an orange pie or Nvidia, you'll be able to use Blinka. And if there's, you know, whether it be a supply chain issue, or it's just right tool for the right job, we'll always recommend the right thing. So it's compatible in a hardware, you know, like, and this was a big deal, like, you know, when did this topic four years ago for, you know, Australia Linux conference, and I was like, I don't want to keep writing drivers for every interface. And then the thing is, like stuff in the list called changes, like they do change stuff. We can hide those changes behind. I don't know if I'll get time, but one of the things I thought would be funny and useful is like, Oh, hey, I mean, just like, get the go to that DigiTrend or get a five and just do the same thing as Zuckerman. Because I like that there's some, that was very technical. I like that there's, there's some founders that can do that. And I think that's what people want to see more and more like the beautiful marketing videos and like, okay, you're going to watch Marvel movies with, you know, this thing on your head. Okay, cool. But I like the idea that someone was like, well, here's the actual tech specs. Here's the thing. Here's what I hear. Here's like, kind of in the weeds. You know, in one video take live, we're doing this live. But anyways, I thought that was interesting. This is live. Yeah. So they saw me yawning. Yeah. 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