 I'm speaking of CircuitPython. We're going to do our Python on Hardware Newsletter highlights. And Mark, well, this week, it's all Python on Hardware. And so we have a few different things we're going to talk about. I'm going to save this for part two of our little chatter here, because someone in the chat said, how do you feel about ARM, and he thoughts about ARM investing in Raspberry 5? That was in our newsletter this week. We have kind of an industry newsletter, I think now. If it's anything to do with things that Python runs on, we also cover, of course, the Raspberry Pi. It's relevant, definitely. Super relevant. So if you follow the chip news, ARM acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi. That was announced last week. Strategic Investment in Raspberry Pi Limited, the ARM of Raspberry Pi responsible for the new Raspberry Pi 5 and past Raspberry Pi 5 products. So if you think about it, it's kind of interesting. So Sony is involved with Raspberry Pi. Yes, they already have a minority stake. Yes, they do the manufacturing at Wales. ARM is involved. And then the quote says, here, this is kind of interesting, the investment financial terms of which has not been made public comes a month after Upton spoke of interest floating the firm of London Stock Exchange in a $500 million valuation in seven months after Sony, which runs the world's production facility, which makes many of the Raspberry Pi boards, made its own minority investment in Raspberry Pi. And this is another one where you can see we link to this if you want to see what stuff we got there. So, you know, Lady Edda, what do you think about this? Well, you're not an analyst, but you would be considered one if you started to go on, like, mad money. Yeah. How do you feel about this? It's a bunch. Yeah, Raspberry Pi. Yeah, that'd be cool. You know, first off, it's smart of ARM, right? I mean, you know, I think, you know, Evan did an interview, and he said, you know, the RP1 chip that they put on every Raspberry Pi, every Pi 5, they spent, I think he said, $15 million in development is a custom chip. And the RP2040 also acquired, it's a custom chip manufacturing that uses ARM core. And I'm assuming the RP20, RP1 also, of course, is ARM core. And so they went from basically giving the money to a chip vendor to giving it to a chip licensing vendor. So it's smart for ARM to come in and say, hey, you know, I want you to, I want to own a piece of this because they are a driver of the technology. Raspberry Pi computers and, you know, compute modules are used heavily in industry, and they are kind of the best on the market. I don't really see, yes, there are might be Raspberry Pi killers that are faster and cheaper, but none of them are overall as good of an experience. And the Raspberry Pi is solid, it's consistent, it survived a part shortage, it's still in high demand, just why we're cleaning them in. As we speak. And I think, you know, I don't know, usually, I don't want to speak, I'm not speaking for Raspberry Pi, but if I was Raspberry Pi, I would say, look, ARM, you can invest in us, but that doesn't restrict us from using different chip set, instruction sets in the future. And I would think that would be wise of, and even though ARM, of course, is a British, I don't know if it's a British company anymore, this is owned by SoftBank, I think, but it was started in England and so, or in Cambridge, and so he's probably near and dear to his heart. But, you know, they might also be interested in looking into the future. There are other chips that can be interesting that said ARM has money and they have incentive to have the RP2040 succeed, having the RP1 succeed. Now they have incentive to provide good licensing terms, to provide support, since now Raspberry Pi is a Silicon vendor, I think it's wise. I mean, I would do the same if I was a chip licensee and a licensor was doing quite well, I would, you know, this way they're both invested in each other's success. Okay. And then other news, because we're gonna balance around it. So, you know, our newsletter has a little bit of everything, I'm gonna go to the RISC-5 stuff in a second, because it was an interesting post that's a follow-up to the Beaglebone coming out. But check out the rest of the newsletter. It's spam free, we have a separate site, you don't have to worry about anyone sending you other things or sales, stuff in the mail, we don't, this isn't tied to your shopping account or anything, it's eight for daily, completely separate site because we hate spam, probably even more than you do. But one thing that's interesting is we made some badges a long time ago. Girl Scout has maker badges, they teamed up with Black Decker and there's neat ones for folks who want to show that they've made something in the maker world and they happen to be in Girl Scouts. The official Raspberry Pi beginner guide, fifth edition is out and you can just check out all of the different things that's going on in the world of Raspberry Pi. We have projects of the week, we've got all the things that you can do with our stuff, we've got all the things you can do with our partners and resellers that we have, like Pimeroni, there's a little bit of everything, anything that you can possibly imagine to build lots of signs and displays, lots of ways to get internet of things devices going. It is unending, Doom scrolling is the thing but this is joy scrolling. Yes, it looks like it's all fun and good stuff. GitHub Universe happened today, apparently you won an award, we're gonna find out more about it, congratulations lady. Yeah, thanks. But the other part that we wanted to talk about because we have our INMPI tonight and it's the Beaglebone 5 fire. Yeah. Beaglebone V. No, it's a Beagle 5 fire. Beagle 5, okay. Yeah, because it's risk 5. Risk 5. Okay, so there's a new single board, a computer module on the block, it's the Beaglebone. And interesting enough, Bunny, who's kind of our, you know, like Avatar-o most of like the open source. He's Angel Scott. The open source. He's interested in him in like a panda outfit and he's got that sign and he's like, risk 5, risk 5, risk 5. Yeah, well I think he had, his book he had, he was the other Bunny character. Yeah. Sorry to rabbit. Yeah, not a panda. Sorry, Bunny. So Bunny has an open letter because there seems to be some proposals from US lawmakers to restrict Americans working on risk 5. And the reason is because they don't want China to have dominance in that ecosystem. Yeah, I mean, I was researching the polar fire because I was wondering like what does this come from? So, you know, arm, I'll say a lot of this is gossip and so it's unsourced and I'm repeating gossip of gossip is that traditionally, you know, risk, sorry, arm has charged $1 to $2 per chip. Or sorry, 1 to 2% of the cost of a chip as licensing fees. So, you know, which is a reasonable amount, but they're starting, you know, they own by soft bank and they're kind of like, well, we should be making more money. You know, our chips are powering Apple and Qualcomm and the biggest Marvell and MediaTek and the biggest chip manufacturers and they're making billions and we're not making billions and why aren't we making billions? And so they are kind of trying to up their prices and they actually went to some of the Chinese chip manufacturing companies and said, hey, how do you guys feel about upping the prices and their companies are like, well, we're not into that at all actually. And I was like, wait, but I thought you'd be into giving us more money, why aren't you not? And so there's kind of a little bit of argument right now because I think a lot of these companies signed in for a certain percentage and now like arm wants a higher percentage or they want a percentage of the full device, not just the chip. I don't know that of course it's all under NDA. So nobody knows the exact details what they're asking, but the upshot is that this is kind of pushing more Chinese silicon vendors towards like, well, for this much money, why don't we just retool and use risk five and you're seeing more risk five development happening. Like Espresso has moved, their latest chips are moved from the C6, for example, has moved from 10 silica to risk five. And we're seeing also like, we'll show this polar fire chip is what normally would be at an arm core, a powerful arm core on the previous Beaglebone, Beagleboard and Beaglebone boards, double buck. They were all Arm Cortex A8s and now they're maybe moving to risk five. So I think that there is like a combo here of arm is trying to push for higher licensing fees and risk five is getting much more mature. So risk five is becoming a more aggressive and delectable target for chip silicon vendors. So Bunny has a blog post. You can just search for Bunny blog, BUNNY Studios.com and it's the first post. And Bunny has a letter that he wrote to the Gov and has a little bit about Bunny, why risk five is important, why maybe we shouldn't restrict Americans working on it and maybe we can do something else, which is make some of these chips here. If it's a technology that's so critical to lots of things ahead, you can invest in making chips. So we'll see how it goes. It's interesting, there's a lot of intersection between geopolitical stuff right now and technology. So we're watching, it's another thing that runs Python in some way. We've got this Beaglebone that we're talking about from the newsletter this week. So it is here, it is interesting. This is probably the most interesting time to be doing electronics ever. And tonight on INMPI, we're gonna be talking about the new... Bullet fire, yes, interesting. Check this out. So that is this week's Python on hardware news. You can get the newsletter delivered every single week. Go over to aetherforddaily.com, don't forget. You can just look at it as a blog post, you can get an RSS feed, you can look it on GitHub. We may get super easy to access the information the way you want it at all times. It was interesting and we just wanna follow up because we chatted about some people like, well, what does this have to do with Python on hardware? But as we saw with the RP2040, which is an ARM core chip, a lot of it was designed for running Python on hardware. Like a lot of the choices that were made were, okay, if you're gonna be using a interpreted language like Python, make sure it has a lot of RAM, make sure that you have stuff like PIO that can do very timing critical stuff that is easily configurable and can change around. Make sure that everything is well documented and doesn't require assembly code. You can use a higher level language to access it. And I think that's part of, as we're seeing maybe ARM chips translate to RISC-5, if you were using ARM-specific libraries, instruction sets, ah, that sucks, because now you have to port it to RISC-5 using census, but if you're using Python on hardware, you may not need to do that much work at all because the code is going to be identical because it's one level higher than the RTOS even.