 Okay, some highlights from this week's newsletter. If you're into Python, every year there's the official Python developer survey. Please, please, please consider filling it out. It helps them figure out what things the Python foundation and the folks that are driving all the interesting things of Python do. Well, Jetpoint, they're the most popular editor for Python, so these are, you know, if you're using Python daily and there's like stuff you want Python to focus on, this is your chance to learn. Yeah, including things that are helpful for, you know, circuit Python, because it's all part of a core. There's Python. Yes. And then there is MicroPython and there's CircuitPython. It is all a big family, so if there's something Python, we'll probably have it in CircuitPython in some way. You can check out the rest of the projects. This week, we're going to do a couple of things. We're going to talk about something from Playground. And we're also going to play a video. This is the Making Music with CircuitPython and Raspberry Pi. We try to highlight some of the things from the community. This is a really well-put-together, so we're going to play, well-put-together video, so we're going to play this. It's from Pensacola Maker Faire. You can see. It's cool, like Todd, J.P. Yeah, if you're looking to do anything with music, you can check out this really neat Pico Sandbox demo and more. So do you check out all the projects? You can see all the things that people are doing with Python on hardware. Yeah. Pretty much anything that you can imagine, it's here. One thing I thought was interesting at the beginning, I forgot that it was in the newsletter, is GitHub had this big announcement about how their next generation of GitHub is going to be all co-pilot controlled. And I thought that was interesting because a lot of people do use co-pilot, particularly when they're using CircuitPython, because one of the benefits of the way Adafruit worked is we've been publishing thousands of guides and projects and tutorials and examples. And so not only is there documentation, but there's so many examples that chances are, if you want to build something with CircuitPython, co-pilot will be able to do a pretty good job, because it already knows all of the styles that we have for the Python. You can even interact with some of these AI systems, chat should be keeping when you can be like, I want to write the library in the style of Adafruit. And it used our code, and it will, because we allowed it. And well, I don't think it needs it. Yeah, it's trying to on it. Yeah, it's too late now. And say you'd be able to write libraries with an Adafruit style as well. So do check that out. But let's go over to Playground, because you wanted to talk about this, is using Android with CircuitPython. Yeah, let's just publish this. This is thanks to PR. Can you click on the PR Merge in CircuitPython? Because I want to get the person's name correct. We did it with ADCC. It did an excellent job either fixing up a bunch of our mass storage, not bugs, but just stuff that could be improved. And one of the things that they updated was a couple of bytes in the fat format NBR. Now let's Android mount the file system. And so you can have an Android phone or tablet plug in your Circuit Playground board. The mass storage shows up as a disk drive. And then you can open up. There's a bunch of free editors that Liz talks about that you can use to open a file, edit it, and save it. She gives a couple of hints. There's one way that works great and one way that does not work very well. But once you've got it working, you can also use the web portal to get to the serial port as well. So you can basically have a portable, no computer-acquired programming system. And it's funny, a lot of the things that the decisions that we made with Circuit Python come directly from me having the frustrating experience of having to debug, pick microcontrollers at Burning Man. And it was just unbelievably infuriating to like, oh, I don't have the right driver. I don't have the right IDE. I don't have the library. I don't have internet access. So being able to edit and tweak code on the fly using any computer or now any mobile phone, I'm getting close to making me 10 years ago happy. 15 years ago. So check that out. And the way to get to that is if you just go to learn.aidfruit.com and click Playground, you'll be able to see this. And so much more, Playground is a place where anybody can publish guides. Our team uses it, community uses it, lots of great guides, and more probably some familiar faces from the community. But this is where we put ones that are- Write something up if you want, if you're working on a project. And then when you're done, click that you want to show and tell the project and we'll feature it on the front page. Okay. And then getting back to what I was talking about before. Yeah, sorry. This is a great, no, it's okay. This is a really good video that was sent to us. So we're gonna play this. Since. You know, since. Snakes. Hello, everyone. I'd like to present to you today a little project I've been working on called the Pico Synth Sandbox. Name pending. After playing around with the new Audio Synthesis Library, Synth.io for Circuit Python, which came out earlier this year, I became very aware of both the power and limitations of this awesome new tool in order to add nearly all the functionality that you need and make the process of programming your own musical device extremely simple. I decided to create a new piece of hardware using the Raspberry Pi Pico and team it up with a fully featured new Circuit Python library to get you off the ground running. The Pico Synth Sandbox comes with nearly everything you need to make a variety of synthesizer projects. First and foremost, we have the star of the show, the Raspberry Pi Pico, which holds 256 kilobytes of RAM and one whopping megabyte of onboard flash memory to store your code. Next, a 12 key capacitive touch keyboard with full polyphony, but sadly no velocity or after touch. Then you have the choice between I2S or PWM audio output, depending on your preference and budget. One of my favorite features is a teeny tiny PDM omnidirectional microphone for you to record your own samples. In upfront and center, we have a 16 by two character LCD display with a rotary encoder to handle any menu diving you might need for your project. An absolute must have for any musical device is hardware MIDI input and output. In this case, we're using 3.5 millimeter jacks to send these digital signals. To hear your sound creations, we have a volume knob with both 3.5 millimeter line level and onboard speaker output. Last but not least, we also have a LiPo battery to power it all. In its current form, not every feature can be used simultaneously and has to be pre-configured beforehand. This device is still in its revision one infancy and there's much to improve in future board revisions. Many examples are available that show off how easy it is to get started with this device and the included hardware extraction library. Here are a few of my favorites. A bass heavy monophonic synthesizer. A complex filtered polyphonic synthesizer. An analog style drum machine with a 16 step sequencer. And a fun sampler using recorded audio from the included microphone. If you're interested in trying out this fun project for yourself, the PCB Gerber files and billet materials are available on the GitHub page down below in the video description as well as a quick getting started guide to get your Pico set up with Circuit Python and the Sandbox library. There are plenty of examples and library documentation on the Read the Doc site included below as well. And if you happen to be in the Pensacola, Florida area this upcoming weekend, November 11th, I'll be set up at the 2023 Pensacola Maker Faire to let visitors get hands on with this device and learn about Circuit Python and digital audio synthesis as a whole. Thank you all for letting me share what I've been working on lately. I hope you have a wonderful day. So for all of your Python hardware needs, you can sign up on Adafra Daily, deliver it each week, spam free. We hate spam even more than you do. It's a completely separate website. 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