 It's Python on hardware time, including Circuit Python, where it's code plus communities. So we are up to 6.0 release and one thing- Wait, is it the beta? Is it the release candidate? No, it's released. Oh my goodness. It's actually released. Happy birthday. So congrats to the entire team, Scott who leads that up. And one of the things that Scott said on the show and tell was we were up to 2,000 pull requests. Yeah, 2,001 pull requests closed today. Closed. And that's a big deal. Big deal. And we have a 30 open. We have a lot more contributions coming. These are, you know, a lot of these are pull requests from within the community, people who work on Adafruit Circuit Python Core. But lately we've been getting contributions from other people, boards they want to add, functionality that they've worked on, improvements, bug fixes. It's really awesome to see that we, you know, we pushed Circuit Python up to version like 6, but it's starting to get momentum from other people as well who want to contribute to it. And I think that's because we have a great community. We've got great support. We've got good hardware and debugging capabilities to test your designs with. And we want to do a really good job. We want to have a consistent experience across all the different chip sets and boards that people can come up with. So very awesome to see. Yeah, good milestone. Six chip sets and version six. In this week's newsletter, we have a few things going on. I wanted to point out, I was reading this right before the show. So of course, our new product that you probably saw on show and tell and a lot of the videos and projects that we've been doing is MagTag. It's one of the, I think, easiest best Python powered devices that you can do cool IoT things with. And of course, it's... Well, it's a new chip set. It's an ESP32-S2. It's one of the first boards that uses it, not just as a dev board, but actually using it as a product design. And it's been fun and interesting to play with this new chip. But it works quite well. I'm having a really good time making... It's neat to have it all in one. It's nice. Yes. It's all in one. It's very fast. And then if there was like a TMZ, if there was like celebrity news for electronics and Python, well, this would be it. So Guido is the founder, the creator of the Python programming language. And he retired. And I remember when he retired, it was like, oh man, that's kind of cool. And we're on his Instagram and we've tweeted back and forth and he's one of the thoughtful entities behind something that's so important to so many people. And then he announced, and I'll just read it, I decided that retirement was boring and I've joined the developer division of Microsoft to do what? Too many options to say, but I'll make using Python better for sure and not just on Windows. There's lots of open source here, watch the space. So we tweeted back. We're like, yay, Python on hardware. And he said, I love that little board. And that's always good to see because it's like a dad saying, good job, son. Hi, I'm so proud of you. This is the love that your father never gave you. Yeah. And so that's why it's just like, notice me. Yeah. So this is really neat. I'm excited about this because when you have the founder of a language in the group that has VS Code that has GitHub and Microsoft fully embraced open source, they are, they're living it. They have some of the best resources out there and they really commit to the things that they say they're going to do, make code. They did open source and we work with them and we like them and I'm excited. So anyways, that's my celebrity gossip. Scott, we'll have DeepDive. Well, it is. It's like a celebrity gossip. No, it's great news. You know what? I'll say something. Microsoft is one of the few companies that they have a ton of money and they'll use it to pay people who do good stuff to do good stuff. And I really, I really like that. They've shown that they are very respectful to properties that they take over like GitHub as well as people that they pay to do work like Guido. Circuit by Thon, DeepDive with Scott, that'll be tomorrow. I think Scott's doing that tomorrow. And then some Adford updates. We have our 20% off, we already mentioned that during the show. I thought this was really neat. That's cool. That's so hypercard-y. Yeah. So we made something called PiperCard and it's a very hypercard-like and it's a Python your own adventure if you want to make something like that where you figure out your path and then you click through and it goes to these different options and a story. And you can do that all with the PyPortal and with Python. This is a really neat Star Trek. El Karzy clock. Yeah. Really neat Star Trek clock that Cedar Grove did and it uses Circuit Python and Adafruit IO. You can check out some Circuit Python DC motor controls, countdown timer for Days Till Christmas. That's a nice countdown. Yeah. You can look at this word clock. This was made with the 64 by 32 LED matrix display. And then the other thing I wanted to mention, the folks at ARM, they're funding the Python Blocks project and this is, yeah, so this is with the Microbot project and I have a link to it on Twitter if you check it out. And then two other things. The collection of tiny Python on hardware. I thought I got them all, but then someone tweeted like, don't forget Python for Nokia S60. What? Okay. So we updated our blog post and then it was originally based on Python 222 back in 2002. So rad. And there it was. Python wanted to be on hardware. And then last up, open source hardware association announced that they are having their event. It's going to be virtual and it is next year and we have it so you can make a countdown clock or whatever, but it'll be Friday, April 9th, 2021. Okay. All right. And then I guess one thing that I wanted to do before we get out of Python on hardware news is the new guide that just went up, which Circuit Python board for you. Take a look at it. It's a big deal because we always get asked, hey, look forward. Katnie wrote a huge amount of it, got some help from Carter, who does a lot of foreign work. Got help from Scott, who's the core developer of Circuit Python. I also looked at it and looked at it. If you're like, I want to use Circuit Python, but there's too many options. How do I know what to pick? It's a common thing. People like, I don't know which board to pick because there's so many. We tried to divide this guide up into common topics. It's a live guide, which means that we're going to continue adding to it. So if you have suggestions, post them up in the Circuit Python Discord. We also have our monthly, sorry, our weekly Monday meeting for Circuit Python, 2 p.m. Eastern. Check your local time listing for when that is. Bring up any other topics or boards that you want to have added to that guide. And we'll get to it next time we sweep through the guide. And that's Python on hardware news this week. Blink-a-blink-a-blink-a.