 All right Python on hardware news time blinker blinker blinker. It's the blinking news Okay, you want it? Yeah, this week. Are we through it? Yeah, this week we have the circuit Python R1 Release candidate zero. It's out now a couple things that change fix the initialization of onboard Neopixels. Yeah, we have some wrong math. We've updated ULabs, a bunch of Neopixel fixes We're getting really close to releasing six one which is gonna add so much ESP 32 s2 stuff We have added more, you know sleep modes. We've Added a couple of new boards Good stuff. We're just solely making our way. We're doing a lot of bug fixes So folks if you have a circuit Python board and you're running 61 RC zero and there's a bug in it. Please open up an issue. We're doing a big bug hunt right now Blinca is eating as many bugs as possible. Yeah And then we did it and it's a minor update But it's actually a big deal because we wanted to have text about what is Blinca So the dot org site slash blinka has an explanation about what the circuit Python blink a compatibility layer is for single-board computers and we summarize it as so blinka brings circuit Python APIs and therefore circuit Python libraries to single-board computers SBCs and is a pip installable Python library that runs in a normal desktop Python The circuit Python runtime as it is circuit Python libraries can also be installed via pip. Cool stuff. Check out the guide for more details and That's the distinction, but they're are related. So that's how you know Circuit Python in 2021 entries. If you haven't sent in please do we have the latest post and a kickoff post This is basically what do you want to see in circuit Python in 2021? Yeah, it's been a couple years Circuit Python has gotten really mature You know, we're adding more and more chips. We're adding more and more support I like that we are getting to a lot of the things that people have wanted for a while like sleep modes We actually have a sleep System like a way that we manage deep sleep and light sleep in circuit Python now That was really important for the mag tag that was kind of the driving force behind it we also have expressive chip support now tin silica, which is super cool and More chips coming a lot more blink of boards came in So I feel like we're getting in a really good spot when it comes to like maturity But is there other stuff you want to do are there the projects you can't build? That you would like to a circuit Python or you want to show off a project you did build and you're proud of 2021 post is a great place to put it. It's got the streams current work and discusses circuit Python 21 2021 and then you can check out all the different projects that we have Woven line interfaces Yeah, watches Neopixels Chuck Eager Yeah, I don't even know stop to find a radio. These are cool projects. Yeah, this is my pill cabinet Open source intercom. This was cool. Does somebody built an intercom in their house All about micro Python. I want you to like cool Python things I thought these were neat some fluid a Python conversion Yeah, and I did like speaking of hackday There was a neat article about the shell and microcontroller programming Using repels says more scripting languages get the microcontrollers You're going to see more articles like this because a lot of people are like, whoa, I can use a repel on a microcontroller now You can also check out there machine learning projects Python tutorials and libraries It's not just Python on hardware. It's also just like Python Soon Guides we are so close to 300 libraries are up to 290. Oh, wow, we're gonna hit 300 We're gonna hit 300 and then upcoming events Lady is doing a talk about Blinka at Linux conf a you and then we have pie cascades open hardware summit by con and More and that's the Python on hardware news this week blinka blinka