 Okay, let's do some Python on hardware news. Okay this week. I'm going to talk about The pycasts that the team did with Tom's hardware soon. I thought this was kind of cool This is a retro RPN calculator emulator using the PyPortal Titanium with circuit Python and User interface mostly done you're gonna be able to see it Later in action, but I like people build in their own calculators I think gradient backgrounds cute. Yeah, it's the steps of building all of your own equipment I'm topping your tree with a glowing. Can you say this word? Grumpy because he did take a huge one. Yeah. Anyways power by circuit Python. Okay. Um, we have some uh guides on upgrading to the latest version of Raspberry Pi buster Sorry from buster to bullseye Um, we have some lego plates that we've posted Um We have a call for Moo translations. Do you check that also also breaking news? There's a new version of moo. It's available for code with moo Next week the guest editor. 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Everything's fine So next up what I did want to show and talk about is keyboard Wank-wank. Yeah So keyboard is what we're calling a whole series of keyboard based products from Adafruit So we have a kb2040 and it's the pro micro form factor and The kind folks at tom's hardware had Dan and Jeff and Scott On the show That they do so lady to what what's the big deal about this? Pro micro keyboard thing well the rp2040 Why is it a pig? Because it's a it's a key but we don't want to call it key because a lot of people can take keys So we want to call it a keyboard which is a little pig with a key as its nose The kb2040 is an rp2040 Based board so it's using this extremely fast very powerful chip From the raspberry pi foundation their first micro controller and we put it into a pro micro form factor with 20 gpio pins We break out d plus and d minus as well So you can also, you know use it for advanced usb configurations And the idea here is that you can use this Design an existing macropads and keyboards and upgrade it to use circuit python or micro python or adrino And it's a big upgrade from the 324 that a lot of people use for keyboards It runs out of memory very easily The 324 really only has you know 2k of ram 32k of flash Whereas this chip has 8 megabytes of flash and 256 or 264 k of ram so a ton of memory And it's very fast like 133 megahertz dual core right now. There isn't Qmk support, but I think it's coming I think people are working on qmk support because so many people are building Rp2040 baseboards And also Catch the whole thing. I can deduce this down to like 20 seconds, but it's about 30 minutes long And the entire crew is there and you'll be able to learn all about this and more It's a deep dive as they say in the biz. Oh, it's also a dollar less I want to make the kb2040 cheaper than the micro The pro micro, but it has all the stuff you want us to see and then I say our big news for the week in the world of circuit python and more is Pie leap app is available in the app store. Congratulations Trevor and Antonia and Scott and Kenny and and marcos and everyone who's been working on this We have a guide we have a blog post. It's in the app store Um, and I'll get to one little note In a second, um When you when you go you can open it up. You could see all of the screenshots You can get the description and more will we have an android version? Yes Don't be mean about it every single time we have an android version And then only two people download the android version of something but leading all the way up until that they're just mean So stop doing that. It doesn't help the other android users. So anyways, we're doing this one first Expect an android version down the road, but we also have other ways to get things on Bluetooth hardware you also use it where you can use from android from web browser Yeah, for most sorts of things. So we're going to make sure you're able to do everything all the time everywhere from multiple devices That's kind of our jam Um, but there's this weird thing that comes up every single time no matter what app we do We released an android version and someone said do you have an android version? I'm just like are you kidding me? It's an android version and they're like, oh, yeah, sorry. 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