 It's time for some Python on hardware. Blink-blink-blink-ah. Okay. So, Lady Edda, we have cooperative multitasking in Circuit Python 7 now. It's in beta. You want to explain that a little bit? Yeah. It's Python, traditionally when we run Circuit Python code, or even Python code in general, you're writing all your code in one big program that everything executes one instruction at a time, and it's the next instruction in the list. That's great for a lot of projects, but as people are doing more complicated hardware, they might want to have things that are on timers or interrupting a task to check on something else. Like you have neopixels that are displaying a pattern, and you want to read buttons that then change the pattern. Doing some of that stuff, usually you would use stuff like threads or multitasking, having multiple threads of execution that share some data or control. There's a couple of different ways to do this in C-Python, but folks have pretty much settled on using async and async.io as well as helper libraries. This has been supported in MicroPython people for a while, but asking us like, hey, why don't you support it in Circuit Python? But we want to take a couple tweaks to it to make it more C-Python compatible, so it's the code that you write for Circuit Python. We'll run on a Raspberry Pi or in desktop computers, and it's much more cross-platform in that way. But we've started writing guides and implementing support in 7.1.0 beta. We had some earlier support, but we changed it around enough that really you should just start from scratch if you've written async.io code for Circuit Python before. We're working with MicroPython to collaborate and make libraries that help make async.io easier for people, together that'll run on both platforms, because again, it's a C-Pythonism. It's not unique to MicroPython or Circuit Python. But basically, you want multitasking, we got it and there's also a fact in there about what other stuff we're going to support and what stuff we're not going to support and why we're not supporting it because there's good reasons. It's like, we always say, sometimes it's more important what you don't do than what you do. Yeah, especially with threading and multitasking, having written thread code in Python for decade plus. Now, there's definitely things that Python used to do that they're like, please don't do this anymore because it just doesn't really work very well and people, the joke is you put yourself in the shot because you can't do things in the right order. Yeah. All right. Next up, if you want to be assured to have your project on Adafruit, just do something like this. This is the Dune pain box, the gum jar from Dune with a Raspberry Pi. They made a video and you put your hand in it and it tells you about the pain. It's the recreation of the gum jar seems from the Dune, the 1984, David Lynch one, but let me see here. Yeah. They show it as you put your hand in it, it has the same audio. I thought that was really cool. There's a comment along the line, it's like, the pain. I thought this is neat. If you put your hand out, it sticks to you with the- Well, I think it's not that dangerous. It's Uninstructables and you can find out more and cool project. There's a lot of Dune stuff. We have a Dune prop that we're going to show tonight as well. That's the highlights from the newsletter. There's a lot going on, but I do have a video or a thing I wanted to show. I was hoping someone would do this eventually. This is the farmer says and someone's modding it now at CircuitPython and you can see that the innards are now going to be CircuitPython compatible, so you'll be able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. As this project evolves more, Fun. We'll show it off. So cool. That's one of the things. The CircuitPython board shows up as a USB drive, so that means you can drag and drop things like MP3s or WAV files and you can always update the code and always do all sorts of things. Technically, that thing's now a USB drive. Okay. Then a little bit of a sneak peek. We're doing more Blinka art. Here's some of them. We wanted to do some Blinka Bluetooth, Blinka Bob Ross, Blinka art, and Blinka, just point in the finger at you. It's like the Spider-Man thing. It's like, you did it, I did it, no, we did it. That's the cooperative multitasking. That's cooperative multitasking. Then gaming Blinka. That's our Python and Hardware News this week. Thanks, Blinka.