 It's Python on hardware time. OK. Blink it, blink it, blink it. Oh, a lot's happening in the world of Python. Tons. Tons. OK, this week I'm going to go through a little bit of the newsletter, my pick, and then not really breaking news, but it's making the rounds today, so I want to talk about that. So anyways, if you're into Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi has new documentation online. They're doing a really cool thing with GitHub. So people can even do updates and more on it, which I thought was kind of cool. So check that out. We'll talk about the notable women business owners, hence the code earlier. You can check out these cool companies. We had a Circuit Python day recap. You can check out all the videos. We did live videos. We had an AMA on Reddit, Show and Tell. There was a bunch going on. It's all in one spot. LadyAda did an interview about the chip shortage. We'll talk about that in a bit. We have, why is there so many shortages in the US? So we sent this out to not only our team, because we talk about the very specific things for Adafruit, but why are things happening around the world with the chip shortage? You can check this out, and I hope it was both ending. It's not exactly COVID related. Well, it didn't help. Yeah, Python and Visual Studio, there's new updates for the August 2021 update. State of Python, 2021, check this out. Real Python podcast, yep. And all the normal roundups and more tons of keyboard stuff, yeah. DevCon Badge, it actually doesn't run MicroPython, but it has a teeny of two bootletters, which is cool. Yeah, that's like, so right now, if we're seeing new hardware out there, if we see hardware out there, it's either running CircuitPython, MicroPython, and or the... Teenier of two, or a teeny USB bootletters, yeah. Yeah, there seems to be like, here's the easiest... Now, a teeny USB is here to stay, for sure, it's cool. And it's free, it's open source, and we like to see more people being able to use their electronics easier. So that's the newsletter of the week. I wanted to do my pick of the week, and that is the Interfrew MicroPad, RP2040 review, the ultimate DIY keypad. This is from Tom's Hardware, and they did a review of it, and I just wanna... Oh, they put some Jade clicks on there. Yeah, so what's cool about this is, we didn't know about this, they bought it, they reviewed it, they posted it up. Great for productivity and easy to customize. Our verdict, track design, built-in speaker, rodeo and current screen, circuit pythons support with helpful tutorial, stomach QT connector, customizable RGB, and not height adjustable, that's actually... You have to have a separate case. You have to have a separate case, and then screen not colored, yeah, of course not. Well, you know, it's interesting. Well, first off, there's a TFT shortage, one of the reasons I didn't go to the color screen, but also a lot of macro pads use OLEDs, and I kinda wanted to stay true to that style. Yeah, so here is... I'm glad they liked it. Yeah, they really liked it, and we're seeing a lot of people use this for things that we expected and things that we didn't. Yeah, and you want me to do a thing for you. We have a lot of things. They like the artwork too. We have a lot of silk on the back, all sorts of stuff. So that's the Python on hardware news from the newsletter. In the next newsletter, though, you're gonna see some neat stuff, including this project, and I think Todd's in the chat. So this is really neat, and I'm gonna just quote Todd here. Last week, I wrote a present to myself, this Asteroids-like game in Circuit Python. It runs just about on any board currently, MicroPad, FunHouse, and PyBadge, it's fun. One code file for three different microcontrollers and three different displays. Circuit Python is amazing. So this kind of shows everything that we're working on, and kind of like one or two tweets or videos. And then also Todd mentions, by the way, it also runs on the Open Hardware Summit badge, which is that job I talked about earlier that you could do. But it's basically four different microcontrollers, four different screens. So NRF 52A40, ESP32S2. RP2040 and the SAMD51. So here's some photos of it. I like that it works well on monochrome or color screens. Yeah, and this is that promise from a long time ago of like Genie and Java, like right once, run everywhere. We're getting close to this, and I really like that no matter what the screen size is, no matter what the input is, one code file works and all these things. So I'm gonna play these little videos back to back. I can kind of hear Todd talking about it. I wanted to show you what this is, and it's called Asteroids. It's a, no, it's Staroids. Staroids. Yeah. Oh, I like the idea of playing a game with the MacroPad. Or in your Funhouse. So give it up for Todd in the chat, because this is, sometimes someone does the thing and you're like, oh yeah, like that explains exactly what we've been up to. CP architecture is multiple of different display types, all the same code. But yeah, I also got it working on the Oshawa badge, which makes it a fourth type of display and a fourth type of CPU. That's Python hardware. Nice job, Todd Bot. Yeah.