 It is Python on hardware news so we have our newsletter we're almost up to 9,000 subscribers so if you haven't already please go to itforddaily.com it's a completely separate site the reason we did that is so no one could say oh you took my email address from your store and you started subscribing me yeah no we did not so a few things it was Mother's Day so of course what do people do on Mother's Day they built electronics for moms and so this is a really cool flower pot with flowers that light up and celebrate Mother's Day made with circuit Python this is a Mother's Day project using a fruit mag tag and has quotes from Glenn Doyle's book Untamed. Picon is going on right now in the US so it's a virtual one Scott was there Kenny was there yeah the sprinter's 16th to the 18th and then it's online right now from the 12th to the 15th Adafruit is a participating sponsor Kaikad is released bunch of new things in it a lot of people in our community use that so please check that out you can watch the video on our various video channels this is running circuit Python tests and fixing bugs Jepler did a good video with that and did a interview with embedded FM I was going to have that as a separate section on our news but I forgot that it was also added here so check it out really good interview you can find out all sorts of things and Anne has talks about work tutorials two books a different products and then being retired after a 30-year career in engineering with the US Foreign Service so check it out what you did but then she'd have to kill you yeah deep dive mentioned that and then you can just check out a variety of projects from around the web and more I mentioned the CPython update last week they've moved things to Maine and one of the other cool things was the read the docs for Python is now responsive and the neat story about this is a person in the community contributed a pull request to make them responsive because she was pregnant and she was reading the documents on her phone and she said well it doesn't scale that well on a phone so I'll go fix that yeah cool story and exactly like what you want to hear in a community it's like oh I saw something here is a way to fix it okay and then other things I wanted to show one video and then also this quote so I'm going to go to this quote and then I'm going to play this video that Jepler did so in case you were wondering how do we do things at Adafruit well this translated tweet I think is pretty accurate maybe there's a magic girl in Adafruit circuit python can easily play wave music data that's not all if once you have a magic girl you can do all sorts of stuff magic girl can also play mp3 files by the way yeah and then here's a video I was thinking about the rgb matrix displays and realized that while I know that the protomatter code circuit python uses to draw them works by scanning the leds row by row I didn't know what that looks like normally the matrix is scanned so quickly that our eyes can't see it I think the target rate is 250 hertz so if I wanted to see it in action I need a high speed camera or would I I realized that I could just change the source code so that the scan was much slower so far we've been looking at the regular image but with the press of a key I can switch it to an ultra low scan rate notice how the lines are drawn in pairs and since the display has 16 lines on it this makes the scan rate one eighth each line gets drawn several times with different values this relates to the binary representation of the rgb pixel values I think I prefer how it looks normally don't you and that's our python on hardware news for the week thank you okay