 Mika Mika Mika Python on hardware time Okay, so This week, let's go right to the newsletter Version 150 has been released of the official C++ Raspberry Pi Pico software development kit. Yes. This is Bluetooth related so why is this a big deal because People want to know your opinion about this. That's right Well, the Pico W which is an RP2040 chip that comes with this Cypress like 4349 chip or something part number and that module it can do Wi-Fi and we've added Wi-Fi support to circuit Python. There's some Wi-Fi now in the SDK in Arduino Micro-Python circuit Python, which is great and people are like, hey, this chip can also do Bluetooth classic and Bluetooth more energy and they're like, yeah, it's coming. It's coming. So the Raspberry Pi team Finally picked the stack and implemented C++ SDK low-level support for the chip They're using a stack that is not open software But they do have a license so much like Wi-Fi. It's licensed as long as you're using it with an RP2040 chip So Although I don't count me on that for the Bluetooth. I know for Wi-Fi it is Bluetooth I don't know if they released an official license yet And I saw there's a pull request for Micro-Python as well And then I saw Pimaroni did a little demo where it acts as an A2DP endpoint Which is actually interesting because it's Bluetooth classic not Bluetooth energy So we have to dig in to see, you know, what is the support when is it gonna come to circuit Python? I really don't know This is really really new we have to investigate it and the other thing is we already have Bluetooth support And we would want to have it be Like cross compatible so like all the Nordic stuff that you would do I want to make sure that as much as possible you could do the same things But we're also pretty much going to be not stack, but we'll have to use the stack that they used To make it work Because porting our own stack I think is is going to be a ton of work So, you know, we don't even know what the scope of the work is yet But it looks like it's coming to Micro-Python soon, which is great. We love supporting Micro-Python And I hope to all have it come to Python And someone mentioned this in the chat and that was a surprising thing. So it's it can do Bluetooth classic A2DP is classic not um, I mean unless I misunderstood the demo Um, I I don't I believe that it's it's using. Yeah, so it's classic Yeah, we're gonna double check this and look at it because that's kind of cool if it's true. Yes hid classic is um is uh Is more common for like keyboards. So I think that could be very powerful And also h classic bluetooth tends to use a standard Uh transport um cause hci. Well, we'll see. I don't know yet. We haven't even look again. This is like Dazzled not even hours um and then uh Before I go to the the project I wanted you to talk about um, a lot of things been going on in the world of open source Python circuit python micro python But wanted to call attention to key cad 7o releases out. There's some neat stuff that you can do with uh fonts now I said that yeah, this is separate. This is the unit code converter, which I found Yeah, which is cool. And I think it's hilarious. Um, and then uh, check out the rest of the newsletter because there there's too much to go over In our ask engineer show, which we're doing right now each week Um, but it's chock full of everything answering a fantastic job with it. Uh, Liz has interviewed There's talks from some Events with python on hardware. Um, there's some really neat python resources Whether you're doing desktop python or web python or embedded python But the project of the week out of the newsletter that uh, you found that you were looking at is this a really neat Computer, it's a complete computer running micro python. Yeah, this is from brian, uh, whitman. Who's um, Awesome, and I don't know if you remember we met him. He's in new york and he's done a lot of cool audio stuff Um, he sold a company to spotify that does um audio classifications And he's he's always been doing like really cool, um hardware stuff and audio stuff I think we met him at um dorkbot, which I don't even know if it's dorkbot I think dorkbot is a mailing list. I don't know if it's a physical event. I don't think it's a physical event We should bring it back. dorkbots were really cool. Um, and uh, so he built this computer based on the esp32 s3 I think it's an eight megabyte flash or 16 megabyte flash eight megabytes ps ram. So it's like a maxed out module um And the s3 has this ability to drive a ttl display so you don't get a lot of Colors, I think you get a 16 bit color maybe eight bit color 12 bit color Um, but it's good enough for this and I like that he just sort of made it into like an all-in-one computer using the usb Capability of teeny usb to have it connected to a keyboard You know from battery and it's just like it's an adorable little you know kind of Commodore 64 slash z80 slash action free. Yeah, it's just like it's like an all-in-one little mini computer And I just think um, he did a really cute job with it. So check it out Uh, the files are all public And posted and it has a lot of audio interfaces because of course brand women loves audio stuff Certified thong is delivered every single week to your inbox. 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