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Yeah, and what type of things You know, you can use a bun to However, if you're just getting started and you just want to have Something you're going right away I might suggest a Chromebook because you can always like do more stuff with it But that might be a really way to get start get started similar to a circuit Python You can immediately get started with stuff and then you can spend a ton of time Doing really complex things if you want to but that doesn't stop you from doing all things that you want to do immediately So anyways thought that was a good analogy. Have a birthday Linux looking forward to circuit Python turn 30 Python software foundation membership drive. It's a good time to become a Python Software Foundation member. Yes with COVID. They've had to do virtual events. So this is a really really really really important time please consider Becoming a member this Friday Scott's doing a deep dive. It's all BLE all the time Billy Billy Billy he's off the RP 2040 stuff for a bit flash stuff. I mixed up and he's gonna be doing a lot of BLE workflow things So for those people who are like, hey, why doesn't the ESP 32 have support in circuit Python because there's no easy workflow But maybe with BLE we would be able to support the ESP 32 and have a good workflow When wouldn't that be interesting check in with Scott. He's the master master of workflow. Yeah Larson scanner and circuit Python using PWM the blue LEDs for the side Tron maker pie Pico It's connected with a Adafruit feather nrf 52 840 Check out this first radio. This is made with the Bluetooth radio kit Here is more keyboards more keyboards and more keyboards. This is a two-factor auth You can do with a Pico. This is over on hackaday and reddit This is one of the new things from electronic cats. It's kind of cool See there's a cat on there. I love it. That's right. What cats lower as camera with a raspberry pi circuit Python One of the things I wanted to show And you can check out the rest of this in newsletter, of course One of the things I wanted to show sorry to the things were two videos of some circuit Python stuff We're doing so I'm gonna show those this is circuit Python on the one of the NXP chips And then we also have circuit Python run on block pill And then the last thing I'm going to show is Jeff put together a really neat circuit sculpture also using Circuit Python so you can look at all these there is so much stuff. This is a beefy beefy Yeah, if you're in seven libraries, but I'm here's some circuit Python videos of week to go along with the newsletter and the segment What is this? Well, I'm making a very calming project. This is a shield a tft shield on top of the new IMX RT 10 11 M7 metro and I'm sort of testing out circuit Python with display stuff. So I just made a little demo where I have three Transparent Png's and the DVD video logo sort of bouncing around and I'm just practicing like what happens if I add More so maybe I'll make like six. Let's see if we can handle six DVDs. Oh Yeah, look at that Just bouncing away. So, um, yeah, just just trying out like what can I do with a really fast processor running at 500 megahertz? So gonna optimize this code a little bit, but it seems to be working. So Bounty bouncy This is an STM 32 f4 11 black pill chip These are kind of like next gen STM 32 low-cost dev boards. They're so cute They're really cheap and they feature of course the STM 32 f4 11 And just showing that I've got circuit Python running on this really nicely We just put these in the store because some folks were trying to get them and they they couldn't easily get them So we we stock a couple of them. They got some buttons a little red LED And you know, it's nice is it just runs circuit Python really well plenty of memory and you can connect displays and sensors All that good stuff to your STM 32 f4 11 and run circuit Python on it. Go blinker Ready to do something new with electronics circuit sculpture is about turning this into this Shape and solder brass rods then attach electronic components like these flora neopixels and Adafruit feather Advanced planning on a 3d printed jig can really help you get the shapes you want The feather runs circuit Python making it easy to customize the animations This is just my second circuit sculpture, and I love how it turned out If you want to get started too, there are tons of tutorials online. Just search for circuit sculpture tutorial And that's our Python on hardware news of the week Blinker Blinker