 All right, this week in Python on Hardware Land, kind of a big deal, I guess, depending on what you think a big deal is in the world of electronics. So Sony, they were they were making the Raspberry Pi's in the UK and they still do, they still do. And they make some in Japan. Yeah. And so this announcement is Sony backs Raspberry Pi with funding and access to AI chips. So basically, the way I'm reading this is Sony is investing in Raspberry Pi at the valuation of 500 million. That's what Raspberry Pi that not the foundation, this is the commercial trading company. And what it looks like they're doing is saying, hey, like, we're going to, you know, make Raspberry Pi's. But we want to make sure there is AI chips on the edge. So a lot of the uses for Raspberry Pi is for commercial uses. Yeah. And people want to use a AI for voice recognition or face recognition without connecting the internet or without needing internet control. So so many people use Raspberry Pi for digital signage or like entry computers or, you know, whatever. A lot of products use them. So it will be interesting to see Sony investing is really smart because of course, if they're manufacturing, they want to see Raspberry Pi succeed, but they also have deep insight into the Raspberry Pi manufacturing and distribution. And like I said, they manufacture in Wales, they got, I think they manufacture in Japan as well. Yeah. And one little bit that I thought that's interesting, it says in a typical year, roughly 70% of the sales now come from commercial customers and bidding it in products and factories or consumer devices. Yeah. So Raspberry Pi, the commercial company, 70% going to industry. And you know, there is a shortage of Raspberry Pi's. Yeah. I think we're one of the few companies that's figured out a solution that you're not going to please everybody all the time, but you can please some of the people some of the time. And we're getting, you can look on like our PI locator on Twitter, people are getting Raspberry Pi's from us. Absolutely. You can always, you know, find people who are buying them, put them on eBay for like $200, but we're not, we're not interested in it. But they are becoming more available and of course, the compute modules are very popular with industry. I mean, that's they clearly they designed it for industry customers. Yeah. So, FBC has overview article, they dig into a little bit more of the finances and like what this could mean, the specific chip and what they're doing with education and more. So check it out. It's interesting as far as like what's going on in the electronics world in general. So Raspberry Pi, an amount of funding. So before they got funding on our evaluation of 500 million, so you figure like 45 million or so because probably this round is probably the same too. So yeah, so maybe, maybe let's be like really conservative like let's say it's like $60 million altogether all the funding. Yeah. So it gives them a good runway to beef up production, hire more people do a lot more stuff. Arduino last late last year, 30 something million in funding and then they have a pro line and that looks like the direction they're going, they're going to the enterprise. Commercial. What? Yeah. There's supposed to be their focus as well. And then you have particle. I think they haven't been in the news for funding recently. I don't know if they're looking for it right now. And then there's like other maker maker as companies from the past that that took on funding. There was little bits that's now part of Sphero. And then there was MakerBot and then eventually went to Stratasys. So I don't have time to do like a big maker business overview or like all these players. Do you want something else to do it? Someone else should do it. It's one of those things where like, I think when you're doing the business of hardware, it's really hard to write about it. Plus, I'll say this, like back in the day or even now anytime. So I have the article about Arduino like over 10 years ago on make. Now anytime if I write about Arduino, you know, some crank will say, Oh, you're just, you're writing about it because you're, you know, you want to take over their business. And there's just nutty people online. And so you can't, it's hard to write about things if you're in the same business. So I always put our disclosures and everything that we do, but it's an interesting time. There's more investment going into hardware. Good example was today with these RP2040 chips, we're doing video out. Like this is like really intense stuff that you can do. So yay, I'm happy to see Raspberry Pi get a new round of funding because the RP2040 has been something that's really helped us quite a bit, yeah, especially during the chip shortage. And hopefully they dump more resources in the stuff like this. Yeah, really, really like that. More Python on hardware. So the other thing, Python is coming up next week. Check out our extensive posts. Cat and he'll be there. Jep Miller will be there. Please go say hi and meet with them. Also, if you're attending like having, you know, ahead of time on the Discord channel and they can get you set up for if you want to do the sprints and things like that. So that is this week's hardware news. Don't forget, you can get this newsletter every single week, delivered to your mailbox from Adafruit Daily. Go to Adafruit Daily.com, sign up.