Alec Delaney joins Paul and they discuss how CircuitPython uses continuous integration for development and Alec's CircuitPythonukiah project.

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2:28 What is continuous integration (CI)?

4:36 How does CI make it easy for developers and contributors?

8:53 What are the challenges in moving to pyproject.toml?

11:11 What are the benefits of pyproject.toml?

14:56 The CircuitPythonukiah

17:14 Which board?

Alec Delaney

Mark Komus joins the show and shares how he started with computers, the Monster Eyes project, contributing to CircuitPython's core, and more.

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1:00 Welcome and Mark’s start with computers

2:30 Discovering CircuitPython

5:28 The Monster Eyes

8:37 Working on CircuitPython’s core

11:57 Opportunities from CircuitPython

12:50 Which microcontroller?

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Mark Komus

Joey Castillo joins the show.  He and Paul discuss the LCD Featherwing, the Open Book and its user interface, and power management.

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Show Notes:

1:12 Welcome and how Joey got started with computers & electronics

2:48 LCD Featherwing and implementing CircuitPython first

5:55 The OpenBook and the user interface

11:10 Managing power consumption

18:08 Which microcontroller?

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Joey Castillo

Paul takes the podcast on the road and visits Jason Pecor in Altoona, Wisconsin. Jason shows Paul CircuitPython powered Trolls and shares how they came to be.

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4:05 How Jason discovered CircuitPython

5:40 Meet the trolls

7:50 The park in the summertime

8:55 Proof of concept using CircuitPython

11:05 CircuitPython hardware in the trolls

12:45 Audio demo

13:30 Surviving the climate

16:05 The Blue Troll

17:41 Which microcontroller?

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Jason Pecor (and the Trolls)

Jim Mussared, a maintainer of MicroPython, joins the show.  He and Paul discuss how MicroPython started, collaborating with CircuitPython, being a maintainer, favorite uses of MicroPython, and more.

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1:02 Welcome and Jim’s start with electronics

3:02 Damien George starting MicroPython

3:50 MicroPython and CircuitPython

5:32 Collaborating with CircuitPython

6:10 MicroPython’s Strengths

6:45 What is it like to be a maintainer of an open source project?

8:50 Balancing open source and professional work

9:40 Favorite uses of MicroPython

11:10 Performance improvements in MicroPython

14:20 Where is MicroPython going next?

16:20 Which microcontroller?

Jim Mussared

Bradán Lane shares how CircuitPython has helped in creating the JoyPad and LumosRing.

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01:10 Bradan’s start with electronics

02:33 Bradan’s first CircuitPython product: the Joypad [https://www.tindie.com/products/bradanlane/joypad-circuitpython-macropad-with-joystick/]

06:25 Customizing the JoyPad

09:07 The LumosRing [https://www.tindie.com/products/bradanlane/lumosring-circuitpython-led-ring-block/] and LumosStick [https://www.tindie.com/products/bradanlane/lumosstick-circuitpython-led-long-matrix/]

15:20 Which microcontroller?

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Bradán Lane

Thea Flowers joins the show and shares about her synthesizer company, Winterbloom, and the role CircuitPython has played.

Show Notes:

00:30 How Thea first got started with computers

00:50 Discovering CircuitPython

2:25 Thea’s synthesizer company, Winterbloom [https://www.winterbloom.com]

3:40 Winterbloom products that use CircuitPython

(Sol [https://winterbloom.com/shop/sol] and Big Honking Button [https://winterbloom.com/shop/big-honking-button]:)

7:00 Castor and Pollux [https://winterbloom.com/shop/castor-and-pollux]

8:50 Which microcontroller?

Thea Flowers

Radomir Dopieralski, aka deshipu, joins the show.  He shares his interest in computers growing up behind the Iron Curtain, developing games with CircuitPython, robots, and more.

Show Notes:

00:15 Welcome and getting started with computers behind the Iron Curtain

1:45 Discovering MicroPython via its Kickstarter

2:50 Handheld games - the Pew Pew family

4:30 Learning Pew Pew in workshops

6:22 How does CircuitPython make it easy to program games?

7:42 What are the challenges in using CircuitPython to program games?

10:30 Robot building

13:30 Fluff bug

14:30 Which microcontroller?

Radomir Dopieralski

Brent Rubell joins the show. He and Paul discuss the Internet of Things, Adfafruit's Wippersnapper firmware, their favorite newsletters, and more. Visit https://circuitpythonshow.com/episodes/16 for newsletter links.

Show Notes:

00:30 How Brent got started with computers and electronics

1:45 How does Brent define the Internet of Things?

2:45 What is Adafruit IO?

6:04 Wippersnapper

6:35 What is “no code”?

9:55 How do you add components to Wippersnapper?

12:30 Where is Wippersnapper going next?

14:00 Project advice

15:18 Favorite newsletters

18:37 Which microcontroller?

Brent Rubell

This episode welcomes Joshua Lowe, the inventor of Edublocks, which helps bridge the gap from Scratch Python 3(including CircuitPython).

Show Notes:

00:20 Welcome and introduction to Edublocks

4:18 Making Edublocks open source

5:20 Working with Edublocks and hardware

9:20 Where is Edublocks going next?

10:40 The pandemic and remote education

13:42 Which microcontroller?

Joshua Lowe

An independent podcast with the people in and around CircuitPython. Created and hosted by Paul Cutler.