Shirt design and flyers for this weekend #NoKings

*Flashing Warning* An idea 🐛 that got stuck in my brain while working on the #CircuitPython driver for the OPT4048: Transmitting data with a series of blinking colored lights. Successful transmission & receipt achieved 🎉. Transmitter top, receiver bottom, message highlighted at end. 🌈💡📡

Shout out to Zach's Math Zone on YT: www.youtube.com/@ZachsMathZo... This friendly person makes concise informative videos breaking down mathmatical concepts visually. Bonus points in my book for the recent videos on different ciphers.

Catch up on the latest episode with guest @foamyguy.bsky.social - we chat about the challenges of designing games for CircuitPython and some of the games he's created.

Props to the friendly librarians at Putnam County OH District Library for their ongoing PSA-like series about the latest techniques commonly in use by scammers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdbU... I really appreciate them taking the time record and publish these. ♥️ #Library

Improving garbage collection time in CircuitPython blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/28/i...

Using a Keyboard with USB Host

North Korean hackers looking on as people throw millions into crypto grift coins in an attempt to curry favor with his orangeness.

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youtu.be/X7PLaaIo6F0?... wouldn't ordinarily listen to or share crypto vid, but Tigran has my utmost respect. Former IRS agent. Helped investigate and bring justice in many high profile crypto cases. Lived through a nightmare held hostage by Nigeria for months. No coin shilling, just humanity.

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Part Picker

New episode! You may have seen @foamyguy.bsky.social doing a livestream on Fridays or Saturday mornings, now get to know him. We chat about how he first started with computers and designing games in CircuitPython. Visit www.circuitpythonshow.com/@circuitpyth...

The FBI says it can't find "missing" records about hacking tools it purchased www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...

Randomized #egg painting in #CircuitPython with TilePaletteMapper. Original sprites from onocentaur.itch.io/eggs. Code: github.com/FoamyGuy/Cir... 🥚🎨🐍 #easteregg

Had the thought last night: "If I can encode 1 book into the blue channel of pixels, then it should be possible to encode 3 books into an image using all 3 color channels right?". Indeed it is. I think I like the dark one more, but both are neat. #python

Coming Monday: Meet @foamyguy.bsky.social - Paul and Tim chat about how Tim got his start with computers, designing games for CircuitPython and some of his favorite games he's written.

Saw this idea on bsky the other day... Wrote scripts to encode/decode a book into a pixelated image and back. 1st book I encoded is The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book 🥪📘. TY gutenberg.org. Code: github.com/FoamyGuy/Boo... #python 🐍

Match3 Game on the Adafruit Metro RP2350

MicroPython v1.25.0 has been released! github.com/micropython/... A *huge* update, particularly for the ROMFS feature, and the new Alif port. However, as with all MicroPython releases, there are hundreds of improvements and fixes. Such focus on refinement!

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with John Lennon’s Typewriter

New episode! Special guest @andypiper.me joins @todbot.bsky.social and @paulcutler.org and they chat about a new home page for your browser with Glance, open source soundfonts, automatic filament detection for your 3D printer, and more. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.

No need to worry, they learned their lesson. Case closed. #Signal #OPSEC

#CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2 released! blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/04/c...

blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/01/c... Highlights: - Bug fixes.

Implemented autosave and resume in the #CircuitPython Set card game. Game state is msgpack'd and written to the new CPSAVES partition of flash. #GameDev 🐍🃏💾

She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

Today's discussion about protecting Section 230 was timely — it's Trans Day of Visibility. Today and every day I will go to the mat to defend the law and stop Trump and Republicans from erasing trans Americans from the internet.

I'll be working on the Set card game #CircuitPython implementation this morning. #LiveCoding stream about 45 minutes from now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Wi... and www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twi...

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Next #CircuitPython game is the Set card game. Numberphile on YT has a great vid on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFX.... I'm using their numerical representation in the code. It's also using the new TilePaletteMapper to re-color the cards from 1bit colored sprites to the 3 game colors. 🐍🖱️🎮🎨

The attitude we desperately need in Tech

UPDATED LEARN GUIDE: Return To The Matrix Now With #CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem blog.adafruit.com/2025/03/26/u...

#NintendoSwitch on RGB Matrix Panels with #RaspberryPi5, a USB HDMI adapter, and github.com/adafruit/Ada... 🎮🥧🐍

Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."

TIL how to use multi-interface USB devices in #CircuitPython. Now I have a launcher menu 🚀 and games 🕹️ using both parts of a kbd/trackpad combo over USB Host on RP2350 ⌨️🖲️🐍

I have created several games on the @microbit.org that I use to teach python in my classroom because making games is fun, and it's a powerful way to learn to code 😀 🕹️🎮 Access the code and worksheets for 🆓 on @github.com here 👉 github.com/MrL832/mrlov...

Here's the latest #CircuitPython Fruit Jam animation. I'm happy with how it's come along. I pushed the code to a repo: github.com/FoamyGuy/Ada.... I walked through this code, and worked on it during deep dive tonight if anyone is interested in how it works in more depth. 🍏🎨🐍🤿

Coming Monday on a new episode of The CircuitPython Show: Liz Clark and Noe Ruiz join the show and discuss how they collaborate on projects together and share some of their favorite collabs. Here’s a clip of how they start off a collab:

There are now 600 CircuitPython compatible microcontroller boards #CircuitPython #Python @adafruit.com blog.adafruit.com/2025/03/21/6...

Implementing the Fruit Jam animation is #CircuitPython with displayio TileGrids. Fly-on, overshoot, rebound, and bounce all looking pretty nice. Next up is handling transparency, the secondary bounce on the top row, and the friendly apple on the left, plus tweaking the timings. 🍏🎮🐍

Right now, we have an authoritarian president. He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts. Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.

Snake Game on Metro RP2350

I have a kaleidoscope on my desk for occasions like this. #artwork

Rainbow painting program with X axis mirror. #CircuitPython on RP2350 with HSTX/DVI output and USB host mouse. 🐍🖱️🌈

Our founder has been working on a menu system with a @adafruit.com 1.14" 240x135 Color TFT Breakout LCD Display. They're quite nice displays for the price. This one will go on the sequencer module. Made with @circuitpython.org ! #mutexinstruments #diymusic #synthdiy #python

Colors and D-Pad button are working 🎉. HTTP/Websocket server on the #PicoW with front end HTML/JS page sending Bluefruit Connect compatible packets over websocket. #CircuitPython 🫐📶🐍

Hardware for today's stream. Experimenting with bluefruit connect API over WIFI. Got some new toys from @oakdevtech.bsky.social this week that will make a perfect test bed for color and button packets. Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twi... and YT: www.youtube.com/@Zobrombee/s... in ~25min

Last night on the Deep Dive we went from a basic two mouse test script to a functional 2 player memory game. Check out the VOD if you want to see the process www.youtube.com/live/KhzH_xl... #LiveCoding #GameDev #CircuitPython 🐍🖱️🖱️🎮