27:12

S06:E51 Nov 24, 2025

River Wang

Paul welcomes River Wang to the show. River was a STEAM teacher before becoming a full time software developer 3 years ago. He created the CircuitPython Online IDE, a browser based platform that allows users to work on a CircuitPython project on the web or as a self-hosted website. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:29 River’s start with computers and electronics 3:42 River’s start with Python 4:31 Teaching 5:42 Discovering CircuitPython 9:18 Creating the CircuitPython Online IDE 13:04 How the CircuitPython Online IDE works 14:28 The challenges in building the CircuitPython Online IDE 20:34 Self-hosting the CircuitPython Online IDE 19:02 How the CircuitPython Online IDE helps educators 20:34 CircuitPython Online IDE’s key features 23:13 What’s next for the CircuitPython Online IDE 24:41 How to support the CircuitPython Online IDE 25:05 Where to learn more The CircuitPython Online IDE GitHub Repository YouTube Twitter Fosstodon 25:23 Which board?

28:18

S06:E50 Nov 10, 2025

John Romkey

John Romkey joins the show and shares his CircuitPython tool, circremote, what it does, how it works, how he used Cursor and Claude to help write it, and more. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:56 John’s start with computers and electronics 6:25 circremote 9:21 circremote clean and emacs support 12:22 circremote’s sensor support and AI 14:23 Cursor with VS Code and Claude 19:27 Sensor and device support in circremote 21:32 Community sensor work 26:16 Which board?

19:30

S06:E49 Oct 27, 2025

Sam Blenny

Sam Blenny joins the show and shares his work with the Fruit Jam, including USB Host, a Color Checker, a Gamepad tester, and more. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:24 Sam’s start with computers and electronics 5:34 Discovering CircuitPython Pumpkins vs Skeletons game 7:06 Working with the Fruit Jam and the Gamepad tester 9:24 USB Host MIDI Tester 11:12 The Fruit Jam Color Checker 13:49 USB Host USB Host Improvement Umbrella Issue Improve USB Host device error handling pull request USB Host buffers allocated in in internal RAM issue 16:42 Which board?

14:17

S06:E48 Oct 13, 2025

Noe Ruiz

Noe Ruiz joins the show and shares how he started learning design and 3D modeling, creating the Layer by Layer tutorials, designing CAD parts, and more. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:19 Getting started with computers and electronics 1:38 Learning design 4:38 Snap-fit enclosures 6:36 3D Hangouts Live in New York City Episode 1 8:28 Adafruit CAD Parts 12:05 Layer by Layer 13:35 Which board?

15:23

S06:E47 Sep 29, 2025

John Fletcher

In the kickoff of season 6, John Fletcher joins the show. John shares how he ported CircuitPython to web assembly, how it works, and how using Claude Code helped. Follow the show on Mastodon and Bluesky. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:23 John’s start with computers 4:07 John’s Discord nickname 5:05 CircuitPython and web assembly 6:43 How CircuitPython works in the browser 7:46 Advantages to using CircuitPython in the browser 9:25 Windows Subsystem for Linux 10:25 Using Claude Code 10:49 Managing the prompts 12:48 How to test CircuitPython in the browser The CircuitPython web-editor with web assembly 13:33 Where to learn more John’s GitHub repositories