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Season 2 episodes (2)

Built from the ground up
S02:E08

Built from the ground up

In this episode, Paul and Tod each share three interesting things from learn to solder kits to programming ARM in assembly and more. Visit TheBootloader.net for more information including detailed show notes and transcripts. 00:22 Meet the Maker: Carrie Sundra of Alpenglow Industries. (Paul #1) 1:29 SMT Garden - surface mount soldering kit 3:51 Building a synthesizer with the Daisy Seed from Electrosmith (Tod #1) 5:56 synthUX Academy classes on YouTube 8:08 Microdot web framework for MicroPython (Paul #2) 9:08 Programming for both CPython and CircuitPython or MicroPython 10:25 ARM Assembly Deep-dives by Carlynorama (Tod #2) 16:52 ARM Simulator in the browser 18:50 gcc and Clang compilers for ARM 19:20 Bambu Labs 3D printer follow-up from Episode 1 (Paul #3) 20:35 Bambu extends firmware support until 2027 and security updates until 2029 23:08 Let’s talk about Capacitive Touch Sensors and Sliders (Tod #3) 29:00 Tod’s Tindie Store 29:31 Wrap-up and visit TheBootloader.net for detailed show notes and transcripts

The CircuitPython 9 Release Show
S02:E07

The CircuitPython 9 Release Show

00:00 Welcome to The Bootloader 00:22 What are we excited about in CircuitPython 9? 00:56 jpegio and the Memento Camera AdaBox 21 Unboxing Video 2:12 The one downside of JPEG vs. BMP or PNG 3:03 How Adafruit is innovating around the hardware and software 3:57 bitmapfilter image effects 4:28 USB Host 5:07 Keyboards on USB Host Scott’s CircuitPython2024 blog post 7:12 MicroPython and merging its changes into CircuitPython Split heap memory management 9:55 paralleldisplaybus LilyGO microcontrollers 8x faster display using paralleldisplaybus for ESP32 12:13 CIRCUITPY on Android 13:28 ESP-IDF software development kit for Espressif microcontrollers CircuitPython 9.0 moves from IDF v4.x to IDF v5 Potential for Bluetooth for ESP32-S3 chips 15:52 ConnectionManager and the CircuitPython community 18:04 Breaking changes in CircuitPython display.show() deprecated Mounting a filesystem requires an existing directory CircuitPython now requires explicit socket port re-use. Use socket.setsockopt(pool.SOL_SOCKET, pool.SO_REUSEADDR, 1), as in CPython. 20:10 Thank you to everyone in the CircuitPython community who contributed to CircuitPython 9.0 20:43 The CircuitPython Community Weekly Meeting every Monday at 2pm EST in the Adafruit Discord 21:33 Thanks for listening! Memento photo used under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license