S02:E07

The CircuitPython 9 Release Show

Mar 22, 2024

• 21min 59s

Episode description

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

The Bootloader @thebootloader

Mar 22, 2024

The Bootloader is back! Paul and Tod get together to discuss highlights from the new release of CircuitPython 9.

They chat about jpegio and the Memento Camera, USB Host, MicroPython, Paul gets everything wrong about ConnectionManager, getting involved in the #CircuitPython community, and more.

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S02:E07

Mar 22, 2024

The CircuitPython 9 Release Show

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