The CircuitPython Show

Michael “T-Rex” Kadie joins the show and discusses the T-Rex Talk family of assistive devices built with CircuitPython. 1:25 Michael’s start with computers 1:56 How Michael started building communication devices in the 90s 4:46 The T-Rex Talk 3.0 8:55 Using AI to help 9:58 Using the Fruit Jam as an assistive device 13:27 The training game 13:56 The Sip-N-Puff 16:38 The CircuitPython reading light...

Tom Fox joins the show and shares his creation, the SPOKE board. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:36 Tom’s start with computers and electornics 1:25 Discovering CircuitPython 2:31 The SPOKE board SPOKE 4:11 Whom is the SPOKE for? 5:38 The SPOKE Mini 7:25 What students have made with the SPOKE 9:15 What were the challenges bringing the SPOKE to life? 10:33 The SPOKE online editor 13:53 What’s next for SPO...

Paul is joined by three former guests: Tim Cocks, Dan Cogliano, and Cooper Dalrymple who share their experience developing apps, games, and screensavers for the Adafruit Fruit Jam and Fruit Jam OS. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 00:38 FruitJamOS Cooper’s best practices Fruitris 3:44 Cooper’s excitement for the Fruit Jam 7:24 Dan’s interest in the Fruit Jam Z Machine Moon Miner 8:52 Dan’s screensavers fo...

Paul is joined by Abby Bergman and Esha Patel who both recently completed the Physical Computing - Interactive Art, Robotics, & Tech for Good course taught by Professor John Gallaugher at Boston College. Abby and Esha share their experiences and projects taking the course. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 00:56 Professor Gallaugher’s Physical Computing - Interactive Art, Robotics, & Tech for Good...

John Park joins the show and shares how he started hosting shows, his pre-show preparation, some of his favorite memories and projects, and more. 00:00 Welcome 00:36 JP’s start with computers and electronics 3:59 MAKE: Television Make: Television - Complete Series : Make : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 10:47 Preparing for a show JP’s Workshop YouTube Playlist 16:54 Favori...

Paul welcomes Michelle Hui and Reitwiec Shandilya, master’s students at Cornell Tech. They discuss their project, an open source medical device that helps mastectomy patients, that runs CircuitPython. 00:00 Intro 00:46 The Open Pressure Sensor Device 2:05 Overcoming the problem gaps 2:58 Partnering with clinicians 5:26 The hardware and firmware 8:13 Reverse engineering the proprietary device 13:48...

In this episode, Paul is joined by Sean Carolan. Sean shares how he used CoPilot with Claude Opus to create a Pac-Man clone in CircuitPython in just one day. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:32 Sean’s start with computers 1:34 Choosing Pac-Man 2:30 Seeed Wio Terminal 4:04 Coding Pac-Man in CircuitPython 5:17 The game’s art assets The Spriters Resource Assets · Kenney 6:51 Re-creating the sounds of Pac-Ma...

Paul welcomes John Ellis to the show. John shares some of his MacroPad projects, TallyCircuitPy, and more. 00:00 Intro 1:18 John’s start with computers 5:13 John’s handle, DeckerEgo 6:28 MacroPad Hotkeys II deckerego/Macropad_Hotkeys GitHub repository: An extensible hotkey macropad inspired by the Macropad Hotkeys example from the Adafruit Learning System Guide prcutler/awesome-macropad: A curated...

Dan Cogliano joins Paul and they discuss Dan’s work with the Z Machine, which allows you to play Zork and other text adventure games. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky . Show Notes 00:30 Dan’s start with computers 3:05 The EZ Make Oven 4:53 The Z-Machine 7:59 Challenges in creating the CP Z Machine 9:08 The game of Zork 11:00 CP Z Machine Learn Guide 11:15 Dan’s next game 12:29 Challenges wor...

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:...

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 a...

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 J...

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...

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 Circ...

In the final episode of season 5, Justin Myers joins the show. Justin shares how he created the new connectionmanager library for networking in CircuitPython. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky for news of when the show will return. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:21 Justin’s start with computers 1:11 Discovering electronics 2:15 Discovering CircuitPython 3:02 ConnectionManager 4:55 How does connect...

Cooper Dalrymple, who recently was a guest on the Audio Effects Panel Discussion, joins the show. He shares how he got started with electronics, his music background, what’s next for CircuitPython’s audio effects, and more. 00:00 Welcome 00:26 Cooper’s start with computers and electronics 1:31 Discovering CircuitPython 5:57 Cooper’s music background 8:18 Designing hardware 13:26 Advantages between...

Tim Cocks, better known as foamyguy in the Adafruit community, shares his experiences in designing games for CircuitPython. Tim and Paul also discuss some recent games Tim has worked on. 00:00 Intro 00:16 Tim’s start with computers 1:48 Discovering CircuitPython 8:16 Challenges designing games for microcontrollers 13:16 1D Chomper 15:44 Blinka Says 18:58 Karel the Robot 23:24 Which microcontroller...

Cooper Dalrymple, Jeff Epler, Mark Komus, and Tod Kurt join the show to discuss the new audio effects available in CircuitPython. 00:00 Welcome 00:19 Mark’s inspiration for adding audio effects 1:46 Mark’s drum gist 4:23 The new audio effects available in CircuitPython 8:02 LFOs 10:30 Synthio vs Audio Effects 11:36 MP3 Bass and Treble Control 12:48 The RP2350 17:34 RP2350 vs RP2040 18:11 Audio on...

Liz Clark and Noe Ruiz join the show and share how they collaborate on projects, where they get inspiration, and share some of their favorite projects. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky . Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:21 Project inspirations 4:17 Iterating on a project 6:09 Working together to improve a project 8:01 Noe’s favorite project - Adabot 9:41 Liz’s favorite project - the Midi Fighter 11...

Jan Goolsbey and Tod Kurt return to the show and share their experience in writing libraries and drivers for the CircuitPython Community Bundle. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky and join our newsletter . Guests: Jan Goolsbey - Jan’s GitHub repositories Tod Kurt Tod’s GitHub repositories 00:00 Welcome 00:18 The CircuitPython Community Bundle 2:01 When is your code is ready for the bundle? 2:5...

CircuitPython core developer Dan Halbert joins the show and shares how to build CircuitPython from source. Dan was previously a guest on episode 28 . Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky and join our newsletter . 00:00 Intro 00:24 When would someone want to build CircuitPython? 2:23 The pre-requisites for building CircuitPython and the Building CircuitPython Learn Guide 5:15 Building for differe...

Welcome to a new episode of The CircuitPython Show! Bradán Lane joins the show for a second time and shares his process, tips, and tricks for designing a PCB that uses CircuitPython. We’re now on Bluesky! 00:00 Welcome Bradán Lane homepage Bradán on The CircuitPython Show episode 19 00:24 Recommended tools EasyEDA KiCad 2:54 Where to start when designing a board? 4:24 Finding open source hardware...

Jan Goolsbey joins the show for his second visit. He shares how he built a weather monitoring system using sensors, weather APIs, display devices, CircuitPython, and Adafruit IO. Jan was previously a guest on episode 33 . The CircuitPython Show is now on Bluesky! Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:16 Welcome Jan 00:28 The start of the weather system 2:09 How to solve the corrosion problem 4:50 Internet con...

The CircuitPython Show returns! To kick off season five, Paul welcomes Aaron Pendley, who is known by squid.jpg in the Adafruit community. They discuss how Aaron got started with computers, how he discovered CircuitPython, and a number of his projects. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky . Show Notes 00:25 Welcome Aaron and his start with computers 4:23 squid.jpg 5:18 Discovering CircuitPython...

It’s the final episode! Tod Kurt returns and serves as guest host and interviews Paul. Paul shares how he started with open source, his favorite project, exciting things coming to CircuitPython, and more. 00:00 Welcome 00:40 How Paul first got started with computers 1:45 Paul’s start with open source 5:10 Learning Python Talk Python training courses 6:38 Discovering CircuitPython 8:50 Paul’s favor...