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.

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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 working with graphics

13:37 Where to learn more about Dan

14:27 Which board?

15:13 Wrap-up

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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.

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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

25:23 Which board?

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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.

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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?

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Sam Blenny joins the show and shares his work with the Fruit Jam, including USB Host, a Color Checker, a Gamepad tester, and more.

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00:00 Intro

00:24 Sam’s start with computers and electronics

5:34 Discovering CircuitPython

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

16:42 Which board?

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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.

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00:00 Intro

00:19 Getting started with computers and electronics

1:38 Learning design

4:38 Snap-fit enclosures

6:36 3D Hangouts

8:28 Adafruit CAD Parts

12:05 Layer by Layer

13:35 Which board?

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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.

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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

13:33 Where to learn more

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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.

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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 connectionmanager work?

7:10 What were the challenges in creating connectionmanager?

8:35 Software testing framework

11:21 Which board?

13:25 Wrap-up

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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 CircuitPython and Arduino

19:03 What’s next in audio effects?

21:41 Learn more about Cooper

23:02 Which board?

24:04 Wrap-up

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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?

25:42 Wrap-up

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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 Espressif

19:50 Guitar pedals

26:59 Future projects

29:59 CircuitPython Karaoke

30:42 CircuitPython Audio Effects Tricks

32:38 Wrap-up

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