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CircuitPython Weekly Meeting for June 30, 2025

Liz is hosting.

Video is available on YouTube.

Join here for the chat all week: http://adafru.it/discord.

The CircuitPython Weekly Meeting normally is held at 2pm US ET/11am PT on Mondays. Check the #circuitpython channel on Discord for notices of change in time and links to past meetings. Meeting times are also available in iCal format for use with standard calendar applications and can also be viewed in your browser.

If you want to be able to participate in the meeting by speaking, you will need to be added to the @circuitpythonistas role on Discord. Please ask any of the moderators or admins to add you if you’d like to join.

CircuitPython development is sponsored by Adafruit. Please support them by purchasing hardware from https://adafruit.com.

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01:57 Community News

MicroPython Ported to Motorola 68000-based Macs

Jeff Epler has ported MicroPython 1.26.0 preview to older Macintosh computers running Motorola 68000 microprocessors (pre-1994) - Mastodon and GitHub.

02:22 CircuitPython School

Have you been looking for an easy way to learn CircuitPython? Check out the videos by Professor John Gallaugher of Boston College. His CircuitPython School videos are especially helpful - YouTube Playlist.

02:40 Project of the Week: IINTS, the Open-Source Insulin Pump for Raspberry Pi Pico

Rune Bobbaers designed and built a fully open-source insulin pump from scratch having long “been fascinated by the medical technology that helps keep me alive, especially insulin pumps”. It uses MicroPython on a Raspberry Pi Pico, controlling insulin delivery using stepper motors and a user-friendly interface - Raspberry Pi News and GitHub.

03:13 Newsletter Details

The Python on Microcontrollers Weekly Newsletter is a CircuitPython-community-run newsletter emailed every Monday. The complete archives are [here](https://www.adafruitdaily.com/category/circuitpython/). It highlights the latest Python on hardware related news from around the web including CircuitPython, Python and MicroPython developments.

To contribute your own news or project, edit next week's draft on GitHub and submit a pull request with the changes. You may also or email cpnews@adafruit.com, or tag a post with #CircuitPython on Mastodon, Bluesky, or X (formerly known as Twitter),.

03:52 State of CircuitPython, Libraries and Blinka

This report contains information from the previous seven days. Any changes (PRs merged, etc.) made today are not included in this report.

Overall

  • 23 pull requests merged
    • 8 authors - mikeysklar, dhalbert, weblate, makermelissa, BlitzCityDIY, hrfarmer, Neradoc, FoamyGuy
    • 9 reviewers - ladyada, tekktrik, nateinaction, makermelissa, BlitzCityDIY, dhalbert, Neradoc, jerryneedell, FoamyGuy
  • 12 closed issues by 7 people, 13 opened by 10 people

04:41 Core

06:17 Libraries

Library updates in the last seven days:

11:18 Blinka

11:54 Hug reports

@Liz (hosting)

  • Group hug

12:17 @danh

  • @HaThach for a quick review of a TinyUF2 infrastructure change PR.

12:38 @foamyguy

  • @danh for reviewing many PRs for updated OnDiskBitmap API usage + Anne for review of same in learn repo

13:00 @mark[gamblor21] (lurking)

  • Group hug! Life has gotten busy for the moment but still around.

13:09 Status Updates

@Liz (hosting)

  • I’ve been working on a few product guides. I updated the tri-color 2.9” eInk guide pages for the new revisions in the shop. I also wrote the guide for the TPS61169 constant current LED driver, which is currently in moderation. Next I’ll start working on the guide and CircuitPython driver for the AS5600 breakout.
  • For projects, I’m working on some code for a Raspberry Pi camera with a thermal camera overlay. This uses the MLX90640 breakout and will likely be published next week.

14:23 @danh

16:28 @foamyguy

  • Updated all libraries and learn code that were using OnDiskBitmap API from pre 7.x
  • Published 1st version of adafruit_color_terminal repo. It holds an extension for terminalio.Terminal that supports ANSI color escapes for subsets of the text
  • Worked on IRC client app, refactored to use dang and handle keyboard input
  • Fix Blinka Displayio py 3.9 support issue caused by typing syntax
  • Looking into support for custom fonts with terminalio.Terminal
  • Submitted issue in the core for MemoryError with strange behavior

20:25 In The Weeds

@Liz

  • Summer schedule - we will be meeting every 2 weeks in July and August. The meeting calendar has been updated to reflect this. We will start back to our usual weekly meeting in September.

21:26 Wrap-Up