Four Topics and an Interview

Paul and Tod chat about Professor Gallaugher’s CircuitPython tutorial videos, Embedded Swift, a special interview with Justin Myers, the author of the new CircuitPython ConnectionManager library, and more.

For detailed show notes and transcripts visit The Bootloader.net

Show Notes:

00:21 CircuitPython videos by Professor John Gallaugher

• Professor Gallaugher interview on The CircuitPython Show
• Professor Gallaugher’s YouTube channel
• CircuitPython playlist
• Raspberry Pi Pico tutorials using CircuitPython
• Bluefruit School - using a CircuitPython Bluefruit and tutorials
• Use PyCharm with CircuitPython on macOS video
• Easily install or upgrade CircuitPython Libraries with Circup video

4:58 Embedded Swift

• https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/13/embedded-swift-esp32-c6-raspberry-pi-rp2040-stm32f7-nrf52840-microcontrollers/
• https://www.hackster.io/news/apple-embeds-swift-into-hardware-125131557514
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxbsADqDI4
• Swift Embedded Examples - https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples
• Swift Matter Examples - https://github.com/apple/swift-matter-examples/tree/main/smart-light

8:53 Accessibility Matters

• The Micro:bit Access:bit
• Adafruit’s TRRS Trinkey

11:55 CadQuery

• https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html – good intro
• https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery – the main repo
• https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor – GUI editor, like OpenSCAD, one of the many ways to use CQ
• https://github.com/Wren6991/CQCAD – Luke Wren (ASIC designer at RasPi)’s collection of CQCAD parts
• Also simliar: OpenJSCAD but also cannot export STEP
• And the original: OpenSCAD

16:47 Interview with Justin Myers, author of CircuitPython’s ConnectionManager library

• ConnectionManager