Episode 64 - CircuitPython Day 2026
This is a replay from The Bootloader, live on CircuitPython Day on Adafruit's YouTube channel with co-host Tod Kurt.
Tod and Paul take a look back at the last year and share some of their favorite CircuitPython projects and features. This is a replay of The Bootloader's livestream on the Adafruit YouTube channel on CircuitPython Day. It has been slightly edited and we do use screensharing, so you may want to check out the video on YouTube.
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Show Notes
00:00 Intro
01:04 CircuitPython in the last year
1:32 CircuitPython 10 Audio Effects * Ting alternate CircuitPython voice effects firmware
4:32 CircuitPython 10.1 and 10.2 updates
4:45 MicroPython and upstream * MicroPython home page
5:10 The Adafruit Fruit Jam * Adafruit Fruit Jam Learn Guide * Fruit Jam OS
5:34 Sean Carolan’s Pac-Man Clone * Sean on The CircuitPython Show
6:31 Dan Cogliano’s Z Machine and Zork
8:27 Dan Cogliano’s Fruit Jam Screensavers * Moon Miner
9:22 Liz Clark’s Fruit Jam Video Music Player * Atari Video Music original hardware
11:49 picogame by Vladimir Smitka * Write-up of picogame on chiptron.eu
16:31 Lorraine’s Autonomous LEGO Train with CircuitPython and LIDAR * Amazon LIDAR example or dfrobot * Python code for Raspberry Pi
19:50 RV Circuit Studio by Armstrong Subero
24:18 Liz Clark’s Chiptune Player * CircuitPython AY8912 library * VGM fan websites
27:39 PicoTTY - Embedded Systems News story
30:37 Wrap-up