We got three more #CircuitPython2025 posts from CVASchmidt, cadet702 and RetiredWizard.
CVASchmidt posted on the forum about Python’s dis module, Thonny and documentation.
cadet702 posted a Gist about a CircuitPython powered Home Assistant plugin like ESPhome.
RetiredWizard emailed in (posted with permission):
I’ll just start with a huge thanks for everyone involved with CircuitPython, I am so grateful for the support Adafruit has given and all the effort put in by Adafruit employees and CircuitPython community members.
I think my original vision for what might be done with a microcontroller has largely been met with the added USB Host and DVI support added to CircuitPython. A standalone Python computer based on cheap microcontroller boards that utilize off the shelf keyboards and displays is doable using Adafruit Feather products or something like Solder Party’s RP2350 Stamp Carrier board.
Recently, I’ve been finding myself playing a lot more with various RGB/Neopixel strips, matrices and displays. A lot of projects end up using WLED so I’m very excited for the new WLED inspired boards coming out soon. One project I’ve done recently is to set up a 128×128 RGB Hub75 Matrix and drive it using CircuitPython on a Matrixportal S3. I have the panel mounted on the wall as a digital art display and switch between various holiday themed GIF animations or random retro arcade animations like asteroids, tempest, centipede, etc…
I’m really happy with the art display, however so far I’ve limited the color palette to 8 colors and usually try to stick with just 4. Looking forward I expect to be able to display a deeper color palette, but I think that’s a function of faster chips with more memory. By keeping the color depth and resolution low CircuitPython does a decent job of animating the GIFs, however there are periodic stutters and display noise, which at the current resolution/color depth, I think come from flash file access or RTOS background interrupts rather than processing power.
It’s possible a Zephyr build will help, but to actually eliminate the stutters/noise I suspect CircuitPython would have to take further steps to support real time application processing which I believe has been avoided in general, but synthio and possibly usb host work may have started chipping away at it.
Thanks again for everything that Adafruit and the CircuitPython team/community does!!!
-RetiredWizard
#CircuitPython2025 is our annual reflection on the state of CircuitPython. We’d love to hear from you too! See the kick-off post for all of the details. Please post by January 14th and email [email protected] to let us know so we can link to it.
Past posts:
- Dan posted four ideas to the forum.
- Anne posted to Bluesky.
- Scott and Ladyada discussed CircuitPython2025 on video.
- Sam Blenny wrote a Gist about building standalone CircuitPython devices.
- Andrew (aka somenice) posted to their blog about displayio.
- Paul Cutler announced the return of the CircuitPython Show podcast for #CircuitPython2025!
- Anecdata posted to Mastodon suggestions for core enhancements around networking.
- Cooper (aka relic_se) posted to Mastodon excitement for improved audio effects and benefits of the Zephyr work.
- FoamyGuy has posted his CircuitPython2025 as a GitHub Gist.
- @jepler (aka @stylus) posted big news to Mastodon.
- Kick off blog post.
