Hi ChiPy, Welcome back from the long weekend! Just a reminder that our September 10th __main__ meeting is about here. We have some really cool talks planned for our live stream. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday! *When: *Thursday September 10, 2020, 6 p.m. *Where: *Remote Meeting You can join our Live Stream at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGUlbcHi2k *More info:* https://www.chipy.org/ *What* - *Snakes on a Car: Or, Over-engineering a Toy* By: Kat Cosgrove Description: Like a lot of engineers, I like to tinker. I also like hardware hacking, video games, and over-engineering the hell out of something. When my team at work decided to build a proof of concept demonstrating the possibility of fast over-the-air updates for edge devices, we settled on using a car as the example of an edge device. It’s flashy, you know? This also presented me with an opportunity to do all of the things I love, and call it work: build a self-driving RC car, and then let people race it around a track using a repurposed USB racewheel, a handful of open source tools, and whole lotta Python. DevOps, but make it fun. - *Fun with Finite State Machines* By: Aly Sivji Description: Finite State Machines (FSM) are tools we can use to model simple and complex workflows. In this (non-mathematical) talk, we will learn about FSMs and examine how they can be used to improve software design. We’ll finish by diving deep into a couple of Python implementations of FSMs. Full disclosure: one of the implementations is a library I created. - *Don't be beholden to your tools* By: Dave Trollope Description: How KnowledgeHound innovated by breaking usage of existing tools to solve two immediate problems. A discussion of Django, SQLAlchemy, Pure Python, and Pandas. Thank you always to our sponsors, including Braintree and JFrog. ChiPy is a community run event and we depend on generous donations from our sponsors to make events and activities possible. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring, we'd love to talk with you as we update our sponsorships for 2020. Please be aware of and abide by our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ Engage with ChiPy Website: https://www.chipy.org/ Slack: https://joinchipyslack.herokuapp.com/ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/ Github: https://github.com/chicagopython/chipy.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagopython YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT372EAC1orBOSUd2fsA8WA