State of PewPew for 2019-07-21
******************************
News
====
* At this year's Europython conference all participants have been given
a customized PewPew device, and there were workshop on programming
them. Huge thanks to the mentors who ran these: Christian Walther,
Thierry Chantier, Raphael Das Gupta and Coen de Groot. There was also
a short talk about the development of PewPew.
* A release candidate for CircuitPython 4.1.0 is available at
http://circuitpython.org. One exciting change is that this version is
about five times faster than the previous versions!
* All PewPews on Tindie are sold out, and I'm looking for a better way
of making the devices available, possibly produced and sold by a
factory directly. More information as soon as we have anything.
* There are new games available in the repository:
+ Sokoban https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-sokoban
+ Boulderdash https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-boulder
Plans
=====
* I'm still looking into a possible next version of PewPew with a
display https://hackaday.io/project/165032
* I made a shield for D1 Mini that is compatible with the PewPew Lite
Featherwing https://hackaday.io/project/21578/log/165753
* We are considering running PewPew workshops at Flick the World in
Zuirch at the end of September. More details will follow.
--
Radomir Dopieralski
We used the tutorial from the documentation at
https://pewpew.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html and then we
improvised writing a sokoban game and playing with LEDs. I still need
to write down the improvised part, I'm afraid.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:25:13 +0100
PyLadies Dublin <dublin(a)pyladies.com> wrote:
> Hi Radomir,
>
> Amazing work at EuroPython, and so happy you were mentioned so many
> times on Adafruit about it. Do you have any notes from the workshop
> for others who might be interested in running one?
>
> I've been talking about PewPew at PyLadies Dublin, at my various
> meetings with Makers and STEAM-education companies (latter is a org
> that runs STEAM workshops for youth workers and another is similar
> but runs workshops for teachers), and folks are really interested in
> it. So it looks like something I can try run for educators and other
> orgs as well as in PyLadies Dublin and possibly PyCon Ireland 2019.
>
> Any pointers and suggestions welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin
> <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder)
> Pronouns: she/her/hers
>
> Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Member
> EuroPython Member <http://www.europython-society.org/members> | PSF
> member
> <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 10:52 PM Radomir Dopieralski
> <sheep(a)sheep.art.pl> wrote:
>
> > State of PewPew for 2019-07-21
> > ******************************
> >
> > News
> > ====
> >
> > * At this year's Europython conference all participants have been
> > given a customized PewPew device, and there were workshop on
> > programming them. Huge thanks to the mentors who ran these:
> > Christian Walther, Thierry Chantier, Raphael Das Gupta and Coen de
> > Groot. There was also a short talk about the development of PewPew.
> >
> > * A release candidate for CircuitPython 4.1.0 is available at
> > http://circuitpython.org. One exciting change is that this
> > version is about five times faster than the previous versions!
> >
> > * All PewPews on Tindie are sold out, and I'm looking for a better
> > way of making the devices available, possibly produced and sold by a
> > factory directly. More information as soon as we have anything.
> >
> > * There are new games available in the repository:
> > + Sokoban https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-sokoban
> > + Boulderdash https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-boulder
> >
> >
> > Plans
> > =====
> >
> > * I'm still looking into a possible next version of PewPew with a
> > display https://hackaday.io/project/165032
> > * I made a shield for D1 Mini that is compatible with the PewPew
> > Lite Featherwing https://hackaday.io/project/21578/log/165753
> > * We are considering running PewPew workshops at Flick the World in
> > Zuirch at the end of September. More details will follow.
> >
> > --
> > Radomir Dopieralski
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--
Radomir Dopieralski
