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Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski July 28, 2019

July 28, 2019

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 … [View More]

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Re: Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski July 22, 2019

July 22, 2019

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 … [View More]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 > > _______________________________________________ > > PewPew mailing list -- pewpew(a)python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to pewpew-leave(a)python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/pewpew.python.org/ > > -- Radomir Dopieralski [View Less]

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PewPew at EuroPython
by Christian Walther June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

As I suspected, there will be PewPews at EuroPython 2019! https://blog.europython.eu/post/185584014022/europython-2019-warning-spoile… What a nice welcome to my first EuroPython! Congrats to Radomir and whoever else helped for pulling this off. The mentor sign-up form says it is no longer accepting responses, 45 minutes after the blog post - I'm not sure if that means you're inundated with offers, but if not, I would love helping run these workhshops. -Christian

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Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski May 23, 2019

May 23, 2019

State of PewPew for 2019-05-23 ****************************** News ==== * CircuitPython 4.0.1 is released and has full support both for the PewPew Standalone and the µGame boards. It also improves memory management, error handling, enables additional modules and fixes a whole lot of bugs. You can download the firmware at http://circuitpython.org and follow https://pewpew.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pewpew10/hardware.html#updating-the… to update it. * My talk "Game Development with … [View More]

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Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski April 13, 2019

April 13, 2019

State of PewPew for 2019-04-14 ****************************** News ==== * CircuitPython 4.0 is nearing a release. We are at Beta 7 right now. If you can, then please help testing. Upgrade instructions are available at https://pewpew.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pewpew10/hardware.html#updating-the… Don't worry, you can copy the CURRENT.uf2 file before upgrade, to be able to come back to your previous version and disk contents. * The laser-cut acrylic backs arrived, but of course I made a … [View More]

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pewpew on Adafruit Ask an Engineer
by Thierry Chantier March 21, 2019

March 21, 2019

pewpew appears during Adafruit Ask an Engineer https://youtu.be/zcnUSze0XPo?t=1452 Nice!

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Let's go!
by Thierry Chantier March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019

This mailing list is a great idea. Radomir? If you have some time, could you tell us what are your plans for pew pew? For example, do you target a common repository for pew pew and pew pew simulator? Anyway, thanks for the good work already done, it's a very fun board to play with. Thierry

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Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019

State of PewPew for 2019-03-18 ****************************** News ==== * If you are reading this, you probably already know, but I will mention it anyways: we have a mailing list! Its address is pewpew(a)python.org and it is hosted bu the Python community, which is really great! * There is a new game available for PewPew, written by Christian Walther. It's a board game Othello (also known as Reversi), and it lets you play against a computer AI. It's available in the github repository … [View More]at: https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-othello and to play it, all you have to do is to download the .py file, copy it onto your device, and select it from the menu. Don't worry about the opponent taking a long time to think -- it's a slow device. * Speaking of the repository, there has been a little spring cleaning in there and now all the repositories are organized in a logical way. Hopefully it will make it easier to keep them all up to date and to find what you are looking for. * With the beta version of the firmware, it's possible to program the PewPew Standalone devices as USB HID devices -- keyboards, mice or gamepads. There is a demo turning it into a gamepad: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/160090 Plans ===== * I'm experimenting with adding a small laser-cut piece of plastic to the bottom of the small standalone PewPews, to make them a little bit more convenient to hold. I should receive them tomorrow, and if they work, I will add the design files for them to the repository. Some photos of a wooden prototype here: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/152337 * I made a "how it would look like if it didn't have to be cheap" version of the PewPew Standalone, called PewPew Pro. It has additional 2MB flash storage for files, and a bi-color red-green display controlled with a separate chip, that can also do 255 brightness levels. Unfortunately I didn't have a display with square pixels, so this one has round. I don't have any plans for producing or selling this, but I will make the design files available for anyone who wants to try building their own. More info: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/160221-pewpew-pro * I plan to run a small workshop on game making here in Zurich, but first I need to prepare the materials for it, and that takes time. Hopefully I can get that done and run it withing a few weeks from now. * I continue to promote the project among any communities that might find it useful for teaching. If you know someone who would be interested, please let them know, or let me know about them so that I can contact them. * I'm running a secret project that I can't talk about yet, but one thing that I have already learned from it is that if you make over a thousand units of PewPew Standalone, you can get the production cost down to about $6 (from around $10 for small quantities that I did so far). Might be useful for anyone wanting to make and sell them (if you do, let me know, I can help). That's all I have for now, thank you. -- Radomir Dopieralski [View Less]

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Welcome to the PewPew mailing list
by Radomir Dopieralski March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019

Hello everyone! Welcome to the PewPew mailing list! I hope that we can all have a good time here, and help each other with our PewPew-based devices. I would like to encourage you to post any questions you might have, any projects you might be doing, and any suggestions for the future. Since we are being hosted by the official Python community, all the rules of that community and the code of conduct apply, so please be nice to each other. A little bit of formalities. For those readers who … [View More]

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Welcome to the PewPew mailing list
by Radomir Dopieralski March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019

Hello everyone! Welcome to the PewPew mailing list! I hope that we can all have a good time here, and help each other with our PewPew-based devices. I would like to encourage you to post any questions you might have, any projects you might be doing, and any suggestions for the future. Since we are being hosted by the official Python community, all the rules of that community and the code of conduct apply, so please be nice to each other. A little bit of formalities. For those readers who … [View More]

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