State of PewPew for 2020-10-09 ****************************** I haven't been posting the newsletter for a while, so we have quite a few news this time. News ==== * PewPew workshop at VisCon (https://viscon.vis.ethz.ch) next week. All seats are booked, Christian Walther and me are looking forward to running it. * Thanks to work of Christian on CircuitPython, the menu program for PewPew M4 (https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-m4-menu) can now restart the device before launching the game, resulting in more resources available to the game. * With the help of Gadgetoid, I ported Stage to Pimoroni's new handheld console, the PicoSystem. The library will be available in the next release of CircuitPython. * I also took this opportunity to enable support of scaling and scrolling on CircuitPython (previously scaling was only exposed in MicroPython) for the Stage library. The changes should as well be available in the next release. * If you missed it, Christian Walther had a lightning talk on EuroPython 2021 about his PicoPew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzvfQN9fiQ&list=PL8uoeex94UhFuRtXhkqOrROsdNI6ejuiq&t=847s * A while ago I finally ported the Stage and Pew libraries to the KittenBot's MeowBit handheld console. It's available in CircuitPython 7.0.0 firmware. -- Radomir Dopieralski