2nd Wednesday of the Month Talk Format Meeting

• What we'll do
Maria McKinley, Scott Shawcroft, and Larry Hastings will be speaking.

Maria McKinley will be speaking on "Hunting the Bugs". If you missed her at PyCascades, now is your chance.

Bug hunting is a time honored tradition that eats up entirely too much time. Learn some tricks to minimize this time. How can the stacktrace help if it is confusing? There are many tutorials to teach you the mechanics of using the debugger, but let's step through how to actually find the bugs.

Maria McKinley is a Senior Software Engineer at the Walt Disney Company. She writes backend REST APIs, tools for sys-admins and sys-ops, written in Python. She loves to help people to learn Python and enjoys the Flying Circus.

Scott Shawcroft will be giving his talk Supercharge your hardware (old and new) with CircuitPython

CircuitPython makes programming hardware easier than ever by bringing the popular Python language to modern, inexpensive 32-bit microcontrollers.

This doesn't need to be limited to modern hardware though. By pairing a modern microcontroller running CircuitPython and a vintage computer, such as a GameBoy or Yamaha piano keyboard, you can unlock the unique characteristics of these vintage devices.

In this talk, you'll learn the basics of how CircuitPython makes coding easy, how it works under the hood. As an example, we'll supercharge one of Nintendo's GameBoy with CircuitPython. By the end of the talk, you'll be able to supercharge your own hardware project with CircuitPython.

Scott Shawcroft is the project lead for CircuitPython and is sponsored by Adafruit Industries, an open source electronics company. After a number of years at Google working in the cloud, Scott left to learn about electronics on his own. He began freelancing a year later for Adafruit on what became CircuitPython. Now, CircuitPython ships on thousands of electronics every month, introducing new coders to Python on hardware. Scott's hobby is bringing CircuitPython to as many devices as possible including those he finds at thrift stores such as GameBoys and Yamaha Keyboards.

Larry will be giving a short lightning talk.

• What to bring
Your wonderful self.

• Important to know
PuPPy has a Code of Conduct that all attendees are expected to follow. The Code of Conduct can be found here: https://www.pspython.com/pages/code-of-conduct/