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Apr 28 - May 04, 2025
Video / Educational
- CircuitPython Parsec - Adafruit's John Park's lessons on using CircuitPython for a variety of tasks.
Books / Educational
- Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express by Anne Barela - Introduction and discussion of the Circuit Playground Express including programming via CircuitPython, MakeCode and Arduino.
- CircuitPython for beginners with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express & Mu - In Japanese by author Aoyama_PROD, September, 2019 from TechBookFest.
- Python for Microcontrollers: Getting Started with MicroPython - by Donald Norris - Program your own MicroPython projects with ease—no prior programming experience necessary.
- Programming with MicroPython - by Nicholas H. Tollervey, includes CircuitPython - Discusses the MicroPython language.
Frameworks / Educational
- code.circuitpython.org - the online CircuitPython code editor - edit code and download to your device via WiFi, Bluetooth or USB.
- Microsoft Device Simulator Express (⭐174) - Virtual Circuit Playground Express and CircuitPython programming in Visual Studio Code (no longer maintained).
Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2025
Video / Educational
- CircuitPython School - lessons and projects in Professor John Gallaugher's course Physical Computing: Art, Robotics, and Tech for Good at Boston College.
- CircuitPython Projects - fun maker, electronics programming, and robotics projects, all courtesy of Professor John Gallaugher, who teaches Physical Computing at Boston College.
- CircuitPython Hardware Tutorials - YouTube videos by educator Brogan M. Pratt.
- How to Program a Robot in Python: Beginners Guide - YouTube videos by educator Brogan M. Pratt.
News / Educational
- The Past, Present, and Future of CircuitPython - Hackaday interviews Limor "Ladyada" Fried about CircuitPython, August, 2023.
Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2024
Code / Educational
- Tod Kurt's CircuitPython
synthioTips and Tricks (⭐76) - More tips and tricks from Tod Kurt about CircuitPython'ssynthiolibrary.
Podcasts / Educational
- The Bootloader - hosted by CircuitPython community members Paul Cutler and Tod Kurt, this podcast often covers CircuitPython topics.
Talks / Educational
- Connecting Old to New with CircuitPython: Retrocomputer input devices on modern PCs - Jeff Epler at PyCon 2024
- Cutting the USB Cord: Wirelessly Programming CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft at PyCascades 2024
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024
Frameworks / Educational
- The CircuitPython Online IDE Version 1 and Version 2 - A browser based IDE for CircuitPython by River Wang
Newsletter / Educational
- Adafruit Daily, Python for Microcontrollers - A weekly newsletter on MicroPython, CircuitPython, and Python on single-board computers (SBC). A spam-free list.
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPython 9 release poster - CircuitPython release version 9 poster (out of stock).
Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2024
News / Educational
- CircuitPython Show Episode 1: Kattni Rembor - Host Paul Cutler interviews CircuitPython team member Kattni Rembor, March 1, 2022.
Podcasts / Educational
- The CircuitPython Show - an interview podcast with people in the CircuitPython community hosted by Paul Cutler.
Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2022
Social / Educational
Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2022
Events / Educational
- Weekly Adafruit Show-and-tell, Wednesday 7:30pm ET on YouTube LIVE - The weekly Adafruit Show-and-tell program often has CircuitPython-related projects on display.
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPython 8 release poster - CircuitPython release version 8 poster (out of stock).
Talks / Educational
- EuroPython 2022 talk video: Radomir Dopieralski - Game Development with CircuitPython - Radomir Dopieralski
May 23 - May 29, 2022
Code / Educational
- Tod Kurt's CircuitPython Tips and Tricks (⭐680) - A collection of tips and tricks for CircuitPython. Also available as an Adafruit Learn Guide.
Frameworks / Educational
- PewPew workshops - Materials, examples, libraries and hardware for running Python game programming and electronics workshops with a minimum of problems.
May 16 - May 22, 2022
News / Educational
- Community call for what is wanted and needed in CircuitPython by year: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2022
Community
- Reddit r/circuitpython - a subreddit devoted to CircuitPython.
- MicroPython Slack - a Slack channel for MicroPython users. You can get an invitation here.
- MicroPython Meetup - online and in Melbourne, Australia once a month, and Blog.
Code / Educational
- CircuitPython Board Software Versions: Select per board at CircuitPython.org.
- Awesome List for the RP2040 Macropad (⭐287) - A list of awesome Macropad applications, macros, 3D printed plans, and more.
Hardware / Educational
Newsletter / Educational
- Python on Hardware weekly Videocast - Ladyada and PT review the highlights of the newsletter every week in this video series. The broadcast is also on iTunes, YouTube, IGTV (Instagram TV), and XML.
News / Educational
- CircuitPython on the Adafruit.com/blog - Adafruit Blog posts discussing CircuitPython.
- Scott Shawcroft Works On Bare-Metal Raspberry Pi CircuitPython as Adafruit Plans an E Ink Computer - Hackster.io, December 2021.
- The Real Python Podcast Episode 75: Building With CircuitPython & Constraints of Python for Microcontrollers - Scott Shawcroft, August 27, 2021.
- embedded.fm Podcast Episode 372: The Motivation of Creativity - interview with Anne Barela, CircuitPython team member and Python on Microcontrollers Editor, May 6, 2021.
- DroneBot Workshop: Raspberry Pi Pico with CircuitPython - March 5, 2021.
Social / Educational
- CircuitPython community on Reddit - Dedicated home of CircuitPython on reddit r/circuitpython/.
Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2022
Community
- Adafruit CircuitPython Discord channel #CircuitPython - 24/7 chat and support on CircuitPython including a weekly podcast.
Code / Educational
- CircuitPython API Reference - A list of functions and documentation available for CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython Community Libraries (⭐180) - CircuitPython Community Libraries. There are over 45+ libraries available.
News / Educational
- Scott Shawcroft Is Squeezing Python Into Microcontrollers - IEEE Spectrum Magazine article on the Python programming language for makers.
- HackSpace Magazine - Issue 17 - CircuitPython powered Adafruit Grand Central M4 Express review.
- Adafruit Circuit Playground Express review - Raspberry Pi reviews the Circuit Playground Express.
- CircuitPython on Hackaday - Hackaday posts related to CircuitPython.
Podcasts / Educational
- Weekly community chat on Adafruit Discord server CircuitPython channel - Audio / Podcast edition - Audio from the Discord chat space for CircuitPython, meetings are usually Mondays at 2pm ET, this is the audio version on iTunes, Pocket Casts, Spotify, and XML feed.
Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2022
Code / Educational
- Circuit Playground Express CircuitPython API Reference - The functions and documentation specific to the Circuit Playground Express using CircuitPython.
Frameworks / Educational
- For developers, Mu: A Python Code Editor - The documentation for Mu.
News / Educational
- Method's Magazine - Methods eZine: Design Trends & the Transformation of Everything features Python on hardware, page 35 - PDF.
- CircuitPython Snakes its Way onto Adafruit Hardware - An article by MAKE on CircuitPython.
Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021
Code / Educational
- CircuitPython Essentials - Learning the essential functions of CircuitPython.
Talks / Educational
- Changing Lives through Open Source, Passion and Mentoring - Changing Lives through Open Source, Passion and Mentoring, Keynote by Kattni Rembor at PyOhio 2019.
- CircuitPython 入门 - CircuitPython 程序！An entry level CircuitPython tutorial in Chinese 01: From zero to Hello World (YouTube).
Contributing / Contribution Workflow Overview
- Fork this repository (⭐667) on GitHub.
- Merge adafruit or main.
Nov 22 - Nov 28, 2021
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPython 7 release poster - CircuitPython release version 7 poster (out of stock).
Talks / Educational
- CircuitPython: Python on hardware - CircuitPython: Python on hardware by Dave Astels at PyCon Canada.
- Embedded Programming for everyone using MicroPython and CircuitPython - Embedded Programming for everyone using MicroPython and CircuitPython by Ayan Pahwa at FOSSASIA Summit.
- Extending MicroPython: Using C for good - A look at how MicroPython can be extended to add features and improve performance. By Matt Trentini at PyCon Australia.
- Max Holiday - CircuitPython in space, SmallSats and more! - Max Holiday.
- MicroPython & the Internet of Things - MicroPython & the Internet of Things by Damien George at GOTO 2016.
- PyCon2019 Keynote: Python on Hardware – Nina Zakharenko - Nina Zakharenko.
- PyCon India - 2019 Interactive Hardware Poster Presentation powered by CircuitPython by Ayan Pahwa and Aakanksha Agrawal - Ayan Pahwa and Aakanksha Agrawal.
- VIDEO: PyCascades – Light Up Your Life – With Python and LEDs - Nina Zakharenko.
- More Fun with Hardware and CircuitPython -- IoT, Wearables, and More! - Nina Zakharenko at PyCon 2021.
Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021
Books / Educational
- Initiation au langage CircuitPython et à la puce nRF52840 - A French introduction to CircuitPython and the nRF52840.
Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020
Books / Educational
- Ten Games for the Circuit Playground Express by Rick Leander - Ten classic games adapted for Circuit Python.
News / Educational
- PyDev of the Week: Scott Shawcroft - July 1, 2019.
- PyCon2019 Keynote - Light Up Your Life - With Python and LEDs - By Nina Zakharenko. Python opens a whole new world of working with wearable electronics. The slides are also available.
- Python on Hardware Means Choices for Makers - By Liz Clark - Apress. CircuitPython (a fork of MicroPython that is designed from the ground up to be beginner friendly.) This allows end users to use Python for their electronics hardware projects similar to how they may have used C/C++ with the Arduino IDE.
- CircuitPython on hackster.io - Posts on hackster.io related to CircuitPython.
Social / Educational
- CircuitPython on Hackaday.io - Curated list of projects on hackaday.io.
Podcasts / Educational
- The Best Python Podcasts - The Best Python Podcasts.
Events / Educational
- ASK AN ENGINEER, Wednesday 8pm ET on YouTube LIVE - The longest running YouTube live show about electronics, information on CircuitPython each week during "Python on hardware segment".
Talks / Educational
- EuroPython 2019 talk video: Nicholas Tollervey – Tools of the Trade: The Making of a Code Editor - Nicholas Tollervey.
- EuroPython 2019 talk video: Radomir Dopieralski – Game Development with CircuitPython - Radomir Dopieralski.
- Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython - Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython by Stacy Morse at PyCon Australia.
- Writing fast and efficient MicroPython - Writing fast and efficient MicroPython by Damien George at PyCon Australia.
Contributing / Contribution Workflow Overview
- Fetch the remote.
- Create a branch.
- Make a change.
- Commit and push to your repo.
Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2020
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPython 6 release poster - CircuitPython release version 6 poster (out of stock).
Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2020
Books / Educational
- Make Music with the Circuit Playground Express by Rick Leander - Twelve projects that make music, sound and noise with Circuit Python.
Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2020
Frameworks / Educational
- Glider: An app for editing Python on mobile devices wirelessly (⭐43) - Also a video, in development.
News / Educational
- Learn Hardware Programming with CircuitPython - A course offered by Codecademy in collaboration with Adafruit.
- Use CircuitPython boards on the TI-83 Premium CE calculator - CircuitPython runs on Texas Instrument calculators.
Contributing / Contribution Workflow Overview
- Clone the forked repo to your drive.
- Add a remote using owner adafruit and the original URL.
- Create a pull request on the official repo.
- Once accepted, repeat by merging from the official repo to your fork's master, and re-branch.
Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2019
Books / Educational
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPython 5 release poster - CircuitPython release version 5 poster (out of stock).
Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2019
Swag / Educational
- CircuitPlayground lanyard - CircuitPlayground lanyard featuring Blinka.
- CircuitPython 4 release poster - CircuitPython release version 4 poster featuring Nordic (out of stock).
- CircuitPython 3 release poster - CircuitPython release version 3 poster (out of stock).
Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2019
Frameworks / Educational
- Thonny, a Python IDE for beginners - An editor with support for CircuitPython and MicroPython.
News / Educational
- Control servos with CircuitPython and Raspberry Pi - The MagPi Magazine, Issue 84, Melissa LeBlanc-Williams, July, 2019.
Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2019
News / Educational
- Five Things You Didn't Know Python Could Do - YouTube video, June 19, 2019.
May 27 - Jun 02, 2019
News / Educational
- Scott Shawcroft: History of CircuitPython - A discussion of CircuitPython for the core developers of Python, PyCon 2019.
May 20 - May 26, 2019
Books / Educational
- Wearable Tech Projects by Sophy Wong - Contains many wearable projects using CircuitPython.
Code / Educational
- Adafruit CircuitPython Libraries (⭐927) - Current Adafruit CircuitPython Libraries. There are over 150+ libraries available. More on Libraries on CircuitPython.org.
Frameworks / Educational
- A helper for CircuitPython development with Atom (⭐4) - A helper for the Atom editor.
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019
Books / Educational
- CircuitPython Development Workshop by Agus Kurniawan - This book helps you to get started with CircuitPython development. This book uses the Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0 Express board for development.
Code / Educational
- Adafruit Blinka - SBC Compatibility - CircuitPython Libraries on Raspberry Pi and other compatible single-board computers (SBC) running Linux.
Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2019
News / Educational
- Circuit Playground Express 4-H edition approved - The 4-H branded version was approved by the USDA, this is the first CircuitPython powered board that is also 4-H approved!
- CircuitPython in Space - CircuitPython provides an approachable and logical means of conducting science with hardware. Paired with low-cost hardware shown to work in space, we can enable an new generation to question and explore the unknown. With the necessary “satellite stuff” already baked in, students can spend their time trying something new rather than reinventing the wheel.
- Adafruit PyPortal: GUI meets CircuitPython in a Big Way - Disrupt It Yourself podcast on CircuitPython and the IoT device, PyPortal.
- Cool Tools - Sophy Wong Talks Circuit Playground Express including CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython for Rapid Microcontroller-Based Prototyping and Development - Digi-Key on the open source community's efforts adapting specific microcontrollers and dev boards to support serious microcontroller development using CircuitPython.
Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019
News / Educational
- HackSpace Magazine - Issue 15 - CircuitPython makes the cover on HackSpace Magazine with feature article, and projects.
Social / Educational
- CircuitPython Twitter - Twitter account aggregator for CircuitPython news and more.
- CircuitPython tagged on Reddit - Reddit posts relating to CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython on hackster.io - Python on hardware projects on hackster.io including CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython on Instructables - How-tos, guides, and more, using CircuitPython on Autodesk's Instructables.
Events / Educational
- Weekly community chat on Adafruit Discord server CircuitPython channel - The Discord chat space for CircuitPython, meetings are usually Mondays at 2pm ET.
Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2018
Community
- CircuitPython Weekly Meeting - Video archive of weekly community meeting via Discord, starting from September, 2017.
- Adafruit CircuitPython Forums - The Adafruit discussion forum on CircuitPython.
Newsletter / Educational
- Archives of all newsletters - List of every newsletter published from the start, November 2016.
News / Educational
- CircuitPython in MicroSolutions Digital Magazine - Microchip’s MicroSolutions, “Python on Microcontrollers” in Design Corner article. MicroSolutions is Microchip’s bi-monthly digital magazine.
- The Amp Hour #383 - An Interview with Scott Shawcroft.
Jun 04 - Jun 10, 2018
Adafruit Learning System Guides
- Welcome to CircuitPython! - An overview of CircuitPython and the community.
- learn.adafruit.com CircuitPython - All Adafruit Learning Guides on CircuitPython.
Code / Educational
- CircuitPython GitHub Repository (⭐4.2k) - The source code for CircuitPython on GitHub.
Frameworks / Educational
- The Mu Editor, IDE, REPL, and plotter for CircuitPython - The recommended offline Python editor for CircuitPython.
Newsletter / Educational
- Contribute to newsletter (⭐67) - Guidelines on contributing to the newsletter.
News / Educational
- CircuitPython on MAKE - CircuitPython related content on MAKE.
Art / Educational
- CircuitPython Art Pack! Logos, banners, photos and Blinka! - Adafruit art relating to CircuitPython.
Social / Educational
- #CircuitPython tagged on Twitter, latest - Twitter posts tagged CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython videos on YouTube, latest - YouTube posts tagged CircuitPython.
- #CircuitPython tagged photos & videos on Instagram - Posts on Instagram tagged CircuitPython.
- CircuitPython - micropython.org forums - Articles on the MicroPython forums tagged for CircuitPython.
Swag / Educational
- Blinka the CircuitPython Sticker - A sticker featuring Blinka, the CircuitPython mascot.
- Blinka the CircuitPython Temporary Tattoo - A temporary tattoo featuring the Blinka character.
- Blinka the CircuitPython Limited Edition Enamel Pin - An enamel pin with the CircuitPython mascot (out of stock).