We were chatting in the forums with someone when the OPT4048 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/OPT4048DTSR/21298553) came up. It's an interesting light sensor that does color sensing but with diodes matched to the CIE XYZ color space. This would make them particularly good for color-light tuning. We made a cute breakout for this board. Fun fact: it's 3.3V power but 5V logic friendly.

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What other "Bones" should we spin up?

with designing something for us - we just said, "Make the best thing ya can," and he delivered! Check this board out that plugs onto the compute module and provides many great accessories: USB connection for bootloading/USB gadget, USB 3.0 host type A for CM5, micro HDMI, micro SD card for data storage on 'Lite modules, camera connection, and mount, two DSI connectors, fan connect, Stemma QT / Qwiic connection, and RTC battery. There's one shutdown button for CM5 and two GPIO buttons plus one LED. Timon's gonna try to add an EYESPI connector for our next rendering so we can get some I2C/SPI/PWM outputs easily. What do you think? We wanted to keep it compact and not too pricey (aiming for <$30 cost. We'll see if we can get it there) but were able to craft fairly complex projects in a small space.

But what's cool is that we're now using the HSTX interface rather than PIO+core bit-banging. That means we now have plenty of extra resources for running the USB host… which is still being worked on.

Core CircuitPython dev Scott has been chugging away at adding ESP32-P4 support to CircuitPython - and today tossed us a bin file that runs on the Eval board we got last week from Espressif. Native USB is still in progress, but we can connect to the REPL and save files using the USB-Serial converter. It's so fast at 400mhz, and with 16 or 32 MHz of PSRAM, it's going to be an awesome board for embedded Python! More soon!

chip. We exposed the two CDC UARTs on either side plus the modem control signals so you could use this for bootloading various microcontrollers. Coming soon!

but sadly, we never got around to making that breakout board. Til' now! This one features the FS series of the chip, which has some more segments: in this board, we expose 4 common and 18 segments to keep the board from getting too big. This chip runs at 3V or 5V, so it should be easy to use with any device. We still need to figure out what VLCD connects to - some parts of the datasheet say VDD, and some say VSS, so we left a jumper on the back. That way, we can connect it correctly when we are more awake. Stemma QT makes this a plug-and-play driver for just about any micro! Coming soon…