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Keynote: The Story Behind Blinka

on YouTube 01h 05m
Talkat linux.conf.au 2021 · 2021-01-23..01-25· [open-source]

speaker

name:Limor Fried
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video:https://youtu.be/jZnDCs80b_A
slides:none on file

summary

A history of how Blinka becomes a cross‑platform hardware API: Adafruit_Blinka implements a strict subset of CPython so the same CircuitPython drivers run on microcontrollers (drag‑and‑drop install on a Pico), single‑board Linux machines and desktops via USB adapters. The project supports about 60 boards and backs ~283 libraries for sensors, displays and motors, collapsing toolchains and shrinking edit/run cycles from minutes to seconds so the shared drivers actually work everywhere.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 8:47Making with microcontrollers
  3. 17:31Single board computing
  4. 33:32Disruption and having fun
  5. 51:54SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS medium resources, many hardware peripherals
  6. 52:17Blinka and Tux become BFFs

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