A looong meetup! Matt presented news, a PyCon AU retrospective. Seon (the Unexpected Maker) popped in and talked about his Reflow Master amongst other projects. Nick talked about FuPy. Oliver presented about the wonders of 3D printing, particularly for electronics projects cases. Peter wrapped up with an informative discussion on LoRaWAN.

News

• Reported on how A Taste of MicroPython went at MPUG (in short, well!)
• PEP 505: None-aware operators

HW News

• Reflow Master
• M5Stack Camera Module
• M5STack Bala, self-balancing ‘car’
• Small TTGO ESP32 PICO D4 module
• SPIDriver is shipping

PyCon AU Retrospective

MicroPython talks

• Damien George: Writing Fast and Efficient MicroPython
• Matt Trentini: Asyncio in (Micro)Python
• Stacey Morse: Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython
• Brian Daniliko: Demystifying LoRaWAN with Python

Lightning talks

• Tim ‘Mithro’ Ansell: FuPy: FPGAs with MicroPython
• Nick Moore: Rocket Surgery
• Andrew Leech: How to do embedded Device Development better with MicroPython and Jupyter, it’s ready for professional use soooo good pretty please I have lights and live demos so it’ll be a good laugh

See the slides or video, below, for more detail!

3D printing electronics enclosures

Oliver Robson

LoRaWAN, an introduction

Peter Stone