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I suppose I should have waited one day before writing about the release of CircuitPython 8.1 because today the developers released 8.1 final. I’ve since installed it onto the few boards I installed the release candidate on, and gave them a few simple tests. One feature I’ve noticed, at least on the Raspberry Pi Pico W, is how fast it appears to execute at the stock CPU clock of 125 MHz compared to earlier releases, especially the 7.x releases. I’ve also been able to change the operational frequency of the P
One other new feature in 8.1 that has caught my eye is support for Espressif’s ESP-NOW on supported chips. I have enough ESP32-S3 chips to enable ESP-NOW and see how that works between all of them. If you want to know why I’m excited to try this in CircuitPython, you can read about ESP-NOW here: https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP-NOW
Right now I feel a bit like a little kid in a toy store (back when there were old-style brick-and-mortar toy stores).