The Simple Electronics Podcast - 014 - Scott Shawcroft

In this week's episode, I have a chat with Adafruit's lead on Circuit Python and self-admitted hardware start-up abandoner Scott Shawcroft! Scott and I chat about Adafruit's quest to simplify and streamline the Circuit Python experience, especially for newcomers, his time working on the Google maps team, and why starting a hardware based company is much harder than it seems! Make sure to check him out on his GitHub and have a look at some Adafruit stuff and see if any of it meets your needs!
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[JonnyBergdahl]

Thanks for yet another interesting podcast. It was me that suggested you bring Scott on, and it was indeed during one of Seons live streams.

[andrewbeasley]

First time listener and to be honest Scott brought me here but I'm going to stay.
Enjoyed your questions, attitude and thoughts as well as Scotts comments :-)

[frankowalker]

Great interview as usual. Going back to what you were saying about updating software and it upsetting your system, I am using Arduino-1.8.12 for windows, I can't update this as it's the last version to (sort of) work on XP. Even so, after uploading the code to the board I'm using. I instantly get the message, USB Device Not Recognised. Luckily the code works perfectly once I unplug the USB cable and use batteries. LOL.