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[evanbarnes]

Don't know if you'll see this, but I installed the beta and tried to install the asyncio library on my Feather Sense using Circup, but Circup never saw asyncio as an available library in the repository, even though it was there for me to download. I had to install it and the ticks dependency by hand, but it works! It's awesome! I was just at the point in my project where I needed multitasking, and I was starting to build my own timestamp based system, and then this came out! So helpful to have the asyncio library handling my task scheduling so I can just focus on the otger parts. I'm making a flight instrument for paragliding, by the way. Starting as just a variometer with sound feedback, but I've also got a Sharp memory display and a GPS unit that I'm going to incorporate as well. The Feather ecosystem makes that all so much simpler!