Deep Dive w/Scott: Yoto hacking & CircuitPython2026 Wrap-up

Deep Dive w/Scott: Yoto hacking & CircuitPython2026 Wrap-up

Author: Adafruit Industries January 24, 2026 Duration: 1:06:48
Join Scott as he wraps up #CircuitPython2026, discusses Yoto hacking and tries to answer any questions folks have. 0:00 Getting setup 3:27 hello everyone - welcome to deep dive 4:05 yoto mini player has esp32 - running circuitpython from adafruit.com 6:00 Circuitpython 2026 6:40 CP 2026 on adafruit blog - ideas for CP development this year 7:50 Low Power solutions 8:49 local LLM ( RAG ) and MIDI 11:20 CP OTA ( over the air update ), thread, circuitmatter (over zigbee ), zepher has ethernet support( but not supporting esp32-P4 ) 14:52 web based build system, github runner, LLM code generation 17:12 async support for networking, preemptive RTOS, updating the getting started documentation, testing 24:00 WebDAV / web workflow 26:45 octo probe tentacles 29:00 VS Code may not have a future :-) 30:42 excited bout zephyr and audio support 32:02 Yoto ( yotoplay.com ) 33:20 getting the Yoto Mini "screen" to work - reverse engineering - dc9306 display - embeded json pinout 35:40 yoto booting Circuit python 37:50 speaker and album art on yoto 39:15 CP Web API screen 39:59 explore the on-device MMC card - browse over wifi 41:17 getting board definition for Yoto Player 43:22 mp3 files from bandcamp just play, also amazon has some 45:00 json to board definition - helped get firmware on yoto hardware 50:23 explore es8388 audio data sheet 52:30 claude code / prompt in sublime merge 54:43 updating the file 1:03:30 circuitpython resources 1:05:35 wrap up Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

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Duration: 23:35
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Duration: 1:00
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Duration: 1:04:10
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Duration: 44:36
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Duration: 0:00
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