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The missing NMEA sentences are handy, thank you, but I have a few concerns; 1. Is the fix to `_write_sentence` just swallowing IOErrors? 2. This is a lot of logging/error...

Thonny could- at best- opt for using a venv by default but this would not match the experience an intermediate (or advanced) user would get from RPi OS’s command line....

Changing the `LocalCPython` section of `~/.config/Thonny/configuration.ini` allowed me to launch Thonny on Bookworm, targeting the "pimoroni" virtual env (set up automagically when using any of our new style installers): ```...

I should probably also pay attention to the mentioned issues here: https://kmkfw.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/384078-KMK-development/topic/RGB.20Feature.3F I don't believe animations really *need* start and stop methods, they should be as close to stateless -...

I couldn’t even *find* the other four. Did I miss a link somewhere? But- yes - agreed.

Haha! I’m already planning out another rewrite since I do a lot of Things With LEDs and have some Ideas. Regrettably I have few actual boards to test with so...

I suspect this might be more to do with the Raspberry Pi just not delivering enough power to power *another* Raspberry Pi?

Been a long, long while since I've tested/updated it so there's a good chance something (or everything) is broken. I also don't have a Pi 500 to poke, either 😢

I'd say the chances are somewhere above zero if I got my hands on one. Unfortunately most of the work on this library is driven by product requirements, and I...

As weird and painful as it is, you should be using the Linux standard gpiod. Anything else is either wrong, broken, soon to be broken, slow, or just uses gpiod...