The other day, the CircuitPython Team was talking about a new network feature and looking to add it to a guide. "Do we have a networking guide?" No, such a guide, while thought of, never materialized. No more!

This guide is aimed at helping to demonstrate wired and wireless networking using CircuitPython.

The options for wired connections are currently overshadowed by the wireless options, but the use is the same for both.

This guide will cover the following topics:

• networking hardware choices
• connecting to a local network
• typical network operations
• more esoteric things (UDP, mDNS, ...)