numpy<1.26 requirement breaks python 3.12 compatibility

[chrisbennight]

numpy<1.26 is in the requirements.txt, but numpy requires version >= 1.26 to work on python 3.12 - ref: numpy/numpy#23808 (comment)

does something here break with numpy >= 1.26, or was this just a defensive version comstraint?

[synesthesiam]

Defensive. At the time, 1.26 was out but the wheels weren't available for arm32 yet so it was forcing devices to build numpy from source.
It looks like 1.26 is supported now, so the requirements can be bumped to < 2.