Hello and welcome to Encompass Live on this Wednesday morning. This is Sally Snyder and I had a little bit of a tricky setup again today, but things are looking good and we're ready to go. So I'm very excited to introduce our presenter this morning, Rebecca Stavik, who is the Executive Director of the Do Space in Omaha, and she's going to be telling us about that space and all the kinds of things that you may be able to enjoy while you're there. So go ahead, Rebecca. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm assuming you guys can see my screen. Yes, no, maybe? You can see it? I can see it, yes. All right, awesome. Well, thank you so much everyone for coming and listening to a little bit more about Do Space. Thank you so much, you know, especially to Krista Burns for asking me to speak a little bit today. Before I get started in telling you a little bit more about Do Space, I'll just tell you a little bit more about myself. I'm originally from South Dakota, but I grew up in Georgia and I've been in Nebraska now for about six years. I did my master's degree in library and information science from San Jose State. I think I finished that in 2012. I can't believe it's been that long. When I first moved to Omaha about six years ago, I started working at Omaha Public Library as a library aide and I was shelving books and then I became a clerk and then a specialist and did some reference work. My final position there was in administration, working on staff development initiatives and also during that time in my life, I was working on a lot of open data initiatives in the community, which I affectionately can be called as Civic Hockey. This is about volunteers coming together and using local data to take that data and create apps so that community members have more access to their local information. As part of my job then at OPL, being really active in the tech community here in Omaha, I thought about a lot of different ways that OPL could kind of engage with the tech and startup communities. I was named Executive Director of Doospice in February 2015. We've been kind of chug along ever since then. When I first started, I was the only employee. I was then tasked with building the organization and then once I had everyone hired running it. It's just been an incredible moment for Omaha to have a project like this. I'm excited to tell you guys a little bit more about it. By the way, feel free to throw out questions there in the chat. I have found that a lot of times when I present on Doospice, I tend to have just an incredible number of questions. I love that. Definitely write your questions down. I'm going to leave some space here at the end so we have time for us to chat a little bit. I love to hear your thoughts, your questions, ideas, everything towards the end of the presentation. That's me. Let's talk about Doospice a little bit. I will apologize right now. I've got a little bit of a cough, but hopefully I don't bother you too much. Before I tell you a little bit about what Doospice is specifically, let me tell you a little bit about why it exists. As librarians, you guys know there is still a distinct digital divide in our country, right? Across the country, and especially in our towns and cities, you can see still a distinct digital divide. That is still absolutely the case here in Omaha, based on the American Community Survey results that have been coming out now for about two years. We now have some insight into what the digital divide actually looks like here in Omaha. You can take that data, put it across the city, and if you look at it into quadrants, and even look at it here in Omaha, 72nd and Dodge is the very center of town. That's where Doospice is located. 72nd Street that runs north and south. If you're looking at the American Community Survey data, you'll see that only about 77% of people living on the eastern side of the city have access to the internet. And on the western side of the city, so west of 72nd Street, it's more like 90 to 95% of folks have internet service at home. So here in Omaha, then, we do have a distinct digital divide here that we've still got quite a few people in the community who do not have internet access at home, and they do not have computers at home. Now, the digital divide and what that looks like has changed dramatically in the past decade, right? I mean, it's more and more people have access through mobile devices, but perhaps do not have stationary machines. I think this is just the changing nature of technology. Things are much more mobile than they were even just a few years ago. But what's interesting about that, though, is that if you think a little bit about your experience on an iPhone or your Android phone compared to your computing experience on a work, like a workstation computer, phones are specifically designed to be simple, easy to use, user-friendly. And you really cannot have, you can't get that exposure to a more advanced kind of computing environment just through a phone, at least at this point in time. So for those people who only rely on their phones to access the internet and maybe that's their number one piece of technology in their lives, they are not getting that opportunity to access more advanced software, different kinds of computing devices, et cetera. So that is a problem. It's not just a problem known as a problem in society. There's another problem, though, that I would argue that is bigger and more challenging and more pressing than the digital divide. And that would be creating more opportunities for our citizens to engage in digital learning, boosting technology literacy. More and more we have access to technology and to the internet. But what are we doing with it? Are we really exploring what is coming down the road? And I think a little bit about things like internet of things, for instance, smart devices that are connected to the internet. We as citizens really need to have at least a very basic understanding of technology, computers, software, using the internet, those sorts of things. That all has to be taken care of. That's got to be a given before you can really even understand what's coming next, this whole wave of smart devices. And not only understand the basics of the cloud and IoT and all of that, but to really fully understand the pros and cons and the impacts of these kinds of rapid technological developments on society, on culture, on privacy, on the economy. So in that vein, do space really exists to help increase access to technology and offer the Omaha community opportunities to learn new kinds of tech, hardware, software, whatever, in a free and inclusive community space. So if you really boil down do space to two things, that's what it's going to be. It's going to be access to technology and access to free tech learning. So I'm going to show you some pictures here of the building, and then I'm going to get into some more specifics then on the technology and programs that we offer here at do space. Let me just show you these pictures here real quick. Several of these pictures are available on our website or on our Flickr page. So let me just chat really quick about the building. If you guys are in Omaha, from Omaha, if you've been here, you'll know that this building was once a borders. I did not live in Omaha when this was a border store, but I swear it had to have been the largest bookstore in the world. This is a 20,000 square foot building, and it's a big building for what must have been a very large bookstore. So this was once a border store, and borders of course went out of business, building Lake Bacon for almost five years. And we got into the building, got at it on the inside, and obviously did quite a lot on the outside by adding some digital LED signage and this front part that kind of glows. If you're familiar with this area of town, this is 72nd and Dodge. I mentioned this is the very center of Omaha when we were planning this project in the very early stages. If our goal is to provide access to technology and learning experiences for everyone, we really had to pick a strategic space to launch this project. And 72nd and Dodge is easy to get to from all spaces in the city. And I'd also say it's a bit of a transit hub. It is very easy, or it's easier to get to this intersection via the bus system than probably any other space in town. And that was very important to us to make sure that if we had to only pick one space, we had to make sure that we were in a really great space for everyone throughout the city to come to. So it's also really great. This is the Crossroads neighborhood. And I think it's really kind of refreshing to see new development and fresh things going on in this part of town. Excuse me. This is just a quick shot of the front of the building when you walk in. So the left there, you'll see part of our 3D lab. And I'll tell you a little bit more about that. I'm going to get you on our website and talk a little bit more about our specific pieces of technology. Here you can see this is our computer lab area. You'll see here, if you can see those computers, you'll notice that we actually, we've got a lot of different kinds of computers. And typically when you think of a computer lab, you're going to think 30 computers, they're all PCs. They all have the exact same software and they all basically do the same thing. That's not what our approach is here. Our approach here is let's offer a little bit of everything and see what the community responds to. So in our computer lab area, we have both Macs and PCs. We have high seating, low seating. We have accessibility stations for people who have low vision. We've got dual monitor stations that have AutoCAD and some more robust design tools. So our goal here was really to just kind of mix it up. As far as I understand, DoSpace is the only space in town in Omaha where you can get access to a Mac computer for free. Excuse me. This is our, we call this our team room. All these photos that I'm showing you, of course, are professional photography. So this is actually before we open, but this was a room that we called our teen hangout space. But we're changing the name of it to Active Learning Lab because on the other side of this room, we've got a large video wall where kids can do video games. And we've seen such a wide range of ages in this space. We just didn't think it made a lot of sense to make it specific to one age group. This is a quick shot of part of our Little's Lab area where little kids come in. And this space, if you're, you know, I'm sure you're familiar with story times. If you think about the story time, just engaging a little bit more with technology, that's what we call our Little's Lab program. Kids come in on Tuesdays and Saturdays and have some kind of a learning activity with tech. And they're always a lot of fun. This here is the second floor of the building. This is Metropolitan Community College, just on our second floor. And so they offer continuing education, like non-credit classes. So you can actually then come into do space. You know, our goal is to bring people into the first floor, get them excited about technology, expose them to new things, hopefully inspire them to use technology for, you know, to pursue their dreams, get things done, be abuse. And then if you're looking to really take things to the next level, you're looking to, you know, really take a series possibly on Microsoft Office programs, or you want to do something on that more advanced level, then you can quite literally go to the next level on the second floor of the building and take a non-credit class with Metro. And this is such an amazing opportunity for partnership because Metro offers more advanced tech-related stuff, but you don't have to be a student and you don't have to pay, you know, hefty tuition and all of that to get access to that. And that was a really important piece of our partnership with Metro Community College upstairs. They've got a really big, you can see here, excuse me, a really nice big space. These are just a few other pictures I added in here. This is a Little's Lab program. These devices are called Bebots. They also have a version of this called, I think it's called BlueBot that runs off of Bluetooth, but this is a really great example of one of the activities we use in Little's Lab because Bebots are a little toy for kids that teaches them the logic behind learning how to code because code is really just a string of commands that you're issuing to a computer. And these little bots then teach children kind of the fundamentals of how to create those lines of code. Excuse me. And here's just some pictures of some folks using the building. We've always got creative folks here hanging out, playing with robots. This is another awesome device. This is part of a kit called the dash and dot robot. Kids love this. It connects to various apps and it teaches you how to learn how to code over time. This was just one of my favorite pictures from a program. This is a light painting workshop that we did. So this is the slow exposure of photography and so kids would kind of paint in the air using light. It's a lot of fun. And here's just some pictures of folks using the space. To the left here, we've got a nice lady using what's called an egg bot. This is a little robot that uses Sharpie markers to write on spherical objects. So last year we had a lot of fun doing really cool Christmas ornaments stuff. And to the right here, we've got two kids interacting with a telepresence robot. This is called a double robot. If you want to do a meeting with someone across the world, you can send them a link and that link will grant them access to this robot and they can completely control it. They can roll it around the whole building. They can be in meetings. Their face will be right there on the iPad. It's a lot of fun. And this is that active learning lab that I had mentioned earlier. This is just a particularly busy day. Excuse me.  And I will talk a little bit more about that here in just a second. I'm going to pull up the website and tell you a little bit more specifics about the tech we've got here. But this is another group playing with one of our tech kids as well. And this is some of my very favorite things that have been created here at Do Space. The 3D printed a fully functioning violin. Obviously we didn't 3D print the strings or the wood piece there. I'm not a musician so I don't know a whole lot about this but we have had some musicians come in and actually play this. Last year we had a concert, a little holiday concert and we had some really cool songs played on the machine, on the violin. So the right here you'll see we had one person 3D print a full sized human brain and then also laser cut a chess board. So let me take you guys to our website so I can tell you a little bit more specifically what you can find at Do Space. Excuse me. Our website here is just dospace.org. You know in terms of technology we have, as I mentioned, we've got our public computer lab with a lot of different kinds of hardware and software. The computers that are out there we have a computer reservation system not unlike probably what you guys have in your library systems. There's quite a few pieces of software that we use here to run operations it's library software. There's not quite a lot, it's not a huge, huge market of having to kind of manage a public computer lab. So we have quite a few different pieces of software. I'll go ahead and just show you this list here instead of going through all of it because you'll see there's quite a lot of different stuff here available for people. But what I'll say is that when we designed this space it was just vitally important to us that we offered advanced software for people to use. Adobe Photoshop Illustrator InDesign, these first three here are some of the most commonly used pieces of software here. This is very expensive stuff. Adobe Creative Suite is expensive software. We have AutoCAD that is very expensive and the reason why we really made this investment is because there are just so many people who cannot afford this and if we can really step up and invest in this kind of software what is the potential? What opportunities could people potentially have just through accessing it? I've had a lot of small business owners in using Photoshop and InDesign being very thankful that they didn't have to purchase these items on their own. I believe this is one of the things that makes DoSpace particularly unique. We offer hardware and software for a very basic user somebody who just wants to come in and use a computer. But we also offer hardware and software for people who might be learning their fifth coding language or they've been 3D printing for years and they want to use one of our really advanced machines. I think that this is very important that we begin to offer more and more advanced technologies to our communities because only then will they have that opportunity to take their skills to the next level. Excuse me. Another thing that I wanted to just tell you a little bit more about from one of those pictures we have some tech activity kits and this is one of our most popular things here at DoSpace We have identified a variety of technology learning toys experimental pieces of technology I'm sure several of these you guys have heard of you might just have it at your libraries as well. What we have done is we've taken some of these items and we've created activity kits so people will come in and they can check out the kit to use in the building and then just hack away on it. Several of these are robotics some are very simple. Google Cardboard is not necessarily a technological device but it is when you connect it to certain apps on your smartphone. Goldy blocks for instance this is a construction kit for girls to really inspire them to get it to engineering. So we have a lot of different tech kits and this changes all the time. We're always scheming on different activity kits to have here. One of the real feature key pieces of DoSpace is our 3D lab which I can see we do not have any good pictures of on this page but our 3D lab has laser cutter, vinyl cutter 3D printers and we're always looking to add more stuff to our 3D lab. It was kind of important to me that we didn't call it a maker space. I personally am completely sick of that word and we also don't have big saws and sawdust flying through the air. Our lab is a clean lab space and it's a space for 3D technologies. Not only do we have 3D printers we've got a wide variety of 3D modeling software that people can use. Excuse me, let me see if I can get you guys. There we go, that's a better picture. So this is part of our 3D lab here and you'll see we've got pretty large printers. One of the things that makes our printers unique is that our large printer there are Dimension 1200 ES and then the smaller version there the U print SE plus these printers actually they print in a support material so that you can create increasingly advanced designs and larger 3D prints. This is important to, again I've mentioned this 3D printing is not new. This is not new technology. This has been around for a while. How can we empower the people who are interested in this who are using 3D printing to do prototyping to learn new things? How can we empower them to take it to the next level? That is kind of, you'll see that's kind of an overarching theme to do space of this isn't just about access to tech. We've got to take it a step further now to become intermediate. Intermediate books to become advanced. Excuse me. We also have some meeting rooms here in this space. This is one of our conference rooms. We have two conference rooms in a large meeting room. We use them a lot for our programs but you can also use these if you're a non-profit, you can use them for free. If you're a for-profit, we charge a fee to use the rooms. Yeah. Great. Let me tell you a little bit more about programs. Excuse me. We run anywhere between 60 and 80 programs every month. If you see here our website at events and scroll down, you can take a look at the types of things that we offer here. We're not a public library. We're a 5.1c3. We're a non-profit but similar to a public library we really aim to serve everybody in society. No pressure. So the idea is can we craft program offerings that are all technologically related that serve both a very young audience all the way to senior citizens, everyone in between and people of all levels of expertise. So we're talking all ages, all levels of expertise. So we've got some stuff here that are fairly basic and we've also got some more advanced things. Our programs for children, for kids, little kids as well as like middle school age kids have been very successful and we do our Junior Makers Club. You'll see that on Tuesdays. Junior Makers has been really successful and we do a lot with learning how to code. Learning how to code, you hear a lot about this in the media how everybody needs to learn how to code. I don't totally agree with that. I think that people need to understand the logic behind coding and they think that they need to understand how code has driven and defined our digital experience. But if we really want to be futuristic you know, at some point machine learning is going to take over and code itself over time we'll see, right? Even to get into machine learning if you guys have read anything about some of the developments there people still need to learn how to code to be able to engage in that but I think we're embarking on a very exciting time for computing technology for sure. But anyway, it is still very important especially for girls to learn how to code and we've launched the largest girls who code club in Omaha it just started in September this is a pretty intense program kids would apply to be part of it we've got 21 girls who are part of this club and they meet every single week for an entire school year so this is not something to be taken lightly these girls really put in a lot of effort every week excuse me, and they're working on some big, some really big stuff I'm very proud of our girls who code program I'll also tell you a little bit about something called Hello Code Hello Code is a program that we've designed here that we launched over the summer Hello Code, if you think a little bit about how an adult would learn how to code right now let's say I'm an adult, I want to maybe pick up a new skill or I want to get into a new job how do I do that? Well, I can get online and I can learn on my own by myself as much as I can or I can drop everything quit my job and go to a code school full time and spend $10,000 doing that you could potentially also go back to school and try to learn how to code as well so there doesn't seem to really be anything in the middle I want to learn how to code on my own but as part of a community so when we designed Hello Code our goal was really to set people up for success in getting a taste of what it would be like to actually become a software engineer or a web developer so Hello Code then is an application only program, we take applications for this it is free, but we want to make sure that the people who come in are very serious about learning computer programming participants will come in for a week and they will go through existing H2ML and CSS modules that are online and then they meet with a professional web developer every week so it's a little bit of a flipped classroom model so the expectation is on our Hello Code students that they're learning on their own, but they're not really alone because they're part of a class of Hello Code students and then they also have the web developer that they meet with every week to help them along the goal really by the end of the month is that they can hand code their own website and it's really great, we've actually had some people go through this program and then apply to go to real code school it's like a six to, I think it's an eight week program there's two code schools here in Omaha so a lot of people who applied to this are looking for new jobs and others, we had trained the workforce excuse me so we're going to definitely continue this program, it's been really great we'll see here we've got anything else to add about here with programs you know our programs have been very experimental there's definitely been programs we've run and nobody cares and we're like well crossing that one off, we won't do that again this do-space as a whole really is an experimental space so we have quite a lot of freedom when it comes to designing these programs overall if you were to look back on the full year of programs that we've run you'll see trends for sure we have a program framework that we work within but it's flexible enough to allow some experimentation and to allow some failure because without that how are you going to learn so one other quick program I just want to let you know about is Cyber Seniors this is a club that is for seniors by seniors it is completely run by senior citizen volunteers and every Wednesday morning they're here right now and our joke on this is really just it's so successful that we could take this off the calendar and they would just keep coming and what's really so perfect about Cyber Seniors is that this is a community-owned program we started it we have staff to support it but the community owns it and they lead it and to me that is really a sign of a successful program is that the community has just grabbed it and they're just running with it I love it, it's great let's see what my time is looking like I want to tell you just a little bit about our performance in the past year you know since we opened last November there's been over 170,000 visits to our building and in terms of membership in the past year we're almost at about 40,000 members membership at Do Space is totally free it's very similar to a library card the key difference though is that we are entirely privately funded so we are not funded by taxpayers and therefore we do not have any residency requirements so I don't care where you live, you can live on the other side of the country and grab yourself a free Do Space membership to utilize that this has been really great for folks in Sarpy County council bluffs for some of the big events here in Omaha college world series, swim trials all these big events where we have a lot of people coming to visit Omaha, they can come in and grab a membership and just use the space and it's no big deal, so that's a lot of fun so those are just some of our big annual totals excuse me so we're almost at 40,000 members we have had in terms of hours of computer use, that's almost at about 60,000 but one of the ways that I kind of like to visualize the use of Do Space is an average day at Do Space which you'll see here on your screen this is an average then a lot of the stats that we look at over time new memberships per day daily visits, computer sessions average number of tech kit checkouts and I get asked quite a lot how do you know if this is successful and I'd say well we don't, we don't have anything in the country to compare this to there is no benchmark out there that we're attempting to reach we kind of quite literally are setting that benchmark so what I'd say is have we been successful, absolutely I look at these numbers and I say you know what, I think Omaha is probably using Do Space pretty well you can't derive success just from numbers you really have to take a look at how people are using the space what are you actually doing at Do Space what have you been able to achieve so I real quick wanted to just show you this website that we launched called iHeartDoSpace.org this is how we can kind of measure impact on our members and see a little bit more into what people are accomplishing here so people can come to this website I'm at Do Space and then you pick a verb and then type in what you're doing and then if you hit next it goes to a form that will give you a little bit more information you can select a photo and submit it to the website and we can click on one here so this person is just working on some school work this person is working through a code school working on HTML and CSS homemade pickle label design somebody's designing a pickle label that's awesome so we really created this website we created this website oh, sadness we created this so that people could really just talk a little bit about themselves and what they have been able to accomplish here so if there's any other question of like what are people doing at Do Space you can always just pull up iHeartDoSpace.org and you can take a look at the community submissions so that's a lot of fun we do some contests with this over the summer and things like that yeah, well I think this gives you at least some fair overview of Do Space I think it's probably a good time though for us to answer any questions you guys might have about the project that we have missed do we have any questions so far? we have one question that asks how is this funded? one question so in the very early days of the project so we're going back several years this was really the brainchild of several community leaders coming together to answer that question of how we can get more technology into the community and to be more specific to how we can get more profit in town and they do fundraising for huge community projects so we were fortunate enough to work with them to get up and running on the project work with them on construction architecture and fundraising there at the beginning of the project so we are 100% privately funded that's incredible another person asks is there a charge for printing? yeah so for printing if you're printing like a piece of paper it's 10 cents a page I think that's kind of almost standard in a lot of libraries it's 10 cents a page black and white, 25 cents for color if you are 3D printing something and you want to take that object home with you we do have to charge a fee on the material because we have to buy more material and so that costs it's a little bit harder to just throw out a number because it really depends on the amount of filament that you use the amount of support material that you use the density and the size of what you're trying to print but when people 3D print you have just a really quick consultation with our staff to make sure your print will go through just fine and at that time we estimate the cost for you so that you know about how much it's going to be thank you now this is a more personal question because you were talking about memberships and how many new memberships a day there are and those were interesting numbers and I sometimes get to Omaha if I just stop in some time does everybody allow the membership? yeah absolutely so when you can actually do a membership right here we do not mail out cards so if you do this online you will still need to come in and get your card so you can get up your account so you can do it online or you can come in we don't even ask for an ID when you come in to get your membership this is I kind of liken it almost to like a fuel saver card where you go to the grocery store and they're just like they just give it to you these are the required things so we have this contact information and then we've got some optional demographics that help us better understand our membership base and then tell you you've got a set of password and that's it you know this is since we're a nonprofit and you know like I said we don't serve any particular group of taxpayers in Nebraska to do this but I'll say too that this has this process really knocks down a lot of barriers for people who don't have an ID who don't necessarily live in one particular place for an extended period of time I'll also say too that we do not check anything outside of the building so the liability part of it is that public libraries have a lot of liability you've got books and DVDs and equipment that's going out of the building you might want to check IT on those but for us nothing really leaves our building we did consider that as an option at the beginning of the project but I just have literally not heard any demand from anyone who wants us to check out technology into the community what the feedback we've been getting from members is that they want just an incredible in building experience and so that's our goal to give it to them so yeah great question a take on to that is I understand that sometimes when people hear the word membership they're thinking oh I have to pay membership for this and I understand there is no fee for this it's just a way for you to keep track of who's around is that right yeah well and this sets you up to log into the computers and when you come to our programs which are all free when you come to our programs we scan you in with your card oh so that's how that works so anyone can come get a membership there's no fee you need your card to attend the classes and that makes sense but you could just walk around the building and enjoy what's there oh for sure so when are you open right now we are open 9am to 9pm every day but we're changing that in December we've realized that weekends on the weekend nights people don't really care about after about 7 o'clock on Saturdays and Sundays so in December we're changing our hours on the weekends to be open 9am to 7pm Saturday and Sunday and then in December as well we're going to launch a little bit of an experiment in this particular part of town in Omaha there's a lot of business people in the dodge in the dodge area very early in the morning and since we've been opening at 9am we haven't really been able to serve those folks who are in this part of town very early so in December we're going to launch an experiment and open at 7am but 7am to 9am will be called early bird hours so not everything will be available it's kind of a limited service type model in those first two hours but that would mean then that we're open 7am to 9pm Monday through Friday that's great we have another question asking who is teaching patrons how to use Photoshop or other software if they just come in or do you have just classes for that we've got a lot of resources so as we know people tend to learn in a variety of ways some people are going to just come in here jump on a computer and teach themselves Photoshop some people just do that other people will want to come in and maybe they'll do that but they'll ask a few questions in which case we have a staff tech help desk where my staff as well as volunteers are staffed any hour of the day that we're open so we always have staff and volunteers here and available to help answer questions but let's say you want to really kind of delve into it a little bit more you've got a few other options so you're learning Photoshop but you really just kind of need the basics and you need a little bit more help we definitely have Photoshop workshops that you can sign up for for free so you can learn as part of a class kind of almost a little bit more classroom environment but if you are really struggling with something specific in Photoshop and you really just need to sit down with somebody we do take appointments to meet with mentors so we have a pretty large volunteer base the exact number of volunteers that we have changes month to month but it's about 200 volunteers a big group of that are community mentors these are people who work and live in Omaha and they have some tech specialty and they have signed up to volunteer to meet with people one-on-one on specific tech questions so if you said look I know the basics of Photoshop but there's this one technique and one part of it that I'm really looking to spend some more time on if you could set up a free one-on-one mentor appointment for you you could come in to do space and meet with this volunteer who's a specialist in Photoshop and they will work through that with you and excuse me you can find this on resources mentor request if you're looking to brush up on a specific skill you can just go down here and put in your information and tell us what you need help with and then we'll match you up with somebody that's great I have just a couple more questions I think we've had a couple of thank you's already but also you were talking about times of day and morning but I'm assuming as libraries we know when a busy time of day for a library is after school but do you have that same thing a busier time of day than others oh for sure after school after work 5 o'clock 5 to 6 6 30 ish is absolutely our busiest time Monday through Friday and then midday on the weekends having been a former librarian or I guess once a librarian always a librarian having used to being work at OPL I think that that's pretty standard it's something that librarians see kind of across the board people getting out of school and work coming into the space and then midday on the weekends is really popular too yeah great thank you one more question the Omaha area is so lucky we can all use you if we get to town so that's nice the other question I have is you talked about the different kits and things and how you're always adding to or changing them around are there other possible future services that you're thinking of as well because you have a lot of services right now yes well we're really proud to be able to say that there's just 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So, let us discuss about design of dog leg distal, learning outcomes. At the end of session, the learners will be able to explain the procedure for determining the effective horizontal span and effective thickness of waist slab for each flight of a dog leg distal and also to determine the reinforcement required for each flight and sketch the reinforcement detailing arrangement. Introduction, staircase is a means of giving access to two different floors of or levels of a building and are used to in almost all buildings. It consists of number of steps arranged in a way that the person can move from one level to another level. The arrangement of steps is as per the convenience and as per the standards and the space availability. The common stairs used are as follow is straight straights, quarter turn stairs, open well stairs, dog leg stairs, circular and spiral stairs. So, further we have folded stairs also. So, figure one shows the different types of stairs. So, this is straight stair. In a straight stair if the number of steps are more than 15, then we go for with a mid landing in a straight stair also. Then next this is quarter turn stair and this is quarter turn stair with winders and this is a open well stair with half landing and this is open well stair with a quarter landing and this is the dog leg stair which we are going to discuss today and this is a circular stair and this is a spiral stair which is usually used for water tanks. So, this figure shows the elements of stairs. So, figure two shows the elements of stairs. So, in the elements of stairs we are having trade, then we are having rise. Rise is the height of each particular step and the portion which is horizontal that is called going and here any projection of this upper one upper flooring that is called as nosing. So, this is the waist slab at the bottom this is thickness of waist slab and this is landing portion. Now, let us discuss each rise. Rise is the vertical distance between the two successive steps is termed as riser or rise. Trade the horizontal top portion of the step where foot rest is known as a tread. The nosing it comes it in some cases trade is having projected is projected outward to increase the space. So, this projection is designated as nosing waist. The thickness of waist slab on which the steps are made to known as the waist slab that is made to rest are known as a waist slab then going. Going is the horizontal portion between the first and the last risers on an inclined flight. Inclined flight is inclined waist slab it is landing. A landing is the area of the floor near the top or bottom step of a stair and in and intermediate landing is a small platform that is built as a part of the uh allow stair to hang projections directions to change the directions or to allow the user to rest his feet dog leg stair. So, this is the most commonly used stair since the succeeding flight rise raise in opposite direction and occupies minimum plan area. A landing is provided corresponding to the level at which the direction of flight changes. A plan of the dog leg stair is shown in figure number 3. This is figure number 3.  So, this is up and far from the beginning then up this is mid landing. So, mid landing again there will be a change in direction. For design of dog leg stair vertical distance between the floors that is H is to be given. The assume the width of the stair shall be minimum 1 meter for residential building and 1.2 meter for public building. So, the rise are usually 170 mm for residential building and 150 mm for public buildings and trade T it is 250 mm for residential building and 300 mm for public building. So, depending upon the nature of building and availability of space we have to assume the width of the stair rise and trade then this is a plan. Now, the design of dog leg stair dog leg stair always consists of 2 flights. So, height of each flight the floor to floor height divided by 2 that is H by 2. So, no risers in each flight sorry number of risers in each flight is equal to the height of each flight divided by rise. So, the number of trades in each flight is number of risers minus 1. So, if we get number of risers some real number then we have to round it to the next one. Effective span the stair slab spanning longitudinally depending upon the supports the effective span is the horizontal distance between center to center of the supports load calculations. To determine the dead load of the waste slab it is necessary to assume the effective thickness of the waste slab which is 128 to 125th of the effective span. The total thickness T is effective thickness plus the effective cover to find the total load per meter horizontal width of stair weight of waste slab is equal to T into square root of 1 plus R by T square into density of concrete. Weight of steps half R into T into T divided by T that is to bring it to horizontal portion into density of concrete. Dead load ongoing portion is weight of waste slab plus weight of steps plus weight of finishing. Dead load on loading portion landing portion is weight of slab plus waste slab plus weight of finishing. Assuming the weight of finishing assume the weight of finishing as maximum 1 kilo Newton per meter square.  The projected loading diagram for a total factored load is shown in figure 4. The loading on the loading loading on the going portion as is landing and going portion are same or not. Can you guess whether the loading will be same on and on the landing portion and going portion? The loading on the landing and going portion are different. So, here we have only the dead weight of the waste slab and live load and here in the going portion we have dead weight of the waste slab then the live load and dead weight of steps also. So, that is why there is a difference between the loading on the landing and loading on the going steps or going portion. So, then determination of maximum design bending moment. The maximum bending moment will be at the center of the flight because loading is symmetrical and find the support reactions first then afterwards find emu limit it is 0.36 fck b into x u limit into d minus 0.4 to x u limit x u limit is equal to 0.48 for fe 405 0.46 d for fe 500 and 0.53 d for mild steel. Compare emu limit with emu if emu is less than emu limit it is under reinforced section find the area of longitudinal steel. Find the area of longitudinal steel by this particular expression est is equal to 0.5 fck bd upon fy into 1 minus square root of 1 minus 4.6 emu upon fck bd square. Find the spacing from the below formula sv is equal to 0.87 fy svd divided by v us. So, find the low find area of distribution steel it is 0.12 percent of bd and spacing using ABO formula. Draw neat sketch and detailed sketch shows the stairs showing the reinforcement arrangement as shown in figure number six sorry figure number six shows the sketch of reinforcement arrangement. So, here we find this is landing slab this is waste slab which is inclined this is again upper landing slab. So, in the landing portion we find only the dead weight of landing slab as well as the dead weight of the finishing portion and a live load and in the going portion this is going portion from first riser to last riser it is going portion. So, in the going portion we have the weight of waste slab plus weight of steps therefore, the load is more here and at the end again on the landing slab same as the this one. So, now here we are having sagging bending moment at central therefore, the main steel is provided at the bottom side and this is the main steel which is at the bottom side and here it is taken up as the upper steel because of fixity we have negative bending moment also here and again to take the negative bending moment out of partial facility there is a top steel here also and perpendicular to this particular slide you find the dots. So, these dots are distribution steel. So, the bottom one is main steel and upper dots are distribution steel. So, this is how the reinforcement arrangement is to be made for a the dog-legged stair. So, each flight is similar therefore, similar portion and here if you find this particular portion you find the reinforcement arrangement is just like a scissor. So, therefore, it is also very famously known as kaichi jena on the field. So, these are the references used. So, advanced RCCU Bhavikatti and then other authors also and IS 456 2000 and thank you one end all.


When you design a programming language you have to make compromises constantly there are People who request features and of course features are nice but with each new feature the language gets more complicated and thus Either harder to understand and it's easier to make a mistake the more complicated the languages So you have the constant balance between Functionality and safety of course there are features that are safe, but yeah, that's the the compromise you have to find and This has not been the case for general-purpose programming languages for several years now, but in blockchain there's always the factor of cost so Smart contracts have to be very cheap to execute and that also limits the features you can add in a language Back in the days when solidity was started the initial goal was to create a usable high language High-level language as fast as possible, and I think we succeeded in that But of course we made some decisions. We know yeah, which turned out to be not that Turned out not to be the best decisions and Now is the time to change them and solidity is still a language that changes and that allows us to make the necessary changes to the design and Yeah, the the path you want to go is we want to keep Features that are relatively safe and we they Look like high-level features, but most of them are actually quite low level So we want to have features that that yeah look like look look like high-level features, but are still cheap and We want to remove everything that can surprise users or has some some magic involved and then a third factor is We are adding formal verification tools that are easy to use and this I would like to stress this easy to use part because that is essential and we will see that later in the talk and Then if that is not enough for you we provide direct way to access very very low-level features of the Ethereum virtual machine and The important point is here that we remove everything that is kind of intermediate level so for example address dot call will be removed in the future because It has some Magic some some unexpected things involved that we would like to avoid so if you want to do such low level things You have to go all the way down to the Ethereum virtual machine Okay this is kind of the Yeah, the path we want to take now. Let's talk about some new features. We added in the last year This contract here is a yeah simple database that stores people By an identifier a name and some flag that says whether they are owner of something and you have a function there Which allows you to add one person to the database It already looks quite repetitive and but it gets even more complicated if you want to add a function that Can append a list of people into that database the problem Many people run run into is that you kind of have to create an array out of these three things here And what you usually do is that you add three parameters, which are each an array And this of course creates the problem that you have to check that all of them have the same length because you have an ID that corresponds to a name and this flag This looks really really ugly But fortunately now what you can do now is oops, sorry What you can do now is this and we added structs as a Central feature to the ABI which allows you to actually just directly pass this truck from JavaScript into the contract and remove all this the these weird repetitions and Of course, you can also return an array of structs. So this is not This is not yet available, but yeah, thanks So we hope to get that fully functional by the end of the year So and the way we the way what this this was possible while was Through a change in the compiler itself So we we could have done that the old way but we decided to do a full rewrite of the ABI encoder and decoder and This is a snippet of the Solidity code generator and how it looked before this change Yeah, this also this is also really really ugly the EVM is a stack machine and because of that you have these these pop and dup operations and In the code generator you constantly have to keep track Which variable is where on the stack and because of that we have these Commons and it's really really complicated to understand what this code does and also complicated to write new code and This is how it looks now and it Leverages a new intermediate language we introduced called Yulia Alex talked about that. I think yesterday or the day before yesterday. So I will not go to into depth about that but You see this is really really readable It has variables, you know What happens you can? Use names we have for loops and so on and what you also see is you have these angle brackets here, and this is because this is an intermediate language Mixed with a very very simple string templating engine to make it more flexible What you see here is the full function to do any encoding of an of an array into the the ABI encoding so it does handle memory arrays call it a race storage arrays Arrays of arrays arrays of constant length arrays of dynamic length and so on and The way it works is that for example here at the top we have length equals length fun and At the time of compilation this length fun is Replaced by the name of the actual function to retrieve the length of the rate Which is of course different for a statically sized and dynamically sized arrays okay, and a Language becomes more and more useful the better tools are available for that We already see that by in the questions that were asked in the previous talk Remix got gigantic updates. I think Jan will talk about that later today We now can track variables have break points See references of variables, and I think soon can also rename variables and so on We have a way to export the AST which is the result of the of the parsing step and these this allows many new features and one of them is a Tool to do code coverage not based on Syntax not just based on lines But on semantics so for example is a less than operator actually tested to do what it does and Then a standard JSON IO this is a way to get more fine control fine graph fine grain control about the settings of the compiler Yeah, then I have a very special announcement to make and this is that the Solidity documentation that we only have in English for now is now also available in Spanish So please give a big round of applause to these five people who? To these five people who did that in their free time Just as voluntary contributors I think this is really important to make if you're inaccessible to the world and Languages like so like like Chinese or Russian should also have a their own translation of the documentation and I want to spend the rest of the talk on formal verification of Solidity and Whoops, I Think I showed this slide to you last year in Shanghai This is a smart contract and It has comments Which allow a formal proof that the the sum of the balances in this token construct a contract never changes The way it works is that the smart contract gets gets translated by the compiler into a language called y3 and it mixes this translation with the with the comments you have here and Then you run an external tool on that to create the proof that the balances are constant the sum of the balances are constant but what you see is that The there are almost as many lines of comments in this code as there is code and you also see that the These comments use a language that is slightly different from Solidity, so it requires you to learn a new language it requires you to learn how to use these tools and this is this makes it very hard to use this formal verification tool and the harder it is to use the easier it is to make mistakes and Also, it is easier for so Formal verification is only useful if people understand what is actually proven there so the statements that are proven there have to be understood by humans and If that is not possible then nobody will use formal verification and it's useless and because of that so yeah, perhaps that approach was not so great, so we took a step back and reconsidered and How it looks now is like this We've replaced Y3 by a tool called an SMT solver SMT solvers are less powerful than general Theorem Provers and because of that this smart contract in this smart contract We cannot prove that the sum of all balances is constant, but we can prove that The sum of the two balances that are modified is constant So what happens here is we have a require statement, which is Yeah, doesn't have much to do with the formal verification This is just the regular Solidity requirements require statement and then we store the sum of the two balances in the before variable we perform the modification and After that we check that before equals after And this is a regular Solidity assert so if the sum of the balances is Not the same then this will throw an exception at runtime But using the SMT solver you also get a proof at compile time that this assertion will never be triggered Okay, more specifically what happens is that so you can use this tool with require statements to have expressions that you assume to be correct and then The tool proves that there is no assertion that fails There is no overflow or underflow in your arithmetic operations No division by zero. No constant conditions. No unreachable code and whatever we will come up in the future and so let's take a look at a simpler example This is still an experimental feature and because of that you need this first line that activates the SMT checker and Yeah, the function here it just takes two numbers and adds them of Course there's a problem because we can create and we can have an arithmetic overflow here in this edition and This is exactly what the so if you run the compiler on that then this is the message you will get and The great thing about this SMT solver is that it has so it's More limited than why three but it has a feature that why three did not have and this is the following so you If an assertion fails it tells you why it fails and I think this is really important because otherwise people say I don't know It doesn't work, but okay. Let's just let's just comment it out or whatever through something at it so that it doesn't complain anymore, but this tells you why it fails and Kind of forces you to think about this edition and think about why it might create an overflow and then Take the necessary steps to prevent the overflow before it happens there are so Currently what people often do is create runtime checks about overflow add runtime checks about overflow in in arithmetic But this can be really dangerous because if you end up in a situation where you you have an overflow because of some yeah internal Mechanism of the smart contract then it will be that the smart contract will be stuck because it will always throw this exception because of the overflow And you perhaps can't get the money out or whatever But if you already get the warning at compile time before you deploy your contract You can think about why it happens and prevent this from happening in the first place and how you prevent it is like this So you had a require statement Which of course in the end has the same effect as if you would just check if there is an overflow But the benefit is that you see that there's an there's an additional condition that is present about these numbers a and b and The SMT solver will now see the require statement take these conditions into account and then check again Whether the overflow will happen and of course it sees that a number Less than 2 to the 100 plus a number less than 2 to the 100 will be less than 2 to the 256 Okay Yeah, let's take a look at another example This is taken. This is an actual example from the underhanded Solidity coding contest where there was a Loop that used an unsigned variable and decreased it but checked against greater or equal than zero and of course This loop condition is always true That's of course something that can be detected from the type of of the variable alone and you don't really need an SMT checker, but yeah, I This was a simple example to present here and it can do much more complicated conditions and Yes, this is what we'll see next and Yeah, this talk was quite dry about Programming language theories, so I would like to end it with an exciting math puzzle So here we have a Circle plus circle equals 10 Circle times square plus square equals 12 circle times square minus triangle times circle equals circle. What is triangle? and he guesses So yeah easiest pie we just write a small Solidity program that is equivalent to this puzzle and We add the conditions as require conditions and then at the end assert false so assert false sounds weird Why would we do that and the reason is? if the SMT checker Can prove so a failing assertion so assert false is not bad. It's only bad if it's actually reachable code so False assertion will not be triggered if it's not reachable So the SMT checker has to prove to us that this assert false is actually reachable and it's reachable if all the three require conditions above are true and Of course, it doesn't just tell us that it's reachable. It tells us how it's reachable So what are the exact inputs to get to this failing assert and we see that triangle is one Okay This kind of shows the power of the SMT so we don't really Know yet, so it's not it's still experimental and not fully finished yet We don't know how it will behave on very complicated Contracts, but yeah, we're we're optimistic and let's see how it goes. Thanks. Thank you for your attention


l channel today for some reason we can't we'll send it over to the main channel tonight but we've got one break left two piece understand that all right we have 15 spots left in this next break again if we can get it filled up here we'll need to get it filled here in the next 15 minutes or so if not we pushed over to the main channel but it'll still break tonight um yeah i'll drop a link one more time here 15 to go this rookie otto blue to 25 onio cruise nice hit pittsburgh that is that is dual autograph jumbo lumber bat relics all right who do we have Dawson and vlad guerrero senior that is expose goes to the nationals nl east shanti one of one awesome that's the first one of these i've seen look at that logo man one of one dj lamehyu there you go somal one of one logo man patch bobby wit jr that is rookie gold foil there you go royals and ooh this is nice to 71 rookie black paper seasa zuki nice card chicago cubs lemons and there he is angels otto 10 of 125 mic trout nice hit congrats angels this is cardinals one of one event worn patch ryan helsley that is all-star stitches one of one patch congrats cardinals will magnus one for you that is going to be an original sketch book wow jackie robinson wow dodgers brian pelman nice that is shohei otani rookie variation ends in 93 just for comparison in 79 so there you go short print shohei otani rookie variation yankees one of one bat knob derrick jeeter all right let me see where we are i think we're at 14 now yep 14 to go let's get this filled up love to rip this today on baseball channel let's get this filled we have um 14 to go 79 99 a spot 2020 bowman jumbo and bowman draft super jumbo two box mixer number five random teams actually number five a so now the number five got reads the drew super otto got pulled jumbo box in ohio nice good that's awesome hope the person that got it needs the money and does good things with it good things with themselves or you know for their families not that's not save the world money but um it's still awesome for them if or 14 to go 14 spots left 79 99 a spot 2020 bowman jumbo and 2020 bowman draft super jumbo total of eight autographs uh we're looking for first bowman autos in 2020 bowman jumbo of jason demingas bobby wit jr anthony vulpe jeremy peña jaren diran um also super jumbo draft super jumbo we're looking for spencer torkelson jordan walker robert hassell zack veen tyler sodarstrom spencer strider excellent checklist for the uh 2020 bowman draft as well give us a little longer here we're at 14 um and again if for some reason we can't fill it up here the next little bit it would go over to the baseball channel but even if you grab a spot and it doesn't get filled up before i have to be offline on the baseball channel um it would break on the main channel tonight so 14 to go 14 spots left let's fill it up and uh get this last break done thank you all for filling up all the breaks to this point so far um been a great day especially compared to the last week which was really slow so um yeah if we can get it filled up we'll get it going 14 to go yeah potent date in ohio wow let's see where we are here still at 14 14 spots to go let's get it filled up we are very close to being full for the day looks like another one pending here let's do it 14 spots left what's up slogger you're gonna buy these last 14 spots why didn't it like imagine it was from last week what's that imagine it came out now what do you think is the price of that one 250k here there's a bounty on it i thought the bounty was for uh he has to reach a hall of fame no it's uh 750 000 if he reaches a hall of fame all right let me see where we are um basketball we are still at 14 to go 14 spots left we can get this filled up in the next little bit we'll do it on the baseball channel if not it would push over to the main channel uh this evening i think that's what everybody's thinking slogger they'd buy some if everybody else gets in let's do this guys 14 spots left down to 13 13 spots to go here's a link 2020 bowman jumbo and 2020 bowman draft super jumbo two box mixer number five random teams call it 5a the i got double numbered i guess um so 13 we go 79 99 a spot there's a link make that 12 sloggers in all right 12 spots left well we can do this we just need to do it here soon so i can uh rip it here and not have to rip it on the uh no i have to let's let sam rip it if it works screaming song why are you screaming to people we have 12 spots left we can get this filled up we'll rip it on the baseball channel again if not it'll go over to the main channel but i would strongly prefer to rip this right here and uh pull some big hits and before i leave go over and uh gloat and brag wall sam is live i will too i'll go over there christian and i will sit down and i'll really help us the three of us will put our skill sets together we'll make a paper crown and i'll walk in while sam's breaking i'm down 12 spots to go let's get this filled we're not too far away here some spots rolling in for his 10 box tuesday breaks 12 spots to go again this is 2020 bowman jumbo and 2020 bowman draft super jumbo two box mixer number five random teams um we have um well lots of big lots of big names on the auto checklist yeah and uh 22 bowman i'm sorry 2020 bowman we're looking for bobby wet jr jason domingas anthony bolby jeremy peña jaren diran first bowman autos um if i said wami once in a while how about if i pull a red auto or above or yeah red auto or better i will give you a whammy if we fill it up we have to fill this one up today that's the only i'm giving you a one way a one whammy opportunity here um but then bowman or actually i'll not bowman jumbo also looking for rookie autos uh yordan alvarez luba boba shet randy rosarana strong rookie class uh and then 2020 bowman draft super jumbo um big names on the auto checklist i think the biggest names jordan walker but i'm a cardinal fan and i'm biased and he's 20 years old and he's already just crushing up until this year is crushed um minor limb pitching made his way up to the majors and got unjustly sent down i think because the cardinals don't have i i can manage the cardinals maybe that's what i'll do christian's gonna have to jump in actually obry's already started preparing here she's already done a break on the channel so uh she can jump in for me when i go to manage the cardinals i don't want to be on that heat all day though i'm gonna be a gm or something front office just get yourself those uh i'll get a little like necklace fan that and then those uh yeah um but yeah we're looking for jordan walker spencer torkelson uh tyler sodastrom spencer strider zack vine robber his cell lots of big names on the uh in bowman draft more coming in for basketball here that's not bowman draft still sitting at 12 let's fill it up the thing is though schlager if i if i say whammy people will know it's insincere and then my credibility will be shot i'm like the walter cronkite of breakers right kind of old talk a little slow talk a little quiet but got the credibility you know when i get excited it's an exciting thing like i'm actually excited no i think i pinched the nerve of my neck today i need to go get one all right guys uh balls to go let's get it filled we're uh hopefully gonna be able to get this done on the on the baseball channel but we do need to get it filled up in the next oh probably five to ten minutes if we're gonna be able to get it done before i need to be off um of our restream that's that i'm streaming on all the channels currently partisan now man i don't need any shots i just i mean i need a shot maybe a shot of whiskey but not a not a medicinal injection that type of shot yeah pca too uh yeah let me pull up the checklist here going off of memory instead of off of printed information um that's too many players here we go let's see we're looking for tyler sodastrom um just going through some of the highlights here spencer strider garret michael um he's out for the season i think he's gonna be a huge star um alec burleson jordan walker patrick bailey um arson tucker zack deloach pete crow armstrong uh peston kirstad robber hassell nick ginsales uh justin foskew nick york austin hendrick zack veen um spencer torkelson and austin wells some of the top names i just saw on the checklist there for uh bowman draft still at 12 to go here's a link one more time if you guys want to grab it grab it some spots we'll need to get this filled up here pretty fast get it for some reason i'm not it for some reason if we can't get it filled up um on the main channel it'll rip on the on the baseball channel and get it ripped right now then um vulpy he's in draft or i'm sorry he's in regular he's in the uh 2020 but yeah if we can't get it ripped if we can't get it filled up it'll go to the main channel oh did you that's cool a triumph was signed yep i hear you need to get it filled up if we're gonna rip it now um still 12 to go never know sam might he might have been a mass wrestler in japan he probably would have had more success than me we won three matches over there three matches in over eight weeks all right 12 spots left here there's a link one more time uh last call on these spots i i think let me uh step away for just a minute i'll be right back all right well unfortunately um if i started the break right this second like if somebody just grabbed all 12 spots and i typed in the names and started the break and everything uh i would still be probably running into the time sam needs to go live and i'm on all the channels right now uh so i am going to push this break to the evening on the main channel apologies for that but hey guys we had a very very slow week uh and today we broke out of it just this one break we couldn't quite get filled up in time but much improved i am so grateful for everybody filling up these breaks today uh we should be smooth sailing the rest of the week we've got some awesome stuff coming out i am psyched about heritage today and start time tomorrow double release a tops heritage and top sterling i will shoot everybody an email who purchased a spot in this break and let everybody know um what's going on so it will rip on the main channel um with sam this evening so thank you everybody appreciate it and uh yeah sorry we couldn't get this filled up but i'll see you guys in the morning


Howdy guys, IndiePixel here and I wanted to actually give you guys an update on the airplane course because there has been quite a nice amount of interest in the course and I've been working really hard to get to it and to finish it. I know everyone is waiting to see just how all this stuff is built and I'm really excited to show you guys how it's all built and so what I wanted to do, I'm only you know another couple weeks out from actually completing this particular course. It's a massive course and there's so much content that we cover in here you know everything from setup to aerodynamics to lift and drag and you know setting up animations and all the UI so you know it's taken me quite a bit and you know I got kind of wrapped up there with some client work and GDC presentations and by the way you can go up and actually go to the SideFX website and you'll see my GDC presentation. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend because my flight got canceled but the SideFX was nice enough to actually post the presentation that I had already prepared and it's on the website so check it out because there's some really good information in there as well and I recorded a whole course on how to create a nice little set of procedural parts for guard tower type of military base type setup anyways enough about that. So let's talk about the airplane course here so what we have is the final model for the airplane itself the default plane. We are working on a couple other models that is going to come with a separate airplane pack that we're going to sell on the site but by getting by purchasing the course the physics course here you'll get the default plane which is awesome and I've gone ahead and started to mess around a little bit more with Houdini's terrain tools which is awesome and I'm starting to set up you know multiple runways all of it you know procedurally created and setting up the tower and you know the hangers and stuff like that over here. Everything is still kind of work in progress and what I really wanted to do was actually produce the course just for the physics first and then what I was going to do is create a couple other courses about how I'm going about creating procedural runways that have you know a few different runways on them how to create all the the taxiways and then how to procedurally create all the content like the hangers and the the tower and stuff like that and maybe I'll get into some of the terrain stuff but I really wanted to go through some of those aspects but so I've also gone through and just kind of cleaned up some of the physics I've been you know messing with this it's so fun to fly this particular plane that I've gone through and you know while I'm finishing up the course I tweak some of the settings so I just really want to do a quick flight here and show you guys I also added some audio and I also added fuel so all this is going to be included in the course as well so it keeps track of the fuel and when you're out of fuel the engine cuts off I'm also going to show you how to create the audio for the engine so that way we throttle up you know we get different values different sounds and do a quick trip around this terrain that I made all in Wibini I know it doesn't look awesome just yet you know it's not final I wanted to make something a little bit better than just the grid plane that I have in the original trailer and so this is all going to be polished up for the final course we're going to texture it with some trees on it and some rocks you know nothing crazy the focus here is to to teach the physics of you know flight and to show how to set it all up in unity and how to animate all the control surfaces on the plane and animate the propeller and set the wheels and stuff like that so how do you go about creating all these things so I'm going to go land here and then take a break from the video so let's do a nice little landing over here it's gotten nice and smooth it really feels like a real airplane was in life and then so I'm just going to cut the engine and land boom not the best landing in the world but at least I landed like they say any landing is a good landing any landing you walk away from the landing so anyways that is where I'm at with the the course so I'm starting to record the videos and working on the terrain and setting up the procedural airport so expect the the physics course to come out here in the next couple weeks and then following that I'm going to do the procedural airport and then after that we'll talk about terrains and setting all that stuff up so I really appreciate everyone's interest in the course you guys are awesome thanks so much for all your comments definitely let me know what thing I will respond as soon as I can so thanks again I'll talk to you guys in a bit bye