Life from New York. It's ask an engineer. Hey everybody and have you passed over welcome to ask engineer. It's me lady Ada with me mr. Lady Ada on camera control We've got a jam-packed show or the lake because we had a massive show and tell a little show until Approximately 1 billion people showed up. Most people on planet earth is on the show. That's right But let's get right to it. You got all sorts of new products videos tutorials He's not out yet. Who knows coming your way, so kick it, mr. Lady Ada All tonight show the code is Laura fruit 10% an H3 star all the way up till midnight Until I remember to turn the cut off 10% off in the store for anything we have in a stock a Additional thing to keep in mind. We have a big sale on plushies So we have a bunch of plushies and folks wanted to collect them all and we're like, let's do a sale So we have a sale check that out and you be Connie. Yeah, finally happy mo Just had one of our live shows show until we'll be talking about that including Additional shows we do so desk of lady eight and great search. We'll do a little bit of recap from last week We have min York City factory footage 3d printing iron and PI new products. We answer your questions We do that on discourse, please. Please. There's a million places. We broadcast Discourse the easiest place for us to look at all your questions You can post them throughout the show or just saving towards the end when we get to all of them all that and more on You guessed it I'm just trying out some stuff. I'm doing it. I'm just trying out some stuff That's cool. I'm just trying out some stuff. Get ready. Get ready for get for the spring spring fashion Okay, so As folks are using the code they get freebies. Yes, we have freebies while supplies last $99 or more. We have a free half size from a proto although we're looking at some other possible Freebies coming soon. We still got the KB 2040s. They're currently pink, but they will not be pink after a bit So if you want the pink KB 2040s placed in order for 149 or more, it's a great RP 2040 development board with lots of stuff built in and Great for making keyboard projects. That's pro micro compatible Free PS gram shipping on orders one man going to war and while supplies last we are still getting away circuit playground expresses orders 299 or more that's right and You know just a little reminder Even though I just want to miss oh My goodness big sale on plushies. Okay.  So we're gonna kick it off right away first up Over the weekend. It was April Fool's and we announced that we merged with ticket master for a new company called Ticket Fruit And that's how we would be selling raspberry pies. There's a lot. That's right. There's a lot of subtle humor Yeah, by the way, I tried to get tickets for the cure and I had all the browser set up I had everything didn't get it didn't get it That's how that's how hard it is with supply. She got to clicking the seeds and then it said there's not so you know You can want you can read it. So do we have it in our press section? You can read the fake press release generated by chat gbt Which did a little bit too good of a good job for that And then we also had some fun other ones a to fruit merges with amazon a design if you want to watch Our new streaming service a to flicks This is star fruit We've done this one before because we thought it was kind of funny and then of course Our merger with microsoft Microfruits so I started coming up with april fools day stuff that doesn't Anger at least one group of people this one was you know pretty good pretty good and pretty good and then of course we had a live Video from the merger of the the two companies Okay, we do some live shows We just did show and tell and it was like controller night Music and controllers. Yeah, there was a lot of cool projects Always hard to pick one and this isn't just it's not it's just i'm not saying this is my favorite However, there is one in particular that I thought Was so we had a lot of controller projects, but one was neat That I really liked was the web server over usb. Oh, yeah, that was so cool Yeah, and then you two usb acting as a usb ethernet adapter So basically when you plug it in it's like you're connected to the internet and it's the internet of cutie pie Yeah, and you type http Call in farce that's farce slash tiny dot usb And then you get a little neopixel color picker and then you can change it on the screen and it changes on the device So cool very neat and no wi-fi x2 Every single week we do show and tell look for the link in our discord That's where you can join in or you can just watch And we do that every single week some 30 p.m. Eastern time come on by It was a full house this week and don't worry if you can't show your stuff We're doing every single week probably forever So uh, you can even bring your project and show different parts of it as you work on it We do another show it's called from the desk of lady aida On sundays usually and then this sunday we did it. Uh, there was two parts Um, while we streamed we yeah, we had a technical it was really late at night, but a show went out It did go out the show went on So what did you do part one? Okay, so, um, I showed I made um an error in my dvi Pied cowbell and I showed the mistake I made which was uh thinking that us at the hdmi full size at hgi mini Had the same pinout order if they don't at all Important thing to learn so maybe a little from my mistake. You also showed off some ultra wideband feathers And feather wings. I showed off the can pico bell which did work out correctly other than one wire And then we went into the great search. Yeah, we do this segment great search Um, it's getting more fun to do the great search now because we can actually get parts So, um, you help people find stuff on digikey.com. What did you help to find this week? Okay, so this week I wanted to You know, I thought we had done a bunch of videos on fpc connector, but we'd actually kind of hand But uh, I wanted to show um finding a slim Fpc connector because there's kind of like standard thick sized Fpcs and all sorts of those kind of narrower ones Um, so I want to show how identified which ones were the narrower ones because it's not a spec You can necessarily search for so you can narrow down as much as possible and then after that do manual searching to determine Um, which connector would fit on the pcb because I need it to be like 0.1 inch skinnier Okay, um other shows and things going on so on tuesdays. We do jp's product pick of the week Tomorrow is jp's workshop and then fridays. We have deep dive with Tim, um python hardware Some interesting stuff going on this week I wanted to play a little video that jebler did and i'm also going to show some stuff from our newsletter So, um, let's go lots of new guides this week. Yeah. Well, that's that's when we get to our guides. Um, wait, sorry Yeah, we and there's a lot of circuit pi. That's so blown away by the guy. There's a lot of surprises I'm going right now So we have two new versions circuit python that you can check out Some updates have even fallen along the latest releases We're getting close to being able to focus on nine, but please continue to test it There's a sneak peek on micro python r120. So there's some bluetooth stuff that you might want to check out Up for pico w. Yeah, yeah for pico w and then, um one Project that we showed on show and tell that's also in the newsletter Um, we have this controller for our kiddo and what's neat is, uh, we had this before we saw this And then someone's like, hey, check this out. I'm giving these away. I'm showing how people make them and it's a Um, it's a circuit python board and you can turn things into controllers. So this is a fisher price Controller that that works. It lights up. It's it's six bucks and it's like a really good game controller So you can check that out and then today This is kind of our breaking news. Um, I thought this would be neat for lady to talk about So if you go to the raspberry pi site, this is raspberry pi dot org They're asking folks to test their new code editor for young people. Yeah, that just means they say young people But it just like anybody especially. Yeah, um, so young people age seven and older to learn how to write code What's neat is this is inside a browser. So, yeah, it's um, it's fully browser running So you can actually run python code within the browser. So I thought it was nice So it's got a built-in like python one time Um, just nice because usually javascript is what you would be able to do within a browser But you know, there's people have ported python to um, you know, web assembler and java or something So, uh, it's running within the browser, but they can also download the code. So what's neat about this is, um, You know, you can uh, write code For your raspberry pi or just learning python and then you can download the file. So if you go to the um, the browser So yeah, yes, you can like you can click download to download the file Um, yeah And then um, you can get the you know, the main dot py file you can multiple files So it's you know, this could be really useful for um, and then making sure it runs on mobile and it runs on tablets and chromebooks So this could be a really nice um, well featured editor that works on Um circuit python and micro python. We don't want to it doesn't use web serial yet But it could yeah, it could add and we don't want to build something like this because it's giant and complicated And there's browsers and everything so i'm glad they're doing it. Thank you Um, and then I want to play this quick video that uh jeppeler did Um It's the it was it you showed this off in the show and tell Yeah, the synth which is a part of a new feature in circuit python Howdy folks jeppeler here. I'm excited to share some of the recent work I've been doing on circuit python with the metro m7 from aida fruit um off-screen There is an i2s amplifier and speaker position to pick up on my camera And here we've got a stemmy qt board with a ween nunchuck style controller attached And I've been working on audio synthesis, which was originally contributed by github user tlmich in 2021 Uh now we can play more notes at the same time The notes can be pressed to release by circuit python code And the waveform of the notes can be directly controlled from python code So let me show you and please keep in mind i'm no musician I'm selecting different chords Adding the seventh and the ninth up to six total notes in the chord here Changing the volume up and down and the timber Delivered to your inbox every single week. I think it's the longest running Python on her renewal loader out there. So check it out at aidaforddaily.com. We don't spam you There's no Harvesting of emails from your order accounts at aidaford.com. We made a completely separate site Just to make sure you know that we are just as annoyed by spam as you So aidaforddaily is where you can get that newsletter or you can just get the rss feed or you can just read on the Web we don't care. We just want to get the information out there. It's also on github um, let's do some Open source hardware By that. I mean our guides. We have two thousand eight hundred and forty five guides late Whoa You know the team has been reviewing their own guide. They don't review the guides individually anymore Because i'm i'm so busy, but um I do check them out and they're looking really good So we've got a guide from catney for the new feather rp20 40 with rfm 69 module We've got a whole bunch of feathers coming out with different hardware attached to the end To make it easy to make no solder required Projects that are battery powered and can run in circuit python or aduino So um that guide is going and there's going to be more pages like we're gonna have our aduino tutorials In circuit python tutorials on how to use that radio module. So coming soon This is a major project. So melissa worked on this for many weeks. Um, this is a um off the shelf gunned bear So this is like a robotic bear that normally would it plays peek-a-boo and it just says like Let's play peek-a-boo and only that kind of like says like three things We have one of these for our kid and we're like this is a great robotics platform that should be modified and forced to do fan fiction Right, which is what we did. So it's uh been gutted and and you know melissa put in a Raspberry Pi with a motor control hat and a microphone um, and then tied it into the azure voice service and chat gpt from open ai so um, it can recognize your voice using like a voice recognition service and then um That text gets the voice gets converted to text the text is used as a prompt You know you say like i'm a bear and you know i'm asking this question And then open ai has the response and then the voice is spoken with azure So it's it's kind of like a cool project showing like if you're going to make um, if you're going to do something The chat gpt don't use it to submit scientific papers.  Um, or like this is the best the best thing ever Um, our point of view is like you can make things and know everything that's going on And have it do exactly what you want and make robot friends. Yeah, not robot enemies. This is robot friends Yeah, and so um one of the things I like about this is we wanted to show that when the bear was like thinking It puts the little thing up and then you control everything It can listen to microphone on or off or maybe not even have a microphone It's totally open source totally open source open source software and hardware. Yes, you know, what's going on So here's a here's a fun little video Hello there Just give my left foot a squeeze if you would like to get my attention How may I help you? Tell me a joke Let me think about that Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems Modern day titty rexman. Okay. Um, and then we've got some other guides Um, okay. So we've got uh, just some updates the metro m7 guide.  So this uh week He did an apple 2 emulator for ms dos Um, basically whenever we see cool emulator hardware software emulation projects, um, he just loves that stuff. So see retro Uh, we've got a guide on fog lighter, which is our, um, bluetooth way of communicating with, um, circuit python boards wirelessly, no Don't click just scroll so I can see the text Um, and then we've got a major make it glow diffusion tips and trick guide from erin So this guide, you know, it's basically like you have neopixels and you you don't want them to be little point sources You want to have like a warm glow? Um, how can you diffuse it? Well, you know, these are kind of tips and tricks that pretty much everybody has to learn over and over again But she wanted to make a guide that covers all of the different stuff that she's learned from everybody In the ate food community because I think she was asking how to diffuse something and like everybody in the meeting was like Here's how I would do it. Here's how I do it. We had like a thousand different opinions Um, and I think the generating text with chat gpt pico w and circuit python was last week. Okay, so that's the guides for this week All right, let's do some factory footage In this factory footage, we're gonna do some 3d printing We've got two things. We've got the controller that was on the show and tell it and then we got a speed up So we're gonna play this back to back and then roll right into I on npi take it away no pager You can build a usb midi controller with a custom pcb. Adafruit's cutie pie are between 40 and circuit python This hexagonal shaped midi device lets you play chords with mechanical key switches It features seven chalk key switches that are backlit with neopixel leds You can press multiple keys to produce multi tonal chords Each key is assigned several midi notes that sound good when played sequentially The code was written by john park and circuit python and uses the keypad and midi libraries It features a mode select that allows you to change scales octaves the root notes and lets you choose between playing chords or solo notes Press the cutie pies boot button to activate mode select the neopixels will turn red to let you know when it's ready The repl lets you know what options to select You can use the key switches to make your selections a handy key legend denotes the options The last option lets you choose between chords or single note playback And because it's circuit python you can customize the midi notes octaves and the colors of the neopixels John park designed the pcb in the shape of a hexagon and features footprints for chalky switches and reverse mounted neopixels The cutie pie rp2040 is soldered to the back of the pcb with header pins It uses usb c for power and runs as a native usb device So it'll work with just about any midi hardware or software To make a multicolored 3d printed case we use the filament swap technique with yellow and black colored filaments John's pcb fits inside the case and gets secured with m3 size machine screws We also printed these hexagon shaped keycaps that are designed to fit chalky switches You can make them in either fdm or sla 3d printers so you can choose from any number of materials and colors These clear keycaps were made by pcb way using their 3d printing service They're made using utr8100 transparent resin with the spray varnish option We think they look amazing combined with the backlit neopixels To get the parts code and files to build your own head on over to learn.aderfruit.com I've been playing a lot with this and it inspired me to create the music that's playing in the background of this video We hope this inspires you to use circuit python for your next midi project We're about to get on to item pi but before you do that i forget to cut the lower fruit We have plushies Get a plushie. Uh, let's go to impi This week's impi brought to you by digikini interfered is trip light By eaton. Yeah, what is this? Um, so this is what you're actually probably familiar like this. I know what this is because I asked Okay, yeah, but um trip light uh eaton is the company and trip light is a line Of power strips like power adapters. Um, and normally you're like, yeah anyways I've got lots of power strips at home right like you go to the hardware store. You don't have the one not the good ones Uh, and these were like really cool.  So now it's even tinier. It's the tiny and we're preparing because she's she's speed rounding Uh, Infant hood and so she's gonna be like she's already like grabbing everything and like, uh making phone calls and whatever the skateboarding so, um Like I have to like Neaten up all the cables and stuff like that. Yeah And uh and now I have things that can fall on our head. Yeah, and living with a lady It means unending power supplies for absolutely everything that good Then I need to find something that's a power strip That only has plugs but has usb in there Then the other thing I need is I need to I need to mount it like to a desk But but not permanently because I'm always changing everything in the ground because yeah So it needs to be I need to be able to have a semi permanent mount that I can change things because like our Ask engineer setup and everything that we do now Um has to be really easy to change very quickly. Yeah, so like right here. Yeah, so like right here. So here watch watch So so I'm gonna move my hand and I'm gonna reach down and what do I have a kid's toy because there's a crib right here So this is this is where everything is so I need to be able to have a power strip here But not have it fall. You need like a control station. Yeah, I yes, and you have to power your control station Yes, so so um, so we were talking and you're like, hey, this might be something I thought was like I saw this on the digikey.com slash new and I was like this is what you I was like, this is exactly what you're talking about. This is what I need. Okay So the series of power strips, so this is like one of them, but I'll show all of them It's like power strips But they're like power strip designed by people who actually know what it's like to need to use power strips But they mount to stuff and they mount to stuff and they're weird shapes and stuff So there's a whole series and I'm not gonna talk about all of them But you can see like there's why there's a sphere all sorts of stuff I pulled out like three or four that I thought were interesting. So this one's neat So this one has a clip and I'm maybe I'll maybe you'll actually you know It's funny if I typed in to like dolly or one of these like stable diffusion or like mid-journey things This is what I would design. I'd be like I want it to be C-shaped but has plugs on it in the usb But I want to switch and I want like a fabric thing, but then I also want something that keeps it It sticks to a thing.  Yeah, because now I'll show because it's too big favorite So it looks like this. So you need to have a desk that is You know one inch thicker thicker. So it's so good for like really thick desk. It's like this like four inches It's got Three outlets on this side and three outlets on that side. It's got like a nice long It's gonna eight foot cable Yeah, and you can have one of a big chunky one at the back Yeah chunky and then on the top So this part is on the top of your desk Because it's this is like the desk and on the top of your desk you have two usb a ports and each one is 2.4 amps or total 4.8 amps usb-c And an on off switch that's like easy to get to which so you're not like underneath your table Trying to get so so this is really good for me because I'm going to use this on my workbench because I can plug in Like my oscilloscope and it's one of the so all of like my workbench tools Like like the scope has a long cable, but the hot air station has a really short cable So like I need to have I can't have this underneath my desk So it can't be on the floor. So this is the first one and this is you know, I've seen other shapes and other things, but this is like It just you know, it just reminds me a little bit like, you know, like panavis is like really handy. It's like panavis of Like power supplies. Okay, so this is the second one. Uh, so so this one, um Well, I think you give them slightly different orders. So go to the next site, okay So this is like a wide one that does sit on the floor although You can go down desk and you see it's got like six outlets four thin style and like two chunky ones But then this is like one of those boats that there's another boat that comes out of the boat But it's like a smaller. Yeah So if you go next slide The usb part pulls out and then that clamps to your desk So it has a little extension cord with four usb ports and like a separate power switch This is kind of like one part goes on the ground and one part goes up But it's kind of like a 50 50. Uh, and they have some cool weird shapes So there's this cube and if you've seen the previous, um INFIs you were like, oh, you probably wanted to like photoshop this into like a board cube But you're wrong because they also have a sphere one Like a spheroid might as well as others. Well, because it has the iris resistor So it's got this says like four usb ports and it has three Outlet jacks. Um, and then I photoshopped this into the sphere and yeah that movie sphere It's one of my favorite movies. Yeah, it is really good because you know, this The thing is maybe maybe we shouldn't have anything we think come alive. Yeah, maybe we're not ready for that yet Yes, the male Jackson wasn't that one Sharon stone Um, this is another um, what I thought this was kind of smart because you know, whenever we have a conference Like we do like conference stuff and people have to plug in their laptop for the meeting And they're always kind of like going putting their head under the desk when they bonk their head on the desk Save your head from also doubles as a candy dish or an ash tray I am a little worried the first time is going to put their diet coke in the middle That's the only risk factor, but otherwise it's pretty good. So this is what we were like this is what's on our desk That's the desk can't don't like this don't like this and see how that like wall That power strip is kind of like hanging out Like wouldn't it be so much nicer if that was like clamped onto the side of the desk? You can tell what this wants to be Yeah, so this is what we're going to replace it with so this is the this is the ion imp that I chose So it has six you want to hold it up? Yeah, so this one's really nice and look at these look at this Okay, so first off cloth cloth cloth nice fabric II so it's kind of nice This one so the other one had a clip this one actually has like thumb screws So you can go on any thickness desk because your desk is kind of Junk junk these junk very strong And and if you tighten them a little child, I can't just like I'm kind of can't pull this off And then on this side there is You know the four outlets and then two chunky ones We need the two chunky ones because the overhead has a big Power plug and so does like something else but the other things have smaller plugs And then there's you know an officer so when we're done with the show we can turn it all off And then um two usb ports so that will go to My demos because I have here, you know this little usb outlet to convert to usb So then I save an outlet because I don't have to like a usb adapter thing So this is going to be I'm giving this to you. This is my gift to you Yeah, happy birthday as I've gotten older. I have um socks and perilous I have I have different opinions about things So anything you use kind of every day Do a little bit more research and maybe if if it makes sense spend more money on it like a toothbrush You use it every day. Get a good one. Um a belt a belt, you know socks socks. Uh well socks I would say sometimes um, I mean good because yeah, I don't use the same pair of socks every day But I use different socks every day, but your pair of shoes like you shove comfy shoes shoes. That's another one eye glasses Eye glasses every day The backpack you have There's some essentials that it's like, oh, this is important to use it every day And what I didn't realize until I got older is so it's like, oh, just get a you know power strip No, don't get just a power strip. There's actually ones that um Will Change and grow with you and and you know if you're doing Shows and engineering and like living life and you know like we kind of like have to Collapse down a setup and then do things a lot And then we also need something that we can affix to A desk and then we also have to like we're going to completely change our tiny apartment again because we have a like a Little kid crawling around. Yeah, so this don't have cables on the ground anymore This will be really nice the cables and we can tie them and it's not really my birthday It's not really his birthday. I'm Very happy and birthday to you. Um, but if this was his birthday, I would give this Yeah, and it's on and it's on um digikey. There's in stock and you can get well, there's 18 So there might be less soon, but check out their whole their whole selection. Um, the ones that um, One more put together are really neat and uh, you know for ian and pi like we don't Just we pick stuff that we like this is this is this is handy. Well, this is brought to you by digikey We're not like yeah, we just things that we personally think are cool. Yeah, no one knows what we're gonna do No, it's just like we even I don't yeah, we like this and this gets rid of this nonsense Like this is going away tonight. Bye and that is this love it. I don't appear You know what um someone in chat said something, uh, you don't use it every day, but when you do When you do it matters so get luggage with good wheels. Uh, yeah, because if you're anything for if you're traveling Anything that reduces your um, it's traveling. It's so stressful. Okay. Okay, let's um jump right into new products Because we have to do a thing at nine tonight. So we're zipping along. Let's do it. Yeah All right, first up, uh, I'm gonna do this one. Um coming soon to the adford store. This is kind of a big deal because Um as twitter has melted down and not been a place to share content There's um some places online that are better and some that aren't and tumblr was acquired by wordpress And we really like wordpress. They're open source The folks that run it are super cool and they have tumblr and they're trying to do cool things with tumblr They're trying to make it an independent artsy place And so we um, we have a tumblr at a fruit dot tumblr.com and we started talking to the folks that were like Hey, why don't we do some stuff together? There's a big keyboard community there. Um, nick who's at tumblr Built a mechanical keyboard with some adford stuff and we're like we should do A custom key just like we did with hackaday and github and microsoft. So this is um, Coming out soon. These are renderings, but it'll look exactly like this. So we feel we feel okay showing what this is Um, so we're gonna have some cool projects and more that we're doing with tumblr But this is just the the start. Okay next up next up finally back In stock that we had this as a coming soon Um, because we got the pcbs and then we didn't realize the pcbs had some silk screen deleted So we ordered the pcbs. Uh, now they're back. It's the um rp2040 dvi feather Uh, this would have been um Shout out to Todd about he's been doing some cool stuff. Cool stuff. So what is this? It's an rp2040 feather Um, it's got the rp2040 chip eight megabytes of flash Stemic ut battery charging all the feather pins i squared c and analog and spi and on the end pretty cool Is a full-sized hdmi connector that has dvi output. It doesn't do audio and doesn't do ethernet just does video But uh, if you want to experiment with generating video from modern devices Um, this does actually work and when we test it on our tester We plug it into an hdmi monitor to make sure that the dvi signal is read by it Um, it uh, we only have support right now for arduino We might have support for circuit python at some point right now It's just arduino But uh, phil b pay your dragon wrote an awesome pico dvi library And you can see it just acts like adafruit gfx So if you've ever used any of our tfts or o-legs and you used adafruit gfx as the underlying library It's the same. There's fonts. There's text. There's colors Uh, there's graphics. There's you know rectangle squares lines characters All that good stuff. Um, all the bases that you need to Do graphics and drawing and as far as the feather is concerned It's basically connected to a 320 by 240 Screen and that 320 by 240 is pixel double to 640 by 480. So, you know, the pixel is a little chunky Um, but hdmi monitors every monitor supports 640 by 480. So it's a universal Supported monitor.  You can turn it into art that you'd make yourself This is this is like one of the cool things and um Check out the demo that Todd's doing and and and Todd bot says I can verify the dvi rp 2040 feather Is pretty bad red. We were going to call this a feather cast, but then it would be a little confusing Yeah, um, so you can also use it with the pico sdk. They have a lot of examples The the code that we have for Arduino basically creates a frame buffer. So you you draw to it as like a frame buffer and then it outputs that frame buffer immediately If you want to have higher resolutions I think pico sdk can like dynamically generate the signals faster But you know, then you have to kind of be smart about like drawing each scan line Um as it comes out I I kind of recommend going with the Arduino library because it's simple You don't have to try to like race The h-sync and v-sync you just draw it and it outputs in the background on the secondary core Um, but the trade-off is it uses a massive amount of resources It uses I think both pios or maybe it uses at least one pio Um, and it uses 150 kilobytes of ram For 320 by 240 because that's to buffer the entire 16 bit color array Um, and it uses one full core.  You can it's demo scene time you could You know write little games, um that run on it as long as you're okay with Not having access to both pios and you're okay with losing access to one core And you don't need, you know, you only need like 30 of the ram that's available All right Sorry to show content said you lady at our team our customers our community And uh, all the things that make us all go and share and do things to get Is lower fruit lower fruit So this is the another rp 2045 that you guys are going to see a lot of these because I basically did the design for it And then on the right hand side, you know, I swap out what the module or the circuitry is Um, so the pico dbi had a dbi connector and circuitry and this one has a laura module This is a um sx 1276 based 900 megahertz. So you can use it with 868 or you use it with 915 It's kind of like right in the middle there You just pick the antenna and then in software is how you tune the actual frequency output And the gpio that are left over from the feather are connected to all the dio on the rfm 9x module You can connect either ufl connectors. You can connect a ufl to sma Adapter then connect any external antenna no solder required or if you're willing to solder a little bit These little low-cost spring antennas You know one solder point and and these antennas are very compact They work great. So this is good for laura You can run laura win on it laura win is a software stack that uses the laura protocol There's laura win stacks. I think for arduino and pico sdk Not for circuit python at this time, but you know, you can just use laura as a Long-range wireless. So these are more expensive than the rfm 69 series They're like, you know like five ten bucks more because they use this proprietary laura chipset It goes farther if you don't need that distancy or you don't need laura win support rfm 69 works really great and again, it's cheaper But you want to talk to the things network or um, you talk on the helium network or whatever That uses laura or sidewalk. I think is also laura Sub gigahertz you need to have a radio that has that proprietary radio modulation This will do it. The one thing that's nice is that we've had the 32u4 and feather m0 versions of this feather, right? So we've had the 32u4 laura and the m0 laura, but those chips are a little older eight bit micros or The samdi 21 doesn't have a lot of ram if you want to use circuit python with this radio You now finally have enough space and memory and ram to do it This has eight megabytes of flash and 264 k of ram so tons of resources available to You know make your sensor network with your laura radio All right, and that's new products Okay, a little reminder. Don't forget laura fruit is a code. We have these plushies as well You can combine them you'll take them out a bunch of free stuff that helps us pay the bills So we can pay the team for all their skills There was a couple questions lined up and then we're going to bounce right away because we have to do some night time stuff tonight Let's uh, let's do the questions and then next week. We have a massive Top secret section and everything. So we do this every week. That's why we can Keep doing this stuff. So let's answer your questions the First question I saw As I scrolled backwards. So it's the most recent one is can you use the um sdk? for the The Feather dbi. Yep. Yeah pico sdk has support for dbi just set up the pens We have an even configuration ready to go. We don't have an example code for it But if you're using pico sdk, you probably are good enough to and then I saw how many they were asking How many usb ports are on this? So there's two Three. Yeah, there's two. There's two and then a c and a c. Yeah, this one is nice And um what I for this one when I was mentioning it, there's a couple nice touches. They do There's these little rubber feet on the inside So when it grips onto a desk when you have the two chonkers, you can put one on each side Because you know how the large wall warts cover up stuff And if you if they if you arrange it the wrong way or way Um, it it bumps these the bumps the other ones off not this it goes like that All right Let me go to the other chat. We answer the question about blue fruit Do Um folks had other other suggestions invested anything that's separated to you from the ground bed shoes and tires So that's a that's a pretty good bit of advice Question for adafruit rp20 40 dvi Is the overclocking mostly when the processing is moving images on the screen? Would just displaying text be less intense for the processor? No, you have to you do have to overclock and it's the same because it's You have to output the pixels Exactly the right time To catch up with the dvi output. So it's overclocked. It's using pio. So there's you know that you overclock more the higher the resolution Um, but to be honest, you know, you kind of need to have 640 640 by 480 Um, that's the lowest resolution that most monitors will recognize. Yeah And then a follow-up from that is you're mentioning maybe circuit python on it Would people be able to do something like turtle or like logo or anything? Yeah, it would give the ideas it would act as a frame buffer and then you would use display io But it hasn't been written. There's no eta and kind of nobody's volunteered to do it. So You know when it might happen. I don't know and then another question on this if they have a 40 pin Some inch tft displays are any way to use a dvi feather? You have to go from dvi to yeah, you could use our um, yeah, you can use our tfp 401 breakout board which converts dvi To that monitor it would only be 800 by 480 at the max resolution you only yeah And it'll be pixel double. So it's only 400 by 240 Yeah, you don't see it when phil b was on the show until I had that retro thing What that risk screen resolution of that was probably about yeah about 800 by 480 if that maybe 320 by 240 All right, let me check and see if there's anything else like I said tonight We've got a uh thing at nine that we're into I think we're getting close Let me see if there's any more questions. I'll show the code one more time. Don't forget it is lure fruit That is the code The plushies are available. These are already going fast.  Yeah, and uh the last question of the night Um, how would I try to explain to a newbie on reddit? It's worth a shot to connect a chip to get cheap hardware store electronics to the bank 10x more for nice casing and lcd for the same chip they could buy for 10x left That does the same work You can't you know people decide what they want to do to me have made up their mind. Yeah, you made them in your mind So you can't really convince people um, but you know, maybe uh, you know send them some links to examples and and tell them that they You have confidence in them But let people explore their own way of getting into electronics I mean I started by taking apart stuff that worked and hacking it and some people like to build from the ground up Uh, there's space for everyone.  I'll just do a big Like piece of advice for this because this again as I've gotten older. Here's what I've learned. Um Once you have expectations on other people or attachments to what they're going to do You're going to be disappointed. So the trick is to not Do that and so what I've tried to do Um, because I just had a conversation with someone about like open source hardware because aita fruit's going to do open source hardware Forever and there's folks who've done open source hardware and they're done with it And they're like we want a different type of license. We're tired of this. They're blaming, you know The world on things and it's and the people that are the most upset are like, well, I want you to do something That only I think is okay with open source hardware and you're just going to be disappointed So the first thing you're convincing one thing you can do is you could just show them something you've done You could be like look Make up your mind. Here's what I do. Here's a chip that I get. Here's all the capabilities and here's the type of Fun that I have with it. Here's the type of sharing I do. Here's a community And instead of trying to assume people will be convinced on something I'm I'm at the point where I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to show the best thing that I'm proud of Um, and the best thing that I think l'more is proud of or the best thing the community would like to see Because if there is no such thing as money or time or anything, what would I do? I'd want to do this. I want to have something that I'm proud of forever I don't think you can convince some people. They've already made their mind Um, and then next up, this will be the last one seeing arduino we arduino build an uno r4 with the renaissance controller Is there uh anyone else thinking of exploring higher spec renaissance micro controllers for hobbies development? It'll be interesting to see. Yeah, I don't know. I mean renaissance doesn't have they invested in arduino So you're definitely going to see arduino using the chip They don't have a big headway into the american market like they're huge in japan, of course Their japanese brand made of very many they were conglomerate of multiple japanese chip companies It'd be interesting to see how they interact with the american market and what what they have to do to do so It'd be it's it's fascinating. I mean their chips are extremely popular for automotive Um, especially yeah arduino like you know depending So, uh, this is super insidery baseball because i've been writing about arduino for decades and now you know I work at eta fruit. So I don't really do the same editorial because we'll always be considered like a competitor or everything So just like, you know ask an engineer talk and stuff like that. Um, so arduino Is doing pro and that's in the like industrial space. It's not open source. It's like this is what we're doing for industrial control This is what we're doing for like factory like, you know industrial iot and then um Last year they got 30 something million in funding and it was renaissance and bosh I think with it and there was like another party and so you're definitely going to see those if those companies wanted to Figure out if there is a way to get into this this market like dev board market or whatever. That's the way they're going to do that anyone Make libraries for stuff arduino day. They ask people to rewrite their libraries. You can apply. Um, we'll see it's interesting I don't know I don't know I can't tell the future and I can't tell you what to do. Yeah, so Um, I'm looking forward to seeing people do projects with more low-cost microcontrollers and doing more than better and doing open source hardware and software um Damn some questions lady. Okay, we did it amazing. Okay, so that's our show for tonight. Thank you so much everybody special Thanks to zay. I think he's behind the scenes Um doing stuff in slack. We thank you very much For joining us. This has been an ad for production. Here is your moment of zener. See everybody next week. Bye. Bye Good night, everybody


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I feel okay. That wall is as hard as it looks, but I feel okay. Did the calf hold up okay as well throughout the game? Yeah, I feel pretty good. I feel like I got my legs back under me. I didn't feel knocked. I feel pretty... I got out of line pretty good, and then the ball that I got thrown out on, I felt like I was moving pretty good.  Kevin, you're going into that wall. You hit it.   Excuse me? Did I hit it harder than I expected? I mean, I hit it pretty hard. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what I expected. I was trying to make a play, so I weren't really thinking about how hard I was going to hit the wall, but it is what it is. I feel okay. What was Cashier doing tonight supposed to ask for me? Well, I think it helps when you get an early lead. It's a lot easier to pitch. You go right after guys, and I think you did a good job of not nibbling and not wasting pitches when they got a pretty decent lead.


Hello, everyone. My name is Mei Chen Liu. And I'm a social professor at Chinese Academy of Science. I will give a talk about our craft people, titled, Differential Linear Cropness from our Edgebrook Prospective. This is a joint work with Xiao Juan Lu and Dong Dai Lin. Xiao Juan Lu is a PhD student and Dong Dai Lin is a professor at Chinese Academy of Science. This talk consists of three parts. First, let's begin with a brief introduction of the research background. Differential Cropness and Linear Cropness are two of the most important analytical tools in symmetrical choreography. Differential Cropness was proposed by Bihang and Shamir at Cropter 1990. Using the differential cropness, the same also broke their full D.S. at Cropter 1992. Linear Cropness was proposed by Matruh in 1993 and broke their full A.S. at there. One year later at Cropter 1994, Matruh showed the first experimental Cropness of D.S. by Linear Cropness. One year later, after Linear Cropness was published, Landford and Hermann proposed a Differential Linear Cropness. It is an ingenious combination of Differential Cropness and Linear Cropness. Differential Linear Cropness is the chosen, preemptive two-stage technology of Cropness. The first stage is covered by Differential Cropness and the second stage is then performed from the middle of the software to the sub-test using the Linear Cropness. Let P be the probability of a differential from data in to data out and the linear explanation from lambda in to lambda out as the base of Q. Typically, the differential linear explanation from data in to lambda out is supposed to have a theoretical base 2 times 2P times Q22. It's really true. It may not be. In the literature, there are few methods to estimating the base of a differential linear explanation in the middle part, where the differential and linear trails connect. A natural method is an experimental method. However, it is of course limited by the computational resource. A tactical method is a mere interpretation. The process is tedious and complicated. And the theoretical base may be greatly different from the real value. Another method is the differential linear connectively table. That is DST. It was proposed by Adria, Bayon, and others. Eurocraft 2000 and 2019. It was inspired by Van Brunne Connectively Table, proposed by Adria. Eurocraft 2018. DST is more accurate for many instructions, including ASPO, DES, SERPENT, ESCO, and SO. Although they are still gaps between the estimated base and the experimental value, in this talk, we study differential linear equivalency from a different perspective. That is the edge-break perspective. A basic fact is that the base of a differential linear experiment is determined by the edge-break normal form of the difference of the output. Nevertheless, it is computationally feasible to compute the edge-break normal form for a software to make it feasible when it simplifies enough of the difference of the output of a software. That is, compute the edge-break transitional forms rather than the edge-break normal forms. More exactly, we compute the differential edge-break transitional forms of the internal bit as the very out-bit of the software. And then, estimate the differential linear bias with the help of the DATF. Then, we can try to find good information by exaltive search over all the low-harm-weight input difference and output masks. Our final goal is to mount a key recover tag. To this end, we impose some conditions on the internal bit of a software to make a certain difference determined in the first ones. And then, search good as permissions. So process is an organic combination of this integration search and the case guessing. This is the main idea of our paper. Now, let's go to the details. To simplify the edge-break normal form, we use the edge-break transitional form. Here, we define a simple transitional rule for a boolean function u under a binary variable x. The ATF u related to x is defined as ATF u double prime plus ATF u prime. Moreover, for a boolean function, omega z does not have the binary variable x. If it involves two or more variables, then the ATF is defined as a new transitional variable. Otherwise, it remains unchanged. This rule ensures that ATF fx is an ATF of f in a very simplified way that keeps x unchanged. For a software e, it can be considered as a rectory boolean function. The differential linear approximation from data to lambda can be related as a parameter. Here, data is an input difference, and the lambda is an output linear mask. If not by f, then in the product of lambda and e, then the aspiration can be rewritten as fx plus fx plus data equals 0. On the other hand, if we introduce a new binary variable, small x, then big x plus small x that is equal to a sum of two parts. The first part is a multiple of x, and the remaining part does not have the variable x. We compute the polynomial first, and then calculate the coefficient of x, then obtain the differential linear approximation. The differential edge break transitional form is compute as shown in the picture. The big x is a vector of binary variables, the small x is a binary variable, and the data in is an input difference. First, we compute the edge break normal form of rx plus x data in, then apply the transitional rule to it, and then compute the edge break transitional form of the second one, and apply the transitional rule to the result, and then repeat the steps, and finally obtain the difference edge break transform form of the software. So both steps, it describes as this algorithm. The algorithm requires the edge break normal form of the circle of the run function, and add to the DATF y under a expression set Q. F and beta are vectors of variables. From the differential of ATF, we know each component of the F and beta has at most one binary variable. In step six, we preserve the original expression of the transitional variable in the set Q. The worst-case capacity is o22d times i times tr, where t i is the number of terms in the NF of the run function, and the D is the edge break degree of the run function. For the most, for most, a left-winged surface, D and i are usually small, and then the capacity becomes oti, given the DATF of a surface, we are able to estimate the differential linear price. Our algorithm for estimation of a bus is depicted here. The burning polynomial E is the edge break expression of the differential linear expression. We divide the polynomial E into two parts, one part without any isolate variables, and the other part with only the isolate variables. For the first part, we estimate the bus directly from the edge break expression. For the third part, we substitute the expression Q into it, and update E with the new S polynomial. Then repeat the bound procedure until E is zero. Finally, we obtain an estimated value for the bus. If E has no isolate variables, then the capacity is o222m. When well, m is the size of the xbox. To refine the estimation, we can also pre-estimate the probability distribution of the transitional variables. Next, let's show the application. As the illusions, we applied our theory and the techniques to three different type of symmetric surface, including the authenticative surface S cone, the bulk surface surface, and the string surface grain v1. S cone is a C-cell furnace, as well as the LWC furnace. Serpent, the AS furnace, and the string surface grain v1 in the ischium furnace. The result on the differential linear brass of S cone and the serpent, and the differential brass of the grain v1 are summarized in table one. Well, CdL means conditional differential linear, and Cd means conditional differential. Compared with the DLCT tool, our techniques can be applied with more runs and provided more accurate estimation of the differential linear brass. Besides, our techniques can also be applied to differential equivalency. Compared with the differential edge method tool made for the green neck surface, our techniques are more joined and have a much better performance. Compared with the experimental approach, our edge bracket at top necklace are more formalized and internecose for conditional text and in particle, much faster when the brass is low. This helps us find better conditional experiments for S cone and the grain v1. Our collateral analytical results of S cone, serpent, and the grain v1 are summarized in table two. For S cone, our tech up from the provision differential linear one, but not the cube tech for serpent to the best of our knowledge. We provided the first correct attack on its 12 rounds variant and the first differential linear attack on its 11 rounds variant with 112 and the 28-bit key. To the best of our knowledge, our techs are that far the best on low equivalency of serpent, as well as the best differential linear equivalency of S cone under the best in the international analysis of grain v1. The result have been fully verified by experiment. Not great. Security analysis of serpent is one of the most important application of differential linear equivalency in the last two dedicates. The result in this paper updates the differential linear equivalency of serpent 128 and serpent 215.6 with one more one. After the work of B.Hamm document and the T.L.U. in 2003. In this talk, we have shown a new theory of differential linear equivalency from our edge break prospecting, including the estimation of the differential linear bias and the technical for kilocalorie. We have applied it to the CISAR finalist and the FWC finalist, the AS finalist serpent and the extreme finalist grain v1. And again, the most accurate estimation of the best as well as the best in low differential linear or differential attacks. In particularly, the result in this paper updates the equivalency of the serpent with one more one. Our techniques for kilocalorie is the organic combination of the distinguishing research and the key guessing. And that outperforms the provision kilocalorie in the differential linear equivalency. We believe that this new cryoparticle analytical tool is useful in both the equivalency and the design of symmetrical cryoparticle systems. Thank you for your attention. If you have any question, please feel free to contact me.


We tell you about the dangers of avalanches. Filipini's friends are going on a ski trip, but they don't just want to stay on the groomed beasts. They also want some fun off-peast. To help them avoid dangers, they have done thorough preparations. Before they hit the slopes, they weigh up the risks. It is vital that everyone answers honestly and that they all take each other's concern seriously. They are also prepared to take responsibility for one another. Lindsay has seen the good preparation work, but she is still worried. She asks Filip if he knows about accidents and what needs to be done. Filip explains to her that in an emergency, one of them should take command. They need to get an overview of the situation. The most important questions are, firstly, are there any further dangers at present? Secondary accidents should be prevented by all means. Secondly, how many people have been buried? Next, they need to establish a primary search area. This should be below the point where the person disappeared and be around 20 meters wide. Everyone who has not been buried should take their avalanche transceiver and switch to off or receive. They also need to call the emergency services using the North American Emergency Number 911. They explain what has happened, where they are, and what the weather conditions are like. They also need to stay available in case there are any further questions. Filip knows that every minute counts and that they need to start searching themselves. For people buried in avalanches, every single second makes a difference. Filip's knowledge is enough to reassure Lindsay. Thanks to their great preparation, nothing more can stop them from having an awesome day skiing.


and I hated the first four books. Rich people are people too. I am Jax, I'm surprised.  The best of the three, including this book is 24D and I. Ridley and Arn't Express hated it. Like, they didn't like it either. I keep trying to film this video, and they keep making noise outside. Now, my Greg is making noise. I was feeling like pooped and annoyed. And instead of ordering Starbucks, I just made a cup of coffee, a Starbucks cakeup. I think I can film this now. I'm so just like, you know how irritation is like really draining. So like, I'm tired, but not from like doing anything. It's from being frustrated. So anyway, we're gonna try again. I'm not gonna hold up the stack because I have a cup of coffee. Did I say I'm doing my April wrap up? Trying again to do my April wrap up. First four books that I read in April I hated, so it's gonna be a downer of a start to this video. I'm annoyed, I have coffee. That's not a bad thing. And I hated the first four books. But anyway, let's do it. The first book that I read and hated was Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson. This I picked for the cover. Had never heard of it. I heard of it after I picked it. And I love the cover. I still do. But this book promised to be like a sparkling witty, like kind of send up satire of the rich. And it was neither sparkling nor witty, nor really even a send up. It was more like apologizing for the rich being like rich people or people too, which is like, okay, yes, rich people are people too. Does this need to be said? Do it, what? So like the characters weren't interesting. It also wasn't like an interesting glimpse into like how wild and different the lives of the rich are.  It wasn't an exciting story. It wasn't a deep dive into characters. It wasn't like a glimpse into, like I said, like a bizarre, like how strange and different the lives of the rich are. It was just a whole lot of nothing. Wasn't particularly like beautifully written or cleverly written. I just, I can't tell you why this was written. Who this was for or who would even enjoy this? Like there's finally some semblance of a plot towards the end, but by then, first of all, it's too little too late. And second of all, even that isn't all that much. So my understanding is that this is a debut that was written by somebody that like works in publishing. And like, that's why this happened. Having learned that after reading it, I am Jack's complete lack of surprise at what it's actually like. So anyway, do not recommend. The next book I read, it really hurt me to dislike and that was The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Perry. This was an anticipated release. I have loved H.G. Perry's Shadow History's Duology, the Declaration of the Rights of Magicians and Radical Act of Pre-Magic. I was hoping that H.G. Perry is just like an autobiographer for me now. And this proves that to not be the case. I really, really did not like this. It was quite different from The Shadow History's. What this most reminded me of was Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rodgerson, which I really, really don't like. And I know a lot of people do. So that being said, if you really like Sorcery of Thorns, you'll probably really like Magician's Daughter. If you did not like Sorcery of Thorns like me, then you probably won't like Magician's Daughter. It's like about a girl on an Irish island and there's like magical secrets and magical societies and magical shenanigans that she gets kind of like, she's at the center of such, gets herself in the center of. It's really long and it feels really long and the characters aren't particularly well written and the humor does not work for me and the magic is kind of chaotic and it's like too much specific nonsense. And I just don't care about any of it. I don't care about the characters or the story or the magic or anything in this book. It was a slog to get through. And I kind of kept hoping that I would change my mind about it which made it even sloggier because I was like, maybe I'll start to like it at some point maybe, but I didn't. And when I finally finished it, I had to admit that I had hated it. So it was better than Pineapple Street. So I gave it two stars, but it was not good. The next book I read, I have a full review for on my channel. I think that was the last video I posted because I've not been posting a lot lately, except I'm really, really busy. That was The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarafi by Shannon Schafer-Bordy. This is also my patron buddy read book club book, whatever, we haven't had our chat for it yet as of the filming of this video. I think we're having our chat as like around the time this video is going up. So I haven't talked to my patrons about it yet other than in the Discord. And I know there's some people in my Discord that did like it, but I think for the most part they agree with me and did not like it, but it wasn't like universal. There have been books in my Discord that we like 100% all of us hate. This is not one of those, but more agree with me than disagree, I think. Well anyway, we'll find out when we chat about it. Maybe they'll be like, you're wrong, we all love this, you're crazy. I don't think that's true. Anyway, yeah, like I said, I have a full review for this if you want to hear my full thoughts. Yeah, I did not like this. This is not for me. It's, the style of the writing is not for me. What it purported to be is not what it actually is. And it does a lot of things that like also just personally bother me, that wouldn't necessarily bother other people. So yeah, like I said, if you want to see my full thoughts, the review is up, but I do not recommend. The next book I read was the Blades and Bodice Rippers Book Club book and that was Splendid by Julia Quinn, who's the author of the Bridgerton books, which I have not read, but I have seen the show. This was the, like I said, the Blades and Bodice Rippers Book Club pick. It was Amanda's pick, so the live show was on Amanda's channel and we all dressed up in our Regency binary. That was, I was very, very fun dressing up. It was not fun reading this book, but none of us liked it. So at least we all agreed this time. That's been so far the case this year. We've been agreeing about the books, which is nice. Yeah, I probably hated it the most as usual, but like the ladies were not far behind me in disliking it.  Again, I think all of us agreed. It was fun to dress up and it was not fun to read this. And then, yeah, we talked about both things for an hour. So if you want to check it out, if you missed the live show, I'll leave a link down below. But yeah, I don't recommend and neither do my romance reading friends. So that's, I think that's pretty clear. Don't read it. The next book that I read was Morning Star, by Fierce Brown for the Red Rising Readalong. The live show for this was on Angela's channel. If you missed it, I'll leave it linked down below. Ton of fun chatting about Morning Star. There is still time to enter our giveaway. You have until the Iron Gold live show, which I believe will be on Alex's channel. And yeah, it was a blast rereading this. It was a blast chatting about it with Alex and Angela. And realizing that I actually had some spicy takes about Morning Star, like I figured out why this one doesn't work as well for me as the others and why everyone else, like everyone else like seems to think Morning Star is the best one. And I really don't feel that way. I finally figured out why that is. Nothing other people agreed with me, but we uncovered the reason. So that was interesting for me, having read it now three times. And I'm so excited to read Iron Gold. My favorites are Iron Gold and Dark Age. I love the next gen books more than the originals. And I really like the originals. So I'm very excited to read Iron Gold. But yeah, it was a ton of fun, as always chatting about this with Alex and Angela. And I'm so excited to read and chat about Iron Gold. The next book that I read was not on my TBR at all. It's a book that I've owned for a really, really, really long time for years. I don't think I got it when it came out, but I got it, I think pretty shortly after it came out. And I just had a hankering and I wasn't wanting to read anything that was on my TBR. And I was like, okay, let me read this. And I couldn't put it down. So I just continued reading it until I was done. And that was The Wonder by Emma Donahue. I never before read any Emma Donahue before. I know she's, I think, most famous for Room. Obviously I've heard of Room and I vaguely know what it's about. But this is the first of hers that I've owned and read. I own another of her books, I haven't read it. Yeah, I knew what this was about generally again, based on the dust jacket. That's why I bought it, it sounded interesting. I did not expect it to be so unputdownable. Like I had a craving to read it weirdly, but I did not expect it to be a book that I would sit down and start reading and I would not be able to stop and I would be upset at having to go to sleep because I wanted to keep reading and I would wake up the next morning and be like immediately get coffee and get to reading again because I cannot stop until this is finished. It kind of, for me anyway, it kind of sneaks up on you. Like it's not a thriller and like when you sit down to read like a thriller that's like called, you know, like, you know, only one survivor left by John Grisham. I don't know, you know, something like that. Like you expect that to be like, okay, this is gonna be a page charter. Every chapter is gonna end on a cliffhanger. I'm gonna be hooked by this, whether it's good or not. This is like a contemplative book about Irish people in the Boonies and it's historical fiction. You don't really expect, at least I don't expect that to be something unputdownable. And the way that, and like the mystery at the center of it, I don't wanna say too much about it. If you don't know anything about it, I think it's best not to know too much about it. The mystery at the center of it, like it's not like a huge thing. It's not like the freaking Da Vinci code. Like it's really small in scope but it's just so well written I think and the way you're like with the main character and like even though there's things that you maybe notice or identify or spot before the main character does, there were definitely times when I was like, well, this is what's going on. This is what they're talking about. The main character doesn't get it. I'm like, I think it's this. And then a few pages later, the main character is like, oh, it's this. And I was like, yeah, I know.  I felt like genuine to me that she wouldn't necessarily put together what I had put together for various reasons, some of which are like the knowledge I have from the modern day that people didn't necessarily have back in the day. That's quite believably told. I think both sides of prejudice are explored quite well. Sort of like the pro science and pro-religion sides are decently well and balancedly, balancedly. I don't know if that's the word. Portrait, like a main character is quite prejudiced, but her prejudices sometimes are vindicated and but also oftentimes challenged and complicated by what she's encountering. And she's kind of forced to confront her prejudices about some things while she also forces others to confront their prejudices. I think this is so well-written, five stars. No question. I really, really loved this. Definitely gonna read more Emma Donahue. So I have another half of books already that I own frog music, I think. So I'll read that since I own it and then like go check out her backlist. Maybe Broom since that's her most famous one. But this totally worked for me, surprise. Like, I don't know what mystical forces overcame me that I was like, I should read that book. And then it was the perfect book to be reading and I couldn't put it down, but it was a great experience and I highly recommend. The next book I read was Blood of Elves, the first, like properly the first book in the Witcher series for the Witcher Read Along on chapter three podcast. If you missed the podcast episode, I'll leave it linked down below where we chatted about Blood of Elves. I really enjoy the Witcher books, at least to begin with, as I've said many times, like by the end, they kind of lose me. But this is the beginning where I remembered loving it. I still love it. So Kowski's writing is quite witty and engrossing and I love some of the banter between the characters. It just reminded me again, why I hate what the show did to these characters. There's, I absolutely laugh out loud at some parts. It's quite philosophical and political and just really interesting. So yeah, I'm having a great time and I'm really excited to continue with the Witcher books. Next book I read was the book that my patrons chose for me to read and vlog for them. And that was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, my second Philip K. Dick book. And I'm afraid the vlog for this book is a little bit of a mess. And I still don't quite know how I feel about this book. It was quite interesting to read Having Seen Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. I really love 2049. That's why my patrons picked this for me because I kept talking about 2049. And I still think that, I mean, I would have said the best of the two was 2049 and now I would say the best of the three, including this book is 2049. It is really interesting how different it is from Blade Runner and in what kind of going, you know, reverse engineering kind of, because Blade Runner to me was first and kind of seeing what they decided to change, what they decided to take out, what they decided to add in. Some choices I'm like, that makes total sense. Other choices I'm like, huh, I'm surprised that they changed that or took that out or whatever. I can't really, between 2049, I love it. Between Blade Runner the movie and this book, I don't know which I like more or hate more or whatever. I think they're both deeply flawed. And weirdly, I feel like, well, one of my complaints about Blade Runner the film is that it doesn't actually seem that interested in engaging with the philosophical questions it purports to be proposing. And this I would say seems more interested in engaging with those questions at the same time. Blade Runner ultimately does actually at least give some, give an instance of like kind of really engaging with the philosophical question, like for way too briefly, but it does. And this, it kind of like dances around those questions more than the movie does, but then ultimately like doesn't actually do anything with it. And at the end, I was kind of like, what was the point of that? Whereas the movie Blade Runner, I feel like it was wasting a lot of my time, but ultimately had a point. I am glad to have read it. And I hope that the vlog isn't too bad. But anyway, that is that. The next book that I read was American Gods.  This was my third time reading American Gods and it's a hell of a book. I'm pretty excited about the video. I have planned for American Gods. So I don't want to say too much about it other than that it's coming and that you should get hype. And if you don't watch it, it's fine. But yeah, I had a good time rereading American Gods and I think I have a lot to say about it and I'm excited to say things about it and I will, forthwith. The last book that I finished was The Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie. And this book was given to me by Mara a really long time ago. And I finally read it and I really, really enjoyed it. I think this is my first Miss Marble that I've read. I've watched all the adaptations of Marble. But I think, because I've read quite a few Agatha Christie's now, nothing compared to Mara, I don't think I had read any Marbles before. Let's see. I had read Ridley and Aren't Express, hated it. And then there were none, loved it. The Secret of Chimneys, meh. Crooked House, quite liked it. Look, I read one after that. Maybe not. So this might be one of my fifth Agatha Christie. Oh, Death on the Nile. I read Death on the Nile. So this is my sixth Agatha Christie. I believe. And yeah, I really, really liked it and I've always loved Miss Marble as a character like in all the adaptations I've seen. So yeah, I really had a good time with this, more than I thought, because I've seen a couple adaptations of this. So I pretty much knew what to expect and I knew who did the doing of the done it. But nevertheless, I found it an engrossing experience and I found it quite tense, even though I knew what was going on and I knew the answer. So, you know, Testament to Miss Christie, it was, I, what? I just noticed that this book says that she's the Queen of Mr. Is that, I assume that's a misprint, right? Or does that mean something that I'm not aware of? The Queen of Mr. What? Anyway, yes, I had a good time with this. So Mara, I read it finally. Thank you. And I'll read some more Marples because I really do like Miss Marple, always have. And I'm glad to find, because I like Poro adaptations but I haven't liked the Poro books that I read. But Marple, I like her. So anyway, that. And then I haven't yet finished because I put this last because I like to read it right before we have our chats but Citadel of the Autarch, the fourth book in the book of the new sun, I'm partway through it, but I'm finishing it like now as a filming of this video, like our chat is in a couple of days from now. So yeah, I want to have read it like freshly before we chat, which is why I haven't quite finished it yet, but I will soon. And I'm so excited to chat about it. Those are all the books that I read in April. Let me know in the comments down below your thoughts about these books. If you've read them, if you have not read them, if you want to read them, if you never want to read them, whatever you want to let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random tabs, well, definitely Saturdays so I can subscribe to my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you.