Hello, learners, and welcome to the Second Life Event of S1X, Supply Chain Fundamentals. I'm Ima Borrella. I'm a postdoctoral associate here at the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT. And I am the co-lead of S1X, as you already know. And I'm really happy to be here today with Dr. Larry Lapidi. Hi, Larry. Hi, Emma. Thank you for inviting me. Thank you for being here. Dr. Larry is an expert in forecasting, and he's an OP. And I would like to briefly introduce his bio, because he's a very long and interesting bio. I'll try to do my best to summarize all his achievements. He holds a PhD in operations research from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He's an electrical engineer with a master's from MIT. And he currently works as a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts. He's also a research affiliate here at CTL in MIT. And he led a really interesting project, Supply Chain 2020, that focused on understanding the future of supply chain management and led the demand management research group at MIT. His experience in business is also very wide. He has more than 30 years of experience in supply chain and marketing, experiencing consulting in the high tech sector, and also as a market analyst. And he has been teaching while he was also working in business on a part-time basis. He's been part and helped several professional society officer positions, including a few years serving as a board member and treasurer of the supply chain council, president of the Boston chapter, the Institute of Management Sciences, sorry, now informs. And most importantly, he got a great award. He's the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Business, Forecasting, and Planning Award, bestowed by the Institute of Business, Forecasting, and Planning in 2012. Congratulations for that. And he has written numerous articles, including writing an ongoing column in the Journal of Business Forecasting since 1997 and supply chain management review since 2008. So great value. Thank you so much for being here, Larry. And so we're going to learn a lot from you today. And the agenda for today's life event is the following. First, we will discuss a little bit of forecasting in a business environment, because you've learned a lot about forecasting. But Larry will share with us his insights on how it is that you develop a forecasting function in a company. Then he will explain why he wrote the article. We will discuss today this article. Don't just measure forecast errors, but use them, I guess. So he will introduce the article. After that, we will go to the breakout sessions, where you can discuss with your peers about two questions we will propose you. After the discussion rooms, we will come back here and we will discuss with Dr. Lapiti on these two questions. And also, you will share your insights with us so we can comment with you. And after that, we will wrap up and close the life event. So Larry, the floor is yours. OK, thank you. Nice introduction. I'm just going to put my glasses on, because I may have to read some of my notes. But I'm glad thank you very much for having me here. I'm talking about a topic I've been dealing with for over 30 years. It's business forecasting. When we go to school, when I went to school, we learned about forecasting, but it was all about statistical methods. And those are very important. But in a business environment, you also have to worry about the process of forecasting. So if you look at forecasting, it's a business process. It's got to be done. It's got to be done routinely. And it's got to be done, I believe, by a very professional business forecasting organization focused on forecasting. So I want to talk first a little bit about forecasting in the business environment. And over the last 30 years, the big trend has been into something called one number forecasting. One number forecasting does not mean this is one number, but it means this is one set of numbers that the whole organization is planning on around. So we have to know what's going on in the future in terms of revenue. That's the thing that drives all the operations in business. So the marketing people have to plan in their area for the revenue we're expecting to get and create and shape the salespeople as well. Supply chain, we have to get all the supply chain resources in place in time to meet customer demand. The finance people have to worry, do we meet our financial performance targets? So everyone is interested in that business forecast which says, how much business are we going to get from customers? What is going to be the revenue? Because we're trying to get to one number accountability and commitment from everyone that that's the set of numbers that are going to be the revenue numbers. And then the people are going to plan around it to make sure we meet the profitability targets as well over time. Okay, so that's kind of what we mean by one number forecasting. Now, what does a forecast to do? Well, basically we build models and we quantify. That's what we do. We take all the marketing and sales activities and plans going forward, maybe six months to 18 months out. And we look at what's going on, it has gone on in the business historically and then we look at potentially what might happen in the future competitively and to the business environment and we develop a set of models that quantify the numbers. And what we normally are working on numbers that drive the rest of the organization. And we'll talk a bit about that when we talk about the pyramid. So that is really what we're doing. But if you remember, the people who are responsible for creating and shaping demand in a company is marketing and sales. So a key thing is to work very well with the marketing sales organization to understand what they're trying to do to impact the future for revenues themselves. And the key thing is also we are looking at unconstrained demand because we want to meet unconstrained demand and we don't want supply to constrain that. So we can achieve revenue targets because supply doesn't have it. That's why it's important that supply chain also take the revenue forecast and use it to create the supply plans going forward for the next six months to 18 months out. And if you look at it from a forecast then what's another thing we do? And I always talk about the thing we work and look at in the past is variation in demand. And the reason why we look at variation in demand is because if simply put, if demand did not vary every no reason to have a forecaster. And the forecasters are important because we have to understand what impacts the business and why those demand variations have happened in the past so we can also explain what are the variations in the future that might happen. Okay, so that's what it's all about. Now, the thing that I like to talk about is the permit and we're gonna pop that up right now. Do you wanna pop up that permit? Okay. You have to get buy-in for your forecast. You have to basically, okay, do we have it yet? No, you got us, okay. Technical problems. Share. Okay, so these are a set of forecast and plan hierarchies. I think they're the most important thing to be doing anytime you've been developing a forecasting and or sales and operations planning process which we won't talk much about today but these are the hierarchies you have to create. And I describe it like you have to take the forecast and even the plans, if you would talk about that and you have to put it in multiple language. What are those languages? People in the company talk different languages. So if you'd like to take a look at the left-hand side of this pyramid, the pyramid called demand side views. How do people talk about the business in that area? So if you look at sales, many companies make mistakes and try to get the sales organization to agree to unit-based forecast. How many of an SKU am I going to sell? They really can't do it that way. They don't think that way. They think in terms of how much they sell to each account and dollars in the US, of course. In other countries, it's whatever currency you have. So when you talk to sales and you try to take your forecast and roll it up to them, this is all about aggregating the data. And we're aggregating the data to their language. And their language deals with dollars, money, which is really revenue. And they want to see it by accounts. Maybe they don't want to see it by every account or maybe they want to see it by their major accounts, right? And they can look at it and say, well, you're forecasting this for Walmart. And we don't think Walmart's going to do that. We think Walmart's going to do less than that. Or so they can respond to it when you present the forecast for Walmart. And also by regions. So the US rolls it up. You roll it up to the US level. You roll it up to Europe. You roll it up to Asia Pacific. And they have to look at it and say, that looks okay from a dollar perspective in terms of what we can sell. So you're in the language of sales. And that's the language. And then obviously it's at the company level. So basically the view as we aggregate the data from the lowest level has to be that view to them. And I always say to salespeople, speak Greek because we have an expression in the United States. To speak Greek, nobody understands you. And unfortunately in many companies, the sales organization has their own unique identity and not everybody on supply side can really communicate as well with them. But that's a different story. Okay, now how about the marketing people? Okay, I was a marketing person. So I know how marketing people think. And they think in terms of, they can think in terms of dollars and units as well. They don't have to think it's just dollars. They also think of units. They wanna see things by brand. And so if you show a brand manager at a company, what the revenue forecast is and they look at it and they say, yes, that's what I was expecting from my brand. I can commit and be accountable for making sure we generate that revenue in that brand. And each brand manager would wanna look at it and make sure that they're comfortable with the revenue target.  And so you get groups and basically you roll it up to product groups. And again, the person responsible for the product group also wants to see it and see whether or not they can be accountable and they commit to making that revenue number. And then you go to company. So that is the marketing view. That's the demand side view. Now we go to the middle one, which is the view we all love, supply chain, right? What is supply chain people? How do we think? Okay, so if you take a look at logistics, we talk about units in cases. We very rarely talk about revenue. We wanna see the forecast in terms of units in cases because we can do something about that. So we wanna know something about the geographies. Where are the ship to locations? How much are we gonna ship to the West Coast? How much are we gonna ship to the East Coast, United States? Maybe how much we're gonna ship out of Asia, Latin America? So the ship to location view is some view that we can then feed the transportation people who have enough transportation capacity to achieve that. Then we roll it to warehouses. How much revenue is gonna have to be sent out from the warehouse? We don't care about revenue, but we care about cases and units. How much is it gonna get sent out? And is this forecast make sense that we even have capacity to do it? Do we have the capacity to receive materials and product? We have capacity to load and ship it out. So they wanna see it by warehouse and they can say, okay, we have enough warehouse operation capacity or they don't, right? So that's the logistics view. Then the manufacturing view, they have production lines. Is this revenue forecast? And again, in terms of units, is this revenue forecast meaning that we're using 80% capacity of the line that might be okay, it's all right. But if you're gonna put 150% on a production line, I only agree to it if I get overtime where I can do another shift, all right? So basically the manufacturing people have to be comfortable or we can produce what the revenue forecast says and it's all in terms of units. Okay, so that's the middle one. Those are the good guys, remember, because we're supply chain. Now we go to finance. We got two views of finance. One is the budgetary units. In other words, the finance people are responsible for budgets. Budget is nothing more than an allocation of resources we do once a year and we do it they wanna look at revenues and margins and say, okay, what are the margins and the revenues that are gonna result from this forecast? I wanna see it by operating unit to see whether or not we've got adequate resources to support it. I wanna see it by divisions and business units and to make sure we're supporting the divisions in that way. And then of course we wanna see it by weeks, quarters and years because I want to see if we're gonna meet financial targets. Normally we're on a annual performance targets for finance and so we wanna make sure that the forecast is consistent with what we're trying to achieve from a performance perspective. Okay, so that's the hierarchies and the last thing I wanna talk about is the models themselves, okay? How do you make these models that people will be leaving? Okay, because now you've got the looks but how did you get this numbers? If I don't agree with it, how do you convince me as a marketing person, a sales person or a financial person that it's a good forecast, okay? And here's what you gotta do. You gotta do first of all, the models have to look reasonable. I know when we're all in school, we learn very fancy mathematical equations and stuff like that. That doesn't fly in business. It has to be understandable by somebody. Even if it's a complex formula, it's still gotta be reasonably understandable in terms of what you're doing. So it has to have what I call face validity as well as validity. And so validity is accuracy. Face validity is, looks reasonable, okay? So that's the one thing about that. You also have to build it up. You have to build up what we call base business first. Turn business, that's typically a statistical forecast which takes the history and moves it forward but he promotes the data, gets all the promotions out and then new product sales out and basically gives us a good historical and to reject from, okay? So we have what's called base or turn business. On top of that, we add on business. We're gonna get from promotions that get run by marketing and sales. On top of that, we're gonna produce new products that we're gonna be putting right into market. We gotta put on top of that. And then we have to bring in some marketing intelligence which is a marketing intelligence from people in marketing and sales tells us what's going on out in the business, okay? So that's a, you build it up in four ways. Now, so that's a good thing because then you can tell people and make it clear what's going on in the pyramids. Second piece of this is you want to basically focus on facts, figures and assumptions. Now, what do I mean by that? Typically, you've gotta get buy-in and commitment and accountability from all the organizations. Let's say the salesperson says, I don't believe that number, I want you to change it. I'm not changing the number. Why? Because what I'm gonna explain to you is what the facts, figures and assumptions I got to get to it. Those facts, figures and assumptions led to a number because I have a model to get to the number. So if you wanted to dispute the number, you have to dispute either the facts are wrong, the assumptions are wrong or the figures are wrong. If you can't say they're wrong, you're not responsible for the model that was what I do, which is to take those facts, figures and assumptions and quantify it to a forecast. That's what I get paid to do. The salespeople can respond to it, but then you got, if you want to change it, and you have to disagree with one of the facts, figures and assumptions or you got to do something different, right? So that's basically the way you defend it in an organization that has to be defended, okay? But not the numbers themselves. Fact, figures and assumptions are behind. Okay, now. So that's the first thing I wanted to talk about was forecasting the business environment. Next, why did I write this article? Basically, it's very simply put. Forecasters are ashamed of their forecast errors. I'll be honest with you, we've done a lot of benchmarking these forecasting. You're ashamed of the numbers. 50% error on maybe a stock keeping unit on location is not bad. It's actually a good forecast because with all promotions and stuff that get created, it's not bad, okay? So essentially, I wrote this article to say, you got to learn from your errors is one thing and you also have to be able to tell people what the errors are so they can plan for risk management, okay? And that's what is in the article. So I think we're at the stage where you're gonna be addressing the two questions and then we'll talk about it, okay? Thank you, Larry. That was extremely interesting. I think it's gonna be very useful for our learners. So now we're gonna go to the breakout rooms. I hope all of you have read this article. You can download it from the section, live events, second live event in the course. So you don't have downloaded it, download it now and go to the breakout rooms. We will be discussing these two questions. Are you showing them Arthur? Thank you. So question one is how might you analyze your forecast errors in order to improve your forecasting? How will you use them to improve your forecasting? And the second question is in what ways might a company use forecast errors in order to manage risks? So is this idea that Dr. Lapidia just put out? I'll say you have these errors. Usually people are the same to them, but they're usually, they're really, really useful, really valuable. So how could you put them in use to improve your forecast and to manage risks? So please go to the breakout rooms, discuss these two questions and we will be back here in 15 minutes.


California Adult Education Digital Learning Guidance Chapter 2 – Ensuring Equity and Access Technology is built into nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Today, digital equity is crucial for everyone to ensure access to essential services, civic and cultural participation, employment, and lifelong learning. The three essential components necessary for ensuring digital equity are connectivity to broadband internet, access to digital devices, and digital literacy skills. With digital literacy competency, adults can use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information. Digitally literate adults are more likely to be successful with participation in adult education programs, job readiness and occupational training, and to meaningfully participate in digital learning. Adult educators can improve equity and access for their learners by being aware of the resources available to provide low-cost broadband connectivity, reliable and appropriate digital devices, and content that will support the needs of diverse learners. For information about how to ensure equity and access, see the guidance at otan.us.


All hail one of Disney's only nice forgotten queens, Kida of Atlantis. For real, she's one of the only Disney princesses who also becomes a queen eventually and actually retains her goodness and breaks through that trope of evil queens or stepmoms that's become so infamous. So you know, good on the Atlanteans for embodying love. I mean, hey, even Elsa kinda went into her shadow self for a bit there, right? Anyways, Atlantis is not your typical Disney movie. There's no musicals, no happy-go-lucky princesses who get helped by forest critters and swoon after princes.  And of course, it's freakin' Atlantis, so of course we gotta talk about it. Under the surface, especially in the design elements, there's a huge wealth of ancient spirituality that taught an entire generation of kids about lost cities and consciousness for the first time. So spoiler alert, Atlantis is about a young researcher named Milo who, through the funding of an old family friend who's also very into yoga, is able to gather a crew to search for the lost civilization and its mysterious power source. They discover that not only does Atlantis really exist, but that it's still inhabited by people hundreds or thousands of years old who have super-advanced technology and wisdom, but have forgotten how to use it since the Cataclysm. But by and far, one of the most immediate things that sticks with you after watching though is that the animation and art style, along with the design of Atlantis itself, is very on par with Plato. In this movie, the crew find a civilization bathed in New Age imagery, colors and idealism, reminiscent of Madame Blavatsky's depictions of the ancient empire. Mystic symbols, especially the ever-present spiral and triangle, are carved into ceremonial stones and painted on masks that resemble the ritual attire of Native Americans, something that Sweet notices early on. And nor was this an accident, for when researching and designing Atlantis, the creators went through every kind of theory imaginable and eventually found the work and readings of Edgar Cayce, the sleeping prophet. According to Cayce, Atlantis was a highly advanced civilization in touch with the higher aspects of themselves and reality, and had found a way to integrate consciousness with technology and powered their machines through the use of crystals. To Cayce, Atlantis was a living, breathing spiritual force that really existed. Supposedly, they could focus their mental energy into crystals to produce usable power, which could in some cases be used as a weapon. Naturally, when Disney was coming up with concept art, they probably thought the exact same thing as all of us. Well, that would look awesome in a cartoon, and they made it! The big floaty consciousness crystal was born, and Atlantis was designed around it. In the movie, Atlantis is presented as the archetypal mother civilization from which all mother cultures come from. As a result, all of their temples and buildings reflect common styles from everything you'd come to expect in the modern world. Even their language is actually based off Proto-Indo-European, with a dash of Sumerian grammar thrown in. The point is, the creators took the occult ideas of Atlantis and ran with it. Even the journey there goes through a kind of hollow earth. Whoopsies, maybe we can't say that without getting demonetized. Did you hear what happened to our last video? But anyways, all the while they're being guided by a sacred journal that is fairly reminiscent of Lovecraft's Necronomicon. The great crystal itself holds a huge amount of spiritual wisdom too. It's a life-giving power source that energizes all life, lights, and flying vehicles in Atlantis. Each person is connected to this force through a personal crystal amulet worn as a pendant, which has been ripped off so many times now. But as the King explains, the crystal is so much more than a power source or a mechanistic machine. It's created by and takes fuel from the consciousness and collective emotions of its people. It's even said that the crystal, and by extent all the smaller crystals, have a consciousness of their own, which also makes it kinda like a deity. Weirdly though, near the beginning when Kira is speaking to Milo, she makes reference to the gods wiping out Atlantis, indicating some kind of polytheistic belief system. And while this could be just a throwaway line, there's a sense that the Atlantean worldview encompassed multiple gods. As well as this understanding of a universal consciousness that connects and guides all people and things, seemingly blending ancient polytheism with Americanized Buddhism and New Age concepts like the Akashic Records, which contains all of the past collective knowledge of humanity. While we do have this polytheistic belief system, it is still also unified with their whole-source-consciousness crystal-majigger. So maybe it's even kind of a mix, or like a polytheistic monotheism. Interestingly, according to background fandom sites. In the lore around 100,000 BC, a huge comet passed over the Earth and a large fragment broke off and landed in the kingdom. Upon examination, the Atlanteans found that it contained a massive crystal and uncovered the great properties it possessed. In time, they built their entire culture, civilization and empire upon it, connecting with it until it became the heart crystal that we see in the movie. There's actually even a theory that it came from the Mystic Isles, which is like another dimension in the Disneyverse, where crazy powerful entities live and is the source of all magic. But that's another video on its own. Now, one of the more underlying messages of this movie, though, is its commentary on how nature needs to be protected and not put to waste. In the movie, the events of the flood were caused by the hubris of the king, who, in his arrogance, wanted to use the crystal and consciousness as a weapon, but which caused great instability was what eventually caused the fall. The manipulation of consciousness into a weapon is fairly similar to our story of Atlantis that we've both explored in the human history movie, along with the Anunnaki movie too. The king pushed aside the need of the crystal as a life force and used it for selfish purposes, which only led to ruin. After the flood happened, the king hid the crystal under Atlantis, since he didn't want anyone to try and use its power for these same purposes. And he feared that what happened to his wife would happen to his daughter. By hiding the crystal from sight, the king ignored the past, which ironically is what the crystal thrived on. Perhaps there's a message here about the misuse of our consciousness for egotistical gain. In our current disharmony estate, many of us act like the king and seek to use our gifts to expand our own personal kingdom, rather than truly connecting with our hearts and living in balance. If the events of the movie are anything to go by, this can only go one way. The crystal then can be seen as both a natural source of energy and something sacred. As long as it's respected by the people, the crystal protects them, gives them power and provides them with a long life. But as soon as they are disconnected from it, they begin to die. I get it. The crystal is a metaphor for nature, or our souls, or God, or all three. Whoa. God bless for effect. Gentlemen, I'll take your questions now. Beautifully though, when the king finally faced his shadow, Kita was able to restore the crystal to its proper place in the community and Atlantis began to thrive again. The message here is pretty clear. The crystal is the collective consciousness and heart of the Atlanteans and reflects our own consciousness too. We should use this power within us with respect and not to harm others. In this way, we can thrive as a species, but if we hide our spirit under the surface and ignore it, or even worse, try to mechanize it in our arrogance, it could lead to ruin. This dual nature is shown pretty well at the beginning and end, coming full circle. When Milo first meets Kita, he has a cut on his chest that she heals by touching him with her crystal, ultimately coming from a place of love. But at the end, when Milo is fighting Rourke, he cuts him with a piece of glass with crystal juice on it and turns him into crystal stein. Maybe the crystal was tapping into the intention behind its user. In the works of the theosophist, Alice Bailey, who the team also drew upon for inspiration for the artwork, she tells us that during the time of Atlantis, there was a tremendous battle on the astral between the forces of light who wanted to lift human evolution out of materialism and separateness and the involuntary forces of darkness who wanted to enslave human will and more deeply immerse humanity in matter, which is what she argued was the cause of the fall. It's kind of awesome then that Milo's final battle is against the heartless materialism of two bad teammates who had stolen the crystal to sell it on the black market. It's a nice little work in that the team did. Not only are some egotistical humans trying to lock the crystal force away and sell it, but they're ultimately defeated only to have the crystal soren to the sky and be free in all its glory. Now, of course, we can't do a video on Atlantis without really talking about Kita. You know, one of the best Disney princesses ever who has been criminally underrated. By the end, she basically becomes a semi-ascended master, bonding her consciousness to the crystal and going all glowy and holy and becoming a being of pure energy. In a time of great need, the crystal can choose a host to channel its power through and protect the kingdom, which sounds an awful lot like Thoth Ship underneath the Sphinx, but hey, I digress. Really though, Kita embodies the divine feminine in her idealistic nature, going to her father to broach new ideas about how to save their culture and also has a perfect balance of the sacred masculine and isn't afraid to put her thoughts into action. With Milo, she forms a pretty good creator team that brings consciousness back to the people. In the end, the glowing energy princess floats down from the skies in a beam of light and melts into Milo's arms where she regains consciousness and her human form, just in time to see a civilization reborn and thriving again, the result of honoring our divine selves. Isn't it funny how after all of it, Kita just gives away that whole mountain of treasure to Milo's crew and helps them back to the surface? Not like the Atlantean economy would need any gold, right? But it's interesting that the real treasure Kita and Milo value is knowledge. So much so that Milo even stays behind to help the Atlanteans relearn their culture, which is amazing because in one of the opening scenes of Atlantis II, totally not as good by the way, but still fun, shows a school teaching the language so we know he succeeds. Most of the temples seem to be a blend of East Asian and Mayan architecture too, which not only links the story to the Maya themselves, the supposed Atlantean priesthood, but also gets that picture of Greek columns and temples out of your head, which was one of the original intentions behind the design. Bringing this to a close then, if you ever wanted to see a faithful reproduction of the New Age ideas of Atlantis, then this is actually a really good movie to go and watch. And while it didn't do great at the box office, it kind of has become a cult classic. And supposedly Tom Holland might star as Milo in a live-action remake. And wait, wait, wait. He's also playing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie. What? This story's message of exploration, adventure, inclusion, and the importance of living in harmony with our consciousness are all lessons that kids learned early on by watching this, and that you can too. And while some Bible moms have tried to point out hidden Illuminati or Freemason symbols in it, like the all-seeing eye or the quartered circle, the ultimate lessons of this movie are really ones of love, compassion, and a caution of hubris and putting our ego above a community. The whole nature of this movie is even funnier when you read Normal Milanovic and Shirley Mcunae's work that argue that Walt Disney himself was supposedly a new ascended master whose mission on earth was to create an awareness of the elementals, the animals, and how to integrate the existence of such kingdoms into human consciousness. And while we don't know about that, it is kind of fun to think about. Maybe Disney's Atlantis was more in line with Walt's vision than everyone realized. So, until next time, pagae shea nalek ga moak, which is thanks bye in Atlantean.


Hey, what's up, folks? Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noah Ruiz. Joining me every Wednesday is my brother, Pedro. Good morning, everybody, Pedro. It's creative tech here at 8 o'clock every week. We're here to share 3D print projects featuring electronics from Adafruit and coffee. This is a show we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody, in the chat room hanging out with us this morning is episode 437. It is April 10th, 2024. Welcome, everybody, to the show. If you'd like to join us throughout the show, you can drop comments in any of the social networks, but we are hanging out in the live broadcast chat channel. That's a damn fine cup of coffee. That's my Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks Impression, which I just finished watching season 1, 2, and 3. Yeah, crazy stuff. Good morning, everybody. We'll give you some shout-outs to folks hanging out. We have Du Wester, Rosin, DJ Devon 3. Good morning, everybody. We have lots of prototyping projects to share. We have some community makes and a time lapse. All right, let's kick it in to gear with Adafruit.com find out all the deals that are happening this week at Adafruit.com. We'll start off with the orders that are $99 or more. Folks that order that much will get a free PCB coaster with a golden Adafruit logo automatically added to your cart. If your order is $149 or more, you get the free PCB coaster plus a free Adafruit KB2040. It's a lovely dev board between the RP2040 chip, Stem-AQT port, and lots of fun GPIO. If your order is $199 or more, you'll get the KB2040, the PCB coaster, and free UPS ground shipping for content on 3US only.  All of these items, these goodies, get automatically added to your cart at checkout. So no need to add coupons. All supplies last at Adafruit.com. For the details. And on top of that, we're going to give you a 10% off discount code for your total order. Today's coupon code is P-CO-D-V-I. Pi-Cod-V. Federer, what's going on? Putting in all of the links. Okay, I just got the links for you. Vince is also hanging out. Good morning, Vince. We're streaming on all the channels. LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitch, and X. X marks the spot. Cool. All right. I'm caught up. I think I got all those in there. I used to talk about the newsletter. But I'll just put the link in there. Adafruit.com slash newsletter, I think? Yeah. I got it. To subscribe to any type of newsletters, we have tons of them. New products, newsletters, CirclePython newsletter, or is that Python on hardware? AdafruitDaily.com, that's it. Yeah. Yeah, we used to have a whole, like, elaborate intro. Now we just kind of wing it, which I'm fine with. I used to have a thing for it. Here it is. Newsletter. New, new, new news. But whatever, really. Try to update that. That's, like, the winter edition. You can see everybody's has, like, X scarf and whatever. I should probably update that. Yeah. Well, we have a lot of time to kill, because we don't really have a learn guide or a video today, because we are in the middle of it. But Pedro, you've been working on this with Liz. Yes. Awesome code over to me in the afternoon. And it is a DVI monitor for two different sensor nodes. Yo, check out your monitor. Whoa. Yeah. Let me switch over to, where am I? Yeah. Which one do you want? I'll show you. The settings for my, what is it called? Where it crops out the monitor. Yeah. It's like a... It never works. The aspect ratio is, like, a little off. Let me see. Do you want me to chat while you fix that? Okay. There you go. All right. So this is a Pico DVI with the Pi, the Raspberry Pi W, the Wi-Fi deaf board. And it is pulling data from Adafruit IO. It's pulling data from a couple of different sensor nodes that you have throughout your house. You have one on, you have a temperature sensor for your pool. So you can see the data that's coming into the pool. You got a humidity sensor. You have battery monitor for that sensor, and you have the air quality sensor. And these are all different things that are all pulling in from Adafruit IO. And you're displaying these icons and the text through a Pico DVI output. So this is an HDMI display. And it just plugs in via HDMI. And you got this really cool display with color graphics and stuff. You got, let me feature that again. Let me go full screen on, excuse me on that. So this is super cool. We have this HDMI display in the Adafruit shop. It's got HDMI, VJS video, and all these ports. But what's cool about it is you've made a 3D printed bracket to house the Pi-Cow Doubler Proto. So it has the Pico, the Raspberry Pi Pico W, that's the Wi-Fi deaf board, and the Pico DVI Cowbell. That gives you deep DVI output. And you got this really nice vis amount. Get the thumbs up there. Get this nice vis amount on the back that you can attach the plate to. And you have all, you have this, kind of like an all-in-one unit that has very clean wiring. You're able to power the 12 volts from a five volt USB battery using this little boost USB boost converter, which we sell in the shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything we sell in the shop here, you have some ultra-slim HDMI cables. As you can see, they're like these super slim and short ribbon cables. So it's just such a clean unit here. And you're powering the Pi-Cow W with the USB port on the monitor. That's awesome. Everything's just so self-contained. It's all portable right there. So it's really cool. Yeah, so when we were talking about making this project, we didn't really see the bigger picture because we were thinking, you know, attaching it to a giant HDMI display, but when it's all into one little integrated little package like this with all of the connections, it makes so much sense to have one dedicated unit to just display what all of the other sensor nodes are displaying and just combining it into one little dashboard. And the cool thing about it is I was showing off the dashboard that we, the web version of the dashboard, I have to sit there and hit like the reload button. Like some of this info doesn't update as fast as the HDMI CalVal 1 does. So I don't have to sit there and refresh. I don't have to have a different tab open on my computer. This is just a dedicated viewport for all of the sensors. Yeah. Yeah, the dashboard's great, but like you said, using your computer and the DVI Pico interface is custom. It's completely customized. You're getting only the data that you want. You can use whatever graphics, whatever color with the Pico DVI output. This is an Arduino project just because CircuitPython, the memory isn't really there. The performance isn't there for DVI output with the Pico W. But shout out to Brent. He recently added Adafruit IO support for the hardware for the Raspberry Pi Pico W. So you can now use that with Adafruit IO. What else am I missing? I think that's the main highlights there. I got why these views aren't switching in the way I want them to. You gotta drag and drop the screen. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Drag it over there. You over here. There you go. Yeah. Is that fair? Or we can do the three here. You want that one to be big? Let's do that. Okay, so we're building off of the last week's project, which was the DVI... No, was it last week? Two weeks ago? I don't remember now. I think it was last week. So we're building off of the Lego DVI doubler project and got rid of a Lego. I was able to use the geometry from the doubler to incorporate that into the little VISTA mount here with the plate on the top. This is compatible with STEMA boards. So if you want to add additional sensors right on the back of the display, definitely do that as well. You do have access to your STEMA connectors on the side here. And then these vents are the perfect size for stacking those onto the with some M25 standoffs. So you have additional mounting on this guy as well. And we're using all our DIY HDMI to DVI converters here.  So you can neatly have all your cables arranged. And then like you were saying before, the booster, super handy because having to have the power going in through a barrel jack into the wall wart, a little bit of pain. A lot of our outlets now have the USB ports right on there along with the outlets like the splitters. So you're able to just plug that directly into a USB outlet now. So that's a lot easier than having two different wires coming in just for the power. I searched all through our, what we have in stock in the Adafruit store and this is the only monitor that has the USB powered connection on there. All the other ones like did away with it, which that kind of stinks. We have to have something powered like that. Yeah. Way to go. And then you have all your legacy ones like you were saying the DGA, the RCA or the composite video. I'm sure we're going to play with that again when we have the retro floppy projects again. Yeah. So it's a seven inch HDMI display. Is it seven inch? I think it's seven. Oh man, I can't search for it. The idea is I just ordered another one because this one is like 11 years old. We first started at Adafruit. Forget what project we did with it. Oh, that was the Xbox display like mounted on the top of the Xbox controller. Yeah. I think it's this one here. I think I just found it. There it is. No, no, no, no. Come on. There she is. That's the layout I'd like. So it's a seven inch display, 1280 by 800. This amount on the back. Yes. Comes with a hardware. We did 3D printed our own to make it low profile. Yeah, I didn't know what happened at large. We probably threw it out or something. I don't know. But you have onboard menus for contrast and color and tint and sharpness and all that stuff. Originally it was really good for the Raspberry Pi, but hey, the Raspberry Pi Pico is what we're using. It's nine to 12 volts to power it, which is why you're using that 12 volt booster cable. But yeah, it's a pretty good display. HDMI right on there. Full size HDMI by the way, not the little dingy one. And then of course the USB five volt one amp. I'm thinking it doesn't list it here, but I'm looking for the any tech info on the USB port, but it's powering, you know, the Pico, which is five volts. Oh, it's for USB stick. So if you have MP3s and photos, remember TV have that you can like play off of it. I didn't think it would work because that's what it's labeled as. I didn't know if there was any actual power going to it, but to my surprise, it was great. It simplifies the cabling. Yeah, it does. So that's the display. We're a big fan of it. You just got yourself another one. So that's good. But the thing with this is it's Pico DVI. Any display is going to work with it. If it's a bigger display, the resolution will just scale up to it hopefully. The Pico DVI only outputs. Oh, boy, what was it? Let me go to the Pico DVI thing here. I have it right here. Switch over to it. There it is. There's the Pico DVI cowbell. And you can see we're using that same display in the hero shots here. The product is a nice display to do that. But, you know, we haven't really done many IO, we haven't done any IO projects with the DVI output. So this is kind of the first of its class. Let's see the top resolution. 800 by 400 is the top resolution. 16-bit pixel frame buffer. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah. Yeah, here's the note about circuit Python. It uses a lot of memory. So if you want to use Pico DVI support, you'll likely be able to get away with it. So much memory that we didn't think this was going to work. It wasn't working.  So yay, it's working. First of its class. Let me switch over. Again, when you're first starting, I didn't think it was going to be such a cool project. Man, this is so cool to have all those feeds feeding into one dedicated display that you can pretty much plug into any TV for the waiting room in an office is the main setting that I think this is going to be so good for. Yeah. I think a makerspace, too. If you've got a woodworking or a metal shop, you want to know what the, is the air OK? Yeah. Do our laser filters need to be changed out? Exactly. Do our laser cutters. This is good for that kind of shop use, where you just have to take a little bit of CO2 or carbon monoxide or something like that. The mowers were going by and I was able to look at this and go, oh, the AQI is only one. I thought it would be a lot higher because, you know, the gas with the leaf blowers and the mowers going around, but no, it was only like that one. There's nobody outside right now. There's like no mowers, no, no action going on outside. And I could see the neighbors smoking cigarette. Yeah. It's like, whoa, what's going on today that didn't happen yesterday with all that commotion. So I'm going to stand doors. It's funny. Yeah. And then the battery.  And then the battery is nice to be able to know, because it is the one that's monitoring the pool temperature. It is just on a battery. I'm on a 6,600 milliamp hour. So it's good to see when I need to change that out. And then you can get the IO triggers too, once it gets to like, I don't know, 10% or something like that. So you can have some time to change it out. Yeah. And then you can get the email on the battery's low. If you wanted to set that up. But again, you're pulling in data from two different nodes, two different microcontrollers that are and they have different temperature sensors, humidity sensors. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to mention it's two different devices with what, four different feeds. Right. We're combining here, which is we've not done them before. It's so cool. Yep. Again, we could do it with a dashboard, but then, you know, I'm taking up a tab. I'm using a computer. I'm using my phone. This literally plugs in anywhere. Yep. All right. Let's take a look at the discord real quick. We have some questions here. Brent is in the house. Hello, Brent. Yeah, it is. There's a new YouTube layout, apparently. And Brent is asking, you're using a new camera. Can you talk about that massive TV? Yeah, it's the. Yeah. Your TV is just like your monitor. Yeah. It's like an old monitor. The. Kate, the camera though. Yeah. It's just the black magic one. It's what I used to use for the videos. So I'm just, yeah, it switched over to using that Fuji XS 20. For all the videos. Yep. So you do 6k. So the black magic pocket cinema camera is like kind of old now. It's like maybe four or five years old. Maybe shooting at 6k and cropping to like a 4k aspect is for Tiktok or all the portrait videos. Cause then I can rearrange all of my shots. Without losing any resolution. You can just pan around and crop to the canvas size that I need to output to. Yeah. Just as a equipment, you're using a Mac book pro to power your setup right now. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. So yeah, turns into, I'm using an iMac M one for my setup. This is one display. It's all in one. That's, that's my setup. And the webcam is built into the iMac. So that's my setup. Just a quick, really talk about our, our setups in a while. But, you know, mics are these, we both have the same blue Yeti mic. I think that's used. You got your mic there. I got mine here. It's, it's off camera for overhead shots. We still like to use our iPhones via the cam studio software. And that's pretty much it. So that's our whole setup. Got any other questions you guys know. All right. Not enjoying the new YouTube layouts is rosin. I haven't seen. I go to your, I think it's the home page, not the, not the subscriber, but the home page. Like you used to be able to have the video auto play without having like the audio going. I can't do that. Interesting. Because the, the trick to that was if you do it that way, you could turn on the audio and then get no ads. If you just, if you just let the video auto play, but now you can't do that anymore. And that's how I was watching all of my YouTube videos with no ads. That's fun. All right. We got a question from DJ Devin or just some comments. You can create graphics on the display using display IO layout, Cartesian graph using it with his bit fit bit project. You can replicate Adafruit IO GUI locally with the Pico DVI. If you really want to, here's a screenshot. Of a line chart. Those people with the date and the battery monitor on top. 320 by 240 or 400 by 240, 16 bit pixels, which is then pixel doubled upscaling to full HDMI. DJ Devin is a smoker. He can get an air quality sensor to see how bad he can make to air. And 6k. I think it goes up to 500. Yeah. When you pull a smoke at it. Yeah. So the way is what you're filming the time lapses, though you're using a different camera. That's a lot of camera. Yeah. That's why I get stringing on the prints. And there's no, nothing I can do about the settings because I have, I do a long shutter speed on it because it's a low light in that room. So I think it's like a 20th. What is it? 200th of a second. So it, when you take the picture, it takes a while for that for the sensor to build up all that light. And that's why the, the nozzle parked away takes so long because it's waiting for the camera. And then as it's waiting for the camera, it's slowly oozing. Yeah. There's nothing I can do about that. Unless I get like way more lights in there. So I can increase the shutter speed on it. Yeah. Yeah. That, and you're using octoprint to handle the G code to like, Hey, go park the thing to trigger the time lapse. Cause that's literally what's triggering the time. The printer head. Parks. It's using a ring switch to trigger a, you know, intervalometer remote that's plugged into the camera, the DSLR camera. And the DSLR is powered through the wall. It's plugged in through a wall adapter. So the, there's no battery issues with it. I'm going to do a whole, yeah, we're going to do a video on it. We're finally going to do a video on it because the, the, what is it the contact switch that is on the shop right now? Yeah. We're going to use this to trigger our time lapses here. Cause right now, it's using a read switch. We're going to use this guy. So a photo, a reflective photo interrupter sensor. So this will, essentially the, the printer head will get close to this. And this is what will trigger our, our time lapse as a remote on time on the camera. And it'll take a photo, one photo every layer. So that's how it's working.  No, it's an After Effects. Oh, use After Effects. Okay. Use After Effects.  You can zoom in and zoom out. And the canvas. Because it's all digital. You know, 2024 and you have to make your own S curves for all the animations. Like you go in there and do like an ease on a, on a key frame. And it does like the most ugliest frickin graph. Really? Imagine what's like, why aren't you guys using new AI to draw an S, a smooth S curve for each frickin key frame? It's 2024. What are we paying you guys for? Like, seriously? Oh, I just turned into an Adobe. It takes so much work to zoom the camera in for all these keyframes. The time lapses. That's funny. And that is time lapse time. Let's chat. We got a question here on. I got on it. Okay. Yeah. There's a project coming. We still got to prototype it. There's a question in from Twitter or N is asking, how well does it handle analog signals? Can it handle thermocouplers? Any chance it could connect to a lab jack? I'm not sure about the lab jack. I'm not sure about the lab jack. But analog signals. Yeah. We have, I think the monitor is. DS. DS 17. No. I remember the name. 1817. There you go. Yes. Yeah. This is a analog. Oh, no, it's digital. Never mind. Is this different? No, that's the one I'm using in the point. Apparently it's digital, but I'm sure analog stuff will be there. Just fine. So we got that version. Then we got like this. This goes into the pool and, and checks the water temperature. That's, it's waterproof. With some caveats. You might want to add some hot glue. Pedro. Yeah. I know this water is keeping into where the heat, heat shrink is. Yeah. Right here. Yeah. That's funny. Where the metal part is. And then right where the cable is. Yeah. Yeah. You're not supposed to submerge all of it. I think you're supposed to stop around here. Maybe. Oh. So what you submerged a whole cable. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, if you want us to merge the whole cable, make sure you have some hot glue or something else to insulate it. Cause I think you're only supposed to have exposed the metal part to the water. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to do that. We have a part that you print that floats. Oh, like a buoy. That'd be funny. Yeah. Like a little buoy. It's not really that. You want to get it in the water so that you can get a better reading. No. You don't just want the water. Hmm. Anyway. Yeah. That's the question. That's the answer. That's the sense of reason. But. Yeah. I figured a lot of anybody who has a pool, you want to have a wireless way to check the temperature of the pool without having to like go outside. And go check it. So. Yeah. It's still cold. Your pool is still cold. Oh yeah. We can't go in it yet. I don't want to turn the heater on because it's so expensive to heat that pull up. Yeah. It is. It's a big pool. Yeah. We're looking at the, because we don't know what the specs of it or anything. Why does it take so long? Oh, the biggest pool in the neighborhood. That's why. Yeah. A lot of water in there. All right. We're getting some more chatter. DJ Devon. Here's what the new, the new layout looks like. Okay. Yeah. I was looking at it on my mobile phone. It looks different on there too. And then yep, it's all done in After Effects. Clear silicone is a good recommendation for a. A better waterproof solution than hot glue. So let's get you back in silicone. Yeah. Not cocking, but I guess some sort of silicone. All right. I think it might be. Makes sense. That's what we use. But yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. All right. So, let's after this. I just do in the video, getting all the hero shots for it. The code is, I think. Yeah. It's up on GitHub right now. If you guys want to download it and check it out. Video next week. This should be able to work with the whipper staffer components. We're literally just adding the feeds that are created by that into the Arduino code that. Liz cooked up to this to work. Yeah. What else? Yep. I'll release all the parts for all this next week. Yeah. Like all the parts are done. Yeah. I think the only other thing I wanted to add me, but maybe it's not required because you can totally poke it with like a pencil or something. Be built in like a little button to hit the, the boot select and the reset button on here. But it is like, if you really needed to, you can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll release all the parts for all this next week. It's just like, if you really needed to, you can poke it. Yeah. Okay. And you wouldn't be able to access it if, access it if you had STEM boards on there anyway. I don't know if it's worth. Yeah. I don't know. This is your call. I haven't needed to. I found myself using the uploader. Especially since this is an Arduino project. Pre-set makes more sense when you can. All right. That is the project. Any more questions on it? We'll get to them. But for now, we're going to do more prototyping. What am I working on? I see. Yeah. I'm doing a prop maker RP 2040 project. This was a, a request from my nephew, Gavin, Pedro, your son. This is a prop from Gravity Falls. The, the TV show, the cartoon. And in Gravity Falls, they have this, this prop called the memory. Gun, which wipes memories. So it's, it's kind of a fun shape. It's got like this kind of mid-century space vibe. It's got an OLED display here. We got a rotary encoder here. So the rotary encoder, what are you doing? I'm trying to make you full screen. There we go. All right. I turned it on. There's an OLED screen. The prop maker, RP 2040 is right here. We have an LED filament. So an LED noodle here. It's blue. Here's it turning on. It's got a, just a little push button here to trigger it to turn on the LED. It plays different sound effects. We have a speaker, the mini oval speaker right here inside the, the body. And then, what else am I missing? It's got a 2200 million battery in the handle here. We, this is the prototype. I'm going to print it in, in like a gold and a brass kind of brown color, but just getting all the parts kind of fitted right now. These are fake buttons. They don't really do anything. There's supposed to be an LED there, but I kind of opt to not have it because there's already a lot of parts in it, but it's, it's pretty modular. You can take the top off here.  It has a snap fit duly.  It just makes connecting everything to it so much easier. So LED noodle connects to the five volts. And there's no neopixels in here, but we do have a neopixel port if you wanted to add neopixels to it. Nice. That looks so good. Yeah, it looks pretty, it looks pretty cool. I like the shape of it a lot. It's kind of based around this like kind of cylinder and then suppose I have this giant knob. So the idea is that we want to make it so that you have a list of sound effects, audio files that show up here. And then you'll be able to kind of navigate and then click to select that. And then you'll have a different audio sound effect playing out. So that's, I've been wanting to do some sort of Edison bulb thing. These are plastic little Christmas ornaments that you can purchase on Amazon. And it has a built-in thread. So it just threads in there. And it looks really cool. Everything Prince without any supports because there's a lot of pieces. Yeah, I think it's a pretty cool gift for Gavin. Yeah. I'm not going to make two of them now. Dang it. Yeah. So the kids will have like a little wipe in their memories. This way it almost looks like a little good little bottle or something. Like a bottle thing. I have a bottom cap too that'll showcase the, it'll expose the USB charging the battery. Yeah. These are just sound effects that I ripped from our Loki time baton project. I'll probably come up with some other sound effects, but it's kind of cool to have an OLED display and then a rotary encoder to change what's on the OLED display. So I'm going to be cool. It's all done in circuit Python, of course, with help from Liz. And that's pretty much it. Just another cool prop maker project. So that's it. I'll show you what it looks like in the TV show to give you an idea of what it's like. Just type in Gravity Falls, memory gun. I think the reason I brought it up to Ann with Gavin was because they're releasing a book. Yeah. There's a new book coming out and new journal, I think. So that makes me think, oh, we're ramping this up. Is there, you know, another season they're working on? Oh, that looks nice. Yeah, I'll say that. Treasure box. Yeah, that's a cool treasure box. Oh, I'm missing a piece here. I'm actually going to cut this out of acrylic. It's called the Blaster Shield. Here it is. There's like a sketch of it. Actually, Gavin has the journal three. And in the journal three book, it has like the blueprint of like the memory gun.  I'm going to cut it out of acrylic here. You'll be able to 3D print it, of course, but I think it'd be cool to kind of have an acrylic shield. But yeah, that's a, that's it there. Gravity gun. Oh, and I have some more floral details on the handle that I'm going to print out. Okay, I see you. Yeah. Floral thing. Yeah. They have a kind of a bigger dial and it was kind of hard to get the handle to fit. But also have, you know, like, Yeah, there's always compromises. Yeah. So I ended up making it a little bit smaller and I extended this a little bit bigger. So I just, there's some design triggers I wanted to make. The canister is kind of cool. This is where like the memories are supposed to be stored, this, this thing. You're supposed to be able to like pop out the memories. But it's funny that the deaf board is in there and it has flash memory. I don't know. It's kind of complicated. But yeah. That's perfect. A point of this prop in the show is like the secret society uses this memory gun to wipe out anyone who sees things they aren't supposed to see, which I don't know the Zethical, but here's like Micah gets memories and they all get stored. So it like not only does it wipe your memory, it stores the memory and you can play it back. Which is kind of a cool concept. I don't remember any of that. Well, yeah. Again, I only remember him putting on the like the finale when they're fighting Bill Cipher. Yeah, with Cipher. Yeah. So yeah, it's pretty cool. I think it's a cool cool prop. I really like the look of it. It was fun modeling it too. Yeah. Not a lot of folks have made it. Like, like as a prop, like here's a couple of ones like made out of cardboard and stuff.  Yeah. Yeah. A lot of things on it. Tait was saying that there's an LED noodle in a drinking straw. No, it's three printed. No, it's a three printed holder. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there's, let me get rid of that and then show the thing again. Yeah. Yeah. The LED noodle is press fitted into this into this translucent thing. So you can see it there. Yeah. Yeah. It's perfectly sized too. Like the, the length of the noodles, 300 millimeters and that was a perfect. Everything just mashed up perfect. Like the size of this thing. This isn't glass. This is plastic as you can see it can flex it. Yeah. It worked out really well. Like I said, I wanted to make a light bulb kind of Edison style light bulb. And now it's like a cool prop. Yeah. So shout out to Gravity Falls for designing a cool prop and shout out to Gavin, of course, for suggesting this as a thing. At first I was like, I don't know. That's going to be kind of hard to do, but I'm glad we, we stuck with it. Now we have the super cool prop. The last time we made like a handheld blaster was many, many years ago. And it wasn't circuit Python. I think it was with like a old, was it a trinket or something? I forget what it was. The, the ray gun. Yeah. It was a trinket. A very first trinket. I think so. Yeah. It didn't have like, it was, it was such a pain to wire up. Everything needed to be wired up. A lot of this just kind of gets connected via STEMQT. Yeah. Here it is on a learn. You can see the various Lucio blaster. Oh yeah. We remember the ultrasonic ruler. Cool. Here it is. Ray gun. Yeah. The model wasn't exactly the, my favorite thing too. There's a lot of kind of post-processing I did on it. Nowadays you have filaments. This is glittery and shiny. And this was like spray paint and sanded down. But yeah, I had two dev boards. It had the sound effects board. And then the, the, is it itsy bitsy? I think it's an, or a trinket pro. Yeah. And that handled the, the neopixel animations, but the sound board just did the sounds. It was, it was a very complicated build. Look at the wiring diagram. It's gnarly. You need, you need to have a separate board for the battery charging. Mm-hmm. It was, it was just a lot going on there. It had a laser on it too. Yeah.  Not a lot of people built it, I think. I don't really have a good image. I think, I was at one teacher, one of the teachers. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe one. Yeah. That's what it looks like. Yeah. I think it was from like fallout. Or something. I think it was inspired by fallout. Yeah, I think so. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I designed it a one, two, three D. And, I can't remember the date. It'll say on here when this was originally published. 2014. So 10 years ago. Wow. A decade ago. So I'm really happy to finally do another one. That, that's pretty cool. We're redoing a lot of projects. Yeah. And it's a different shape, completely different design. Doesn't have a laser. Yeah. This is the advanced circuit python on Arduino. Yeah. And the code will be completely changeable. You can swap out the, the audio files easily. And it's all in just one board instead of like three. So it's a little background of our ray guns and props. And we've, how far we've come as a company and people. What? Yeah. No, I'm just like, and in the slack, Raspberry Pi releases a 15 inch monitor display. Sorry. Side track. Yeah. Oh, fallout, fallout, fallout, not. Oh, no, that is what you said. Fallout. Yeah. Fallout video game series, which I'm super excited for tomorrow. I'm going to, I'm not the biggest fan of it, but I got to watch it for work now. That's right. Yeah. I really want to make a Pip Boy, a new version. We did a Pip Boy in like 2015, fallout three or fallout four came out. Yes. But yeah, I'm excited for that TV show. Now it looks good. It's always refreshing when the actual creators are working on the show. Yeah. They're behind the show. Hey, DJ Devon found it. There it is. It's the fallout alien blaster. Most overpowered handgun and fallout. It's a hidden item that you have to find. Yes, it is. And it shoots a little. Do I remember that correctly? It's just a little spark that it shoots out. It's like super powerful. Or am I thinking of something? I'm not sure. I'm thinking of Duke Nukem. The other one. That's funny. Yes. There's a TV show. It starts tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. It's on prime. So if you're not subscribed, maybe check it out. It's fun. It's green goo that does this. It's everything. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for reminding me. I actually haven't really played the fallout games. I watched it. Like other people play. But yeah, that's what it was inspired by. And ZC Gavin is saying, I looked at the older Reagan and ran away. Very pleased. When the prop maker, RP 2040 arrived, much easier build. My Peter Quill. One. That's it is a build, man.   And use two different dev boards. You know, I'm just catching up on things. Yeah. It is definitely the best board. It's so good. Yeah. Love it. Yeah. And it's like almost overfeatured. Like the accelerometer isn't being used. Orometer for something. Maybe. I don't know. Like reloading when you want to reload it or something. Kind of cool. You should have been played about three, like five times hundreds of hours. Follow three's favorite. All of them, but it crashes because of memory. Yeah. I think I started watching when it was a four. Oh, I couldn't hear you. What were you saying? Sorry, I was trying to queue up the next thing. Okay. All right. Off from prototyping cool ray guns to articulating purple worms. Good segue. Yes. So this week's community makes is this super cool. Articulated worm. In the comments it says it's supposed to be from a super mega worm. That one video game. Oh, I love that video game. Right. It looks just like it. Super mega worm. Yeah. So fully articulated print in place. All of these crazy teeth. And this print is so sharp. Like all of the. My little shot here. And this dragging over to full screen stuff is not working for me. You need to kind of change this thing first. And then we can go solo layout. Yeah. Yeah. So super stringy as you saw in the video because of all of the little points on top here. So it comes out good once you clean it up, but these little side ones, that's where all of the like sharp ones are. It's because of the way that the overhang prints. It's literally just one layer that is acting as a blade. That's a good way to make a sharp print. Spikes just make like an overhang on the spike like that. Very cool. So I got to clean all this up because the kids want to play with it. Oh, that's funny. Print in place. Yes. Nice amount of detail on the whole thing. All the little teeth. And it prints pretty cool. Yeah. Yep. Here it goes. All right. So is this color changing filament or did you print it again? Yeah. So this is the thermal PLA. So one thing gets hot. It's pink. Now I was trying to demonstrate this to Declan. Of course it's not working fast enough for him. Yeah. Maybe hot water. Hot water. We work. Yeah. So this better in the summer. Yeah. There is thermal color changing filament out there. I didn't want to note that because I didn't demonstrate that. But I should have had it hot because it has like a cool gradient look when like I'm grabbing the top part or whatever. Well, it's printing is hot. So that's why it's pink. But it is the same model because as it cools down turns purple and it kind of failed. One of the pieces popped off but caught itself. You can see all the string here because you know the printer is parking. So the printer, you know, the G code tells it to kind of chill out for a little bit while it's taking that photo. But if it didn't have that G code and octoprint, you would not see it because the bed's moving back and forth and the camera wouldn't know when the thing is parked. So that's kind of why we have to do it this way. Yeah. But hey, good, good model. Let me go to the website. This is the video game super mega worm highly recommended. It's a really fun game. I played a lot. I played it a lot rather. But it's a super fun game. That's what it's modeled off of. It's like a 8 bit. Supposed to look like as if it was like a Super Nintendo game, but you can play it on. I wonder what platform. I'm not sure what platforms, but I played it on my Mac and then switching over to the thingiverse purple worm articulated by mz4250 and no supports needed. Brim doesn't hurt. They got a patreon. If you want to check out some more of their stuff where you can support them on printables club. Patrons have access to all their files in one place. You're quite bored. As well as commercial options. Check it out. And there's the model. There's their photo of it. Looks like they painted it a little bit. Yeah, I should have those details. Fun points there. So Miguel. Miguel is a designer. Big Dungeons and Dragons fan. So you can check out their work. Lots of miniatures here from them. So it's cool to see an articulating print as well. There it is. And it has a couple of makes as well. Two makes. Wow, look at these makes. I like the rainbow one. Yeah, let me go back. Where's the rainbow? There it is. What if they scale it up? Looks a little bit bigger, right? I actually scaled mine down. Okay. That's why. Because this looks bigger than yours. Yeah. I think it still took like 10 hours. Right. Because it's, you know, taking a second delay after every layer. Very cool. If you want to make a room. Free download. Not working. I swear it's thermal PLA. Yeah, right. Rub your hands together. And blow it on the heat gun. That would totally work. Yeah. Get the hot plate. The new Adafruit hot plate. I'm sure it has to like be a big swing of temperature. Nothing. That's why I didn't put it in the description. That's fine. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. Is it harder on the nozzles, the special filament? Any ideas? I don't think so. I think the abrasive stuff is when you come into glitter and composites like wood, copper, bronze, those metal filaments. Those are abrasive to the nozzle. And yeah. Yeah. Hot or luke warm cup of coffee. That's funny. Yeah, exactly. So DJ Devon is realizing that. Yeah.  And then what are their sacral, sacrificial prints when they fail. Start over and you print it and it doesn't look good in the time lapse at all. Like run at a time like, no. Yeah. And try to find a mixture of free STLs and some store bought. Not store bought, but like, you know, paid for models because we want to support artists and it's a good business venture. We got a couple of more community makes, I believe. Yep. We are back at it with some community makes kicking off with an Epcot spaceship Earth make posted up by Ryan. They got their parts printed. And they have their own. These little diffusers for the middle section, which has been historically hard because you have to like hot glue them in place. That was the hardest part of this build. So they got their own little diffuser caps in the middle there. A little bit of a gap there, but I'm sure you can sand those down or resize them. Excellent post processing. I think they use some aluminum paint or something on it. Oh, looks super cool. Yeah. This shot right here looks really, really fantastic. I don't think they sanded it because you kind of see some layer lines, but that's just going to add some texture in my opinion. So as I made two projects, the first one, not painted, but I put it together using the original instructions, included a lighting kit. The second one is painted an aluminum color also made clips to glue the lights to that. So it made it much simpler putting it together. Also used cheaper set of lights. The Briss Labs $36. I already had them on hand. So very nice. Yeah. And Drake is asking, can you share your file for those clips? Yeah. That's a good idea. Very nice. Shout out to Ryan for posting up their make. I'm a very cool Epcot Spaceship Earth replica. After that, we have a macro pad stand. This was a fun one. This was posted up by local Voltaic on Thingiverse. This is a printed place stand designed for the macro pad, dated from macro pad. It has like a little kickstand kind of thing. You can use that to kind of prop your macro pad up. So they made it and they posted it on Thingiverse. A couple of things. Black PLA. Pretty cool. And then the last one to round it off. Meow. Meow shoo. Meow shoo. I posted up their make of the heat set rig. So they printed out their parts and they got it all assembled. They have their own base as well. And I'm not sure if they customize it. Let me read the... I printed and assembled using a remix base, but the rolling assembly had a bit of play and wobbles. Yeah. The taunts are always a little tricky with the plate thing. Yep. But a lot of folks have remixed it and the STL files are out there. If you want to tighten it up, I think someone made an adjustable one. This project is just continuing to get remixes and makes. And I don't know when did I post this thing? It is like every week. Yeah. And nowadays you can just buy one on Amazon if you want like a full metal one. I think for like 100 bucks or maybe 50 bucks, forget. But yeah. But whatever folks have, if folks have it on hand, it's a fun little project to put together. Yep. And that is the community makes. Shout out to everybody for posting your makes. People are back from their spring. The last two weeks we didn't have any community makes. Don't forget, if you want to pick up anything in Adafruit shop today, this morning, you get 10% off your order with coupon code P, code DVI. And that was good for the next 24 hours. Tonight is. Show and tell and ask an engineer. It's going to be special guest host. John Park. John Park will be hosting tonight's show and tell. We want you to come on. That's seven 30pm. Come on. Maybe 10 minutes earlier in the discord chat room where JP will post the invite link for folks to come in and hang out and talk to each other. Camera and audio. And then at 8pm Eastern time, ask an engineer with Mr. Mrs. Lady Ada, a flower of open source hardware news, new products, top secrets, high on MPI. And more. Tomorrow is Thursday, fallout day, but also John Park's workshop. Turned into John Park's workshop before p.m. He stood time. Deep dives with Tim or Scott. 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern time, deep dives, live streams with some. Core development of circuit Python and beyond. And then Mondays is circuit Python meetings with the folks community in the core devs. Tuesday's JP's product pick of the week. At 4pm Eastern time. And then every Wednesday we're back to our show. 3D Hangouts. The longest running. Show. Not really, but that's, that's what we say. All right, everybody, thank you so much. I don't think I'm going to come on show until. I think I'll wait till next week. Yeah, this isn't done yet. Right. Yeah. Just as a programming note, we'll be off the 24th. Of April. And we'll keep letting folks know, but the 24th we're taking off. Spring break. Just taking the week off, but we'll be back that following week, which will be May 1st. Running into summertime. And then we'll have, we'll be off in June at some point. But that's the plans. I'll be down in Florida. So if anyone wants to say hi, we'll be around. All right. Thank you everybody so much for watching. This has been an 80 food production. We'll be back next week. With a learn guide and video for the Pico DVI. Project. But until then. Remember to make a great day.