This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Hey Aloha and welcome to Aloha Friday and Stan the Energy Man here on Think Tech Hawaii where community matters. We got a great show today, we're skyping in a special guest from on the mainland, on the East Coast in fact. So she's up kind of late today to talk to us but I met our guest today when I was in California at the fuel cell conference and she made a great presentation. And we're going to talk about her organization and the things that her organization does to promote hydrogen worldwide. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce Mary Rose V. Valderos. And thanks for joining us today, Mary Rose. Good to have you on board. It's my pleasure. My pleasure. Glad to be here. Glad to be here. I'm always happy to talk about hydrogen and the International Energy Agency Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Program. Great. Once you start off by talking a little bit about yourself and how you kind of got into the energy business and then tell us a little bit about the international energy. Right. Well, I was originally trained as an urban planner and a linguist and I actually did quite a bit of work in community development both in Washington and out west on the mainland and started a business actually with my late husband where we built houses and we gradually started to build more renewable solar houses and passive solar houses and then we also then we began to do distributed energy systems because of the great need for irrigation and the acceptance of the utilities of this kind of technology application. So that's how I got into it. And then I wound up working for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Washington office and reset up my own business, MRS Enterprises, worked for the World Bank around the world. And now I am the general manager for hydrogen for some time. So that's the short story. Great. I can appreciate the value there. We're in Hawaii. We're in a kind of unique situation where we have a high degree of intermittent renewable on our grid and it's becoming problematic for our grid to absorb at all. So a lot of people are actually looking at putting batteries with their solar on their houses and becoming more and more independent. They're still grid tied as an insurance thing, but a lot of people are getting really comfortable putting some energy storage at home and just going with renewable energy and energy storage. Right. Well, the world has changed a lot since renewable energy, portable takes and wind first came along. And the penetration has grown, as you say, to such a great extent now that it's really, they're really considered mature technologies. So we recognize, the IEA hydrogen recognizes very well that storage and viewing hydrogen as part of an integrated energy system is really critical. And since it's not just our wonderful potential fuel cell vehicles, it's actually the whole energy system itself. Electricity and hydrogen are complementary energy carriers and they work together. And so hydrogen reserves can help to buffer the electricity system. And certainly use of hydrogen for energy storage, whether short term, seasonal or long term, is something that has great potential. And the scale of it can vary vastly. I mean, it can be at the utility scale or it can be, as you just said, at the domestic scale or the co-op scale. So this is definitely an idea whose time has come. And so we appreciate absolutely the need for storage. So what is the International Energy Agency actually doing on the world stage in terms of promoting hydrogen and hydrogen energy storage and addressing those hopeful ecology, energy ecology applications for hydrogen, not just the grid, but transportation and industry and stabilization of the grid, storing curtail power. What's the International Energy Agency doing on that front? Okay. So let me take you back to how we got started. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was created after World War II to promote economic prosperity among its members. And then this was finalized by 1960. But by the early 70s, there was, as we know, a gas crisis, also called an oil crisis. But in any event, it got the attention of the OECD because in fact they recognized that absent focus on energy prosperity would be compromised. So the IEA was created, and it was created by treaty like the OECD was. And it was really sort of a brilliant concept because the IEA itself does policy work and analysis. And it also safeguards oil supply. But the same treaty that created the IEA also created technology collaboration programs so any two members can get together and decide to do research and development in a particular area. So we were created to do our D&D in the hydrogen area. And we've been around since 1978 pursuing our mission, which is to promote the application of hydrogen in every sector all around the world. So that's our background. We operate in five-year cycles. So we have a strategic plan for all five years, for every five-year cycle. And we have three major themes. The most important one is R&D, because that's our basic mission. That's our core business. But we realized some 10, 12 years ago that despite all the good analysis work going on around the world in hydrogen and related topics and renewables, etc. that there were still important questions that weren't being answered. And so we decided to also focus on analysis that positions hydrogen through technical analysis, market analysis, etc. As well, we have a third theme, hydrogen awareness understanding and acceptance because it's really important to spread the news. I mean, this is a fairly complex subject. And going back to your initial question about where does storage tie in and how do we fit into the grid, well, part of our mission is to make sure that people understand more about hydrogen. So we're trying to make them aware of our various research endeavors by publishing reports, final reports interim reports on all of our portfolio. We publish an annual report, we publish newsletters, and very recently we have kicked off a new report called Trends and Outlook for Hydrogen. This report, unlike some of our other reports, which are very technical in nature, this report seeks to reach decision makers and policy makers across the board. So it describes all the basics of hydrogen and what's going on now, what's trending now in all the various applications around the world and among all the potential users and the members of our group. Because I failed to tell you who our group actually consists of, we have 21 member countries, as well as the European Commission, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, that's a UN organization that deals with the developing world, and we also have, those are our country members and our international organization. We also have sponsor members, not sponsors in the traditional use of the business use of the term sponsors, but sponsors that are other kinds of organizations interested in participating with us in research on our mission. For example, Dell, the national organization of this is the German organization now, HighSafe, a group dealing with hydrogen safety, and also Southern Company, that's America's very own Southern Company, a combined gas and electric utility, which has a very progressive vision of the future and wanting to be ready for it. So those are our members, and together we create our portfolio of tasks. We operate in tasks and respond to each of the themes that I just talked about. This sounds like you published a lot of work and have it out in a broad range of venues. Do you do anything that is a little bit more active in terms of things like this show, you know, outreach on media, social media or national geographic channel or, you know, places where Discovery Channel or BBC where you get highlighted with a broader audience, where you're really kind of addressing folks that are less technical, but need to understand the technology. What a great question, and we'd love to do that work. Right now, what we're doing the following. We're on Facebook. We're on social media, Twitter. Please follow us on Twitter. But we have yet to get a spot on National Geographic, so we'd love to do that work, absolutely. And in fact, in previous work that I've done for the United States Department of Energy, I have made videos and industrials, so we have the capability. We just don't have, we haven't had the opportunity yet, but we would certainly welcome it because you're absolutely right that that's the way to spread the message. Lots of people listen to TV that don't look at other things. True. Well, we're going to take a quick break here, Mary Rose, and we'll be back in 60 seconds and we'll pick up where we left off. Right. Aloha. I'm Winston Welch, and every other Monday at 3 p.m., you can join me at Out and About, a show where we explore a variety of topics, organizations, events, and the people who fuel them in our city, state, country, and world. So please join us every other Monday at 3, and we'll see you then. Aloha. Hey, baby, that's you. I want to know, will you watch my show? I hope you do. It's on Tuesdays at 1 o'clock, and it's out of the comfort zone, and I'll be your host, R.B. Kelly. See you there. Hey, welcome back to my lunch hours. I'm Stan Energyman here with Mary Rose Iveladeris from the International Energy Agency, and she runs the hydrogen part of that organization, getting the word on hydrogen out, which you know is my favorite topic. So welcome back, Mary Rose. Thank you. Did we talk about the Hydrogen Council and what your organization does with the Hydrogen Council? That's a fairly new organization, but also international and more based on industry partners. Yes. Well, the creation of the Hydrogen Council is really a benchmark for a hydrogen world, because this entity comprises all of the major, many of most of the major players in hydrogen, and whoever's not there now, I'm sure will join in the future. And it really is critical that these entities, some of which are, some of these entities, they're large corporate organizations, and they are dominant players in their various fields, including incumbent energy companies. It's really critical that they step up to the plate, and we hope that they will join us very shortly as a member, and we do plan to work with them. There are lots of things that we can work on, and if you stay tuned, we'll have more information on that, hopefully in the coming months. That'd be great.  What's the current five-year plan covering for your research? Okay. Well, the current five-year plan, it covers the period 2015 to 2020, and we are operating actually under each of the three thematic areas that I talked about. So under RD&D, we work on production, hydrogen production. A great deal of our work has been in this area, because it's, well, it's critical, and I'm happy to report that there's all kinds of sources and feedstocks for hydrogen, and these can be found all over the world, and what you might not have in one place, you could trade for in another place. Then there's hydrogen storage, and as you already mentioned, this is a really critical topic, and it covers many aspects. There is, of course, the whole realm of more basic fundamental research in storage, because this is going to be an area that we're going to have to deal with in the future for lots of our applications. But storage also includes things like massive quantities of hydrogen underground, storage in salt caverns and geological formations, and so this goes hand in hand actually with some of the production work because of the high degree of renewable penetration that we now have, and I guess I can comment on that again later because that really is important because the two tie together. We also deal with infrastructure issues, and these infrastructure issues are both at the system level, so for example, a car, a heating system, and also in the broader infrastructure context. So those are the areas that we work on in RD&D. In analysis, we work on, well, our most important analysis project right now is power to hydrogen and hydrogen to applications. So this, in fact, is the area where we talk about the conversion of electricity to the conversion of hydrogen. This is the area where we talk about power to hydrogen, and then it's storage, and then it's subsequent use for all kinds of applications. And this area really cross-cuts all sectors and all applications as enormous potential for the future. And around the world, of course, people have been talking about power to gas for some time now, this is a very, very hot topic in Europe, but the topic, but we are focusing on power to hydrogen. And I know, because I've talked to some folks from Denmark, that the North Sea wind projects are generating Boku electricity, and they need to store it and put it in those pipelines and move it around Europe. And I know that's one of the big projects that you guys are watching. I think it's called a Leeds project. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Right, exactly. This is really a very, very exciting project, and it's exciting at many levels, because of course, one of the big objections to adoption of a new technology or a major new energy force is cost. And this project, which was undertaken by the Northern Gas Networks in the town of Leeds in the UK, its purpose is to actually first introduce hydrogen into the infrastructure, the gas grid there, as they call it, and hopefully ultimately to go entirely hydrogen. And one of the really exciting results of this study is that this is actually going to be possible at a reasonable price. So this is really a very exciting development, because of course, all over the world, there are gas works. And in the recent past, as we know, the price of gas has become very attractive. And so gas has been for a long time viewed as a transition to hydrogen, and this project sort of encompasses many of the practical aspects of how that process could work. And there's different levels that will be worked on from the utility scale itself, the utility scale infrastructure in the UK, all the way down to the end user, down the supply chain, and how this is going to work for once toasters and electronic devices. But this project has enormous potential and cachet. And we are looking to launch some new work soon, and part of it will probably deal with some of the practical implications of this LEADS project. And we will probably also cooperate with our sister technologies, our sister TCP's in the fossil area, because they too are interested in the potential for gas conversion. So that little corner of the world is really going to be very active. So keep a close eye on it. I know that you will. Yeah, we're out here in Hawaii. We're working closely, my organization works closely with the US military. And we actually have, if you know how the military works, they're very prudent on how they put things into their logistics pipeline. For example, they don't want 20 different kinds of fuel. They want two different kinds of fuel because they need to minimize the complexity of their logistics challenges. So one of the things that our US military does is they either use regular gasoline, diesel fuel, or jet fuel. And those things have to work in a broad range of vehicles. So for example, diesel fuel and jet fuel are almost interchangeable across Army and Air Force and Navy applications. So we have the Army out here this week from an organization called TARDEC demonstrating a hydrogen fuel cell tactical vehicle. And they actually have a 20-foot container that inside has a steam reformer that takes JP-8, which is jet fuel, and turns it into hydrogen for that vehicle. And it all fits inside a 20-foot container and they can just bring it in the field, throw any kind of JP-8 or diesel in there and it makes hydrogen for this vehicle, then the vehicle can take off and get out hundreds of miles away from the base and generate power. It actually is a power takeoff unit, as we say, or a portable generator. And the military is looking at that very carefully right now. Yeah, we owe a lot to the military for the research that they've done. So that'll be an exciting project to watch. But this also reminds me that there's another area that we didn't talk about that's actually very exciting. IEA hydrogen has started to work in the maritime. And, you know, this offers just tremendous potential because whether we're talking about the maritime and shipping and trade or we're talking about the nexus between the land and the sea, there's a huge amount to be done there. So we have launched our first task in the maritime and there is enormous global interest. I mean, the shipping industry is huge. So we look forward to working in that area and it just offers all kinds of opportunity. And that is another area, of course, in which the military is also affected. In fact, of course, submarines were among the first to adopt fuel cells, to use fuel cells. So there's just a lot going on in every major sector of the economy and in the energy world. And at all levels. You and I talked earlier about innovation. And innovation isn't always brand spanking new technology. Sometimes it's old technology that you use in a new way. And one of the ways that we did that here was we had some Navy SEALs that were training and they told us that they had limitations on their lithium batteries on their equipment in terms of where they could go on certain ships and things like that. And I reminded them that fuel cells were actually, or excuse me, electrolyzers were actually on nuclear submarines and other submarines to make oxygen for the crew and that their byproduct that they throw away was hydrogen and they could take that hydrogen and put it in metal hydride storage containers which are like little batteries. It's like two C cell batteries on top of each other and they work just like batteries in a SATCOM radio or a regular radio or a GPS and it may solve their problem of getting a safe energy storage for that equipment where they can't normally get it on a ship because the Navy and the military in general, when they test equipment, they run it through a pretty rigorous cycle to make sure it doesn't impact negatively some other system. So they were surprised to learn that that technology was already on a lot of Navy ships and already certified to work on the Navy ships. So that was an exciting revelation for them. I bet it was. I bet it was. So I guess we'll see more activity in that area very soon. I hope so. Hey, we're getting close to the end of time here. I wanted to turn it over to you for the end, but can you just kind of, I'm going to throw two questions at you. You can probably address both of them simultaneously. Is it just me or are we at a tipping point for hydrogen on the world stage? Are we at that point where hydrogen goes from being the fuel of the future and always will be to it's really happening right now and it's starting to get to scale and we're really seeing it? And to that matter, you know, how do we address the consortiums and the lobbying organizations that are arrayed against hydrogen, like the oil and gas industry or even the battery industry in some cases, to get hydrogen going in this 2018 to 2020 timeframe? Well, I think the answer to that is that you use all your tools. I think there's probably going to be multiple inflection points. But if you look at the example of California over the last 30 years, where they just dug in the dirt and just continued to inch forward bit by bit and there were plateaus that they reached where they were able to really make great progress. And right now, certainly in California with the hydrogen refueling stations, they have made great progress there. So that's really an important step. But the other part of this is that we is to build the understanding, you know, linking with all these other groups that it's not just the mass market of cars, which are critically important, but it's also all kinds of other applications that can flourish through the use of hydrogen. And I also want to say that sometimes, you know, this is our government, sometimes government can disappoint you. But I do want to say that back in our last omnibus energy bill in 2005 in this country, there were provisions made in this bill for energy infrastructure and the process of laying the groundwork, the basic land use plans for the infrastructure that will carry not just electricity transmission lines, but pipelines for hydrogen, hydrogen is specifically included. That's all underway. So we're like, you know, 10 plus years, 10, 12 years out from that. But it's critical that all of the groups, I think, work together at some level. And certainly I can attest to the fact that there is growing interest in the IEA. And there'll be probably even more interest very soon. And we can talk about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles maybe another time and the competitive landscape. OK. Well, I agree with you. I think it's a multi-pronged approach to getting the word out and making sure people understand that the safety aspects of hydrogen are really strong and that the negatives like Hindenburg type of analogies and H-bomb type of corollaries are just way out of line and that we train firefighters in vehicle, responding to vehicles here, like vehicle incidents that have hydrogen vehicles. And by the time the firefighters finish the training, they're like, this is better than gasoline or diesel.  We just let it go and it's in the air and it makes clouds and we pack up our stuff and go home. And they're really actually pretty excited to learn about it. But we need to get that word out more. And that's kind of why I asked what your agency was doing to really overtly get the message out and maybe try and be a little more aggressive. I said the same thing to the Hydrogen Council, that they really should look at a marketing program that gets the word out because I think that is critical and it will take policy. It'll take government. It'll take industry. It'll take individuals. People underestimate the power of writing to your congressman or your congressional delegation. It's huge and supporting the industry. Even as a customer just telling the gas company, hey, are you looking at hydrogen down the road for your fossil free fuel of the future? Those kind of things. People don't realize they have a lot of power if they just get a pen to paper or send a message out. Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Civic participation is important. Participation in the marketplace is important. And so we're going to continue to work with all of our members and hopefully our new members. And we're going to be working on analysis and outreach vigorously. All right, Mayor Ruz, believe it or not, we've come smack up against the end of our 30 minutes airtime here. And I want to thank you again for visiting with us today and sharing your thoughts. And I know we've got more to talk about. We still have to talk about vehicles and all kinds of things. But I hope you'll join me back here on Stan Energy Man in the future and we'll continue this discussion. But thank you again. It was my pleasure to thank you. And we appreciate everything that you do to make the hydrogen transition possible. Great. Well, Aloha and Aloha to our viewers. Thanks to Robert in the control room and Cindy out here outside for helping keeping me in track. And we'll see you next week on Stan Energy Man. I have a guest host in there. I hope it's Rachel, maybe Dave. I'm going to be off on vacation and taking a little bit of a break. But we'll Stan Energy Man and we'll be back on next week. And until then, Aloha.


Get this and get it straight crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave There was a gorgeous tapestry found under a tomb and they were all after it the worried importer the man with half a face The Englishman in an LA slum and the lady wearing a green veil But before it was over none of them had it and two of the four were dead From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in the adventures of Philip Marlowe Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's transcribe story the baton sinister I'd watch the blood-red Sun set behind an ugly purple storm out on the ocean And the weird afterglow that crept into the canyons of the Hollywood Hills made me uneasy Added emphasis to the disquieting phone call I received at my office from a man named Pollard Schindler My new is a very capable worldwide broker of bizarre odd objects In words that fell over each other in urgency. He asked me to meet him at my place at once As I drove to my apartment, I figured the trouble lay ahead But I didn't realize how close it was until I parked and started out of my car The bullet smashed the corner of my windshield my duck for cover then hugged the building and headed to the rear where I was sure I'd seen a gun flash I was halfway there when the side door flew open and Pollard Schindler himself stopped me It was white-faced and shaking his eyes ring by dark blue circles of fatigue That shot. Yeah, somebody throw a slug at me. She looked from back there. I was afraid of this We can't talk here. Not now come let's get in your car and drive hurry. Wait a minute. Wait a minute What's all this about who shot at me and why it must have been that lizard my run lost Oh, he's followed me all the way from England model because But I I tell you all about it when we're safe right now. We must get away from here. Okay, but watch yourself. Come on Well so far so good You see that hole in the windshield. It's lucky. It's not in my head. Are we being followed not yet anyway? Well Pollard last time it was a cloak of camea a man a trip to Honolulu. What is it this time? It's worse the tapestry Marlow 15th century and exquisite worth 20,000 as a museum piece alone. Hey, that's a lot of money for a chunk of cloth. It's nothing I'm getting better than 80,000 for it from a man named Arthur Merritt in Seattle 80 grand Yes, correct. You see this merit claims to be a direct descendant from Edward Second Duke of York who fell at Arjun cool really Yeah, he spent a fortune tracing his genealogy and collecting family treasures and regard this tapestry as his greatest prize It's a gorgeous team Marlow It takes to do kind of gold horse riding to battle beside the king one such colors reds blues Greens breath take a bed But I'm so tired. I don't think I've slept in weeks for 80,000 bucks You can afford to be tired Schindler, but how does the guy with the itchy trigger finger fit into all this loft that's come He was up to the tapestry too. He got wind of the fact that someone was willing to pay 80,000 for it But he doesn't know who I see you found it first. Yes It's in a sealed tomb under the ruins of a castle in Wales Just minutes ahead of loft. Where's the tapestry now at this moment It's in a cheap suitcase checked in a public locker at the Keringa Boulevard Bustipo Now I want you to pick it up and get it safely to Arthur Merritt here Here's the locker key you take it on a plane leaving in three hours and your money five $100 bills enough enough. Well, I find out the merit a 76 vestry Seattle He'd be expecting you and Marlow I feel better if you get the tapestry soon and keep it with you until plane down. You're really afraid of this guy Loft answer you stop at nothing. I warn you now. I get off here at the corner Marlowe Incidentally, when you get the tapestry don't go back to your apartment. Love may be reading gear I'm at the Hollywood crest hotel Hollywood crest. Yeah, call me when the job is done. Goodbye Marlowe and good luck. You'll need it The key Schindler left was numbered 410 so I drove the bus station and went in Casual walkthrough showed me that lock in number 410 was the last on the left Then I ambled over to the lunch counter ordered a sandwich and coffee and sat down to case the rest of the customers Finally, I spotted him a dark man in ragged clothes with a profile out of Western Asia who was also watching number 410 Profile glanced around nervously and looked away fast when he caught me watching him I ease the key to 410 out of my pocket and slipped it under my sandwich Follow waitress. I'd be right back and started taught him He saw me coming in mate for the back exit broke into a run when he got to the door We played follow the leader down the tunnel the alley behind the bus barn and around the corner They're the game's top Because a claw that belonged on a lobster reached out grabbed me by the shirt front and pulled me up against 18 inches of curved Damascus steel Shopping up the shave with I knew then why he'd show me only his profile After space was handsome the other half Well when he spoke he hissed through the flexible half of his mouth Stands to my friend or I slit your gizzard for you. Where is my run loft? I don't know. I never met the man up close that is my you are working for him Keep using that knife of punctuation pal. I'll admit anything.  Only I know the true value of that tapestry for it was I who paid for it Half my face and half my mind but before I'm through lot will know too. Where is he?  This will surprise him no doubt He murdered me so I would not talk she left me for dead sent me hurtling unconscious off a bridge in a clock of blazing oil It made me like this claw for a hand a face to frighten demons But he did not kill me nice guy lost and the tapestry itself Tell him it will bring him nothing, but despair well I have put a curse of worthlessness on it From the alley the shot. Did you see who it was a car? No, but I didn't have to see to know He thinks he has finished it now, but he is wrong look Look for the button serious what what look for what a car in the Duke's shield the baton sinister Words back on sinister whatever that met on his twisted lips Twisted little man died. I Walked back carefully the way I'd come with life in the bus depot was going on as usual The waitress gave me a hard eye when I sat down at the lunch counter again in the mirror over the back bar told me why I Was pasty green from eyes to mouth The thought of death in an alley still did that to me was strangely gratifying I Got the key from under the sandwich dropped a buck on the counter and then went to lock up 410 and open it Shindler's tatted suitcase was there. I Picked it up took it over to a store phone and sat on it while I put in a call with tenant Matthews at Hummyside Yes, you did Matthews I said a man with half a face named that car was shot in the alley back of coeing a bus depot Probably because he knew too much about a tapestry Who did you got any ideas? Well, it could be a guy named Myron Loft. It's all I know about him. Just a name Hey, hey lieutenant. Yeah, you happen to know what a baton sinister is Never mind Matthews, I'll call you again before I leave When I left the bus depot, I drove to my office took the suitcase upstairs after I locked myself in I opened It under the lamp on my desk Holds of dazzling cloth spilled out. I remember Schindler saying Duke was riding a gold horse. I looked for that It was easy to spot And from there I located the shield was deep blue with three white roses on one side and a red line on the other in the center Pointy diagonally from upper right to lower left was a thin line of still deep of blue That was all I had a chance to see Because a hand In a rubber glove clamped a wet cloth over my face and The sickly sweet odor went through me like warm oil Throw a paper bag a hundred years later. I had a strange dream. I Saw a pair of high heeled green suede shoes men And then a woman in a green veil looking at an empty suitcase Because I couldn't move and my eyelids were leadin when the green veil and green shoes left Everything went black again Next time it was no dream I was face down on my office carpet alone and very sick to my stomach. I've been chloroform I crawled over to the desk pulled myself up the suitcase was open and empty Somehow I got the phone off the hook dialed information in a minute later had my client on the wire I am sick.  It was stolen What did you say? Well, I brought it up here to my office, but somebody was already in here laying for me I was chloroformed and out for about half an hour When I came to it was gone now. Listen, you know a man named a car horribly scarred from burns Yeah, not the way you think it was killed at the bus station. I don't know a car thought so and I'm getting tired of hearing that name lost Hey incidentally, what's a baton sinister? It might be important what is it actually What does that mean from up a right to lower left maybe I was told to look for the baton sinister by Wait a minute pollen. There's something on the floor here. It looks like an envelope Yeah There's nothing in it, but it's addressed to Holy smoke, this is addressed to Myron law 946 South Grand Avenue LA It runs through a slum called Bunker Hill any cab driver knows it. I'm going down there now Schindler Bunker Hill stuck up above downtown LA like a ward on a debutants hand The big street that a tunnel under it a bypassed years ago left it nothing more than a dingy isolated attic But the city's worn out cast-offs finally end up to die The big hotels that open on the swank street below it all carefully turned their backs on the hill I Parked near angels flight and walked on the odd number side of the street until I spotted 946 a crumbling yellow stucco rooming house Clung to the hill face from habit only I Gave the windows a lot of attention to be sure no one was watching. I Went out of the corner crossed and came back And me make the night light was on at the end of the hole So I pushed my way through the smells tore the door with a grimy card and set office Was about to knock when a voice heard from the landing on the stairs behind me when you turn round do it slowly Understand perfectly I Dare say your pilot Schindler's man could be which makes you my own law. Yes I've been up on the roof watching you expected you'd come before long I suppose you want the tapestry now.  I don't enjoy humor. Perhaps you don't know much about the tapestry. Not much I know more than I used to I'd quite a chat with our car a car That's impossible my ex assistant is dead. I know but he lived long enough to tell me about the baton sinister on the Duke shield Yeah, it's a lie my fine fellow.   Oh, that's strange How much more do you know along this line enough to make bargaining more than worth your while and I haven't kept it all in my head I see But my door is a second on the left and move along now quickly. I see no reason to hurry. I do See what you mean Although the accent was Oxford the gestures was strictly skid row So as I proceeded Myron Loft and gun into the Lord's sagging chamber. I watched carefully for the chance. I knew I'd have to take before long But a small step toward a dark corner Told me it wasn't gonna be easy The gentleman with the flexed voice was being very wary about now turn about and face me quickly So worry about being in fact that the quiet footstep behind him went out and noticed The footstep that had been made by a green suede pump that belonged to a lady with a veil also green And now I knew I'd actually seen earlier in my office When she took her next step the gun she clenched in her expensively glove hand was raised high Came down hard Girl of my dreams. I thank you that was neat and believe me not a moment too soon He's not dead, isn't he? No, he's just how cold isn't deep freeze But uh, aren't we being a little matter-of-fact about all this we are did you expect to use well from the veil? That's where I'm probably being misled. I Should concentrate on your green suede shoes. They seem to be more in character You seem to be quite ungrateful and gabby. So why don't we just move on some? Over there that bundle it could be the tapest the tap Hey lady, you're not after it too. Why you know I came here to save your life. I love you. That's charming. Come on, mister Are we warm hot? Yeah, this is it. All right Wait for me. Oh, no. Oh, yes way back and for safekeeping into that snug little closet there Without so much as a peak at the veil.  I mean go on inside It won't hold you for long, but I don't need long anymore She was so right didn't hold me for long Because even a misplayed hiccup could y'all lose most any given segment of bunker hill construction However by the time I got to the street It was lady with bail and bundle tucked underneath her arm climbing into a cab and only a tear lights getting out of Sight around a corner, so I played the only bet left She departed in the camp. Maybe she'd arrived in one and maybe that one was still in line at the hack stand across the street at the back Of a hotel at number four. I connected. Yeah. Yeah sure the doll with a veil. I brought her here Why what's it mean to you everything? She's my long lost sister. Where'd you pick her up? Can't remember. Okay. Okay. Here's five now try it I Was a sunset gardens hotel villa 12 which is around on the side But you know what else? No, what else? I'll bet this five. She ain't really your sister at all.  She's really typhoid married Jackie, but a fumigate fast both inside and out. Good. Bye I was 30 anxious minutes weaving my way through the thick west brown traffic than any snail could have easily out sprinted Before I was finally parked away from villa 12 then out of my car and running toward the squat chunk of term I'd proof old Spain I hope that again meet up with both the lady who wore a mosquito net for a hat and my client's heart Come by drapery But the bungalow in front of me said no such luck because it was dark closed tightness quiet as snow falling all the way around Until I was in the back by each villa had its own junior picnic grounds complete with barbecue pit Then from somewhere behind me. I heard it First the rattle of paper Then a few footsteps high heels that I knew could be the green suede ones on flagstone After that over near the pit liquid poured on wooden and sudden flame It was the lady whose shoes I knew all right, but this time no veil Only a face that might have been pretty if it weren't for the prancing shadows the flames threw over an expression There was a little more than determination a little less than psycho and move close to a quietly And what she had the tapestry unwrapped and was ready to make a little offering to the fire guards I took my cue marshmallows would taste better baby honest you yeah a little me in 38 not so little The stand very still honey priceless heirloom included.  Let's go Come on firebug who are you? Okay, that's how me where you fit in the tapestry or do we shake some more Tell you what you want to know Who are you names Philip Marlowe top no private detective hired to babysit with a tapestry. Let's not change the subject Okay, okay getting there I'm Arthur merits me and so there Guy in Seattle is waiting for me to deliver this item as your uncle My uncle's a jerk now wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me get this straight You steal the tapestry risk your life play with guns and with people who only play for keeps So you can get a chance to burn 80,000 bucks with a fancy needle My uncle has been throwing away his money on antiques and all he's got left of a half a million is a hundred grand I don't want four-fifths of that used for this thinking substitute for wallpaper anything else. Yeah How long you've been working on this project this operation arson week Came down from Seattle when I learned that the man my uncle was dealing with his name Pollard Schindler You can fill it in from there How do you mind if I leave I'm looking forward to bed and a good cry $80,000 worth Do I go there on one condition your gun, baby? It stays I Watched her until she was around at the front of the bungalow and out of sight and I grabbed up the tapestries started to fold it when Sudden flare from the fire through a crazy spurt of light over the material on my arm And I saw that on the shield at the Duke of Kent carried. There was no better on sinister This was not the same tapestry. I'd examined in my office Right then just to make things all the merrier. I once again heard from Naomi March The even chance of this was a trap Naomi playing possum with healthy lungs I ditched the tapestry in the nearby clump of trees then gun and hand ran for the front door of billet's well I got there just as a great convertible lights outlawed off and Naomi was climbing back onto her feet What took you so long listen you the real tapestry. Where is it? Oh? No, you're kidding. Maybe that number you just tried to burn is not the one I started out with tonight It's minus baton sinister minus who what are you talking about just this maybe you still have the tapestry in the routine with The flames was done with a phony and strictly for my benefit and maybe you're nuts now You listen what I told you before with the truth nothing, but however if it happens to work out that I walked off with A phony and you did likewise. I'm sorry. I'll bet The time being I'll buy it that way now. Tell me what went on here I was about to unlock the door when it happened a hand with a rubber glove grab wait a minute wait a minute rubber glove Rubber glove do we say everything twice whoever it was obviously didn't want to leave fingerprints Oh, the smell of chloro foam on his hands. They come to think of it I just get a whiff of something funny. How do you know about that in my office when the tapestry was? Wait a minute you were there and you get a look at him No, there was only a single light on and you were already out cold when I got there. Yeah, but you must have seen something sure Stars after he took the tapestry then laid an envelope of some kind next to you I told him to reach way up got me piled into a heap on your office floor Hey, hey hold it back up Naomi. What you say he placed that envelope there next to me Cut it out baby. I've got an idea thought About a baton sinister and what's really going on Also, it just occurred to me that Myron love might not remain unconscious forever And that my client was gonna cover me at lofts place on Bunker Hill Once I pick up the tapestry I just hid which may not be a phony back to Bunker Hill. So long kid Thank goodness. You're here. I I Just shot my run love you did what Schindler? Yes gotten him Dead Marlowe Now then you can help sweetheart It was terrible Marlowe. I came to this place after I didn't hear from you and found out which room loft head When I bend in he was on the floor Unconscious so I started to look around for the tapestry in the meantime lot came to get hold of a gun and rushes at it Yes, we struggled and then the gun went off. Oh Marlowe. What should we do now called the police? Yeah, I'll take care of it You go back into the room there and don't touch anything and see that nobody else does all right Marlowe But you have to tapestry. Yeah, I got it Schindler safe and sound your worries are over Hello Matthews. I'm at 946 South Grand Avenue and so is another body At Myron loft I mentioned my client Paula Schindler just shot him in self-defense Which also clears up that that the back are out behind a bus people I mean love got him and then tried for your client but missed. Yeah Yeah, if you believe my client Few very tasty but hard to swallow facts one my clients are liars who my client killed both icon Myron lawton three I've been set up and used as neat as chump patsy soccer fall guy. They all fit Even shot through my windshield for realism College Schindler never had the real tapestry Matthews He had only a phony gave it to me to deliver and then swiped it from me after which he put me on the trail of the Real one.  I'll be right down. Okay You you told the police what happened Marlowe. Yeah, I told him mr. Schindler. I Told them everything now There's nothing for us to do but wait That doesn't look at it seven full pages a confession from mr. Paula Schindler our very crafty bird. Yeah Yeah, thanks money. Oh bring that girl in the couple of minutes. We all right Well Phil Here it is the whole story. Yeah. Yeah, look followed Schindler one after the tapestry in England But Myron law got there first However, Schindler was the one who knew where he could sell it way above museum price So law had a duplicate made up and saw to it that Schindler stole it from and it was a car Where did the baton sinister the mark of fraudulence in heraldry to the fake tapestry? Yeah But I still don't clearly follow the rest of it Phil. I mean here in LA Oh, well, it wasn't much of a change another verse same song Love stayed close to Schindler all the way back to England Yeah, and he watched and he waited until he figured that Schindler was ready to close his deal You see yeah, and he stepped forward announced that the tapestry Schindler had was a phony Oh, and that he'd give him the real one for a healthy cut of the sale price I love couldn't go to merit director because he didn't know who Merit was sure And from there it was me the patsy with the best of references that do it for you just about Schindler kill that car We didn't expect in the scene in the law through he did so neither one could spill to you. That's right now Yeah, come in now. When did you know just a minute miss March and please? When did all this come across to you Phil when I got mixed up with the lovely lady here? She told me that the man who had chlorophyll me and my opposite carefully placed an envelope on the floor next to me an Envelope I later took as a clue from that switch. I started to look around for others Oh, great. You're ready for campfire girl me. What kind of a metal do I get? You get a pretty nice one miss March and thanks to Marla get freedom You know we could refer charges against you like what like what like a salt and battery for slugging love grand last Me for the theft of the tapestry from lofts place attempted destruction of private property. Okay. I I got about those things. Yeah, thanks Marla. Thanks Marla that your official statement no more not even I'm sorry before you go Well, yeah I'm sorry all right real. Sorry that I missed goodbye There's another hour and my signature was on another dozen official papers before I was free to leave Matthews Who kept the real tapestry but gave me the one we got back from Pollard Schindler the one with a baton sinister on it as a souvenir So by the time I got back to my apartment it was pushing four o'clock in the morning and I was tired Tired of a night that have been jammed full of crooked people who had taken crooked paths half across the world chasing a buck So tired in fact that I didn't notice Naomi Marchant leaning across the door opposite mine until she spoke We could take that tapestry you have there even if it's a pony one and I to see Alan It's not go out there before you know anything about what happened here No Marlo Marlo There was only one thing to do put both hands firm on our shoulders Spin the girl around and across my knees. Don't shoot. Oh, well I was too tired for even that The adventures of Philip Marlo bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character and crimes most deadly enemy Star Gerald Moore and are produced and transcribed by Norman McDonnell Script is by Mel Dinella Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Orant Be sure and be with us next week when Philip Marlo says Rain slashing a glass roof an old man's curiosity and an imaginary imp out of place They all became important when two people died violently so a third could make a killing Master some speaking this is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


This is the SF Productions Podcast Network. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mark. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on your favorite podcast catcher, or on our website, sfpodcastnetwork.com. On a recent episode, we talked about what, and more importantly how, we watch TV today. We also mentioned our personal streaming service, aka Plex. This is an application that can accept your own media, home movies, music, photos, as well as TV shows and movies you have collected. Plex also has on-demand media of its own, a lot of which you can find elsewhere, plus the ability to watch live TV and DVR shows, as well as an arcade that runs classic video games. I'm going to concentrate on collecting TV shows and movies, but before I do, I have to note that this video gets into a few details that, depending on your location, may not be on the up and up from a legal standpoint. I do this for my own personal use, and I feel as though I've spent more than enough money over the years on media, going back to 8-track, that I'm comfortable with it. If you're not, then move on to another video. Also, while this is not a hugely complex process, media collection is time consuming. I've been working on the process since last August, with at least a month or two left to go. It's mostly waiting for things to finish, and can be a great pandemic project. If you're impatient, this is not for you. Finally, you may be asking, why do this when there's so much content already available on various streaming services? The point here is that you own the content based on media you've already purchased or created yourself. It can't be taken away from you. And on a normal streaming service, may be here today, gone tomorrow, as contracts end. Do you follow the content to another service, then pay for it again? What about content involving an actor or director that has been cancelled by social media, forcing services to remove it? Then there's content that is not available anywhere online. One example? There's no single service that has all of law and order. I guess Dick Wolf hasn't seen a big enough check yet. There's various seasons on various services, but not all of it. We purchased the complete series collection of the Mothership, all 20 seasons of it, and dropped it into Plex for Mindy to watch. I did the same for my MS-T3K collection, also available only in chunks throughout the streaming world. With that out of the way, Plex has two main components, a server designed to always run on whatever device you use. This can be a PC, a Mac, or a specialty storage device running its own computer. If you know what that last part means, I don't need to explain it. If not, don't worry, as you won't go that route. You'll want to choose a PC or Mac that, A, you leave on all the time, B, you don't use very much for other things. It doesn't need to be the latest and greatest. I'm running it on a Mac Mini from several years ago, with a few upgrades over time. There's also a client you use to access the content. There's a long list of compatible devices for the client. We use it mostly via Roku's around the house, but we have players on our computers, tablets, and phones. You'll also want a lot of storage. More about that in a moment. Go to PlexTV to get the software, and sign up for a free account. I say free because, if all you want to do is view videos in your own home via the web, it is free. If you want the ability to watch them on other devices without paying for a Plex player for that device, or watch them outside your home, there is an ongoing cost. Currently, 4.99 a month, or 39.99 a year, or 119.99 lifetime. Check out the site for more details I invested in the lifetime plan. Anyway, now follow the steps to install the server software. It's a fairly standard install process. Once you've done that, install the client on whatever device you want to use it on. Again, there is a cost involved with each device unless you are using the pay version of Plex, aka the Plex Pass. Once you run the Plex client and attach it to your server, it will walk you through this. There's nothing in your media library except for the stuff Plex provides. If this is all you're interested in, you're good to go. Happy viewing! But I'm going to assume you're watching this to add your own media. If it's already in a digital form and a file accessible to you, you can use one of the existing libraries or create your own by pointing the library to the folder your file is in. Please note that if your media came from iTunes or other digital lockers, it most likely has copy protection on it and you can't use it with Plex, unless you want to do some poking around on Google to resolve this. So if most of your video content was purchased on iTunes, you can probably skip this. This method is mostly for old home movies and personal videos you've already converted to digital. If your media is in the form of DVDs or Blu-rays, this is where patience and a lot of storage comes in. There are many solutions to convert physical media to digital files, but here's what I use. Handbrake is a free open-source video transcoder which scans the media in question, gives you a list of tracks to choose from, and then converts it to various formats. You can download it and give it a try. I would highly recommend using or even buying a separate computer for the conversion process as it takes a long time and basically ties up the machine for much else. Assuming you're converting a professional disc, you'll almost certainly get an error that the disc is copy protected. This is because Handbrake on its own can't convert copy protected video. A few moments on Google will help resolve this, enough said. Once the disc is scanned, you can take a look at the list of tracks available. You'll likely find one or more very large files which is the movie or the TV show. Generally, the latter will come in sets of episodes. There will also be relatively smaller files, featurettes, trailers, ads, etc. You can choose to include these or not. My rule of thumb is to convert anything over two minutes in length and skip the rest. Now you'll come to a screen with a lot of options. I'm going to suggest you ignore most of it and just choose Fast 1080p30 as a format. That's good enough for most people and is the default. Or you can spend days going over message board threads arguing the most exact perfect settings if you like. Before you click start to kick off the conversion, let's talk storage. While you can use the internal drive in your Plex server for this, you may find yourself quickly running out of room. For example, a half hour TV show episode from a DVD can clock in at 100-200 megs, an hour show at 400-600 megs, and a film from 600 megs to 1 gig or more. You may want to invest in an external USB drive and connect it to your Plex server. You can buy a 4TB drive for around $100 online, which will provide room for a decent sized media collection, I run an 8TB drive. Anyway, start the handbrake process. Depending on how many files are involved, their complexity, and the power of the PC running it, this can take from one hour up to several. Just let it run and do something else. Once it finishes the queue, it's time to move the resulting files to your Plex server. You can always use your home network, but I use flash drives which are ridiculously cheap, and just sneakernet them over to the other machine. This is the only part of the process where you can save time. Wait, before you move the files into Plex, you need to massage them a bit, both to provide metadata, info about the content, and optimize the file for what is essentially streaming. I use a product called Subbler on my Mac. I can't speak to Windows users on this, again, give Google a try. Before you start Subbler, go ahead and open each file. You can and should confirm that the main media file is in fact complete and what you wanted. In some cases, studios will fill up a disk with multiple copies of the same file or incomplete versions of the product. This is done to make what we're doing today harder. I found it's easier to just convert it all and throw out what you don't need. Go ahead and rename the files, which will most likely look like name of movie slash show dash one, two, three, or just title one, two, three. Subbler uses the file name to autocorrect metadata, so this is the time to rename the file. For movies, just call it the name of the movie. Just name the movie, extras, whatever they are, trailer, making of, etc. If there's an actual title at the beginning, use that. For TV shows, call it the name of the show, followed by S-X-X-E-X-X, which is the season number followed by the episode number, as in S-O-1-E-O-1. How am I supposed to know that? Google the TV show name and episodes and you'll almost certainly find a Wikipedia entry on it. This is tedious, but it makes things a lot easier later. There's also the TVDB.com, which is the same source Subbler uses. In one case, I was working on some loveboat episodes and found I had to include the ID number assigned by the TVDB in the file name for it to work, no idea why. Be sure to delete any duplicate files or incomplete files, just whatever you don't want. Done all that? Now, open Subbler and select the files, which will open them up as separate windows. Click the magnifying glass on the top right, which should bring up a bunch of metadata if you've named the file correctly. For those movie extras with no official name, you can skip this step. Click through and choose a poster, if available. Now, save the file, then click the optimized option. This will take a few minutes depending on the length of the file. This will make it run smoother on Plex. I had to go through and re-run a lot of stuff when I didn't do it. Ok, now you can either send the files over to the Plex server via the network or your flash drive. For movies, I import them into iTunes first, which creates a folder name for the movie. Then move the folder with the movie into the Plex location for movies. You can then delete the iTunes copy. If you have movie extras, create a folder called Featurettes alongside the movie file and then put the extras inside that. Run Scan Library on your Plex movie library and it should pop up in the list. For TV shows, I use iTunes as the final resting place, then just point Plex to that. So import your TV show files to iTunes and they should show up in separate season folders. If you have TV show extras, what I do is change them to season 99 or similar in iTunes, which allows them to appear in Plex. I suggest that you delete the transitory files as you go as they will collect quickly and fill up your hard drives and flash drives. If you have Blu-rays and wish to convert them, get ready with a lot more patience and a lot more storage. We start with a new step prior to Handbrake, which does not accept Blu-rays. You need to do a separate conversion first. I use a product called Make MKV, which does what it says, converts Blu-ray files to .mkv files compatible with Handbrake. They are also compatible with Plex itself, but unless you either have a tiny Blu-ray library or a ton of storage, it's not practical. Blu-ray films can easily run to 30 gigs or more in MKV format. Download Make MKV. It's free to try and $50 to buy. Load up the disk. You may need to purchase an external Blu-ray drive since most machines don't include that. I bought one for $80 online. Click on the drive icon in the window and let it run. This can take a few hours. Once it completes, run Handbrake, choosing the folder itself where the MKVs were deposited. Make MKV will put them in a folder with the Blu-ray title. Change the format setting to HQ1080P30Surround. This process takes much longer. I have seen some take two days to complete, but assume five to six hours at minimum. From there, follow the same steps to make it to Plex. Does this seem like a lot of work? Well, it is, but most of it involves waiting for things to finish, which gives you time to wait out COVID, write up podcast notes for shows like this, or check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on your favorite podcast catcher, or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mark, thanks for watching.


Dear students, in this module, I'll be introducing you to BLAST. BLAST is the most commonly used software by bioinformations all around the world. BLAST is essentially a tool to compare biological sequences. As you would already know, you can perform local and global alignments using algorithms such as Needleman Munch and Smith Waterman. However, in real life, you need to do this very fast and several times. So it is a bit difficult to do Smith Waterman or Needleman Munch every time. So here is this tool, BLAST, that is available online free of any cost and it was developed and made available by National Center for Biotechnology Information or simply NCBI in 1990. The acronym BLAST comes from the basic local alignment search tool. So towards the background, you need to be able to search biological sequences in a brisk manner. For instance, if you have hundreds of sequences that you want to compare quickly, then you cannot go about running Smith Waterman or Needleman Munch using a pen and paper and doing it over a hundred times. So here is this tool that can help you do all of that in a very short amount of time. More so, it can help you to look at the translational products that come from the genes that is the nucleotide sequences. The online link for this tool is provided here and you can follow this link and look at the user interface for BLAST. If you go to this link, this is how it will look like. So here is the software's name BLAST and you can BLAST or compare sequences from multiple organisms that are listed here. At this point, I would like to indicate to you that when I say BLAST the sequences, it essentially means compare the sequences or align the sequences. So BLASTing is a commonly used term by the bioinformaticians which essentially means comparing the sequences. So if you scroll down this page, you will find that there are several types of BLAST such as nucleotide BLAST that is mentioned here or after nucleotide BLAST, protein BLAST, BLASTX, TBLASTN, TBLASTX. So you need to be in a position to select which kind of BLAST algorithm you want to use. So each one of them has a specific purpose. So let's take a look. For the nucleotide BLAST, you simply search for nucleotides. So you have a query nucleotide. So query is the sequence that you are trying to search within the database. So here is your database DB simply. So you search for query sequence in the database. So in case of nucleotide BLAST, your query sequence is a nucleotide. Sequence and your DB is a nucleotide DB. For protein BLAST, your query is a protein sequence and your database is a protein database. Moreover, there are other types of BLAST such as BLASTX which have a protein database as I just mentioned and the query is a nucleotide sequence. So you are searching for a nucleotide sequence in a protein database. That sounds weird. So we translate this nucleotide sequence into the protein sequence first and then search it in the protein DB. You also have TBLASTN in which you have a translated nucleotide database and your query sequence is a protein. And you have TBLASTX which means you have a translated nucleotide database just like the previous case but your query is a translated nucleotide sequence. So given these multiple types of BLAST, you can easily search for nucleotide or amino acid sequences in the available sequence databases. To start with, if you click on BLASTN, this is the nucleotide BLAST, then you will arrive at this user interface. Here you can list the FASTA sequence, the IDs or the accession numbers of the nucleotide sequences you want to search and it will search in the database that you want to search in. You also have the protein BLAST or BLASTP by clicking here on this tab and you can input your protein IDs here and specify the protein database and go for the search. So in conclusion, BLAST is a software tool that you can employ to compare nucleotide or protein sequences with databases that have nucleotide or amino acid sequences. BLAST helps you to perform this task in a short amount of time and therefore is a commonly used tool by the bioinformaticians. More so, it is available online and free of cost.


What is this lady everybody and welcome. It's time for show and tell thanks to well Melissa Liz JP Noon Pedro They've been running show and tell and we've had some more times we can get ready for ask engineer Which we're still gonna do and work makes a dream work saying I want I want to give thanks to them But we're back for a special original cast addition Yeah, that extra half an hour every week that we get Sometimes so we get to watch the show until later, but that extra half an hour. We're getting a show ready We're getting new products ready and we've been doing the Unending dance of chip shortage supply chain crises crises and more so Eventually you get to the point where a half an hour is one of the most precious Substances, yeah, if time is a substance but speaking of half an hour for the next half an hour We've got a wonderful show.  I'm going to just kind of show over here a little bit Um, so let's kick it off. We'll start off with knowing Pedro. Tell us what you're up to. Hello Hey, what's up folks? Hey, check it out. Uh, so yeah this week. We figured we do kind of a showcase video and a guide on using 3d CAD parts in our github repo So we've been kind of slowly building this over the years and we've had Um lots of parts added and we thought it was time to Kind of document how folks can contribute and also how to use it. Um, so I got here a CAD animation of Lab project that we did with jpe. This is the walk person. Yeah, and uh uses all of the uh the models that we have available on the github Uh repo so we got a feather here We have things like uh the switches and neokey All the things and if you don't see a part folks can submit part requests And uh, we've been going through some of those and uh making some parts. So That's what we got this week, but also we wanted to share something Uh else So let me see if I can get it loaded here. So I already like books pt So yeah, there's a really cool Kickstarter that happened. I don't know when I lost track. I didn't think it was gonna happen Years ago. Yeah Oh, this is cool. Yeah, I I thought my kid would be like in high school by the time This is going to be a family heirloom passed down from child to child My father His father's mother's but this is cool No, I wanted to show this off because yeah the electronic engineering books That's always cool. But then of course like arts as soon as in the west all these like dude Where did they get that those super slim arcade part buttons because it's like That wouldn't fit in here. Yeah I got two so I'll send you guys. Oh cool. Check out the parts. Um, so if this is on how logic gates work So yeah, I just got in I'll show it to my kid as soon as we get alpha here It's showing you, you know, the how it not works That's cool. That's very neat that um, it it works differently every, you know, each So it's doing there's like a lot of answers there. So yeah, that makes sense Oh, yeah So like some of the emails that the guy was sending over was like, oh no part shortage Look my sensors. I got they're all different. Uh, my crew's not working anymore.  I know This is very cool. Again, I'm surprised they came in today. There was like no tracking on it. So it was a complete surprise So this is pretty cool This Yeah, yeah, that's a it's a cute hack. It's a good idea Over here shows more matrixy is even colors Yeah, our strategy is usually the same thing it's like it's for kids, but really it's for adults I like how the use of foam is the enclosure, right? So Yeah What a great design I like that. It's like, you know, it's like electronics, but in a new format and medium I think that's I always love that when it's like it's it's I mean people rebuilding stuff is good, but um It's very this is very inspirational and in nifty Uh use of microcontrollers and sensors Yeah, so I was wondering if you guys can like I guess do a breakdown or something at least try to source Wherever they got these are cables Yeah, I like them All right All right, thanks now Pedro. Thank you cool show and tell All right, Jeff what you got going on this week? Hello a couple of weeks ago I was teasing this keyboard, uh, which is a cometer 16 keyboard Uh that I was converting it to a run with circuit python and here it is running on a kb 2040 and that guide is live now. So Just the basic creating a keyboard and then I also create a more advanced keyboard with an fn key and Like handling all of the weird like shift, uh two sends a double quote. How do you even do that? And then I had a third program, which I think will be interesting called I named it the uh Matrix whisperer that can help you sort out if you have an unknown key matrix Which are like which are row key which are row pins which are column pins And like get a whole map of the keyboard just by pressing each key in turn. So I will drop a link to that guide In the discord for people who are interested in it and just to tease you there is like a q of at least four keyboards We're gonna do and maybe more I wonder what's next Uh, that one that one will be like fourth, but yeah Is that one next? I I can do it. What's next who's on first? What what what computer is next? The keyboard is just piling up here. It's amazing. So this one this one is coming up. This is a calico atom which was like the very tail end of Making eight-bit home computers and I just had to buy it when I saw it in ebay that it has a wild card key wild card wild card So let me know in discord what you think I should map that to win. Yes working in circuit python Awesome, I don't think so much.  We don't know what it should do. Yeah, we don't even know Types rm rf. Yeah, it's a wild card. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Jepler. All right. See you around All right jp. What you got going on this week Uh, so I have a Little demo that I showed during my product pick of the week Which was these quad alphanumeric display backpacks, which I love And it was a lot of fun to put together a little demo board of five of them together So we have five colors. I want to string them together And I needed a way to mount that and I didn't really feel like Drilling holes in something or laser cutting something So I grabbed some Legos and I'm and I'm super happy about this this display I made One thing I did was I just put some of our little lcd glass panels in front of it to act as Sort of a contrast because these things always look better with some filtering on top But if I add a little light to it, you can see This is just some stacks of of lego with My camera up with these boards just sort of sitting here nothing fancy, but Through the magic of having enough techniques stuff I was able to make little grippers out of these pegs and hold them in place. Oh, I see that's fun Yeah, they like they've come out and they're just holding in place These are what kind of squish them in place is just The fact that you can push those pegs in there Um, but that's the nice thing about these particular new stemma qt ones Is they're easy to wire and The way that you directed the stemma ports vertically makes them, uh, sit next to each other really nicely They go, yes Flush next to each other. I thought I thought of you I wanted to make you happy Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Okay All right. Well, now we know when john park's workshop is thursdays. There it is. Yeah, a little you can tell But it'll be the same same show it'll be at 4 p.m. Thursdays on ate a fruit Oh, thanks jp. All right And you also got a new guide the walk person That's right. The guide is out and it's cool collaboration with noe So there's going to be some follow-on videos and uh 3d models spin rounds and all that good stuff So it was fun to gang up on that project Okay. All right. Thank you jp. All right next up is liz With her brain her noodle brain Yes, uh, so when the elite the noodles came out I immediately thought of plugging them into a synth, uh, which may say something about my brain But so a guide went up this week, uh, where I showed you how to solder it up to cables And I've got a little demo going where um, the blue is getting a sine wave so you're getting kind of this pwm thing And then the pink is getting one of the oct which is how like notes are um sent to synth So it's all different voltages. And so I have this keyboard hooked up. So when I press a note The green goes on that's the eight signal while i'm holding down. Yeah goes off. And so you can you're going to see the pink Change in brightness depending on Oh, because that's the cv signal itself exactly. Yeah, so I think it's kind of a fun Visualizer for the cv. They do make like led cables with a kind of ugly But these if you pair them with a stacking cable you get kind of the same effect And you can see what voltages and gates you're sending around your system I think this looks so cool.  And then you know, you have a you actually just have more cables Which like who doesn't love more cables Dude, more cables for spaghetti everywhere But I love it. It's it's I love this sometimes the simple The simple projects are really the most fun. I feel like this is something that anybody who does Synthesizer musics can like put together in a couple minutes and like it just totally dresses up Your synth that looks so good. Yeah, thank you Good work. Delightful. Thank you Liz and thanks for doing that blah the Guide and the write up people can check that out. It's on the learning system. Yeah um, and then uh, speaking of guide writings and more Phil B And how are you? How are you doing and thank you for bringing all sorts of guides to life Help people with all these great leds. Oh, you bet. It's enjoyable I mean it's stressful in the moment, but like after a guide's done. It's like yeah, you're like damn that was cool Yeah, it was cool Yeah, um, I want to talk about uh silk screen, you know custom silk screens that we like to do on boards Like here's one on a metro these custom silk screen. I'm playing a metro video tonight. How we did not coordinate this I'm playing. I have a cool video with them with the metro in it excellent. Anyway Love doing these but they are super labor intensive Yeah, so we'll do them on a board that we you know We know there's going to be a lot of them and we love the board and everything But then there's like a thousand breakouts that you know Would be great if we could do a custom silk on all of them, but that's just not really practical So, um been working on a thing. I'm gonna screen Thing yeah, yeah, do you want me to find your screen? Uh, let me do a play pick a window. There we go. Okay. I'll add it Okay a window so Eagle CAD There's these three fonts built in there's there's the vector font The fixed font and then the proportional font and like the proportional font is this beautiful buttery smooth thing and That's great. Uh, but it's only there to use in schematics if you try to put it on the silk screen of a board When you get the board made it's just it goes away.  Right. So I've been working on some python code that reads in an eagle file Um rasterizes that text using the exact same font. I tracked it down And then inserts the the high resolution raster back into the eagle file Um, and you can replace the other fonts as well as if you want. So here I've replaced both fonts yeah And so if you actually go get a pcb made with this now it will have The buttery smooth font in the silk screen. So it's it's not as nice as a fully custom Uh silk screen, but the fact that you just run this script one. Yeah, and you're done is like hey as a middle ground That's that's not but phil b. What if I want a different font like courier You can do that. You just it's on the command line. Just that's cool. Tell it it'll read in a true type What if I what if I want zaff ding bats You can try it. I haven't tried it, but I mean in theory It's all just it's just Text and fonts and this is really helpful. Yeah, and someone asked in the chat. Can you add fonts to eagle phil? Why don't you add the font to eagle? because you can't you Ugly vector fonts and the the smooth font that you can't use in silk You cannot there's only there's only the one vector there's two versions of the vector font one's just skinnier than the other and then there's the The proportional font that you cannot actually use So this actually solves a problem of like how do you Have custom fonts and I I was always like I I I would have phil b do silk screens But it was always like I felt not bad, but I was like, oh man, it's like so much work to do Uh, and so I'd always just use like the you know the ugly vector font. It's fine It's very legible But I really did want to have a nicer font because phil and I are you know, we love fonts or typefaces I don't actually know the difference and I'm probably gonna get in trouble over mixing those two things up Yeah, this is a place. Um, this is really uh helpful. Thank you for doing this. I'm sure this can help a lot of folks This is what they want and it's amazing. It's 2022 and this is something we're doing Yeah, I don't know that a lot of people need it, but you go comes up. Well, here's a thing It comes up a lot everyone who's bumped into this is like oh my god This is what I've always wanted So and the fact you can choose any font and then it inserts it back into as an object that you can Then place and you can move around. Yeah It's not like It doesn't go into another file and you have to merge it all back in it just goes right back into the eagle file Um, so I hope it's xml. I hope I help someone out there Well, the three the three of us are going to be really excited. I think it's pretty cool I'm looking forward to using I've been super busy, but I have a couple new designs I'm very tempted to uh pull this out and all of our uh boards should look super fancy And then we have to talk about what typeface we want. Yeah adapting that Anyway, the code's not public yet, but once we've tested it and it kind of works will I can't wait to use papyrus on the e-ink. Yeah, we're totally gonna. We're totally gonna make the avatar board Avatar do we know Actually, you know what like comic sans would be pretty funny and it's very legible. I mean comic sans is legible Yeah I got some klingon fonts that we can finally do all right cool the klingon. Do we know? Okay, philly's like wait That's not what I wanted All these fonts are yours except for europa attempt. No kerning here. Okay Okay, I'll see you later. Thanks philly All right next up erin erin. How are you? We're made travels Oh, uh, yeah, I've been away for a while and I just wanted to show off my new project I am uh Getting back into making stuff and making stuff light up And uh, what i'm working on this week is a jellyfish Dozen neopixels inside of it and I am actually making an installation at a There's a mermaid bar in sacramento that has a giant 40 foot long mermaid tank above the bar Where I've been swimming as a mermaid lately And they hired me to do a new led light installation So i'm gonna be making about 50 of these and hanging them up in the dive bar In sacramento, so if you're local to california come by and check it out. They should be up by November we'll see but uh, just prototyping this week and I love the way they turned out they've just made I love the iridescence. They're beautiful and they're gonna be all different sizes I have a really big one here that I'm working on Cool when I hang it up. I it looks like a chihuly. I don't know if you're familiar with that artist But there's a glass artist at a Seattle called chihuly that makes uh amazing installations with all kinds of Yeah, just beautiful stuff and uh And the light shining through that thing is all right. You get a chihuly without having to be a millionaire on a hotel Absolutely All right. Thanks so much erin. Good to see you and welcome back. Thank you Welcome Next up we're gonna go to foamy guy tim. How's it going tim? Hello Uh, so I have uh display. I owe uh fun stuff to show. Oh, that looks great After yeah, we'll talk about the flippy board. I was like how about yeah, that's a nice. That's a nice flippy font Yeah, flippy clock. So this one is um made for the esp feather Uh tft it it does use pretty large sprites So you have to kind of make some space for it and it may take a chunk of the ram, but it is looking pretty good um A couple of interesting things about it. It basically works by using these sprite sheets like this and these are Generated with a pil uh python script. So you can choose your own font. You can choose your own background color It's font night here at aid of fruit. Yeah, you can choose. Yeah, the font you want It will generate these for you. You copy them over to your device and then we've got the uh Widget and I've got it up on github, but it's not added to the library bundle or anything like that yet But it is out there people want to try it This one is just kind of counting arbitrarily to show off the the flip animation but I have also played a little bit with One more that i'll show which is the uh It has access to the internet, of course right esp 32 Feather s2 so it can get the time from online So we also have this one which will fetch the time from an mtp And just show the current time so in my time zone it's 18 49 and it will just update every minute To show the current time. So that's kind of one all right basic project Great work, tim and um, we're usually doing our company meeting during your show on friday But I just want to say I get to tune into a little bit of it in the night Scrub through it later on the night fantastic show tim does a really neat deep dive every single week on marita fruit channel You get all the innards of circuit python on more and thank you for showing everyone how all this stuff works It's uh, it's a combination of code and art and Um, you're you're you're very patient and kind with everyone who has questions about coding So thank you for doing it. Yeah for sure. Yeah, it's my honor. It's a lot of fun All right, excellent work on the flovee cock and and then um, you know papyrus has come up not saying maybe maybe should do it I feel bad people think I don't think like are they serious? Yeah No, yeah, we can we can definitely we can do it. Yeah All right I'll see you later. They should have given us all these fonts and they want us to use them. That's right. Yeah, thank you Okay, next up we're going to go to mouse and then up after mouse will be guy and then We'll go to john and the good stuff and then mark. So we're going to try to get to everyone in next 10 minutes If everyone keeps it two minutes each we can keep this up and get to everyone mouse. What you got? Hey a couple weeks ago. I showed off a breadboard prototype of my digital FM synth module for my urex system making and uh, it was on a breadboard It's a long-term project. I there's I gotta love it more stuff to learn from where to write And I got to keep it around for a long time while I'm working on other stuff and I'm just getting too much too hard to handle on the bread by the wires flying and it was Taking up my breadboard module and everything. So I thought if only there's a way that I can make a more permanent prototype I was racking my brain and then I remembered that. Yes, I have a ate a fruit perma proto board. Yay, so uh I just sawed it up on the board. Uh, here's this is a feather art between 40 I want to just place it in here Oh cool. Okay. So, uh, that it's just a prototype so far, but um Yeah, there's a uh digital on a converter chip and an op amp chip. What sounds great Yeah, and I put it because it's a prototype and I want to reuse the feather when I make it for good I put it on the socket header connector and uh, then I realized what I'd actually done was Make a Eurorack feather wing by mistake. Yeah, there we go Some books like that excellent, uh, proto board work there too. Very very tidy Yeah, I spent some time to make it make it tidy. Yeah. Well, it has a show until the day Yeah, that's right. All right. Thank you so much. I need to make some of those news that licks showed off now That's right now. I can only think it's missing. Yeah, this is all made for Euroracks. Yeah, this is this is a good time to be alive Um Keep coming back and show this off. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, I love the love the look. Yeah Next up Guy what you got going on this week? Hey, um, I want to say really really quick I also got my computer engineering for baby's book. Uh this week. Oh, cool Great timing because I have a baby doing two weeks Fun chip shortage fact, uh, I ordered it before there was a baby I saw I saw it online in the Kickstarter and I was like, I'm gonna want this at some point and Good timing. All right. Hey, congratulations. By the way, thanks for yeah, you're getting a head start on things Yeah, all right. Time to finish up some projects. Let's see. What do you got here? Um, so this is super quick. Uh, it's a mechanical hex color picker So I'm a software developer. I deal with hex colors all the time. Yeah, I found these fun hex dip switches Um, and so I have it here. I just wouldn't focus but I can you know change the color. This is my blue Uh nibble on the end here. I can hit that. Oh, no, no fun And it'll show with the neopixel in real time and then I'll uh, I'll dump it into the youtube chat here Uh, when I hit the when I hit the button You get your uh, oh cool. You get the color and so it'll do our rgb Hsv whatever all the different types. Um, you can figure out the output those Love it Okay, awesome. All right. Good. We'll keep coming back and uh, I like the tight face on this pcb. Yeah Thank you. Front night. I knew it was coming. So it's coming. Yeah, you're a really ahead of things When you're ready bring the kiddo by the future engineer and uh Bring them by I will we already got the eight of plushies too. So yay All right, take care guy See you guy. All right. Congratulations. Next, uh, we're gonna go to john then get stuff and then mark. We still got time. Let's keep it up Hey, john So, uh, just real fast. Um, my father had this idea to make like a little candy drop game with his uh with a drone Oh, yeah, yeah So, uh, we were playing with our to kind of forgot to put like motors on a drone or anything Couldn't get work, but uh, I came up with this idea of using like a quick release kind of Hook on here. Yeah. Yeah, and so uh because the drones have those like, uh, you do a 360 trick with them or whatever, right? Yep, and so Moving around it stays on pretty good. But then when you do the the roll trick that pops off, right? Oh That's how you yeah That's how you trigger it mechanic mechanic. There you go for the win. Oh, yeah So I just want to show that off. Uh, I get to try it out with the kids because it's raining right now, but uh Hopefully soon we'll get to try it out and see if they like it. That's so cool This is like everything when you're younger like we didn't have like none none is as though as possible And like now you can actually do it Oh, yeah, it's a lot of fun. All right. That's looks fun. Fun household. Thank you john. All right, I guess, uh How you doing? Adafruit from burning man. Whoa I wanted to do a show and tell of an art project that I've built and brought out here to burning man I know that eight lady adai you uh, at least know about burning man or ui burner And from one amazing community to another adafruit's community have helped me so much in building this So what is it? It's basically, uh, the synchronized heart art project two people wear heart rate monitors And then we have leds that show the heart rates of the two people so the right hand side is his heart rate On that side we have that person's heart rate So the game is two people try to synchronize their hearts to beat at the same rhythm And the more synchronized they are the further the animation goes all the way up So these two gentlemen are almost completely synchronized There they are synchronized Now if they go out of sync then the animation doesn't go all the way up to the top of the heart So it goes a little bit shorter And so it's basically like a carnival game where you try to like get to the top of the top of the track The technology behind it is super simple. It's just a set of heart rate monitors a feather Feather express something like that. I can't remember from the top of my head right now But basically I have a microcontroller with a bluetooth chip on it and it's programmed with circuit python Which made it super simple to make Your community helped me figure out all of the electronics and the soldering and all that stuff So i'm going to give a big thank you to the Adafruit community for helping everything here And i'm looking forward to making more art pieces for another year for Burning Man So thanks again, and oh, and my name is Gustav okay Wow, thank you so much. Thank you for recording that and doing that. I feel like I was just there That was amazing. I I know that you are a burner or at least, you know about Burning Man Yeah, we went for five years and then now I'm the first the first year I met Lamora She said I had to I had to go to Burning Man with her otherwise. That was it. So I went We were actually talking about the weekend how you used to pull me I had these I had these rollerblades with like gigantic wheels and you pull me through the desert on the bicycle He was yeah, it was that's how we knew we were in love I've gone every year since 2009. So I Beautiful project in great sense and you know what congratulations on getting it working because that's really really hard Like people don't realize how tough it is To get a project up and running in the desert when it's like you can't get replacement parts You may not have tools electricity. We were there preparing stuff when we were there I can tell you the first time that I plugged it in and it was working up there and I got all this, you know Yeah, I was happy because congratulations. That's that is a big deal Yeah, I have my soldering irons. Hopefully I could do repairs on the site But thankfully I didn't have to they work just the way I hope You know, it's actually ironic Circuit Python actually came out of Burning Man a little bit because I had so many projects where I would have to take my laptop And run mp lab to fix stuff And I was like, oh my god If only I had a way of just plugging, you know, it's like the compiler and it's whatever and I was like You know, if there's only a way to edit it as a text file I would have been able to like Easily update the phone or something like that because that was the problem It's like if I had somebody would bring their laptop, but they wouldn't have all the software I'm like, well, you can't download anything but you always are a text editor And so not directly my office is years past But it was definitely like a lot of ids or cloud only you can't do anything with microcontrollers without being connected Like it was like not needing a dongle not needing code not needing to You know license It was all part of why circuit python was to me so cool. I'm like this was a problem that I had I'm like this is exactly what it was designed for easy Debug of it, you know ball anywhere usable in the desert, so Congrats. Thank you so much. This is this is that was a really nice video. We really appreciate it. Thank you I'm happy you enjoyed it. And I'm so thank you for making sure everybody was wearing clothing About it. All right. Thank you. All right great video Oh, whoops. Okay. I'm just gonna watch the video. We're gonna watch it again Let me get you out of here. Okay. Thank you mark. Play us out I think yeah, so very quickly 47 days. I think the halloween's I thought it was probably too late to start not too early So just to keep things quick fresh off the 3d printer is the start of a pumpkin project Right now I just do a circuit python express in there glowing orange because why not? Yeah Already one of my friends requested six of these. I'm not sure why six but Yeah, the next step is to actually Wire it up with some more electronics and see where it goes from there. Well, they're adorable All right, that's super cute And you do have plenty of time to make all of these And you can come back on the show and show the in progress stuff I can't wait to see each one should be stuffed with different electronics. It's like a little advent calendar of pumpkin We'll see how creative I can get in the next 47 days. I guess I think you've got it in you. You got it All right. Well, thanks for coming on tonight. Good to see you. We were um having the other team members co-host and everything Um, so I miss seeing you but now I got a chance to see it this week. I see you guys as well. All right. Thanks mark Thanks a lot All right, that was exciting. Thank you so much everybody for coming by this week That was a jam packed show and tell we'll start asking engineer and just a few moments We'll be back next week doing show and tell every single week 7 30 p.m. Eastern time Um, thank you Yeah Thank you so much everybody for not only being on the show and tell but If you're watching this helping others who doing projects who later on go and see and create and share with others Um, this is uh, one of the few things That can bring people together and it's really cool to see this every single week. All right warms my heart Ask an engineer and get ready for the next show and a few moments. See you next week everybody