If you can make it right now during this market you can crush any more any other market's gonna be a cake walk to you And let me tell you something when it swings. It's gonna swing fast.  So my advice is is Ayub All right, bud. All right, this is your time to shine man. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, I know you know what what a journey what a journey being with you for the past Almost a year When I volunteered to come on the show, I didn't know what to ask you, you know Because we meet twice a week and I thought I can't think of any question that you didn't have answered So, um, yeah, but then I still I still came up with a couple of them, you know, okay for the sake of the show Yeah They could have been answered like a zillion times already, but yeah, I didn't you know, I would love to ask you Why not why not let's do it if you ask me about my challenges in the business is how can I create? Listings in this market in today's market when there is no inventory Sellers are not selling buyers are lined up, you know, buyers are being priced out How I can help my buyers find the property for them. Well, man, that's a great question And I'm sure it's on everyone's mind You know the first thing to realize is that we're in a market cycle, right? And this market cycle is the toughest as I've ever seen right the amount of effort per Transactions at an all-time high if you can make it right now during this market You can crush any more any other markets going to be a cake walk to you And let me tell you something when it swings it's going to swing fast It's going to swing hard. It's going to be like it's going to make your head spin how quick things turn around This is a short-lived market. Maybe it lasts a year or two or six months or three months or three years I don't know but all that is not that long in the whole scheme of things, right? It'll be it'll be here before you know it and boom So my advice is is let's do everything we can do to build our databases up and take what? Transactions we can out of the process and count those as bonuses towards just surviving during this time Right because we know if we can survive we can really crush it now to your question I think there's a pent up demand of people who really want to list their house They're just scared to because a there's nothing to buy and be they're scared. They're going to leave money on the table Right, so I think there's a lot of people who really do want to sell at today's prices They just they're greedy and they want to they want to see if they can make a little more and then a little more I think I think a couple things to think about in today's market is second homes and investment properties Okay, people that are not living in their home in the property Okay, people that are living in the property if they sell the house or living in where are they going to go? Okay, there's nothing to buy right so there's nobody really moving and upgrading and downgrading right now in this market Everybody's sitting put this is another reason why I believe there's pent up the man For people who want to list because there are people out there who want to upgrade They're in a smaller home than they then they really want or they just had another child in the last year And they need an extra room. There's a lot of people I believe that would love to upgrade to a bigger home or a newer home or a nicer home That can't because there's nothing for sale But when this thing swings and it's going to swing hard and fast You know, we're going to see the market turn around where people are going to be ready when the moment happens Where they can actually get out and upgrade we're going to see a nice uptick in possible listings and stuff So guys be ready for this and build your databases now to be ready for this moment But going after people who own second homes and investment properties that aren't living in their in their properties Those are the ones we need to be going after right now because they they've got they've got equity, right? They've got profit sitting there and They can sell that property. It doesn't affect their life They've made money on that property and now they can just sit back on their profit and wait on the market to come Back down or something like that, right? Everybody's situation is different. I'll tell you what red X has a has a feature for rent by owners Right. This is like probably the most untapped amazing lead leads that that right now in today's market because these are Investors who are renting these properties long term Right. They're investors. This isn't a house that they're living in there. They've got equity. There's profit on the table So I think a understanding where we are in the market cycle and what we need to it really be achieving be going after a second home and investment Properties people that can sell those properties make a profit and not worry about where they're moving to next because they weren't living in that property They're in the first place and see Circle prospecting the neighborhoods that your buyers want to buy in and just trying your best To find a seller then it's an off-market deal. You're not competing with 30 buyers guys. Listen to me loud and clear You find the you find the seller for your buyer. You're not competing with 30 buyers anymore It's off-market. You're not competing with 30 buyers 15 buyers eight buyers and multiple offers and higher than full price Right if you find an off-market seller who would sell they don't want to list it. We've heard that before right? They don't want to list it but But they would sell it. Okay, great. I can I can bring in offer. Let's present it to the buyers Let's let them come over and look and see what happens. So I think it comes to a to a down to the Nitty gritty of it. I you that we just have to do the best we can do with what we got You know, and it's not going to be perfect right now It is the toughest market I've seen and we just got to keep fighting and keep grinding it out here until we get to an easier market and it's just gonna Because say man, I'm just so excited about the direction of the market here because you know It's just it's just exciting to watch all this go down. I mean, this is history We're witnessing history of the real estate market man, and I'm just excited to be here in the middle of it What happens is my mornings are pretty? Okay, like I'm committed from 9 30 to 1 30 or something and after that I'm kind of lost I'm just drifting here and there got you got you Can you that and commit that part of my afternoon to something that I can really capitalize on Start start dabbling with social man start dabbling with it and being like proactive putting work behind it You know spending an hour to a day doing it the sweat equity way not the buying leads way You know doing it by Liking and commenting under people who are following you's post DMing them and saying Congratulations on whatever the post is about. You know, how's it going today having real genuine connections with people online It's something you could spend hours doing that be super beneficial where you could again collect data. I'm thinking calls from 9 to 12 and digital Digital in the evenings email text message social media DMs posting commenting responding to comments replying You know following up one-on-one emails weekly email, you know the whole nine yards just crushing digital Just crushing digital in the evenings DMing every single person in your in your market that you can find that lives in your market Hey, how you doing? They go to your profile. They see you're a real estate agent in their market I mean, that's just something that if you live fine if you find yourself lost in your burnout on the calls for the day You've made your three hours of calls and you're doing your weekly email move over to digital and play around for a little bit I promise you I think you'll connect with some people, you know You may pick up three or four five good leads a day. Yeah, add that to your repertoire and see what happens


Hi, I'm Mina and I'm going to share with you today our experience at XWP of customizing Gutenberg core blocks to add AMP features. So, Gutenberg, well, Gutenberg is definitely new editing and also development experience and I read through a bunch of plug-in reviews out of interest in the WordPress repo and it seems to be kind of love-hating going on there with Gutenberg and one of the notes that I've seen also is that people mentioning that it's not very developer friendly and I've also seen a few notes about unsuccessful attempts to customize the editor, so I can imagine yeah it can be definitely quite frustrating or at least challenging to having to learn a completely new thing when you have already gotten so used to something else and This talk is going to be quite developer-focused I'm going to show some code examples And I hope that at least some of you who are interested in developing on Gutenberg will get some useful information So at XWP, we were also facing a challenge when developing the official AMP for WordPress plugin to build in AMP support and Well, we wanted to build in Gutenberg support from as early as possible So that once Gutenberg actually gets merged to core which happened yesterday Then the plugin would work right away and a few notes here So first of all, I'd like to mention that The presentation that I'm making today is just a tiny part of the AMP for WordPress plugin there's a lot more to it than just adding AMP features to Gutenberg and second point that since, well Gutenberg still seems to be evolving then this is not necessarily Final or ultimate truth of how to extend Gutenberg blocks I also had to redo a few slides a few times after updates But it is a practical example of how we managed at XWP to add custom features to core blocks So a few words about AMP, probably most of you are familiar with AMP as As it stated on the AMP website, then AMP is an open-source initiative the goal to make the web better for everyone and AMP basically consists of three core components the optional AMP cache, AMP JavaScript and AMP HTML and the most relevant part for Gutenberg blocks is AMP HTML So a little bit about AMP HTML to give you some background of What we needed to change and what we wanted to achieve with extending the blocks So what's the difference between HTML and AMP HTML? AMP HTML, it is basically HTML But it has some restrictions meaning that some of the tags are not allowed and it also has some Custom elements, some of them to add new features and some of them to replace the restricted elements So here are a few examples For example, the default image tag is not allowed, but this is replaced with AMP image Exactly the same goes for video, video tag is not allowed, but it is there is a custom element AMP video So here are two examples of New custom elements by AMP, AMP feed text I'm going to talk a little bit more about this later as well because one of the code examples is based on that The other is AMP Facebook. There are tens of more of AMP elements, these are just a few examples and Also related AMP has also custom attributes Some of them are meant for using specifically with AMP components But some of them can be used with almost any default HTML tag as well So The goal of the AMP for WordPress plugin is to help making the WordPress website AMP compatible And also provide AMP specific features for the editor and a brief overview of what we needed to achieve with a plugin So first of all in case of the forbidden HTML elements We either need it to remove them or if possible replace by allowed elements For example, a good example is the image tag. It's not allowed So we would replace that with AMP image and this part is actually Mostly automatically done by the plugin already. So this is not so much user-facing in Gutenberg editor The next part is to add new AMP features and this is now the place where the editor becomes relevant since That's where the user can actually choose if they do want AMP features or if they don't want to So we wouldn't just randomly add AMP features to website where we think that it would be awesome And so the editor gets to decide if they do want to use them or don't want to use and also Related to the previous two points. We also wanted to add Controls to the editor so that they could modify the AMP attributes So why go through the trouble of extending core blocks at all like in theory We could basically just create new blocks for absolutely everything We found that it makes more sense to actually reuse and extend existing editor blocks for example in our case what we actually wanted was to Have sort of say customized or enhanced versions of the existing blocks with optional AMP settings And from a user experience perspective, it's very important not to overload the inserter and duplicating blocks So for example Let's say there is an AMP component for Lightbox, it's called AMP lightbox and this is basically an image with lightbox effect. So let's say that If you extend the blocks, then you could just use the already existing image block and just tag a control So the editor can choose. Okay, I do want the lightbox effect or I don't want if you would create a new block Then the user would have to remove the image block Add the AMP lightbox block and configure it. If they would think that actually I don't want it I just want to link my image then they would have to go through all this switching back blocks again So now to the code part So the code examples that I'm going to show you they are simplified examples for example if if we actually added five settings to block then I'm just going to show you one because Well, all the settings are added quite in a similar way and I'm also going to repeat quite a lot of stuff At first when I was creating the slides, I was thinking that okay I'm just going to show the so to say unique parts not to for the people to get to board but fortunately my colleagues at the XWP were willing to listen to that talk a few weeks ago and I actually received the feedback and it's great if there are repetitions because you can actually see That we are extending all the blocks kind of with the same base logic So a little bit about the filters that we mostly used for extending the core blocks in AMP for WordPress plugin Filters are basically a great way to sort of say hook your own code into someone else's code Well in case the developer has thought that maybe someone wants to do it and add filters for it And this is fortunately case for WordPress and also the Gutenberg editor. So we mainly used four filters the first one is called blocks register block type and this allows you to hook into the moment where the block type is getting registered so you can configure all the settings there and What you do here is not going to be Directly visible to the user by the way the second filter is blocks get save element and this is now for Filtering what gets saved into the post content for this for a specific block So this obviously means that whatever change you make here. Yes, the user is going to see that The third block editor block edit this is for filtering all the visual part of the Gutenberg editor So using this we would add the controls. We would change the behavior controls and we would also Filter how the block is actually displayed inside the editor And the fourth one that we use this get save content extra props And this is also for filtering what gets saved into the post content But this is now not filtering the whole block. It's just filtering the attributes So let's say we would want to add. I don't know inline style for a paragraph Whatever, then this is a filter we could use And let's now get to the actual code examples as well so the first example is about the amp component called amp fit text and What it does is just basically Shrinks or expands its text content to match the space that it has so you can assign Minimum font size to it. You can assign maximum font size to it and it's going to respect those font sizes But take as much room as possible in the container that it has and Here is an example of how the amp fit text looks like so here We have set minimum font size maximum font size and height and we have wrapped this around a heading 3 and This now is how it actually looks like in the source code after amp has done its magic So for example, we set the maximum font size to 80 But the actual font size is going to be a side 68 This is how it looks like in the front end. So this is 2017 theme above there's heading 1 and Below there's heading 3 as you can see the heading 3 is much larger Original it's not much larger, but we wrapped it inside amp fit text and we gave it a lot of space and now that's the font size So here what we wanted to do was to add the controls for the user to opt-in for using the amp fit text those are for modifying all the relevant attributes and then we would want to wrap the original content inside the amp fit text and This is What we want to achieve. So this is the block sidebar as you can see we have added amp settings For amp fit text and I'm going to show you this example based on a heading. All right so the first thing we need to do is to register the settings and For that we use the filter register block type that I mentioned before Here we have available the original settings and the block type name So first thing we do we check if this is actually a Heading block These filters are going to go through all the blocks So if you don't do is check we are going to add some random controls and settings for all the blocks and Well, if it's not heading even they just returned the original settings. Otherwise, we start adding our attributes So here we add an attribute for amp fit text We're going to create a token for that and we see set it to false by default and We add all the other settings that we want the same way. So the minimum font size maximum font size and height So now we have the settings configured now We also want to actually show those to the editor and for this we use the editor block edit filter Here we have available the original block edit component and the properties Again, we check here. Okay. This is not a heading. We're just going to return the original block edit Otherwise, we start putting together our controls that we're going to show to the editor So the first one that we create here is a toggle This is going to be for the amp fit text They're going to set the label the current value the behavior and Now we add the other attribute other controls But this case we do this only if the editor is actually chosen to opt-in for using amp fit text If if the user doesn't want to use this and there's no reason to show all the controls to the user so if The editor has chosen amp fit text, then we add all the other controls the same way once that's done we return all these controls together with the original block edit and That's quite important to add the original block edit because that includes all the previously existing controls plus How the block is actually displayed? Okay, and Now we have the settings. We have the visual controls and now we actually we also want to modify what gets saved in the post content So for that we use the get save element Here we have available the original element the block type object and the attributes as the editor has saved them So now in addition to checking if this is actually a heading block We also want to make sure that we modify the content only if the user actually has Opted in for using amp fit text. Otherwise, there's no need to make any changes at all And if the user had opted in then we start putting together our attributes for the amp fit text element that we are creating so The first thing we do here is that we add the original element as the child of the amp fit text because We're gonna wrap amp fit text around it And after that we add all the other attributes exactly as we expect them to show up in the post content because this is Actually going filtering what gets saved into post content and then we Create the new amp fit text element with all the attributes that we assigned to it So that's it with the amp fit text and I'm now going to show you a short video about how it actually works in action I hope it plays as well So this is now a heading and this does not have amp fit text assigned to it This is just heading without any settings So now when we go to the heading block we can see that there's the amp fit text control And this is the only control that shows up at the foot when we toggle it We can see all the other attributes that we added as well So we're gonna set the height what we want and adjust the sizes and Then we are going to save the post and see how it looks like now and this is how it looks like now So it used to be smaller than a heading one, but now you can see it's much larger so The next example is going to be based on gallery shortcode there is actually no specific block for gallery shortcode, but there is a block for shortcode and You can well use gallery shortcode with that as well so here what we wanted to do was to Allow the user to use amp carousel Instead of displaying the default word for scullery and this would display a carousel instead of default word for scullery Here we would want to add just one toggle so the user can choose if they want to use the carousel or not Again the first thing we register settings Here we have now we use the same filter register block type Again, first of all we check if this is a shortcode block Then we add the amp carousel toggle which is going to be well a boolean again Meaning it can be only false or true. Then we return the settings So now when we have the settings, you also want to add a visible control for that again Use the same filter editor block edit Then we check if this is not a shortcode. We're not doing anything. Just return the original component and otherwise We add the control, but what we do now here is that since we only want to add this control In case it's a gallery shortcode, so we actually check Did the editor actually type in gallery and if they did not then we just return the original component otherwise We add the inspector controls with carousel toggle exactly the same way as we added in a previous example And then we return the original together with the custom inspector controls So now we again have a register settings. We have added visual toggle to the editor Now we want to modify what gets saved into the post content and for that again, we use the blocks get save element filter Again, we check if this is not a shortcode then we just return the original Otherwise we add our custom handling and Here again, we check first. Okay. Is this a gallery shortcode at all has user typed in gallery and if they actually chose to use amp carousel Then we check if the amp carousel was previously set to false Then we'll remove this. So how we set it up was so that if there is no attribute for amp carousel set in a shortcode This means that it's true and well probably most of you have used shortcode So you know that the attributes just get typed into the shortcode as text So this is what we are processing here as well And otherwise we check, okay, if you are not using amp carousel, but if it's not set to false Then we add this as false and the last thing we do here is we check, okay Did we actually make any changes to the original text that was saved and Only if we did then we create the new text element So here is also a fourth part But I'm briefly going to show is the processing from PHP side because we did add this attribute But this is not a default attribute for for the gallery show So we also want to make sure that it actually gets used And for this we use the post gallery filter to add a function maybe overwrites a gallery and We have available the HTML parameter which includes the original output And the shortcode attributes. So here we check that okay if the amp carousel was not set Or it was set to false Then return the original output And otherwise we add our own logic to use amp carousel and return this instead And that's it again. So I'm going to show you the video again All right, so here I'm adding a shortcode block as you can see it doesn't have any settings by default and When I type in gallery, then the settings appear added by the amp for WordPress plugin so at first I'm just going to show the Default word press gallery. I'm going to add some images We're gonna save the post and see how it looks like So this is now the default purpose gallery. Just three images in a row Now we go back and choose to display as amp carousel And now as you can see this displays as carousel instead leveraging the amp carousel component so the third and the last example is going to be about amp lightbox and here what we wanted to do was to add option to display an image as lightbox and for all the image blocks so this would mean the image block the gallery block and also the gallery shortcode block and I'm going to show you this example based on image block So here it's how it's going to look like Once we're done. So we are again going to add just one toggle or optionally show us with lightbox effect And again, the first thing we need to do is register the settings So here again, we use exactly the same filter blocks register block type Again, we check if this this is actually an image block only then we add the amp lightbox attribute And this is going to be a toggle again So this means type pooling only true or false and then return the settings So now we have settings registered now. We also want to add the visible controls For that again, we use the editor block edit filter Again, we check if this is not an image. We just return the original block edit component And then we add our custom control I'm not going to show you this in detail because this is exactly the same as in case of previous examples and now we also want to modify what gets saved into the post content and how we set up this is By adding a custom attribute to the block that we would later process in PHP so this time we we don't need to filter everything that gets saved into the block content We just want to add one attribute and for that we use the get save content extra props filter so here we have available the Properties the block type object object and the attributes that the editor has Say it for this specific block and then we start putting together our attributes We check that if the amp lightbox is set then we add this attribute exactly as it's supposed to show up in the post content and then we return the Custom attributes plus the already previously existing properties. This is also important because otherwise we would lose everything else and The fourth part here is also To actually process this attribute in PHP I'm not going to show you this right now because this is not at all Gutenberg related and We are ready again. So I'm going to show you a video again So this is now an image Block it doesn't have any settings at all. It's just added image doesn't link to anywhere Nothing happens when we click on it Now we go to the image block and we can see the amp settings added by the plug-in And we are going to choose to use the lightbox effect So this is the same post now with the image and now when we click on it actually displays as lightbox This is not completely centered. I can see that just right because I recorded the video not completely centered Okay, so that's it with the examples I guess if you have never developed with the Gutenberg before then this might have been confusing or too many details to remember but I'm sure that you notice that there is a lot of repetition meaning that actually the The base logic for extending the blocks is generally kind of the same So a few words about the challenges that we had so well first first challenge was definitely to figure out how all this works at all because when we started developing it it was quite early this year and that that moment there was kind of Almost no documentation about how to do it and they're also Well didn't exist real-life examples of how this actually works So it took us some time to figure it out but once we did understood how the filters for blocks work and which to use and then to use then it was quite straightforward and Now I believe that the documentation for filters. It's Quite detailed so if you're interested then go check it out and another thing to consider when extending Gutenberg blocks is that Well, basically how we wanted to Implement the plug-in was so that if the plug-in is activated and if you do changes and then if you would deactivate the plug-in Then nothing would change for the user or nothing would break for the user so to say But every time when you load the editor, there's a background check happening Which is checking if there are inconsistencies between what's currently saved into the post content Compared to what would get saved by the currently existing logic for save saving so since we filter the what gets saved into post content then if if you after doing that if you Deactivate the plug-in then this is what you're gonna see and this is the same heading Exactly the same example that I just showed you with the amphi text Set to true so if we do that and then we go and deactivate the plug-in Then this is what going to happen. So at first we were figuring out all kind of ways of how to get around this Or how not to have this but then we actually receive the information that this is completely okay and If you just click convert the blocks then the default block is going to be restored and this works for the core blocks So but that's just something to be aware of and well for me by far the most frustrating thing is Has been the weekly updates by Gutenberg which More than wished to break the plug-in so it's It's unbelievable how many times we had to re-go some things is a method changed or a class name changed or something wasn't there anymore Was removed or replaced or I don't know. I think the Pretty is four weeks. Absolutely every single week after update. There was something wrong. So It's Well, it's definitely good to test everything all the time But if you're working on large projects and multiple projects, then you can't stand It's hard to spend like half a day every day. Just testing if the latest update now broke something or not So the the good news is that if something breaks, then it's fortunately usually just the back end because well The post content already is what it is So the front end experience is going to stay the same, but it's still super frustrating for a developer to go to after update go to the Post-editing page and then you just see a white screen and you're gonna start thinking out. Okay I'm gonna go through all the github Last release to see what kind of changes were made to figure out how to make this work again Fortunately or at least I hope so now when Gutenberg is actually part of WordPress and Then it should be more stable Yeah, I hope so at least So a few thoughts to Thoughts and conclusions so well first of all as you probably saw then The logic for extending the blocks is quite similar. There are actually More filters available, but these were the ones that we mostly needed for extending the blocks And of course, although this presentation specifically is based on the adding and features then actually All this is applicable for anything else you might want to add And the last thought is that yes, although it can be super frustrating sometimes with Gutenberg, but The more I worked with it the more I actually see that it does It does offer like really cool opportunities for a developer to add really awesome features and by this also enhance the experience for editors and That was it Here are a few links as well. So the first row here is just a sample plugin Stabilna production ready and I hope it hasn't broken meanwhile, but you can check it out just to see how to extend a block so the second line here is link to the plugin and If you're interested then you can go to the plugin site and there should be link to GitHub repo So if you go there if you're interested you can see all these examples in real life and actually functional That's it. Thank you Do you have to do something? So I have a plug-in on my website that's already an amp plug-in Do I need to remove that plug-in and start using your plug-in instead or could I find another way to keep one? Or what how does this plug-in kind of like apply to? Like a WordPress site without Gutenberg or does it? It works very well with Gutenberg without Gutenberg. I mean what I As I mentioned before as well then the Gutenberg part is just a tiny part of the plug-in So probably if you already have an amp plug-in, then it would be better to remove this and Add amp for WordPress plug-in instead because it's yeah, the plug-in I have now is amp supremacy So I was just wondering if it was like gonna affect it or anything. I'm not familiar with plug-in Are you familiar? Thank you, Alberta So the image block with amp settings Is there a way to make that so that that's going to always be the default like lightbox's default toggled on and Amp is toggled on when you try to use it. Can you ask it again? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry Forgive my ignorance too. Is there so the point you were showing with the image Is there a way to make it so that let's say the Lightbox has always toggled on when you try to create a new block with that No, it's not that this month Yeah, as I heard from a pilot that you could create an extension Plug-in yourself and do that


One of the things that we have done as we've been quarantined was we did a whole week worth of themed dinner nights. The whole family dressed up as a certain type of person. One night was the ballet, so we all wore tutus and another night was hippie night and another night was punk night. It was brought us together as a family. I'm pretty proud of my kids that during this time home we actually got a guinea pig and they've been proven to be really responsible moms to it. A mom win that I have is I have a daughter who's in middle school and we've been getting along really great. And there's typically drama that comes along with middle school. Well, it seems like that drama is left at middle school and it's not at home. I couldn't be more thankful that we're getting along so well. I have a son with autism and he just can't seem to understand why he can't go to his favorite places and see his favorite people. It just can be really devastating and really, really difficult for him. It's challenging because I never thought that I could get work done and home school my son. But it's been eye-opening because I've been able to see how he does his school work and how much he's progressing. My middle son is behind in his speech and before the pandemic happened he would have one-on-one sessions with a speech therapist. And I'm not a trained speech therapist so I'm doing the best that I can. I haven't been able to generate as much income so that's been a little bit of a bummer. With that extra screen time my nine-year-old daughter has picked up some new things. So at bath time and when it's time to get dressed her new favorite thing to say is my body, my choice. Having to take calls from my laundry room because all of my kids are on Zoom calls in the kitchen, the living room or bedroom. So people will always ask me, are you in your laundry room or pantry room? And I'm like, yes. I spent the two months leading up to quarantine fixing up my she-shed. I work at home so I needed a place to have some quiet and a home office. Quarantine came and now my parents are living in my she-shed. I actually took a quarantine vacation. There was a time where things were just so heavy and the way that I felt to deal with self-care was to just disconnect from everything. There was no social media. There were no online conference calls. Just completely unplugged. We all are constantly working and feeling like it's going directly into the weekend and really doing the same thing on the weekends, continuing to disconnect and just enjoy the space. I've been really fortunate during this time home to really get time to myself every day to work out and get a priority every day to hit the home gym and take care of myself. Hot baths. I also like a little sock of wine, so that's also an option. One thing that I've discovered about myself through this pandemic is that I love chaos. I love the stress of going to events. I love the stress of putting events on. I love the stress and chaos of just people who need me to do things. I just love it. I am more of a homebody than I thought I was. I'm always on the road, always at meetings, always with people. I'm really just enjoying these quiet, precious moments with my children. I've discovered that I'm a lot stronger than I probably originally thought and I'm a little bit better at parenting than I probably give myself credit for. I am a sock of mom and I'm doing the best that I can. I didn't realize how much I appreciate my kids' teachers, caretakers and nurses and doctors around the world that are keeping us safe. No matter what I'm facing now, I will prevail. We've got this. We've got this. We've got this.


good morning guys and welcome to a new vlog it is tuesday morning finishing up my coffee and i'm going to head in pretty soon i'm starting the vlog off i'm going to dinner with some friends ashley and shawnee tonight i haven't been to this restaurant i don't even know what it's called i kind of forgot but yeah i just wanted to start the vlog because i'm like doing something later today yeah so i hope today goes by fast and yeah i'm just like super tired it's just a tuesday okay so i'm at starbucks i think i'm gonna do my schoolwork here because i want to get a little drink i also have to change like i brought a change of clothes for dinner tonight so i think i'm just gonna stay here and work on the study guide just because my friends and i like all come together and just work on a study guide for the final and basically we got this one early so just to like work on it over time since there's so much information so i think i'm gonna just work on that up until dinner time just to be proactive how cute is this place it's the ivenhoe village center yeah i'm walking to my location now oh there's parking over there i swear to god like if it does not have a parking lot no i'm not liking parking situations down here this line ever come down here um but anyway i'm walking there now got my pepper spray with me because you don't know what's going on but i'm excited to see this place because it looks kind of cool so hopefully the food's good i'm starving so yeah how cool is this building guys like look at the inside and they have like different options how cute is this place okay maybe the parking situation's okay maybe it'll make up for it but look how cute this is and then we have a kelly's ice cream over here which is cool how fun we got a little bar area going on we also have a little foxtail coffee this is so cute yo it smells so good in here and it's like so cute and aesthetic i cannot get over this place look i don't even know what i'm gonna eat yet but i just wanted to show you guys the inside this is the rasta pasta oh it's gonna have the waffle fries we got a feast here we got the pasta the pizza we have this beautiful sangria that ashley ordered look at the little detail yes look at that i just got a glass of wine she's cute i love these glasses i think we have the same glass cheers okay so i just got home it's the next day after dinner had a great dinner with my friends which is really nice but i wanted to show you guys that i got a goodie well i got multiple goodies so first up i got this bovi this is what it looks like it has the cut and coagulates buttons here the tip isn't on obviously there is supposed to be like a little tip it comes like this far and then this is the scratch pad which is like pretty cool and then this is a needle book so basically you can put your knife here and this is like a little piece of foam that you can stick your needles in which is fun and then also got like a little knife as you can see and those are the goodies i got today and i wanted to show you guys because you know fun stuff going on we're at the doctor with sherry the spine pain management i just wanted to show the little diagrams say look at the little ilio crest and hips joints all right sherry got sunglasses because she had cataracts so anyway looking good sherry she loves her ray bands and now i think we're gonna eat at the tavern for lunch not lot in lunch we're gonna eat here for like a dinner early dinner late lunch early late lunch early dinner all right so i got a glass of rosé just because it's a refreshing is that the right word sherry got a ultramig ultra so our food came out i got this a little salad with some fries because the fries yesterday were not up to par and then sherry got her burger over there okay sherry now what are we doing we're gonna go to the great yep just a local store my first year i got a celebration sweatshirt which i think my mom bought for me okay and now that sweatshirt has gone to alex to wear yeah and i want a new one i said as soon as we moved here i was gonna go buy what now we've been here since september and i don't have one yet so it's time yeah it's time so we'll see you guys when she ends up getting all right so i made it in the celebration softest group store it still smells like grapes i don't know i love the store so yeah i'm excited to see what sherry picks out all right sherry got her ice cream mint chocolate chip and i got my vanilla scoop and my waffle cone all right sherry show us what we got a little hall here another hall alex shirt which you could wear celebration celebration because she likes that we'd be sleeping in this um maybe but you know i like to go the no pant lifestyle which that allows so i have a seaside i have a well ston and then i have um seaside now celebration i guess what you're to replace this sweatshirt about the alex yeah she got this really cool like green green blue it's like a teal green yeah it's super cute good morning guys i am hot mess because i have my tiktok set up here i'm gonna try to do a get ready with me i have no idea what the hell i'm doing so yeah i don't know i also want to make a whole a separate like sit down drive with me or just like sit and talk to you guys sort of deal uh about youtube because if you want to know what i'm gonna say like a short version i'm making a tiktok so follow me on tiktok if you want to see what i'm talking about but um yeah i'm gonna make a whole youtube video on this because i'm just in a social media dilemma i'm gonna get ready really quick um i have a hair appointment so i i'm not gonna do anything with my hair pretty much i'm just gonna let it be wet when i get there and then she can take it over um she once said like because i asked do you come to the hair salon with your hair dirty or clean and she's like basically like would you go to the dentist with dirty teeth and i'm like no because that's really gross and she was like yeah so i try to always make it an effort to wash my hair and have clean hair when i see her because she had a good point when she was talking about that so yeah my hair is just gonna be wet and i'm gonna do a little get ready with me so i would set you up for time lapse but you can just go over to tiktok and watch that and it's pretty much the same thing but we have a fun filled day today okay guys so this is the fit for today i tried on my other jeans but i like these better i don't know it's like kind of casual but i don't know you guys know i'm not good at the style like i like dressing up up or like lounge wear this type of like vibe it's just so hard and did my makeup i gotta get going y'all makeup turned out well considering this is not the first time of this year that i've done the makeup a little blush heavy it looks like on that side i don't i don't even know guys it's too late now to fix it it's fine filming to get ready with me on tiktok is so hard and i could just put up the camera and like film it and then edit it but like i'm too lazy to do that so i feel like mine was a little bit bad and i was like oh get ready with me while i talk about how youtube is dying but it's like generic but i couldn't go back and edit it because like that's just not how like tiktoks are so i'm like okay well i put it on the screen like how my youtube channel i think is dying because everyone's moving to tiktok and like all that so my chances of like getting somewhere maybe are more prevalent or more there's more of a possibility on tiktok i don't even know why i put that up i wanted to see the makeup all good and ready but now i need to head out i want to get some starbucks obviously and then we'll be on our way her location i think is a little further away because i know that uh jasmine moved locations it's like more private and like more quiet so that'll be good but yeah gotta be uh gotta get on the road okay so i got the iced coffee i'm not getting the vanilla because sometimes i like the vanilla is just too sweet i think because i haven't been getting it a lot um because i only been putting milk in my coffee like from home so got my coffee with no syrup and no vanilla flavor but now i shall get on the road because head west toward arabian nights boulevard i need to make it on time and it's 27 minutes away so made it to jasmine's new studio space called society studios but this is what it looks like really cute look at this body like oh this is so you can have another um person in that chair wow and then there's a little um what is that called rinse shampoo bowl i don't know the terms also wanted to show you guys it's so official because she got new what is this called like color robes smocks yeah all right so this is what the hair looks like and i swear it looks like i have extensions in but i don't i'm gonna put a poll on my instagram say did i get extensions because it really looks like i did but i didn't but you know jasmine she always does such a good job and my hair looks so thick she thick okay guys absolutely love my hair love the new location that jasmine's in it took me a little bit to find it but it's fine it's kind of like in dr. philips area and it's kind of tucked away its own little like nook i guess a lot more private a lot more quiet like always i got my water because i like the bottle and she like has snacks line like all this stuff but i always forget and i just bring starbucks so yeah i am going to go eat now because i'm starving i don't know what i'm gonna have though i might get some pizza or chick fil a i don't know we'll see okay so i decided on getting pizza i'm not gonna drive all this way and not get pizza because this girl lives like four minutes away from this place and yeah i'm not gonna come here and not get pizza so i'm gonna get a little small pizza i'll show you guys i'm super convenient because there's a public's here and i need to get like the wine or like what i want to drink at the party so it's just super convenient and yeah i don't think i'm gonna be staying here like the entire time i don't know if my other friend is gonna meet up with me but i'm just playing it by ear i'm gonna relax at my phone charger so if not i'll just relax i totally forgot to that it was like themed like space cowboy themed i always forget themes guys it is so bad but luckily i have her little present here so we're surviving and thriving on that and even if i did forget the present i could have like quickly went to go to that public's and get her one but or just like give her that later but still good thing i didn't forget that i'm gonna go in and order the pizza nothing looks so heavy and this pizza right now oh my gosh this is heaven i swear all right so my friends and i met up and we're at the wine room because the where else would we be in here so we both got the cab and it is a beautiful day here on park avenue and we're just walking to lululemon as always all right so my friend and i made it to lululemon obviously we are just looking around as usual love everything here we're taking a quick stop into i think it's called gasp so yeah if i was like a really good tiktoker i would make a tiktok but i'm not so i'm vlogging hopefully you guys appreciate this clip we decided to come to meri mediterranean i can't talk we're in winter park it's called turkish cuisine lali or layl don't know how to pronounce that but i'm thinking i'm gonna get the salad the house salad because i want that my friend and i are gonna split the hummus all right so my friend and i got some hummus to split with this look at how beautiful that loaf looks okay so we had a good dinner at the turkish place i had this salad not the best it was okay too many onions but it's fine um now we're headed to public's again because my friend needs to get her wine and i don't know maybe like some snacks or something like i don't really know but i'm just going as company and then um we're gonna head to the party i will get some clips on my phone of the party because i don't want to bring in like my big bag so i'll just get that part on the phone it's fine i was trying to like separate my footage but it's fine like it's not the end of the world if i miss a clip i miss a clip i don't know guys it's just so hard not really it's like first world problems but we're doing the best we can we're deciding on which cab on sale that my friend's gonna get i thought it would go with the space theme and i had no idea she was gonna do like actual disco balls oh yeah of course happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear angie happy birthday to you so angie's opening her gifts okay so angie's birthday was really good we kind of just like sat around and talked it was pretty chill i did get some clips so i hope you guys enjoyed that um but other than that yeah that's pretty much it


Hello. Okay. Is this a good level to stand up? Awesome. Yeah, I'd just like to mention that before I set up here The tech guys had to ask me if I knew how to use windows. It's that sort of festival. So yeah, I'm gonna be talking about shape-changing nature and ways that we as Humans can seek to emulate it learn from it and use some of those tricks So if you don't want to hear about flowers that throw their seeds meters Sea creatures that change shape or 3d printers that print things that assemble themselves Leave now. It's fine. I won't take it personally And my name is scary I prefer to be named by that but if you want to look up my professional work You'll need to use the name under which they pay me and that's Kate Oliver and there's my Twitter handle So if you want to heckle me throughout the show, that's how you do it So I work in shape change and basically this consists of spending most of my days looking enviously at pine cones and wishing I could do what they do and Why would I be envious of such a simple item? Well, the pine cone it opens when it's dry to disperse its seeds But it can close when it's wet to keep its seeds safe and prevent them from rotting It does all this with no centralized control. It's just distributed through the pine cone Which is made of biodegradable materials. It works with no power. It can be dropped from the tree and still work with no adverse effects and It's a pretty cool piece of tech for something that is incredibly simple And what are these aspects that we'd like to get well if you were to build a synthetic pine cone You'd need something that would detect moisture then some way of transmitting what that level was to some sort of logic That would then decide what action to take based on that then transmit that action to some sort of actuator And that's five things that could go wrong or be interrupted That's five things that could be hacked It's five things that take energy. It's five things that maybe need to be connected to a grid I've mentioned that it's responsive, which is something that I'll come to in the next section about what I think That's a really necessary thing, but pine cones are also really resilient because If you snap off half the scales or even most of one scale it will still work And if you compare that to my five element synthetic setup, you just can't get equivalent performance And what could we do if we could harness something as good as the handle pine cone? So I think this is the future and that's why I work in it and because it's the future there aren't many photos of it yet So I'm just sort of gonna gonna sketch some ideas at you and I leave you to imagine a lot of this for yourself so One of the major uses I think is environmental if we're talking about reacting to what's going on around you Why not have an umbrella that only opens when the sun is shining? Why not have a vent that automatically opens when the temperature gets over a certain amount? This is a wall designed by architects at the University of Stuttgart using working with computer scientists and it opens when it's When it's sunny and warm to let a breeze through and then it closes when it's wet to provide shelter And this is all automatic. There's no control needed and this would survive a car driving through it Which again, I challenge you to do with actuators Medical applications a lot of the time we want to insert something into somebody as a replacement for what's broken That would work a lot better if we could have it fold up and then when it's inserted and then deploy inside the body That would mean a lot less trauma at the insert site a lot less healing time Robots, they're good aren't they? So it would be nice if we had a wider variety of actuators and sensors to use with robots at the moment We're looking at a very kind of stiff Model for elements that robots are made out of something that's softer and more human compatible Something that's less binary something that has more intelligence and reactivity built in would give a lot more options for robot design They could use it for products if you Imagine a spanner that changes size depending on the frequency of light that you hit it with you need a lot fewer spanners In science, we'd like to have basically all of this and more So it would be really nice if we could buy all our stuff flat-packed and then it would build itself instead of us having to deal It we could have a microscope that focus a lens that increased its It's focusing power depending on the amount of light that was hitting it there's a lot of things that are possible and all of these things that I've mentioned are theoretically possible now and This is just the start of expanding a design space that shape-changing materials could let us access so I'm going to do a bit of a review of Natural aspects of shape change that we basically like to ogle then talk about Aspects of it that we've successfully managed to copy and then afterwards. I'd like to throw the Throw the field open to you guys and highlight some areas that I think that makers and hobbyists can really Contribute to shape-changing materials because you've done it an awful lot for loads of other fields and I'd like to start a discussion about this So ogling these are pictures of cool shape-changing natural things And I don't really place these here to show you new things I place them here to kind of suggest some stuff that you might want to go and look up on your own Because you'll basically get a much better idea of it if you have the time to sit and look at it on your own But I've got here will this video play no this video will not play. Sorry. I don't know how to go back. There we go So this is a plant that deploys itself There's an octopus which in its uniquely creepy way completely changes its texture of its skin Look at those little spikes that is not natural. That's not normal This is a Cornish mallow, which is a fairly common plant But it's a it's actually got analog logic encoded in its leaves that enables the leaves to turn and keep themselves at 90 degrees to the Sun to avoid overheating and this is work that's ongoing at the University of Bristol where I'm studying And down at the bottom here the little mushroom cloud. That's actually a sphagnum moss deploying a cloud of spores So there's a lot that nature can do. Let's look at how it does it General principle of plant shape change plants are basically water They basically accept more water or squeeze out more water But to do more interesting things than that to avoid just basically getting bigger and getting smaller They have cellulose which is laid into the plant cells So I've got a sketch here of kind of little cells as blocks And they've got the cellulose laid in in different directions and the direction that the cellulose is laid in The plant can't expand because the cellulose is pretty tough However, it can move the cellulose five is further apart so it can expand in the other direction I'm from this really simple principle of aligned bits of cellulose and Swelling you can build systems that bend and you can build hinges which I've got sketched in the bottom And this bending is basically how pine cones work And this hinge is basically a sketch of how we could start to build up the sort of things that we think of in human centric context Um, can plants do more than that? Sure they can So this is a plant called a fillery which is native to the Mediterranean. It's about this big and It manages to fire its own seeds half a meter Using just the power of it drying out in the Sun and it does this because it's got those cellulose alignments like I was talking about and The cellulose in the cells is aligned. That's what you see in the bottom picture here That's a scanning electron microscope image of the alignment of the fibers That makes the cells tilt the cells then make the fibers They're in tilt and spiral then the spirals come together to make more spirals and as they dry out They contract and contract and wind the spiral tighter until the spiral becomes so tight that the material isn't strong enough to hold up against its own pressure and it snaps and launches that seed a meter away and Thus enables the plant to spread over a wider range so from the simple act of contraction We've gone to ballistics and how good is that compared to what humans can do pretty good so I did these rough calculations and they're based on Energy equivalent in the volume so you've got a bit of a penalty because it has to fire itself So if it's pretty heavy, it's got a heart it needs more energy to get itself moving But then it can store more energy, so it's a bit of a trade-off, but you can see here that No, I can't do a pointer. You'll just have to sort of work with it So Fillory can fire itself in the absence of drag because all these equations are easier if you pretend you're in a vacuum So in the absence of drag fillery can fire itself two and a half meters That's a lot better than a muscle. So from this we learned that if plants were made of meat, they wouldn't work We have you would which is one of the best woods in terms of energy energy for weight Which is why it was such a boon to archers We learned that shape memory alloy is really good But shape memory polymers will come back to them later are much better But theoretically carbon nanotubes would be amazing, but in practice they're outdone by spiders So the lesson we are learning here is that on this kind of you know, rather artificial metric I've just slammed together because I wanted a graph of like ballistics that Human materials are not up to the scratch of what can be done in the natural world yet And there's a lot of potential for expansion and this is part of a paper. I've got submitting at the moment Can plants be fast? Yes, they can be fast. So this is a Venus flytrap And Venus flytraps work by having that really gentle swelling motion And I have a really gentle gradual motion, but they apply it really cunningly So they've got a structure which flips between concave and convex You can see it on the bottom of the drawing here and it's like those little rubber things that used to get in cereal boxes when you're a kid I don't know if anyone else had those Like it's just a little cap and then you push a thumb on it turn it inside out And then it pops and unleashes all that all that stored energy in the rubber and flies into the air Yeah, so you've got basically a small swelling applied to a point where it's just Balanced on the edge of being between two states and that small push is enough to flip it between two states and release a lot of Energy fast enough that this this happens in a hundred microseconds milliseconds sorry order of magnitude Several orders of magnitude But it's quick enough to catch a fly is my major point So that's plants. Let's have a little chat about animals so These are the general layout of muscles are muscles and indeed muscles muscles So this is two lots of interlinked fibers and the blue ones here are acting and the red ones are myosin And they're kind of interlocking and what happens is that? When calcium is released the myosin sort of climbs its way along the actin sort of cinching it in and then The two things slide together and the general volume decreases now What's really interesting here is that we do that temporarily and we need to keep feeding those muscles to keep that reaction going But muscles and clams They use a big muscle to hold their shells shut to keep their entire body soft body Protected against every predator out there that wants to eat them and they're able to exert five times more power than our muscles are And they can just lock them and leave them like that for days It's not entirely known the mechanism of how they do this But it seems like they make temporary bonds between these actin and myosin So while we need to keep the myosin clawing along the actin they can just put a lock on it and basically come back later So this is a really interesting model for low energy use and an idea of how we might want to steal this idea for our own thoughts and Finally, this is a sea cucumber, which is basically a floppy belly on legs Not really many legs more kind of fibery pointy things And it's got a problem in that it needs to be floppy sometimes and it needs to be hard sometimes and Given the amount of comments I got on a YouTube video for saying this needs to be small I can only imagine the innuendo I'm gonna get for that one But it has this problem in that it needs to get through small holes in the rocks But it also needs to be tough to give itself as much protection as it can give So it's got skin that can flip from being like a rubbery kind of stretchy consistency to being as tough as the cartilage in the top of your ear or cartilage anywhere else, but that's probably the easiest bit to feel And it does that by switching on and off the bonds between the reinforcements in its in its skin, so If we just review that when we're looking at animal shape change, we're looking at networks We're looking at things that are related things that slide across each other things that turn bonds on and off So we've got a couple of elements there to think about We've got our plants swelling based and we've got our animal network and bond based and a really good Interesting material we've got that does some things like the animal shape change is shape memory polymers So here I've got a sketch of that and this basically works by having a network that's got two kinds of bonds It's got one kind that's fixed which we call the net points and these might be chemical bonds Or they might be little crystals that hold the materials together And it's got temporary bonds which are here represented by the green triangles and these might be like hydrogen bonds or Something else that's a little bit weaker and basically you put in some stimulus usually that's heat and then The the weak bonds switch off and you can pull them apart And then if you hold it deformed it will stay in that shape because the temporary bonds will kind of adapt to that new Shape you put it into however if you heat it up again Those other little bonds will just pop out and the network goes back to its original shape And this is why we call it a shape memory polymer because it's memorized the first shape that it's gone into But you can take it into an intermediary shape with no problems, and it will just rest there until you put in more impetus And this is where I kind of get on to the really interesting, you know What can we do with synthetic tech section of it? So you can mix shape memory polymers and if they activated different temperatures when you make a blend of them You get a blend that is activated at some temperature between the two temperatures of the different shape memory polymers and this is work from Georgia Tech and they use two plastics one rubber in one hard and Basically, they use different combinations of them and depending on how much of the black polymer versus how much of the white polymer They've got you get a temperature that's either closer to the black polymer or the white polymer So they can program a sequence of folds and here at the bottom of the picture. I couldn't find a video Sorry There's a little box that folds itself up So it folds over one tab first and the second tab then it wraps up then the final tab goes in It's a self-assembling thing. It's printed on a commercially available 3d printer. The commercially available 3d printer is very expensive I will get on to that later Secondly collapsing origami so talking about our units our bonds are connected things that change their orientation This is I really hope I can get the video working for this This is collapsing origami, which is based on snapology origami It's been around quite a while and they've added a small pneumatic element so that this can be controlled remotely And this thing is capable of flexing in all sorts of different ways I'm gonna can I play this I Wish there was someone here who could work Windows Okay, I suggest everyone goes away and looks up that origami video because it's cool I'm just gonna try and play it. No, it doesn't seem to be doing it right fine I'm just gonna give you extra description instead that I'll teach you So plant-based swelling so plant-based swelling remember We've got our general area that expands or contracts and we shaped that by laying in cellulose at different angles well, this is work by Lewis at the vice Institute in Harvard and they've got a swelling gel matrix with cellulose in it and they 3d print it and As it goes through the nozzle of the 3d printer the cellulose aligns because of the effects of flow And so as it traces out it leaves cellulose Along the direction that it printed so they've got a way of Organizing the cellulose inside this expanding print in a very complicated manner and what they do is these kind of Deformed grid like shapes and they've developed a mathematical model where they can take a curved surface and then back construct The shape of the grid they need to print in order to get this network to fold up into a lovely Convoluted curved gentle service surface, sorry So this is suggested for sorry, there's a video on the internet This is suggested for use in making tissue constructs because we've got a major problem at the moment in that we can make some Stem cells just about we can lay them out in a dish, but that is 2d and you may have noticed that your organs are 3d and The 3d is crucial to their function But if we could print them in 2d and then get them to self-assemble into 3d that would solve some of the problem So this is kind of where I throw it open to you guys I think there are many open problems in shape changing and I think that hobbyists have done an awful lot to Contribute to electronics to contribute to 3d printing just to name two examples And I think this field is right for you guys to contribute So I mentioned the 3d printing and I mentioned that the printer that was used to do that shape memory polymer blend was incredibly Expensive it's a hundred and twenty thousand dollars and that's the entry-level model So if you wanted to replicate that I think it's not beyond our skills to create an open source printer That is able to mix two filaments on the fly On the top here. I've got an example of a print that's just done with straightforward PLA That's shape change that's possible just with regular PLA and a few layers. There's there's possibility there without even developing any chemistry Open source stereo lithography would be really lovely. I know there's a few models there I've got one here, but it would be really nice to get that going and it'd be nice to have more printing materials to work with And you may be thinking I am not a chemist. This is totally not my thing. That is fine Mechanical design or origami so that catch mechanism I was talking about the things that interdigitate slide over each other and then have a bond Could you make something that was like that modular origami? I mean these designs are coming from people who are at home playing with origami These these are not people who have necessarily formal training. These are people from all backgrounds Could we make something like chain mail meets velcro? Where it collapses and then hooks and then when you heat it up the hooks come back Would that be a good way of changing volume and changing space? There's could you use some idea like the Venus flytrap to get something that's what that snapped really quickly and on the Right here's some work out of MIT. That's some a design element that uses a simple That uses the simple aspect of cylinders and discs to convert a bending rod into a curve of a prescribed a prescribed tightness and size by modulating the size of the cylinders or Might you be a designer or a potential user? Can you think of a thing that would be really cool if you could change that shape? So this is MIT Media Lab, which I unashamedly love and The top one is a photo of materials which have bonded to them a biofilm which Contracts when it experiences moisture. So it's a fabric that opens up little vents when you're sweaty Really like it at the bottom. There's something that perhaps they're slightly less need for it's a it's a cup of tea That tells you when it's done The the leaf the leaf wilts as a British person I feel a little bit unsure about this, but I'm sure there may be other Applications or you know are you like well people are trying to do this But actually I don't think it will work at all unless you do it like this Do you have requirements that you need or would you like to volunteer for some concept studies? So as a rapper, I'm mentioning shape change materials. I'm working in shape changing materials I'm doing a blue sky proud PhD on shape changing materials because I genuinely think they have some potential to address the vast amount of waste we create on massive energy debt and A whole load of problems that we have facing us in the world at the moment. I know it's a start I know it's very early on but we need to be thinking about what options we might have available And I think smart materials are going to be a really easy way to passively manage our energy use without having to actually Sell people on it So here's my contact details There's my Twitter and I've put these slides online if you want to look up the references and everything afterwards Well, you may not want to that's fine, too And these are the kind people who are paying for me to do my PhD. Thank you I Can take questions if you like or you can come and find me afterwards as well. Does anybody have a question? Okay, just raise your end. I'll bring the mic Thanks The shape-changing polymer as you were talking about are they you know commercially available that they're shifting what sir? Polymers yes, so polyurethane, which is one shape memory polymer. It's water responsive That is you can buy that as ninja flex as a as a principal polymer There are other ones which can be formed quite easily From biofilms paper has some of these properties for the moisture response For the heat response I don't know whether you guys would be able to get hold of them They're fairly low-grade for me in terms of chemical safety at uni But I don't know whether these suppliers would sell to regular people, but you can certainly work with moisture Responsive things at home and also any thermosetting plastic will also do the job My question and for what's worth scientific suppliers normally have no problem selling to ordinary people We still have seven minutes for questions. So if you have any please raise your hand if not, well so for the videos you want to look up the vise Institute and the origami and cellulose, but if you just type in 4d printing or Metamaterial shape-changing metamaterial you'll find most of that stuff So unless we've got any more burning questions, and I think you can totally locate me around site at some point Thank you everybody


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