In last class, I have discussed about the various aspects of design of retaining wall and then different types of retaining wall that is gravity retaining wall, semi-gravity retaining wall, then cantilever retaining wall, then counter for retaining wall. Now, in this class, I will basically solve one example on cantilever retaining wall to show that how this the dimension of this retaining wall is decided and what are the factor safety or the safety that you have to check and during the design of this retaining wall. Now, first if I go for the problem, now suppose if we take one retaining structure which is a cantilever retaining wall in this form, suppose this is the retaining wall and ground surface is this one. Now, this ground surface or the backfill side which is making an angle I equal to 15 degree with horizontal and this is backfill side and this one is the existing ground surface. Now, this first for the first trial based on the guidelines that I have given in the last class, I have chosen this dimension of this retaining wall that for this top portion I have taken this is 0.3 meter, then on this height of this retaining wall from this here to here that height is 4.8 meter and this thickness that I have taken thickness of this base slab is 0.6 meter, 0.6 meter. So, below this ground level the total distance below this ground level is 1 meter basically to the base of the slab. Now, what are the other dimensions that is taken like if we extend this this triangular portion. So, the dimension of this portion as I mentioned that this distance from here to here is taken as 0.6 meter that means from here to here this is the toe then this distance if I extend this triangular part. So, this distance is taken 0.2 meter now as usual as I have mentioned that top portion is 0.3 meter. So, this one is also 0.3 meter and this total slab distance or length is taken as 3 meter. So, the total base width of this retaining wall or base distance is 3 plus 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 that is 4.1 meter. So, that is basically 0.3 plus 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 which is equal to 4.1 meter. Now, the other distance or this things we can take we can take the extend this vertical lines which is passing through this edge of this retaining wall then we divide this total retaining wall as we will solve this problem particular this problem by using this Rankine's theory that we will solve this problem by using Rankine's theory. So, as I have mentioned that we will consider the weight of this soil also. So, first we consider that our active earth pressure which will act at an angle of 15 degree with horizontal and the point of application that will act at a distance of this total vertical line to the one third. Now, the distance of this total vertical line before we start we can determine the distance of this portion. So, this portion is this is tan 15 into 3. So, distance from this point to this point is 0.8 meter that is will come from tan 15 into 3. So, the total height of this vertical line from say a to b. So, distance a b that will give us the distance of this height is 0.8 for this one then 4.8 for from here to here then additional 0.6 meter the thickness of glass slab. So, total distance that is a height is 6.2 meter. So, the point to application of this lateral earth pressure is 6.2 divided by 3 which is 2.07 meter from the base of the retaining wall. Now, as from this design we are neglecting neglect the effect of this passive resistance, but for this this can also be included in the calculation, but for the first case this problem will be solved by neglecting this passive pressure. So, now if I want to solve this problem by Rankin's theory. So, as we have to check whether Rankin's theory can be applicable or not. So, if I determine this angle. So, this angle we can determine the expression is 45 degree plus i by 2 minus phi dash by 2 minus sin inverse sin i divided by sin phi dash. So, now the values which is given for this problem that phi dash is 32 degree delta is 23 degree delta is the friction angle between the this concrete retaining wall and the soil. And here for the simplicity that it is assumed that this is the foundation soil, this is backfill and this is a foundation soil. And assume the properties are same for both the soils foundation soil and backfill soil, but if some cases the this property may not be same. So, in that case we have to consider different properties for different conditions. So, for the foundation soil calculation we have to then the delta of the base of the retaining wall and the soil that friction angle will be based on the foundation soil properties. And this friction angle delta which is with backfill and the retaining wall that will also change and that will depend on the backfill properties soil properties. So, then that case the delta of these two may not be same. So, that consideration we have to taken care into our calculation if this soil properties are different for the foundation soil and backfill soil. But for this problem we consider the both the properties are same for this soil total system. So, now the delta for all the system is 23 degree, the unit weight is 19 kilo Newton per meter cube, I which is is 15 degree and the allowable bearing pressure is 400 kilo Newton per meter square. Now, we have to solve this another the unit weight of concrete is taken 24 kilo Newton meter cube and unit weight of soil is taken as 19 kilo Newton per meter cube. So, first we have to determine this angle so that we can check whether this value ranking theory can be applicable or not. This angle we can determine by 45 degree plus 15 degree by 2 minus 32 degree by 2 minus 15 degree sin inverse sin 15 degree divided by sin 32 degree. So, this value is coming out to be 7.26 degree. So, if this value is 7.26 degree so this line will pass through the backfill soil it will not pass through the vertical steam of the retaining wall. So, as this angle is very small so we can consider that the rankings theory can be. So, this is the first check we have done that then we can use the Rankine theory. Now, we will proceed for the other sections. Now, first we will calculate what is the active earth pressure that will act into this soil or into this retaining wall. So, first we will calculate this P a that is equal to half into k a into gamma of soil into h square. The h we are taking this as a mention that h we are now taking the total vertical distance from a to b the total height we are taking and that a b is 6.2 meter.  So, if I put this value so then this is cos 15 degree into cos 15 degree minus root over cos 15 degree square minus cos 32 degree square divided by cos 15 root over cos 15 degree square minus cos 32 degree square divided by cos 15 degree plus root over cos 15 degree square minus cos 32 degree square. So, this k a value if I solve this thing this k a value is coming 0.34. So, this is 0.34. So, the p a value is equal to half into 0.34 into gamma is 19 into h is 6.2 square. So, this is 0.34. So, this is this value is coming 124.2 kilo Newton per meter as we are calculating this thing per meter distance. So, this is per meter. Now, as from this figure we can see that p a is acting angle of 15 degree. So, we can take the vertical components and horizontal components of this p a that we can write like this is p v and this is p h. So, this is the vertical component of p a p v and p h is the horizontal component of p a. So, we can calculate that p v is p a into sin 15 degree that is equal to 32.15 kilo Newton per meter. Similarly, p h is p a into cos 15 degree which is equal to 120 kilo Newton per meter. So, the value of this k a value is equal to the vertical force and horizontal force that is coming due to the lateral earth pressure of the backfill that we can have calculated. Now, we have to calculate the other parts of this problem. So, now for the other parts suppose if I take the previous figure our main figure then in this total retaining wall we can take several parts of the retaining wall. So, we can take this is number one. This number one means this rectangular is our first component then this triangle is number two. That means this triangular zone is number two then this total base slab is third zone and this total rectangular soil portion is fourth zone and this triangular soil portion is zone five. Now, we have to determine the individual weight of these five zones they are centroid where these weights are acting actually and then the moment with respect to two. So, all these things we have to calculate because this five zones this load are giving the vertical force and that will also give the resistive moment and this p a due to this p a will get the overturning moment. So, first we have to calculate the weight of different portion of the of this total system. Now, first if we calculate this weight we can take the for the weight calculation we can take this table we can make this table that is our serial number. Then weight calculation that is kilo Newton per meter then the force that we will calculate that is also kilo Newton per meter and this force can be vertical and this can be horizontal. So, this is for the weight calculation table that we will calculate the first serial number one the first segment weight that we will calculate. So, for this first segment this is for the first segment the weight will be this area into the unit weight of the concrete. So, this area will be 4.8 meter into 0.3 into 24. So, if in this way if we calculate the weight of every section then weight one for the first section is 0.3 into 4.8 into 24 that is the unit weight of the concrete. So, and this will act in the vertical direction. So, in vertical direction we can write the total weight w 1 that is equal to 34.56 kilo Newton per meter. Similarly, if we calculate the weight of second portion that is a triangle. So, that we can write half into 0.2 into 4.8 height and then 24. So, we will get this value is 11.52 and this will also act in a vertical direction. So, we will get this is also 11.52. Similarly, the third weight if we calculate the weight of the third segment. So, that is 0.6 into 4.1 into 24 because for the third segment means this total base slab. So, that is 4.1 into 0.6 into 24. 0.6 is this distance and to 4.1 is total base slab with and then for 24 is the unit weight of the concrete. So, if I use this value then it is come 59.04. Then for the fourth section that is for the soil fourth and fifth portion that is the fourth and fifth portion. Fourth this rectangular portion and fifth this triangular this is for the weight of the soil. So, for the fourth portion we can write this is 3 into 4.8 into 19 as the unit weight of this soil is 19 and for the triangular section it will be half into 0.8 into 3 into 19. So, in that way if I write fourth section that is 3 into 4.8 into 19. So, vertical force again this soil pressure will act in vertical direction the 273.6. Now, for the fifth segment for the triangular one for the soil that is equal to half into 0.8 into 3 into 19. So, that value is 22.8 kilo Newton per meter. So, these are the vertical loads vertical force that is acting due to the concrete and the soil. Now, the we can write the next two forces that is the horizontal and vertical forces acting due to the lateral earth pressure. So, sixth segment we can write this is p v that will also act in vertical direction. So, that p v value is 32.15 then the seventh one is pH horizontal force. So, that means pH will act in horizontal direction. So, that is 120 kilo Newton per meter. So, we can write the total vertical force summation of v that is equal to the summation of this vertical column is 433.67. Similarly, summation of this horizontal force total 102 kilo Newton per meter. So, summation of total vertical force is 433.67 kilo Newton per meter and summation of horizontal force is 120 kilo Newton per meter. So, this is force table. Now, we will calculate the moment table. So, once we calculate the moment table. So, this table we will calculate. So, this is the force table the next one is the moment table. So, again this is also serial number. Then we will consider the vertical and horizontal force that is force. So, now we can write the next column is this is serial number. We can write the next column is our liver arm with respect to toe. The next one is the moment. Now, this moment can be resistive moment M R and this can be overturning moment M O. This is kilo Newton per meter per meter. So, first we will go for again this 7 force that we have taken first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. So, from the third force table we can write the value of these forces. So, for the force table first vertical force for the first segment is 34.56. Then second one is 11.52, then third one is 59.04, then fourth one is 273.6, fifth one is 22.8, then the sixth one is 32.6, then third 15 and seventh one is 120 which is horizontal. Now, for the each segment we have to calculate the liver arm. So, now if I consider the first segment, this is the first segment. So, it is a rectangle. So, this will act the center of this rectangle. So, liver arm from the toe will be 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 divided by 2. So, that as it will act the center of this rectangle. So, that is 0.6, 0.2, 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 divided by 2. So, now if I write in this form, so the liver arm will be for this first segment is 0.6 plus 0.3, sorry 0.2 plus 0.3 divided by 2. So, this will give us 0.6 plus 0.3 divided by 2. So, the value 0.95. Similarly, for the second one, second is a triangle. So, second segment is a triangle. So, here liver arm will be 0.6 plus 2.3 of 0.2. So, that will give you the liver arm or the second triangle portion. So, for the second portion the liver arm is 0.6 plus 2.3 of 0.2. So, that will give 0.73. Similarly, for the third section that is the base of this rectangle. So, that will give us the straight forward. This will act as a center of this rectangle. So, 4.1 divided by 2. So, liver arm for this third portion is 4.1 divided by 2 that is equal to 2.05. Now, liver arm similarly for the fourth section that is the rectangle of this backfill soil. So, that is 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 divided by 2 that is equal to. So, that means here this is 0.6, 0.2 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 plus it will act the center of this 3. So, plus 3 by 2. So, now this liver arm is 2.6. Similarly, for the fifth segment that is for the triangular zone. So, that liver arm is 0.6 plus 0.2 plus 0.3 then it is a triangle. So, triangle means plus 2 third of 3. So, it will give 3.1. So, these are the liver arm value 0.951, 0.73, 2.05, then 2.6, then 3.1 and for the sixth one that is acting vertically the distance of 4.1 meter. So, that is 4.1 meter for the sixth one and as calculated that the horizontal one that is the vertical one will act 4.1 meter from the toe and the horizontal will act 2.07 meter from the toe. So, that distance is 2.07, 2.07. So, these are the all rounded values are the liver arm. Now, this from this this is vertical forces corresponding to that moment will give the resistive moment and the moment corresponding to this horizontal force that will give the overturning moment. Now, if I calculate this moment. So, this is simply 34.56 into 0.95. So, this will give resistive moment is 32.83. So, this is actually 34.56 into 0.3. So, this is actually 34.56 into 0.95. So, that give you 32.83. Similarly, for the second one is 11.52 into 0.73. So, that value is 8.41. Similarly, for the third one is 59.04 into 2.05. So, this will give 121. The fourth one is 273.6 into 2.6 that is given 711.6 into 2.5 into 2.5 into 2.5 into 3.6. The fifth one is 22.8 into 3.1. So, this will give 70.68. Sixth one is 32.15 into 4.1. So, this will give 131.8 and the seventh one is 120 into 2.07. So, this will give 248.4. So, these are the resistive moments and the overturning moments. Now, if I take the summation of all these moments. So, that means, summation of M R that is equal to summation of this column is 1076.1 and summation of overturning moment is 1076.1. So, this is 248.4. So, we can write that M R is 1076.1 kilo Newton per meter kilo Newton meter per meter and M O is 248.4 kilo Newton meter per meter. Now, we have completed the post table, done the moment table. Then, we will calculate the, we will check the factor of safety for different condition. The first factor of safety that we will check that is for the sliding. So, factor of safety for sliding and that is the expression is total vertical force into tan delta divided by all horizontal force. Now, here is total vertical force summation is 433.6867 and tan delta that we have taken is 23 degree. So, into tan 23 degree and summation of all vertical horizontal force is 120. So, this value is equal to 1.53 which is greater than 1.5. So, that means, it is safe. So, now, next check that we will do for the sliding. So, we will do for the sliding overturning moment, factor of safety for the overturning and that is summation of resistive moment divided by summation of overturning moment. So, summation of all resistive moment is 1076.1 divided by 248.4. So, that will give us 4.33 which is greater than 1.5. So, that means, it is safe. The first two checks we have done and it is safe against the sliding and the overturning. Next, we will calculate the E value or the no tension condition. So, first we calculate the X bar that expression I have given that X bar is summation of M R minus summation of M O divided by summation of all vertical force. So, summation of M R is 1076.1, M O is 248.4 divided by vertical force is 433.67. So, it is coming 1.9 meter. So, E we can essentially we can calculate it is the B divided by 2 minus X bar. B is the total base width and here total base is 4.1 divided by 2 minus 1.9. So, it is coming 0.15 meter. So, and definitely which is less than B by 6. So, this no tension condition will occur. So, this is 5. So, next check we will calculate for the bearing capacity calculation. We have done the three checks that is the sliding overturning and the no tension condition. Now, for the bearing for bearing calculate first P max and that expression is all vertical force divided by base width 1 plus 6 E divided by total base width. Now, all vertical force is 433.67 divided by base width is 4.1 into 1 plus 6 into E is 0.15 and divided by 4.1. So, this P max value is 129 kilonewton per meter square. So, now factor safety for the bearing is the allowable force that is 400 kilonewton per meter square divided by this allowable bearing pressure is 400 kilonewton per meter square divided by 129. So, that value is 3.1 which is greater than 3. So, safe. So, in this way we have checked the all the factor safety that is for the sliding overturning then for the no tension condition and a factor safety for the bearing. So, all the checks are satisfied. So, the dimension that we have chosen that is for all the condition here it has satisfy all the factor safety. So, we can use this dimension for our purpose. Now, there are few things that we have to mention that suppose this problem is partially unsafe or slightly unsafe by this sliding. In that case one thing we can do that if this problem is not satisfy suppose this is our retaining wall structure. So, this is the retaining wall structure ground surface this is ground surface. Now, say this retaining wall is unsafe against the sliding then for one thing we can do that we can provide one key here this in this form just to increase this is another portion that we can extend which is called key. The idea of this key this will give the additional resistance against the sliding. So, and another thing is that when you calculate the passive resistance that passive resistance part that depth will also increase because here we will get calculate the passive resistance say P p. So, that passive resistance depth that will also increase, but one thing for the factor safety. So, this will give increase the passive resistance for this design which we have although we have not considered in our previous calculation. But this passive resistance we can that can increase and this will give the additional resistance against the sliding. So, if it is marginally unsafe against sliding we can provide keys. Now, when we can provide key one thing for this situation that the properties for the soil for this portion say phi 2 is the base soil property and C 2 is the foundation soil property and say phi 1 is the backfill soil property C 1 is the backfill soil cohesion this is friction this is the foundation soil. Now, instead of taking the full in the situation when key is used instead of taking full phi 2 and C 2 generally it is reduced by half to two-third of the value of for the extra safety as for the pool passive resistance because in this case as this key we are applying for this portion only. So, it is doubtful that whether the full passive resistance will develop or not. So, that is just to the for additional factor of safety this soil property C and phi is reduced by half to two-third for the additional factor of safety. So, now this is the function of key. Now, another thing is that if we solve this problem that we have solved this problem and where this the soil properties are same for both the cases and another one that when we are talking about this theory that we have used the Rankine's theory. Now, we can solve this problem for Coulomb's theory also. Now, this is the home assignment for you if you want to you can try to solve this problem by Coulomb's theory by applying the Coulomb's theory and you can see the what is the difference we are getting by if you use the two different theory. Another one that we are neglecting this passive resistance. Now, if we we can solve this problem by using this passive resistance that also you can try to solve this one with use of passive resistance. You can see how much extra factor of safety you will get when you consider this passive resistance. These two things by considering passive resistance and using a different theory we can try you can try to solve this problem same problem. Now, when you talking about the retaining wall the next segment that that when talking about the retaining wall it is most of the cases this the backfill material which is used mostly which is used for the granular soil to avoid the water pressure. Because it when you design the retaining wall you always try to avoid the induce of water pressure. So, that this additional water pressure will not come into retaining wall. So, that to avoid this water pressure there are few things we can do that we can provide some holes in the retaining wall. So, that water can pass through through that hole. So, that that water pressure can be neglected. Suppose, if this is one retaining wall structure that suppose this is one retaining wall structure this is base this is the ground surface. So, we can provide a hole or water body can pass through this portion this is called we folds W W P we folds. So, we can provide some filter material we can provide some filter material here in the we folds. So, suppose this is backfill material. So, this is filter material now this filter material this we folds this diameter is around 0.1 meter spacing is around 1.5 meter to 3 meter in horizontal direction. So, now this use of this we folds is to reduce the pore water pressure develop due to the water. Now, this pore water pressure if we can reduce this. So, if all the water can pass through this we folds then we can reduce the pore water pressure. So, that pore water so that the additional lateral earth pressure that we can reduce by this way. Now, another one that that we can consider this different types of we folds that this is suppose the retaining wall. We can provide a perforated pipe here with filter material surrounding this. So, that water can collect here and it can pass through from the retaining structure. So, that is our perforated pipe. And this is filter material now if this is for the granular soil or sandy soil. Now, for the clay soil when fine-gain soil is used because we always try to use this is for the sandy soil or granular soil. Now, case 2 if for the clay soil or fine-gain soil we always use we always try to avoid the use of this fine-gain soil. But sometimes if it is not possible to avoid this fine-gain soil then what we can do suppose this is our retaining structure this is existing ground this is the ground surface. Then we can provide a filter material along the vertical surface or we can provide and then we can provide a path. So, that water can collect here and it can pass through. So, this is we fold. So, this is our filter material or vertical filter. Now, this filter material can be inclined also suppose this is the material retaining wall. So, that material can be inclined and then we can provide the we folds here. So, this vertical material can be this is inclined material.


Senator McDonnell, why don't you give us a little overview on S276, because we'll get some of our thoughts. I want to get this in before 12 o'clock. So give us a little overview about your S276, please, about driver's elderly renewal operators license. The S276 would oblige people 75 and older when they go to renew their licenses to take a driver's test. It would be the same driver's test that we took when we were 15 or 16 back in those days. And if you pass the test, you get to renew your license. That's basically what the bill does. It was prompted for older, you'd have to day or 75, you have to take the written exam and the road exam. No, you would, you would take the driver's test on on the road behind the wheel drivers test when you went to renew a license when your renewal came up after you were 75 years old. For not the written test just the road test or not the road test road test. So it comes out. I'd be scared to do the written test today. Well, no, I'm just trying to get it clear. Okay, so good question, Mr. Chair, everybody would be the road test that you were obliged to do. I put the bill in because of an unfortunate case where someone who was friends and family suggested that they no longer drive drove and hit a neighbor. Didn't even know it went home and it was a death resulting. Just to stick to statistics prove that 75 is the number or 60 or 25 or 40. They know more than that. No more than the 18 or 16. It's an arbitrary number that is picked. So driver's license for a four year license for two years or every get when they have to at 75 go in or they wait to that license expires. And when they were up for a normal renewal, they would be obliged to take a road test. We had a similar bill that was introduced by Senator Clarkson, and we did get data at that time relative to the incidents of accidents. And so I can't read. I don't remember off the top of my head the details, but it did not indicate the that actually the number of accidents was relatively low and that was attributed to driving less not driving at night and probably not driving as fast but we did take testimony on a similar bill earlier. Okay. That's my been my understanding and my experience that older drivers are more cautious. I look twice to the right now and twice to the left they used to look once each way. I don't drive my skills aren't as good as they used to be. When we lose our skills were usually if there's no age in which they go, they go faster for some of us and they come later for others. So that's the idea behind the bill and I thank you very much for the opportunity to present. I appreciate that. Okay, and the year with us this morning but basically it's what the senator has said about the bill is anything different that you found. That's what I would have said. So I'm here if you have questions but there will be any for me. So we do have, I'd like to get that in this morning someone from ARP I believe with us this morning. They have asked to testify will will do some briefings here and we always get back to it but I just want to get some of these folks that we've scheduled so We'll leave the end be the last. Sorry about that but is Greg March on or from here and chairman I'm right here. Thank you. Okay, good. Yeah, why don't you give us your quick overview at this point before we go any further. Yeah, thank you. Thanks very much. Chairman Mazan members of the committee for the opportunity to testify before you this morning at ARP does support safety for all drivers on the road and we just want folks to know that age itself doesn't cause car crashes. ARP policy supports effective evidence based assessment models to identify at risk drivers of all agents. While staying local government should ensure that all drivers regardless of their age meet the minimum physical requirements and conditions to safely operate a vehicle. ARP wants all drivers to be treated equally renewal policy should be evidence based such as functional assessments for vision hearing and cognitive abilities and not age based many older drivers continue to be safe and responsible drivers at any age frankly can have physical and cognitive that would preclude them from safe driving and therefore ARP supports again this evidence based assessments for all drivers regardless of age. Testing is a highly imperfect litmus test where a driver would either pass or fail. Instead vision or on road and performance and other assessment tools should be used by the DMV to identify potentially at risk drivers and then put in place the appropriate set of restrictions and remediations to help older drivers compensate for functional impairment. Under Vermont's proposed legislation an older driver could fail a vision test and have to permanently retire from driving even if the solution were as simple as getting their car racks removed. Decisions about driving should be made on a case by case basis and not simply on chronological age. A recent study by the National Transportation Safety Board founded that speeding was the main factor and 31% of all traffic fatalities. That's nearly the same excuse me the same percentage of fatalities that are caused by intoxicated drivers. So now we're improving for drivers age 70 to 79 according to the study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Drivers in this age range are now less likely to be involved in a fatal crash than drivers between 34 and 54. Drivers in their 70s also have fewer police reported crashes per mile traveled than middle age drivers. In 2019 the Institute for Highway Safety also reported that motor vehicle crashes accounted for less than 1% of fatalities among people 70 and older. People ages 70 and older are less likely to be licensed to drive compared to younger people and driver 70 and older also drive fewer miles. However, older drivers keeping their licenses longer and driving more miles than in the past. So, you know, per mile traveled fatal crash increases are noticeably starting at age 70 74 are highest amongst drivers 85 and older. The increased fatal crash risk risk amongst older drivers it's largely due to increase susceptibility to injury, particularly chest injuries and medical complications, rather than increase tendencies to get into crashes. In addition, requiring in person renewal or vision tests are are the only policies that are associated with lower fatality rates among older drivers and only among drivers 85 and older. The government should improve public safety by requiring all drivers to renew licenses in person at regular interviews. The licensing agencies should require assessment of functional impairments, such as reduced vision or cognitive skills, provide counseling to individuals that enable individuals to seek professional evaluation and remediation for functional impairment, require that individuals who exhibit a functional impairments be given a road test tailored to identify impediments to safe driving. And finally, take appropriate action, including issuing licenses tailored to the individual based on road test results. Thank you for your time this morning I appreciate it. Thank you very much for for coming questions from the gentleman this morning. Any questions I don't see everybody. You have a question just jump in any member. Okay, I don't hear any questions. Thank you very much for appearing this morning and we know the issue and we'll take it under consideration. At this time, anybody else would like to comment on the subject. Jim, I'm just happy to say that we would love to stay engaged with the committee and lawmakers on this particular issue. I think we all share the common goal of making sure that Vermont drivers are safe and good drivers, whether they're 17 or whether they're 90 and everyone in between, and look forward to engaging you and other members of the committee moving forward and again thank you so much for your time. Thank you for a good point. We've had this discussion over the years and it's pretty hard to pinpoint a particular age group because accidents. Maybe you're higher between 20 and 25. So it's pretty hard to pinpoint exactly because usually, usually under doctors advice. They're told to drive not drive if you get a handicap plate you have to have a physical naturally I think the doctor has to recommend that. So it's very difficult for some precautions in place now so it's very difficult to draw a line exactly where the age is going to be. So anyone else at this point. Again, thank you, and. Okay, I believe. Thank you very much. Thank you DMV would you like to comment on this we have a couple minutes or a later time or. We're not planning everybody but we're trying to have meetings at 1215 and some folks have to get moving. Yes, we were not, we weren't on the schedule to testify on it today but you know we do recognize that you know it is an issue, but we also recognize the age is not the determining factor, right there's all kinds of individuals that age is not where what determines it. Thank you. You heard a discussion on the fee bait. I know that's an evolved subject and like before we go, we're going to details at a later time. So, unless the committee wants to hear it now but I know people got other committees to go do at this point. Anybody from the committee have any questions. Okay. Okay, you can take us off live. Thank you very much.


The chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria can, in a damellous state, most reverend Bishop Damien Manser has once the EFCC and ICPC to beam their light on the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission of Immersive Irregularities. The cleric who issued the Strong Watered Reservation against Executive Secretary of the Commission, Reverend Jacob of Hems, said he asked him to immediately resign from office. Order Commission should learn good example from Christians and we should lead in such a way that order should be able to copy from us. But that is not what is happening. And in fact, I wouldn't even hesitate to say that EFCC should go and investigate the activities that are taking place at the National Pilgrimage Commission, Christian National Pilgrimage Commission and ICPC. They should also go and investigate. I'm sure they're going to find a lot of things there, a lot of things happening there that are not in order. So that is my own call for the necessary agencies that are responsible to go and investigate. And EFCC, well, what do you even expect from somebody that has been sucked from his church? And then he's given that kind of appointment. It's this appointment to Christian. And that's why if you are giving somebody an appointment, even if it is political appointment, find about the track record of the person.  And then the federal government will go and appoint him and to lead the Christian pilgrimage in the whole country. So this is an embarrassment. As of the time of filing this report caused me to pan with neither answered nor returned.


So folks, welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noah Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Enjoy me every week. It's my brother Pedro. Good morning, everybody. Pedro has creative tech here at Adafruit. And every week, we're here to share 3D-printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is where we combine 3D printing and the oil electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody. We're hanging out live in the live broadcast chat room in the Adafruit Discord server. If you'd like to get a invite to that, if you're not a part of it, go to discord.gg slash Adafruit. And we're hanging out in the live broadcast chat. Check it out. It's on the sidebar. It says general. And that's where we're hanging out. So let's take a moment to welcome everybody. And after that, we'll get into all the housekeeping stuff that we normally do in the beginning of the show. That's right. Good morning, everybody, hanging out in all of the chat rooms. 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That's the word I was looking for. Cool, all right. I think that's the housekeeping stuff. Anything else? Let me know. I think I went through everything. And we'll go back over to the live broadcast chat room in Discord and catch up on any shout outs. Hello, hello, hello. Hello. We got Susan. We got Jim. Hi, Susan. And Jim. We got IAS on the YouTubes. And hello to everybody in the future who are watching this in the future. Yeah, on the Playbacks. Yeah, thank you for joining us. All right, let's go ahead and jump into this week's project. Cool, so this week's project is a collab project with Liz Clark. She put together the code and the idea. This is a gesture-based BLE-controlled HID mouse using the Feather Sense. It's all done in Circuit Python. So the point here is that you can connect to a computer via Bluetooth and you can use the onboard accelerometer to control a mouse. So here you can see I moved it up and down and left and right will move the mouse. You can play around with the different thresholds if you want it more sensitive. It also uses the onboard user switch so that you can use it as a left mouse button. And there's a proximity sensor built in. One of the cool special modes that if you put your finger over the proximity sensor and tilt up or down, you can scroll. So you can use the mouse scroll. So it's a really good HID project that could also be used for accessibility purposes and everything stuffed into this. Well, there's not really much in it but it's the Feather Sense board, a battery and a switch and the case snap fits together. Just a couple of hardware screws to put this together and a tiny bit of soldering. If you want that slide switch, you just solder to wire to the enable and ground pin but that is really the gist of the project. A HID mouse that you can control with the onboard accelerometer. The Feather Sense has so many awesome little sensors on it. And here it is. So very, very simple construction. You just got your snap fit case and four screws. These slots here at the bottom are if folks want to attach this to something else, maybe they want to attach it to a hat, your arm, your something else, your head. You can do that. We're having this little 400 million battery and because it's a Feather, it has onboard charging. So if you ever run out of battery, you can plug it in and charge up the battery. You also have a Neopixel onboard if you want to do that for something else. But there's lots of stuff on here. There's even a PDM microphone right there. And this is of course the Feather Sense which has the NRF 52-840 chip which is great for circuit Python. It's speedy, it has lots of RAM and it's great. So check it out. We are working on the Learn Guide. It is forthcoming. It's going to be in review soon and we'll have the STL files and everything as well as build assembly photos as a part of the Learn Guide. But yeah, that's going to be this week's project and we'll come out with it within the day or two. That was quick. It's super speedy, huh? So that is the project and I think that's it, yeah. Let's see. Oh, this one. Yeah, so stay tuned for the Learn Guide. I think we'll probably have it later today. Maybe I think we'll be able to get it in review. Yeah, there was some slight request that Lamar wanted for the mouse movement. That's right, yeah. There's several ways to code it but she had some nice ways to cache some of the, some of the accelerometer data. Yeah, posting all the links to the Feather Sense. Yeah, they're in stock right now. Amazing, they're in stock. And then some of the ancillary things like the battery and the slide switch can never have enough of those. Yeah, tend to use the slide switch a lot. Yeah, we did it pretty quick. We're gonna try to keep the show under half an hour so we're just gonna speed through all the things. All right, I think the, probably jump into, what are we prototyping? What are you prototyping? Yes, okay, what are we prototyping this week? This week we're prototyping a new prop from Star Trek. It is the animated series. Yeah, so it is the official Star Trek day. That's right. If you go to the Adafruit blog, Adafruit site, you'll notice that there is an updated logo that's very, very tuned to the Star Trek. So this is a ray gun. It's got a couple different names but it's actually a prop from the animated series. So what we have here is we have a handle and inside the handle we have some electronics. We have a slide potentiometer. We have a button here, the 16 millimeter buttons and this pops open and we have a battery on the inside. Like these batteries is the 2,200 milliamp batteries. It was actually in last week's rat catcher project and on top here we have the Feather M4 with the PAM 8302 amp bluff fire. So the idea is that we'll have a speaker here, we got the amp there and we'll be able to trigger some different sound effects. So let me give you some context to what this thing is. So this is from the Star Trek animated series and it's this very obscure episode where there are these space werewolves that this, maybe they're cats, we don't quite know but one of the things about the prop is that it's a bit shape shifting. It can change shapes and changes functionality and one of the shapes we're gonna do is this melon looking thing with keys and an LED sorts, very bizarre. But nevertheless, we are here to make this prop and here's the different shape of it and you got these space werewolves are kind of discovering this thing. Yeah, so this was an idea by Phil B, who's a big fan who's actually getting together all of the cosplay props to dress up as one of these obscure characters. Yeah, one of the, here's one of the Reagan shapes and a lot of the work was actually going into combing through the screenshots. Here's like a telescope version of it, very bizarre, but kind of cool. And then here you can see he's using the slider to kind of change the shape. We probably won't be able to do that but we'll figure out something fun to do with it. Here's some other shapes. I think it has like maybe a total of let's say 10 different shapes or whatever throughout the episode and I've just kind of cut together some of the B-roll from the episode. Here's the pacifier mode, which looks like a pacifier. I don't know what it does. And the full episode I think is on YouTube so you can search for it. I forget what episode number it is but here's the Reagan that I modeled right there, this version here and they shoot it and it like creates an atomic blast or something. I don't know. You can see here they shoot it, it just explodes. And like it falls out of his hand or something and it changes again to the watermelon prop and then this is where they like start talking to it and it talks back to you. You can ask the questions and stuff. So of course we gotta make this into the prop. So this is what we have so far, right? We have some snap fit parts. So here at the bottom I always like snap fit things when you can get access to it. We're gonna have some magnets here at the top and this is just the bottom half of it. Here are some more pieces of it. This is kind of the top bit that'll fit over here with the magnets. It'll be held together. It's all supposed to be green and I'm getting some more green filament. But yeah, this is kind of the overall shape of it. And yeah, that's kind of what I got going on there. Talk about the electronics and yeah, it'll all be programmed in circuit Python. So stay tuned for that. That is what we are prototyping and I'll give you a quick look preview at Phil B. Here he is with his commissioned mask from Magpie Bones. And he kind of made his own ray gun spray painted, I think it's a Nerf gun or something from the toy store. And so all we're gonna make a little bit more accurate version of it and create a great cosplay. Yeah, it looks so close. Like even the ears on the mask are like the way that it has little bat wings. Perfectly commissioned. Yeah, they made it perfect. And let's see what else can I pull from this? I think I'm looking at the emblem on the shirt. Yeah, yeah, it's just a shirt he grabbed from like his closet, he says. And the character is called, oh boy, I can't really pronounce this. It's like, Kins? Kins? Trufft Captain from Star Trek, the animated series. Hope I didn't butcher that. I know I did. So there you go. So we are prototyping. Paige was working on stuff too, but it's printing right now. Yeah, print failed. I did it. Yeah, I'm sorry. Ninja Flex is one tough cookie to bake. So there we go, folks. Wait, Kins? Wasn't that out of Ring World? Says Andy Callaway? I don't know, maybe. I know very little. I know what I just showed you is all I know. Sorry. And then Yanni and Finster are saying, yeah, the magnets will be very useful for switching out the top there. Yeah, you want to be able to access the USB port as well. And I can't get the focus to go, but yeah, you still have enough space here. And we'll have a little speaker right there as well. The little mini oval speaker, which is one of our favorite speakers to use because it's small, it's thin, it's very capable. Once you add it to something, you can amplify it just by adding it to something like a cavity of some sort. So that's why I have that little spot there for it. So hopefully that will sound good once I wire everything up. But yeah, I'm not sure what this will do yet. Maybe it'll change different things. But it was a fun thing to model. It's got an interesting shape to the handle and these little grippy points are quite fun. Yeah, and I just split it into lots of different pieces to avoid support material. So one of the trade-offs there is you've got more screws, but it's also good because you can have various other printers print multiple parts. And it's more modular that way. So there you go. That is the Star Trek prop. Awesome. Go cool. And then if you go on over to the chat, Andy Calloway has posted one of the comic books where it prominently features the Man-Kazenny Wars 3. You can see the characters there. Bloodthirsty race of cat-like aliens. Sorry, I guess they're not werewolves. They're completely different species. Well, that's awesome. Thank you for that context, Andy. We've got some more research to do for the video. We'll properly reference what all that is. That's great. But yeah, this is a really cool, I think that should be a new thing of making props and cosplay of totally obscure things that I showed up like once or twice. Yeah. That was one of Phil P.T., Philoptero, Mr. Lady Aida. That was one of his reasons. Like, you know, we do a lot of popular things. Let's do something that's completely on the other side, the other spectrum, right? So something like this is really cool to highlight and to say, hey, it doesn't have to be a popular thing to just get made. So shout out to Mr. and Mrs. Lady Aida for, you know, to all of us. Champion to get this done, yeah. This has been in the works for, or Phil B's been wanting to do this for quite a while. Since March. Yeah, since March. That's where he posted that, so. It's a searcher day. It is a searcher day. And then Halloween lines up with that, so we're happy to go for that. Very, very cool. All right, and the other prototype that we were talking about, not gonna show, because it's like still printing. It's the Star-O mask. This time it'll be wearable. It'll be wearable. Yeah, we're gonna use the Halloween eye. This is the All-See-Nine. Yeah, so it'll be super fun. Get some more projects for Halloween. Yes. This is excited on more Halloween inspiration ideas. That's right. So, yeah, we are switching gears to all Halloween and props. Speaking of jumping into this week's community makes. Yeah, one sec. We're gonna quickly have a little shop talk segment and we're just gonna say, hey, if you like modeling projects in CAD software, we might have some goodies that will help you in your CAD adventures. We have lots of parts, lots of boards and models of the Adafruit parts, such as the Feather Sense. This is a really good example of having a 3D model with all of the on-board components because there's a lot of components on-board, the Feather Sense, PDM microphone, the accelerometer, and the light sensor. These are all things you kind of wanna have access to. So it was really important that I had a one-to-one accurate model of this Feather Sense board so that I could break it out and do fun things like this. Like this.  So this is a good use of those two together here in the 3D printed cover and the snap fits open, a little bit of force. And you can see here how the button actuator here has an extrude, a little bit of a post, and these reliefs here, the little cutout allows it to just flex slightly so you can actuate that button. So this is a really good technique that we've seen in various 3D printed enclosures and this is another good use of that. And having a model that's one-to-one allows you to precisely make this type of geometry. There you go. We also have things like the slide switch and the battery, we also have those components as well. So check those out, they're on GitHub and they're available in various CAD formats such as STEP, the Fusion 260 file, and STL if you wanna just grab the STL and use it in something like Tinkercad. Very, very fun. Yeah. It's completely parametric so if you wanna modify the design you can take the source file, the Fusion source file and make it what you will. And that'll be a part of the learning guide. And that is the shop talk. Quick question on the parts from a guy is asking is there an official correct channel to submit requests for models of products that aren't modeled yet? He came across this weekend and he was looking for the MPU 6050 Stemaboard. Yeah, go ahead and use the issues tab. I know it's not an issue but board requests should go there. I think that's the best place because I can keep track of it. And to get notified of it. I'll get notified of it, yeah. I might be a little bit behind but I will take some time to model up some new ones. It doesn't take too much time. It's just downloading the EGLE file and then bringing it into Fusion and then mapping them manually. So you can do the two. There's a layer by layer tutorial on how I do that. I use EGLE 9.3, which you can still download. It's a legacy download but that is the version of EGLE that makes it possible to manually map components. Some of the components I draw myself but half of them are downloaded from places like GrabCAD.  Yeah, apps that aren't in there. Yeah, exactly, but yeah. Yeah, use the issues tab. I know it's not an issue, but that's what GitHub calls it. Well, it's an issue that it's not there. That's funny. Yeah, so this issue is not there. Yeah, cool. Thanks for being good. And that's Shop Talk. We talked about the shop. All right, now we can do community makes. Yes. Yay. Yeah, this week with, I guess this was because of the trailer from Spider-Man No Way Home. Is that what it's called? Oh, that and What If too. Yeah, that's right. What If, last week's What If. Marvel, inspired by Marvel Comics. It's on Disney Plus. It's a new animated series. And let's just run the time lapse. This is the Eye of Agamotil. Yeah, this is pretty cool. Let me move these parts. Really nice remix of this model. Hollowed out so you can have some electronics inside. Pretty easy. It's just the coin cell battery, or the coin cell breakout with the 2032 battery. Is there support material going on here?  You can kind of see there. Okay, and this was remixed by Keith Paige. Yes. Keith wanted to make it so that it was hollowed out so you can add some LEDs and some more electronics. And that's really nice. Yeah, so the base is hollowed out. And then on the inside of the gem, you have the nice little hollowed out portion you can see there. Cool. And just a little 100 ohm resistor on there to knock down the brightness of the LED. It's a three millimeter LED. And I'll take this apart in a little bit just to show off the breakout. Yeah. Super simple, a very satisfying little prop for Halloween. Very cool. Very cool. Continuing on with that cosplay Halloween theme. So super simple little amulet there. And got the on and off switch that's connected to the breakout. And yeah, some people were saying that, oh, they really wish that there was like a motor to do the little turny thing that usually happens when you cast a spell or whatever. But it's a nice little press in place. Or what is it? Push press in place, snap fit. Press fit. Press fit. There you go. Snap press. And the only other thing for assembly is just like a little drop of hot glue to adhere the gem on there. Sanding, no finishing. This is gold PLA that's already silky smooth. Yes. So if you want to kind of avoid the post-processing process. The processing, you're adding some, what is it, the weathering or the dry brush? Dry brushing is a good thing. With airbrush as well. Give it a lot of very nice texture to it. More screw. Yeah. More torque. Get that out. Yeah, so you got two screws here. Yep, so these are just M2 screws. Oh man. More screws. I'm gonna get this out. Show you the breakout of this. The lun is getting cut right on time folks. So here is the entire circuit. Super simple. This is, I'll put the link in for this nice little breakout. This is the famous board. It was featured in the Suicide Squad movie. So this was supposed to be like a bomb. Yeah, a bomb for that. So I just wired it up in a way so that the slide switch is controlled in the on and off. And like I said before, just a little resistor on there to knock down the brightness of the three millimeter LED in there. This is such a great PCB design. The more fantastic job on making it, the mounting holes really let you know that it's a native product with those mounting holes. And you have things like this, this tiny little bit of geometry there so you can access the battery. Really easy to get to the battery there when you have that little thing there. From a design standpoint, that is such a great little thing. On top of that, you got your mounting holes and you got enough clearance here for your little slide switch as well, which is really nice. On board slide switch, I love this thing. Yeah, that's the other part of the design as well is that you have your built-in slide switch, but if you want to break that out, like we needed to do here, you can have that once it's on. Yeah, have that break out your on and off switch. So super simple, especially since a lot of the Halloween stuff, it definitely brings it to life if you just have one little LED in there. And if you look around at the Halloween shops, a lot of the props is literally just this, just going to the LED, coin cell, and all the... The first is the certain LED. It's great, I like that the bottom is super flat, there's no components of the bottom, so if you just want to stick it to something, tack it to something. Or, mount it. Or mount it. So obviously this design was not meant for the break out, but it fits perfectly. It does, look at that. Just a little bit of modeling, or modeling the, what's it called, the legs in there, just positioning them, or bending them into a deform to fit this little shape here. So a nice little way to bring this to life. Yeah. Let me see if I can pull up the coin cell battery. Oh, I have the link for it. I was wondering if I'll set it in. What's the PID, is it this one? It's the 20 millimeter with the on and off switch. I already have it here ready to go. Yay. It's the PML. 1871, I think, or no. 1871. Hey, excellent. It isn't stock indeed. Great, I'm glad the Suicide Squad didn't buy them all. Thank you. Yeah, and it's a stock, like I said, yeah. I may or may not have a 3D model of this. I think you did. I think I do. Well, if anything, you have the Eagle PCB files on GitHub. Yeah. There's a fritzing object as well. If you ever want to make a custom wiring diagram, you can take a look at how the more designed it, and routed it, and all that, and the Eagle file. And we have a couple of different models as well. We have the 12 millimeter one. We have them with, and then with Valtel. You can see all the different flavors of... We even have some smaller ones, like this one's really, really small. Yeah, the 12 millimeter one. Typically, you would see something like this. So if you just want something like that, you could always do that as well. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It has a built-in enclosure and all that, but we really like these because it's for embedded projects. Yeah, as you saw in here, it's like an all in one, so you don't have to break everything out if you don't need to, but you just wanted to be all in one. Sorry, I'm looking at the banter in the chat room. Is that the cheap cosplay stuff? Let's see this, hold on. Dexter was saying that... Oh, it says it's a spoiler. No, it's funny, click on it, it's hilarious. That's the gauntlet. Thanos is gauntlet. I mean, when you're cleaned in the house, you kind of feel like you're Thanos. Having all the power to clean everything. Each flavor of Fabulous, so... Oh, that's cool. Cirque saying that if you could have some computer vision to analyze the gestures to activate the servos to open the amulet, that would be awesome to have some mystic spells activated that way. Let's try it on. Yeah, and this was printed in actual green translucent filament, so it's good to have colored filaments. Thanks for going back to that. Yeah, green color translucent filament and then the LED is the white diffused three millimeter LED. I tried a green one and it didn't look as good as the white. Interesting, green on green, huh? And I tried yellow, I tried all these different colors to see what would pop the most and white went out. Again, this is a remix from Keith Page. We put this together. And some nice weathering here, you can see. Yeah, like the dry brushing. Yeah, dry brushing or air brushing. To get all those dark spots in between so you can have some more sort of like a weathered look for it. Yeah. And then the original designer is Lacey. Lacey has lots of great designs as well. I'm really liking this mandaloring helmet for the child. That's really cool. And I think last year we printed her immortal Joe mask, that one was really cool too. Printed out really good in the semi-flex or the ninja flex. Yeah, very cool. I like highlighting both makers here because it's this whole open source community here where you can publish something and somebody can take that and make it into a different type of project where it lights up or does something different. It's hollowed out and it's really nice that you can do that. So, cool. Shout out to both Lacey and Keith for kind of doing this. All right, we got more community makes. Oh yeah, we do. Really cool ones. That's right. Let's take a look here. For Neo-Key. This is great. So you might know Arturo, who runs the solder party company. Wanted to make a, yeah, kind of remixed it, I think, right? Yeah, so it has like a USB port on it. So very, very cool. Nice to see Arturo remixing some stuff and using it on the, I think it's a STM feather, some sort of feather here. And it connects to be a stemma. So it has a hole there. So very, very cool. If you just want a simple version without the cutie pie inside there, this will fit just the one by four Neo-Key PCB that Adafruit makes. Which I think they're back in stock. They are, and they're cool. So I'm finding them waiting for a couple months to get another one of these. Yeah, but I think we're good now. Yeah, you can see here it's in stock. Woo-hoo. It's, I forget what chipset it has, like the Sam-D, something, something, right? But yeah, this can run over I squared Z. You can use it with circuit Python. It's got kale sockets, so you can swap out the Cherry-Mex compatible switches and onboard Neo-Pixels, reverse mounted. Very cool. So if you want a closure for it, you just want to break it out. Arturo made a really nice remix. Thank you, Arturo. All right, next up we have, you know, sometimes we make models and you can use the piece of the model on something else. For example, we created this way back in 2017 when the Apple Watch came out and wanted to make a 3D printed watch band out of Ninja Flex because it's very flexible. It's pretty good on the skin. But Wyoming Will posted a make of it and has his own watch, or the Wooden Watch. Which is really cool. So he remixed it and printed it in Ninja Flex. I remember it might not be Ninja Flex. It could be something else. I mean, it could be a TPU. St. Smart TPU blue. There you go. Got a free watch without a band. Printed yours without any mods to get a functional band, thanks.  No issues, 220 degrees for the model, 60 for the bed. You need to make it about 2% larger. But that's it, very nice. And this was printed on a Creelty Ender 3. So yeah, you can print TPU, St. Smart on an Ender 3 and then Ender 3 I think has the Bowden tube. So if you're looking to print some Ninja Flex, check out the St. Smart TPU blue. There's a link there as well. So shout out to Wyoming Will for posting up his make. Quick segue, because we're talking about the Ninja Flex and Franklin is asking if you have space money for only one printer, what would be the best all-around printer? Probably the Creelty V3. So you could print the most flexible Ninja Flex. That's not an Ender, that would be a CR-10. Oh, sorry, I said CR-10, it's V3. CR-10 V3, yeah, because it's got the big build volume. Is that the direct drive? Direct drive. Direct drive, so you can print really good, flexible stuff. Yeah, it's pretty high-temperature too, so I think you can do the, what's the high-temper, the Nylons, and the Pete Pet Gs. Yeah, Pet Gs are great. And it has the bed that you can, we like tiny machines, they're a great manufacturer in the States. They write their own custom firmware, machine some of their own parts as well, and you're kind of getting a QA'd version when you get tiny machines. That's the best part right there. They get all of the printers in, and they actually test them, fix them, and they actually mail out parts, and they send you free mail parts too, if there's any problems with them. Yeah, which is great. All right, next up, we have another make. This one's coming in here, loading, loading, loading. Wow, this is a remix of the Circuit Python, a motorized camera slider. Trollander here on Thingiverse 1 and 2, I guess have different axes, so we went all out and made like an extra version. It's amazing. Of this, let's see. He's calling it the GoPro Dual Axis Slider. It's used to position a GoPro camera over an array of, well, plates. All the script running on a smartphone directs the sequence of the video recording or time lapse photos of the cells. Each of the slider controls are constructed from the Bluetooth motorized camera slider by Adafruit. One for the x-axis slider, the other for the y-axis, parallel sliders, and additional control using a NoteMCU ESP8266 is used to send commands to the GoPro. The Wi-Fi, that is bananas. So great make here, again, by Trollander. Let's check that out. And what are these cells here? This is like a scientific thing here. That is so cool to see, like this mega slider here. Very, very cool. I love how it's like angled down, it's so different. Very, very cool. Wow, I never would have thought to do this. Very incredible. All right. And then the last make here. Let's get it ready. Lood, lood, lood. So the minimal pi case? Yeah, this predates us. This minimal pi case was created, I believe, by Philby, I'm not sure. But you can see here, the original is a laser cut design. Look at the SVG files, but of course you can take an SVG, extrude it, and 3D print it. So if you don't have a laser cutter, but you do have a 3D printer, you can take the SVGs and make it extra. Very, very cool. So shout out to Exxana for posting up their make of the minimal Raspberry Pi Model A plus case FDM version. All right, and that's the sweet community it makes. Thank you everybody for posting your makes, and if you have a make, you can post it up in any of the various channels, and you can tag us in it as well. And we'll share it on the show. Back over to the Live Discord, Live Broadcast Discord channel. I think we are pretty good at this. Yeah, we wanted to do a little quick show. We're gonna get back to guiding, and making sure my prints don't fail. Yeah, we're gonna get back in there. Yeah, we've got big ups from suit rigs on the St.Smart TPU. Yes, we do have some of that blue. It looks very well. Very good, good, good chop talk thing. And some big ups too on the YouTube chats for all of the links to all the products, and of course, all the CAD directories and the fritz scenes, so you can get all of the assets for designing your next project. For sure. I happen to give all those out.  Happens every Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. We got special guest Jeff Epler tonight. He'll also be on Ask an Engineer with Lamar Phil. It's gonna be super exciting. It's always fun when you have a third person there. You have another perspective. So tune in tonight. You can always watch it tomorrow too on the archive. But it happens 7.30 and then right after 8 p.m. If you want to get invited to that, go to the Discord server and Mr. Ladyata will post a link to the stream yard. Just click on the stream yard and make sure to mute and get your webcam ready. You can share all the fun stuff. Anything else from that? I think that's it. Yeah, right after that, it'll be Ask an Engineer with Lamar Phil. You'll get a 10% coupon code as well on Ask an Engineer. So if you want to hold on to your orders, you can do so and check out at 9 p.m. or whatever. Yeah, the thing you want to do is stalk theatrefood.com slash new and check out all the new things that are being posted. And then right when the show starts, you can get that discount code on all the brand new goodies. That's right. I don't know what the discount code is. I don't know anymore. All right, it's gonna be it for us. Wait, wait, wait, be sure to tune into the live. The rest of the shows tomorrow, it's Thursday. Every Thursday at 4 p.m., you can tune in to John Park's workshop. Should check him out? Yeah, he's gearing up for more Halloween stuff as well. So definitely tune in every week for that. Yeah. And then on Fridays, we got Deep Dives with Scott. Sometimes it goes to one hour. It's always an hour, but sometimes it goes to two hours. And it's every Friday at 2 p.m. Pacific time or 5 p.m. Eastern time. That's right. I forget about central time. Time zones are crazy here in the States. And then on Sundays, sometimes Saturdays, from the desk of Lady Aida, she did the last weeks on Sunday, around 8 to 9 to 10 p.m., hacker-ish hours you can get to see Lamar routing some boards or what she had just routed. And then, of course, the segment, is it the Great Search? Yeah, it's the Great Search segment. And yeah, she was routing some more STEM boards. Stemification. Yeah, so definitely check that out if you want to see how she does her little workflow for all the routing that happens on the PCBs. And she's taking requests as well. If you are working on a product and you just can't seem to find a replacement part, she will help you. So just check her out. Yeah, there is some crazy keywords that you have to type in to find that specific part or the thing that you want it to do. There's some funky letters and acronyms that... Yeah. Wow, I don't, yeah, it's crazy. Definitely tune in to that. She has superpowers. Yeah. Did you key superpowers? And then on Tuesdays, sorry, Mondays, was the Circuit bylaw meeting. And then Tuesdays is JP's product pick of the week. Every Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern time or 1 p.m. Pacific time. And this week was the Prop Maker Feather Wing. It was really cool. He had lars. He pulled it out of lars' mouth. It was hysterical. Lots of fun demos, lightsabers, ray guns, Lucio blasters. Perfect timing for all the Halloween stuff. Oh yeah, it is great. And it's 50% off, so this thing is $5. Yeah. And insane. So definitely tune in every Tuesday for that giant discount on JP's product pick of the week. Yeah, so that's it. And then every Wednesday at 11 a.m. we do the show. So thank you for tuning in, folks. We're gonna see you tonight. We hope to see you and good luck on all your maker endeavors. But until then, remember to... Maker day. Live long and prosper. There you go. See you later, man, folks. Bye, folks, thanks.


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Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. It's a Monday, so it's another meal prep day. I have some fun, easy, summery type of recipes for you that I'm so excited about. So if you are excited for meal prep, give this video a thumbs up. And don't forget if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed to my channel, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click that little bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. All of the recipes that I share with you today as well as all of my recipes for that matter are on my website. I'll make sure that that is linked at the top of the description box for you. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I offer one-on-one macros and calories. Highly recommend taking advantage of that just so you know where you should fall every day to be most successful. If you wanna chat with me one-on-one, I do offer coaching as well. Links, discounts to everything I shared with you today as well as all of my other favorite things.  So definitely check it out before you go. So let's jump in to this weekly WW Meal Prep. Breakfast this week, I am making copycat Starbucks egg bites. I love their egg bites. They're just really expensive. So when I found this recipe, I was super, super stoked to make this for breakfast. So really simple, just a few ingredients. Of course, you're going to need some eggs, two slices of bacon. This is just the pre-cooked bacon. Some Swiss cheese shredded. So I'm going to have to shred this up. Some cottage cheese and salt and pepper.  I need one full cup of shredded cheese. To large bowl, we're going to go ahead and crack. Now we're going to add in one cup of cottage cheese. One cup of the shredded Swiss cheese. The two slices of cooked and crumbled bacon. Salt and pepper. And then we're going to stir this together until that mixture is completely combined. I'm going to spray at least six of my muffin cups with some nonstick cooking spray. We can always spray a few more if we have enough of the mixture. And then we're going to start adding the egg mixture into the muffin cup about three quarters full. So I'm going to spray a couple more because I have enough of the mixture. Here are the egg bites. They're going in an oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. We just want to make sure that the eggs are cooked completely through. I just pulled out the Copycat Starbucks egg bites. You guys, these look delicious. As soon as they cool a little bit, I'll pop them out so I can show you what they look like. We'll go over all the points. Here's what these look like. Oh my gosh. I might just say these look better than Starbucks. They're so soft. I am so excited about these. So as you saw, I ended up making eight of the Copycat egg bites. Each bite is three points on blue and purple and five on the green plan. Not bad at all. Much less expensive to make these at home. And I was thinking a couple of the egg bites with some fruit would literally be the perfect breakfast. So that is my Copycat way less expensive Starbucks egg bites. For my lunches this week, I am making instant pot brown rice risotto. This is going to have my veggies, my protein, my carbs all in one meal. So for this recipe, you're going to need some chicken thighs. Now you can use chicken breast. This just makes it a little bit more juicy and delicious. And this is a pretty low point low calorie lunch as it is with chicken thighs. Some Parmesan cheese, asparagus, lots of mushrooms. You actually need an entire pound of mushrooms, some shallots, pepper, chicken broth, brown rice. Of course you do not want quick cook brown rice. You just want traditional brown rice since we are cooking this in our instant pot. And then I have some avocado oil. The first thing I'm going to do is chop up my scallion and my asparagus for the risotto. I'm going to add a little bit of oil to the bottom of my pan. Let it warm up and then add in my veggies. I'm going to start with two packages of mushrooms. And then I have one cup of asparagus and one shallot. We're going to let this cook until the veggies are softened. Since your veggies are soft, we're just going to remove them from the instant pot and just put them in a bowl and set them aside. While your instant pot is still on the saute mode, we're going to go ahead and add in our chicken. We want to sear it on both sides. Once the chicken seared on both sides, go ahead and add a little bit of pepper, one and a half cups of brown rice and five cups of chicken broth. We're also going to turn our instant pot off. Now we're going to go ahead and put the lid on and set it to high for 25 minutes. So I just took the lid off, the instant pot went off, released the steam and now I'm just going to kind of lightly shred up the chicken. It just falls apart. You can't even pull it out of the instant pot. It's so juicy and tender. So we're just going to lightly shred all of the chicken thighs. Once we've shredded the chicken, we're going to add back in all of our veggies and one quarter cup Parmesan cheese. Stir that together and lunch is ready. Look at how delicious this looks. It will thicken up even more as it sits. So I'm going to transfer this to a storage container and I'll be back to share points and the calories. I decided to go ahead and just put the risotto in one of my big, large mixing bowls. I have lids for these. I think that's the easiest way to store it. This big batch of risotto makes 12 servings. Now you can make this on the stove top if you do not have an instant pot. Each serving is only four points on the blue and green plan and two points on the purple plan. Chicken is accounted for in all plans because we use thighs and not chicken breast. But this is a very low point lunch pair with your favorite fruit or maybe some yummy toasty garlic bread and you have a perfect lunch. Summary sweet treat this week. I'm making lemon blueberry bread and this is actually going to be glazed bread. So it could be a snack, a dessert. It's going to be fresh and delicious and I am pretty excited. Wait until you hear the points in a frosted or glazed bread. So for the recipe, you're going to need some salt, vanilla extract, a fresh lemon because you need the zest and the juice, fresh or frozen blueberries, whatever you prefer, baking powder, powdered sugar, eggs, sweetener alternative of your choice. As always, I'm using Lakonto. I will link Lakonto down below for you guys with a discount, both my sweetener and my powdered sugar are Lakonto, light butter and all purpose flour. So to start our bread, we're going to add one and a half cups of all purpose flour to a pretty large bowl, a pinch of salt and one teaspoon of baking powder. That's literally all I have left in my little container. And then we're going to just stir this to make sure that everything's mixed together. I'm going to add my lemon zest directly to my bowl. I'm going to zest this entire lemon. I really want this to be packed with that real fresh lemon flavor. I'm also going to juice it as well right into this bowl. I'm then adding about a half of a teaspoon of vanilla extract. The recipe calls for one full cup of sugar. I'm going to substitute a half because it just gets too sweet with those sugar alternatives for me. So I'm going to have the amount of sugar that the original recipe requests. One third cup melted light butter. You can use a handheld mixer or just a spoon like I am. And I'm just going to gently combine this together, just folding in the wet and dry ingredients just until mixed. Make sure that you don't over mix. It just causes your bread to turn out a little bit more spongy instead of light and airy. I have one cup of blueberries here that I have rinsed off, so they're still a little bit damp. And I'm going to add those to a bowl. And then I'm going to sprinkle in about a tablespoon of flour. And we're going to mix that together to coat those blueberries. This will prevent the blueberries from sinking down to the bottom of your loaf. And now we'll add those into the mixture. Fold those in nice and gently. Look how delicious this looks. It smells so summery and fresh. I'm going to spray my pan with a good amount of non-stick cooking spray. And then we're immediately going to transfer that batter into our baking dish. My oven is preheated to 350 degrees. We're going to put our bread into the oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until it's cooked completely through. One hour later. I just pulled out the bread. Doesn't this look incredible?  I'm going to let this cool and we are going to put together that glaze that I promised for on top of our bread. Excuse the air fryer. Going in the background, I'm actually making my lunch. To my bowl here, I've added one half of a cup of powdered sugar. Again, this is the Lakonto. Two tablespoons of melted butter, half a teaspoon of vanilla extract and two tablespoons of lemon juice. And then we're going to stir this. It'll make a glaze consistency. And as soon as our bread is cooled, we'll add this right to the top. Time to glaze our bread. I went ahead and put it on a piece of saran wrap just to keep the glaze from getting all over my cutting board here. So I'm just going to drizzle this right over the top, allow it to sink into all those cracks and then we'll be back to share points and calories. All right, I cut it into 10 slices. The recipe makes 10 slices. This seriously looks bakery incredible. And each slice is only three points. Can you even believe it? Three points for a slice of a lemon blueberry bread. Thank you for joining me for this week's WW Meal Prep. I hope you are as excited about these three recipes as I am. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to give it a thumbs up. It means a lot to me and definitely helps out my channel. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, of course I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and ring the bell next to it so you don't miss a single video. I do meal preps every Monday so you definitely don't want to miss out. Of course, all the recipes are down in the description box on my website as well as nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And of course, my Facebook group, we'd love to have you head on over there and join us as well. Happy Monday, friends. I hope you have a beautiful day and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye.


It's been fantastic to be at the conference here, it's been very interesting listening to all the speakers, understanding the work and the cooperation that's going on internationally about these important issues. But the thing that I've really taken from it is that we can all do something to understand good gardening practice, which results in good plant health and good soil health. We should all remember that if we travel, like so many of us have traveled to this great city of London, if you travel anywhere, leave what you see growing behind you. The risk of importing pests or diseases through what we think of as beautiful plants, which may not be suitable for our climate or may introduce some alien species that cause devastation to our food systems or to our gardens.


Thank you very much. It's great privilege to be with you a great privilege to be the the last speaker and a great Privilege to be the only European speaking about all these issues and I would be very happy to share with you some personal thoughts about the lessons we can draw from the last Congress of the Chinese Communist Party because Coming from a European point of view. It's very interesting to see how The Chinese authorities as you were describing The Chinese authorities gave a sort of framework About what they want for China for these next three decades two objectives the first one is to say China is going to be the first power in the world within 2050 and second We are going to bring you to a framework of what can be the strategic relations with the Non-American world and this is very interesting because The Chinese authorities and the president Xi Jinping gave for that a very brilliant idea Which is this famous silk road. We like the word in in French one belt one route It's it's very very scary It's a sort of new Marshall plan for the 21st century and I think we all of us should Make a great focus on this project Because when you have a look to it It's unstoppable First of all because there is one criterion that makes sure that this is going to be successful It's a total alignment of interest between all the shareholders And I was listening to what Mr. Cooper was saying about the difficulties that The American policy has to be on the table because of what happened since one year According to me There is a very interesting contrast between what's going on in the United States and the fact at the same time the Chinese authority Authorities are bringing on the table a real new deal for all of us I say for all of us because when you have a look to the the layout of This project it includes China of course, but also the other Asian countries Which are very happy to be included in something we bring that would bring growth economic growth and development It includes the Arab countries who have the opportunities to diversify Their own oil supplies and their investment for the funds and of course Europe Which is at this same time launching very important structural reforms in Germany Spain, Italy, Northern Europe and France since six months So we can imagine that there is a real very interesting new deal for all of us and what is very original and It's a con in contrast with the old silk road of the year 2000 year old secret there is also and this is very interesting a seaway Coming from the Chinese ports Then Indonesia Singapore The Swiss canal after the Red Sea the Swiss canal the Mediterranean sea and the two roads are going through Venice Which is as everybody knows here the city of lovers And it's a way for us to remember that inside of this plan. There is trade economic development and growth and there is also a very important cultural Dimension that brings all of us three billion citizens inside of this perimeter That are now driven to say we can share culture education science Technology, I mean, it's a real new deal for all of us and coming from a Chinese point of view I can imagine this is of course very interesting But it's very interesting as well for a European point of view We are now looking how to be more useful As you know in Europe we have some problems to have a common defense policy to have a diplomatic policy which can be Accessible for everybody we have the opportunity to do it now because again the alignment of interest against terrorism against drug traffic against The way we have to bring peace or stability in many areas in the world North Korea, of course But also in the Middle East Brings us to work all together and there is no better way to work all together than with economy and trade But of course there is always a downside We have also to put on the table The hurdles we have to tackle the impediments Many of them we have them in mind of course just three examples First the overheat of the Chinese economy, which is not a small problem. It's a major problem for all of us when a country like China Reach reaches something like 250 percent of debt out of the GDP. It's a global problem It's not only a Chinese problem The second impediment is the question of environment We know that everybody I Mean in China in Asia globally in Europe We really want to see how we can be more efficient to preserve Sustainable development and of course I like everybody regret the position of the President Trump, but As a matter of fact what's going on in China today is Worrying for all of us on environmental questions And I think we have to keep that in mind and the third impediment, which is probably the most difficult is the question of protectionism In my opinion we cannot imagine the success of this project Silk Road if we are doing that we if we don't keep in mind the question of reciprocity We have to take that into account if the trade is not fair between China and Europe We will not be able to be successful We have lots of incidents between us the question of ports of companies that are not taking taken over because Diplomatic problems the question of solar panels even that I really think that the question of reciprocity on trade rules are today the main priority and then I will conclude just in one word About one thing which is according to me very important this project This project is a great ambition for all of us But it's also a way for us to put on the table three drivers Which are three drivers very important for all of us the first one is education and culture We do have a fantastic opportunity to know more about each other personally advocate for develop in France the teaching of Chinese language To see how our children for the next generation will be able to know more about this culture Which is no and we have to be prepared to it when we are European citizens Will be the first country in the world within two within three decades The second driver is technology artificial intelligence blood blockchain Big data. We are all concerned. We have many things to chairs We all know that on all these questions We have engineers Scientists and of course even if we are a bit late in Europe we are now very determined in the way we can improve and spend much more Credits on public research and private research in order to be on the good level on the good scale on this question and the third one last one is the diplomacy as I told you previously we have common interest because we have common enemies and I think that a good diplomacy is a Diplomacy where we could put in the table Common values, but also common interest our cultural models are very far on many questions. So We won't be able to solve all the questions. There are too many differences Human rights, Tibet, Taiwan, we know all about that, but there are common interests again What's going on with theories with drug trafficking with all the questions? We have to tackle we have common interest and this can bring us to a new diplomacy So I think that the European Union today is ready provided its own capacity to continue and intensify the structural reforms to be on the good level To be one of the major partner for China and Asia so this is a great opportunity and Waiting for our American friends to be on the top on this question as well after many maybe waiting some years We have the time to do it on our own term. Thank you