2020 Bruins Select Board Regular Scheduled Meeting to Order. To my left is Justin Lawrence, Flo Smith, I'm right town. Dana Hadley, our town administrator is here and with the red mask. And Diane Isabel, our town charter. Additions are changed to the agenda. I have no change or addition. Public comment. Here are you none. I've got a report right here. Okay, I have, I always, I asked you a couple times a year to update payments that are under $5 that people eat and usually like 20 cents or 50 cents or something like that. Right now I've got 20 of them and they total $15.21. So I don't know if I can get an approval so that I can make them. I think so there's 20 of them and most of them are like 50 cents and a lot of them weren't paid. What did you say, Diane? 15, 20? 15, 20, yeah. 15, 20. Or 20. 21, right? 15, 21, yeah. 15, 21, yeah, we're in here. Yeah, 15, 21. 15, 20, we're in here. We're 20. Okay. So I'll go over to the date, yeah, 15 dollars and 21 cents total and that's the property taxes. I second the motion. Any further discussion? If not, those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Okay, the other thing that I have is at the next meeting, I'm going to be bringing paperwork from the bank because the project for the paint term like sewer is going to be starting soon. So we had that loan that we couldn't, like it's called the bridge loan. They're interim financing. So because on that project it's 2.2 million. So anyways, I couldn't get the paperwork for that and then it has to be signed here. Now we had approved back in February that we'd go to community bank N.A. at a rate of 1.85%. Well the bank has called me and they've reduced the rate to 1.6%. Yeah, that is like a savings of $5,500. That's excellent. With that one year. So at any rate, I will have that paperwork for the next meeting and I'm going to put it inside at that point. But I want to make you aware that that's a much better rate. See if it goes down to our group. But I'm excited about that. Great news. Thank you. Okay, that's all I've got to say anything else I have is in the agenda. Tax rate calculation? We have the paperwork that I gave to the worksheet on the tax rate calculation. This is showing not using any of the fund balance, the municipal rate would be 6162 per 100. Last year it was 5664. Let's take this off so you can hear me a little better. So this obviously is a mathematical equation. What the amount of the budget voted on town meeting day, the amount of articles that were voted, the amount that was voted for the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department is a total budget of 3,628,646. Estimated budget revenues, which again, we try to go on the conservative side to $270,050. Pilot payments is the same situation, 185,000. We have not received any sort of notice that we would not be receiving that. The state current use, 40,000, so we have revenues $495.50. Which leaves the amount to be raised by taxes of 3,133,596. The grand list is, well, it's actually 508,519,800. So that gives us hundreds of 550,000, 508,000, sorry, 5,085,198. I have trouble with that. Which makes the municipal rate 6162. The bottom shows you how much each budget is affected in the tax rate. And also for each 50,800 views from fund balance, it would reduce the tax rate by a penny. Fund balance, Diane? Of 603,700, of which I always like to have that $500,000 mark, but we do have $603,700. And that was on the audit report from F9, 19. So if we were to use the extra 100,000, it would reduce it to 60.62. It would be 59, 2 cents for the 100,000, or 100, actually that would be 101,600, I guess. And 101,600. We originally discussed this when we were doing the budget, right, about 100,000, but I was just wondering, so a penny is about 50,000. 50,800 represents a penny. And what was the last, last year was 56,64.5664 was the municipal rate. Moving at what, three and a half cents increase? If you went with the, using 101,000, yes. It would be 59,62. Motion, 101,600. 101,600 out of fund balance. So we'll be able to use 101,600 from the fund balance to reduce the tax rate by two, approximately two cents. I second the motion. Any further discussion? So for this deduction, or the tax rate as it is, what was the total increase in revenue? I mean, not what would be the taxes collected to meet the budget. What do you mean, for the last time or not? For this, for the number of voting on right now, what would be the total amount that we're raising from taxes, three million? Yeah, three million and 31,000 cents. Yeah, three million, 130,396. And so you're asking what last year's was. Yeah. And before I answer. Roughly about two cents, like, any at all. Yeah, I mean, I think it was probably about three million, usually thousand, something like that. I see if you remember it was just a little over three million. I can go, I didn't bring that with me, but I could get it really quickly. There's more information out there. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. And I believe the tax collector is planning to prepare bills this week. We're hoping that under our products, I don't have the school tax rate, school rate yet. Oh, good. I've talked to Jill Remmet, and she was working on it last Thursday and thought she'd have it done. So if she doesn't have it done by this week, as soon as, you know, as soon as she has it done and I can, you know, make arrangements for the ancestors, we'll get together for the tax bills out. Okay, anything else you want to add? What's that? That's from Milton Kast. I was expecting Tim Davis to be here. I'm wondering if we could just both pull him in for a few minutes in the event that he might come. Your letter received from the Bureau of Conservation Commission? You receive a letter from the Conservation Commission and they are asking about having the bridge repaired due to public safety concerns. And then I think they have addressed, they appreciate that the bridge, what did they say? Oh, they talked about, I guess, we had talked about one time that perhaps the Snowmobile Club might be willing to lend a hand, which I think they are, but the issue is that they don't have a way to get there. And so, and I think that the Conservation Board Commission feels that this is something that needs, they can't wait to be repaired. I think they, when I talked to them, they were concerned about making it light enough for Snowmobile Access because it would then allow access for, you know, you'd have to have a need or something. That was their biggest reason when I talked to Tom Lillard. So they were concerned if you had to have a gate or a chain or a barrel of some sort, then somebody might cut the lock and drive up there with vehicles. There is something in there, bylaws or not bylaws are there, whatever the land, you know, that says they should partner with associations for snowmobile travel and all that, I don't know much about that, I just don't think. This repair, if I recall, was $4,500 in that range. Well, I'm just thinking, if they repair the bridge, that gives them breathing room to work something out with the Snowmobile Club or whoever, if they want a bigger and better bridge. But at the same time, it will fix the problem we have now and allow us to keep the trail open. Right there, around all the same size. They're really at the same size. So I would just be concerned, even if they don't do anything with the bastard or any of that, it would be good for us to have before they build something, have access for the tractor, that was my biggest concern. But wouldn't we have access? I mean, they could move some of the boulders. Nope. No, the bridge is four feet wide. Oh, I thought you meant getting up on the trail to fix the bridge. You mean get over the bridge, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll go on the other side of the trail. Four feet, that's good for hikers and whatnot, but in other camps, no side-by-sides, you can do a single-wide Snowmobile or ATV, but... Well, the other thing is that emergency access. That's a good point, too. You get something on top of it, it gets stung by a bee or whatever. Lots of things can happen, heart attack, too. All right, yeah. I would think that, that's a good point, I don't think about it like that either. Just think it more makes sense.  And like I just moved those boulders on the grapple on the tractor and then put them back in place. It was easier not there, but yeah. So I don't, yeah. I mean, I don't know, ultimately, we can encourage them to build that, or at least the width of the side-by-side, I would think we could do that. Well, I would think the thing to do would be to have the, to still have them partnered with the Soviet or the ATV people and work something out so that the bridge can be a little wider than it is on the gasol. Emergency vehicles will get up there of some sort, then you have to be a truck. And that's the, most of the, I think a lot of us in the fire department uses side-by-sides now, so it should be, yeah. Yeah. So I would make that recommendation. Just asking to recommend that, Bill. Great. Well, you approve the use that I'm building the bridge. Definitely using the funds already. So I guess it's more of an encouragement, right? Well, the other thing to do is to be looking to their, the bylaws as far as the, partnering with the clubs also. I'm sure the language isn't, they must, but it's probably they can. Yeah, there was, there was, they were, it was like encouraged at a minimum, is what I heard, you know. Yeah. Well, I would think just take and have a motion to encourage them to commission to see what the snowmobile people or the aging people would be willing to do. Right. I thought they were going to have a meeting on that. And then that was what I thought we were going to end up ultimately having. This is their last month. They're not spoken with fast. And they were pretty young all about working with them. You know, these are just local resources, not fast funding, but local resources and labor. So, I mean, I've never been up on that trail, but the bridge is what are they using for buffets? They're concrete, I believe. Port or block? Oh, let me see. I probably got some pictures out there. Well, you're saying the blocks are easy to add to it? Well, I think their concern was some of it was the aesthetics of it. You know, if you put in a big steel, they're going to be having to do a new one, but man, it's going to look, you know, it's just going to, that's from what I understood from some of their concern. I know I've got pictures here. Finding them quickly may be another story. Well, I mean, if it's a port cement, then the only way they're going to get anything wider is to take and have overhang on the beams that are there. It did not get any good pictures of being buffets. It's unfortunate. Yeah, I mean, I would think that you need to have a better embuffment here. You know, I know that I talked to Steve Quarrow. He is with Bass, he's the trail master for Norsefield and he had steel items that we could have. And then somebody else had some. They thought those for that bridge might be good for them. But there was a lot of resources available. So I guess I would just make the motion that we encourage the conservation board to speak with Vast and emergency services, specifically emergency services and see what they would use for a rescue vehicle to get up there and try to accommodate it. Yeah. I second that motion. Any other discussion on this? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Mr. Davis. Good evening. Good evening. Mr. Davis is in to talk to you about a something that you've heard before about the road rager. And do you need any other speakers? Who didn't receive the medical note yet. You have the stuff from our tracks too. Yes, I do, and I'm going to give it to you, Jim. And maybe if you can explain what we have here. Now this was an estimate. I believe that the former Mr. Davis had spoken with Matt Gaff at Milton Cass about it. And so he's got, is it a total to repair these things of $41,600? Yeah, that, and that doesn't include, there's a few add-ins that were missed, I believe, from when I was told on the quote from Milton. And then, so that's probably roughly what it would be, but maybe a little bit more on what they find. Well, I was looking through here, I don't see the tires. Yeah, the tires aren't on there, so that's nine to 10,000 somewhere is in that ballpark. And then they did that oil sample, came back with heavy copper deposits in it. No, it hasn't had enough hours for the second one yet. So they said that it was either, it very well could be just a bearing material. You'd think some of the other metals would show high too. Yeah, and then they said there's a chance in there that it could be a copper from the inside of the radiator, but they said at that point that's all been, that all that material is run through them. Berings and valves and all the motor parts as well, so I know there was a quote that if the motor had to be replaced, it was about the same as what was here, so. He told me that the engine wouldn't, they'd have to use a lot of components that are already on there. Well, originally, when Milton was talked to, they said that they wouldn't rebuild the motor, they would put a remand in it, and then they send that motor back. So the turnaround was a little bit faster. Well, unfortunately, those are not available. So it would be just a block swap. They put a block in it and then the heads, you know what I mean, if they were good, the heads would go on the new motor or the new block, all the fuel rails wiring. So then it's more labor intensive, so the price would probably go up somewhere's in there. I know they were talking right around 40 to 45,000. I'm just, I mean, there was nothing put on paper for the motor, so if everything was, it's close to 90, 95,000, that thing's gonna need, if that second motor, or the oil sample comes back, where the motor needs to be worked on, you know what I mean, you're taking a brand new power plant and put it behind the 13-year-old transmission with what is it, it's a little over 6,500 hours on it. And then I got a quote, John Deere came down and looked at the grader and gave a quote, and the trade-in is close to what the maintenance is. On that first original belt, not including the tires. 50 small tires? Mm-hmm, 40. Yeah. 45. Because they have, so there's two in here, there's one for a quote for a grader that they just got. They just had one delivered to Springfield last Thursday. There's one quote that if purchased that one and there's another quote, whether you would buy, they would build one and we'd order it. But the trade-in for that one is 44,000. And, yep. What was the quote for the grader gathered in Springfield? It's the same. It's the same dealer, it's just, they give in the same. I don't know, a dollar number. Yeah, what's the total cost? The total cost was between $1,000. One's $278,500 and the other one's $279,500. Which they would give you 44,000 for the old car. No, that's after the trade-in for 44,000. The grand total without trade-in is 323.50. So we're looking at 280,000. Yeah, roughly, after trade-in. Or if they take it to the motor block and everything, there'll be a $1,000 pair. Yeah, 13-year-old grader. How much of this is? There's also, I haven't really ever done much in this, but there's also, they do leases, but I'm not sure what the end interests. Yeah, yeah. So can we do 60, 70, 72 and 82? Knowing that the grader is a very important piece of equipment. Yeah, we understand. It's pretty much the heart and soul of them. And I know that you don't have a crystal ball in front of you, but what do you think about the old grader making it another year if we put $100,000 into it? I mean, I hope it was last more than a year, but it's good. But again, you know what I mean? I understand. You put it into it and then next year the transmission goes. I've had parts like that, I guess. Yeah. So is this good? It's obviously functional now, right? Yes. It is leaking oil now, though I've noticed motor oils coming from somewhere on the front of the motor. It's starting to leave puddles. And it's got a, without any repairs, like the one of the front motors is making noises and carrying on. And it spins faster than the other motor. So it's balding one tire faster than the others. So how much of this $41,000 is necessary to keep the thing running? All of that by the sounds of that. And the motor's in bad, bad shape. It shuts back and forth, and it moves side to side inches. And when you're trying to lay a road out, even that, I mean, that's just making washboards. That's $10,000 of the repair. $574.96, that would be great. Hey, did you put any room value on the greater? I think we really have a room value. I don't have a number in one month. There we go. Catered over here. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So it's $95.74 out of there. I don't think they do it as much as they stuff. It's $5.05. $10,000, $9,500. And what's the hydrol for the drive motor? That was about $12,000 for the hydraulic or fell drive motor. It came to labor in the park. They've already done it. And they've already done the other side. And it seems to be all right. In a situation where we're trying not to spend a lot of extra money that's going to work, I don't think we're in good position to, honestly. No, it's a hard decision. It's a lot of money, but the other thing is, if it breaks. But my understanding is when it's broke before in the past, we were able to get at least the rent one, right? Yeah, new rentals.  They sold it. They got rid of it. Rental on them is, I think, $5,000 to $8,000 a month, depending on the hours that you ask for leasing it. And then downtime in between.  Right now, the only one that's in the state of Vermont that's available through John Deere is the one that you just picked up last Thursday in Springfield. And they're trying to sell it. So I think if it's sold next week, they wouldn't have one available. And I don't know what Milton has available. I was saying, with what capital we're in. You know what I mean? It's one of those things that there's not like a lot of them. It's not a lot. They might keep the one around. You know what I mean? They only sell maybe one or two of them a year. We should put this out for an RFP. Oh, I have to. Most definitely. Well, now we have an idea of what's going to cost. Now let's give you a little bit of an idea of what the cost of the new one is. We've got one price, but that's not both prices. What's the warranty on the John Deere? I just barely got these Thursday morning. He dropped them on. Extended warranty. So it's probably more than likely it's a year, because that's pretty much what they all come with. And then there's an extended in-year service agreement. 60 months to 3,000 hours. So that's probably on top of it. We have 6,800 hours on that rate right now. We're going to go from the fall to 60 months, most likely. That's about 2007? Yes. Yes. So that's 13 years all the way. And I think we bought that for you, Mr. Deere. Yes, it was the least, it was the least greater when they bought it. And without probably really rolling back to that year, I don't know what it, nobody knew what it came from. Where's from beside Milton, Cat, and John Deere? Is there anyone else? Volvo offers one. Don't see too many of them. I was just wondering if they discontinued them in the other pricey. Yeah, and not very many towns. Pretty much these two are where it's at as far as people buying graders. Prices availability. Yeah, price availability. CR Woods, I don't think I've ever seen one on their lot. What's that? The grader up. Because CR Woods is just right next to North Tracks. But they're mainly crane and excavators out there. We had a grader in there some time ago. It was a big Volvo. Well, Dan, why don't we take in, ask Milton what they could do. OK. So do we need a formal RSV if we only had two? I think we'd better do it that way. So I need a formal RSV. Do you want me to use the description of what they describe there as far as equipment, et cetera? Something called. Probably I have a motion on this in the RSV. But it also occurred, I also think it's probably like I would, are you going to, how are you? I guess I don't depend on the motion. But you're going to make it, so you can decide. Yeah, I was just trying to think of how to word it so that. Because I wouldn't, I think it would be a good idea to see if anybody has, like how to purchase that one. Not necessarily male, but off-leads. I know that topic was brought up last week. And then Jeff Newton still stays pretty tight with the equipment dealers, you know what I mean? He looks at a bunch of used stuff as well as anybody. He said there's not a lot out on the market, but there's a few, but they're from out west. And it seemed to be that they have high hours on them. Low in years, but higher hours, they use them more for winter maintenance out there. But, you know what I mean, you always can find, you never know what you're going to find, but the option is there, and it's just, we can always board your motion for an hour at the last. So I would move that we put an RFP out for a greater, or a greater with 400 hours or less. And I second that motion. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Thanks for all your efforts and research. Thank you. Good to have you. Yeah. Waitin' in the dirt. It's been a blast. I've been in the water for the last two weeks. Are you going to hang on to that if you want me to? I can, yeah, I mean. Oh, may I have it, and then I'll give it back to you after some time. Yeah. I bet the two weeks have gone by fast. They have, they've gone by very fast actually. Okay, Tim, anything else? Did you want to talk about that pickup home? Oh, why don't we do that? Tim asked me about, at one point, the highway superintendent used to take the pickup home. He lived in Berlin, that was tape. Tim Davis didn't take the pickup home because he lived in Marshfield. So Tim Davis has asked me about the pickup. So I guess I'm looking for some advice from the board in that. See what everybody's feelings are? Well, personally, I feel the pickup is, whoever's on call should have access to the pickup, be it chainsaws or whatever else, they can cut it down a tree or anything like that. Yeah, like I told Dana though, like I wouldn't, unless I was completely gone out of town, if I was gone out of town, the truck would be here. But otherwise I would be with, I don't know, it's always been a kind of a pet peeve of mine. It's nice to have two people, one for safety reasons for cutting trees up because you never know what you're gonna end up dealing with, but. That's what you're saying, you'd be on call all the time? Yeah, really, yeah. You know what I mean? So by having the truck, you're saying that you wouldn't have to come here. Yeah. Get the truck. You've got your basic equipment in the truck, such as saws and things like that. Do you live up by? Or by Andrew? Up by you. Yeah. Where's that? Union brook. It's Bean road that I'm on, but yeah, Union brook. Yeah, that was Union brook road. Oh, it's just great. I think before we make a decision like that, we should probably have all of us here. All members to weigh in. I don't think so. That's fine, it was a question that I didn't ask before. Okay, so we'll put that for next time. Yep. Oh, that's fine. Is there anything else? Nothing to think of. Everything's been great. Going smooth so far, so. So you're seeing them piles getting up? No, they haven't started seeing yet. Is this gravel? Yeah, it's, they've been doing an inch and a half last week. The other pile that's closest to the gate is done, completed. What's going on here by the State Library? That's just, they're always getting ready for that sewer project and then using wanes as a yard, I guess. I think they'll stay in there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how late that's gonna run. I assume they'll be done by October. I hope. What are I, patched up? I hit an apple on one lane road through there. Putting in some receiver or some sort. Covered receiver in my mind. Because that's going from. That starts Wednesday, I believe. And it is, we're back by, you know, so we might get into, we'd like to see it finish this year, but we may not see that. Yeah. If not into November, I would say. Okay, anything else, Tim? I don't think so, unless you guys got any cushions. I know nothing, black road. That's gotta be done before November, I was told. Right, we'll need to talk about black road. I haven't approached that with you with trying to let you get. No, I'm good. Your people. Yeah, no. But yes, you know about that. Some.  I don't know, you were bringing it up because you were trying to schedule and figure it out. No, but I just was told that it had to be completed before. So no, so I didn't know if there was some sort of deadline that I was up against with it. I think that's a great deadline, before snow. Okay. Well, that's fine, I just. I mean, I think you have a little bit of time to, you know. I mean, if you find that you have a lot of time, which I don't think you're going to find that right away. No. But if you do, you know things have to happen with black roads. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure that we get it done and completed. And I think you get a job down on Junction Road with the strange and the guys did a very nice job. Congratulations. They were very happy with it. Yeah, I think you offend a lot of compliments on that. Just got to find grass seed now. That seems to be the hot commodity now, really? Yeah. In this, when the state, are they putting regulatory rollers behind the graders now? No, the state's not doing anything. I've seen a few towns that have gone out and done it. They're very expensive. Yeah. How's it working though? Town of Brookfield has one. It seems to work all right, but it almost kind of defeats the purpose when you're chlorideing too. They don't chloride as much as other, I don't even know if they do, do liquid chloride. So they try to compact it, keep the dust down. But like here with the liquid chloride, it's nice to have a little bit of open dirt because it actually rolls in and it smooths out. Yeah, it's got something to bind to. I just wanted to, I'd heard that some town was stacked in with a 5-2 word roller. Yeah, I know they're, I don't know what they cost, so I've just been told that they're very expensive. Well, I think they've made it well. Well, I think some of the expenses, putting a pump on the grader that will run the hydrochloric roller on the roller. Yeah, you know what I mean? You're asking, at that point, you know what I mean? You're asking a lot and I'm sure at that, you know what I mean?  You know what I mean? There's a lot of hydraulics on the grader. Ha! I don't know what the cost. Who's been to open the grader? Timmy's been doing a little bit in the last week and then he was on vacation for one day that he had most of the last week off for some septic issues. He had to put in a tank in his house, so it's just been the three of us. So we've been, he was actually, the end of the week was piling gravel when they were bringing it, so they could push it up. So I'm hoping whether permitting tomorrow to start integrating crossdowns, getting rough, a lot of the roads and that we're gonna get the hours on that to get that second sample product pretty quick. We took a quick ride Thursday late in the afternoon we had about an hour left. I hadn't looked at some of the shorter roads over in the Riverton area and they're getting, we've had enough rain in the last couple of weeks that either they're getting very pothole, they wash more of the air, the water's jumped out and channeled them, so I'm gonna get quite a bit of gradient in here right off. How bad is the oil leaking in the engine? It was sitting over at the fuel pump the other day and it left a puddle. It was standing. I'm hoping. I just wanted that copper was quite a little cooler or something. No, it's on the front, so I'm not sure exactly where it's gotten. When you see the front, maybe the rear and the greener or the transmission? Right up by the transmission, right behind the cab on the front of the cannelling, somewhere straight between the cab and the articulation. The rear of it seems to be all right where the oil coolers and radiators would be. So I don't want to ask you, actually, have you implemented any new systems like log books with equipment or anything like that? Haven't yet, because I just barely got into the, they just went through their hours. I'm gonna try to start doing a weekly keeping track of hours on a weekly basis and see how that goes. Right now it's once a month. At the end of every month, all the hours get taken down and I just entered it all into the computer the other day. So, all the equipment has hogs meters on them. I don't know. TJ is the one that normally takes the hours down, but they all have hour meters on them. Yes, everything has an hour meter. Most of the stuff now is all digital anyways. It's not like, yes, greater's all right in the cluster, cluster and the greater's on the dash. Well, even the loader's new enough now that it's in the cluster. So, yeah, then the trucks get hours in mileage. Any more questions for Tim? Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Tim. All right, see you guys later. Have a good night. Have a great night. Thanks. A letter received from Vermont League of Season 10s. This is a letter that the league sends every year. Asking if anyone would like to be nominated or if you have any ideas of who to nominate to the BLCT Board. And that is for there. They'd like it if you had someone by Friday the 17th. Who did it last year? You didn't nominate anyone last year, right? This was not for the representation at the meeting. This was for the board itself. Would you like to be nominated? No, thank you. Okay. Okay. I think that's a yes. Thanks for thinking of me, I really appreciate it. We need to take and figure out who wants to do this. So actually, this one is not, you don't need to do any action on this. This is just in soliciting for if there was someone here that wanted to be on the board and they were asking you to nominate them, that's where you would come in. That's true. I don't hear anyone asking you to do that. Let's see here, what's next? A bid opening for roadside going there. We've received one bid. The opener. So we have one bid. It was received here July 8th at 9 a.m. It should be the 6th, yeah. It should be the 6th, I hope. Oh, okay. It looks like an 8, but yeah, 6th. It's from Dunnell Dexter out of Williamstown. And I'll read it. Dear sir, I'm ready to submit a bid for the 2020 roadside mowing season. The proposed bid for single pass mowing of all class two and three rows is $5,000. A second pass on paved roads would add $400 to the bid proposal. The mowing in question is scheduled to be performed using a John Deere 2555 90 horsepower tractor equipped with a five foot boomback mower. I would assume as with other towns a 30 day contract term from acceptance of bid. I would like to thank you for your time and consideration of my bid proposal. So it's $5,000 for first pass and $400 for second pass on paved roads. Do we have a insurance requirement on that dinner? Yes, we do. And he knows if he would get that, he would get one. Dunnell did it for his life. And it's signed by Dunnell Dexter. I make a motion to accept the bid from Dunnell Dexter as outlined in the representation just read. Second. Moving through the discussion, on that bid, what do we appropriate for the mowing? 5,500. All of the paper? Aye. All right. All the poles, portion carries. Pretty much the same price that we got last year. Yes. Mm-hmm. But then you can see that. Everyone's listening. I just couldn't remember what the, yeah. I guess the second pass would pretend that the road is independent. The trouble with the quality roads is one pass, four feet gets you down to the bottom of the ditch and there's not much on the other side that really reach out to. Approve the second board minutes from June 15th, 2020. I make the motion to approve the Monday, June 15th, 2020. Select four minutes. Second. Second. Thank you. Any other discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Do we have a new strategy for the meeting? Yes, I had typed your mind before kind of updating you on different projects but I did want to point out that today I received an updated memo from the consultant for the town center designation that I'd like to give to you. I sent you one of the packages, an updated one. And we have scheduled a meeting for the 22nd of July to be held over at the range of capital city range. And the consultant will update you on some changes because there has been several changes. So that was the latest thing. Other than that, I've been working on project bids, the paving, which will be open to the next meeting and see what we've got for pricing on the Lover's Lane bridge as well as the wall and the clerk's office. I tried to bring you up to date on stormwater projects. We have a stormwater project here at the town office on the town campus and we have the design what has been done for a year and a half or so. And now we've also received a grant for 100%, well, not quite, of the cost to construct the stormwater ponds and strips as outlined in the plan. This is a grant that's handled through the Regional Planning Commission. The grant is about $60,000 total. The required math from the town is $980 and we can use in-kind services, one of those is my services that I would use or if they get any assistance from the highway department. And that is what I have. I still have the town road policy which I've had a struggle with but I am trying to incorporate things from other towns to see where we come and then I eventually would like to see that done. You've got some liquor licenses. I have a liquor license for renewal applications. Normally these are due by the end of April. However due to the COVID situation, it was extended. So I need the liquor board to... So I'll show you on board meeting and do the dean's letter board meeting. I second the motion. The more discussion, all those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We are now with the liquor commission. So this is an application from the Twin City Bowling, Twin City Lane, 708 U.S. Route 302. They are applying for a class one, a first class and third class license. And I always wonder about that. I thought you might ask me. So I looked it up and said... What's hard? What is that? What's hard with your license? And basically a first class license allows an establishment to serve beer and wine. And establishments that intend to serve spirits must also apply for a third class license. And both first and third have to be approved by the locality before application can be made to liquor control. Why? We have a first and third class. And this is for, they have a restaurant at the bowling. Now is this the only one that's come in? This is the only one that we had that had not renewed before the due date. So because Twin City was closed for... Both approved with your license application for Twin City Lanes. I second the motion. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. And I have four of those people signings on the left. All on the left, please. About a third down the page, you'll see it approved on the left. Okay. Get into a clear board agreement. Select what? I second the motion. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Your name looks like what it once again is. Anything executive session is? I do have an executive session, but I do need you to approve the licenses permits vouchers for the warning. Please. I make the motion to approve general fund accounts payable warrant number 20G24 with checks 2229 to 2346. In the amount of 59,322.22, also payroll warrant 20-26 with payroll from June 7th, 2020 to June 20th, 2020, paid on June 24th, 2020 in the amount of 38,398.15 cents. And payroll warrant 21-01 for payroll from June 21, 2020 to July 4th, 2020, paid on July 8th, 2020 in the amount of 49,639 dollars and 63 cents. So, any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Round table, Justin? Nope.


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So come back to another 3d hangouts. My name is Noah Ruiz. I'm a designer here Adafruit join me every week is good morning everybody and Pedro has created tech here at Adafruit And every week we're here to share 3d printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit That's right. This is sure we combine 3d printing and glowy projects to make inspirational glowy projects Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. We're hanging out in the discord chat room Pedro Given shout outs to everyone hanging out not just in discord but on twitch on The YouTubes on a Facebook Periscope morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good night. Everybody hanging out all over the world Give a couple shout outs. Good morning. I'm ross and paul cutler Liz Andy Callaway Miss Rolves Good morning, everybody. Hey everybody We're back.  I think we're off next week too though next week But we have some projects. We got a lot of stuff to catch up on so Thanksgiving. 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All of New York is covered in white snow So that's the a different shipping that night Newsletters once a week if he does the new products We probably have new products for a little bit, but hey, you can notice a couple trickling in Very nice. So if the a different newsletter if your comms us newsletter if your daily comm is where you can get to all the various Newsletters such as the micro Python Microcontroller gosh the Python on my controls newsletter. I'm a little rusty bear with me folks So if you want to subscribe to the every daily newsletters check out daily comm and be sure subscribe to the microcontrollers Python on my controls newsletter. It's a catchy name. It's just called the circuit Python newsletter But it's all Python. So I can't do that Shout out to Paul Cutler for hosting the circuit Python show podcast Subscribe to it by going to any of your favorite podcasting services This week was Joey Castileo. So check him out. Yeah last week was a really cool one with Jason I forget his last name, but he is a help do this super large Installation with trolls using circuit Python. It's a playground where kids interact with it Oh, it's lasted the summer the winter and he talks about all the it's super cool He talks about all the intricacies of like making an installation with circuit Python. Very very cool I had a lot of fun listening to that one. So shout out to Paul Cutler for doing up the circuit Python show podcast. Super cool All right this week's project Is on the 8 of Learn system? So you can check that out if you want to build this week's project Yeah, it is a Lego kind of inspired build so Here's our Thing yeah, we can't do matter anything. So I'll just have to show it like that. What's the white angle? See here. I have turned off by the whale turn on the second. That's a battery issues ultra-wide There you go. So We got a three-printed sign It's it's all like a neon sign. It's got a built-in mounting bar for Legos and Let's go ahead and turn it on. So They're all press fitted into this three-printed channel No glue or anything like that and the wires are cleverly hidden on the back of the sign We have another set of channels. It's kind of a mirror design and then you can press fit these These silicone wires into the into these grooves into these channels and then by using by doubling up on some of the wires you can share Power and ground connections so that you end up with just two Wires at the bottom here instead of having You know six total wires. You only have two feeding out here. So I'm gonna have to take it off It's really easy to add it on because it got this bar here. So this is standard Lego. It's a one by eight And this is a one by six bar. So it's really nice One of the things I think would be helpful is to maybe color these Support beams in black so that they won't bleed through the design I wired it up to one of these two-pin JST connectors So that you can plug in any of a different batteries. So here is a two-coin cell CR 2030 quincell battery, and it's really dim Because the batteries are kind of low. So let's swap it out one of these lipo Batteries is a two three fifty lipo battery and it's good some sunglasses on So this this is a full brightness here So you have three Three different colors blue yellow and red on the back there You can see it still kind of shines through that's because it's printed the sign is printed in this trans lucent PLA If you want a more permanent you know Fitting I would probably add some super glue or some hot glue to close off these opened Kind of junctions here for the wires but yeah, it's a Pretty simple design and a good use of the LED filaments to make a neon like sign This is a creator set. It's one of the three and one you can build three different options This is the kind of apartment Version of the noodle shop So the downtown Lego noodle shop is a fairly new kit from Lego this year and all I did to modify it was add this one by six Bar here it used to be just a bunch of these tiles So I just kind of took that off and that made it easy so that I can just press fit this on the front of the building Like so I'll check the wires.  Yeah, the wires need to come up Over here. I pinched them. Hopefully it didn't break. It's easy enough to change it out And you want to center this nice and good like there we go Yeah, that's pretty much the project in a nutshell I really liked the the JST connector here so that you can swap out the battery You can thread it through the top of the apartment here There's a little hatch door hatch so that you can kind of thread the wire through and then for the battery Storing the battery you can just store it here in that little apartment there, right next to a little up vase So it's a pretty fun set there's lots of like little details inside here. It's our department's the noodle shop Little dispenser bits little cooking area Door and this closes how much like detail There's all this sort of detail this door opens so you can Come in there the cook the chef and then when you're done with the day you go and go into your apartment and hang out watch Netflix One of the cool things you 3d model to was this really cool technique style Brick here that's holding everything together. That's new that we haven't designed before it's similar to the technique kind of Lego bars. Mm-hmm. So yeah, it just has six holes there. So It's nicely in this in this kind of area. Yeah, this is perfect I'm sure I'll be using that another Lego project. We haven't made one of these that snap right in there before. Yeah, it's pretty cool Some other dates, let's see Obviously the tolerances for fitting the noodles into the cavities here. So we have that and I'm a layer by layer on actually how to make this sort of sign with these little loops here at the ends of the design so that it holds on to the noodles nicely with these loops here And it looks like you have the radius figured out for how much you can actually bend the noodles at without having like any like access Yeah, yeah, it's a good tight corner here to show Some extreme bends that you can do and then quick question on the YouTube chat Rolves is asking is the wire for the neon strips a bit thin like are they too thin or they like Can you break them easily? The wires from which I'm guessing like right here Guessing that's what yeah, so these are little pens. There's a little hole that denotes that it is the voltage pin or the What would you call it the anode? So They are kind of frail but you can see I'm moving it. It's not breaking. So it's kind of nice You get enough room there to share at least two wired connections there But yeah, I found them If you be delicate when installing them and threading them through these little end stops here I would use what I did use is a flat needle-nose pliers and a combination of treasuries to kind of thread it through and pull it through because The ends here have a little bit of a more blobby You know size to the ends because that's kind of how I guess it gets manufactured So these are a little bit thicker, but you can just because it's still a Silicone, you know, you kind of have to press it and pull it out through this little hole here But it gives it a good grip. So they're kind of good little kind of knots that keep it nice and top But yeah, the whole noodle is silicone so they do a really good job of kind of staying in place I am not blind Yeah Let's go ahead and jump to the guide Quick run-through of some of the techniques. I think the only thing I don't like about this Set is the way they did the dog. Oh, that's funny. Just give me a mold of the dog Yeah, like kind of like the Lego pixelated blocky dog Yeah, it's one of those videos. It has like a little hankerchief thing I don't know. Maybe more of a goat Anywho Let's go learn guys. Any other questions go ahead and drop them in the discord, but I'll run through the learn guide real quick We have just about everything in stock except the yellow noodles We do have blue and red so maybe you can substitute the color if you'd like maybe a green noodle would be fun These wires are silicone wires as well. I have a mix here of the 30 gauge red and the The 28 gauge I found the 28 gauge wire fits a lot better in the channels Than the 30 gauge because they're a little bit thinner so if you notice on the actual build I used kind of I used Pieces of the 28 gauge to kind of keep the 38 gauge red wire in place So that was a little weird tip there Just doubled up on the wire if you want to But yeah, the 30 gauge is really really thin it kind of didn't fit perfectly And I had already designed it and I want to print it again So I just kind of left it and said yeah, just use 28 wire gauge for the grounds You could use you know the 28 gauge wire for both Voltage and ground, but I kind of like using the red color because it really helps kind of separate those two connections This is a nice to coin cell battery holder it uses the CR 2032 size coin cells It has a built-in on off switch which really works here really well for these Lego builds You can easily turn it on and off and it's nice and thin and small enough to fit inside your Lego builds Some of the other stuff you want to get is the coin cell batteries themselves this Two-pin cable that will work that will connect to any of the eight batteries, which is nice And then of course the Lego downtown noodle shop, which you can get from Lego comm Maybe have some VIP points, but it's about 44 99 us dollars So this is the noodle shop you can get What's the other does it show the other two yes does There's another version here here Yeah, there's not like this one. I like how it's nice and compact It's like you know full at two floors fun or open from your seasons or this new stand in art studio That's kind of me. Oh By the way, I should probably know like there already is a noodle sign on the shop. Oh, yeah, that's where you got the inspiration from Yeah, that's why I made the bowl more like this kind of style of bulbs I think it matched better, but it's a pretty cool sign these can move these chopsticks can bend and these are free-floating they can kind of slide out and It would have been nice to do a dragon, but like that's very difficult So maybe next time I'll do a dragon Another hard thing was to like use the full length of the noodles instead of just half of the noodles So my first design did not use the full length of the noodles like well, I'm gonna do this I can't cut them. You cannot cut these without damaging them. You can't really shorten them You can tie them together. Sure, but The size was almost too big for this Lego build It came out lucky that like the size is not too big for this for the build So I don't know I think that Back to the learning guy though. Let's kind of wrap it up because we are over time now Oh, we have all these other projects to go through The circuit diagram is kind of a neat you know depiction of how the wires are gonna actually fit in this circuit But basically we're just kind of daisy chaining all of the grounds together and all the voltages together and We order them the the noodles are ordered in a way They're they're fitted in an orientation where The grounds can all connect together and the voltages can all connect together in this way in this kind of assortment And then the last two wires are the longest wires because they have to reach the battery, so Shout out to JP for helping me Add these like extra notes and stuff in the battery So that's how you would wire it up cat files are all there You can download them from straight from the learn system or you can go to one of the repo sites like Apprentibles or Thingiverse or Colts 3d. We have them up there as well The main thing is the build volume. You want to make sure your build volume is at least 150 by 170 by 50 millimeters So it should fit on those printers and then the note about translucent filament will illuminate the best but Like I said, if you want to hide some of the some of the support beams Maybe paint it black or print the first layer black and then switch it to translucent if you want It's over to experiment. So whatever filament color you feel would work best with your sign Wiring again this photo here shows you how the noodles should be installed So the the negative the cathode pin has to you know fit in the right spot And then the anode fits through this spot. So all the noodles are Fitted in a very certain way so that the wiring can all double up on each other like this So yeah, just kind of walk through the wiring and then You want to add that two pin JST cable to the last two wires of the noodles so that you can easily Connect a different battery as you saw my battery died So it was really nice that I could just swap it out easily without having to change like the physical batteries Because I ran out of sewer 2032s The assembly is pretty straightforward. You can get yourself a 1x6 or a 1x8 Lego plate and then slap that on to your build And then you can store the battery away, so that's the that's the guy in a nutshell. It's pretty quick. There's no code It's all just wiring these LEDs And now you can make it as bright or as dim as you want Maybe you want to add a resistor in there if you want to be dimmer, but I kind of want the full brightness So that's why I did not use a resistor We turn this off now To preserve the battery So that is this week's project Lego Lots of use cases The gianni in the chat was saying that some of the podcasts shows actually use a sign similar to this Very cool. All right, cool So that is this week's project check out the guide and the video and all that cool stuff Download all the links right moving on to last week's project Yes, all right the DS 18 B20 Launched on whippersnapper with a bunch of us folks on the team made a couple different projects One of the ones I was tasked with was making a pool monitor So inside of whippersnapper, you know have support for adding What's the name again DS 18 B 20 the aperture sensor so waterproof goes right in the pool and is able to log and Capture all the data for how warm our pool is so featuring the feather 32 s2 on here and that's pretty much it that in the battery because it has the battery gauge built into it and Then if you wanted to do other sensing You can get a version that has the BME 280 although be warned Lamar did warn that it can get hot so Having an inside a waterproof case could make it a little bit warm So just take note of that. We're using the one without the BME 280 on here inside of a waterproof case So we have these gaskets on in on the inside here that help keep it protected And then on the back here because of the way I'm mounting it I just use super or hot glue to seal off the back there. We do have These are glands that can make it a little bit more waterproof This little guy comes out here and then it tightens up these little Gaskets that are inside there and that'll close it off if you really need something I thought that it can't that it went that it was assembled the other way around and I didn't like having like You know big old thing protruding and Taking up the space for the battery and the the board on there. So I Wish I had to test this out earlier, but yeah, you can definitely go ahead with that route Otherwise the way I'm mounting it It like sits sort of like this so all any rain that has been happening during a hurricane So I'll just get oh, yeah, I went right I didn't take it out. I left it out there The way that the I have it right by the hot tub So there's like a little ledge it has like a little roof and that you know sort of protects it So all the water goes down here and gilts off the sides Nothing has gone on the inside of here and inside where the hot glue is another testament is was shooting with the Kitto the two-year-old and of course he dropped it right in no he dropped it right in the pool and then Yeah, with all the rain like no water got in so a nice testament there But if you want to be you know if you have water shooting up from the bottom Definitely go with one of these otherwise if it's just you know going if you have a hurricane going on and you have a little roof on there This is good enough for that So let's go ahead and jump into checking out our dashboard That's good dashboard That's where all the that's what the stuff is Well, I have the this so you can all I log in okay to type in the yeah, oh the yeah, okay So yeah the feather mounts on here with a three printed bracket and you can see on the inside there I didn't grab a screwdriver to open this up unfortunately, but the The screws are fairly big enough if you don't tighten them all the way you can use your thumb to get things in there And we have a 44 million man 44 milli amp hour battery that lasts about I don't know like Almost three days. I want to say the main reason why I did not put a solar Panel on there is because of the way that the earth is now tilted. We have no sun going into our pool area So I would not be able to charge anything with a solar panel Because I always have that one person say why isn't there a solar panel on there? There's no sun Which which dashboards earth is around the one that says pool feather And inside there you see we are running the latest beta. You definitely want to grab that We'll have the whatever the firmware needs to be able to talk to the DS 18b Oh, sorry. No good at dashboards. Yeah, this is device page. Yeah, this is one to set up different sensors Yeah, you can see there the battery percentage you can create an action So when it gets to I don't know like 10% it'll send you an email and tell you to swap out the battery And right here the LC 709 203 f battery gauge sensor built into the feather 32 S2s freakin beautiful because I was using a cutie pie and I was using the separate stem a version of the LC battery gauge and Just made it too big and I have to like solder on a BFF and do all this crap to Soldering on like a usb to JST. This is just plugs right in way simpler.  Oh careful. Yeah, that's good enough yet I think like we need to get the CSS fixed on this Save no, no, no And there you go, you can see about how long the battery lasts many days. Yeah, how many days so right when I change it out Yeah That's cool. Well, you've changed it out quite a few times It's just because it's compressed into what was it seven days so you can see how long see two days The longest day right here on the 13th of the 14th looks like a long Be careful click out somehow and move it back over because it's gonna mess up my home. I Wish there was a CSS that just pushed everything to like to the left right. Oh, I know I remember Doing a fluid dynamic layout So so when you're using like a frame that you're probably using another frame works. They have to like battle that But this works out well, yeah, you can see about how long some days last longer than others I don't know why deep sleep is deep and light sleep is being worked on so Yeah, cuz the LED probably stays on or it's probably still connected Yeah, and you can kind of see a blinking in periodically and I had to check in every 15 minutes If you have it down to like they're up to you know checking every hour That would definitely Make the battery last longer Sorry every time it's my turn. I always forget to look at comments and post links and all that stuff Then you can't because you're running it Okay, that too so the other Plot of interest is obviously the temperature of how long does it take to get to 90 degrees? So if you jump back in there, you can see about how long I think it's like it depends on how the environment outside Like if it's 60 degrees, it's gonna take a little bit longer if it's you know, 80 degree nights It's gonna very consistent pattern about you can see right here on the oh, this is That's when I took it out to take photos for the for the hangouts You can see how it drops down there and then picks back up nice and cold Yeah inside the studio for that. What's your crossy? It's probably cold, too. Oh Oh, yeah, so yeah, hey You can see here that how the heater is working as well as soon as it gets to 90 It only keeps it on there for a little bit, and you know shuts off and then slowly lets it drop down to what is it like 88? Degrees right before yeah, and then over here around you can see the coldest so far. It's gotten is 83 Which when it's like 90 degrees all the time outside outside it feels freaking cold Yeah, especially when you're in there for a while your body temperature gets used to it.  It's like 88 degrees Yes, you can grab both to sort of try to you know say okay 74 equals 23 I don't know I did but it's like I don't know is that Pulling that extra data that it's pulling is that using up more battery or I don't know I Just left it at the Fahrenheit, sorry Oh, yeah, when you go to add the component you can see here some of the options for the Ds18 B20 good thing you clicked on that you can have resolution Right here or a second drop down so you can be more precise or less precise. I guess a few channels Okay, it's there that twitch Facebook. Okay. Hey folks. Welcome back to the show. Hello. We had to reboot But we think we have audio, so I think I hit the mute button somehow maybe I was trying to listen back All right, so what we're saying was the resolution. Yeah We're just looking at the component Reloaded CSS Yeah, so all of the circuit diagrams a little bit hard to read so remade this one should be a little bit more easier matching colors for the DS 18 B20 as well and the way that we're doing the Resistor it's just on the back. You'll see it as we get to the assembling page next to are the Mirrored boilerplate for setting up your whipper snapper and then setting up components So definitely take a redo there. It's pretty simple But nice to have be aware of all the options that you have setting that up 3d printing It is just the bracket You are gonna have to use supports just because of the way that I do have to elevate it because of the wires on the bottom Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually know it's because of the way it raises it up from the bottom Yeah, and then there is a ledge so that the wires and the resistor that are solder on there There's clearance for those so they're not getting smashed up against the board or you know shorting anything out Which you will see in the assembly we jump over to that and here we go That's what I was talking about the resistor You just bend it bend it in such way so that the three volts and the what was it the pin 12 are Connected and then you can see the power and then the yellow one which is the Pio no, not pay out the gbio digital pin Analog yeah, and then I play a little threading game you can pass either the Board itself or the entire wire you can snake it through and then it press fits right on Just be aware that it just press fits in one way the mounting holes are smaller and more outward Closer to the ESP module you I show you here. I'm showing the Screw up a little bit the measurement for the drill when you're drilling in it's a quarter inch drill bit you will be able to pass through the the Sensor and then hook up the I think it's the GS 7 also fits on there See the white version of this So this diameter is a bit smaller. Yeah, the cable gland cable gland So this guy there is a smaller version of that because I made it bigger trying to fit The other gland in this gland in there and you realize you could also attach the smaller one, which is the G 7 this is the G9 So both of any of those would fit on there But if you don't want to add that additional bulk or you don't you know, it's not really needed You can just use the hot glue or as Lamar says on here the marine to part epoxy We'll keep it nice and sealed here. We're using like a high-temperature Hot glue with the that fancy black and decker one. That's a super good I should have put yeah, I should have put a link to that. It is so good It's so much better than the crappy little craft ones And that's pretty much it cool You can see here how I have it mounted right next to the hot tub and has that little ledge on there So none of the water actually gets to the bottom of it So there's plenty of extra holes on the project case You jump over overhead you can see here that they actually have everything measured out and aligned You can see other things they came out on there What else can I say the 3d bracket, I mean you'll have the spacing for this guy and then How it moves over so you have space for the battery, so that's what the bracket is The helpfulness for if you need to use that that's what it's in that 3d part file, right? So obviously you can measure anything with a body of water because that's what you can do Yeah, that's pretty much the goal of it. Some folks were asking me to pH levels and stuff Those are we had a really good comment That was like those are expensive and they get replaced and there you go Yeah, they work out Lamar is always trying to get things that are affordable and reliable and This one is so check it out. We also have a high temperature version of this So if you wanted to do something like a kelm, maybe that would be an option Cool mm-hmm comments I'm gonna move on to the next project the magic fan reader. Oh wow. Yeah Yeah, we're saying we have vacation time. There's still multiple projects coming out A nice easy one. I have it in the other room. I'm gonna rip it out It's in the Yeah, it's on the floor Declan was playing with it So this is a really fun RF nrf RFID or NFC type project it uses the whiz kit from smooth technologies to Read an RFID tag or NFC tag so you can train up to 20 different tags and What we thought would be fun is to turn this into a DIY Disney magic band reader. So you bring your Disney magic band up to The module and it'll animate the strip of neopixels and some sound effects So it uses the feather RP 2040 a strip of neopixels and the the whiz kit RFID and Then it also has a an I2S amplifier for doing really nice audio So that's kind of the gist of it Cool Pedro's got it here So we have some snap fit bits here in here we have a Separate new pixel ring holder, but it's not really a ring It's a strip of neopixels the side let ones and we have a mini oval speak Hello Hello, if you can hear me, let us know I switched our audio source to the overhead camera because The Yeti mic is just not working out, but I'll continue here So I was doing a demo so we have these miss these Disney magic band readers that we trained using the The module button it's all working for you and then When you bring this up it triggers the neopixels and the sound effect So we themed it out so that it's more kind of holiday ish and then you can change out the LED animation because it's all running circuit python and You can train up to 20 different NFC or RFID tags With the built-in training button thing but yeah, the feathers is housed right here and so is the the main module and then the NFC and RFID readers mounted here with these 3d printed standoffs to kind of elevate it So it's close to the the faceplate everything snap fits together. So it's really modular Speakers up there mounted in there and it uses the side lit neopixel strips I'm saying Yeah, it's Pretty straightforward. We'll walk through the line guide real quick. All the parts should be in stock. I think Okay, they're not stock, but that's fine I'll have to not say that next time Circuit Dider is pretty straightforward Okay, maybe it's not so straightforward. There's a lot of connections for the amplifier, but that's fair You can change this that if you want in the code, but the everything's broken out here with words The code is really simple. It's basically using a button saying if the button is pressed Run the animation and play the sound and use a random choice of sounds I have a list of sounds up here that you can change out Up here, we have a function for opening and playing a WAV file And here is where you can change out like if you want a directory of files I have it called sounds so you can change that if you like And then you have a list of sounds here that are broken out So you have to kind of list out the names of the files file names go there without the the dot wave thing But it's pretty simple code again. It just works like a button the NFC nrf the NFC RFID module has a has a set of Terminal screwblock terminals that basically run like a button. So it's just treating the nrf ID Man, I keep saying the wrong RFID. It just keeps it makes it like function like a button basically and Then the new pixels are just wired pretty standard There's a little sub page on how to train your tags. This is mirrored from the the learn guide for the RF ID whiz kit cat files are here It's just one note here is like the faceplate is printed in translucent PLA That way the light shines through. So that's a nice little thing there But yeah, several parts no supports needed. Everything can be printed without supports The wiring page walks through wiring all the components I like using JST connectors for anything that way I can easily disconnect things which worked out really well here For the assembly, I really like this this neopixel strip holder thing It's able to press fit into the body of the of the magic band reader without any glue And they could come out as well because it has that nice press fit kind of tolerance And then you have that three-pen JST connector that's wired up To to these silicone wire so it can be disconnected. So you don't have to kind of install it and then solder it Which I like Setting up the PCB mount with some hardware and so that way everything gets mounted to the plate And then that gets mounted to the bottom got these three printed standoffs that are a very specific height so that the the actual RFID module is like suspended a little bit in air and then it has it comes with this nice connector Which has a ton of wires But it's nice that it's a ribbon table And then installing the rest of the thing It's not fitting the faceplate bits I like I really like the mini oval speakers because they have built-in Adhesives so they have like these little stickies on both sides so you can experiment with what makes better acoustics It's very modular. So I was able to swap out this black colored Case for a red glitter PLA case and that was really fun. I like these these thumb screws That are m3 size because they they kind of act as feet Maybe one day will stock them, but that's kind of it in a nutshell Random choice is what I like to do with anything that has sound that way it varies the sound whenever You want to activate your prop you don't know what sound you're gonna get Santa that's the Star Tours thing Sometimes it's not as random as you'd like There's a standard magic band reader thing and you can change the animation if you want It's a very very simple project like it's it's super basic code and You could do a lot more stuff with it. We're like recognizing individual Magic bands would be cool, but this one doesn't really cover that Only other things you can also do with it because you can kind of hear the clicking going on in there It does have a relay. Yeah, it's gonna be late. So you can turn on and off Power strips or appliances. Yeah, so the main focus that they designed this for was like unlocking a door Yeah mag lock. There's in the guide for the For the whiz kit you can you can turn on and off or unlock and lock mag safe. Sorry mag locks is what they're called Yeah, so it's meant for like escape rooms and that sort of thing. Yeah Hops guy was asking if you use that to trigger home automation and that's what you could so it scans something you could You know unlock a thing or yeah trigger something else that happens. Yeah, you could you could do a bunch of different Yeah, this idea was for having kids scan something fun when they feed the dogs so they know that Yeah, you could have all sorts of logic too so that it wouldn't trigger the same thing twice And it doesn't have to be as big as you know the magic band they actually come in with like little puck-sized versions Yeah, and all the NFC stuff so tags and Anything which is really cool and there's a train button and you can train up to 20 tags. Wow lots of fun stuff Check it out. We have 10 minutes left. We are all right. Let's go into what are we prototyping I guess? Yeah, real quick So for this week's what are we prototyping a nice simple little case For the updated micro light boat charger. So Lamar added a nice little switch on here So if you were So if you're charging like a smaller battery, I think she said uh under 500 milliamps out Under 500 milliamp hour batteries. You can switch this to the low setting This is great and it won't mess with the charging rate on it So like a little side flips there for those and then Move it up to the higher Rate ones if you have like a 500 milliamp hour and up I'll let you charge those more faster than you have Nice little closed out JST port here And this is really so that When you have a bunch of chargers and that just you know swinging around getting hit possibly getting Shorted so it's a nice way to enclose everything inside a nice little snap together enclosure To be updated micro lipo charger. Nice. It comes in handy. You can add a loop if you wanted to that's a good idea Yeah, I just finished this right before the show. So yeah open to any shape ideas a loop I will definitely add that should it be like an eight up hot head One of the one of the ones you made before was a robot I don't know. I just throw a lightning bolt shape on there and be done with it That's what me though Going to the inside nice little snap fit A little Nub there that's grabbed onto these two The insides there you can kind of see there's a little wall so it doesn't slip out of the way Have a nice little retainer wall right here So the board goes up against it and then this nice little chamfered out inside for the The JST connector and you have access to the switch, right? Yeah. Yeah, you demoed it. So it works So snap fit and I think that's the smallest like or the biggest I had to make it to fit like your Like a index finger and your nail in there. So yeah, your fingers are as small as I could make it I tried making it smaller. I was also thinking of having like, uh, I know if you've done this before you have an extra thing That goes on there, but exactly that's multiple pieces. I will you have to line up and then there's a lot of tolerance Rips it off. Like, yeah, like I even wanted to make this even tighter But it's like well with other people's printers, you know, it might be tight So yeah, there's a little tiny bit of wiggle room. I think it's like a 0.125 or something like that. Oh, wow Yeah, yeah That is a dated case with micro lipo charger super handy And uh, it looks like now that's a little bit of room there You say let's charge this battery, but it's fine. Yeah Yeah, cool and stock right now Pick them up charge all your favorite batteries All right, let's move on to community makes A couple of them Yeah, first up we have the trustry trustry By dave makes stuff. Yes, dave makes so many cool stuff This is a very cool octagonal hexagonal something gone. Yeah the Polygonal. Yeah hexagon truncated. Yeah something.  It reminds me of a candy corn the way you printed the uh Enough room to add a tea like the rainbow filament and yeah Cool for the rainbow filament And then this week he had dave made another super cool one nose nose money noses This was uh, perfect Uh over the week and both of the kids were sick. So of course they had their They had ready nose box. So we made them this nose box printed in uh transos and pla. This was also by dave make stuff Yeah Very fun an assortment of noses adorned in this nosy box I really like the detail of the noses. You can See all the nostrils. Yeah, I like that. I print upside down so that there's no supports and you get really nice.  I think for the spot. Yeah, I did up Um, I think it was like three millimeters bigger on all sides like the the entire thing And then the lid I made it two millimeters bigger Just because of the tolerance of the box you can kind of see the we had like squish it in there How did you scale it though? Did you use inside of cura? Okay, scale it up Give it three millimeters more. I just measured the uh, not a percentage base But you can actually say oh, I want three millimeters added to the width okay the width everything Yeah, that's with the height.  So just add that onto there And that that that worked. Cool there a cool way to have your tissue a nice little tissue box Printing it and translucent because you can see the pattern this is actually the glow in the dark stuff But yeah, it is translucent just because of the well Yeah, I mean, it's like I said, it's three millimeters thick and you can still kind of see through it So it's really good And uh, that's it. Those are all the communities Rather that's the time lapse we have community make so let's run through those There's a lot of them. So we got hopefully enough time All right, let me pull up the list Audio still good You can take a moment to check any comments I'll start with uh This first one we're going in reverse chronological order Um, so let's take a look at the first community makes this week It's from a jr printer And jr printer made the apico midi fighter So this is an awesome midi controller one of my favorite projects.  That's awesome. All of the parts are there. Everything looks good Very clean print Okay, so shout out to jr printer. Next up we have This ipad bumper 3d printed in dpu flexible filament Hey, this was posted up by ifox 1983 I was gonna say I don't remember making an ipad one. It's uh One while ago, I guess so yeah for the ipad air fourth and fifth gen bumper frame ultra slim Um, so ice fox has a nice description here Um I guess talking about some of the some stuff printed in flexible tpu And uh, yeah, so just check that out if you want more details on their print Okay, next up come on Try it here All right, next up is a make of the heat press Heat set insert press This was posted up by um Through the frame on printables And through the frame says I like the design and using the 2020 profile using the cab files on your github as As a based idea. I designed mine using the spare stuff I had which is awesome So this looks a lot More refined The the top here has like a geared Oh, wow, it's double Wait, what this is crazy.  That's me. That's super stellar. I love seeing makes of this project And uh, they put some really good use into it. Look at all those holes in there on the base It's incredible. Um, it seems to like use a teeth a tooth gear and um You know a tooth belt as well Tatsum that's very impressive. So Very cool. Um, I love seeing makes of this and this is becoming one of the most made Oh, yeah, it's like the next four things Yeah, it is they have a lot of makes in the past three weeks Oh, actually foot switch first, right? So the next one is the foot switch. Oh, no, I think you got the wrong one Oh, no, you got it. I got it. Uh, so this was posted up by tree house design as a remix And they put three of these foot switches together in an arrangement And um, they're saying, uh, I created a triple base or recommend printing as solid be careful with the tops You don't want to break the hinges while assembling a multi-hour print. Hmm. Um, internals are trinket m0 with standard micro switches And uh, plenty of springs. You don't need the spring. Yeah, I agree You don't need that spring because the the zip switches are are good on their own Very cool. So shout out to them for posting that up and then we're going back into heat press land this time on Thingiverse Uh, so this was posted up by man at arms props man I don't know props posted there make looks really good. It looks like all the standard parts the um I love seeing people make their own version of their soldering clamp. It's meant to be modular So I like seeing people design their own clamp for their specific soldering iron So that's really cool. Looks like there's like a break opening here for us a display or something Great project easy to print and assemble. I use the remix mount Oh, we use someone else's remix mount great for the whatever model of thing printed in military green pet g Uh from this dash filament. Very cool so, uh That's great. Very cool Okay, next up we have another heat press Pedro's and kidding This is another heat press again on Thingiverse. This is posted up by a good man 66 and looks like they have uh A uh specific uh soldering mount as well that has a nice cutaway um, and it's printed in an orientation that makes sense for this uh for this uh design So, uh, it reveals the lcd That's built into the soldering iron. So that's a really really clever way to make that and um I'll skip reading. Oh, no, no, there's a it's in german, but then there's some english here I changed the original attachment Because uh was not large enough for their soldering iron the temperature display was also not visible very good. Yeah, so it looks good Very nice All right next up these for for next time. Yeah, that's well All right, let's uh break that off there and say next week here We're off. We're off next week though, aren't we so next two weeks So we'll have to save these for the next two weeks But we do have a list of all of the makes in this uh Description of this video and youtube and and the blog post So shout out to everybody so many makes I couldn't even do them all sorry Um, but they're they're awesome. We really appreciate folks posting up their makes and seeing that. We'll still talk about them. Yeah, yeah for sure You'll be forever immortalized in this video and the future videos Um I'm closing out the show. So let's hang on over to discord. Thanks everybody for tuning in and bearing with our um, mic problems just sometimes you just accidentally hit a button Sometimes we plug in things and it doesn't work, but that's uh We appreciate y'all hanging out No, we didn't see the rocket launch. Yeah, we were in bed Yeah, but we see so many of them though Don't say that they're all special in their own way Um, yeah people in the neighborhood were posting photos of their long exposure photos of it. Oh, yeah, that's great Look really nice. Okay. We'll have to catch the next one All right. Well, that's gonna do it for the show. We have a special show in towel tonight and a special kind of show for the rest of the I guess year So Lamar and Phil will be out. Um, but jp will be uh stepping in. Yep on tonight Yeah, where is this thing in the time slot? Yeah, so let me change that Thursday to Wednesday Or not change. Yeah, I think they'll say 22 days 22 business days Wednesday, um at Seven no 8 p.m. Eastern time. That is the new time slot. I just changed it here live So tune in tonight for jp's workshop at 8 8 p.m Eastern and then a special uh show and tell hosted by Liz Clark. Yay We'll be on and We'll have some other guests as well. I think melissa will be doing the week after this one Yep, just next week and then we'll take over for a couple of them and we'll rotate throughout all the team members. Yeah, so, uh Exciting times exciting times How do we close the show normally? That's it. Thank you all for watching with all that said don't forget Make a great day. I almost forgot. Bye folks. We'll see you tonight. Bye