Live from New York, it's Ask an Engineer. Hey, everybody, it's us, me, Lady Ada. With me is Mr. Lady Ada, and it's with us here. What's different is this is our first show, Live Ask an Engineer from the Adafruit Factory, and we're not wearing masks. Because? Talk about that in a second. And I'm taking off my gloves for now.  Here's our vaccination cards. Let me just cover up that information you're not supposed to see. And as we put these on these 3D-printed multi-pass things, we're two weeks past our second dose. And the people who work on this floor for our shift that overlap, they're past their second dose, or they're one and done past 30 days. And it's been two weeks after that. So this is some of the things that you can expect to see in the world of normalcy, I guess it's called? We've got all new graphics, too. Yeah, all new graphics. And you know, give us a little bit of time to figure out some of this stuff. Because this is a new setup, a lot of new things. I adjusted the audio for the folks who said we're clipping a little bit. And there's just too much of us. There's just too much of us. But I did want to say thank you everyone for sticking with us for the last year. And also every single day and every single week, you've seen how we've been running Adafruit. And we've been managing to stay alive and keeping our team safe. Did we stop doing hardware? Yeah, no, we didn't just stop doing hardware. We didn't stop doing guide, we didn't stop doing tutorials, we didn't stop doing activity, we didn't stop doing anything. Didn't stop doing any of that stuff. So we wanted to show that we've navigated this pretty well, and you can, too.  But we always had masks on because there wasn't vaccines. And with us being able to get vaccinated, that means we can not wear a mask outside. It means when we're indoors and there's other people that are fully vaccinated, we don't have to wear a mask. It means that we can be on different shifts now because before without a vaccine, I'm on every floor at Adafruit talking to everyone. If I got infectious, everyone is. And we'd have to shut down everything. What we did was we just had, we have three separate floors and we've been as safe as possible, didn't have any outbreaks, and now we're starting to see what the recovery looks like. So that's pretty much what we're doing for now. We'll continue to do the shows, once in a while we might need to do one from home. But we're really excited about having our first Ascan engineer and over a year on site. Next week is show and tell here and then GP is doing eight of Box and Boxing. So without further ado, as they say. What's the crowd? What time today's show? On tonight's show we'll talk about the Adafruit Live series of shows, including show and tell, we've got time travel, help wanted, New York City factory footage, 3D printing, INMPI, Whits and Sirion. Ooh, got the new products. Top secret, we'll answer your questions. We do that over on Discord, adafruit.it slash discord, all 29,000 of us. We just hit all 29,000 humans today. Thank you humans. Join us over on Discord to ask your questions. All that and more on, you guessed it. Ta-da. Ascan engineer. Okay. So first up, let's just go through some of the logistics and more of what it is to run a show. First up, our team, thanks you. We are shipping, safe and smart. We're still wearing masks when we need to, of course. A lot of us are getting vaccinated. Oh, we already are. And here's a photo from last year. It's one of our first. We can have a go. Well, no, it's one of the last photos we did before COVID. But thank you very much and we're still doing a lot of neat things like our free offers. Lady Aida, what did they get for free? Free. Free free free, just like that bag. When they put things in their cart. That's right, do a $99 you get. A half size, promo-proto. Bread board, great for making your project permanent after you built them on a subtle spread board. Next up, for $149 or more orders, we'll get you a free STEMI QT board. We have a whole bunch of options. We put in whatever we can get, basically. Some of these boards shown here are no longer available because, I don't know if you've heard about the spark storage. We have a good range of about 50 to 20 different boards and that will get you a different one each time you place an order to make an account. $199 or more or you get a free UPS ground shipping in the Continental United States. That's this happy truck. And then $199 or more, you get a free Circuit Playground Express. Oh, a wonderful development board. That's wonderful for you for Circuit Python or Arduino, code.org, CSS discoveries, et cetera, et cetera. We love it because it's all in one and it's like 20 bucks. We get a free. All right. And. There's more. So, tonight only. Yeah. And this is only for this hour. Just now. All the folks that are watching live. Live. We have a special code that gets you 20% off. Now. And it's only until around 10 p.m. Eastern time. Web app. Web app. We back. We back. We back. Oh, not web app. We back. We back. Web app. We back. So, 20% off and here's the thing. If you're ready to place an order to say sorry, if you, if you just. Todd, where does it end? It is where. We can't go back in time, okay? It is what it is. It's starting now for this hour. This hour live and then as soon as the show ends, we're ending it. So, 20% off and you need to put store. Anything you want. While you're watching it live. Because thank you so much everybody for being part of it. Also, there's, you know, live has to be special for some reasons. We have to do that. That's one of the reasons. Okay, so we'll maybe we'll do more codes. We'll do more. That's right. Okay. We have a bunch of live shows that we do every single week. Oh, there's cool graphics. Yeah. You know, all sorts of things. Nature's healing. Great. We have these live shows that we do. Yeah. One of the age of live series of shows is show and tell. And normally when we do show and tell, we're the hosts, unless it's JP or Dylan Pedro, we write down all of the folks that are on it and then we talk about it. But we weren't on the show and tell last night and we didn't write down all the stuff. But what you can do is go to any of the video platforms like YouTube or Facebook or LinkedIn or there's another one periscope, I think, Twitch. You can, you can watch that one. That's an hour of good time. Including Sherry. He doesn't love Sherry. I love Sherry. On Sunday, we do deskabladeata and we do it basically in two parts. This first part is what was on your desk this week. Okay.  I also showed off a TFT breakout that I finally finished. And I got some prototypes and this prototype, by the way, stay tuned. We're going to talk about these two prototypes in more detail, including maybe even showing one built and kind of working. That's pretty exciting. Oh, and some beautiful graphics. Yeah. And then we have a different DigiKey. Where in the world is that part I need? The great search with DigiKey. And that's a great search that we do. And this week, here's what we're doing for the great search. The great search has turned into the great help people with part shortage issues. You know, I know you, everyone's heard about this electronic part shortage.  I can't find it. I need an alternative that's in stock. So we found the foot on Twitter. Some people were saying like, hey, my project or project is delayed because of this missing component. We will go on to DigiKey.com and we'll find you an alternative. And sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard, but we'll show you some tips and tricks on how to do it. I'll say so far, every time somebody's like, oh, I can't find this chip, I'm always able to find something for them. So hit us up on the social medias. You can post a Discord, Twitter, whatever, just tag us and say, hey, for the next great search, can you find me an alternative for this out of stock part? And chances are like, I'll be able to find something. Okay. And then on Tuesdays, we have JP's product pick of the week. And one of the cool things about JP's show is much like this particular show this week, we have a code. This is WeBack. This is 20% off for tonight only. Right now. This hour. Right. But the thing is for JP's show, we do the same thing. During JP's show, there is a discount. You don't have to even put in a code. It's just for that product. That one product. On the product page. About half off. Yeah. So let's check out the clip from this week's JP product. It is the I squared C QT Rotary Encoder Breakout with NeoPixel. You can plug this in over the STEM at QT cable, add a rotary encoder to it. So this plugs right into here. But by adding this board, you get a really convenient way to add a rotary encoder to your project. So I've plugged this into one, two, three, and four of our rotary encoder breakouts. And then you can see we're getting an update on the encoder values of three of them. That's just what fit in the code here over I squared C. So these have up to eight of them chainable on a single I squared C port because they have different address jumpers on the bottom side of them. That's my product pick of the week. It is the I squared C QT Rotary Encoder STEM at QT with NeoPixel Breakout Board. Also, it's coming up soon, it's Thursday, JP's workshop, and on JP's workshop, we have a new segment that we do. This is called Circuit Python Parsec. And you can tune into the one this week or you can watch right now and catch up with latest Circuit Python Parsec and up some of that. Yeah, we're working on that. The Circuit Python Parsec for the Circuit Python Parsec today, what I wanted to do is show you a little bit about digital out. So last week, in fact, we looked at digital input which is using these general purpose input, output pins as an input. We wanna read buttons, we wanna read switches and that sort of thing. These pins are very versatile. That's why they're called GPIO. Last week we used the I, now we're gonna use the O which is output. So these pins can be configured instead of reading and waiting for voltage. This says a switch has been closed. These can send out voltage or output voltage. So in this case, I'm gonna use the output pins to light up some LEDs. So what you can see here is I have five of these GPIO pins. I'm gonna set them as outputs and they're gonna write voltage out to these LEDs which are then going through a set of resistors to ground so that we don't send too much current through them. And here you can see what the code does. I've got importing times that I can pause, importing boards so I get a definition of all these pins and then I have the digital IO, import digital in out and import direction so that I can tell it to be an output instead of an input. Then I'm setting up a series of pins. So I'm using on this board, IO 12, 11, 10, nine and eight. That's this little set right here. And then I'm creating a list called LEDs and I'm setting all of those LEDs in this one for loop here for pin and pins. I'm setting up the pins as digital out, digital in out. I'm setting their direction to be output and then I'm adding them to that list. So then what happens in this true loop, I'm gonna go ahead and turn this on. And you can see it is going to, for each number zero through four, it's going to send current, send an output to an LED and then move on to the next one, turn them off and then start all over again. So that is how you can, inside of Circuit Python, set up digital output pins. And that is your Circuit Python Parsec or should I say Circuit Python Parsec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec. Okay, and then there's the show that we do on Friday's Deep Dive with Scott. Check that out, that's every Friday. Very exciting because we have just about finished our merge project, which is like the last three, four weeks. Scott has been, Dan and Jeff and the rest of the team and a lot of people testing out have been merging two and a half years with a MicroPython update to Circuit Python. So for the core language updates and bug fixes and documentation details, we're almost cut up. So you're gonna see more Bluetooth stuff coming in and we're gonna get back to Glider, which is Scott's project to make Circuit Python even more accessible to people. Okay, time travel, look around the world of makers, hackers, artists and engineers and more. First up, let's mention what's gonna happen next week. So next week we're doing show and tell from here. Mass list. And then JP is doing the eight of box unboxing. So if you have an eight of box, you can wait until then or you can open it now or whatever it is. We're almost that we have like a one more day of shipping or two.  Wait until Friday. If you haven't gotten the shipping notice by Friday, then email support and we'll figure it out. All right, don't forget. This was on the show and tell and make the music festival May 15th and 16th. I posted this up on the blog, but please check it out. So a million years ago, we made a Lego set for a woman in computing and it was almost like 10 years ago. And it was Lego wasn't ready for this. So Lego community wasn't ready for this. We had a lot of votes and then a roaming gang of Lord of the Rings and Batman, male rights enthusiasts. I'm not making this up, came in and just out voted us and then complained about the set that was the lady at a workshop. So anyways, it didn't work out, but it's back. Women of computing with someone else who made a bunch of different ones and as soon as they get to 10,000 will probably make this set. So go for it. I think it was like 7,600 the last time I checked. So check that out, we'll see where that goes. And then another little milestone. We just hit 250,000 people on Instagram. Thank you so much for, it's at Adafruit. But it's very competitive there and we're not paid influencers and we have a verified account after a lot of wrangling. No diet tea here. Yes, so we've earned it the hard way. But one of the things that we post all across our social media channels every single day, Monday through Friday, is lab notes with Colin and we have ones on TikTok, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on YouTube, Instagram. And here's the latest ones that Colin's up to this week. Take us away. If magnetism seems mysterious, then electromagnetism must seem like a straight up magic trick. And it's an easy trick to perform with a nail, an emerald wire, and a battery. Of course, you don't have to DIY. Manufactured electromagnets are compact, convenient, and ready to mount on a flat surface, which is helpful. Obviously, these would be very handy for robotic automation, as long as what you're trying to move is ferromagnetic. The ubiquitous AA and AAA batteries. Each provide about 1.5 volts. When you need more voltage, you connect them end to end in series. So a four cell case like this will supply six volts. Even larger alkaline cells like these D batteries still supply about 1.5 volts. So what's up with nine volt batteries? What makes them able to supply six times as much as a regular alkaline battery? Well, one way to find out is by opening it very carefully. And that's about the simplest answer. A nine volt is really six very small 1.5 volt cells wired in series. Makes sense. It's like they're standing on each other's shoulders with a big trench coat on. As the name implies, a multimeter can measure all sorts of electronic signals and parts. Everyone should know how to use one. Start with measuring voltage from a battery. Make sure the black test lead is connected to the common ground jack and they read to the jack labeled V. Set the meter to the voltage setting. If there's multiple V modes, choose the one with straight and dotted lines. That's DC voltage. The other curvy line symbol is for AC voltage. To test the battery, touch the tip of the black lead to the battery's negative terminal and the red lead to the positive terminal. So this 1.5 volt battery is supplying about 1.67 volts, which means it's nice and fresh. And this 1.5 volt cell can supply about 0.267 volts. Wow, that is impressively low. This one is done. Hobby servo motors come in a variety of sizes and they're easily identifiable by their three pin connectors. Red or orange for power. Brown or black for ground. And white or yellow for signal wire. Servos make it easy to add motion to a project without the need for complex motor drivers. They can rotate about 180 degrees. All the way left is considered zero degrees. Middle is 90 and all the way right is 180 degrees. This one's powered by five volts DC, but it can get by with as little as four volts or as much as six. The servo's signal can be driven by short pulses from a microcontroller pin, sent 50 or 60 times a second. The width of the pulse determines the position the servo will rotate to. One millisecond is zero degrees. 1.5 milliseconds, 90 degrees. Two milliseconds is 180 degrees. Many electronics boards with wireless capability like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth come with these silver modules. So what secrets are hidden behind this shiny armor? To remove it, I'll try melting the board solder with a hot air gun. If we wanna get in there even faster, we can always get a little more direct heat from our friend, mini hot plate. Once the board fully heats up, we can gently remove the tin, being careful not to disturb the components underneath. Inside, we find the ESP8266 itself, a timing crystal, and an SPI flash chip to store the board's program. You can see where the tin was soldered to the ground plane, making it act like a Faraday cage, blocking outside radio frequencies. You can also see there's one gap in the cage perimeter. This is where the antenna trace went outside to talk to the world. Okay, a little bit more time travel. Maybe the folks can let us know in the chats. I believe I'm fixing some audio stuff. It's like building an airplane in the sky. No, I love it. You're like twisting knobs. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that's changing here. So while we're continuing to work on that a little bit, here is the next video. This is from Phil B. And this is the difference between Neopixels and DotStars, I believe. Neopixel and DotStar LEDs, they look about the same from here. In a previous video, I explained why you might want one versus the other. Today's reason has to do with photography and persistence of vision. And to explain what I mean, we can use a regular LED as a makeshift light sensor. Both types of pixels use pulse width modulation. They turn on and off very quickly to show different brightness levels. Depending where and when they were made, Neopixels might pulse around 400 or 1200 times a second. While for DotStars, it's a spicy four to 20 kilohertz. The difference is quite noticeable if the LEDs are moving quickly. So a general rule of thumb is if the LEDs are physically staying put, Neopixels are fine. Long exposure of photography, light painting, that's sort of an edge case. And for persistence of vision, where this all happens in your eyeballs, you definitely want DotStars. Okay, jobs.adafruit.com is our way to help the economy recover. You can post up the job that you wanna get with your skills or you can also post up if you're a company what you're looking for. A couple jobs from the job board this week. Also, this is all free. Lady and I moderate all of them so that they're not scams or anything. This week is product design engineer, experience design specialist and a senior electrical engineer. Some of these are remote. Some of these are in person, so do check those out and apply. All right. It is Python on hardware news. So we have our newsletter. We're almost up to 9,000 subscribers. So if you haven't already, please go to AdafruitDaily.com. It's a completely separate site. The reason we did that is so no one could say, oh, you took my email address from your store and you started subscribing me. No, we did not. So a few things. It was Mother's Day. So of course, what do people do on Mother's Day? Build electronics. They build electronics for moms. And so this is a really cool flower pot with flowers that light up. This celebrates Mother's Day. Made with Circuit Python. This is a Mother's Day project using Adafruit MagTag and has quotes from Glen and Doyle's book Untamed. PyCon is going on right now in the US. So it's a virtual one. Scott was there. Kenny was there. It's like Education 7. Yeah, the sprints were 16th to the 18th and then it's online right now from the 12th to the 15th. Adafruit is a participating sponsor. Kikad is released. Bunch of new things in it. A lot of people in our community use that. So please check that out. You can watch the video on our various video channels. This is Running Circuit Python Test and Fixing Bugs. Jepler did a good video with that. Ann did a interview with Embedded FM. I was gonna have that as a separate section on our news but I forgot that it was also added here. So check it out. Really good interview. You can find out all sorts of things. Ann talks about work, tutorials, two books, Adafruit products and then being retired after a 30 year career in engineering with the US Foreign Service. So check it out.  Yeah, deep dive, mentioned that. And then you can just check out a variety of projects from around the web and more. I mentioned the CPython update last week. They've moved things to Maine and one of the other cool things was read the docs for Python is now responsive. And the neat story about this is person in the community contributed a pull request to make them responsive because she was pregnant and she was reading the documents on her phone and she said, well, it doesn't scale that well on a phone so I'll go fix that. Cool story and exactly like what you wanna hear in a community is like, oh, I saw something here, it is a way to fix it. Okay, and then other things. I wanna show one video and then also this quote. So I'm gonna go to this quote and then I'm gonna play this video that Jebler did. So in case you were wondering, how do we do things at Adafruit? Well, this translated tweet I think is pretty accurate. Maybe there's a magic girl in Adafruit. Circuit Python can easily play wave music data. That's not all. If once you have a magic girl, you can do all sorts of stuff. Magic girl can also play MP3 files, by the way. Yeah, and then here's a video. I was thinking about the RGB matrix displays and realized that while I know that the Protomatter code Circuit Python uses to draw them works by scanning the LEDs row by row, I didn't know what that looks like. Normally the matrix is scanned so quickly that our eyes can't see it. I think the target rate is 250 Hertz. So if I wanted to see it in action, I need a high speed camera or would I? I realized that I could just change the source code so that the scan was much slower. So far we've been looking at the regular image but with the press of a key, I can switch it to an ultra low scan rate. Notice how the lines are drawn in pairs and since the display has 16 lines on it, this makes the scan rate one eighth. Each line gets drawn several times with different values. This relates to the binary representation of the RGB pixel values. I think I prefer how it looks normally, don't you? And that's our Python on hardware news for the week. Thank you. Okay, we are an open source hardware company. Lady Aida, we are. And one thing I wanted to ask you about before we move on to the guides. You have questions. I do. So what's the latest with this? Because we're getting really close, I guess, to having a diagram for all of our boards but this is called pretty pins. Yeah, what's the latest with this? The latest is we've made pretty pin pinouts for all of our RP2040 boards and RP2040 is particularly easy because every pin has a function, like it's like every pin has a function there isn't like a split mux for everything. So we've got RP2040 all diagrammed up and you gotta have a couple of examples here. This is the itzy bitzy, we also got the cutie pie and I think they're actually in the guides. And then the ESP32S2 we also did today, Philby did an amazing job. Those are tougher because each pin is like a little bit different and also the FunHouse and MagTag guides, all the pins are attached to hardware, like they're not broken out like itzy bitzy or feather. Not yet, we will be coming out with itzy bitzy and feather versions of the boards eventually. And then next up I'm gonna do the NRF52840 and then we do them in groups by chip because we have to make the mux table to auto generate these. These are auto generated pinout pages. So we're gonna do it by chip and then of course when we get to the SAMD21 that's when it's just gonna be like a massive number of chips but the goal here is to make these pretty pinout diagrams but without almost any work on our part, like to really minimize the amount of effort because you wanna minimize typos and you wanna make it easy for us to update them and maintain them. Because that's the problem with a lot of pretty pinout diagrams is they're not very maintainable. Okay, and let's get on to the guides. We have 2,474 guides, Lady Eda. What's on the big board this week? Three guides this week. We've got a FunHouse 3D printed stand from KnownPager if you wanna make a pretty 3D printed stand with a nice yellow brick texture to it. I think they also show how to add textures. It's, you know, 3D printers are good enough that instead of just like generic 3D texture you can have like a custom one. John Park made a mail slot detector. This is a really common project. People wanna know when there's mail in their mailbox. So this detects when something passes through a break beam. So different sensors are used for different things. In this case, a break beam is an excellent way to measure when something goes between a slot. So this is a mail slot detector. And then we also got the guide for last week's new product which is the iSquad C Q2 go-to encoder. Big ups to CircuitPython, a community member who got to adding the CircuitPython example before I did. So we've got Arduino and CircuitPython code for that. It's a very easy way to add up to eight encoders over iSquad C to your CircuitPython or Python board. Okey-dokey. Some Made in New York City factory footage. Here we go. Take it away factory. We're in you. Yeah, we're actually here right now. Not a green screen. If I tipped over, I wouldn't. Yeah. I would fall. There was so many really good like zoom backgrounds. And I guess we could have done that. We could have done that, but I don't know. But it's not real. So we're really here. Okay. And it wouldn't be eight fruit factory footage unless you could see Disney building the building across the street from Adafruit. On a beautiful day. Yeah. Very sunny. All right. 3D printing on Pedro.  This week, we've got two videos. We have a new Trellis video and a gear speed up take it away. No Pedro. Hey, what's up guys? In this project, we're building a color matching game using the Adafruit Neo Trellis and the Feather M0 Express. The upgraded Adafruit Neo Trellis features 16 new pixel LEDs. The seesaw I squared C chip allows you to tile up to 32 boards. Parts used to build this project are listed in the guide linked in the description of this video. We design and 3D printed enclosure to house all of the components. The files are available to download and modify. You can find our CAD parts library on our GitHub repo. The Adafruit Feather M0 features circuit Python and can be programmed via USB. It works like a USB flash drive, allowing you to quickly modify your code and take it with you. So there's no need to install software. All you need is a text editor. To build this project and learn how to get started, head on over to the Adafruit learning site. Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more DIY projects from Adafruit. With no Pedro every Wednesday, learn how to make all the stuff and more 3D hangouts. So before we go on to the next segment, don't forget, this code is only going to be, when we're live, this is when this code works. When we're not live, this code is not going to work. If it isn't Wednesday, 8.40 PM Eastern time right now, 8.12, then it's not live. So you have like 20 minutes before? Yeah. All right, so let's go to everyone's favorite segment. DigiKey and Adafruit bring you IonMPI every single week. This week is from Sinserion, Lady Ado. What is the... Did you know that they're the sensor company? Well, I do now. Yeah. What is the IonMPI this week? An MPI stands for New Product Introduction. That's right. So what is it this week? This is a very new product. It's so new. DigiKey hasn't been featured it on their slash movie. It's so new it's not out of stock yet. It's a global shortage. It's a little out of stock. It's not completely out of stock. Did you buy some before we did this? Maybe. OK, so this week IonMPI is the SCD-40 and SCD-41. These are adorable little sensors from Sinserion. And these are true CO2 sensors. Sinserion makes some ECO2 sensors that are effective CO2, which they do by measuring volatile organic compounds. And they guess what the CO2 level is. This is a true CO2 sensor. It's actually measuring part per million of carbon dioxide in the air. You may be familiar, because people a lot of times talk about carbon dioxide on the planet. It's a greenhouse gas.  But they have really good timing, because right now people really want CO2 sensors. We use them. Why? Because in the last year, so a lot of epidemiologists and scientists, and in this case a mechanical engineering professor, said, hey, for diseases that are passed by airborne transmission, you can use CO2 as a way of determining how much air circulation you have. Because as you've probably learned in grade school, humans like to take an oxygen out of the air and they expel carbon dioxide. So over time, if you have a closed house or room and you have a lot of humans in it, like a workplace or a school, you're going to see the CO2 rise, rise, rise, rise, rise. Now, it's best to have low CO2, but humans, as long as it's less than 1,000, your body's totally fine with it. We can handle that. But instead of just using it as a gauge of health, like CO2 level for breathability, outside is 400 ppm. And so as long as you keep the indoor at 600 or less, and here's a paper that was written that is referred to by the article I just posted to, this is for different diseases. This is for tuberculosis. But they noted that they could stop the transmission as long as the CO2 was less than 600. Not because the CO2 had anything to do with TB, but because if you had low CO2, that means that there was enough air movement that air wasn't sitting around and people were bumping into these particles because the air was being evacuated out of the middle of a place with fresh air. So since Syrian, this is not their first rodeo when it comes to CO2. They've had the SCD-30 for quite a while, which this looks very familiar. That's because we have a breakout for it. So this is a true CO2 sensor that uses NDIR light to determine the CO2 parts for million. It's a great sensor, one of our most popular guides that I think was just featured on Make Even is Carter's matrix portal CO2 room detector, which is very simple and just says a four little word, like good, bad, worn. The number, which is the CO2 level in this case, it's 782 parts per million. And then a happy face or a frowny face. So a very simple sensor. But one thing that's not so awesome about the sensor is it's kind of big. And it's through-hole soldering. So it's not easy to embed in small electronics. And it's not easy to automate production of it. So what's really cool is here's a diagram showing the size difference of the SCD-40 versus the earlier SCD-30. And you can see it's, I think they said it's seven times smaller and all the way compact on every size. And it's surface mount pick and placeable, just wonderful. So there's two versions of it. So it's an I-Square-C sensor, so it's a very easy use. And there's two versions. There's the SCD-40, which goes from 400 to 2,000 ppm. And then there's the SCD-41. And it's a higher accuracy 400 to 5,000 ppm. Now, use whichever works best. But for indoor CO2 measurement, just for humans, you don't really need to know if it's over 2,000. Because if it's over 2,000, that's too high. And you should tell them lower until it's less. Like, you don't really care if it's 3,000 or 4,000. Like, it's all bad after 2,000. So 400 to 2,000 is plenty. But for some scientific purposes, a single shot mode is probably good for low power usage. The SCD-41 is going to be a little more expensive, but has a higher range. So pick and choose. But they're the same package, so you can hot swap whichever one you like. It's also available in R1 and R2. So there's four total part numbers. R1 is 60 sensors per reel, and R2 is smaller reel. And R2 is a larger reel. Probably like the wheel size is a different diameter. They also have a sensor bridge and a sensor breakout. I'll be able to chat about in a minute. And here's just something I thought was just so cool. So Sincereon already wrote libraries for all these different platforms. And this is really wonderful because one of the things that makes me so bummed out is when a company is like, yeah, we wrote a driver, but it's only for our specific microcontroller, only for the compiler. It's for a closed source compiler, closed source tool chain, an ID that's just Windows only, and it's very, very tied to the chip that we sell. It's like, we only have code for the MSP430, and he can't use it with anything else. What's really nice about Sincereon is they wrote code for Raspberry Pi, I-squared C, embedded C, and Arduino, as well as make code. So you could even have students build projects with this and use it with make code with drag and drop programming, which I think is super awesome. So I will say at the time of this writing, there's no actual sensors in stock as they are sold out. It wasn't just me, by the way. Other people bought them, too. However, I didn't miss the lead time for getting more in about a month, so you could definitely get them on back order. But what I did see was in stock was this dev kit. So it's a little breakout board with a JSTPH. It's probably Grove-compatible, and it also breakouts. And so this is actually pretty good, because it's not much more expensive than just the sensor, and you can plug and play it with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino, because it comes with headers and everything. They even have a video showing it, and then, of course, just run that code. It's just I-squared C, so you connect up power, ground, clock, and data. One of the things that they mentioned, they wanted me to make sure people knew is that the power supply, you want to make sure it's a nice quiet power supply. So if you're running this off of a Raspberry Pi, use the 3-volt supply and the 5-volt supply, because it's a little bit less noisy, because the noise does affect the reading. It's available on Digi-Key. That's right. It's in stock. So search for SCD41 Sensor, and this is in stock right now, so you can go and pick it up, and it will ship today or tomorrow. Yeah. Here's a short URL. Short URL. And then there's the... Yeah, I was backwards. There's the program. There's what you look for. You can just type in SCD41. And then if you want just the sensors itself, search for SCD40 or SCD41, and you can sign up or back order. And we have a video. A video, and then when you come back, I'm going to show on the overhead the demo. Monitoring CO2 can increase your cognitive performance, reduce the risk for viral infection, and make our building more energy efficient. This is why since Euron developed a miniaturized CO2 sensor with the mission to break the size barrier for CO2 sensors. Hi, my name is Marco, and I am very excited to present the SCD4X Evaluation Kit and how it can be used to easily evaluate our revolutionary CO2 sensor. Compared to its predecessor, the SCD4X is seven times smaller. It is SMD, thus allowing for cost-effective assembly. It allows for adjustable power consumption and offers many more great features. Now, this technological breakthrough is enabled through Sinceren's patentant PASense technology that is based on the. OK, so you want to show this off? I do. So this is the earlier SCD30, and this is it mounted onto this PyPortal project, which is super cool. And then this is, I'm going to set it down gently. Thank you for being patient, my new demo setup. So this is a feather and four. And I just really loaded up, oh, it says SCD30. It should say 40. Sorry about that. You can tell I took my old demo and updated it for the SCD40. And this is a little breakout that I made, but the one that they sell is almost the same. And you can see how small that sensor is. This is a Teflon cover just to protect it. And you can decan it if you want insiders, like a chip, and the sensing element. So you can see inside right now, it's about 600 ppm. That's normal for indoors. And then if I breathe on it, measurements get taken about every five seconds.  So there you go. So that's normal. So as you breathe on it, you have a lot of CO2 in your lungs. And then over the next minute or two, this will slowly drift down. Another thing is, by the way, it has a built-in humidity and temperature sensor as well, used to compensate the sensor. But it means that there's a very small little box that can be used for all sorts of environmental sensing projects, because it does kind of everything for you. So that's the SCD-40. All right. And that's this week's ION MPI. OK, let's do new products. But before we do new products, don't forget, 20% off, just for this hour. That code comes back. If we're still live after 9, it'll be OK. But we usually get out of here. We will be getting out of here by 9.15. All right. So let's do new products, ready? OK, let's do it. New, new, new, new, we are back. New, new, new, new, we are back. Back, back, back. We are back for new. All right. What? Good song. OK. Rocking it out. OK, this is back in stock. Like it was coming soon. It's now available now. These are the FPC cables that are 25 centimeters long. And they're used with our little green FPC to 2 by 20 IDC adapters. You plug these on the end, and you can make custom Raspberry Pi extension cables or GPIO cables of any complexity. And the flux cable is much thinner than normal IDC cables, so they're great for making twisty, turny cable contraptions with Raspberry Pis and hats. Works with any Raspberry Pi with a 2 by 20 header. So those are in stock. All right, next up. OK, next up we've got some more PicoBlade connectors. We now have five pin and six pin. These are pigtail pairs. So one is a socket connector, one's a plug connector. You plug them together. These are really compact and thin. So if you're looking for a very compact, much more compact than JSTSH or XH cables, these I think are 1 millimeter pitch. So maybe I'll show them real fast on the overhead to show just how small they are in case people don't know how big a quarter is. So you can see here, they're really small. And this is six pins. And these snap together very nicely. Hold on. Let's make sure I snap them the right way. OK, they go this way. Yeah. So they snap in together. So they're nice and solid. And the cables are nice and flexy. They're about 10 centimeters each. So together it's about 20 centimeters total. We've got them in other pins as well, like 2, 3, 4. But now we've added 5 and 6. All right, next up. OK, we've got two new Pico boards. And I've got to look at these because they're confusing. This is the ESP32 Pico with USB-C. So we've already carried a board that's like almost identical to this, except with a microbeat. Well, now for USB-C fans, we've got the USB-C version. So it's got a lovely layout, USB-C, a nice chunky antenna. It's got ultra low power. Here's the pinout diagram for it. USB-C, teeny Pico. People who like these are from Untitled Maker. They're wonderful if you are an ESP32 fan because they're very compact. Unexpected makers in the chat, too. Well, they can answer any of your questions. And maybe they also have very nice pinout diagrams. Very nice. OK, we also have, wait, this is the ESP32. S2, yeah, sorry. They look nearly identical. Similar. Very similar. So the ESP32 S2, it runs Circuit Python. And this is the new version of the ESP32 processor. It's single core, not dual core, even though there's like a 2 in the name. However, it does have native USB. So that's why you'll notice that there is, while there's a reset boot button, there's no CP2104 like there was on the previous one. Let's make it as a native USB and a native USB bootloader. So you can use it with Arduino. They recently updated the IDE board support package 2.0.0, which has added much better support for ESP32 S2. And of course, Circuit Python has great support as well. There's another pinout. Another pinout diagram. So I'm pretty sure they have like compatible pinouts. But again, Untitled Maker, Unexpected Maker will be able to answer your detailed questions. And also check out their site, which has tutorials and more. Next up. Ooh, clicky keys. So we put in the store KL keys. And there's four common colors. Now there's like, OK, I get it, keyboard people. There's like five bazillion types of keys. But really, there's only four that people want. There's white, which is clicky. There's brown, which has like a little tactile bump. And there's red, which is linear. And then there's black, which is like a stiffer linear. And the thing is, it's hard to describe them and be like a 60-gram force. People are like, what does that really mean? It can't be explained. It can't be explained. It must be shown. It must be clicky. So this is a little tester. And it comes with a lot of nice plastic cutout. And it has one of each key. Now, you can only just buy the keys. But maybe you're like, look, I want to just press them. So it has the red one, the clicky white one. This is the tactile brown one. And then the stiffer linear one with the black stem. And you can pop these caps off and replace them with your favorite caps, like kitty caps, or if you have like a DSA cap. But it's just meant for you to test them. It's a little tester. So that's it. You're wondering, which one should I get? If you pick up one of these, you'll always be able to get a good feel for it. I thought this was handy. When I was buying KL switches, I got one of these to start to get a feel for them. All right, and that brings us to the most of stars of the show. Not the star, but getting close. Getting close. What is this? Ah, I just love these. What is this? This is a metal aluminum keycap with silicone translucent toe beans.  And I love it when my cats have translucent body parts. No, I don't know. It's good for neokies. So let me really get in close on the overhead to show it off. I got to use this overhead. OK, so here's a Cherry MX compatible keycap. So it's got the little X on it. And this is like a translucent material. And then this is metal. This is a little bit cold, but it's like a painted black. And then these are like silicone toe beans, so they feel like they're little cat toes. And you just kind of want to put your fingers in between. I don't know. I don't know, I got a problem. You put them on your keycaps. And if you have neokies, like if you have one of our boards that has a neopixel underneath it, you will notice that the RGB LEDs shine through. Now, I will say, you're probably wondering, why do the toes light up and not the pads? Well, that's because on most keys, the stem doesn't glow, it's like from the edge. And so usually that's why you see like translucent keycaps have the printing is on the top or the bottom, because you can flip this around. So it's the pad that's lit and not the toes, but you can't get both. So I'm explaining it's like it's not broken, it's just these are how keycaps work. So you decide. Do you want glowy beans or you want glowy pads? I can't choose for you to look deeper to your soul and you decide. However, these are adorable and they work with any Cherry MX compatible switches. They're not cheap, but it's 20% off right now. That's right. Just briefly. OK. And they're cheap on the other side. The stars of the show tonight. So I do lead you to our community, our team, and all of our customers. First up. Trankies. Trankies by the little pocket friend.  Like what's this? Bing-bing. Bing-bing. Like a Super Mario coin block. OK, so we've been working on trickies for a bit. I just wanted to have some. People were making little cutie pie-based single key or single rotary encode. Todd Bott was making a bunch of these and I saw some other people doing these, making like one key USB key connectors. And I was like, that's kind of a cute idea. So this is a little bit of a mix of it's a USB key and a trinket, like our SAMD21 board. And it's also kind of a little bit similar to a DigiSpark, which is this USB A breakout board. So it's a USB A connector and it just has like the minimum stuff to run Arduino circuit Python with a SAMD chip on it, which is the same as the trinket chip. It's a SAMD21E18 Cortex-M0 running at 48 megahertz with 32K of RAM, 250K of flash. So it's a super overpowered Arduino or like kind of like the bare minimum circuit Python you need to do this. There's capacitive touch on the end. There's a NeoPixel that's what the Neo stands for. And then there's a solder spot for a single MX compatible key. It's not a socket you have to solder the key in because the key would just like flop right out. So you have to solder it in. And at the end there's a little slot for you can tie it to something and there's a capacitive touchpad. So I'll just show the same overhead that I just did. I have it with this adorable kitty key cap, although I can replace it with one of these DSA caps if you want something a little bit more less kitty. So it's just like one key. You can use a super low profile KL Choco key, but I just know that we don't stock those. But anything that's MX compatible with the big center dot and then the two holes you solder in. You can reset button in the NeoPixel. And then you could program it to be anything. And in circuit Python we have a bunch of example code. Or do we know we also have example code? You want it just to be like a mute button. You want it to auto launch something. You want it to just type out some emojis. Whatever you want. Maybe you have an old MacBook and you want the escape key back on your computer. Add a single key. OK, next up. With NeoKey. More Trinkys. OK, another Trinky. This is rotary Trinky. Hi, rotary Trinky. So rotary Trinky, as you might imagine, is a USB key with a rotary encoder on it. And there's a little RGB LED. The RGB LED points down, by the way. The encoder itself is not one of the RGB encoders for reasons. So it's, again, USB-A. It's got a SAMD 21 on the bottom, crammed all the parts you need, reset button, capacitive touchpad on the end, rotary encoder with the switch, runs Arduino or Circuit Python. So I'll show that as well. So this is, I have a hat on it. And then you do have to solder in the rotary encoder. We might offer a version with the rotary encoder soldered in, but I think there's some variations in rotary encoders. So we're not doing it yet. You just pick up an encoder. And you can see the RGB LED on the bottom here shines down. And you can twist to your heart's content. And we program it however you like. Right now, I'm just doing a little demo that does a rainbow swirl, because it's very easy to show off. There's also a tactile button, so you can click. So a common thing is a volume up and down knob, or a Microsoft dial emulator. I actually turned this into a very handy thing for me, which is a YouTube play pause, and then frame advance or backtrack. So you can go frame by frame through a video online, because I was trying to get some screen captures.  And so you can just plug it into your USB-A port and add it. And we program it, customize it in Arduino or circuit Python. And that's new products. Yay. OK, don't forget, only now, use this code WeBack, get 20% off. All right, let's do some top secret, Lady Eda. So if you start putting your questions in Discord, we'll get to them. But we do have some top secrets first. I'm going to show a couple videos, and then we're going to talk about some of the things that we've been up to. So take it away. Past us. Past us. OK, Lady Eda, what is this? I've been playing around with lots of interface circuits, like rotary encoders. They rotate all the way around. And if you remember old iPods, they also had a rotary wheel that clicked around. And that's how you would select songs. So this is actually from Zippy. It's not from a real iPod. It's just very similar to it. And you can see, as I rotate the wheel, it's being read by this feather and four. And it's making the neopixel go around. And then when I press the up button, you see the red LED on the top turns on. This is the left button, the right button, the bottom button, and the middle button, which turns all the LEDs on. And then if you look at the computer, you see it's reading the encoder and keeping track of the direction. So this little breakout, I mean, works just fine. So you'll be able to use it on a breadboard. There you go. All right, Lady, what is this? Hey, I built a tester for the Seasaw rotary encoder. So this is an iSport C to rotary encoder converter manager that uses a SAM D09. And I'm using this Metro Express to run the SWD DAP code that will program in this chip. So I put it down here and I press the button. It will program it. And then that's how I know it's working. It's all rainbowy. And then when we go over here, this is what it looks like when it's fully assembled as a rotary encoder. And it's being driven by a Metro Mini. And then the commands to control the rotary encoder and the NeoPixel are all done over iSport C. So you can see a STEMI QT cable. And you can even see there's a little interrupt pin over here that whenever I twist it, it goes high and low. So that's me just testing out this new hardware that's coming to the Adafruit shop soon. Hey, I'm making a NeoKey Trinky tester using a Teensy 3.6 and our Teensy Brains when I press this button. It goes through the whole procedure, programming, checking the USB, and locking the chip. This finishes in about three seconds. And then I've got a beautiful NeoKey Trinky. And then what you do is people can pick what Cherry MX key they want to solder onto it. And then you can have like a beautiful glowing key cap that does one thing. In this case, it's just doing it up as consumer control. But it's reprogrammel in Arduino or circuit Python. Thanks to SAMD21E18 on the bottom there. And they'll reverse NeoPixel. So very cool, very fast, very easy. Going to be in the store real soon. NeoKey Trinky, your best friend from Chemical Keyboards. OK, and then I wanted you to talk about what is this thing? This is my layout for the rotary encoder tester. I use a Metro M0 to program the SAMD09 on the rotary encoder. So this is like an all-in-one tester. All right. And then this we talked about on disk of LED. But this is a big deal. KB2040. Yeah, this is an Arduino pro micro shape board. But it runs a RP2040.  Take a look, folks. And I'm going to send out these prototypes soon. So let me know if there's something I messed up. If you do keys, you're going to like this. Because it's the only replacement that's out there that's an RP2040. And it'll be CircuitPython.  We'll make this the best keyboard. Check out those D plus and D minus pins for the two people who are wanting this. Let's stop secret. OK, so we're going to do questions. We'll do some questions. You want to go to Adafruit.it slash Discord. Join all 29,000 of us. Hit me up. And we're going to start doing the questions. I will get to those that I have lined up already. Yes. Oops. I know it's top secret. Sorry. We just did top secret. Yeah. You know. What? I just clicked the wrong button. Yeah, but look, you just said questions. It's been a year. OK. I'm a problem with it. Yeah, here we go. They got a deal. I got them lined up. Yeah. First question. Yeah. Thoughts on a future Pie Portal with the yet released Zippy scroll wheel? I'll tell you, those scroll wheels are not cheap. So I might DIY something. You know, we might do something. But that particular wheel, it's very cool. But it's very, it's kind of more expensive than the rest of the Pie Portal parts. OK. For these cables, what was the AWG, do you recall? I'm going to read the value off a little bit. Is it on the product page? It might be. I think it's on the product page. But I can also just read it off of here. It says 28. 28. Yeah. There you go. OK, I see you got it. OK. Next up, if you solder on the back of the tester, do you get a four button keyboard? And that was for this. You could. There's no PCB there. It's just a plastic thing holding it. But yeah, you could free wire them. Yeah. OK. Next up, might Neo-Key be your smallest microcontroller board yet? I think Neo-Key, yeah, is pretty small. No, you know the smallest one that we've ever done was the cufflinks, the cufflinks and necklace board. That is a retro one that I cufflinks a long time ago. Next up, is there a Stemitrinkie yet? There is. I can even show it on the overhead, because I just put it together. So it looks like this. It's an actually RP2040. The reason it's an RP2040 and a SAMD is because I wanted to be able to fit every possible, again, our entire library bundle on it. So you need to have a ton of flash and a RAM to be able to do that. And then this base is the same physical size as 90% of our Stemma QT boards. And so you could mechanically attach it and to make a little happy friend. It's a kind. This is an all-in-one, tricky QT thing. How many ongoing projects do you have and how do you organize your time in regards to set projects? Lots. And whenever I can get parts, and I just do one a week, right? Yeah. I mean, I would say it's a constant. Are you not satisfied with the product output? No, I don't think anyone would say that. I think they're like, how are you doing this? I'm pushing the pit. I think sometimes you have to have projects rebelling against each other. Sometimes there's delays with one thing. So we have something that you can keep moving back and forth. Oh, wait. I forgot to show off my, well, we'll show it right before we're done. Yeah, sure. PyPortal 2040? Yeah, maybe. Maybe. OK. No questions, just happy to see you back in the office. Yeah. And without a mouse, because we got vaccinated. Baxed. So trying to set a good example of when and where and how normalcy and the ways that we want and going forward in a better way will be in our lives again. Yeah. Next up, I need a Feather RP2040 and I do want to be back in stock. I don't see why they wouldn't come into stock soon. We have chips. I think we're eating on PCBs. So sign up. There's no inability for us to get chips for that board. So I think we'll have more soon. All right. Question for the show, the good friends at Digikey have started PCB printing. Several microcontrollers, like the QDPI, have castlated PASMIC and BCB friendly. Any plans to make a starter print of PCBs or other prints could just be helping with the Feather layout being placed on the PCB for soldering. That's an interesting idea. Yeah, we don't have pinouts. We do in fritzing, but maybe we'll show how to use fritzing to send boards to DK Red. That'd be kind of cool. Yeah. The question was, only one week project? It seems like you're juggling 10 a week. I know, I think we're working on. I'm working about 10 a week, but I only release. Like this week, I release the two trinkets, which is weird. Usually I don't release two a week. But in general, it's one a week release. That's 50-ish products a year. Sometimes a little bit more, sometimes extra, and sometimes they don't do one. All right, let's show this other top secret. I knew there was a reason I played the top secret twice. So this is, I just put this together right before the show, because we were here and I could use the oven, because my little hot plate's a little too small. So this is a demo. This is a, I don't know where it does not like that. It does not like that it is. So this is a rotary encoder. This is going to be an OLED, which I did not get working yet. But it's fine. So this is a little macro pad with an RP2040 on the back and then Neopixels and key switch plug-in. So you can plug in socketed, these are socketed switches and you can plug in any Cherry MX keys into them. And I'm just doing, this is my little demo test where as I rotate the encoder, it makes the colors cycle. So that's my demo. And then I did this fun thing where the boot zero pin is connected to the rotary encoder. So you press this down while you hit reset to put it to boot loader mode. But it'll be like a really cool macro pad with an OLED or a TFTF to chat with Mr. Lady at which one you prefer. Yeah, so that was part two of top secret. You linked your project with a flashlight powered by the heat of the user's hand. Any chance of doing a project like that? I tried to look it up on Digi-Key but it looked like the parts cost at least $30. Yeah, there's nothing cheap. The shaky ones are a lot easier. There's DIY projects where you make the shaky ones. You just need a coil of wire and a magnet and you can make a flashlight that's like hand chargeable. All right, yeah, everyone likes the multi-pass. Can I use the LED light above my workbench without RF interference to my sensitive circuits? Sorry, what was the question they want? Can you use an LED light above your workbench and will it affect sensitive electronics? Yeah, you're probably good.  I don't know the answer other than maybe you could put like copper mesh over it to reduce the RF emission. You know, it'll let the light through but it won't affect the RF. Can you get translucent key caps with home row bumps? That's a good question. I don't know of any, but I'll look. That's a good point for accessibility. It would be good to have one to go bumps in them. Okay, and I think those are the questions. Yay, thank you, everybody. All right. And thank you, Phil, for wrapping up. Yeah, that's our show for this week. Thank you so much, everybody. Special thanks to Takara who's in the chat. Thanks for, basically, if we were to try to get everything perfect for live broadcasts, we'd never do it. No. And so we were down on the wire and this is the first possible week that we've been past the fully vaccinated status. We're gonna wear our masks as we go outside. But then as soon as we get outside again, we're gonna take our masks off.  Yeah, that's fine. And that's what you want it to be. You want to see that there's a time and place and if everyone, yes, we could have got here sooner. If everyone wore a mask and everything, you know. Now, the most important thing is if you're gonna get vaccinated, please do it because it just means you can keep other people safe and we can all do a lot more stuff together. The proof is in and putting. Look at those shows for the last year. You could see everything we did and everything we couldn't do. The show kept going on. But here we are, glad to be back. Thanks for going through the adjusting a bunch of audio settings. There's all sorts of stuff that goes on in a factory.  You get cash money discounts. We back. And. Or Web Ac. That is the show tonight. Thanks for the video. This is Adafruit production. Thank you so much. Here is your moment of Zener.


The Adventures of Frank Race starring Paul Dubov with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan. The war changed many things, the face of the earth and the people on it. Before the war Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak and dagger of the OSS and when it was over his former life was over too. Adventure had become his business. The Adventures of Frank Race. Now we join Frank Race for the adventure of the big top. The words Florida and winter never seem to make sense when you put them together. But when circus people speak of winter quarters they're usually talking about Florida and the off season. Yet even in its off season the circus is still a spread of bespangled excitement. Even in winter quarters its sprawls and sweats and in spots smells to high heaven. At the moment Mark Donovan and I happen to be in one of those spots. Oh brother, there's suddenly an aroma around here which don't have nothing to do with them roses or picketty which they sing about. It's probably those giraffes over there Mark. Leave us get out of here before I start staggering. The guy could lose his hearing in a fog like this. Cut it out, I'm looking for Mr. McClune. We're supposed to meet him here. It couldn't be the guy over there by the water in Choff, could it? He and is, come on Mark. Look Grace, who is this guy McClune? Multi-millionaire owns half the hotels down here. So you're an insurance investigator and you come all the way to Florida to meet a guy at the circus. That's fine but I don't get it. Mr. McClune is worried about his wife's welfare. He wrote of his worry to the Medina Life Insurance Company. Seems they indemnify her life for a million dollars and they saw fit to send me down here. Multi-millionaire, huh? He don't look at me brother, he don't look at me. Mark was right. Phineas J. McClune looked about as Ty Coonish as the second base of an off-pitch coral group. He was an aged little man with a pocket expression. In his hand clasp had all the warmth of a blackjack dealer's smile. I suppose you're wondering why I suggested this is a meeting place Mr. Race. Because I don't wish my wife to know about you. And since the circus seems to be so much in the picture, it was only natural that we meet here. Don't you think? I may think so Mr. McClune in a minute. Yeah, do you know my wife Mr. Race? Only through the newspapers. She's quite a social leader. Oh great social leader. One of the first ladies of our adopted state. And that's just why I can't understand all this. All what Mr. McClune? Well the circus ruffians threatening her. Is that your problem? Of course it could be caused by her attitude. She's not in favor of circuses. She firmly believes they have a disturbing influence on the younger generation. A very disturbing influence. Oh now wait a minute. That's a lot of malarkey. A circus never hurt no kid I ever know. A circus is as important to a kid as Christmas or the 4th of July. Yes, well you may be right. Who are you by the way? My assistant Mr. Donovan. Oh yeah. Well you may be quite right Mr. Lundigan. Donovan. But my wife. Well a number of circus people have appeared at our home of late. And Mrs. McClune always seems to have to argue with them to get them to leave. And I want you to look into it Mr. Race. Well then I'd better have a chance to talk to her don't you think? You believe that's necessary? Seems so to me. Well if you think you need to. She's a very dominant woman. Very dominant. But very well Mr. Race. If you come to my home this evening. Say about 7. That's fine, fine. Very well then Mr. Race. I should be expecting you. Oh and you too Mr. Demi John. Your odd name that isn't it? Are there many more of you? Yeah I heard it. Tell me quite a few Mr. McClune. Quite a few. But this isn't there. Good day gentlemen. I should see you this evening. Hey Race. Yes Mark. Look don't Demi have a meaning of some kind. Yes it means half.  How could I be half John? That old guy sounds cracked to me. He seems rather eccentric all right. He couldn't have been kidding me could he? I don't think he meant to Mark. I wish I was sure. I think I should leave right away. There was nostalgia there for both of us. So we did some more prowling around. Going from the animal section into a tent where aerialists worked aloft and clowns cavorted in the sawdust. Perfecting routines for the opening of the tour only a week or so away. And it was while we watched that Mark nudged me. We are being given the big double old jump. Maybe we ain't welcome around here. Where? Them two over there. Here they come now. And they ain't all smiles. No reason for trouble Mark take it easy. Hey yo. Yeah what do you have? What are you doing around here? Who are you? Oh just a couple of tourists. Who are you? Get this dude Ben. He wants to know who we are.  You heard the question rule. What are you doing around here? No harm. You always call me a comic. You want to know something fellas? Look to back up that chatter you're going to need reinforcements. There is confluence in Ben. Yeah. Especially the gabby one. And school starts with this. That's called beating a guy to the punch Ben and now you got sawdust on the back of your lap. Yeah. We'll see how long you last. Where is he? We ducked. We ducked only to find it a lost cause. There were too many of them coming from too many directions. We gave up dodging tried breaking through but I knew it was going to be like an off tackle smash going sour and it was. Oh.  We were on a wooden floor now. After we'd been rendered helpless Mark and I had been spread eagle across half a dozen shoulders in the office. I looked at the base of a swivel chair and at the feet of some man who sat in it. He spoke to us. Don't you know what can't be done? What can't be done? Winning a fight from circus hands and their home ground. Yeah well just the same. Just the same what? Just the same we didn't do so bad.  Well next time you come buy tickets were you? We can use the money. Put it into a face out of the past. A face wearing a broad grin. I've been wondering when you were going to recognize me race. Oh Larry. Larry Leclerc. I saw who the boys had dragged in here. I could hardly believe my eyes. Hey Mark. Mark you've heard me speak of this fellow. Larry Leclerc served in the OSS with me. That's judo man we have. Before you giving me plenty of trouble on occasion. What are you doing here? Forgetting something aren't you race? My full name Lawrence Lansing Leclerc. And this outfit. Happens to be the Lansing Brothers Circus. You mean you're running the show? Yes race I'm running it. I inherited a lot of stock from my mother. I got control about three years ago. Not that I'm doing so well. Financially the Lansing Brothers Circus is limping badly. Come on down to the pie car with me. Maybe some coffee will soothe those bruises. He told us more about it as we sat at the food counter at the pet lounging spot. Circus was running in a bad luck had been for some time. There'd been recent sabotage which was why Mark and I had been jumped as strangers who might be out to do some more damage. We figure it could be coming from some of the smaller carnivals. Probably trying to chop us down to their size and they might do it before long. Yeah but Lansing Brothers. That's one of the biggest shows in a business. We were hurt badly about 18 months ago Donovan. Had a big blow down in the Middle West. Lost a lot of equipment even animals. Hurt us badly. And we've been taking it on the chin here. Two fires in the last few weeks. First one took twenty thousand dollars worth of food supplies. Second one burned a dozen trucks and a lot of canvas. And you'll hardly believe it race. But I don't have the funds to get the show to Atlanta. Our first date for the new season. Oh but Larry can't you borrow some money? I'm already up to my neck. The tune of a quarter of a million. We paid out in the next four months. Oh that's awful. Some people think they got troubles. Well I've got one possible out. The amalgamated women's clubs of Florida. I'm dickering with them to put on a couple of charity performances in Miami. All I'm asking is enough to cover expenses and move the show to Atlanta. That's one deal I simply have to make or I'm through. At seven o'clock that evening Mark and I presented ourselves at the door to the McLoone mansion. A facade that could have straddled and Mrs. McLoone matched her home. Wearing a hat like an inverted kettle drum she swept in just after we got there eyeing us with the gaze of a jaundice macaw. She took over at once backing her husband into a nearby corner. What's going on here?  No no no my dear. It's just that I've been worrying about those thugs who've been looking around the house lately. So I called in an investigator. No no no my dear I was only thinking of your safety. Safety he says that they could handle a platoon of Marines. What's that? Just passing the time of day lady. I don't care for whispering in my own home young man. Did you say these were investigators Phineas? And you talk about thugs infesting the place? This whispering fellow has one of the most unpre-possessing faces that a lazy lady would have pushed like yours. You've got no call to grant this possessing other people's faces. Mrs. McClune your husband seems to think you're threatened with some sort of danger. Oh well who on earth would threaten me? Yeah I think you made a point. Don't be impudent young man. Mr. McClune this afternoon you said you felt Mrs. McClune was in danger of being harassed by circus people. Do you mind telling us why you believe that? No I don't mind at all Mr. Ray. The other day when I came home I saw a man performing somersaults on the lawn. And when I asked him what he was doing he said he was an acrobat with a circus. It's logical. Now while we were talking another man came from around the other side of the house joined him. When I asked them what they wanted they said they were here to see my wife. Now I ask a gentleman and you my dear.  Yes my dear. Very imaginative. I won't hear any more about it. I am accepting the presidency of the Amalgamated Women's Club tomorrow and I intend to be fresh and ready for the inaugural speech. Good evening Phineas. And now what do you... Look lady do you say you was going to be president of all of Dame's Clubs in a state? That's a thoroughly crude way of putting it but the answer is yes. Listen lady look we got a pound in trouble and you could do him an awful big favor. I am not interested in doing favors for anyone. Yeah but look this boy is a president too. President of the Lansing blood of Sykes and all he wants is to do a benefit for you for else none of my family. Young man I detest circuses. Oh you're kidding. They're a disturbing influence on the younger generation a thoroughly disturbing influence. That's a lot of malachite. Sykes never hide no kid I ever know. Young man if you're trying to argue with me you may as well say your breath as a president that the amalgamated women's club have no intention of patronizing any circus in any way or for any reason. Good night. We'll return to the adventures of Frank Race in just about one minute. Oh back to the adventures of Frank Race. Delivering bad news to people is not one of my favorite pastimes but leaving Larry LeClaire in the dark as to his deal with the women's clubs wouldn't have been helpful. So Mark and I went to see him and the information froze the smile on his face and dropped him limply into his desk chair. Well that rips it. Now anyone who might give me a job Oh it can't be as bad as all that. My friend you have no idea. It's better. Yeah what is it? We got trouble. Trouble. Bunch of guys moving in a lot picked up then figures they're out to wreck the main tent. Over my dead body come on. Do you have enough men to handle this Larry? A lot looks deserted. More of my luck except for the cage boys and a few others. I'll let the rest leave for the weekend. Well he can't on us can he Race? He sure can. No no no you fellas stay out of it. These things get pretty bad.  What do you think we are violence? Mr. Race. Mr. Race. Mr. McClune what are you doing here? No I... I called your hotel and they said you'd gone out to the circus grounds. I... What? What's going on here? What are those rats doing? Mr. McClune you'd better clear out of here. Mark. Mark! Your friend ducked out Race. Yeah I guess he don't want no part of him free for all. If Mark Donovan ducked out he had something in mind. I'd hold it. We'll make our stand right here. Yo man! What are you trying to do here? Mr. Leclerc used to be what called Mark's carnival down in Louisiana. Now you're going to meet him again soon they're moving in. Now we can stop them three to one. It was Mark a top and elephant and behind him were three other men are more elephants. We skipped the side to let them pass and they really broke it up. Well I'd feel a lot happier about winning that skirmish if it weren't for old man McClune getting hurt. How is he Race? Still unconscious. You mind if I use this phone Larry? No go ahead. That gang off the lot? Every last one of them. Donovan you really turned the trick with those elephants. Just like Hoid and a Bulldozer even better. Clune residence. Mrs. McClune please. Frank Race calling. Hey Race how was your old man Hoid? I imagine he fell trying to get out of the way. Must have hit his head on something. Got a nasty wolf there. Hello. Mrs. McClune this is Frank Race. I'm calling from the Lansing Brothers Circus Lot. This is a thing that never stops slugging. I brought you to the phone to tell you there's been a brawl here that your husband's been hurt. You have only one I trust. He was hit on the head he's unconscious. We're on the Circus Lot. We have him in the pie car. Larry that clown of yours the one called Slim. He said he knew one of those fellows made the attack. That's right Slim did say that.  That's Charlie Rowland. No no he's in New York. But his assistants here. Joe Prentice. Good I'd like to see him right now. And then I'd like to talk to Slim about the fellow he recognized. Maybe I can give you a helping hand with your troubles. According to Slim the attacker he'd recognized was called Pete Bannister. And three boarding houses and two bars later we caught up with him to find him half gone from the contents of a dozen ale cans that littered his room. This was a break since he didn't remember us as being participants in the morning's free-for-all. Yeah I'm Pete Bannister. What y'all want? Tell them Mark. Sure. We was with Goldmark's carnival down Louisiana way. Well he did used to be one of the gang. Oh I certainly did. Oh so you met with Goldmark were you? Yeah. That's a great outfit. A great outfit. Sit down here. Sit down. Any Goldmark boys are friends of mine. You know I wish I had something to offer you fellas in the way of a drink. No no don't worry about that pal. I took a deep breath when I first come in and I picked up a gloat it should last me for hours. No. Yeah. Oh you fellas all right.  When y'all blew in. Yeah just now. And we hired that you could put us next to something good. Something with lots of dough. You know not much flavor. Well now can you handle yourself? It's been a fight of me. Would we have been with Goldmark if we couldn't handle ourselves? Ain't that the truth? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah look look how about the deal. Oh a deal? Oh sure sure I'll tell you where you can let you on to something real good. Huh? Little excitement. Little nice money for it. His address and name of the party. Hey how you doing Pete? Oh hi boy just in time. I thought I dropped over to you. Hey. Hey when did you take up with these guys? A couple of boys used to be with Goldmark. Yeah like Fatty used to be with Goldmark. These turkeys were with a lancing outfit this morning fighting on their side. Come on Mark I believe we've got it. Hey wait a minute.  Man's got a gun race. Yes he has hasn't he. Which means we'll probably have to resort to violence.  I'll back up both of you. Hey Timberlake!  Come on let's go race. Mind if we come in Larry? Oh come on in race. Find out anything? Saw her news again Larry. That gang is reforming to come back. They've picked up more men and this time they're out to wreck your whole outfit. Yeah and they'll be showing up any minute.  Mrs. McLoone. Yes she's still here race. And Mr. McLoone too. Doctor said he shouldn't be disturbed for a while. I'm all right now. I want to go home. Well you can't go home Phineas. Not for another hour. And you need your rest and you're going to get it. He ain't going to get much rest staying here. So I have you to contend with again young man? Look I'm just telling you lady. This ain't going to be no spot for no rescue. I repeat why not call the police. Take them too long to get here. And you can't expect them to station half the force in this one spot. Hey boss trouble again.  They brought along bull hooks. How close are they Slim? They're coming across the marsh. She'll be here in about three minutes. All right. We'll get out. Leave it to him. I can't hold it anyway. So why take a chance on more people getting hurt? It can be stopped quite simply. If one person will go out there and say a few words. Well then for heaven's sakes let us see that it's done. Now who is this person? Mr. McLoone. My husband? What on earth are you talking about? It's your husband who's been hiring those men to wreck this circus. I found that out this afternoon. How about it Mr. McLoone? You're quite right. I am a guilty party. Finneas? Well not in heaven's name why. All for a love of you lady. And if that ain't some sweet mystery of life I'll put in witches. I was afraid they were going to hurt you my dear. These circus people. So I decided to eliminate the root of it. The circus itself.  Look. You people must understand that my husband is very eccentric. Well that may be true. But this was actually your fault. My fault?  When old time circus friends came to see you you turned them away. Harshly. You were fighting with them. And of course he thought you were in danger. Mr. Racer. I don't know what ever led you to believe that I have ever been connected with a circus. You led me to believe it Mrs. McLoone. When you didn't bother to ask me for directions when I told you to come to the pie car. The average person doesn't know what a pie car is. And neither did I. Not until I got here and asked a pair of joys how I... So. Well that's a very interesting thing. So you asked a pair of joys did you? And tell me what are joys Mrs. McLoone? They're clowns aren't they? But only someone familiar with the circus would know that wouldn't they? Oh my dear my dear. Now look here you can't prove anything from all this silly bar. Have a look at this photograph Mrs. McLoone. It's from the files of this very circus. It was taken I would say 30 years ago and it's the likeness of one Annie Fullard equestrian. And since your name happens to be Anastasia Fullard McLoone the newspapers can make quite a splash out of that. Don't you say? Now are you going to ask your husband to get rid of that mob out there? I shall take care of it. I shall take care of it at once. Just in time too. Well if you people have said all that you have to say. Oh no no no not quite Mrs. McLoone. Anastasia Fullard McLoone. There's still a little matter of the amalgamated women's clubs of Florida commissioning Mr. Leclerc to take this circus to Miami. Well very well. I shall see to it that the necessary arrangements are made in the next few days. Hey that's wonderful. Mrs. McLoone. Well now what? What time those old circus friends visit you I wouldn't run them off with harsh words. You might find a lot of happiness in getting together with them. And I think you could do yourself another psychological good turn if you organized a social equestrian group to appear for those charity shows in Miami. With you with star. Me? All righting again? Might be a good idea. Don't you think? Oh well perhaps you are right. Yes perhaps you are right. And lady look if you really want to get the crowds in do me a favor do your act in tights huh? With that shape you're a cinch to fill every seat in the tent. Adventures of Frank Ray starring Paul Dubov with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Burt Holland, Larry Dobkin, Wilms Herbert and Michael Ann Barrett. Our story was written and directed by Buckley Angel. The music is composed and played by Ivan Dittmar. Be sure to be with us again this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the adventures of Frank Ray. Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Brucells production.


Shockwaves were sent through Brainerd's racing community last November when Jed Kopam, the co-owner of Brainerd International Raceway, died in a swimming accident in Florida. I mean it was tragic. It was a great loss for the family obviously, but also for the racing community, BIR, the staff. He was certainly beloved by everybody, the face of BIR. Jed co-owned BIR with his wife Christie, and the track will stay in the family as Christie has taken over as the solo owner. She decided fairly quickly that she wanted to do that, and she'd been involved in the day-to-day operations anyway from the get-go. She's been out here at all the events and spends a lot of time out here, so yeah. I think it's going to be a fairly easy transition for her. The 2019 race schedule looks similar to any other season, filled with drag and street races, along with their marquee event in August, the Lucas Oil and HRA Nationals. We'll have great racing all year long. People can expect that. The racers and the fans and everybody have really showed a lot of support throughout this whole thing. I'm excited to get back on the track and get back to BIR itself, so yeah. We're really looking for a good year again, and that's going to be fun. But the track and the racing community in Brainerd will never forget Jed Kopem as BIR plans to honor their former owner throughout the year. Yeah, we want to keep this legacy alive, obviously. He poured his heart and soul into this place, and kind of got it to where he really wanted it, and like I said, people have been really supportive. 2018 ended in tragedy for the BIR family, but they are putting their foot back on the gas for 2019. Yeah, we're working hard to get ready for the season, and it's going to come fast, and it's going to be a blast. Reporting from Brainerd, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News.


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feeling that enormous power of love, the fear dissipates. And even before COVID created this terrible collective fear in the world, the human being does experience fear when illness visits. And that fear is something almost cellular in nature, it's coming from the very memory of the cells. So it's not something that is that unusual, it's simply something which cannot be tolerated, which has to be moved out by focusing on the truth which is the source of love.


Hello and welcome to this presentation. My name is Bernardin and in this video we will learn how to use IAR Embedded Workbench 4 ARM or E-Warm with TADGFX templates. I will start by launching TADGFX Designer version 4.17 and TADGFX Designer is a GUI builder that lets you easily build the visual appearance of your graphics application. Now from the lobby I go to examples and then select board setup. In today's video I'll be using STM32-H7B3 discover kit and we see here for the STM32-H7B3 family we have two board setup. STM32-H7B3 I Evaluation board with display resolution of 800 by 480 and STM32-H7B3 I discover kit with a display resolution of 480 by 272. I'll go with the discover kit and click select and here TADGFX Designer gives a list of pre-made examples that show how to use different widgets for example here an example for the animated image clock widget and another example for the gauge example with a gauge widget line and circle examples and so on so forth. In this video I'll go with animated image example give a name to my application STM32 H7B3 discover kit and I score E-war and then click create. Now TADGFX Designer will download the template from the internet. Okay now I go to the files on the left hand side and here I have all the TADGFX files. I go up by one level and I find my STM32 H7B3 I discover kit IUC file. This is STM32 Cube MX file. I double click on it. Now I have my STM32 Cube MX project open. I go to project manager and then in the tool chain drop down menu I see the default IDE is STM32 Cube IDE. I click on it I see that I can select IAR E-Warm IDE then I click on generate code and then open project. I have my E-Warm project open before I build it. I go back to TADGFX Designer and I see here that TADGFX Designer detected some changes and asking me if I want to reload the project. I click yes and then I still need to generate the code. This is required to have TADGFX Designer generate the code taken into account that IAR E-Warm will be used instead of STM32 Cube IDE. I go back now to my IAR project and now I can build it. I go to project and then rebuild it all. I will plug my USB cable in my STM32 H7B board and then click on download and debug. Now the download is complete. I can run my application. I click on go or F5. Here I have my animated image example working on the STM32 H7B discovery board. I can start the animation and then stop it. And now I click on stop debugging and here it's very important to check that the IAR project has the external flash loader. I go to options and then to debugger and download. I see here that by default it uses the STM32 H7B discovery kit flash loader. If I click on edit I see that it has three flash loaders. First flash loader is for the internal flash memory. First bank. Second one is the second flash loader for the second bank. And then we see here the 0x9000. We see that this is the flash loader for the external OctoSpy memory. If the IAR project doesn't have this flash loader, for example if I delete it, I would need to use STM32 Cube programmer to download the external assets or images to the OctoSpy memory. Thank you for joining me in this video and we hope that you enjoyed learning how to use IAR-UR with TouchFX templates.


Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which is my October bullet journal As you can see my candles are starting to run low, which is very exciting because that means then soon I will be able to buy more So this month for my theme I chose to do a haunted house theme I thought it would be perfect for Halloween It's mostly kind of a cartoonish wacky haunted house with ghosts and other creepy elements Throughout this spread. I was really proud of this title page I did find inspiration from it on Pinterest just various different haunted house cartoon designs and ghosts I Decided to keep it somewhat simple as as you may know from other videos I am not the most artistically inclined But I thought I'd take a risk and do something very big and I would say it paid off And as usual the first spread in the month after my title page is my calendar I use this to track what books are coming out throughout the month what readathons are happening that I want to participate in October is a very very busy month especially in terms of readathons as well as my own Spooky season spectacular that I'm hosting. So it's just a place for me to see everything That's happening all at once throughout the month. So I know what to plan for and come up with All those different fun things like that is my TBR spread and one month I did it where I set it up as three different shelves and I really like to that I think it's something that I am carrying through for all of my bullet journal TBR spreads And just theming the various items that go on the shelves rather than trying to come up with some whole new concept Every month for what I am Going to use this the background for my TBR Normally, I would divide it up with physical books on my shelf audio books that I have and Books I want to read at some point throughout the season. However Because October is Special I just have a huge TBR And so it's not quite as organized as it used to be But I was really proud of how that cat turned out by the way. I'm just gonna throw that out there and Then next to my TBR is where I start having all of my readathon spreads so I start off with my own spooky season spectacular divide it into the weeks and The themes of the weeks the dates and the books I'm reading etc. And so forth and how many points I acquire Now I have these next two pages. I'm leaving them open because they are for readathons I already have two readathons. I know I'm gonna participate in but I needed to gather more details on those first before I really Put in on the information So I'm doing that later and then we have my books red page and this one again I'm pretty proud of so it's the haunted house and the ghost will represent all the books that I've read throughout the month So I will just write in in the ghost the ones I might sort them by Star rating have one goes to be like four star ghosts the other be a five star ghosts Etc. And so forth, but that really just depends on the books I read throughout the month if that is possible and next to that as usual I have my rankings and books to buy page This is where I keep track of my top three favorite books of the month as well as the worst book I read in the month Just so that when I am trying to think back on my favorite books of the year and things like that I can look at these spreads rather than waiting through all of my reviews And below it. It shares the space with the books to buy. I have a $30 book budget every month So this is where I keep track of what books I want to buy books that are coming out series That I want to buy the rest of the books in etc and so forth And then here you can see that I just didn't do much for my book of social media I had some issues Filming a little bit here my camera to stop working a little bit. I don't know why But it's the same as what I've previously done. They don't change very much So now we can just do a little flip through. I'm really happy with how the spread came out I think it was minimal, but it gets the theme across and it was just a lot of fun to do and put together and All right, that is it if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up comment down below what themes you do for October if you keep a bullet journal Feel free to subscribe. I make videos twice a week and until I see you all in the next video I wish you happy reading


The first regularization techniques we'll use are ones that are standard, you have- should have seen before, simply adding in penalties. One can train a neural net to minimize a loss, an L2 squared sum of squared errors loss or a maxant loss, plus a penalty proportional to the L1 norm of the weights, the sum of the absolute values of the weights. This is like a lasso regression. This will zero out some of the weights. You can train a neural net to minimize the training error, plus a constant times the L2 norm of the weights squared. The sum of the squares of the weights, like a ridge regression. This makes the weights smaller and particularly makes the biggest weights smaller. Sometimes people do both of these. Sometimes they also add in something that's roughly akin to an L infinity penalty. They say don't let any weight get bigger in absolute value than some number. The intuition between L1 and L2 regularization can be seen on this picture here. Looking first at the right at the L2 norm, if we have some red curve where we're trading off how big W1 and W2, the two weights are, the place that makes it the smallest weight there is the piece that hits this circle of lines of equal distance, equal size of W1, W2. It's a standard Euclidean distance in L2 norm. That's different from an L1 regularization where with the same curve trading off some loss function of weight one and weight two, we say, how do we make the L1 norm the smallest? The L1 norm gives these little diagonal sort of diamond shaped equality pieces. Think about it. And at this point, the smallest L1 norm on this line is in fact W2 being this value and W1 being zero. So you could see how the L1 norm can zero things out. Whereas the L2 norm is going to try and shrink all of the weights. You can also note that these norms are not scale invariant. As we saw last week, if you rescale the weights, you tend to get loss functions that are more spherically symmetric and these normalizations tend to work better therefore. Give it a try.


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