OK, on MPI, I brought to you by DigiKey Needed for this week, it's FTDI, wait a minute. That's right, FTDI Chip, it's one of our favorite electronic chip companies. One of our first breakout boards was for the FT232R, which is from FTDI Chip. They're an awesome company and we know that the CEO, we interviewed them. Check out our blog many, many years ago, but we did interview them. So FTDI, they released a whole bunch of cool new chips that improve on some well-known chips that they've had, the FT232 and the FT232, which are kind of popular. So let's go take a look at them. So this is what the chips look like. So the ones I'm going to look at, there's a whole family, but I'm going to look specifically at the FT232HP and the 233HP. And that the P is the important part. So what's the P stand for? The P stands for power delivery. So the FT232H, which is a chip that we've used a lot, has now been upgraded to add USB 3.0 Type-C power delivery specification support. What that means is that it still is a USB device, it's a high-speed USB device. It can do all sorts of peripheral communication, like people love from the FT232 series. But what it's added is also the CC1 and the CC2 pins that are used to request higher voltages and higher currents from a USB port. And that can be really useful if you're doing a product and you need more than, say, five watts or five volts of power. So the FT232H, you might be like, hey, that sounds really familiar, that's right. We have a breakout board for the FT232H. We recently actually even revised it. When we revised it here, I want to show it's got iSquared-C, and it's got those 8 GPIO pins. Actually, sorry, it's got 16 total 8 GPIO pins, it's got lots of GPIO. And it's got iSquared-C, and it's got SPI, it's high-speed. And it can do JTAG, and it can do 8-bit parallel. And we updated it here to add that USB-C port on the left. But I want to note that this board, the H, not the HP, all it does is have two 5K resistors on the CC lines to tell the host device, hey, this is a five-volt USB device. It doesn't do any power delivery negotiation, which actually requires a separate microcontroller, basically. It's actually quite complicated to do. So in this case, you would not be able to use this board to get more than five volts out of USB-C. Just because it uses the USB-C connector doesn't necessarily mean it fulfills the full USB-C spec. So just watch out for that. You see something with the USB-C connector. The connector is just the physical shape that's type C. Whether or not it actually connects to the CC pins to do the power delivery specification, well, you're going to have to read the data sheet for that. So if you do look, there's two versions of this board. There's the 232, which has, I think, 8 GPIO plus a couple. And then the 233, which has the 16 GPIO you might be used to. And you can see on the pin out here that they have CC1 and CC2 connections. The 64 pin 1 has both sync and source. And I think we'll watch a video at the end, which actually shows a demo of the syncing and sourcing. So if you get the 64 pin version, the 233, it has two USB-C ports, and it can go bi-directionally. The 56 pin 1 is only a port sync. It can only request data. It can't supply data. Sorry. It can only request power. It cannot negotiate with something that's requesting power. So USB-C is like that. Again, the port's the same on both sides, but the data is not bi-directional. Each side has a sync and a source. And here's how you wire it up.  Because if you have a USB-C connector, you can wire up the CC1 and the CC2 pins. That's what's used to do the negotiation with the power supply or the laptop or the computer to get those higher voltages and higher currents. OK, but besides that, the way you actually program the power delivery is kind of interesting. So there is this program you can use. I know I use it in Windows called FTDI Prog, but I think they have it for other operating systems as well. And then you connect an eProm to some of the chips of the FT232 HP. And inside there, you tell it, do you want to have an I-squared-C peripheral? So you have a microcontroller that it can connect and tell it what it wants. Does it want 12 volts or 15 or 20? Does it want 3 amps or 1 amp? Or you can use GPIO pins. And you can set up the GPIO pins from within FTDI Prog. So you'll have to do that once. But once it's programmed, then you can use the GPIO pins to control and connect how much voltage and current you're requesting. OK, so in addition to all of the USB-C power delivery stuff, the FT232 still has all the really great GPIO. That's what we really want from the chip. It's not just a power delivery chip. It has GPIO. And so there's all these capabilities it has for all the GPIO pins. For example, you can hook it up as an RS422. It can be an RS232. You are. It can act even as an RS485. These are pretty common things you want to convert to USB. But again, remember, now you can also request 12 volts power from it. So if you have an RS485 device that is controlled or controlling RS485 and also wants 12 volt power, you don't need a separate power supply. You can get that all over USB-C. Very nice. Very integrated. So this is all the extra functionality. It's got that USB 2.0 high-speed connectivity. So you can send data back and forth pretty fast. If you have it in the parallel 5-for-mode, you can go up to 40 megabytes per second, which is incredibly fast for a USB peripheral. It also has JTAG, iSquared-C, SPI, BitBang, UART, and then a couple of different parallel port methods. They have libraries you can use and see in Python, and then we also, of course, have our Blinka library. Now I haven't been able to get this chip because I don't know if you're aware, but there's a global chip shortage. But when I do, I want to make sure that it works with Blinka so you can use it with our circuit Python libraries because it's super fun to connect this board over USB and then program it through the computer. So no microcontroller programming is required at all. It is a very fully integrated device. I think there's a lot of products. You get rid of the DC power supply, you can get rid of the microcontroller firmware programming, have it all done by the FT232 or 233. So I'll say, like I said, there's a global chip shortage. However, I did check the lead time, and it looks like there's going to be in about like four to six weeks, these will come into stock. So you can back over them, or you can sign up for notification and Ditchkeys will let you know when it gets back into stock. Again, there's two versions, the FT233, 64 pin has an extra eight pins, two digital ports, 232HP only has one digital port. All right. And it's available on Ditchkeys site. To sign up for, or back order. So check it out. And as soon as they're available, I'll definitely respin the board that we have for the FT232H, for the FT232HP, I think it'll be great. I mean, you can plug it in, get 20 volts, 12 volts. You could like power your robotics device and control it all over USB-C, which is sure you're all here. Sweet. And then get searched for it there. Yes. And then we also have one minute video. Yes. In this demonstration, we have interfaced a light sensor to the FT4233H device. The board is connected to a laptop using port one on the left hand side. An application is also shown, which is running on the laptop and is taking readings from the sensor. As you can see from the USB power meter connected in line, the board is also providing approximately 20 volts to the laptop to charge its battery. At the top of the board, we have a wall charger connected to port two. This powers the board itself and also provides the charging current to the laptop via port one. When we now unplug the wall charger from port two, you can see that port one now switches role automatically to become the power provider. As you can see from the direction arrow on the USB power meter, the laptop is now providing five volt power to the application board. The data communication is unaffected by the change of power source and the laptop continues to take sensor readings. If we now connect the charger to port two again, the power delivery controller switches roles back again. The charger now provides power to the board via port two and port one becomes a provider of power to the laptop again to charge the battery. The data communication between the laptop and the sensor continues uninterrupted.


This is our home in the woods where we live We just got this wood stove last week and I'm trying not to use any sort of cardboard or paper in it as I was taught The best way to start your fire It's looking little pieces of wood so I should probably make this outside but You look like a sun goddess this morning. Do I?  Do you love it? I'm obsessed This completes the space. I agree. It's so nice And what like the whole house just feels different. It just dried it right out There was so much moisture in here before I just I feel so ready for winter now me too Like I'm letting so much less intimidated. Come on. Let it snow already. Yeah We live on 15 acres in the middle of nowhere At this once abandoned cabin that we are dedicated to bringing back to life All right when today's project gets too tough We have a nice place to retreat to to calm down and figure it all out. I'm so nervous for this project to be honest Sometimes when there's a project like this one It just works its way to the back burner because other things take priority But also because it's slightly more intimidating than the rest That's this project I'm nervous every single time that we try to complete a bathroom build We are always pulled in 10 different directions. So this time we are going to see if we can Hello Bella So this time we are going to see if we can complete the bathroom from start to finish Wish us luck. Here we are again. This is one of the most intimidating parts We've never tiled Anything before and it's not just like putting down some flooring. It's like Where's your drain? Where's all your drains grout grout? What is that mixing things make it actually look nice After one whole year living here at the cabin. We're still living without a regular bathroom We've been making do with our outhouse and our glamorous outdoor shower spots But this year we plan on staying for the whole long cold Canadian winter And we want to transform this space into a fully functional bathroom We're talking proper tile floor running water with a sink a shower a toilet What else does a bathroom have a mirror to brush your teeth to look at yourself while you're brushing your teeth We can't wait to wake up and experience the comforts of having a fully functioning bathroom in our living quarters It's going to be an absolute game changer here at the cabin Gonna slide into this project in sport mode If anyone doesn't know when you put this strap behind your ankle, this is sport mode Means you're doing high-intensity activity with your crocs sport Again, sorry Here we go, it's getting serious Crystal is now wet in the floor as we are told by DIY Tyler that your mortar will actually stick better And that means we're YouTube certified for another project which I think is a big way That is red guard and it makes your entire space waterproof It is kind of overkill as we are not tiling a shower because it's such a small space We decided to waterproof the entire bathroom, and now we're gonna waterproof it even better So a few questions I'm putting down some porcelain towel We have an orange bag that is down on the floor and then the be the teacher goes on top of that I'm just trying to figure out which bag goes first because we might have made a big mistake fingers cross We mixed the right bag Okay, the current one 21 is for the teacher Wait, so that goes down first and then the teacher goes on top of it. Yeah And then the core of your bond is to set your tile. Okay. Well, we should get better using words and not moving so fast Not happy It's kind of confusing because the bag says you can't even put it on OSB or anything But we told them it's going on OSB. So now we're like, do we even have any of the right products? Calling another flooring store. I'm just trying to figure out which one goes under the detra Okay, so the caribon goes underneath the detra Thank you so much. I really appreciate that Thanks, have a great day The first opinion I had a bad feeling they didn't seem sure First dancer she never dies honestly someone will tell us one thing and I like crystal They told us it's like this. Nope. I am not I'm fact-checking. We're hella lucky that you chose the right bag I know what this is for making pancakes. We're making pancakes. Those are all my things. Look at the cow patties Floring said the opposite second Taylor flooring said we actually don't know and they gave us the company who works with this product So we know we're 100% doing it correctly. This is detra Which is a waterproof Yeah, it's a waterproof membrane that we're gonna put all over at the entire floor The tiles go on top of that and the bathroom to appear after that This is the big Down time it makes more cow patties Now we can tidy up a little bit because we don't have to do anything in here for 24 hours Can't step on it for 24 hours Yeah, it makes sense because it does in the beginning and put my knee down thinking that wouldn't matter and it does Matters a lot. So should we show them what we did? What in order to get some corners? Yeah, I was I'm not long enough to really reach without having to put like a knee down So you have to like really kind of bend it so I had Jasmine like in a wheelbarrow So once the watch teacher drive for the next 24 hours Watch teacher drive for the next 24 hours with 24 hours of waiting ahead of us with the mortise a dry We set our sights on another task running electrical lines under our solar What we need to do is now that we know exactly where the two arrays are we need to trench the electrical lines Directly underneath the pole mount system that way the wires are going straight up neat and tidy, and you don't see them Gonna make it nice and clean and tidy Directly under the pole mounts. Yeah, that line will soon be a trench to there By yours truly So we've only ever done this with someone before never Just the two of us So we're just going to put them on without gluing them to see We're doing it, right? But I think it's pretty cool that we know how to do this by ourselves now We got taught and now I can do it. I have to say I'm super proud of us for tackling this because this is nothing that we can't do and Goes to show because we're making good time. Hey It's fun work, too. I'm very happy with it Exactly splash flash This is gonna look super good So as you can see we had it coming up here before at the beginning, but now it's coming all the way around and To the pole on the bracket on a bracket, which is gonna look amazing was a nice four by four Baby That looks great. Yeah, I'm glad that we didn't try to even do this before because Everything changes everything changed Thank you Porter for teaching us these amazing skills because we have met the pole with the conduit And it's ready to be back filled already Amazing job. 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I Have one more lick of my bowl Well, we're having a little evening in the greenhouse because while we're charging a few things We're gonna brighten up these babies and we're gonna give them some water Everyone we are watering the greenhouse with the power of the generator because that runs our well pump because we do not have Our solar system complete yet, but stay tuned in the meantime We are also charging our power stations and it's awesome to be doing a little bit of everything at once It's kind of like more than two birds and one stone These lights are very powerful and I'm very very very pleased with them But they don't even need to be on that long Which is the glory of it by the time that is done charging these plants have a little bit of sunlight in them And then they go to bed for the night till the next day It's all let me do it all over again, but now we have this Martin 20,000 BTU propane heater that runs on a thermostat You know, it gets pretty cold at night It's been able to maintain temperature at around 10 to 15 which is awesome and even warmer sometimes I also wanted to say that all of this is entirely experimental. We are new gardeners We've only had a small garden in the past, but what I'm very excited for is that in the coming years We will slowly gain knowledge and this will become an easier process We're definitely not building the bathroom today. You're gonna regret not wearing winter ones Today we are wiring up the solar rays every module on The array has wires that need to be connected together And then we are setting wire through the conduit that we lied in the trenches And that will then connect the solar ray to the battery house This is an awesome moment because it's two of the biggest milestones lately Becoming one and all the outside work for the solar system will then be finished This means that going forward any work that will be doing on the solar system will be done in the battery house Inside of the workshop and we're that much closer to power and that is pretty down close. Let me tell you These are the days where we're extra grateful for our wood stove now Because the drastic temperature difference between outside and inside today is extreme Now that looks so fun, I was asking Adam, where's the line how much is admission if I want to get on that ride One coffee one coffee to get up there. I catch the drift All right, if I want to ride in this trailer room, I better get to making coffee You Have your submission Okay, we have a lot of wire here because we are running wires everywhere underground today And what we're running is a hundred amp one gauge wire Which will allow us to expand in the future if we ever have to so right now Adam is working on connecting the 10.8 kilowatts of solar behind me together So what Adam is doing is connecting them all in series first? So negative to positive in groups of four and then after we're gonna put them into parallel This is going to ensure that we are going to double our amperage and our voltage Give us all the power for these gray days.  How are you gonna get the wires through this is how? Apparently, it's like a well-known trick. Yeah, it's a cool trick I can't wait to try it out. Hopefully it works because I actually am really nervous about this part Ain't the biggest one you can buy But I think it will work Air tight suction Good luck. And now we have to go to the other end. Oh my god Oh, it's on blow we got a change change it to suck Yeah My goodness, okay, now I'm actually picking out where that mess is And that's a lot of rope for sure like it for sure made it almost there All right, it wouldn't be a bandwives video if there wasn't some chaos right due to the first rope being too heavy I'm going to go to Either the gas station and neighbors and see if they have fishing line You got it we just got it there must have been dirt inside Oh I'm coming home now. Okay. See you soon. Okay. Bye. Oh, yes. We got it There it is turns out there was a little bit of dirt somewhere in the conduit And it was getting stuck on that but first we're going to use this string to pull through stronger String and that stronger string will pull through the wires working with what we got here So excited I can't believe we're gonna have wires at each end It's just the first conduit and we have three more to go But the feeling is indescribable The day's flown by as per usual With the winter schedule upon us We're gonna fish the wires from the second array to the garage and we'll see how much time we have left today because by the looks of it Not too much time Better Come back to crystals barista club Where we're serving up the best lattes in the woods I'm the only lot days in the world Big day real some blue skies not as wet It's gonna be an even better day Good morning. We've got a quick little visit from everyone's favorite Porter Porter just showed up with a lord Faces frozen, you know Talking is a lot harder Porter just showed up with a load of film because once we finish with this area I'm gonna get in there with the excavator and try and level it all out We're making the mouse. Yeah, let's go that joy is just to go in this morning When Crystal does things that she's really concentrated on that's what happens It's not like people when they stick their tongue in which everyone has a face. Yeah, at least I don't do that Don't make fun of the people that do it I am so impressed with how much work we're all getting done right now We almost have two loads of fill Completely spread under the solar area is looking so clean The wires are coming up the four by four posts on the disconnect switches super clean and super nice and Almost all of the solar panels are now connected in parallel and series And one thing I'm loving about today is that all the groundwork is really Making sense. It's really coming to life and I feel like it's a lot easier to understand Now that you see the wires come from one end of the land to the other end of the land It was like all that hard work probably the hardest work We've done that got covered you can now see and realize what is going to happen It is going to be such an exciting couple of weeks coming up with finally making the connections now that we're at this stage I'm really thinking we're gonna have power before winter Truly feeling grateful for the team that we have right now And where we're all at Also, Crystal has not lost her excavator skills. She is crushing it in there I tried and I just don't have their patience to make it look perfect The back and forth is just well a little bit boring for my brain. Hey, Tyler and Todd. I'm taking your electrical pieces I'm kidding you two Not really though. We need these two and they're hot We've made it All the way in the battery. Look at this area Excavator operator We're putting the wires into the garage if you want to come. Yeah, I'm gonna come down pretty exciting The wires are in the building good job I'm still nervous 48 hours later, I have bangs and I'm still nervous. Oh, yeah, I found some scissors last night made some banks Cut back to that get it Okay, what is going on? I'm doing my own hair Excuse me. I'm at the shop So today we're actually gonna put the tile down now that this is entirely dry and cured Yeah, look at it everyone. It looks phenomenal. It feels phenomenal We have to do these seams still though, okay? Yeah, the seams and the baseboards and the corners That is a read-out thing but with the same mortar Are the band that is going to go along the seams where the detra meets on the floor This is going to make sure that it is entirely waterproof a very important step And we have four seams How are the seams going? It's going good getting the hang of mortar and while we're here now while we're here We want to ask everyone for some tips because this is our first bathroom build And we know that a lot of you are pros So if you have any tips on shower building plumbing bathroom building waterproofing blah blah Leave it because we will soak it all up. We are sponges and we would love your knowledge So we're so sorry to do this to you all, but we will see you all next Sunday. Thank you for watching We love you all love you all and Bella says Cue the ending