Live from New York, it's ask an engineer stare deep into my neopixel eyes for this time We're asking engineer. It's me lay data the engineer with me. Mr. Lay data on camera control and All sorts of good stuff. We've got a slightly delayed show for you, but it's all good And Morris let's get right into it because we do have still a full show a full hour of ask engineer come out What's on tonight's show? Mr. Lay data all right on tonight's show? We're gonna be talking about how we're still shipping safe and smart We'll talk about the team and we thank you so much for placing your order. These are some pre-covid photos But guess what? We're about to have a bunch of photos that COVID well, I don't know if it'll be post, but I'll tell you Not quite done with it, but you're trying to finish it COVID It's a good opportunity to leave all the things behind that we want to and a good opportunity to change and Be the best possible company community. So these next things I'm not gonna say post COVID I'm just gonna say what should we say the next chapters almost here. Okay, so we'll have some We'll have some photos and more ladies. I her schedules are about to change too. So we'll be On-site at different times at home different times maybe even changing some of our shows up because We're coming back big everybody. We've been hiring a lot of folks interviewing a lot of folks and The demand is really high right now. That's really good Now we just have to get all these packages shipped. We have to get all the orders done and it looks like electronics designed Yeah, it looks like 2021 might be one of the best years for Adafruit, but um, you know, it came at a price over the last year And I'll talk about that in a bit Show and tell people around the world showing you share in their projects Lady is gonna talk about where you can watch a show and tell because we did show and tell you yesterday an hour It was a big show and tell time travel people are in the world showing share their projects But time travel is about what's going on in the world of hackers makers artists engineers and more We have some news and some interesting things Python on hardware news all the news that's fit to slither around Python on hardware is taken off and we have our newsletter and some news from the community and more made New York City Factory footage and more we got a time-lapse and 3d printing We have a very fun one this week. Did you key and Adafruit present I on MPI this week's is from maxima integrated We have some new products. We have some talk secret. We answer your question You do that on discord 28,000 people plus I think it's like 29. We do that on discord adafruit.it Slash discord all that and more on you guessed it ask an engineer So, uh, I'm gonna do the first question right now And this question is going to lead to What's been going on and why did we postpone the show so someone said hey, I thought I was gonna engineer was on every wednesday That's right. Yeah, and I didn't used to by the way. It used to actually be one Saturday We did it on saturday nights at 10 because that's when there was the quietest time when we could broadcast but we were also done with the shipping for the day and more and like One time it was just lady eight and I and then you know now we're 100 plus people So, um, let's talk about why the show got moved to thursday. So, um, this week was a big week on monday Our team has been in pain for the last year More but the day that We started our adafruit.com slash black lives matter, which I want to take a look at it was, uh Was last year and so Almost a year ago. You can see Our words real you can see the real-time thing that we wanted to Get out there and our voices heard. It was hard. We were frustrated. We're angry. We're in pain. There was a murder and that was george floyd and we wanted to Do all the things we get we could to to fight against racism and we Made our voices heard We had a day of mourning For george floyd's funeral. Um, we We had our team process and tried to understand together what this was Then we wanted to come together and figure out is there justice for burea burea bureona taylor Um accountability and justice in new york city in new york state is where we are so acting locally Signing petitions marching Um voting it mattered and that's why we've always done paid time off for voting, but it really mattered diselection and all a matter of every election We had our resources we worked with other companies to do the same thing. Um, we Made juneteenth a company holiday We have all our paid day off Um holidays, please take a look at this. There's some of them that are that are more Than just a day off. Um, we have our day of service day of paid day off for charity Um, we did online virtual events and then we helped the john lewis Movie launch right before he passed away. Uh, good trouble You know, one of the things that we've always done is celebrate the lives of people One it's been hard because it's just been a lot of death Um, and so we make sure that we had uh celebrating black voices June pride month we had our series of posts about black transgender women From the riots at stonewall We joined the stop for hate profit campaign and we decided not to do ads on facebook and we told them why And they eventually said they would change some of their things. Did it work? No, it didn't we still have a lot of work to do The fundraising We put all the places that our team said these are important things to me or in my location We continued our sponsorships which we've done before this was black girls code We helped demonstrations and protest groups and we got thousands of masks delivered to black lives matter in great new york We did our interactive we started our interactive Learning kit and we put the files public domain on github so you can look at the black lives matter badge We have our digital privacy and security measures for staying safe while demonstrating and protesting We updated our technical documents and we removed old words and we put in new words. So better words.  And miso and mosey it's like it you can use even the same acronym if you have all documentation But I actually think it's more clear to say microcontroller out and censoring because it's like it's the microcontroller into sensor And one of the things i'm proud of is of our community coming together Teacher contacted us and they said there was a lot of racist content on Thingiverse and they can't they couldn't use in the classroom and this this is this is bad stuff This isn't just like he he, you know peppy the frog. Um, this was bad. This was bad Um from swastikas to you name it it's on there It was bad But you can't see it now because we contacted the CEO of maker bot and they took care of it right away And we released a statement together And now they do a better job The teacher is now able to use uh, the downloaded files and put it in the classroom and that worked out Um, we held ourselves Accountable we wanted to just be more than a hashtag or a tweet or an icon change And every state of the fruit we have something that we're doing some weeks It's been let's try to see what we can do in our community for there was, uh, Asian hate that was, uh, Statistically going up everywhere and we wanted to make sure we could figure out. What can we do? Um, so we're accountable to our own actions and it can't just be a slogan. It can't just be a hashtag So we got the badge out. We're able to get these finished. Um black history month is 2021 and then we recently had the support and resources for Uh, Dante right um people that I used to work with they They're using their Co-working space for for donations and that community is trying to cope with what just happened where Um, someone was shot and the officer said well, I thought it was the taser, but it was a gun so This week it's been hard and we moved the show because there was so much going on in the company and we all we just There we couldn't do it and we wanted to spend the time with the team So we never cancel ask an engineer. Um, you can look at the calendar. We we pretty much we've done it almost There is there was natural disasters and we still kept going but this was more important Um, so there was accountability that happened on tuesday um The police officer is guilty This is the first time you can actually say he he murdered and this guy and now now's the time to to work towards justice justice is it never happened in the first place And so, um, I know folks are always, you know, worried about saying the wrong thing doing the wrong thing But there was only one wrong thing. I think in the last year And it would have been to do nothing So please everybody stand together. There's a lot of work to be done and um, I think our entire team for coming together and constantly giving us a voice and saying, you know Yeah, we're just an electronics company, but um, we can stand up for one another and you can We could we could take it some time off. We can delay a show. We can have a package ship a little bit later We can decide. Hey, we wanted to get that new product in but the thing that we can't do is is take our eye off the prize, which is um, a society where a quality can happen and the thing that we said on the top of this page was action for quality so, um Sorry that ask an engineer has this Um, and it'll always have this it's something and it's something that um, if uh, if folks want to You know, I get nasty emails all the time if it's if if this is the reason you You can't ever deal with us. It's fine But maybe just listen to some of our stories and read some of these things and see some of our team members and see um What we're trying to do and all we do is want to help and like get the most people Together learning and sharing and uh, we can't do that when some of the population has been targeted and harassed And murdered we can't we have to come together we've from lemores leading Getting women in the tech world that the work isn't done with that There's a million miles away from that too. So we can we can have we can do multiple things at once We can handle multiple things. I I can do five or six thoughts at the same time I can I can do too. I think and we're not gonna let up you you can do the work and I like it when I see, you know I think everyone can do the work and you can do the work where you are You know, whatever it is that you do there's probably some way that you can help You know, it's it's it's kitschy, but make the world a better place. How can you give people more opportunities? How can you help folks that you see are in pain or need assistance? And you can do that where you are, you know, you don't have to search out for it It's it's probably at your doorstep. So, you know, you just have to open your eyes and look for it and ask And and people will be willing to take your help So, um, that's why we moved the show one day. So thanks for tuning in tonight and I hope to bring you more stories each week of creators from every race color create that are doing cool things with electronics but I'll also And the more we'll also on our team will also try to raise awareness and stand up for one another because if we all do It can it can make things better I could tell you the the the only thing that would have been a mistake in the last year is is to do nothing and that's not okay so this is the time and the place and I think everyone at least on our team is going to remember where they were what they were thinking at five o'clock on Tuesday and It was it's still not process. It was it was joyful and also sad all at the same time and I hope I hope the team had some time to reflect in everything and thanks everybody for moving stuff around so we could do the show tonight all right And speaking of the show good engineering and good cause. Let's do the show. So here's what we're going to do So we're almost done with the hundred days of masking um Thanks, thanks. Yeah, uh, we're almost finished. So, uh, we Try to parallel with what was going on in government, which is please mask up for a hundred days So we include one in every usa order, but that's about the end So I think like this week any day now, but we're still doing freebies. That's right. $99 a more you get a free permaperto half size breadboard does not Make a good mask don't make into a mess full of holes But it's great for soldering your projects onto after you're done with your solderless breadboard We also have got a stomach qt's a couple sensors are out of stock I gotta I gotta say that st sensors in particular and some bosh sensors I can't get them anymore. They're just completely sold out everywhere in the known universe We have plenty other things. You get stomach qt sensors that are like Temperature sensors. We've got some in humidity sensors from other companies. We've got some other accelerometers and magnetometers We've got cutie pies. I will be adding some more So we'll be we'll be cycling out ones that we can get If we can get free one with every order 149 or more dollars and If you make a count will send you different one each time $199 or more you get free ps ground shipping in the continental us And $299 or more you get a free circuit playground express a lovely round board with all these sensors and devices on it All right, and we've got lots of those so don't worry about that If you want to build projects over the next year and you can't get other Mic controllers, we've got a lot of circuit playground expresses. So a great base for your project All right show and tell we normally read off everyone's on the show and tell but watch it because it's a full hour Jv did a great job. Thank you. No reason to recap this week. Yes. Check it out Lots of eight of food folks will be other people in the community and there was like 50 minutes worth of content So go check it out And don't forget normally Wednesday's a p.m. Ask an engineer and normally Wednesday 7 30 p.m. Ask an engineer Those are our two shows on Wednesday on Sunday. We do desk of Lady Aida Desk of Lady Lady Aida this week is in two parts like it usually is the first part Lady Aida, what did you show? Okay? What did I show? I was a lot of keyboard stuff Um, so I think I talked about oh, I talked about the snap the part keyboard thing Which I will show in more detail. So, you know, I've got like little keyboard breakouts But what if um, we can make a snap a part grid That had multiple neo keys and there was like mechanical mounting holes And allowed people to make ortho linear keys and then I showed off some camera stuff We showed off the nft that not forever trinky that we're going to make with panasonic Uh Not be thingy and uh, then we went straight into the great search. Okay. Um, and then great search This week, this was an interesting one because we took this from it was a classic what um It was geek mom. What uh, what were you looking for this week? Well, you know, I realized we had never covered every day headers You know headers like you we I use them in everything and uh People how we don't realize you can get like any kind of header at digi So I talked about the different kinds of header right angle straight double Left right 10 gold you can you you want it. You got it. Did you keep has them all? So we basically went through and just showed how to search for them and uh, how to pick up any size header you want And especially they can do custom size headers. That's really handy. Okay, and um the other shows that we do Tuesdays JP did jp's product pick of the week where we broadcast live from inside the product page where you get deep discounts And more here is the recap It is the cutie pie rp 2040 it has the usb c connector on there It has the stemma qt connector on there the little castellated pads Really cute little board great little board because it's fast But it's also got so much more flash memory on it We've got eight megs of flash that you can put a lot of libraries on it I have the ate a fruit midi added to there. I have the drivers for this display I have the display i o Drivers for shape and text. I have the nun chuck driver to use we nun chuck Like this guy right here It is the cutie pie rp 2040 all right So jp's show was today just did it so thursday So go back to youtube after you're done watching this or if you have like two monitors try to watch you at the same time So if you can do that time travel All right, so here's what's going on. We are going to be shipping ate a box Soon Yeah, we said like end of april beginning of may but um if if you haven't signed up Please put in your email address. We don't harvest it and spam and do anything with it You'll just get notified when we have openings again. So we do have Um some sign-ups to get notified afterwards But there's a chance that we'll have ate a boxes after we ship out the first round. So maybe try to You know, we don't mention that uh, we uh, we will not have sign-ups for europe Uh available after this box. Yeah, so if you already have like a gift subscription with um, uh International address you're fine. Yep, but we won't be taking these sign-ups. Um, we have yeah for now International worldwide shipping is crazy and it costs Pretty much more to send a native box in a native box. So we're going to come up with other solutions We don't want to discharge people that yeah, so we'll we'll have we'll come up with something worse It's going to take a while. Yeah, um, and then philby made this neat video. This was a cool little stemma speaker hack I want to play that so I found a neat trick for getting a little more volume from one of these ate a fruit stemma speaker boards This is a self-contained mono amplifier and a small speaker on a board for microcontroller projects And the speaker that's on here, uh, it has adhesive on both sides and when it's installed at the factory It's installed face up because that would make sense. You'd think you flip it face down But speakers are weird animals and sometimes What it's attached to or installed in becomes part of the resonant equation And so if you peel off this other adhesive and flip the speaker over like this one here Uh, you get a little more oom out of the speaker. Let me show you here's a standard one And then here's one where I have flipped the speaker over So you get a pretty decent boost and it won't cost you a thing Okay, next up time travel. There was a magazine that I really liked I still really like and I think a lot of makers out there will like it. So sometimes it's hard to tell what does What does it mean to celebrate people And their achievements and I think what you put on cover mag of magazines starts Even though magazines are more digital than they used to be they're still You know, like everyone's like, what's the latest cover of time magazine? So you were in the cover of this magazine called reinvented And ladies who hack ladies who hack it. I think it was their second issue And the cool thing is, um, I wanted to show some of the other people That I think folks in our community will know So, um, I was gonna start here. So this is megan smith megan smith the cto of the united states Amongst many other things She's cool. Oh, is that can we cosplay over there? That's right. Oh cool. That's her cosplay. She's in her outfit She's so cool All right, and now Yeah, it's raving the science maven raving the science maven. I love her check out her awesome Yeah, body ary ary rap. It's awesome. So congratulations raven and one of the cool things is, you know science education is really hard and, um We've all been waiting for what's going to be like the next bill nye mr. Wizard or What are the things that are going to inspire people? But mr. Wizard, he's pretty cool.  She's got great tiktoks. Go subscribe educator So, um, I'm so I'm so pleased that you're you're if these were like baseball cards This is what I collect collect them all collect all the stem steam educators and pioneers And um, I really like that they had are one of our favorite cosplayers as well So reinvented magazine buy it subscribe to it. They have a donation thing It's another woman-owned organization. So go for it. It's so cool to see people we know, um, you know get The commendation and recognition that they deserve it. It matters. It matters that we put certain people on the cover of magazines I think You know our lady adi here is a a selen buster Um, she was the first female engineer on the cover of wired. Um Very recently, so Um, you know, there's all things that we can do and um, I think my time at make, um We did a lot, but there's some things that I wish we could could have done which is um, use the cover of the magazine more for Um, celebrating all the things that we want to see In the community. So there was a lot of like assistive tech There was a lot of makers Um that I thought that could uh, you know broaden the market and uh make is doing that now and so that's just one of the things where it's like I think Communities have a good shot of of elevating people and giving them that opportunity And showing that there's a lot of cool people out there And when you see Raven, you're like, I want to join the community. We see ladies like I want to like learn electronics like that So anyways, so speaking of people that inspire to make Collins lab Notes is our series. I saw the same graphic from Collins. That's okay. It's cute little bite size Yeah, what I want to do is show these the the first one is the ferro fluid one and it's amazing So we're going to play these one after the other and I'll see you on the other side about five minutes You're gonna learn so much You can get away with using a helping hand or third hand tool when soldering small PCBs But for holding anything larger you should go for a vise The old standby panda vise junior works great for boards under three inches And for boards up to nine inches panda vise also makes the pv 350 work center Tricked out with rubber grip jaws and a built-in parts tray The pros kit pcb clamp can also hold large boards plus it easily flips them Just handy for routing jumper wire on proto boards For smt boards, you'd prefer not to flip a stick vise keeps the board stable and flat Allowing you to steady your hands on the table Alternatively, you could go for one of these flat circuit board holders Which are normally used for cell phone rework, but they're great for pretty much any smt soldering A microcontroller timing crystal is a mysterious little thing hiding inside a metal can Turns out it's not too difficult to take a look inside the through hole variety Using a dremel cutoff wheel Though I can imagine more delicate methods exist out there For a very long time unless you were using usb a midi jack looked like this The impressively substantial five pin din connector Turns out the two outside pins on the old midi din connector weren't used only three were needed So manufacturers took it upon themselves to start using something smaller namely the 3.5 millimeter trs jack And of course without an industry standard for a while We had two standards midi trs a and midi trs b which look identical, but needed an adapter Yeah Thankfully the midi manufacturers association stepped in and chose midi trs type a as the standard we have today So just be aware that older devices using midi trs b are still out there Waiting to confuse and frustrate All right, it's python on hardware time. Hmm blinka blinka blinka And a special shout out to catney who's been running the newsletter ends back next week And we're doing so many github things and helping out with products Really helping out. Thank you so much next week There'll be catney's newsletter and then ends back and I'll be doing the next one after that so Um big highlights. I'll talk about in a second. So I'm going to skip to 200 board thing is We have 15 different available languages We reached 100 boards in january 2020 at the open cardboard summit and over a year later we reached 200 boards So, um, I'll just I'll just talk about it now 200 boards. So we did it 200 it is the most Uh What's the right word for it's a menagerie of fantastic electronics it's um It has every chipset it has every every shape size diversity of options. Yeah, it's it's really like it's it's not Adafruit only board yet. We have a bunch of boards in there because we're like we make stuff we make circuit pi though But we're like half of it. So um, yeah, so adafruit boards are only half The number one download is not an adafruit board. No And um, if you look and depending on who you think is the competitor of ours Those boards are all in it. Wait, and then how much do we charge people? Nothing, so it's free And the reason we do this is because the bigger goal is to get as many people Programming and python and doing electronics as possible. Yes, and so it's free. It's okay If you want to support us with a board, that's fine But the best thing to do too is just learn some python. So in the newsletter, um, submit your boards too We have guides on how to do it. Yeah, so in the newsletter, um, you can uh, Check out links to scott's presentation at the open hardware summit 2021 Scott presented interface design open source hardware And the broadcast is all the broadcasts are posted on youtube. There's a new version of micro python 1.15 I want to mention we recently like today merged in a pull request to bump circuit python up to Micro python 1.10 So we're going to be slowly trying to catch up and merge in all of the language changes So I know people have been waiting and we're if we're doing it now. Okay Check out scott's deep dive tomorrow and you can also check out all the news. There's so many projects so many encoders Sony Shout out to sony. How to program micro trolling. We're using circuit python. This is a sony's presence And they have two videos And you can check out Not only what sony's doing, but the videos that they posted and what some of the projects that the people made Make did a really neat series of Uh, I think they think they could call it like plan b It's like how to how to like cope with like maker technologies for what's been going on in the last year. So um, they uh deal interviewed carter and uh, it's our Public co2 display. We use these on every fluorinated fruit to see how much co2 is around that lets us know the air quality Let's us know if the ventilation Is good enough to continue to stay safe as possible all masked all the time, of course Okay, and so the other thing I wanted to mention is two things. Uh, we are a participating sponsor For the python software foundation, which is picon 2021 in may. Um, it's a virtual event and uh, we're happy We can do it. I wish we can do more this year, of course It's a little harder to do as much as we would like to do or what we did last year Or sorry the year before is because it was a physical device That's a little hard to do right now, but we'll get back to that We'll get back to that and uh, don't worry. There'll be adafruit and picon hardware And um, we came up with what we could do. They were like, thank you so much. This is great And I said here's some graphics participating sponsor at picon um The other thing that was in the newsletter that I thought was neat is um seed has their shell expansion board and um What is the selling feature that you put on amazon to make sure people want to use this? Ding dong Circuit python supported heck. Yeah, so this is you know, there's indicators that it's like, all right like That's gonna cool. We did something kind of cool. There's all these projects. There's all that code. There's all those boards There's all these people there's this community And people want it and people want it and they're sharing it and now it's becoming a selling feature for a board When people are deciding what board is right for them. So anyway, check it out. That's all the news Oh, one other thing that I just put in here is um, there was a more advanced rendering or graphic of the nano rp 20 40 connect From arduino. Um, that'll run circuit python as soon as we get one And uh, if not already and so uh, check that out. So that's all in his letter. You can check that out at um Adafruit daily comm And you sign up. It's not connected to your store account or anything. It's just All good all the time Thank you blinka Okay Open source hardware and open source news we do that So, um, we're getting ready to maybe get our puppets going again because you have to film close when you do puppets and this is uh We this blink of course. Yeah underneath the table. There's puppeteers and they're yeah, they're not six feet apart And there's uh, mona. That's the github octo cat and uh, I wrote a little article really fast because I wanted to Get the word out is uh, github has been Doing so much amazing work and you can now post videos 10 megabyte free 100 megabyte pro account and we put videos on all of our spots now So we have videos in the circuit python section in the stemma awesome stemma awesome, uh Feather and uh, if you look this is just my personal page and Good news bad news. Um, you know, I wanted to show the consequences of uh, what happens When you have to stop everything and just take care of your team. So this is my github So I was doing really good So I had, you know, almost 4 000 contributions In 2019. Look at all that green. Look at that green and then you could tell what happened March right here. So this is when the shutdown started And um, we know we had other people pick it up though. Yeah. Yeah, and so this is where i'm at right now So we'll see uh, sorry, this is where this is where uh, I'm out right now So you can see I I did get to do one thing in april one thing in like march I'll get back, but um, you know this visualization Um, when I was looking at this was uh It was a little sad and I'm looking at you have so many contributions that i'm not just in get Well, I want to get back to that too, but I but I understand i'm useful to to help the team Keep it, but I've got a lot of contributions and I always ask you for advice on engineering. So I know but Look man, you can count that it's as soon as you have a thing that you can fill. It's like a collection. You got it All right, so we have 2464 learn guides lady. What are the big big board guides this week a lot of guides this week Let's start from the bottom Chris young published a guide on making an iot i or remote using grasby pi 0w where it was a powerful linux computer and a cutie pie Which is a low cost mic controller that can do Infrared stuff really fast because it's a microcontroller. So combining the two making an iot i or remote is a really detailed guide Uh christian, there's nobody on earth better at accessibility engineering Um, we've updated our guide for custom font to circuit path on this place. Uh, thank you to I know you've had a bunch of folks who've been um helping out with those guys k match and um I forgot their handle, but it'll come to me in two seconds. But you know who you are. Thank you for helping write more um for me guy uh for writing more um font stuff and tutorials and uh helping people out and and you know improving the libraries and the Graphics support in circuit python. Uh, we also have um a guide for the new eight of fruit fun house All in one home automation kit. You're going to see a bunch of projects that we're doing. Uh, we're still at home Home sweet home. So let's uh do some fun home automation projects Sense things around the house. Uh, and uh, we also have another guide from melissa Related, which is how to use the fun house with home assistant. You can use it as your remote node One home assistant on a raspberry pi have the home assistant running circuit python Or even our do we know if you want collecting data?  Um, she did an excellent demo a couple weeks ago on show and tell where she like Turned on the neopixels LEDs on the fun house using her voice by telling her voice assistant to do it It was cool and then use the buttons to also like dim the lights. It was like it was intense. It's cool You can do we got a guide on cure because it's actually a port from a very old guide That was like we found on a website and we're like, hey, this should be unlearned. We just moved it over We've got the guide for the cutie pie rp 2040 People loving to dig on it and uh, we really wanted to throw together a guide real fast We'll be doing more projects, but this tells you the pinouts and uh, You know the the gpo and the schematics and some example code to get you started with circuit python JP did a project with the fun house. They did door alert and also how to get alert data into an email Which is the tough part because sensing a door opening closing not too hard to digital input You know, you you can read it But then how do you get that to email you when a door is opened or closed? Who shows you two ways to do it? Um, and then dylan um go to guide on using pipermake, which is neat pipermake is a little bit like makecode It's blockly. It's a block-based programming language, but underneath it uses circuit python to program a raspy pipico Um pipermake also has like a subscription service. It sounds like but they did a really good job with this drag and drop Block-based programming. Uh, they also support h ad. So if you want to make keyboards He's actually did a little keyboard automation project using pipermake all with drag and drop programming Okay, but there's two more because we had so many this week Oh, that's right. This is the known Pedro published their guide on 32 by 32 square matrix animation display. You can use a sprite graphics to um program a RP 2040 feather although you can use almost any other high powered feather To display animated graphics and they made a cool square grid that goes over the matrix That makes it look really good like very pixel art and then Kevin did an excellent guide on how to Save memory on circuit python, especially when using graphics and fonts because you can quickly take up a lot of your ram Uh, you got great tips on how to squeeze the most memory both flash and ram Out of your circuit python board so you can have a good time at circuit python Okay, next up some main fact made in york city factory footage. Here we go And it wouldn't be made in york city factory footage If if it wasn't look how far disney's coming now. This is the disney building across the street. They're really moving This is the really it's coming together. This is the giant scrooge mcduck gold vault that they're building You'll be able to swim in it for the uh price of only 10 bitcoins. Okay, so 3d printing. We have a special 3d printing this week We will uh come right back After the break All right, and uh, don't worry, uh ours are turned so you can't see any information But this is uh mine. This is lady it is. Yeah, uh, we had our first shot and we're getting our second shot soon So we have uh, thank you no one pager for sending these to us. These are our vaccination cards And um, this is cool. I mean like why not decorate it? Yeah, and uh You know, I know that some folks Maybe they have people in their family that um, they got misinformation or maybe they just need help figuring out when they're going to get vaccinated, but um, there is one way through and A key to everything we want to do and it's to make sure as many people are as safe as possible From getting this terrible illness. Um, I don't know if any of you know someone in your life Or maybe even you got covid or someone in your family died or a friend But there's also the people who survived and they're still going through A lot of pain and suffering. You don't want this even mild cases End up hurting people for a really long time There's millions of people that are going to be coping with this and there's one thing for sure that we can do and Please multi pass multi pass vaccinated vaccinated and get a free donut Crispy creamy do it is true. It's how can you not love that? Okay. So now we're going to go to everyone's favorite segment Did you key and ate a fruit present? All right, this week ladies from max and integrated. What is the npi of this week? Okay this week's npi is the max 2361 and you're probably wondering what is this? Well, it's this little chip Uh, that is a boost converter And it's a specific kind of boost converter. Well, what kind I'd love to tell you, but you know what date it is today I don't know It's earth day. All right. It's earth day today. This is this is an eco-friendly I feel like we can be a little better at earth on earth day I I think so too and uh, one of the ways we can be good to the earth is By using the sun. That's right. Our best friend mr. Son Which is the source of all life on earth can also be used to power electronic projects and sensors And you can do that using solar panels And so this is some this is some nice big solar panel cells that we've got in the shop And um, we also stock a solar charger kit. We actually have two different ones And um, the solar charger kits that we've got, um, they're specifically for larger panels I can see like physically quite large panels that would go on like a backpack or like a box or you know You see these outside they they power, um, you know air quality sensors and stuff on the street And this boost converter, the max 20 20361 20361 is a specific type of boost converter That is designed for use with very small solar panels to charge up a small lipo battery or a super capacitor Um, and why do you need a special boost converter? Well, I love showing this curve Of solar cell information. So this is one cell So a single cell has an open voltage like if there's if there is if it's in the sun and there's no current being drawn from it It's about like 0.6 or 0.7 volts. So if you start from the right of this graph and you, um, move up You'll see that as you draw, um As you draw more and more current, um the voltage Like you know, you quickly go up you can quickly as you start drawing current the voltage Um, the the current goes up the voltage moves to the left It goes down down down and then where you see that kind of like Line that kind of is going through all the curves That's the max power point because if you draw too much current from a solar cell What happens is the voltage collapses It goes you can see how flat it is the top It goes very quickly from about 0.5 volts to 0.43 volts And then you draw even a little bit more current and like boom you're at zero volts So you have to be very very careful about how much current you draw from a solar cell Because you want to be where that like that black line that's cutting through all of the curve The rainbow curves is that's your max power point.  So right. It's very very sensitive and It isn't a fixed voltage. It depends and the fixed current It depends on how much sunlight there is on a very bright day It's going to be that red curve on a cloudy day It's going to be like that light blue curve in the middle, right? It depends on how much current you can draw Um, so this boost converter you can see on the left top left corner You can see there's a little like a diode thing with Ways coming into it. It's the inverse of an led. It's a it's a solar cell So you can connect a couple solar cells together and it's a very small chip It's very simple, but it's very effective. It monitors the voltage and monitors the temperature You can program it over i squared c to give it Some details about how much max current and what the output voltage you want the boost converter to be And it will give you that output voltage and will also even wake up your circuit when it's You know gotten to a certain charge rates. I don't that'll keep your circuit from waking up Unexpectedly like before the the battery is fully charged You want to wait till the battery is fully charged and then you want your sensor to wake up and then maybe send, uh, you know, blue to the energy data or lora or cellular Wi-Fi Um, and it's pretty efficient. It does a really good job. You can check it out They've got a lot of specifications for all the different, you know boost peak currents which you can configure because you know, you want to Make sure that you don't overcharge your little battery as well It's it's it's a delicate game, right? You want to get as much current out of the solar panel But you don't want to overwhelm your battery They make a really great valve board for this which I do recommend I'll also show it on the overhead later since I want to show it in the very middle is the tiny little chip and on The top right there is actually the solar cell So the solar cell here is is it looks a little bit like an OLED. It's quite small.  So this is why you want the charger itself to do the max powerpoint calculations for you Um Only thing about it that is you just got to watch out for I mean if you're if you're designed this into a product I'm sure you can deal with it, but it is a 0.4 millimeter pitch bga So personally that's you know, for me, I would have to go with like a four-layer board and and you have to go with like very small vias Because 0.4 millimeter pitch is small, but it's designed for wearables It's designed for very very small devices that have like micro Solar cells in them to let them charge and then perform sensor, you know readings and then transmit that data So it's small. It doesn't have a lot of pains. It doesn't have even that much configuration required Which I really like they kept it simple and very straightforward It it's small. It's like it's a 1.6 by 1.2 millimeters. It's like a speck of dust All right, you can get this on digikey. Mm-hmm. That's why we're doing an ion mpi. That's right And the short real is there and the product number is there and every single week we do this We do also have video that lady is going to narrate. Yes, it's sped up twice as fast Okay, I gotta tell you something cool about that. The reason I picked this video is check what they have is the radio on that dev board Does that look familiar? It does. It does. That's our laura breakouts. They're using one of our laura breakouts Um, so they just I like this video. We split it up But it basically just shows everything on the eval board. It shows the super capacitor Um, it shows this is that inductor because it is a boost converter So it's you do need one inductor, but it's pretty small It can be incredibly efficient. And of course, we're going at very very low voltages and very very low currents They also have a nice little animation video here Telling you it's a harvester. It's meant to be shaded and lit and it's it'll it'll turn on whenever there's enough Voltage and current for it to start charging That's why super capacitor is really good in this case because It can charge it very quickly It's not as sensitive as a lipo but you know, of course you can use a lipo as well. And that's this week's high and piano All right, we're gonna roll in the new new new new new new new new new new new new new new All right, so uh, we have a little bit of an update live Okay, low-kit. We now have a version with a gigabyte RAM for people who want a ton of RAM for their Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry Pi 4 is a little bit tough to come by right now We also have the kit available of course without a Raspberry Pi So if you have one already you can get one do that believe me We have we order these as quickly as we can next up next up We have a 40 pin flex cable and this 40 pin flex cable is on its own quite handy whenever you need an FPC But what it's really useful for is when you use it with the next four products Which are? These FPC to 40 pin header adapters So let's just click through them and they'll show them so basically we've got it's an FPC and you want to do this You want to do this because actually you came up with this idea by the way I don't know this is your fault you said hey You know with the Pi 400 it would be really cool if there was like some way You could get a very flexible cable more flexible than the GPIL out the reason I made yeah The reason I needed and wanted this is because we were working on the cyber deck. Yeah, and You could do a hinge system and have this as a monitor and more or have it mounted even elsewhere Yeah way and the GPIL cables we have and I'll show one on the overhead through this They're kind of chunky. What's nice about this is that you pick and choose the two pieces what do you want? You want right angle or straight?  So let me show it on the overhead So starting off I've got a Pi 400 here And yeah, this one I picked this Plug yeah, so that's what I want to do I wanted to be able to have a flexible cable right and then be able to do anything I wanted And then this is the sense hat plug. Yeah, I like this because it's rainbow So it's like oh, it's working right and I even have an extender So I even have a flex cable extender coming out here so you can look technically you're not supposed to make these cables that long But whatever we're punk. We know the walls. We love to break them You can go a meter really go for it meter two meters as long as you're willing to understand the other side You know if it's very timing specific You're gonna need to just be wary of that But you see it's like you know you you pick and choose which ends you want and then you just put the cable in You know the flex cable attaches in and then the only thing to watch out for is you want to look at your board and Trace out which is pin one because things can get flippy floppy. It's very easy to get reversed Because it is it will let you be reversed. So just Think carefully and then trace it out. I use my finger to be honest I look like which is pin one and I trace it and I'm like that's pin one and then I plug it in So, you know, I'll try I'll see if I plug it in right now. See I got it wrong. It's this way So just just be aware of that So you've got socket style and you've got Had our plug style and we've got Right angle and straight outs, you know, it's basically every everything you could possibly want and and then the flex cable Then we have the extensions as well. So Go to town. This is you know, normally you would use something like this This is like the normal IDC cable that we use and these are great, right? Nothing wrong with these but you see they're chunky there. It's like it's like I want to make them flexible They're not that flexible not as flexible as FPC cables Okay, ready next up, okay? Next up. Oh, is it great. So we've got these awesome kits. Hold on. Let me So the first one is the robot. So this is scout makes And they are they come on the show and tell and they showed their kids and we're like, yeah Well, we'll stock your kids. So there's two kits that we're carrying of theirs There's the FM radio kit and there's the robot kit. So let's start with the robot kit Which is this one? Okay.  Yeah, 3d printed. Okay, this is gonna spin around. So I gotta be careful here Focus lock. Okay. So this is a Bluetooth You know, it's got a battery. It's a Bluetooth Board with an OLED and then two little Metal Gear servos and it says Robot ready and it's got cool LEDs. So I can use this phone it's gonna be like Do your phone so then I can go over to Blue for connect and Then it shows up as a circuit pie. It's running circuit Python. I connect to it and Then under the controller and go to the control pad and I'm going to just I'm gonna Press this And it spins and if I pressed up and down it would fly off the table So I'm not gonna do that and then you can have it It makes a little beeping sounds it has little songs and it changes colors And this is just the demo it ships with so you can program this all you like. I just love how cute it is I love that it spins in a circle. It's really nicely made. It's got really good motors This is the motor. Okay, and it's circuit by the blue tooth to enter 52 840 development board I'm a circuit Python. Okay, and then the second one that it is The second board I apologize Well, I'm showing pictures of the Second one is an FM radio kit And this is also bluetooth nrf 52 840 And it plugs into this radio Control board with it's got buttons on it and it's also got an OLED. So let me turn this one on And then I've got these Speakers I'm gonna speaker here And I'll plug this in And it plays radio. It's an ad But uh, usually it's music, but I'm actually kind of glad it's not music because uh youtube would get upset at us But it's an FM radio. So you can tune it and you can use the buttons to change your tuning um, it's like a fun way to like just like Make your own diy FM radio and then of course there's also bluetooth you can control it over bluetooth I will note it doesn't do blue doesn't do bluetooth audio So in case you're wondering, oh, can you take the FM radio and do the bluetooth audio now? You can control it over bluetooth and uh, I goofed on the uh order of these but we have additional Um ones of these that should have went back. That's okay. We should we should basically yeah, and then here is Okay, cool next new product next new product. There's two products Um, these are camera mounts. These are just hardware. I want to clarify You don't get the raspberry pi of them. You don't get the camera with them. You don't get the quarter You don't get the quarter. You don't get the tripod. You don't get the cable It's just the camera mount That lets you connect one of the new raspberry pi hq high quality cameras To a pi zero or uh, we have the larger version to like a pi four And I want to note the one I really liked here. It comes with a little level at the top It's always like so slick, right? You have a little level so you can get a really it's not only a nice mechanical kit Um, but I like that extra touch of of making it easy to to get your your tripod all leveled out So, um, check that out. It's inexpensive and great add-on To a camera and a raspberry pi next up the star issue tonight besides you lady at our community Our aetherford team our customers is The dvi breakout. Whoo. Well, I think it's an exciting. This is a pretty cool board So let me also plug this in. Oh my god. I have so many cables Because this cable ends Okay, so the dvi breakout is kind of what it sounds like It's just a breakout board for a dvi connector Which uh, you might also call an hdmi connector, but for reasons we're gonna.  We're gonna call it dvi. So this someone will say That looks like an hdmi cable being plugged into and I would say yes, that's true It's going into an hdmi monitor.  So you're saying, okay. Well, so what it's what is this dvi? HDMI cable leads where is it going to here? This is this is live coming off the device right now So if you want your raspberry pi pico to make ebb and heads bounce around This is your bag. You want this breakout? I made this specifically because I saw wren who is a developer for the raspberry pi foundation Was doing a lot of really cool demos with generating dvi signal from a raspberry pi pico in rp20 40 Which I just thought was just hilarious because it's like a total abuse of the microcontroller And like I said, we're punk. We know the rules. So let's break them Uh, you're not supposed to do this, but he did it anyway or they did it anyways So uh, when I saw that I was like, oh, that's so cool. I want to play with that And that's when I realized uh, we don't have a dvi breakout in the store I was like, that could be a really handy thing if you want to this isn't a dvi or hdmi source device So it does not have the e prom So if you're looking at your like, why is the e prom not soldered in? That's for if you want to use it as a sync device We which we may also create a breakout that is a different product that has the source e prom That you could reprogram with the eid. This is for sorry for the sync. This is the source So this is for generating signal into an hdmi monitor. There's more demos than this But I just thought this one was the funniest one Um, because it's just ebb and heads bouncing around So, uh, you can change this to be your own head. I guess But it's pretty straightforward. You've got your, uh, you know hdmi compatible Mechanical connector sold into a board with two 200 ish ohm resistors in series for the eight data lines and then ground pins in between Is it dvi d or dvi? This is d. This is digital video Um, and then I also wanted to Do a shout out. So tinkering tech is in the chat. Thanks, Adafruit for letting me sell my kits on your platform Scott makes every sold out Scott makes was born last year during the pandemic is named after my daughter scout I hope to get more little girls and everyone into stem. Thank you. No, thank you Um, it came on the show until we chatted. Um, you showed your projects We got together and now you're selling stuff on adafruit and someone said in the chat Why this is going on as we were showing all these things. They said, you know what? Adafruit just became radio shack and I take that as a compliment and that is our new products of the week this week All right, we're going to roll right into top secret. Um, but go over to Discord ask your questions and uh, we're going to get out of here pretty soon But first here is oh gotta do the vault graphic. Yeah. Hello All right from the vault What is this ladyata? It looks like a big deal. This is the thing I've shown you on the desk ladyata So I finally finished this. It's my routed out Snap apart five by six keyboard Breakout so it's designed to have row and keep, you know, it's it's a key matrix that can be snapped apart Um, and or have other boards soldered onto the end. It has neopixels on every key that are snaked through Um, each row so you have only one neopixel line. So I thought it was it was not as a cute design So all right, and then here's the progress on the trinkets There is three of them now. There's four now. There's four Um, we're showing off some of the cards that we might do that go along with it now. Keep in mind This is a trinket. This is neotrinkie. Neotrinkie And some of them have these special graphics and animation. Oh That's it's shiny. Yeah, this is the the key trinket the shiny neokie trinkie and this did neotrinkie Oh also shiny. I want to make friends with it So this is what you get but here's all the friends that you can make along with it. Yeah And with that is top secret Okay, let's get to some questions. Yeah, we are. All right. So question There is some that we're in earlier and uh, some folks got to it. So thank you very much But um, please go join us all uh, 20,000 of us plus I think it's 29,000 a different dot it slash discord and uh, we will uh, start answering them. So Let me line up, uh When you think dvi, uh, it's the one with the flat pins that the way Yeah, I think they're thinking of the big the big flat connector. This is an hdmi connector, but it's still digital video over it It's confusing because it's like It's the same data format just different mechanical connections. Okay Um, can the dvi do hello world in white text over say a black screen and thoughts on how quickly you could update words Any plans for example code for that? There is actually example code just for that to display text on the screen in the the pico examples repo Um, so you'll be able to use something. So yeah, so you would use this but check out If you search for rp2040 pico dvi You'll see tons of demos and examples and there's there's a whole folder of examples you compile It's in the pico sdk. So it's in c um What qfn part do you recommend making the pads a little larger than chip while making prototypes? Especially as a beginner to be able to see if it refloat correctly I'm you know, I I think it's Sometimes you can make them a little longer I'd make them a little longer. Maybe I wouldn't make them any wider Because often qfn's are not a lot of space between the pads and you really want to give yourself Um, you want to have that solder mask to help you define the pads quite well? uh I used to be a little bit more Lazy fare with the pads. Um, I now actually really just stick to the manufacturer recommendations I find that it's better to upgrade your tools than to try to mess around with the pads because it can bite you Okay, um, were you hosting the neotrinky animations? I wanted to play them on lcd. You'll absolutely be able to do that. However Um, working with bruce.  This is our design. This is like an hour old Yeah, and uh, what I want to do is the newborn trinky. Yeah, what I want to do is um, we be able to You'd be able to click these all on your digital versions and screens and stuff like that And you'll also uh, maybe these animations will come on The neotrinky and the keeper trinky. We should put like qr codes on the trinky all sorts of things It will be able to do um, and so you know, we'll have all these things So don't worry. You'll be able to download these like all of our other things. All right, uh next up Um, what happened to the slider trinky? Oh, this isn't coming soon. It's one of the trinkets It's just it's not in the first four collectible trinkets It's not in the this batch in this batch But we have to get these wet and then they multiply and don't feed them after midnight all this thing No, it's like it's it's like the the starter pokemon Yeah, right the frame is only three to start but believe me there's more this is asking an engineer How do you judge all those projects and make time for all of them and finish them? Well, we don't really Well, so I'll say You know what? It's hard. No, I'll show you like, um, I didn't I didn't um, so You know the most important thing that we do is come to the evan heads The most important thing that we do is we take care of our uh team Adafruit our remote team members our team members in house We take care of our community. We take care of our customers and the sacrifices that you know lady aida makes and I make to run a company they're they're big But they're worth it because we see the impact Seeing someone come up with an idea during the pandemic name A product line after their daughter to get more young girls into electronics and then them being able to come on our shows and then sell them in our store um You know what like There's some personal projects. We won't get to but that's not the point I think the personal project for us is seeing people being able to do that So I think you have to find your successes in the project. You don't finish in some ways So if you make things that empower others Maybe in some small way, um, you're a part of their projects that get finished Or at least you can be part of the journey to start And I think getting more people to start is some of the hardest things. So that's what we do Um, could you recommend any cool aida for? parts for circumventing camera decree glitches or anything Analog video says Oh, that's a good question. I'd actually pick up, you know, we have the um We have a ntsc output camera And ntsc sucks, which means it's awesome for glitching And you can definitely mess with the crystals You can touch stuff on it and I think you'll get some good video and it's a kind of crummy video So that could be a good like analog Glitchy thing for video Tricky animations with real trinky. Yep, that will happen one day. You'll be able to plug into trinky and play an animation in some way Yeah So follow up upgraded tool just one of those hot air stations you sell would work All I have is this toaster oven. I converted at the moment, you know, toaster ovens are good I really do actually quite like those the little the hot plates that I've been using Hot plates hot air. Yeah, I mean a good stencil is kind of the most important So use off stencil to get stainless steel stencils Those have really made a big difference once I moved to not trying to paste by hand But using a stencil even though it's a little bit more expensive like my yields improved a lot It was a lot faster put together Do you have any guides on how to put together an ice-cord C display to work? It just received your 14 segment display with ice-cord C backtrack and have nukley where to start Yeah, go to learn And type in the product name and you'll see some guides. Oh, this is a really good question But I'm going to edit a little bit our circuit python Micro python python boards outselling Arduino baseboards. Yes Or well the boards that we have that do both Outsell the ones that do only one yes So because by the way, like all of our boards that do circuit python can also do. Yeah, I want to mention that Yeah, so not amending arduino. So so here's what's happened the the chips are fast enough now There's enough ram where you can run circuit python micro python You can run maycode. You can run arduino. You can do rust tiny go and all that stuff What we saw and what we're seeing is it Became clear that there was almost a 10 to 1 where people for every 10 feathers and you know pretty good idea with circuit python, but even if it was a 10 to 1 versus uh standard, you know kind of classic arduinos And so that's why we're really excited to help catch the wave on scripting languages on microcontrollers We're seeing in the sales. We're seeing in the community There's projects that would have never been able to happen and they're happening now. Okay Do you have any difficulty sourcing? parts on Board restocking. Yeah, there's some stuff that's going to be out of stock and we'd have no idea when it's going to Be back in I also know we're having trouble getting micro bits. It's it's tough out there We're gonna do the best we can believe me Like we are really good at sourcing So But there's gonna be some stuff that's not going to be around. I and I don't know when it is I I wish I could tell you but I don't need a trinket NFT. Yeah, so we are going to do this It was it's a real thing We're calling these not forever trinkets and that'll be when we find parts That we know are limited like let's say if there was like some type of weird cool like Uh blackberry trackball Trinky obviously, we're not going to be able to do tons of this So we would do a limited run and we'd call this or like a like a nixie trinket. Yeah, call this nft not forever trinkets and One thing you can be sure of we're not going to just like Do some digital thing and not have physical electronics So maybe one day we'll see about like digital NFTs But the idea is you'll have a physical experience that you can stay and collect and we think these are artistic So I think it goes along with that and maybe like people will store their like, you know, jason file on the trinky For the NFTs You could you could put a um a bitcoin address on there. Okay last question night if time and resources weren't limited What electronics would you like? To make for a to fruit that you aren't doing now you go and then I'll go What am I doing? Well, I do get to them. It just takes me a little time But um, I'm working on keyboard stuff right now. I'm just kind of fun I'm a little late to the keyboard game, but I'm doing a lot of keyboard stuff and these trinkets Um, I think that's fun and we're also going to get to Um a camera project that we've been meaning to do uh for many many years We're finally going to get to it. So you'll see it coming soon Okay, um, I'll go and you said resources and time weren't limited so What I would do Technically not a stargate, but Um, I would tell paul harrowitz that I would like to work with him and lady aida And uh, by the way, he just won the drake award, um, which is a pretty big award for people who are searching for intelligent life out there using really high end Um, amazing electronics. I think he did the first like Radio trans radio receiver optical steady So anyways, if I had unlimited time and unlimited resources, I would go big and go small So I would like to do a particle accelerator to eventually fix the standard model would need a lot of help And I would eventually want to it's made out of trinkets It's trinkets all the way down up down Of trinky that We're at trinky blue trinky. Yeah, we teamed up with particle Um, so I would like to work on the big and the small so the small would be uh particle accelerators to just finally Throw out the resources that we could to figure out the standard model There's a lot of things that could be amazing For everyone if we can unlock some of the secrets of the universe on the small and then on the big working with someone like paul harwitz and And lady aida and maybe bunny to make The biggest attempt to listen in to the cosmos and understand this universe We're in um, I know that that is you know, something that's unlimited time and i'm Really it's unlimited time We got we got a few billion years left to maybe work on it but you know, there's so many things that help science and medicine and You name it from these technologies I know it seems weird like but it's just a particle But it's just like you know gravity ways but but these things you get like MRI devices You get all sorts of things from understanding the electro magnetic spectrum and more and uh, that's what we do here i'm uh I was hoping in the last year that maybe this tragedy these tragedies from uh racial Justice to a pandemic would have brought us closer together and I feel like we were kind of divided and uh, Maybe talking to aliens would help. So that's my other selfish Reason for um, if again, this is the unlimited time and limited budget thing You said it, don't we? So that is my uh, that is my Okay, uh, that is it. Thanks for all the questions tonight. Thank you so much everybody. Um Will it be in our dream episode? Yeah, probably um By the way, anytime you see a chip, there'll probably be a further version of it. It's pretty easy to do Um, so that's it tonight. I wanted to do a special thanks to our team or community Thanks everybody. Um our customers kelly behind the scenes on the slack channel And um, I would like to thank everyone for tuning in and being part of this with us because I know there's been some Tough times, but I also know that there has been a lot of hope to look forward to and thanks for tuning in We'll be changing ask an engineer up a little bit Of course, we're going back to wednesdays of course next week. Yes Yes, but very soon we'll be um changing our shift On site. So on some of the days we're doing change. Yeah, so some of the days we're doing ask an engineer We'll make sure the team's out and then we could take our mass off Because it'll just be the two of us there and we want to make sure that we set a good example We'll be fully vaccinated and all that but we want to make sure we're setting an example When we're all set with other people we'll do that continue to keep our team safe And um, I'll tell you the other thing I'm looking forward to is uh, and I'll tell folks because I think Mass or one of those things where it's like when are we going to take them off? So, uh, we've each had one dose we take our mass off when we walk outside together And we're just around together there you go the end and you know the cdc will probably say the same thing soon and that's okay It feels good springtime out. I know so we'll see everybody later get your multi pass We'll see you next week. Here is your moment of xeno


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Monday. This is the Monday market outlook. If you're not familiar around here on the channel, what we like to do on Mondays is we take a look at what's happening in the week ahead on foot, talk about some market movements that we could see and possibly any investments or trading related info that we might find out during this week. And obviously there's a lot to talk about this week. We have a lot of content most likely coming with foot birthday. And so far EA has been doing, I think, a personally pretty good job on this promo so far. We had a great team selection. We've had pretty solid objective and SBC content so far. So far they're doing a great job in my opinion. And I honestly don't expect back to change. I think they're going to continue with the solid content throughout this week because they know this promo is big for them. And I think they're gonna keep things ramped up and keep the content pretty spicy for this week in foot. Now a lot of you guys have asked questions. When should I buy some of these foot birthday players? And we'll be talking about that to start off the video at the moment. Because I know that's one of the biggest questions a lot of you guys had. Tonight with squad battle rewards, right? This is like my outlook for the week on these cards this week. Tonight with squad battle rewards, a lot of these cards took a hit in price. Lazano is under 100K and Boppe, right? A lot of you guys yesterday were saying, yo Nate, this and Boppe card seems to be the real deal. Will he ever get back under 5 million coins? Guess what? He's already there. 4.95 I think right now. Yeah, here's your 94 and Boppe at 496. A lot of like week-on-week sell-off has started to happen. We still have one day left of the week I think though. So expect to see prices kind of stay a little bit lower as some people will still be selling awesome cards. But I'm kind of interested in some of these foot birthday players. I just want to talk you guys through this because this is kind of a hard situation. It's always tough to time these sort of things. And this time it's especially tough because there's so many people that want these cards, right? So many of you guys want these foot birthday players and you want to get in at a good price. And here's what I want to tell you. Here's what I want to tell you. These guys have a lot of supply. Look at how many Griezmann's there are on the market. Today this guy's price was 1.65 for most of the day. Look at what he is right now with the week of Linksellov. Where he was for most of the day today. Look how many pages of supply right now. Let me remind you it's nighttime. The man has two plus pages of supply on the market. He's 1.61. So he's dropped like 40, 50,000 coins today. My biggest thing with these cards and the question is will they still drop? I honestly think they have to because there is a lot of supply on these cards. It doesn't seem like it, but there is a lot of supply. You know, basically for a Griezmann card at 92 rated that we would normally have in this game. We normally wouldn't have this much supply of him on the market, especially at this stage of the night. We're looking at what? Eight, am I gonna hit nine? 10, we have nine full pages of supply right now. And it's like 3 a.m. UK time at the moment. That is a lot of supply for a 92 rated Griezmann special card. That's why I think these prices are going lower.  There's a lot of people on FIFA right now. This promo is hype. The cards are great. If they put out like a Pogba or maybe like a Flashback Baki Yoko or another foot birthday SBC player that is hype, that is kind of good value or just a player that a lot of people would wanna go and do, we're seeing people do the SBCs that we got the past couple of days. I'm seeing a lot of Amavi's being done as a French left-back. I'm seeing a lot of people talk about Ugbana, right? Like this is a really good looking card on the base. You go in and look at the attributes. I mean 79 acceleration and 74 stamina, agility and balance at this stage of the game, just okay. If this card means something to you, if you really wanna do it, you can go for it, but high rated are pricey right now boys. Cheapest players by rating are expensive. And you know, we'll talk about what we could see for the rest of this week, but is pack supply gonna be coming this week? I mean, we'll probably get a couple pack SBCs here and there, but with a mid-icon SBC being out and so many other SBCs being out with people on the game, when people have coins, like this weekend they had saved pack, so they got coins this weekend, they opened up lighting rounds. We had three days of lighting rounds this weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which is a normal promo, but the past couple of promos they've only been doing Friday and Saturday, so we had an extra day of lighting rounds, which means more supply. And these cards are still maintaining their pretty high prices in terms of the high rated SBC fodder. Now, is that gonna stop people from doing SBCs later this week if they put out like a Pogba or a Maca, or not a Maca Lele, but a Baki Yoko or other big time SBCs? I don't think so, because the SBCs they put out so far, only good reviews about Ozil. I haven't heard much about this guy, but I know a lot of people have done him. I haven't heard much about Ogbana either, but I can see people are doing him. If they put out good players like this Ozil was like a really good SBC for them to drop. People, when it did it, that's 200,000 coins that they are losing from their club, turning into an untradable player. And you know, you do this one, that's another 120K. I think the Ogbana is 370K, which is pretty pricey. And now we have these upgrade packs. So people are putting their coins into these as well. By the way, Small Flex, I did 20 of these tonight at the beginning of the live stream. And yes, that is a first owner untradable, Marcus Rashford. I hit the jackpot in my first 20 packs, unbelievable. Couldn't believe it. So now we have this card for the rest of the year in the squad. I need to upgrade my left mid badly. He has a sore spot in his team for sure. Sorry, Ryan Kent. You will be demoted to Super Sub very soon. Anyways, there's just a lot of, there's a lot of possibility this week for people to drain their coins and SBCs. And with the massive supply that we have, not massive, but the high supply that we have on these cards right here, I'm just a little concerned that they might keep dropping later this week. I know there's gonna be demand. Well, some of these cards rise up. If we don't get pack supply these next couple days and the SBCs that come out are just kind of average. You might see some of these cards rise back up a little bit because people are just going out and trying them. Lozano is one of them. Mooney, I think could rise a tiny bit as well. Not a ton, just a little. Griezmann hasn't dropped that much. He still has more to go in my opinion. Rashford's dropped like 150K since yesterday. That could be a card that goes back up. Rashford's actually one of the most rare cards out of this promo that I've seen so far. He's actually really rare. Not saying that because I packed him, but he's actually pretty rare on the market if you go and check out his card. Sasoko still has room to drop for me. This card has the most hype out of almost anybody. He's got a ton of supply. He's got room to drop. So if you really want the lowest price for these, I'm gonna tell you to keep waiting and just wait and see what happens this week with flip content because I think they're gonna keep dropping hype stuff. There's gonna be people on the game all week focused on the content, ready at 6PM UK every day. So I would still wait on these cards, but don't get alarmed if they rise up maybe five to 10% over the next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, if we don't get a lot of supply from SBC packs or from anything in the game. Don't get super alarmed if they go up a little bit. I think on Thursday, possibly on Friday again, we might have a chance to pick up on some of these cards. Again, the supply is the biggest issue for me on these. I talked about it yesterday a little bit more, but the supply is the number one issue that I have with these cards in foot. Now, speaking of the content that we could get this week, what other stuff could we be getting this week in foot? Of course, more foot birthday SBCs. They've dropped two so far. Ozil goes away in four days. Amavi goes away in three. What else could we be seeing? Agbana is here and he's here for the rest of FIFA. He has no expiration date. And this really interests me, right? This Agbana is celebrating his 2017-2018 season, which he also got a foot birthday card back then. So I'm really interested to see if they're gonna do more of these flashback SBCs. And there's a couple of things I'm interested to see. Are they gonna be including more people from that FIFA 17 foot birthday playlist? You have guys like El Shirawi. You have guys like Esvine. You had a Dove Louise. I would doubt we'd see another Dove Louise, but look at that FIFA 17 list of guys that were in the FIFA 17 foot birthday. Maybe that's kind of a hint of what we could be getting into. But I still feel like Abaki Oko could be in line. Or somebody like that from a previous FIFA that was a really meta overpowered player. And the second thing I'm interested about in these is, are they gonna make them all non-expiration dates? Because if they're making this non-expiration, that's kind of interesting to me. Like, you know, all the players that they've put in this non-expiration section so far, they've been from major teams. They've been really big name hyped up players, right? Hazard, big name player, Leroy Sane, big name player. Ramos, Alexandro, Boateng, Vidal. And now we have Agbana. And that really interests me that they put him out in the game as a non-expiration date that really, really interests me. And it's making me wonder, are they gonna continue to do that with all of the new SBCs that they put out, player SBC-wise? I think we might get a player SBC just about every day. They've been doing that for the past couple of weeks and they know they're taking tons of coins off the game by doing that. So I would not be surprised if we continue to get these SBCs almost every day. We get upgrade packs today. I wasn't expecting these until today on Monday or Tuesday. We got them on Sunday, man, which is nuts. Don't touch these with a, whatever you do. Don't touch them. The 81 double pluses have been giving out decent stuff. They cost about eight to nine K to complete. You buy 11 players, 750 to 800, 850 coins is all it costs you. You can buy a squad of players. You can stack 20 of them. It only costs you 80, 90 K. If you do 10 of them, start with 10. Do 80, 90 K, spend 100 K, do some upgrades, see what you get, and maybe do little sets of 10, right? You can motivate like, I love doing upgrade packs on foot. I live for the upgrade packs, man. And I got Rashford today, which feeds, feeds the addiction even more. I want to do even more of those upgrade packs. So if you want to do those packs, you don't have a ton of coins, set a goal for yourself with trading, right?  This Dignay card, I think this is too low, especially if we would get another, no more Prime SBCs. This guy is low right now because of the, the Amavi SBC that came out. If you see this guy at like 140, I'm a fan. I've got like three or four of them that I've picked up at 140 K. He's a Premier League, French, left back, Lynx, Galore. I know he's not the best card ever, but he's tradable on the game. A lot of the French left backs in this game, you can't actually find them tradable. Like Theo Hernandez and Dignay are one of the only left backs that are French in this game, Benjamin Mendy as well, that are like quality and good left backs. The rest are all like SBCs or they're no longer found. Ferland Mendy, Rusillian and now Amavi. So I like that Panic Cell, French, Prem, it'll rise after Amavi goes away. So 140 K, I'm a fan there on that card. But that's the kind of stuff that you could be trading with this week. And this is the kind of stuff that you wanna watch out for this week with the SBCs dropping as well. As we do put out SBCs, you could be trading, back to my original point, you could be trading to kind of fund those SBCs, right? So let's say you buy some Dignays, the Amavi SBC goes away and the Dignay's back up to 160, right? Boom, you made some coins there. Now you can go afford to do some upgrade pack SBCs, but watch as they put out more of these either flashbacks or of the full birthday SBCs because it's gonna affect substitute goods, right? So today we saw the Ogbona SBC. What happened to other Premier League centerbacks? Tamori is a great example. This card was almost 500,000 coins this morning. That's not Tamori. Tamori was just under 500K, he was like 480 I think. The SBC was announced and I think this guy is like 440 now, is that true? All right, he was 448 just an hour ago, so he's still like 450 and that's just kind of the drop you see on the substitute goods, right? Another Prem centerback came out. The other ones that are on the market sometimes drop. Now, since Ogbona is out for the rest of FIFA, I would invest in this card as a panic sell because that SBC is there for the rest of the year. Will this card rebound? Probably, if we get a English, like maybe they put out a Trent, I don't know, Trent's a bad example, but another English player from the Prem that this card could link to, that could be, you could see this card rise in price if it's another SBC like that. But watch out for that sort of trading this week, the substitute panic sell trading. If you see, it's gotta be good links, it's gotta be a desirable card. That's why I bought that Dignay, right? That is a very desirable card. It's Prem and it is a left-back and it is French. You always need left-backs in your teams. There's not a ton of them on the market that are Prem and then it's a solid card as well and he's a household name. Dignay, not a household name, but popular, right? Left-back in the Prem. Dignay's been playing pretty well before the year was stopped. So that's the kind of stuff I would look out for this week. Would we get any objectives this week? Probably not. I think that the Bellarrabi and the Paqueta are there. Ooh, I gotta do this. What's this one? Play two matches. All right, I gotta play two matches today so I can get that kosher and get that good. But Bellarrabi and Paqueta are here for the week, I think. Yeah, they're here until Friday. And then, of course, I'll touch on this slightly at the end now, but this next Friday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are gonna be big days on foot because of this foot birthday squad with all the supply. What's gonna happen during rewards? I think stuff will go down. What's gonna happen with a panic selling before rewards? Because on some of the really meta cards like an Imbape, a Griezmann, a Rashford, that won't get packed that much at rewards, but a lot of people will wanna buy them for their week in league squads. What's gonna happen then? And then, of course, Friday starts another week in league with the confirmed new week in league of the double player picks that they're gonna be in objectives. So keep an eye out for that. There's gonna be a lot more people playing week in league this next weekend. That'll be something to factor in and that'll affect us next week for awards on Thursday as well. That'll be something that we have to keep in mind. And then, of course, whatever content we're gonna get this week in terms of like pack supply SBCs, we should be getting more of these. Like we have the foot 10 SBC out right now. I assume we'll get a foot 11 SBC in the next couple of days, so that will be some pack supply that I do think we could see. And again, I'm just really interested to see what kind of player SBCs EA puts out during the week, this week. So that's kind of the market outlook for me. These full birthday cards, they're kind of low right now. They're the lowest that most of them have been since they were in packs. You might see them kind of trickle up in price into Monday, Tuesday, depending on the content. You might see them drop back down Wednesday, Thursday, possibly into Friday. You know, Friday is set too. They could juice up the second team. You know, we could have Sala, we could have DiBala, we could have some other big time players. I find it hard, I don't know if they're gonna be able to top set one with set two, but we'll see what happens on Friday of next week. And then next week, I wouldn't expect it this week, but next week we'll be talking about a guaranteed full birthday SBC. If we see that in the code, that'll be something very, very interesting to talk about and could cause some big time market movements. But again, if you're wanting it to trade this week out of packs, special cards again are my fave. Watching the panic sell and watching substitute goods get lower on the market if there is an SBC that comes out. Again, making note of if is that SBC out forever and is the player that's getting panic sold a usable meta and a popular card on foot. And of course, if you wanna trade with icons as well, people are still buying icons. Some of the icons have dipped in price a little bit this week, just kind of going off a quick search here. Let's see if I can get to the 59th minute fast. But some of the icon prices have dipped a little bit because I think people might be selling some of them because icons aren't really hype right now, but birthdays are hype, right? And you have a 5 million coin in Bapae, you've got like three cards. You got four cards, five cards in this team that are over a million coins. So, you know, some people might be selling some icons to go try out some of these foot birthdays just to give them a shot. So icons are still great to trade with though, especially on the lower budget. I mean, I don't mess around with icons too much on the lower budget these days, but lower budget icons, like some of these can be big time money makers. Some of the babies and some of the mids that are out of packs, they fluctuate a lot because they don't have any supply. And some of them that are really usable, like a Rio or like a Maldini, sometimes like this Verone even. You can make some big money flipping these cards around because there's a lot of people on the game right now. A lot of people on the game, live transfer number is high and people are buying cards, people are on this game, which means trading is good because there's activity. Whenever the market's dead and nobody's on, it's hard to trade. But right now, there's a lot of stuff to do. A lot of people are on. So it's a good week to trade. So keep that in mind as well this week on foot. I'll be opening upgrade packs, of course, like all week because I love these upgrade packs and I still wanna try to hit, you know, a Griezmann or a Hazard or Mbappe or a Sissoko, any of those guys would love to hit them. So take your best shot at these. Spend a few coins if you want to. If you don't, that's fine as well. You can craft these like bronze upgrades, the silver upgrades, the gold upgrades to these. If you really wanna go that far, that's a grind, but you could do it if you really wanted to. But if you get any good polls, make sure you check the Twitter link down below in the description. Tell me your polls on Twitter. I love seeing those on there as well. So that's kind of the market outlook for this week, boys. It's really just kind of up in the air depending on what content EA drops. And I think it's gonna be a solid week of content on foot. They've held up their end of the deal so far and I continue to see it. Looks like it's gonna continue happening. So that's my market outlook for this week, boys. Again, if you have any questions, comments, dropping below. If you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, the Foot Account. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at performance measurement. Before we discuss performance measurement we have to understand that the company might break down for internal performance valuation its centers or its divisions by four different categories. Revenues, cost, profit and investments. Before we discuss those four divisions I would like to remind you that if you are an accounting student or a CPA candidate because this topic is covered in cost accounting, managerial accounting as well as the CPA exam especially if you are taking the CPA exam I strongly suggest you check out my website farhatlectures.com.  I can be a useful addition I can add 10 to 15 points to your CPA exam. My question to you are you willing to take that chance by subscribing for a month just to find out whether that system works for me and can improve my grade. Now if not for anything check out your university CPA exam performance. 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So let's talk about the four different responsibility centers real quick okay the first one is revenue center what is a revenue center it's a division that only generates sales and it's not responsible for any cost or expenses the most classic example of revenue center is a sales division so you're you're you're you're evaluating you're saying okay yes this is my sales division and I'm going to evaluate you based on sales another division could be cost centers where they only generate costs and they are not responsible for generating any revenue that's not how you evaluate them those two responsibility centers they are measured by variance basically there's a budget there's a goal and how well did you achieve that goal obviously for revenues you want to be higher for cost you want to be lower now what about if a division or as a center is considered a profit center basically a profit center is considered for both revenues and cost that's or expenses so incur both revenues and expenses so simply put we should be very familiar with this idea of revenue minus expenses here the profit center is a goal oriented center because we we are taking revenues minus expenses when I say center think of a division okay like the the Dunder Mifflin office in Scranton that could be its own center profit centers where they are responsible for revenues they generate revenues they sell papers and they also incur costs they have employee costs they have rent costs taxes so on and so forth now for external users this sounds familiar familiar as well because when you evaluate a company you want to see how well how profitable they are so this is should be kind of familiar for us because at this point you took financial accounting but here we are using the profit for internal for internal purposes to reward managers so the way we compute profit here could be a little bit different that could be most likely it's a little bit different than external than external gap and how do we break down those centers well it could be done by a geography product line so on and so forth anything that make sense to the company remember this is an internal assessment this is not for external purposes therefore you don't have to use gap you don't have to use gap rules in other words consider only the cost which which is under the management control so if the cost is kind of assigned to the company because assigned by the corporate because of gap purposes we don't really use it in a sense it's not really it's not really assessing the internal performance of that division okay so cost may be under gap but not under the manager's division now in the next session we would look at investment centers investment centers look at revenues look at cost but also we're going to add to it assets and this is will be the next session when we look at investment centers so what are the advantages and disadvantages for using profit centers one one it's easy to understand again revenue minus expenses now the way we account for revenues the way we account for expenses could be little bit different nevertheless the big picture is the same and we are looking at the manager's effort and decision in generating revenues and incurring cost so that's why managers like this because it's directly related to their effort and basically we're assessing the revenues and expenses of that particular division so and it's easy for the corporate division to compare the corporate the corporate headquarter to compare divisions because we're looking at revenues and expenses now the disadvantages of this is divisions could be of different sizes but we can find the solution we could compute compute percentages but nevertheless they could be of different sizes or in different locations which will make a difference okay and it does not really the profit centers does not really does not really evaluate the use of the assets how well the manager is using the assets okay because it's only looking at revenues and expenses but how efficient are they are they and using the assets under their control therefore to evaluate to evaluate the division we're going to be using profitability ratios and we're going to be looking at two profitability ratios one is the gross margin and one is the profit margin they both have the word margin in them we have to understand the difference between gross and profit or sometimes it's called net profit so what is the gross margin ratio well you have to know what the gross margin is the gross margin is sales minus cost of goods sold so if i'm if my total sales is 100 my cost of goods sold is 60 i would say my gross profit my gross margin is 40 dollars now notice i said dollars this is a dollar amount when you compute the gross margin now i'm going to compute the gross margin percentage or the ratio which i'll take the gross margin 40 dollars divided by 100 and that's going to give me for my example 40 and this is the ratios that i am looking at it shows you how well the managers control cost of goods sold in the relationship to sales simply put for this example for every dollar in sales we pay 60 pennies in cost of goods sold and we have 40 cent in profit now why do we use ratios because now it's easy to understand one to compare not to understand to compare one division to the other and you will see this in a moment when we look at an example so this tells us how well the managers have control over cost of goods sold okay so notice for the gross margin other operating costs are ignored we're only looking at cost of goods sold so to include to have more expenses included in the computation we would look at net profit margin ratio or profit margin ratio now how we measure profit because this is a profit or net profit well we could measure profit as only operating income or we can measure profit as net income which is operating profit minus taxes which is income after taxes and some textbook they use operating income some text some text book they use net income but the concept net this is income net income the concept is you are looking at the bottom line how much the company is keeping an every dollar in sales keeping in profit okay so operate so the way we compute this it's operating profit divided by sales again how we compute operating profit it's you know we could use those two measures it's also called sometimes called operating profit margin ratio if you're using operating income it's better to use operating profit margin ratio if you're using net income you would call it net profit margin so don't get confused with the name it's some sort of measurement divided by total sales so income after taxes divided by sales which is this is net income net income so what is the takeaway from all of this it's how much are we keeping in profit after accounting for cost of goods sold using the first ratio which is 40 percent and let's assume let's keep going with this example so 100 minus 60 equal to 40 this is the gross profit and let's assume operating expenses we have 30 dollars so we are keeping this these are the operating expenses okay so now we have operating income of 10 dollars now we if we compute the profit margin ratio 10 divided by 100 is 10 percent it means for this company for every 100 dollar in sales we are keeping 10 percent in profit now let's take a look at an actual example not an actual but you know a more comprehensive example let's assume we're looking at Dunder Mifflin and we're comparing the New York Division to the Scranton Division and we have sales for every division minus cost of goods sold gives us profit gross margin for the New York Division 20 million for the Scranton 12 million then we have operating expenses 12 million in New York 8 million in Scranton then we compute operating income 8 million for New York 4 million in Scranton now by looking at only but by looking at only at the numbers you would say well the New York Division is doing much better their operating income is twice that of Scranton but let's look let's let's let's look a little bit further we compute the taxes and we get after tax income okay so looking at operating income it looks like New York does better looking at gross margin also New York is better but that's not really a fair comparison remember if you operate in New York okay especially in New York City you have more businesses to sell paper to versus if you are operating in Scranton in Pennsylvania middle of nowhere okay so what we have to compute is first is the gross margin ratio how much are we keeping after we deducting our cost well the New York Division is keeping 40 cent per every dollar Scranton Division is keeping 60 cent for every dollar so notice the Scranton Division is doing a better job in controlling their cost of goods sold okay their cost of goods sold it means it's 40 percent and 60 percent profit in New York it's the opposite we have 60 percent cost and 40 percent profit okay so notice Scranton is doing a better job somehow they are buying supplies from a cheaper place or somehow they're closer to their suppliers somehow somehow it's cheaper then we can compute the the profit margin ratio which is taking operating income divided by sales operating income divided by sales and what we notice here New York they're keeping 16 pennies for every one dollar in sales the Scranton Division is keeping 20 cent one fifth of every dollar they keep it in sales obviously the Scranton Division is doing a better job but the New York Division is definitely larger and this should make sense if you're operating in New York especially in New York City so notice what we did after we looked at the numbers we want to know compare them on the same level compare them on the same level you would use per percentages and this is how we'll be able to reward employees reward divisions and everyone is happy at the end of this recording i'm going to invite you again to check out my website especially if you are an accounting 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