Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Christa Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a Commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar, a webcast, an online show, whatever you want to call us. We're here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you are unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We also record our shows every week and we post them on our website so you can go back whenever it's convenient to you onto our website and see all of our shows going back to the very beginning, which is January 2009, our first show. The show and recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your colleagues, friends, whoever might be interested in any of our topics. But we do a mixture of things here. We do presentations, mini-training sessions, book review sessions, basically anything library-related in any way we want to have on the show. And we do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on the show sometimes and we sometimes have guest speakers that come on. And this morning we have a mixture of that, which is nice. All across the table from me, which we're going to turn the camera up at here, as you can see, is Holly. Holly Wohl is here from the Nebraska Library Commission. What's your title now? I need to read it myself. The Library Technology Support Specialist. I work with public libraries in Nebraska with the technology issues and they're public computing centers. And next to her also, she's going to move over here, is Hallie Snyder, who's our children and young adult coordinator, services coordinator. And a couple of months ago, I can remember when I was the previous, the coding session. In January? In January they came on to do a session separate from Men Compass Live, not part of Men Compass Live, a separate webinar that we did on coding with kids and teens and wearables. And part of that was really interesting. We decided to bring it on, part of that, wearable technologies part of the show, which is just one segment of this longer show about coding and a whole bunch of other types of computer-related and robot things. Cool, actually. We decided to break out this one and do a specific show, just a little slide, about wearable technologies and how libraries can get into that. So today we have, great to my left, is Dagen Valentine and on, oh, next to him, Brad Barker. They are gonna tell us all about these wearable technologies. Well, I was just gonna give you some information about who Dagen and Brad and where they're associated with. But Dagen Valentine is a graduate student with the University of Nebraska and he works specifically with Nebraska 4-H. And Brad Barker is a, what you said, was a 4-H science and technology specialist. So I wanted to add on to what Krista was saying, a couple of things. The reason we're doing this wearable technology webinar on Encompass Live Today is that there was just such an overwhelming interest in it from our first webinar. And so we wanted to maybe just do a highlight on these activities and things that are available. And from the very first presentation was Dr. Jenny Mielander with the University of Nebraska and she really sparked a lot of interest with that. And Sally and I also want to remind all of you who maybe are familiar with the first webinar or are familiar with our website, we do have a resource page available for STEM-related types of resources for youth, for library staffs to use for coming up with programs and projects in their library. So that's a plug, we'll come by it later, but we just wanted to give a plug. So I think we're delighted to have, I know we're delighted to have you, and thank you for coming, and I think we're ready to let you go with us. It's great to be here. So we're going to discuss today wearable technologies and e-tech styles and kind of looking at projects for libraries, things that you might be able to do with your community members in your library. So I'd like to give you just an over, so today for the short hour that we have together, I'm going to give you a short overview of our wear-tech program that we're writing, and Brad will explain some of those components. We've kind of broken into some projects for kind of the K5 area. After that, so once you've seen some of the projects, I'm going to show you some of the resources that we put together, some online resources and a couple, an Excel spreadsheet I've put together for components and costs, and then we'll look at 689 projects, and then we'll wrap it up with some paper circuits. And please feel free to ask questions throughout if you need more explanation on something or you'd like me to kind of look at it in a different way, happy to do that. And I'll just, you know, all these resources that he's talking about, the Excel and this PowerPoint, anything else related, you can see, will be available after the show as well for you to have access to to download and use for your own reference. So good morning. Thanks for joining us. So the grant that we have is funded through the National Science Foundation. I'm the PI on the grant, so I'm working with Ginny, Dr. Melander. We have others from engineering and other departments helping us put together this curriculum. So the original goal, and well still is the goal of the program, is to develop about 40 hours of curriculum around wearable technologies for late elementary school students, so grades 3 through 5, although we have crept up a little bit, we are doing programs with 6 and 7 graders now as well. So the idea is to provide a way for you to develop projects using wearable technologies and really learn about engineering, design, circuitry and programming. So those are our main goals of the program, but again, centered on wearable technologies. And the way this came about is we have been doing robotics in 4-H for about 8 years now. And it's been growing really well. For our first LEGO League competition, we have over 100 teams. We have about 900 students that participate. But traditionally, year after year, what we found is we have mostly boys, about 70% of the participants are boys. And so that's a great way for them to enter the STEM fields to get exposure to STEM, but we wanted more females to be interested in STEM. When we combine the artistry of the wearables with the technology, the computer programming, the engineering design, it's a great pathway we think for females to enter the STEM fields. So that's the reason why we chose wearable technologies to bring females into the STEM. The overall way the program is supposed to work is we are working with the 21st Century Community Learning Centers in Nebraska. And the idea is we bridge formal and informal learning environments. So ideally this curriculum will work where the teacher, the certified teacher will introduce the concepts in the classroom. And then in the after school time, the students would be able to do a deeper dive into the curriculum. So they'll have more time to work on their projects and really spend more time with them. Things they wouldn't necessarily be after school or in the department. So that's the model that we're looking at where we're searching for this grant program. So what we're doing today is a little bit off of what the original intent of the grant was. And we're more than happy to do this. But these kind of activities are a little bit different, I would say, than what we have in our core curriculum. But we're happy to be here. And I'll let Dagan continue. So taking a look at some of the projects. So kind of my intent was to generate some ideas and just kind of be a spark for creativity. Hopefully you'll see some opportunities or some potential for connecting some literature with some amazing wearable technologies and e-textiles. In the K5 area, didn't do too much with wearables. Just kind of focused on the skills for e-textiles and the skills that would eventually get to wearables. So we chose the very lonely Firefly by Eric Carl, a classic book, a classic author. And so here's just a picture of the project and I wasn't sure if we'd be able to show it. So Brad's going to show it here. So here's the project. What we have here is a power supply. We have conductive thread. Again, we have a positive and a negative connection here. Go into a button and then when we push the button we complete the circuit and we have a light that will turn it off. There you go. You can see it. So here you can see our conductive thread. Yeah, it's kind of hard to see. Right. Great. And I'll talk more about the components and things in just a little bit. So that's just kind of a lot more artistry and creativity and I just kept it simple. So here you'll see three components, three pieces that make up this project. You can even do it with two and I think I have one like that. So this is just one example. This is one I created just based off of the cover of the Eric Carle book. One of the reasons that this idea of this book came about was because Sparkfun, the creator of these technologies and these components, they have a pre-made project that's all ready to go and they send you the felt, the materials, the thread. They send you everything to do this project that you see here. And so this is, I'm glad we have a camera because they do flicker like Fireflies. And so here's a picture of the components that they look like but we'll show you a little closer. So you can kind of see they're flickering like you caught Fireflies. We're going to hit the lights here and then to make it a little more obvious. Oh yeah. That's great. So it's a pretty easy project. So some skills in sewing. The instructions are really clear and I'm going to show you those also in a moment. So here's the Firefly kit. And I have these links on another page. I can show you that now. I put all of the links that are on the website on one page. So here's from all the slides. These are the actual, just in case the links didn't work on the PowerPoint. Here are the actual links to these things. So the Firefly kit.  In this one that I made, I didn't use the kit. I had access to all of these components, so I just cut the felt myself. I used these components, not together like this. It's cheaper to buy the kit by a dollar and a half when I did the math. So it's nice to have that. So you could just get the kit if you wanted to. And you can see if you do this as a project for a bunch of kids, it's cheaper the more you buy for kids. So you have an educational institution. You get an educator discount. You have to go up there to register. Go to the site, register as an educator and you will get a discount. And they have great instructions. Very clear, step by step. Just very thorough instructions on how to do this. Most of the things from SparkFun are very clear step by step instructions. So a lot of support for, even if you don't know what to do using these will help you out. So there I have my list. So I just want to spend a little bit of time here. So this tells you what you need. So even if you didn't get the kit, it gives you the list of components. So you'll see it has pretty clear instructions or explanations of the components and what they are. Down in the instructions you get step by step. So here it's telling you we'll be excited. We've had some issues accessing the SparkFun site this week. So some of what's going on here and it does exist in the background. There are the pages but we seem to not be able to get to them. And it doesn't say it's doing anything. Do you want me to try to walk you through? Yeah, okay. So Brad will walk you through the instructions in there. If those instructions aren't clear, Brad will pair up any problems. Okay, so this is the back of the project here. These are LEDs and we have four LEDs. And when I turn it over, you'll notice we have a power supply. We just have a three volt battery right here. We have an on and off switch. So I can do that. And then you'll notice we have the negatives on this side and the positives on this side. So that's our power supply. And again, everything's connected with this thread, this conductive thread. So this thread will actually conduct electricity. So this is a circuit. And each one of these lines over here will go to one of the LEDs. So what we need, and the other component we have on here is called a tiny lily. There's a lily tiny. They call it a twinkle. A twinkle, okay. But lily twinkle. So anytime you see a component that has purple and kind of looks flowery, it's going to have lily something in the name of it. So this is a lily twinkle. This is a very small microcontroller that is pre-programmed to send electric signals out in different patterns. And so what we have here are pins, these circles on the outside. And that's what we hook our thread up to. So down at the bottom we have a positive right here and a negative right here. So that allows us to complete the circuit with our power supply. And then over here, all these different just represent a different blinking pattern. So on this side we have a number 3 and that's going to go to this LED right here. So you can see that's blinking. And then so this is a series circuit it looks like, is that right? Parallel. Parallel circuit right here. Parallel. Okay. So this is actually our positive line and it continues to the next LED which is right here. And you can see that's blinking as well. And so we just do that with each one of these LEDs. So this is port 1 which again is going to have a different blink pattern than 3. And they all come back down to this negative. So that will complete the circuit. So yeah, so that's how we built that project. So it finally loaded while Brad was talking so as he was explaining how to sew and where to sew each one of those. The instructions online are really clear and step by step. So it tells where to put the components where each one goes. And so this one, if you have students or community members that need a lot of support when they're doing a project, this is one that you'd be able to do. That first project I showed you, that's one I just created and copied the front of the page. So I didn't have much help with that. So other than using the cover of the book. So then here it shows how to show those all up. Really great instructions and how to finish it off. So spark fun I'm here and I have those in the link list and we're going to look at a couple other links in a little bit. So that's for a fiction book. So as stated before, the resources from this webinar we have the Excel file with component list here. So you got that Firefly kit. Here's just one. It's $20 $19.95. And then here's the source or the link for it. And it also included instructions if it had instructions on how to do it or how to kind of support you in doing this project. There's this one that link there as well. So that Firefly I made. So here's all the parts that all the things that I used even the felt if you have it or here's an Amazon link for you. And here's the two instruction pages that would help you the most with just doing the basic circuit to do that. And including a button is the other one. So I've tried to include all the things that you would be able to do a project similar to or same as the one that you saw today. So and then just the outline for this presentation I have it on there as well just for your reference if you need it. The K5 project for nonfiction this is The Night Sky. It's an introduction to Stars, Planets, Constellations. So science-based one. And so here this is a project I put together that is not pre-made instructions or anything for this. It's just something I made for the Big Dipper. So here's Stars. Here it is lit up Brad's going to show you. So this one I don't have a twinkle or anything it just simply turns off and on. So something easy I used a fabric paint to help me with this one and LED thread and one battery source. So those are all very simple and easy to do. The sewing didn't take very long on that project. So for those type of projects that are very simple kind of geared towards the elementary, middle school SparkFun includes some instructions on basic sewing which are great. It kind of tells you how to work with their conductive thread. It has a steel that's steel lined thread. That's what makes it conductive. So they're able to use those Those are different than sewing with normal thread, just non-steel thread. I've never sewn before. Even when I spent some time in Armenia, you buy pants that are they don't cut the inseam. They're always long. Like four inches too long. You have to hem them up. And I always have a neighbor and somebody do it. I don't know how to do this. As a seamstress, I would say it's probably stiffer. So I'm lining up the basic. This goes through how you might want to use the thread. So they suggest doing, doubling up the thread. That's not anything. It's like it's jumping. Okay, cool. I didn't use a embroidery hoop. I didn't use an embroidery hoop. Felt is pretty stiff. Anne O'Connor, curriculum specialist, is working on the project. She's found that younger kids are able to manipulate it stiff. Where if you use cotton, sometimes it's harder because it folds over on itself. Felt's pretty good for most applications. So they explain in pretty good detail how you need to sew it. So three loops around how you go from one to the other. Shows you some pretty good diagrams on what to do and how to finish off. How to tie off your thread, so that way you have a good connection between each of the components. Making sure that they don't cross. Here's a picture down here. And so because you are using a circuit, so if you think of wires in a circuit, you don't want them crossing. So you have to do the same thing with threads. So when you're creating a project, you have to think of designing it in a way that makes it so that the threads won't cross, otherwise you short it out and your components won't light up. So there are some of those components to aspects. Exactly. So those instructions I think are really there and would help out most people who are working on these. The next one for this project with the Big Dipper, the LDK2 design kit. They show you how to do something in series, in parallel. You see it in parallel with the strands or in series if you wanted to. If you do something in series you have to have more power just because of the voltage drop between each component. So most of the things that we do in our projects are parallel. It's easier. So that's one of my recommendations is you're going to sew something, sew it in parallel. And again, great instructions on how to do that. Reminds you not to cross the threads. You can turn or twist them as long as you respect the kind of positive and negative flow electricity. So excellent instructions on SmartFun.  We use fabric glue to glue those down. So there's a series circuit. So notice they used two battery sources. They needed six volts in order to complete that. And the voltage drop between the red. Yellow pulls more power than the red. A couple of tidbits I learned when I was working with this. So I showed you those and then the third one for that project specifically you needed to know how to use a button or a switch. Which was in the first project. So this shows if you do buy a button or a switch if you choose to use those components it shows how to include those within your circuit. So that way they work. And so here's coming from the positive pole and going to so here it interrupts the electricity going to this first LED and you don't have to have it in the negative. So here they're doing it in two of them. So there's what it looks like. So here on the negative side you don't have to put anything. You're just interrupting the flow of electricity from one pole to the other. So that's kind of what it looks like and then it works. It's pretty cool.  So that's just the difference with the button or switch. Cool options that you could use. I think as you add more components the difficulty goes up sometimes exponentially depending on what you're using. The lower levels, most of the projects I used were simple not very many components. Sources for the components are two main sources that I found. One is SparkFun which we've visited often and you've seen. They do have a whole section on all of their components for wearable technology. So here just I didn't use the intent of what they have. They have different batteries for different components that you need. They have coin cell batteries conductive fabric they have little schools of conductive thread large schools. So if you can think of anything that you might be able to use SparkFun is one of the resources you could use to buy. Also there's Adafruit which you can also make which is compatible with Arduino software. So you'll see most of the similar components they have the little holes that you can sew into. They also have LEDs they call them sequins I think. There we go, LED sequins. They're pretty much exactly the same. I think they're cheap. This is the only item I found that was cheaper on Adafruit than SparkFun. Pretty much all components were exactly the same price other than these LED sequins. They're a little cheaper. All the components list that I have in this are from SparkFun. It's easier for me to just go to one of these. So that's where you can get components. Some instructional support is learn.sparkfun.com and they have an e-textiles just cool projects that you can do so I want to show this page. If you surf this page you'll see tons of interesting cool things that you can do with e-textiles and wearables. So how to make light up corsages you have a wedding coming up and you want to make corsages or... That would be really cool. Definitely. An entrepreneurial kind of opportunity for those that really like this and that's something would be interesting for someone to do. Plush Monster this is one that SparkFun makes and you can buy a kit just like the Firefly. So it's pre-cut with the components and the things that you need to make this project. Also some other projects there's lots of resources and they also have some of the instructions here as well. This is a pretty good resource for you. The creator she helped write a book so electric and so this is the source for that. They do have a couple bookmark book light which I thought was cool. Definitely ties in with reading and libraries and it just uses two components. It's like you read under the covers at night. So you can find your book. Pretty cool project. They don't have all the instructions in this they suggest you get the book. I think this one had all the there's one or two of them that had all the instructions but for the most part so electric the book would be a great resource to have if you're planning on some of these and so it tells you everything that you need for the project. Some Google keywords, just solvable circuits lily, lily pad, wearables if you included those in a search query you would find most of the top, the first page pertain to what you wanted. We do have a website for our wear tech curriculum we could go there. It's not populated yet. So we're still working on materials to put on there so it is a live link so it does take you there it's just there's not anything on it so you notice that there's an H at the end even though we spell wear tech without the H but that is a live link and it would work. Also this lady helped create some of the components she also has a book called Textile Messages just another great resource for projects tips on how to use the thread other great lots of good information it's called Textile Messages So any questions on that that covered that I don't know if that was to be fast Does anybody have any questions if you do type them into your GoToWebinar interface just in the questions section there we can grab them and I can pass them on but nothing even while you're talking so go ahead So now just moving on to some 5-8 projects Oh okay we did that one question Is there any fire danger with these like this electronics and lights and things on fabric I see there's someone in your shirt there Are you afraid of going up in flames No We built those monsters in Nebraska City last year as a pilot project and we did have wires crossed it heated up enough that it melted the felt but there was no fire so yeah I don't believe there would be a fire but I wouldn't act purposefully short right if you're having a short circuit by accident that's when something might get heated up sorry I hope I'm not making anybody sit I'm trying to show you the monster with the eyes lit up it's kind of hard to tell but honest they really are lit up there you go now we can see it oh yeah oh you're scary now he's well if you bring him closer then it gets scarier I'm sorry I'm not very good at this so yeah something like fire danger would be in that case no if you don't get wires crossed then you shouldn't have that and you're only you know you're working with 3 volts or 6 volts for electricity so potential danger is not very high so for 5.8 middle level we were thinking kind of a scene from a book this one I didn't have a chance to make so you have you know so there you can imagine having an LED or two in an LO circle if they wanted to make this or use paint to create this when Harry Potter calls his patronus to save himself and his uncle so that's one idea and then maybe a little house on the ferry something like this even the blight up or something like that so kind of thinking for the middle level and the high school level if you know you've read a book and you know they wanted to prove it and they wanted to make a project it would be a good opportunity to make a scene from that book or something that a theme that was from that book that they would be able to do just a couple ideas this one nonfiction sells for kids by Dr. Singh this would so here's a picture of so notice I used a lot more components on this one same concept each one of these is done in parallel but I did make two circuits off of both of these and used two switches so I just upped the difficulty by using these components so here Brad will show these I was thinking during this if they read this book we talked a little bit about plant cells but mostly about animal cells that they there are some similarities between the plants and plants and animal cells like they both have nuclei they both have mitochondria so some similarities so that's why I used the same colors so if they wanted to reference red is the nucleus on both of them they could show that the other thing that I showed this to some specialists that if you notice when Brad presses both buttons the drawn electricity so not all of them light up so the red and the green are the lowest draws of that electricity so they will light up with the least amount of electricity where pink and blue and white they have a higher voltage drop so that's why when you press them both they don't light up as much so I'm using all six volts of that so that's a nonfiction idea for the middle level and this was one I made, I'm just using the components no instructable or anything like that for 912 projects again seen from a book so grade level appropriate, older kids might enjoy the themes and the information from the giver you might have kids interested in the hundred games or Divergent any of the vampire books by Miss Mead those are kind of big with my nieces and nephews that are in 9th and 10th grade enjoy those so kind of an idea from there for the 912 projects we were thinking this is where we might be able to do a little bit of the wearable a little more application within the wearable and arena so I didn't want to call it bedazzling but maybe edazzling something that's already made so clothes, just adding components to it or doing something like that so definitely this is where I think those higher level kids would be able to do work with the wearable technologies and add them onto something wearable we've talked about the felt projects that are 2D where you're just going one level but anytime you're doing a shirt or a hat you have to think about what's going on the front and the back and you're the contours of the fabric so that adds an element of difficulty so that's where maybe not doing that with K5 but as they get older they might be able to understand it better and work a little better with it we do a question about that what about washing the clothes afterwards so it's spark fun all but one that I know of they're washable they're hand washable and so you can wash them and hand wash and dry like normal so you are able to I'm wearing a shirt the camera that works I have a NASA shirt that I edazzled so it's a NASA emblem wherever the stars were I put an LED and then I used the lily twinkle so similar to the firefly in a jar where they kind of blink like stars so this is a project that they could edazzle even everything including that big one in the bottom that can not just go through the wash or use a hand wash not in the washing machine they recommend hand washing we do remove the power source it does have a 6 volt battery you take the batteries out you can wash them there is one a buzzer that plays tones that you can't wash they say they're trying to figure out how to make it washable but that's one you wouldn't be able to so I put that on a hat and I have a picture of it so if you can't see this here's the hat this hat just highlights a lot of the components that we use in our wearable technologies curriculum so here's the twinkling it's on and then I have an RGB going here and then so I have a light sensor on it so when it's dark like it is now it will play its own but while I'm out in the sunlight or normal lights it won't play because it would get annoying I think so this one a little more work and some computer programming I didn't include a lot of projects for computer programming or much information particularly on this one in the future or if they wanted to look at that they'd have to find Arduino and program that to Arduino I thought that was beyond the scope of today's presentation now that the light's on I left it on now that the lights are on it should not play music so now it's just flashing the light but no music or I had to program it a little bit more a little more difficulty so that thing that deeped the really buzzer it's not washable so I didn't want to put that on the shirt I don't want to smell bad so I put it on something that I wouldn't have to wash every day or so I would say if you're going to wash or close your circuits need to be pretty robust so when you run that thread you would run two or three times through your circuits a little stretch as you wash a little stretch and then they do recommend putting glue on the back so that would help it stay use some of that fabric glue on the back I did it on this one I wanted it done fast how does that feel on your skin for me it kind of ditches so I have an undershirt on it does kind of scratch so I did so it might work well right and I'll show you some of those projects for some other how students might be able to dazzle some projects we have one other question how long, well how about using the metallic thread in a sewing machine would it be able to work through a sewing machine or is it better to do it by hand that's a lot that's something for Annemarie yeah the thread is very coarse it's a very coarse it's kind of rough but it feels very similar to thread I'm not sure but it is kind of brittle but it is I would say as I saw maybe because it feels like we're going through if you say it's brittle and it might because there's a lot of pulling and tension when you feel this thread through it might not stand up to that kind of thing it might depend on how expensive your sewing machine is that's true too if you google it I'm sure somebody's tried it there's lots of projects out there where it seemed like they did some intensive sewing so if they did it all by hand that's cool but they may have used a machine I'm not sure good question how often do the batteries last? like how often do you need to replace you're not having these run constantly obviously you're turning them on and off the 6 volt batteries that were in the hat and this shirt they're lithium batteries so they're recharged so you plug it in and they're rechargeable 3 volt batteries, the coin cell batteries that are not rechargeable 5-6 hours it just depends on how much LEDs how much you're pulling through the battery and they roll back right so here's a picture of the hat here's the component so this is just like the firefly setup those are the instructions I followed for that firefly I followed the exact same instructions for this set over here this is the lily pad pat mega 320 I have it linked in the excel document if you wanted to look at this one and then here's a light sensor so this I have it set so I can program this component so it has some lines of code in it it keeps checking this and when it is dark it will play something out of the buzzer then here's a tri color LED so this you can mix colors RGB so you can have pink you can choose the color that you have to program it to tell what colors so and that's another component that you can be able to use and again that's on the excel document under the hat project I just put all the components that I have so the tri color light sensor so here's those gets this lithium battery it's a little more expensive it is rechargeable so you'll have those to reference if you're interested oh here it is so they have instructions on a lot of cool ideas at instructables.com and they tag all their things and so with the lily pad tag they have tons of cool ideas and if you want to do some of these use that board that you program most of these have copy and paste code so like this one which I want to do on my sweater they so it's the light sensor so it's pretty much the exact same thing as the hat so when this kid pops up this color it senses the light and it plays a song and so the code that they put into this it's copy and paste instructions are pretty good they're user submitted so they might not be as clear as SparkFun but they go through the instructions pretty clearly and so they show all how to do that for Arduino this user submitted the code so they even have sewing instructions so if you're nervous about the circuitry a lot of the instructables will include a sketch kind of a model for that here they tested with alligator clips suggest getting some alligator clips I have it on the excel sheet just to test out and practice with the circuitry and then here's the code in the Arduino program it's free Arduino and so if you go on their site you'll be able to find it and download it it's all free if you dazzle your Christmas sweater for next year so if you have an ugly sweater you can add a lot of annoying music if you want so visually ugly however you wanted to do that that would be something you could do mix and match be creative with some parts of code so the instructables so lots of different ideas from you know turn signal suspenders so sewing it into suspenders had some cool I think this was a sweater as well so putting this lock in here and sewing some leds this one uses the twinkle and then they also programmed a song the Elsa let it go chorus in this one which was really cool so lots of cool ideas on instructables with the tag lily pad so all these use the lily pad components lots of different ideas one of my friends made the project this one he's a motorcycle rider and it's a turn signal jacket and so when he raises up like his right arm lights right up down the down the arm indicating that he's going that way so it's in a leather coat that's a great idea a friend of a friend but it was pretty cool I wish he was my friend so I could wear a coat and go buy a party next so musical glove just amazing ideas on here on instructables so those are the that previous slide was the kind of the upper level projects that you would be able to look at and do so lower level I would keep it simple and maybe not do wearable just using the e-tech styles and then adjust number of components per level and some of the projects I used I used a fabric paint so not everything has to be sewn you could just add one component and then they create something around that one component fabric paint also just colored thread if they wanted to use they would be able to do that for embroidery there's a special name for that thread isn't there? gloss so using embroidery gloss would be one way to add some creativity and color that maybe if they're not ready to complete huge circuits they'd be able to add some color and some creativity and then I think a lot of these projects and a lot of ideas are easily connected to literature so definitely I'll find that throughout your libraries so to wrap up we also wanted to show kind of a relatively inexpensive so relatively inexpensive idea for kind of an introduction to circuitry and using some components so paper circuits they use in the example that we show you there's other resources online if you say paper circuits they use copper tape so it's conductive and you essentially make the same you know you make a circuit going from positive to negative of a LED so here's and this is from Instructables again so here the use of copper tape and an LED so they easily connect the batteries flipped under here that was the finished project that's kind of what it looks like here notice they indicated whether it was positive or negative so that would be even easier for kids that would be yes aren't as dexterous to do the sewing with a needle just have them tape it this last Monday we were at the project lead the way conference and we had a bunch of students come into ours and we did paper circuits with the teachers that were there for project lead the way and the kids didn't even follow the instructions they were doing other stuff and seeing how they could move the thread around and make multiple circuits so they immediately grabbed onto the simplicity and were creative with what they could do Sparkfun has a couple projects one of the ones we're doing is a lotus flower and that's when we did this last Monday it's a pop-up one unfortunately I didn't get mine done all the way we can still zoom in it's a work in progress it is it doesn't light up it doesn't I didn't finish the circuit the lotus eye of all the links here's the e-dazzling instructables here's one from Sparkfun it's really cool it would look cool if it was done it would look something like this it would light up how much time does it take to complete that type of project 15 minutes pretty simple here's one we did for Valentine's Day Dr. Milander did this one and I think Yoda won so it's Yoda with the sword just connected those in parallel definitely using some connections to concepts of circuitry parallel circuits some good vocabulary kids would be able to use so this would be something they could make a card for their mother for Mother's Day so here's the Sparkfun once it light up Valentine's Day this one's a little more complicated just one it could make little pop-up cards Father's Day card lights up this uses the lily pad that we showed earlier the switch the person can turn it off and on using some of those we use mostly these with the LEDs but Sparkfun does have some that you can use like a speaker those cards you can buy that have the song on them or whatever so you could put a little speaker in there something like that with these components I think I put the lotus flower Sparkfun lotus flower card and so this is the one Brad showed you without the LED because I didn't get it done so it has and again Sparkfun instructions are fantastic the instructions for this right here the disclosure paper circuit the PDF the instructions are very clear how to make it where this paper here has where the instructions are and where the tape goes so a lot of support for anyone doing this that might be unsure of how the circuit works or whatever this one has a lot of support for you with the PDF it's easily downloadable and here's all the components in the Excel spreadsheet I included that one down here paper circuits so I try to find the cheapest one copper conductive tape it's not very wide and 5mm pretty wide copper tape projects most of these that we saw have the thin copper tape just some small LEDs 3mm ones and then some smaller 12mm quincellabalic batteries they're not bigger they're not a little larger that's where this project is definitely cheap you can scale up pretty big and have materials ready for anybody that would find the library and wanted to do a flower or a project some keywords just paper circuit, tape, LED so adding those components if you just do paper circuit you'll get some the pins that have conductive ink you'll find a lot more of those than the ones with the tape so adding tape in your query will help find those projects that use copper tape if you wanted to and then LED as well there are some other some company makes which I just found and told me about they make them with sticker LEDs so it's actually a sticker with a little LED so not one with a little prongs on it it's pretty cool here's my contact information if you have any questions you can email me or if you want to contact these fine legies here forward me a question or something I'll try to help you out does anybody have any other questions take them into your questions section go to webinar interface we've asked all the ones that were taken before I was just going to ask you were saying that some of the tape for the paper some of it's wider than others is it more powerful because it's wider or is it just there are reasons to have wider versus narrower tape if you I don't think so it just depend on the application but as for conductive power it wouldn't matter you want to design a different project that had thicker tape it would be really easy there's a couple of YouTube videos where a lady shows you how to make corners and actually do arts with the copper tape by trimming it a little bit making gravy lines maybe not google query or search query you can find the YouTube video that a lady explains really well because the copper tape the entire thing is conductive it's not just like some line of thread for the center or something so you can cut it down and bend it and do what you need to with it any other questions or comments or no I just really appreciate you two coming in and giving us an opportunity to share this this sounds wonderful I've already I'm a moral day I have my own hat then I'll share it definitely I think that people's minds turning I'm already thinking of Christmas ornaments that how can I make something with like Buddha's nose or something like that let's see I'm at the paper level I'm walking up to the actual sewing a little further down ready for some cards see about doing that all right well it doesn't look like any other last minute urgent questions come in that's fine so thank you very much guys for coming in and sharing this was I remember when we did do the coding one we did a lot of the robotics and there's this and a few other things and it was all very yeah like you said you got people really interested in it so I'm glad we got come on and do a lot more specific on this one maybe some of the robotics or Legos I'm a lot of Legos stuff I was like follow all that when all those competitions are going on so thank you very much guys everyone thank you everyone for attending Encompass Live this morning let's see here I'm going to go to our so that will wrap us up for this week's episode of Encompass Live it's our thing yes of course so that wraps up for this week's edition of Encompass Live it has been recorded so it will be available on our website later this afternoon along with the powerpoint presentation that was there all the documents were so I'm sorry to interrupt I was just going to say there's the search window up there and if you search coding that will take you to what we have now for our page that has the coding ideas on it but also some other things that we'll be expanding with this information now and then we're also looking at an adult coding page that we haven't quite finished or put anywhere yet kind of like your page that doesn't have anything yet but you know so I just wanted people to know about that as well there's some of the Spark fun that you were talking about too yeah this is what came out of that first session that we did back in January right yeah people might wow and in the middle of the page there is a question about coding opportunities for the library or share a coding success story I really encourage you I'm hearing success stories when you're calling me with a problem and anyone can analysis it out but if you're calling it or a concern or something that you need a question to answer then you tell me about your coding opportunities you've had at your library we really appreciate having it documented too so we can look back at it or share your resource and what you've done with another library and if you do any of the paper circuits or the wearable technologies please let us know about those too kind of together and who knows you might be on Encompass Live sometime talking about what you did at your library taking these resources and ideas that we just gave you today and actually doing some sort of project or event so let us know and I might come help so stay let me know yeah you want Holly helping you more than you want me oh I remember anyway so we're going to take you away no no we're probably going to show that so yes that will wrap it up for this week's show it has been recorded and down here it's our Encompass Live page right over here underneath our upcoming shows is linked to all of our archives where like I said we'll have all the documents, power representation, links to all the links, we put them in our delicious account, we'll put all the documents up there as well, I'll be recording to be able to watch all of this later these are upcoming shows so please do sign up for any of them I hope you join us next week with our Tech Talk with Michael Sowers, last Wednesday Wednesday of the month, I will say Friday but it's the last Wednesday of the month our 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Yes, we're here and it is always great to be with you, our Yes! audience. Ian Joy, Bob Lorenz with you, and you know what Ian, just I want to start off in the interest of national sanity because we're still all binge watching things and sharing content and things we like to watch. What do you team up these days? What are you watching? Oh, that's a big question right there, you know. Give me a couple, give me a couple tasty nuggets. I've got a few and I've certainly enjoyed what's been put out there. I mean I'm really impressed with what Netflix have done as well in particular and of course Amazon. I mean I've really gone all different platforms here. I've signed up for everything. I mean I'm giving my money to anyone who will take it so that I can watch as much as I possibly can. I try to limit my time as what I'm watching so I leave it to like maybe one or two episodes a day. My wife will go through five or six episodes a day. I don't know how she does it with three kids. But if I'm giving you two or three that I really like, first and foremost I watch on Torage religiously. And of course everyone's talking about the big one, the MJ, the last dance. I mean every Sunday I've set my alarm. I've told my wife and children to stay out of my room so I can sit and watch this and it's been a phenomenal watch. A lot of things about Michael Jordan I did not know but it was and still is one of the best sports documentaries I have ever watched. So it's been impressive. What about you Paul? What have you been watching? Yeah I want to ask you about MJ in a minute but when you send him out of the room is it like, but get me popcorn first. Bring dad some popcorn. You know what's interesting is you talked about diving into some of those shows that had five or six seasons. I always find it hard to start a show like that because I know I'm gonna have to make a long commitment. But we've done on Netflix we did Dead to Me which is the Christina Applegate show which we've and with Linda Cardellini which found to be very good. We crushed that and I just sorted one on Amazon we're halfway through called Upload.  Well they do in the future. They save the consciousness and you can then interact with your life on earth. You're just not there. You're in this heavenly place but you pay for it. Ironically you talked about streaming services. You pay for it with like a you have a Verizon bill. You know what I mean? So you have unlimited data that you can I can call you anytime in from this heaven-like state or I might just have two gigs. So I live in this like you know other world where I run out of things to read and things to do and things to look at so it's really really interesting. But back to the last dance you've got further than I have so far. I think I mean it's just my opinion but you tell me that one of the things you would love about it because you were such a competitor and still are is that you love how great his competitive nature was maybe unparalleled in pro sports. Yeah I think a lot of the generation that is watching this right now are generation of people that didn't see MJ when he was playing and I'm including that. I didn't see the best of Michael Jordan. I caught the last games of his career the comeback so to say but to witness what went on behind the scenes for Michael Jordan for the Chicago Bulls what went on in the front office what they had to deal with and it was quite remarkable and it was really eye-opening but that professionalism that aggression I mean that winning mentality that you have in a player that was just maybe born with you I don't think a lot of people can actually learn that. I think you're actually you have it or you don't have it and he clearly had it and he pushed his teammates to be better than they probably were. He pushed his team to be a great team as far as team spirit because he knew that without them he couldn't win so he needed his team to be a part of something special so that he could win medals win trophies and and he certainly did that. It's really impressive to me how he's always first in the class right you know if he's doing a sprint he's first if he's lifting away he's lifting heaviest if he's jumping he's jumping higher than anybody else that's what impressed me most about it. What I find remarkable too and I don't know if some of our viewers had a chance to see the segment I did with my colleague Michael Ozanium from Forbes for Forbes Sports Money that his Q score among young kids today Jordan's who've never seen him play or maybe just when they were born so they still wouldn't remember watching him play is through the roof and that's because of his Air Jordans. Now I get that I get why it would be that way but now seems to me this documentary gives them a chance to connect all the dots as to why he became this great player that he was and it also kicks up that courage debate because it's it seems to be non-stop who was ever better Jordan or LeBron. Well they get to see LeBron play now they'll get a lot bigger chunk of how Jordan was. Yeah I think your generation you seem to follow the best player at that time I mean for me personally LeBron is the best because of I'm watching him from a kid all the way through the pros to winning these championships didn't get to see that with MJ but now I'm watching this documentary I realize he had a much more or bigger impact on basketball and on sports and on a generation than anybody else in basketball or sports ever did so it really was great to me to hear from not only Michael Jordan but to hear from his agent to hear from coaches to hear from teammates to hear from opponents people who actually hated playing against Michael Jordan or playing with Michael Jordan how frustrating he was the agent was really impressive to me about the deal with Nike you know they hoped to sell maybe three million dollars worth of shoes in the first year for a rookie and then they ended up selling like 125 million dollars worth of shoes that was so impressive to me and of course watching the documentary my mind starts to go you know and I'm always thinking about entertainment you know what would people want to see and I thought well maybe my sport soccer if I'm turning the soccer who would it be there's a guy called Zlatan Ibrahimovic who I know would be amazing because his life has been incredible soccer life he's won pretty much everything his personal life is ridiculously crazy he's so famous he does stupid things on the field and again for me it would be a documentary that would make people see probably a dark side to his life how difficult it's been but also love him more for the what he did to push himself to take himself to the next level as far as the team is concerned you could you could choose 10 different teams in soccer but if I'm thinking of team sports yeah I'm thinking of the Yankees I would love to see a documentary about the Yankees but what sort of error would we do if we were doing one on the Yankees Bob I mean you've lived and grown up with baseball you could pick I mean last hundred hundred twenty years all those championship runs with Yogi Bear on the team and the Lou Gehrig yeah you could pick listen that's why we have Yankees classics that's why we have Yankeographies on yes I know something that is in the workset yes and Jack Curry our colleague has done a ton of interviews from the dynasty years and that 96 team is we're putting together a dynasty show yeah so for any yes viewers keep your eyes out for that I think that's going to be terrific because the beauty of it is it's not all about just as you said the players and what we can pull up clips of of highlights of games I think with Jordan and as you talked about with Ibrahimovic how about we know if you're painting by numbers you don't just paint in the ones and twos you're painting it all that background stuff and you realize the depth of either the player or for example those 90s teams for the Yankees the depth of those teams am I right in saying when we're talking about the New York Yankees Bob that there has been generations come and gone if you're looking at a Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan came raised the level of the Chicago Bulls he left and then the Chicago Bulls sort of faded out of the limelight but the New York Yankees are always number one no matter who comes in and out of the franchise the club is still number one am I right in saying that no you're absolutely right I mean they are the biggest global brand their value reflects that everything about them over the years reflects that but I want to draw a parallel and of course they are in business together so to speak well in a variety of ways the Jordan brand worn by Derek Jeter now you could say that Michael Jordan of course was the driving force behind those teams and he could take over games for the Bulls but you can't have a championship team with just Derek Jeter you can't with just Jordan and that's why this documentary has made us think about Scottie Pippin Dennis Rodman Bill Lambert all of these players John Paxson so you look beyond just the greatness of a Jeter as he started that dynasty he was young then and it was a lot of those other superstar players willing to be background players to make a great team even greater I want to learn from our supporters as well the viewers the fans who are following the Yankees who are who have followed through generations grandfathers fathers sons and daughters now who are watching you know what era would they like to see a documentary on which players would they like to see a documentary on who have come and gone from the Yankees I mean there are so many players to choose from so many different generations as you say I'm still learning a lot about New York Yankees and of course you know having worked in New York now for about five or six years everybody talks about the New York Yankees so I think it'd be a great watch and everybody knows a ton about the Yankees and if you write that connection from dads and moms to kids and daughters to grandparents they all know about the Yankees and the Yankees fans are well educated and they love a winners so keep your eyes out for that show coming up on yes Ian and I will see you next time on yes we're here