Hey guys, welcome to the Chi life masterclass. I'm David Wong and I'm gonna be your trainer and mentor today. How you guys doing? Let me know where you're from Say hello So we're on YouTube we are on tiktok and we're on Instagram wherever you are the Best audio and video is on the YouTube live. So if you want to hop over there that is Good or the zoom call if you're on the zoom call You get to post your questions on the chats or you can post your questions on the comments and I'm going to do my best to answer them as As best and as quickly as I can While there's gonna be a lot of people on this call And while you're here make sure you click the like button or tap the screen so that we get lots of likes on This live right now Okay, so where you guys from let me know I'll give you a shout out to wherever you are By the way, if you haven't already Applied if you haven't already applied I Think my camera is shutting down again. If you haven't already applied you need to go to Our link to To apply for the Chi life assistant She live assistant opportunity so I'm gonna be in Dallas Texas and also I'll be in Laguna Beach, California so in May 26, I believe I will be on Laguna Beach, California, so I think a few of you already a volunteer for that and We also have On June 1st 2nd and 3rd. I'm gonna be in Dallas, Texas, so we're looking for assistance to help out in those events so if you want to get more experience with Chi life and also be able to earn some money because you're gonna be able to Earn money from people who are gonna be there They're gonna be lots of people looking at our technology who are interested in buying them So you can earn some commissions while you're there and also you get to get some mentorship and training from me Okay, so it looks like my YouTube isn't working again This camera keeps overheating So it looks like we're just gonna do it on Tiktok today. So just give me one second. Let me see if I can use another camera So today we're gonna talk about Philly of marketing. How many of you guys here are already affiliates? Raise your hand if you already are Love my outfit. Thank you. Yeah, it's a new jacket. I got Silver looks nice. Let's see if I can set up this camera. Okay, so cameras do not working Let's see what I'm gonna do I'll just use my laptop camera, which is pretty low quality, but I have no other Another options here Okay, so I have to use this camera. All right better than nothing, right? Okay, so thanks for waiting. So, okay, let's start this over again. It's okay So hey Lewis Andrea Angela Chris Joe Jimmy Kevin Kristen Christie Luke Mary Matthew Susan welcome Okay, so who here is already an affiliate? Let me know If you already affiliate Raise your hand. I think I see some hands already risen and And Yeah, so we actually have quite a lot of affiliates and we have some quite successful ones that have already earned a lot of a lot of income from promoting our products and I want to do my best to support you guys Give you whatever resources and training you need so that you guys can go ahead and You know create wealth for yourself by sharing and creating Transformations for people in their lives so We're gonna talk about mainly how to create content that's going to get a lot of people to view it So there's many people who become affiliates and there's different strategies on basically sharing about the product and one strategy is just to Share with your friends and family which is great place to start because they know you you already have a relationship with them and You know, they can see your life changes from the technology. So You can start there next place you can you can go to is your co-workers or Some events or maybe some local events that you go to some meet-ups or some Could be a yoga class or any classes or events and or communities that you participate in and you can share it with them Thirdly the next step is to share with people you don't know that you haven't met yet and you know, you want to build a long-term Affiliate marketing business and long-term income that is the best-placed way to do it because eventually You know all your relatives and all your friends they already buy one and You want to continue to create more and more income? so what you need is to you need you need to meet new people and you need to Share this with people you haven't met yet that need to know about she coils or need to know about She energy I are other products. So, how do you do that? right. Well, one of the easiest way to meet people online these days or to get people to Get attention or to get engagement is through tiktok Some people can do it through YouTube or Facebook. Those are all good, too But what we found was that tiktok is a lot more engaging tiktok is a lot more you know More authentic. That's the general Consensus and the general feel of the app tiktok is that it is more authentic. It's more raw and it's more You know, it's less polished right? We want to compare the different social media networks You can let's say there's a YouTube Facebook Instagram and tiktok You can say that like Instagram is like the more polished the you know everywhere like looks pretty they put their The best outfit on and they put their best makeup on and they have really these like picture perfect photos and videos That's generally what Instagram is is more catered towards and they're more moving more towards video so that they can catch up with tiktok so that's kind of changing but but Instagram is more for like like a more polished look And then there's Facebook and then YouTube which is kind of like in the middle And then there's tiktok where it is more like just every day Every day average people can without you know Without looking perfect and without looking like with all the makeup and all the with all the fancy clothes They can still get a huge following because people want to relate with people and engage with people who are like them Okay, so that's the main difference not not saying that you can't dress up like wear a nice jacket or something like that On tiktok is just I mean, this is my style and I this is what I'd like to Like to wear so but the key thing is be authentic might be yourself, right? I'm not wearing this because I'm trying to impress people this I just like it and I actually wear it in You know it my everyday life as I go out and you know even at home so So whatever you do the key thing is to be authentic. So what does it mean to be authentic it is to Just speak from the heart instead of speaking from the head or speaking from something else and That's very important. And when when you start doing that what's gonna happen is people are gonna recognize that It could be a toner voice. It could be your eye contact could be your body You know body language all that adds up and all this unconscious In is that whenever you speak from the heart and you speak, you know What's authentic to you and what's real for you then people will Engage with that and they can see that because nowadays it's very easy to see what's an advertisement. It's very easy to see, you know Whether somebody is trying to make money from from a video or if somebody is actually trying to share something that is Truly amazing and truly life-changing. So the key is how can you? How can you get that kind of engagement and how can you get that kind of trust with the videos that you make? well, a lot of it has to do with practice and a lot of it has to be able to Communicate okay, so you need to learn how to communicate in a way that's number one and very short and very sweet Guess to the point. It's brief. There's no rambling the first sentence like the first three seconds has to Give the the viewer a reason to keep watching for the next 10 Seconds for the next 30 seconds for the next minute for the next five minutes and so on. Okay, so When you start a video It can't be say hey, how's it going guys? I'm a bum about that's that's not the right way to start a video a live It's okay, but when you actually record video, you don't want to do that okay, you want to focus on creating strong headlines or You can call them hooks or you can call them but or you can call them titles Okay, or something that gets the person's attention and I showed you guys this last month In the masterclass is how to use chat GBT You guys haven't already used it to to create these hooks and create these headlines And you don't have to use them directly word for word, but they're good ways to Get ideas and to change the wording that you have because a lot of times like the truth is that 80% of the people don't know how to sell 80% of people don't know how to how to do affiliate marketing Many people have no idea And you may not have no idea, but that's okay. It's something that you can learn and it's something that's very easy to do And as I said, you can just use Something like chat GBT to help you get those first few seconds of content in your videos then get that Get that audience attention. So we're gonna go over that more in detail in a bit So first of all to keep it short and sweet next thing number two is to learn how to get attention and keep attention in the first three seconds and then ten seconds of the in the first few seconds of the video I Talked about being authentic. Okay, so show your own personality Use your own voice make something that's unique and relatable to your audience because what's gonna happen is whatever you do Most likely you're gonna attract people that Resonate with you. Okay. So there's no point Changing yourself into something you're not In order to attract somebody.  What do you do when you wake up? What do you do for work? You know what you do at night? What do you for fun? What do you eat? What kind of stuff you eat? What kind of music you listen to, you know, and then You know, you want to share about like who you are because that's what people are interested in but do it in a way that's That has some kind of story to it. Okay, so that leads us to the next part like what what do you what's what's a kind of content is It's engaging. Well a story is one of the best ways to Get people's attention and keep it is to tell a story So and then you may be asking what kind of story Would I tell well, you can still tell story about your life there's so many things that you think are not important and it's may not be anything of importance, but It doesn't really matter because if it's something that happened in your life, that's interesting and and even funny that's actually Content that people really like to listen out watch like if something that Happened to you or something that you did or something that you saw or something that occurred that you saw Or in when your family members lives if you want to share something that's funny that's always something that people want to hear about and Because when you kind of make fun of yourself a little kind of like You know, don't without taking yourself too seriously You gotta make it fun yourself then people kind of lower their The guard and lower their barriers and they become more open to what you have to say because you're not somebody that's like trying to pretend or position yourself To be better or greater than then whoever is listening because when you do that It can have one of two effects right number one It can it can attract people if you are actually are You know very successful and you actually are very good at what you do, which you should be showing too But if you're not and you're just pretending that that's going to Eventually bite you in the ass right because eventually people find out But if there's something about you that's kind of quirky Something about you that is kind of funny then you know, don't be too scared to kind of make fun yourself a little bit and And But somehow tell a story behind that that either entertains Inspires or educates. Okay, so we know we're gonna tell stories.  Okay, you're just entertaining But as an affiliate marketer, we want to eventually guide people towards buying the product, right? Obviously So if you're just telling a story It can be funny Maybe you can do a few of them that have no point at all and you just want to tell a funny story For entertainment person purposes. That's great. But unless eventually Unless that eventually kind of ties into some kind of education or some kind of inspiration that Talk that leads people into The conversation about okay, what is this QQO that you talk about or what is this QQO you have in your background, right if it doesn't lead to that then it It's gonna get you followers and views But it's not gonna help you make money on TikTok because there's a lot of people on TikTok with millions and millions of followers But they make zero money Because they know how to entertain but they don't know how to transition that entertainment into somebody Wanting to learn more about a specific product or servers or something like that other than like doing a commercial or something That or be sponsoring it by you know doing a sponsorship deal with with a brand so But it's actually a lot more profitable to Be an affiliate marketer than to do sponsorships ship deals. You actually make more money. Okay, so so what you need to do is to Learn how to transition whatever story you're making to have some kind of educational piece Okay, so what's the educational piece? Well, what do Archie calls do Archie calls help with energy help with sleep help with anxiety and Depression and traumas right all the mental health and it helps with You know recovery regeneration pain management all the you know injuries That you may have when you do sports help you to recover faster So all all that can could be a story, right? You know, you can talk about story about how you injure yourself or how you recover from something That's also always a great story to tell and also It's for meditation So you can talk about your your spiritual journey as well. So you can create content that is about spiritual Lessons that you learned or spiritual teaching that you want to teach if you if that's something that you want to do Or it could be some kind of meditation experience that you had Or you can even use some of the frequent free frequencies to make meditation videos or to make some kind of meditation guided meditation Video so there's so many ways to do it But whatever you do You may be testing all these out, right? I just give you a whole bunch of ideas ready and What you need to do is kind of like make a short list of it and then ask yourself, okay, what? makes you happy To do what makes you excited to do and what's something you can do? Consistently so you can ask yourself that those things like for example, I say, oh, I love to go. I love to go skiing and and I want to do contact about skiing, but you can only ski in the winter So can you really be that consistent with that? Well, maybe maybe not? I don't know you can figure us out something But that's just an example, right? You got to ask yourself, okay, if it's something you're gonna do Can you do it consistently? Can you do it with enthusiasm? consistently and can you Do it and is it something that you love to do? Okay, so always be creating from your heart because in your mind you might think oh, yeah All these people are doing this kind of new trend or all these people in tiktok are doing this or doing that And then you start copying people, which is good. It's a good place to start It's a good place to kind of get model after other people, but it's unless it's something that's You personally love to do and have some kind of passion Then it's gonna be hard for you to stay consistent and it's gonna be hard for you to get the result that you want, okay and and It's also gonna translate into how the audience is going to react to you because like I said the audience is very savvy Okay, they can tell whether you are authentic or not just by Watching your stuff and just by the words are you saying tone of voice and so on so Always be authentic and even if you're authentic and people still You know, there's gonna be trolls and they're gonna be people who You know, they post what you know bad comments on your feed. That's okay You know that you're authentic. You know that you are doing what you love It doesn't matter what people say just keep doing it and then eventually the people that Are resonating with you they're automatically going to follow and support you be made possibly become friends with you Which you know, which we we have like we have lots of people in our groups Becoming pretty good friends And they met each other through maybe social media. So that's not something uncommon these days Okay, so let me Let me reiterate so number one is keep it short and sweet Before you start making really really long videos You can start doing short ones So do 15 second ones 60 second ones but the the key is to get really good at it and The key is to get attention in the first three to five seconds Okay, so let me give you some examples of good Good hooks for the first Okay, so some examples of good hooks is Ask a question Okay, so if it's about whatever topic it is ask a question to the audience audience it can be could be like, hey Have you ever wonder why you can't sleep? Right, so that's the thing. So right off the bat that gets the attention It's a direct question and it's a problem that a lot of people have right some people can't sleep Okay, number two you can another way to Get a make a hook is to use a teaser so you can tease your audience with a glimpse of what's coming in the rest of the video So you can say hey coming up. I'm gonna give you a hint on how to how to Get rid of your pain in 10 seconds Right, so that's a teaser of what you're gonna say or what you're gonna what you're gonna teach for the rest of the video Okay, so it's a short Five-second sentence that you can use to tease what's gonna be in the rest of video Okay, third way is to make a boat statement. So you can say You know Luke if you're here he had somebody that Basically got rid of her headache in five seconds from using the coil So the boat statement can could be like here Here's how here's how I was able to cure a head Here's how I was able to cure a headache in just five seconds So that's a bold statement, right? Here's how I cured a headache in five seconds so bold statement true statements and gets people's attention There's a problem the problem is the headache and then the solution is it was you know Relieved in five seconds and the bold statement in this is that it's done so quickly It's in five five seconds and that gets people's attention. They say oh, well, that's pretty interesting. You did in five seconds That's pretty bold. Let me see What the rest of this video is about right Fourth way is to create surprise So It could be you can do this many ways. Okay, you can say something very surprising something like a like a shocking statement, right or a Or a funny statement that's in the beginning that kind of shocks people or gets people is a huh or gets people to kind of um That like it's gets people to You guys know what I'm saying like a surprise statement. Let me let me see if I can find out surprise statements Give you some ideas. So you can kind of what I'm talking about Okay, so for example, some surprise statements would be did you know that the average person spends more time on their phone than they do sleeping, right? So that's surprise You won't believe what I found out about You know XYZ, right? So it could be you won't believe what I found out about About meditation or about Psychic abilities or something something that gets people to gets people curious. So it's all about curiosity, right? Another one could be what if I told you that and then you say some kind of surprising Statistic or or a fact, right? Or did you know that like five out of ten people? Have this XYZ. Okay, so those are surprise statements Okay, so so those are some tips on how to get attention in the first few seconds of the video Okay, so some examples of bad opening And some examples of bad ones would be Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Hey guys. Thanks for watching this video and Don't do that. Okay. It's it's a waste of time and you just blew that first few seconds of the video You know, don't say stuff like oh, I was bored. So I decided to make a video never say that Or don't say stuff like oh, I don't know what to say. So I'm just gonna start talking. Don't say that Don't say today. I'm gonna be doing something basic or today. I'm gonna be doing The laundry or today. I'm gonna be doing cooking or today. I'm gonna be doing Doing the mowing the lawn right don't don't say things that are kind of boring and every day And and basic that everybody does If you're gonna be doing it doing something like if you can do it do something add some kind of twist to make interesting So I say today.  It's okay Today, I'm going to be cooking a new dish that is it's gonna be The the most spicy dish you've ever seen something like that right or you never ever taste it So if you can do something that's mundane make a twist to add it to make it something unique Another one that you shouldn't be saying is if you're watching this hit the like button follow me So don't don't start with that you can Do it at the end, but don't do it at the beginning. Okay, so the so those are things you shouldn't be doing I Shouldn't be saying in the first few seconds on the video. Okay There's listening to frequencies matter what volume you listen at okay So this is a question outside of the training, but yes, it does so the the higher I mean the louder you play the frequencies then you're getting a bigger dose Okay, so that's the answer The zoom link said hi chat disabled you're so angry and curious they want to see more Chat should not be disabled. Let me see Let me Okay, so if you're on the zoom and you want to add to chat Sorry, I had that I wasn't turned on so Nice turn on so if you need to post something go ahead and post it in the chats Okay, sorry about that. Thanks Andrea for letting me know Sunny said Just bought the Chico mini just waiting for it to arrive. All right. Thank you. Thank you for the purchase So do you guys have any questions so far? I? Covered a lot of stuff Okay, so keep it short and sweet get attention grabbing headlines or First for the first ten or five to ten seconds be authentic tell a story and use humor Okay, and be yourself and do something that you that you love or passionate about and Do something that you can do consistently Okay, so those are the tips that you can use to create videos or content YouTube ads what's your take? So I do a lot of YouTube ads and if you can figure out how to make a ad that is Successful it can it can be very lucrative for you if you can figure it out So if you're gonna do YouTube ads what I would do is I would start with making your content first right because If you're gonna run ads, I mean kind of spend money and you don't want to spend money on ads that not gonna work So how do you know which ads or which videos are gonna work before you spend money on advertising them? Well, you can just use the you know, just just post them on your tiktok account or post them on YouTube to see You know what's the response right and We can do is after they had some views I would say at least a hundred views or so minimum Then you have some kind of data that shows you how long the person watched for how many percentage they watch for how many percentage of them engage which means like liked it or commented on it and yeah, you need to test the marketing first and And You know, once you once you're more consistent with this you're gonna have let's say 10 20 50 100 videos on your on your channel And you're gonna start seeing some patterns of which videos are doing better than the other ones And what do you do is you would take those and then if those are good ads You can start basically creating ads that are Like those videos Okay, and then you would test it on YouTube And make a ton of different versions of variations of it So what I do is I use chat GBT once again, and I create a bunch of many different scripts I edit the scripts as needed so that it sounds more like my voice and then I record a bunch of videos like 10 or 20 of them I Even test different outfits. I test different backgrounds, you know, if you're taking this seriously, this is some This is what you should do, but you can just start with one outfit one background But the thing is you're testing all these different headlines that I talked about testing all these different scripts testing all these different stories that you're telling basically and then And then yeah, then you find out which one works best and from and the ones that you work best Then you use those and you and you You know get more plays and get more views of those I got a question. Can you sleep with the G coil or do you have To have a certain amount of time. Yes, you can sleep with the cheek oil So it how much you use it should depend on your reaction to it So some people are more sensitive to cheek oils than others And they won't need as much cheek oil use as others So if you're very sensitive and you do play it all night long You might wake up very dizzy because you may have used too much But there's no problem with sleeping with it.  Okay If you put food on top of a large coil like nuts chocolate will the energy of that food be a transformer Into the energy of that frequency. Yes, it will Do you feel surveys and posts are effective in gauging the market? Yes, they are Yes, if you have a list of people to survey Definitely, I would do the surveys so you can find out from them What they like like what they want to watch what they're interested in what their problems that they need solving And so on Why do you think she called causes nightmares not just for me using sleep frequency, but for others who have used it to um This is you know, obviously this is not something I can prove scientifically but She calls generally will kind of detox not just your body physically it'll detox you Like energetically, okay, so if you have a lot of traumas Dark past Negative energy that you've been keeping around you that could have been there for years Even decades is actually detoxing you from that energy. Okay, so like when you go to When you detox your physical body, right? Like you go to the bathroom and it all comes out and all the nasty stuff come out, right? So the same thing happens to you energetically so that those nightmares like those stuff coming to the surface um That sometimes happens, but it's okay because once that clears out of your the system then they won't come back Okay, and um I've noticed also some people experiencing that as well So, yeah, so it's kind of like a spiritual energetic Detox for the mind or for the spirit Yeah, watching horror movies that won't help So it will it generally does detox that You know those kind of energies in your mind in your spirit and um, it may be necessary, right? Uh, because that stuff is you know, gotta come out somewhere And it's gotta come to the surface because it's basically a lot of this stuff could be deeply seated inside somebody's person soul so to speak and um these frequencies they actually shaking it up And stirring it up and loosening it up and it's coming to the surface of the conscious or the subconscious and even the conscious And but it's okay.  Or there could be some more Negative thoughts, but after that then it's going to clear out, you know, just like a normal detox Okay, but don't be afraid. It's just nightmares. They're not real. Okay, so don't worry about it It's the cheek calls silent when in use Yes, so the cheek calls silent. It does not make any sounds. So a few things that I need to clarify when you plug in the cheek calls To the uh to our consoles or to the app or to the website and you play the frequencies No sound comes from the cheek calls. It's completely silent because they turn into magnetic energy and the second thing is The magnets only move with the test frequency Not all the frequencies. Okay, so when some frequencies are very high pitches the magnets or the magnet ball won't move It's not supposed to because that's because it just won't okay. That's not how physics works.   Okay, so the magnet moving is for the test frequency So make sure you use the test frequency That's just the test to see if it's on and it's functional and it's working Once you have the magnet moving play any frequency you want Some move that magnet some do not depending on the tone on a pitch of the frequency, right? But regardless of it, it's going to be coming out of the cheek coil When I put the magnets on the cheek calls they make a sound of the frequency. It's quite loud sounds like you're in space Okay, so that's something I don't say because then people are going to put the magnets to your their ear And then they can yes if you do put the cheek call and you put a magnet next to the cheek call The magnet will start to make a sound. I don't tell people that because Then it's going to confuse the heck out of people. So the cheek calls make sound or not. So so um Yes, technically there's a very tiny faint sound that comes out for the magnet and you have a really really good hearing You can hear it But I'm going to say there's no sound coming from the cheek call because then people that don't have good hearing They're going to start trying to hear that listen to the sound of cheek call and say, oh, I don't hear any sound The cheek calls not working. So So that's the clarification. Okay, so don't expect sound to come out from the cheek call But if you have super super hearing you could probably hear some kind of sound coming out from it Okay, so jimmy says you can hear it Okay, but so some like I say some people hear it, but I don't want to say Oh, yeah, there's some sound coming out because then people that don't have good hearing They can say oh, I don't hear anything and they think that she goes not working. Okay Um Could you do it unboxing so I can create a video for others I was so lost on half of stuff was or did I got the mini where can I learn more about a different frequency purposes earth A bunch of options like saw to the data square. Okay, so if you open the box There's a bit the card has a big stop sign on there as it has a website address cheek call com slash setup I hope you guys all went to that website Before you started like trying to set it up yourself because that's going to answer all your questions As help you to set up everything that you need. Okay all the unboxing all the setup every single system Every console every power kit. It's all on there even the oral coils even The wands every product every different combination is on the setup page Okay, so don't ignore the big stop sign There's a card With a big stop sign with an web address Okay, the purpose is that as they stop don't start using it until you watch these videos because because Because that's what you need to watch to learn how to use it Okay, and that's going to answer all your questions how the frequencies work All the tutorials on there Okay, makes sense If you put a quartz crystals with max magnets you can hear it louder Yeah, that's interesting Yeah, this amplifies the um the frequency. Yeah, the crystals do You look different. How have you been how different? Can you have the cheek coil around your head? Um, I don't recommend putting it too close to your head Uh, you can put it, you know neck down is okay And you don't really need to put it onto your head to for your head to get the free, you know, get the therapy Okay, because it has a magnetic field Um, but sometimes the magnet feels so strong. It's too strong for your head. So don't put it close to your head extra magnet purpose extra cords um Yeah, just watch the videos and it's going to be clear to you I look different because I have been working out like for At least about four to five times a week. So I I my muscles got bigger. I'm stronger. I lost maybe some I shed some extra fat That could be it and I got a haircut recently. So my hair's a little shorter. So maybe that's why I look different What do you think? Okay, any other questions? Good looking as ever. Thank you Do you still do qinggong? Yes, I do qigong every day um We might do we might re-release like as a new qiqoil course coming out Not sure But we do have a qiqoil course right now Um, that's free. It's like a preview on the website. I'm not sure if it's still up there Let me see if it's still up there Yeah, we have the course Yeah, we might be releasing that we're releasing that right now. It's 97 for the course It's got 12 weeks of um qigong training So I do do qigong Every day Okay, so is this helping you guys? Is this something that's going to help you to build your affiliate marking? Business Oh before I forget I need you guys to help me out. So you guys know trust pilot So I need to get some boost on the reviews on trust pilot because Our store is not connected to there. So a lot of the Good reviews are not getting on to trust pilot. So please if you want to help me out um Go to trust pilot search chi life store or go to that link that I just posted And um, give us a good review five star review. Hopefully On there so that we can get our rating Back up on I'm gonna post on on youtube And post it on On zoom. So please go there. Give us a five star review And help support the the community Okay I had a scary lucid dream when I slept with one of your frequencies playing on youtube. Oh, yeah, which one Yeah, we just released an hour-long DMT in ioska frequencies Those are crazy. Okay. If you listen to that for an whole hour Yeah, I won't be surprised if you had to get lucid dreams or some kind of like Bizarre uh experience Before we had only playing for a minute or so maybe three minutes And people were already having some, uh, you know, not everybody but uh, I would say about 30 Percent or so of people were having some pretty bizarre experiences For just three minutes. So he said heck i'm just going to release the whole one hour track for both dnt and ioska And we'll just see what happens. So if you listen to that for a whole hour or even longer You're going to have some kind of experience for sure Do the frequencies from cell phones and 5g interfere with chico frequencies? No, they don't Why does that happen is because well, do you know what dmt is and do you know what ioska is? So they're psychotropic substances And they're actually illegal But we made them into frequencies.  What's the benefit of that? The benefit well people want to have these spiritual experiences And it could be many different reasons, right? Like, um, some people just want to expand their mind They're curious and to explore some people want to connect to Their spirit animal, right? That's usually sometimes what people do or connect to a spirit self The higher self or connect to their guardian angels or Or to discover a part about themselves that they never knew before Or just to kind of experience consciousness or reality in the way that they never knew experience before like some experiences like Like they feel expanded Like in their mind they feel so expanded that they feel like they're Bigger than the planet and they're bigger than the universe and they can see everything and they can travel to You know other planets or other star systems So I mean all this is happening in the person's mind, but for them it feels really real because it is actually They experience it in their mind, right? So, uh, so it could be that reason and or it could be Some other reason maybe they have a question that need to be answered in their life Uh, or they need some kind of support in some aspect in their life So it can be many reasons why people seek spiritual enlightenment or spiritual awakening or have a spiritual experiences Which frequency is for the third eye and does that work? Well, we have a third eye frequency specifically for that and yes, it does work So, uh, and it's free too. So you can go to our site use the cheat use the cheat.com And get that for free How do I connect with she healing or whatever I need to understand how to use the different frequencies for healing? um Like what do you what's your question about the frequencies, right? I mean it's pretty clear I the frequencies recess regenerate or the frequencies says pineal gland or frequencies says, um You know all purpose healing or frequencies does that heal the emotions I mean, it's pretty clear what the healing is for what the frequencies are for How do you use it? Is you just listen to them? Is that it's that safe? I mean, it's that simple How do you heal others is just get them to listen to it All right, and if it's using cheat calls, it can be silent. So just play the cheat calls and use it daily And if it's somebody else then just put the cheat calls next to them and let them to use it daily If you want to get more in depth, I know that's really simplistic But that's basically all it is. It's very simple how to use cheat calls and frequencies Listen to them or play them. That's it and do it regularly If you want to get more in depth, however, we do have a practitioner course That is I think about eight weeks. Um eight weeks of material is 297 dollars. If you search practitioner course on our site You will actually get the full training on how to use it for practitioners Okay, Andrea, hopefully that answers the question There are some that have 24 different frequencies in one. So it doesn't matter which one picks for a 20 minute session So if there's a one with 24 different frequencies, you can either just Cycle through them because when you press play, it's just going to play one after another Or and you can just play it in the background Or eventually, you know, once you play these different ones, you're going to find the ones that you like more than the other ones So, um, we have there's 24 is because there's 24 different Expressions or different variations of the same thing. So Like, you know, if you look in the apple, if you turn it around, it looks different. It turns around looks different But still the same apple, right? So the frequency is kind of like let's say it's ayahuasca Well, ayahuasca, there's a molecule if you turn it this way, it's going to look this way You turn this way it's going to look at something different. So it's just different Like perspectives of how that Um object or that substance or that that frequency or that energy is that's why there's many different tracks on some of these collections So as I said, you can either play through them all so you get all of all the different perspectives Or you can just Pick the ones that you like. How do you know which one likes? Well, you just feel better, right? Or it just sounds better to you What happens if you play two frequencies at the same time, then you're going to clash I wouldn't recommend it. Just play one frequency at a time. Don't do it at the same time Okay, it's kind of like listening to classical music and jazz at the same time It's going to be it's not going to make any sense. So don't do that Don't play two frequencies at the same time. You can play them after one after another, but don't do it at the same time Now if you're using chi energy ai, which is another topic that's silent Then you can use that and play frequencies at the same time. Okay But that's another topic if you don't know what chi energy ai is Uh from two different devices. No, don't do that How much stronger is the mini if you buy the power supply about five times stronger? Resonize yes app There's still a bait in beta So it's not officially released So, uh, yes, it is our app, but um, it's still in beta So there may be still some glitches in it But it is our app. It does have our frequencies on there, but um, don't expect it to work perfectly yet Which app should you be using? We recommend you to use the chi coil app Okay, uh, but that's not on ios So the best, uh app to use is the web app. Okay, so use the one on the website members dot chi coil dot com If you go to chi call dot com is going to say frequencies So click there log in and then you can play the frequencies from the web app That's them the best app to use right now Okay, who here helped me out with the trust pilot. I'm going to post the link again so you guys can, uh Do me a favor Because I am giving you all this training for free and, uh Hopefully you can help support me and support the company and support the community Help write a good review on trust pilots So we have a good standing with that What's the most popular all-around frequency for general pain healing that would be soothe Soothe you can see it in the master collection. It's a free one of the free frequencies How does it help with anxiety?  So this is tension and this is an easy feeling, right? So how the cheek holes help with anxiety is just relieve release it It releases that feeling and you won't just stop it would just stop feeling anxious So that's how it helps It just it just kind of melts away and then you don't have that um weird feeling or the the eerie or the kind of worried feeling inside of your chest um, and you kind of feel like you your energy expands and You feel happy and more relaxed and you feel a lot more confident So that's how how it helps with anxiety Have it set up to give up great reviews so many of my patients already benefiting Okay, that's great. Andrea. Yeah, it would be great if you you know right about um You know the more specific you are on these reviews the better it helps us a lot If you give like tell a story like I said, like if you have a client You know, you know write the story about all you know one client at a time the longer they are the better too, obviously So like write a specific story like oh I have a client, you know have to say their name is they say their name is kim and then she had this problem for how many days and you know, and then she was uh You know tell the whole story in as much detail as possible because then people know that it's not made up Okay, okay, because it you know, it's so detailed and it's even the something that's so shocking and so wild It has to be true like those are the best reviews, right? Because people know that they're not just made up. It has to be the true story. So tell the story tell it as much detail as possible and tell the Tell the results very clearly. I was like, okay, what happened? Uh, there's a client coming in with a lot of pain from a scale from You know, uh an eight out of ten and then after the session It went down to three out of ten and it only took 30 minutes or something like that So those specific numbers are very important in the reviews when people can like instantly get all So it went from this to this I can clearly kind of tell what happened Uh, I can clearly say tell what the result is So this is like in the same way you write reviews, it could be it will be the same way that you make these videos, right?  What was the end? What was what happened before and what happened after? What was the result? Uh, like for example, we had somebody just post a really cool one. Um, I don't know if you hear But uh, she Was growing some onions or something like that. I don't know what kind of plant it is But in just one day all these leaves came out and then the the sprouts shot like all these green sprouts coming out in just one day While she was using she calls with the plants. Yes, by the way, yes, you can use she calls with plants too And uh, it's just just amazing in just 24 hours. It just exploded with growth With the frequency. I didn't ask her what frequency it was Wealth frequency. Yeah, we have wealth frequencies. We have abundance frequencies and luck boost frequencies. That are really good What uh, which one for the quickest results or do you just turn it up? Example massage therapist wrist hurling is worth next morning Um, yeah, just soothe. I would recommend. It's the best one. You can also use a all-purpose Regeneration all-purpose wellness if you're not using qi energy ai ai use qi energy ai as well Okay um For example, I busted my shin yesterday I couldn't walk at all and today I'm walking So because I was doing kickboxing and I kicked this guy's he's freaking 250 pounds. It's huge guy I did a left kick. He checked it with his shin And I haven't been doing kickboxing for like three years. Okay. I just do boxing So it's my first kickboxing class and I'm kicking really hard. So I busted my shin So bad I couldn't even walk Uh, and I was limping everywhere. I had to get a cane to walk around the house. That's how bad it hurts So I turned on the qi coils. I turned on qi energy ai I turned on weight loss because weight loss is also has a lot of um anti-inflammatory Frequencies in it and I turned on Recovery and I turned on Uh center So all those frequencies helped me to recover today. I went out. I drove.  I don't need any cane. I don't need any help. I'm walking slowly But I I'm actually walking which I I couldn't even walk yesterday. Okay, that's just one night So that's my story that I should actually make a story about it I should make a youtube story about it. So um So yeah, so that's my story. So you see how I talk See how I told it. I told you kind of um, you know, what happened and then you know, you can hear the emotion in my voice and you can hear uh You know the excitement about how how fast I healed So for you, uh, james if you want to heal faster um I would use qi energy ai to together with the qi coils if you want to get you know the faster results Joanna Jackson that was me my plants. I used the regenerate and sun frequency water restructuring frequency make my plants so strong and happy Yeah, oh totally. So if you grow any plants if you do any like gardening uh Like fruits and vegetables, whatever If you use qi coils, it's going to make them grow Like how many how many percent faster would you say stronger your plants are joanna Versus not using the coils at all 30 percent right. Yeah, so 30 percent faster or bigger plants Which is quite a huge Without using any fertilizer, right? All right. I mean extra fertilizer. I don't know if you use it anymore But you can do it and it's going to without fertilizer without watering an extra It's just and you know without spending money on fertilizers or UV lights and whatever You just using a qi coil which you can use to benefit yourself and also plant if it's a plants and the animals and your environment too In one day and the color cannot compare.  That'll be cool Like you can show how how great your plants look if you you can do like a before and after Like you can like do it one week before one week after You know, that's what people like to see. They want to see the transformation, right? They want to see the transformation clearly the b4 and after they want to see that Huge change because when they see it they're gonna say Oh, this happened for you. You know, I think I can do that too or I want that too I I can do that. It's nothing special about this person And they're able to achieve this and it's easy for them Then I can do it too because it's easy So that's that's the that's the conversation or that's the thoughts that you want The viewer to have when they watch that video What kind of water to you recommend to drink also does qi coil do anything to water? Yes, honey qi coil can energize your water. It makes it taste better restructure of the water So if you don't know what restructuring water is, I recommend you to do some research on that restructure water basically it's Kind of rearranging how all the molecules are interacting with each other inside of the water and Because that is change or so this they call it structured Your body will absorb it better and it's actually better for you and it actually improves your health better than drinking water without being structured Okay, and then the neat thing is that When you use qi coils with the water you're actually structuring it to have the effects of the frequency themselves You guys get it.  So you have you can make holy water if you want literally Yes, I think that's really what holy water is Holy water basically has high resonance It sits in the church Right. This is a catholic church. They have holy water It sits in a in a bowl and then people are chanting and praising Singing hymns They are meditating. They're praying. So all this positive vibration is Charging this central place where they put the holy water. So obviously that's going to get energized. It's going to have positive vibrations Uh in that water. So with the qi coils, you're doing it in the same way except you're not using prayer You're not using your mind. You're not using sound. You're actually using magnetic waves to do it And you're going to energize the water How long does it take to restructure the water? um How long do I know Do you think it takes to restructure the water? anybody here also tried it with the water 15 minutes max That's what she says. Yeah, so it's around there. It doesn't take much longer than that Is it okay to create qi coil adds ourselves with our affiliate link also offering coaching and support to those who buy the qi coil with our link Is there any terms and conditions we have to be worried about? Um, yeah, it's perfectly great. Uh, it's actually is a really good idea.  And actually it's a really good idea to package it together with with qi coils, right?  I'm going to give you a free uh You know something whatever you can give You know and bundle it together package together with something that you have You know that's specific for you or you can say I'm going to make a video And uh for you or I'm going to shout out or put you in the credits of this video or something like that But you can offer people all this stuff um And a lot of times doesn't cost you any money And it could be a way to incentivize them to to buy it through you Um and buy through your affiliate link and and the key thing is to give them a limited time, right? You're not going to offer it forever and then uh, maybe you can you know Give them some kind of scarcity, which means like okay only for the next five people or something can get this or in six people next six People or 10 people. So yeah, that's a good idea. Look. So if you offer coaching Let's say you can do a bundle you can reduce your coaching costs or you can maybe even give it away for free Um when they buy a certain level of qiqo or something like that And that could be a pretty good offer that you can give to your list or people who are watching your videos What about the qiqo with our link for google ads? Yeah, um You can go ahead to do that you can advertise Yeah, you can advertise, uh, your own ads. I do paid ads for now I don't see any problem with that at this moment. So, um I don't see any conflict with that. So if you want to run ads For yourself with your affiliate link to qiqo's, I think that's fine Okay, so I got to go. Hope you guys enjoyed the training Let me know what you guys have questions with We do have our telegram. We do have our discord for affiliates So if you're not on those go ahead and sign up for free I know i'm not on that much, but you know when people are more active I might get on but I do get on We have a question asked there and um, you can answer each other's questions, right? The point is to build a community And to support each other. We have a lot of affiliates. We all want the same thing We all want to help each other and we all want to want to heal the world And we all want to make money and be successful. So so the more we support each other You know, it's not there's no competition here because there's so it's just so many people out there that need this product And everybody has their own different style different kind of You know niche and different kind of audience. So don't worry about You know competing with each other But think of it as competition, which is good because competition you know makes Everybody kind of want to do better and want to improve whatever they do So think of as healthy competition think of it as supporting each other And helping each other to grow because we're all growing together as a family. So make sure that um You go on discord go to the affiliate channel post the stuff that you want to post you can get you know, maybe you we want to get some uh advice about some Uh video or you want want to get some comments on your video or you want people to like your video Post it on there and say hey, can you please you know like and comment on my video because you need those if you want to get more uh Followers and get more views because the more comments and more likes Uh on your videos then tiktok or youtube is going to promote it to more people So make sure you work together as a community like each other's videos comment each other's videos Uh, you can even stitch and do it with each other's videos And and so that we can support each other so that we're not all just doing it on our own We can do so much more if we work together as a team. Okay I Posted my plans on instagram Jay max mama, I just started posting about it too. Yeah, that's right. It's a small hydroponic system that I am learning as well I'm newbie too Okay, that's right. Jay max mama. That is the account you want to and her name is joanna. So go check it out How long does it take to be delivered one ordered? Um We have them in stock so depending on which one you get Usually within a week or two So sonny you've been on these lives for a long time. Haven't you ordered one yet? You should order one by now. I think I've seen you on these lives for the last Couple months already Can I be used? Uh, uh, can you be used? Can you use it around cooking items? I used it the other day around my essential oils before I made it self Yes, of course. Yeah, it's going to help it's going to enhance your essential oils Okay, sonny. Yes, you ordered a couple days ago. So yeah, thank you congratulations I can experience the power of cheek oils Lewis has says he has his for a few months now. That's great. Yeah Okay, so two things um I'm going to add the the uh, she life, uh, assistance link So if you if you're in texas california or florida Or vancouver, we're going to be having events throughout the year In those areas So if you want to be an assistant and one of those events or you just want to come and meet me You can do that too, but um, but most importantly i'm looking for assistance to help me uh Facilitate the booths because we can have the booths there with the with the chi calls and we need people who have experience with it to demonstrate them and to You know, uh educate people about them. So that's you make sure you go to use the chi.com And there's going to be a link up there in in a few minutes It's not up there yet. And then you can go in and apply to be an assistant Okay, and we're going to also email about that. So finally, yeah, make sure you go to that trust pilot I'm going to post it one more time This is something you can really help me out with And uh, if you don't have If you don't have the trust pilots Oops Don't have the trust pilot link. Just go to trust pilot.com and then search chi life store qi life store and um And then give us a nice review so that we can get our rating up Okay, so thanks for coming and i'll see you guys soon Use that you use the chi and prosper and this recording is going to be on youtube once we get it edited Okay, so you can rewatch this and it's also going to be in the members area if you missed the previous Chi life master classes. They're all in the affiliate area. Just log in go to the training session check section And you can you can review and watch all the previous ones Okay, see you guys later


Hello, welcome to the show. It's me, John Park, and it's time for John Park's workshop. I think we just got the stream going. The YouTube was taking its sweet time getting going, but I think it's now streaming. I see signs of life over there. And thanks for stopping by. Thank you everyone over in the chat on YouTube, as well as here in Discord, checking you both out. And let me know if you have any questions today, any thoughts, any things you'd like to see coming up. This is an interactive show, as you know. I sometimes feel like you're all just right there. And we're having a little chat. I'm getting to show you cool stuff. So thank you so much for coming to the show. Let's see. What have we got? First up, I like to mention that we have got a jobs board over at jobs.aderfruit.com. If you are looking for work, you might want to head there. It looks a little bit like this. There we go. Sorry. My previews made it look like this window was definitely not going to show up, but it showed up. Sometimes the streaming software gets silly. So here on jobs.aderfruit.com, you see there's a list of open positions people are looking to hire for. So you can go and check that out. If you're into building sheet metal enclosures in CAD, you may have some contract work there in Brandford, Connecticut. Go to jobs.aderfruit.com, check it out. You can click on this little job description here and find out more about what someone's looking for. And that's free to post a position if you're looking to hire someone. And it's free to click and put your resume up there. It's really easy to do. All you need to do is enter an email address. And guess what? Adafruit promises not to spam you. So this is just your regular Adafruit account address. It lets you use the jobs board and we're never going to bug you. You can use it or not. It's up to you. So that's jobs.aderfruit.com. And let's see what next. Close that window there so I don't get confused. It's easy to get confused. Did you know? Let's see. What else is going on? I've got a show on Tuesdays that I'd like to mention and that is my product pick of the week show. I do it every Tuesday at this time right here. So this is one o'clock Pacific time where I'm at here in Southern California. Eastern time four o'clock and it's your time based on some math that can happen wherever o'clock you are. And if you take a look on Tuesdays at that show, you can watch the show from inside a product page. My video is right in there. And you usually get a big, big juicy discount on whatever the product is. So it's worth trying to check it out at that time if you can. If you can't, I understand. But the product this week was this one right here. It's the Neo-Key 2 Feather Wing. And in fact, we're going to be talking about that one a little bit more today. What I'd like to do is show you a little excerpt. Here's a one minute edit from this week's episode. Take it away, me. It is the Neo-Key 2 Feather Wing. And it is a feather wing for adding two mechanical key switches to a feather project. And it has underlit Neo-Pixels. I've got this feather. This is the RP2040. Then I have a feather OLED. What you see here is when I press these, I am triggering a different illustration over here of this little bongo cat. This works as kind of a neat little macro key camera switcher right there. And I get my little bongo cat to ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. That is my product pick of the week. It is the Neo-Key 2 Feather Wing. It is a mechanical key switch feather wing with underlit Neo-Pixels. That's right. Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. Bongo cat. By the way, as you know, I've been diving deep into mechanical keyboards, as have a lot of us here at Adafruit. Some people have been into this stuff way longer, like our good friend, Colin Cunningham. The guy was born with a mechanical key switch in his hand. I'm not sure how that works. But if you're digging this stuff and you want to dive a little deeper, you will see a lot of my inspiration comes from amazing stuff that people in the mechanical keyboard community are posting over on the Reddit slash R slash mechanical keyboard. Sometimes abbreviated as RMK. That is where I saw that bongo cat idea. Someone used, I think it was the QMK firmware and made a little animated bongo cat that changes its typing speed as you increase your typing speed. Hats off. I want to give credit where credit's due. I think we'll probably do a post about that so you can see the original if you're looking for a link. In fact, I'll talk about this subject a little more today because my project was originally inspired by a particular project I saw on our mechanical keyboards. Now I'm changing it and I'll tell you why. See what you think about that. But before I do that, what have we got next? How about we jump into the Circuit Python Parsec? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Let me put on these glasses so I can, hey, I can see. I can read. That's close, but it looks like I got the wrong. All right. Hang on. I had a plan. There's the plan. Yeah. Okay. Are you ready? For the Circuit Python Parsec today, I want to talk about debouncer. What's a debouncer? A debouncer is a piece of software used to prevent mechanical buttons and switches from rapidly registering multiple clicks when you touch them. There can also be physical debouncers or circuit debouncers, but what I'm going to talk about is a software debouncer. And the way this works is that you will see, I've got a little setup here, a little demo. This blue switch on the left is using no debouncer. This is going to be just traditional. The microcontroller, the metro in this case, is going to read whenever I click and it's going to advance this Neopixel, this blue Neopixel by one each time I click. And you'll notice I can't click it just once. Every time, even if I click it real fast, it jumps two, three times. And that's because it's reading my hold or pause on that quickly enough that it runs through. Or sometimes it'll even just read sort of the arcing static of the contact getting closed. So those are both sort of solved by using this debouncer. And you can write your own debouncer, but we have a really neat library for this in Circuit Python. And this is called Adafruit Debouncer. And you'll notice this yellow button on the right, this one's using the debouncer. So that means I can very nicely and neatly and gently click one at a time through these Neopixels. It's really hard to get this blue one where I want. But the yellow one is really easy and that's because that one's using the debouncer. If you look at the code here, you can see I'm importing the digital IO library, digital input and direction and pull. And I'm going to use those as well as the debouncer library. And then you can see if I jump down to how I'm setting up the buttons here. Right here we'll see the blue button is just a traditional digital in out and I'm using with a pull up resistor. The yellow one, I set that input pin, but then I use the debouncer to set up this button yellow is debouncer on that pin that we've set up the same way. When we go to read those pins, the blue one is read in sort of a traditional way. If the value, since it's pull up, if the value goes to zero, it starts at one, when I press it, it goes to zero. If that changes, then we increase this count. You can see you got a little counter down at the bottom there. Let me set that up actually. Hold on one second. That got disconnected. I have multiple, I have multiple things on here. I think it's this first one. Let's see six. Are you it? Nope. All right. Hold on. It's the other one. I don't have everything set up with the new magic that fixes that problem. Okay, there we go. You can see here when I press the blue button, it's going to rapidly count through and I have it cycling zero through seven. It's very hard to get it to just add one to that. Yellow one, that's easy. You'll also notice when I press and release the yellow, I get a sort of different event when I release. You can see the blue one is set up so that it reads the button. If the value goes from high to low, we add one to that count. We print what the count is and then we change the associated neopixel in the strip to be blue. On the yellow button, we have instead the debouncer update. So button yellow.update right here checks the debouncer so it's polling to see if something happens and then this is the condition for me pressing it. The value falls so it goes from zero to one or high voltage to low voltage. That means I've pressed it. It's a sort of discrete event so it means we don't get that bouncing. We don't register multiple clicks and it doesn't matter how long I hold it. Same thing here. I'm going to add one to the count. I'm going to print that count out and then I'm going to increase the neopixel on that strip. I'm also lighting up these little red neopixels on the board you can see there. This then when the button goes back up from low to high it is a separate event so that means I can also record that. That is really useful. There's other stuff you can use the debouncer for but I think this one's particularly helpful. It makes your code really neat. You don't have to create any states that you're checking against.  That is how you can use the Adafruit debouncer and that is your CircuitPython Parsec. Alright we had a couple of questions I wanted to get to actually in the chat and maybe some of you can help me answer them. Let's see. Rich Sadowski over on YouTube says have you ever worked with Laura? I just bought two units from Adafruit looking for online info a CircuitPython user. So Rich I've used the Laura Featherwings and only in Arduino. I have not used those in CircuitPython. I'm not sure what the state of libraries is there. I've used the gosh what's the library in Arduino. It's the one most people use. It's called something airheads. Something heads. Someone's head. I forget now it's been a while. If you look in the learn system this is where I keep most of my memories. If you go to learn.adafruit.com and look for the remote control. In fact it's the first guide that shows up if you type in my name John Park in the in the learn guides search bar. There's project there and I used the radio head. I think that's it. Radio head, radio heads, something like that. I think Stuart is onto it. Thank you. So if anyone has used it in CircuitPython let me know. I'm just not sure if there's a library yet for it but the lower radios are great because it lets you do some really excellent long range stuff with small bits of data. Let's see. Other questions I saw. Can you debounce cap touch pads? Dexter Starboard asks. I have not tried that. I think you can. I think I've used an example code that was debouncing them. I don't see why not. So someone let me know because the way it's set up it's generalized enough that I think you should be able to use cap touch. So let me know if anyone's done that. I think Todd Kurt might have or a good friend Todd might have done that in the past. Let's see. There was one other question. Doctors says why do your USB serial devices have a percent sign at the end? I actually don't know. That's in reference to this here when I try to connect. I guess that's just my prompt. It might just be my terminal prompt. They changed a couple of versions ago. I'm using a Mac OS and they changed the prompt. I think that's why. Doctors says their Mac doesn't do that. Hey, weird. This is another one. I'm going to have to go to the crowd for an answer. Let's see. Can you do basic switch with the Laura? You know what? I can bring up the discord actually while I'm answering discord. Hey, there you go. Yeah, that's a picture of the... Thank you, Mr. Certainly. That's a picture of the guide I was thinking of, the remote effects trigger box. This uses something really close to Laura. It's the... Gosh, I forget the name of it now even. It's a very similar protocol. I think it uses the same library, the Radiohead Library, if that was that was called. Stuart asks, can you do basic switch with the Laura? Yeah, for sure. That's the kind of stuff I was using it for. One of my examples, I think there was an episode I did of this show around the time of that guide. You might be able to look that up where I just did a remote switch. I had an AC relay controlled by a feather, a remote feather. This project actually ended up building that for stage effects for a magician, and it did some control of some stepper motors and things like that for effects. Let's see, other questions. Someone asked about the neopixel part that I'm using, and that may be related to the giant keycap. I will talk about that. I'm going to do a little update on that. In fact, let's jump to that right now. Let me head over to the bench, and I'll give you a little, I wanted to do a little bit of update on this Rage Quit button that I was working on.  Can you still hear me? Yeah, it looks like it's still working. This is the current state of this giant switch, and if I pull that keycap off, you'll see that there's a, focus this. You can do it. You can see there's a large LED there, and this one is a neopixel. Do I have, I don't have an extension. I'm not going to be able to plug that in. Let me grab a battery pack real quick so you can see this. I've got a kind of short cable in there. Let's see if one of these battery packs will work. Are you charged? I think that one needs charging. How about you? There we go. Not too useful as a HID device right now because it's not plugged into anything, but this is a, oh it's not going to work because it's not, it might not work because it's not actually plugged into HID. Let's see. All right, I'm going to bring this back over to the computer. Hold on. Or, yeah, let's do that. Let's see. Sorry about that. I've got too many things plugged in over here. All right, so let's take this demo down. Oh, and actually before I, before I take that down, I think the question might have been about the, the different neopixel, so many of them. These right here are what I was using, so I just had a piece of this diffusion plastic over it, but the demo here, which I've now also broken. There we go. It's just hard to see those little neopixels without some diffusion, so that's why I put that there. But these are the, I like these. These are little eight position, eight neopixel switches, and then I just have them plugged into two different pins so I can control them separately. So that's what those are. Those are great. All right, so let's take this off and let's go over there. There's a lot of blue tack to keep this stuff from sliding around. That's a little behind the scenes tip, is that most everything you ever see photographed or demoed has some blue tack on it, otherwise things slide around too much. So let's see if I can There we go, yeah. So sometimes if you're using HID and serial stuff, sometimes you can't battery power a thing because the code is like, I can't connect to serial, I can't send HID, so I'm not going to work. So this is a, let me focus this one too actually. So this is a through-hole four-leg eight millimeter diffused neopixel, and then I have it plugged into just a little piece of header, a little header breakout, and then wire soldered to it. So it's a little bit janky there and then I have some heat shrink over those connectors there so nothing's exposed. That still clears the cap, which is what I wanted. I needed it to be small enough that this cap wouldn't collide with it. And so that's the demo of the LED there, but actually one of the things I wanted to talk about, actually a couple things that I'm going to show you today, have to do with the design process here of a couple of different cases. So this one here, I'm going to zoom back out so you can see kind of the iterations this one went through. Then we'll get to some of this other stuff. So when I first got this switch, I just wanted it to be able to stand on its own because what you'll see is, this thing is great and it acts just like a mechanical key switch in that it's just a lot stronger so it's hard to pop it out without some spudgers in there. Let me lift that off of there and that off of there. There we go. So that has a fairly accurate to real life of a real switch. You can see the bottom has a little nub, plastic nub that goes and registers through the board and there's a couple of pins or legs there for the switch itself. That means that this thing just can't really sit on its own. It just flops over. So the first thing I did was really quick to print. It almost looks like a table from a box of pizza except not three-legged but it clicked into there and I just didn't love the way it looked. It works fine. It's a little light, skits around a little bit and not a lot of space to put bumper feet on there. So that was iteration one. The next one I did, I just kind of beefed it up a bit, made things thicker. You can see I've got some little indents there where the clamps or spring-loaded clicky fingers. I'm sure there's a better name for that. Click into place there and then I decided for some reason I wanted to make this a little thinner on top. I printed it out. I didn't like it. I beefed things back up. I got this one nice and beefy here and then I was printing one iteration of this and I stopped it for some reason I can't remember but where I stopped it made me think of something which is I could kind of combine these two ideas and end up with kind of a nice frame there. I kind of like that shape and that tilt. Before I did that I printed a solid one with no openings in the sides and that one's nice but it's hard to kind of see the cool switch and I missed seeing it when it was in there. So ultimately I took this idea and I made this a proper model and then I created some pegs and holes so that this could be separated like that and printed more easily because otherwise that'd be kind of a nightmare thing to print. So you can see here these are printed in that orientation so there's actually no overhangs prints pretty nicely and then on this if I let's see if I can get it close up focus. You can see I've got a little bit of space here let's see that blue behind there I've got a little bit of space behind there so that I can put a little glue in there and that one's actually cracked a little I've opened I've done it too many times. Put a little bit of glue in there a little bit of CA glue will work well and if these are a little thicker than the holes they'll squeeze in and then I can push that down into place like that. I didn't want to have screws going through here because that's just another thing to deal with and you'd have a hole there so so that's my final design for that and I think that works pretty well for holding that giant switch. So let me say I'm seeing some some messages pop up over on the workstation so I'm going to jump back here for a moment and see what's what. Usually my fear of being people are saying we can't hear you. Yeah Mr. certainly says I wish these switches were still in stock they're hard to find I think if you know hopefully they'll if you if you send them a note it's novel keys and if you send them a note if enough people do then it will make sense for them to to rebuild those novel switches big switches. Todd says let me pop up my discord that the percent in the dev tty file list has done Linux macOS to indicate a special file in this case a device driver. Ah okay there you go and Todd says where are you going to get the rest of the key switches to make a 65% keyboard out of those big keys. Did I show you all that? Razer the the company that makes pc gaming peripherals they did build one using those switches they contracted a special addition to those with green stems because that's the color razor uses for their logos and things and they made a it was at CES the consumer electronics show I think they made a gigantor bfk big freaking keyboard. All right so now what I want to talk about is moving on to a different keyboard project than the than the big keys let me move some of this stuff out of the way and this you may have seen me tease this on line a little bit and I showed it on the ask an engineer or show and tell the other day and what this what I showed what you what you probably saw if you saw it was the two percent keyboard so if you don't know a sort of standard 104 key keyboard I think that's what a standard is with a number pad and a function key row and home and page up and that that roughly that number I might be off on that that's kind of considered 100 percent keyboard and then there are smaller percentages than that you can make anything you want but some standards include a 60 percent which is pretty darn small it gets rid of the number keys it gets rid of the arrow keys it gets rid of the row of function keys and a lot of things happen with key combos so for example you can get the function keys by holding function and numbers one through zero at the top and so on there are 70 percent I think that's what a 10 keyless might be 70 or 80 percent I like those a lot but so someone came up with the idea of a two key macro pad we'll call it a two percent it might not be 100 accurate maybe it is I don't know but the idea of it being two percent led to the idea of it being a milk carton and in fact I want to jump to this web page I may have shown this before so sorry if I'm repeating myself but I think it's it's interesting and neat to look at so I'm going to pop open a browser in a second and show you this site here yeah here we go let's do that one so this one here was created by Key Hive and it's a there's a PCB for it that has a I don't know probably a 32u4 on there and it's running QMK I think so it's all in one the microcontroller USB all that I think is on a single board so it's nice and small which is cool and it goes into these adorable milk carton 3d prints so I mistakenly thought that this was kind of an open design that was out there and and people were making them like on Thingiverse or whatever so I decided hey I'm going to make my own I did I did a little bit more research and I think this is one company's product so I am not going to release this file out there I don't want to be the jerk who's like hey cool I'm just going to rip off your thing so I'm sorry about the confusion there so I I had gone down this path of building this and then I decided to change directions on it so if you want to make one of those go ahead and buy this from from keyhive.xyz or model your own to put a different thing in it but I don't want to release a file of that because it seems like not the right thing to do if you have opinions about that you can put them in the chat and talk about them but that's what I decided to do and so I wanted to shift my my design direction a little bit and so going based on what I had already I'm gonna let me bring up a different view here I'm going to show you so this is cutting right to the chase so this is the design that I came up with and it is similar of course it's a it's a two key I mean that feather wing having two keys on it already is pretty similar let me see if I can show you the the guts of that let me hide these uh-oh my right clicking is not cooperating I wonder if that's because it's off on a second screen oh there it goes uh okay so you can see does it work oh yeah this does not want to work when it's on my on my other screen I think it might be missing the mouse clicks all right so this is this is the feather wing I've got one right here this is our lovely little feather wing that has two um hot swappable sockets for mechanical key switches in there there it is stacked on top of a feather and so you can see that this is this is naturally going to fit this type of a of a case design so I didn't think I needed to stray too far from that and then if you uh if you take a look at what I've done here I've gone with more of a sort of an art deco or streamline modern type of design and uh let me render this and so I've essentially rounded the the corners there um one thing that I'm happy about changing from the milk carton design is that I now have a sort of reasonable space to put a stem a qt cable so if you look down that little cut out there you've got a four pin i squared c stem a qt cable one of these little lovely guys right here and so uh that can be fed into the case it's hard to get it in and out actually it's hard to get it in if you've already got everything built but uh you might be able to do it with some some long needle nose pliers maybe uh but that allows us to have kind of any i squared c device that you need plugged in obviously it's not going to be an integrated part of the case but if you just have to get this connected to whatever you need to get it connected to external screen or something like that now I now I have a nice port for that I didn't really want to put a hole in the milk carton and then I've made a few iterations of it I'll show you some of the iterations of the milk carton that led to this this is I've just printed one of this one this morning and I have not really even put it together yet so we're going to get to do that in a live demo which is very advisable that's how everything should be done or maybe not I don't know but we'll find out so you can see I've got a large cut out for usb cable here and that allows me to accommodate a lot of different sizes of cables if you have one specific cable in mind and I really like these fabric pink and purple ones that this is this is a usb micro b connection on this particular feather I'm using I have the nrf52840 feather on here I may switch this to a pico and in which case it would be a usb-c cable but again it's you can usually get a fairly slim design in there so that hole is bigger than it needs to be it'll it'll accommodate kind of a larger cable and then if I if I show you actually some of some of what led to this let's go over to this workbench again and my my thought process on this was originally to build a switch plate I have to zoom and focus here there we go so this is the little plate that holds the key switches in place so if you take a couple of key switches and put them into our socketed connector here they can wobble pretty easily so when you have a keycap on there and you press that let's get that on nicely if you press that straight up and now it works great if you come at it from a little bit of angle it's got some wobble and it can actually pop right right on out so by putting a switch plate the two the lateral stability is improved and so the way those work is that they sit between the key and the socketed PCB so this clicks into here like that and we'll take a second switch and then these go connecting into our sockets on the PCB and now you get kind of improved lateral stability by the way you're going to see a flashing light because there's some sunlight coming through a little vent fan on the top of the shop so that was my first idea is I wanted to create this switch plate and it works really well I've I've added one to a different my little bongo cat macro pad that I was showing the other day but this this I originally was like hey I should probably print this in multiple parts so that I can feed it all in from the top and then have some little spot for bumpers on the bottom or some screws to come up through and connect to the feather so if you see here I've got a feather I've got the feather wing on top I can drop that all down into there then I can set this onto here kind of click that down carefully so you don't bend the pins so make sure you got those in there well and then I can push the whole thing back down and then maybe secure it with the screws straight through there so that works pretty well but it is a little bit more to put together but I kept thinking that I wasn't going to be able to print it all in one go if I had this type of design going if I had sort of an inner piece there it seemed like it wouldn't work so well another thing I didn't really love how high this was off of the top of the case especially with some of my earlier designs I don't have one here but they were a little shallower before and with some bigger keycaps like these big kitty paw keycaps oops pull that focus up a little bit here we go it's kind of goofy it's kind of way too high up off of there so I just just as a quick fix I designed a little something or other to to kind of fill that gap there but then it was looking less and less like a milk carton but if I if I made the whole case taller it really lost the milk carton shape so when I when I ditched the milk carton entirely I decided to also try integrating the switch plate right into it and then I printed it with support and it still printed pretty quick I just had some loose sort of z-shaped or zigzag shaped support in here that I pulled out with some pliers and that allows me to feed the board in from the bottom like so and then the switches go straight in without worrying about aligning the face plate so what happens is these will click since I've pushed the the feather up a little extra these will go into the quick connects without yet clicking into the face plate then I'll push the whole thing down and it gets stopped by that face plate which is great it kind of clicks into that so if you see here we've got the two switches and I can I can feel that they've gone in nicely I haven't bent those pins now I click this down I'm gonna click and now the switches clicked into that plate they're not going anywhere this is tight enough fit with the the connectors that it's not going anywhere either you could add like a little base if you wanted to or something else go back to the screw hole idea but so far I found I don't need that and now we can add some some key switches I think I wanted to try these little clear ones here those might look nice so I'm going a little bit into the art deco Miami colors a bit here with the white and and this tealish color which I dig and now again I mentioned I can plug that in I have to do it before all this gets assembled so that goes in first on its own and I can connect up our micro USB here and now we have a nice little macro pad so what I'm going to do is let's see we can probably fire it up I think this one will demo without a connection to a computer that we have it set up right now and I just have some little color change going on here right now this this is not sending anything at the moment I had this is the one I think I have set up to do BLE MIDI I have a couple of these floating around this one will do BLE MIDI and so for that you may want to redesign something like this to incorporate a battery but then you need an on off switch so I decided to forget all that I did include a space for the reset switch so there's a right angle mounted reset switch on the side of that feather wing so you can press that with a screwdriver or something like that pen and and that'll work like that so I'm going to go over here and plug this into my machine and I'm also I'm hearing beeps and bloops so I will check to make sure there aren't desperate messages coming from discord and other other lands telling me that we've we've we've got a problem let's see looks like nothing uh nothing bad that's good uh hi AT makers bill sorry you're late no problem welcome uh so I'll plug this in right here let me go to the down my little down camera and I will give that a little bit of a focus it is hard to focus on on bright bright lights come at you something like that uh and again without some darkening and diffusion it's really hard to see those colors but there you have it so that is the design if we jump back over to uh rhino the program I used to design this you can see I added in uh just for decorative reasons these uh sort of ribs kind of a streamlined modern uh look that you get there from from adding that to it like some of the buildings if you look up streamlined modern art deco you'll see some buildings that have this kind of a look um AT makers bill says that he's got a great use for this now with obs studio midi as a controller plug-in so you can do like camera changes layer changes things like that that's very cool um I actually found I was looking the other day for games that use a uh a two button controller scheme because this would be kind of fun for that and I I just found uh there's a rhythm game from the late I don't know like 2007 or something like that I'd never heard of it's called osu or osa osu osu osa I think um it's a rhythm game that just uses two buttons and I think the mouse or a pen to sort of change these curvy shapes and hit hit keys to the rhythm so two button macro pads are apparently very popular for for some rhythm games which is which is cool uh and let's see I'm just about ready to wrap up so let me see if there's any other questions uh osu doctor says it's still around and I think pretty popular there you go yeah bet twitch streaming uh brought back some some popularity for osu thank you um all right let's see what other questions we have um someone asked about this acrylic I'm using this is called led plastic it's acrylic that has a diffusion uh matte finish pebbled sort of textured matte finish on one side it's shiny on the other and it works well for diffusing leds used by sign makers for that type of thing we sell it on uh on ater fruit in sheets about the size of a matrix portal because they look really good in front of a matrix portal uh it's maker bill said the xbox adaptive controller add-on peripheral uh this would be good for that now that circuit circuit python will support out of the box very cool uh rich sedowski says gotta walk the dog but thanks for the help today you bet rich thanks for stopping by uh and it looks like you found some laura code for circuit python that's great tiny laura go check that out also for the rfm 99x series that's what I was using before uh and good yep okay uh I think that'll that'll about do it so thank you all so much for stopping by um I will be now that I've got a design that's uh in the in the clear and I feel good about it I'll be putting this together and uh throwing this model or maybe I'll continue to refine it let me know if you have any ideas for refinements on this before I put it up uh I could probably use a little more space on the bottom for for a second um foot so it doesn't slide around it's some nice space here but not so much here so uh if you have other ideas let me know um and I think the Reese brothers even agreed to do some beautiful stop motion photography of the 3d print uh some some time lapse so that'll be cool doctor says maybe a bottom cap to seal it up that's a great idea yeah and if I add a add a bottom to it then we can have lots of space to put a put a bumper on there uh all right so last thing before I go let me get this out of the way is uh I will mention that scott our own tan newt shawcraft has his scott's deep dive uh in about 13 minutes or so it's going to be at five o'clock eastern time uh and I may be showing up on the show he asked me if I'd be a guest on the show today so I will uh I'll try to head on over there and uh see what we can we can chat about always good stuff happening on the show there so uh that's going to do it thank you all so much for stopping by and I will see you next time bye bye


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