Hello and welcome to Paul Cantamene show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royston, my Stevenson head men's lacrosse coach, Paul Cantamene. Coach, we started off last week. You played Stevenson here at home. Certainly exciting finish, but come back by your guys down 11-6. The second half came back to winning overtime. Yeah, I thought we saw a lot of toughness down the stretch there, being down five sometimes in the second half, and we made some good plays and got back into it, and we really made some key plays right when the game mattered, and I thought we got a good stop with under a minute to go, that big shot for us to go over time, and then, you know, Ethan made the big shot to win it. But I thought, you know, Justin Bernetti played outstanding in that game, and Sam Ross really kept us in it. So, you know, we got to continue to build off that and move forward, but, you know, I thought it was a good win for our program off a very good Stevenstein. They were ranked 13th in the country, and, you know, probably end up 17-2 with their conference and everything like that, so that was a pretty good win for us.  Again, it's the top 20 team that's virtually unheard of. Yeah, it's pretty good. So, Justin's playing well, but, you know, up into that game, he only lost, I think, the, like, eight Face-Offs in the last three games, so he's really coming on when it matters. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, like you said, the fight, the heart you guys showed to come back in that game, you know, being down so much. Yep. You know, and like you said, for the most part of this year, you guys have fought and battled. Yeah, for the most part, and I think the big game that we've always played pretty tough, even with all their injuries and where we are, I think the guys have really played hard for most of the year, and that's really good to see as we keep going forward to our conference play.  You know, first half, you're up at halftime. Second half, they were able to make a run and put away a little bit. Yeah, it was just disappointing in the second half. I thought we played pretty well in the first half, along with them. It was a really tough game, and I think they just came out and kind of punched us in the face, and we didn't really respond too well offensively. You know, we turned the ball over way too much, and only got one shot in the third quarter and seven in the fourth quarter, and I thought they did a good job just possessing the ball and grinding us down and playing with that, and that was a big game for them. You know, they really needed that, and I thought they played excellent in the half, so all the credit goes to them, but it was disappointing to see us not play as well in the second half and not really show the courage or the toughness that we needed to win that game, but I think hopefully we'll bounce back this coming up week against Lycoming and Messiah, but you know, we need to play better in the offensive end. That really is more disappointing if our defense hung in there. I think it was our offense that really kind of cost us that game, and we need to be a lot tougher when the game matters, so it was unfortunate we played so well in the second half. We played so well in the half against Stevens, and not to play so well in the second half against them, but it's always a tough bus ride down there. It took us about five hours through the mountains and all that fun stuff, and to do that in one day and down was a little tougher for us, and we had some injuries pop up as well. Tyler Marusso got hurt, and Jimmy Walsh got hurt, and our midi-dies were really banged up, but they played with a lot of courage, and that really did a great job is just that we didn't possess the ball long enough or make the tough plays we needed to make. Yeah. Now this week you transitioned for the rest of the legacy, you transitioned to conference play, you're at Lycoming tomorrow, and then back home to Saturday against Messiah. Yeah, Lycoming's had a good season. I think they're 6-3 in the year. They're not scoring a ton of goals, but they're keeping themselves in the games, and we're going to have to play real well tomorrow in order to get that W, and then Messiah's had some results. They haven't come out on top, but they played some of the best teams in the country, really tight, and Franklin Marshall and Ohio Wesleyan, but they've had some tough games in conference. They had a one-goal victory over Lebanon Valley, 4-3, and they just beat Lycoming 11-9, so they're getting some close games, but we're going to have to play good lacrosse in order to win these two games this week, that's for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, those teams have made some close games against some good competition, so it could be two battles this week. Yeah, we're going to have to play well, so Justin's going to have to continue to play, and Sam's going to play well, but we have to play better in offense for us to be successful, and that's what we really will be concentrating on. I think our defense has given us a chance. Our offense can't contribute to why we don't win. Yeah. All right, Coach, thanks for your time. We wish you the best of luck this week. Thanks a lot, Craig. All right, for Paul Cantamini, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Paul Cantamini Show.


Hello friends, so welcome again to another session on lines and triangles and having seen different types of angles and Some relations with angles like linear pair and vertically opposite angles Now it's the time to go further deep into it and understand some more properties related to lines and angles Now in this case, we are going to study angles made by a transversal With two lines. Okay, that means first of all, we need to understand what is a transversal And what are the properties related to it? So let's say there are two lines a and b on the same plane guys again Please understand. We are talking about two lines in the same plane. Okay, so there could be lines in two different planes as well But we are not going to deal with them. We are going to deal with Only at the case where the two lines are on the same plane or they're also called coplanar lines Lines lying on the same plane are called coplanar lines. So for example, when you take your notebook and Draw any line on any of these pages and draw another line in the same place the same page You will get two coplanar lines. Now, obviously, there is no limit to draw Number of lines on a piece of paper. So all of them are coplanar lines now we have two coplanar lines here a b and CD, okay, and there is another line which intersects The two given lines a b and cd at point p and q Okay, so this line lm if you see is intersecting the two given lines in the same plane Now this line lm is called the transversal trans Versal so it is Starting from one end and then cutting across both the lines Okay, so transversal now attached with transversal or associated with transversal there are few angles and Today in this session, we are going to just define them and in the next session We'll understand the properties of those angles there, you know In some cases for example when a b is parallel to cd So when a b becomes parallel to cd, then all these angles start behaving in a particular way and we'll understand that Okay, so before that let's first understand. So you you understood transversal, right?  What am I saying? Angles made by the two lines or angles made by the transversal on the same side For example, what all here are corresponding angles? So angle one and angle five Okay, angle one and angle five This one and this one why because they are on the same side of both the you know on the left-hand side if you let's say You know or the upper side of both the lines and on the same side of the transversal. Is it it? similarly you can say angle four and angle eight are pair of Corresponding sides again on the downside Downward side of both the lines on and on the right side of the transversal again You know now angle two and angle six are another pair and Angle three and angle seven so these all are pairs of Corresponding angles. Okay, so there are four pairs of corresponding angles basically Now what are alternate interior angles? So Alternate interior angles are these so you have to just look at angles between the two lines now and On the opposite side of the triangles for example see angle three and angle five Okay, so they are on the opposite side of the transversal and They are made between the two lines. Okay angle three and angle five are Alternate interior angles and similarly angle four and angle six are Alternate interior angles. Okay, so on the opposite sides of the transversal such that The two lines form one of the arms of these angles, okay So if you see AB is forming one arm of four and CD is forming one arm one arm of six and Now PQ is the transversal actually is a common arm. Yep. So this is how you can identify Now what are alternate exterior angles similarly to similar to interior? We can have alternate in Exterior so angle one and angle seven Are a pair of alternate exterior angles? Similarly angle two and angle eight are parallel or sorry a pair of Alternate exterior angles. Okay, and what are conjugative interior angles? Now conjugative interior angles are again two angles between the two lines and the same side of the transversal Okay, so hence angle three and angle six are Conjugative interior angles and similarly Angle four and angle five are also corresponding. Sorry consecutive interior angles Okay, so now you understand if there are two lines AB and CD LM is the transversal Angle one angle five are corresponding two and six are corresponding three and seven are corresponding four and eight are corresponding similarly alternate alternate interior angles are This angle and this angle similarly alternate interior angles are this angle and this angle similarly Alternate exterior angles are one and seven and eight and two correct and Conjugative interior angles are Let's say four and five Together and three and six together right these are corresponding. Sorry consecutive interior angle So with this knowledge of you know different angles associated with two co-plural lines and a transversal We will be now moving towards understanding theorems and properties related to this particular construct. Okay. See you in the next session


Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noel Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Good morning, everybody. I'm Pedro Esco for AdafTech here at Adafruit. And every week we're here to share 3D printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. It's sure we can buy in 3D printing and do all the electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody hanging out in the live broadcast chat room. If you'd like to join us during the show, you can do so by hitting up the Discord server. The link to that is discord.gg slash Adafruit. And we are hanging out in the live broadcast chat room. We'll take a moment to welcome everybody to the show. Thank you so much for joining us. We've got some fun things to share, some retro tech and some inspirational retro stuff. Good morning. Good morning. New things. Give a shout out to everybody hanging out all over the world. We got rolls. Good afternoon from snowy Norway. Good morning. We got Jim Hendrickson. We got Dew Wester. We got Andy Callaway, Susan, Paul Cutler, Yanni, all hanging out in the Discord on YouTube, on Facebook, Twitch, where else? Twitter? Yeah. Please forget that. All the social channels, the new ones that aren't there yet. Like we're even on, remember, podcast iTunes? Oh, yeah. Swiss still call it iTunes. Yeah, we have a podcast thing there, too. Very well. Good morning, John, from New Jersey. Still doing shout outs. All right, let's continue on with the show. Cool. Let's chat about some stuff and do some housekeeping. So let's kick it off with some freebies. This one. If you go to 85.com slash free, you can see all the different things that are available right now while supplies last. The more money you spend, the more free things you're gonna get. For orders that are $99 or more, you get a free half size from a Proto. That's pretty cool. And then for orders that are $149 or more, you get the half size from a Proto plus a Stem-a-Qt Breakout Board. If you have an account with Adafruit, we'll make sure you don't get the same one twice. Otherwise, it'll be randomly selected. And for orders that are $200 or more, you get the Stem-a-Qt Breakout, the half size from a Proto PCB, and free ground shipping for continental U.S. only. While supplies last, these get added automatically to your cart so you don't have to do anything special. They just get added, which is nice. Cool. Okay. We have a newsletter that happens once a week called the new newsletter that's focused on the new products that are added on the weekly to the Adafruit store. You can go to adafruit.com slash newsletter to subscribe to that. And for daily content, you can go to adafruitdaily.com and subscribe to the many categories, such as Python on microcontrollers newsletter. Shout out to everybody who's been submitting their stories and subscribing. Really great place to get some fun projects and inspiration for all things Python on microcontrollers. Check out the jobs board at jobs.adafruit.com. And check out all the new listings that aren't there. And we'll circle back over to the Discord. So if you'd like to join us during the show, you can join the Discord. Another link is adafruit.adafruit.it slash discord. That's a little secret one there. And that's the housekeeping. All right, let's go ahead and jump into this week's project. All right, let's head over to the overhand. A little bit of a trip down memory lane. What a floppy work has been going on over at the desk of Lady Aida. She's working on some cool boards. To be able to interface with some of these. The main thing that kicked this off was, was it, it was the Prince floppy disk that needed to be rescued. And PT was the only one that had a hard drive that was able to even read it. And this sparked Lamar's interest in being able to get these to work with modern hardware. So she had a bunch of drives on the desk and wanted to make sure they were all protected. So of course, I had to three print some nice protective casings for not only the five and a quarter but the three and a half inch drives as well. They were able to get some cool translucent cases on some sellers on the internet. So we wanted to try to maintain that look with having the translucency. And that was really my main challenge in trying to get the available translucent colors to be as translucent as possible without being, not being too thin and still being able to protect the cases while they're on the desk. One of the other challenges that Lamar gave me was to have them be stackable. So they are able to stack a three and a half inch drive on top of the five and a quarter while still maintaining all of its strength and translucency. So take a look at how translucent we're able to get these. These are about a millimeter thick while still offering all of the rigidity that you would need for the drive. So just a little close-up on that. You can see that I even have these, the eat-of-fruit embosses. What I was trying to do here was two things. Test out the geometric patterns inside of Fusion 360 and have them be a little bit more transparent. You can kind of see there that it actually, the emboss makes that thinness so you can see through a little bit better because of the height requirements on the five and a quarter. It's a little bit less translucent to give ample space for the motors to rotate without it interfering with anything else and a little bit less so on the top here. But these cases just slip in and off so there's no hardware required to screw these into anything. Let me just go right over like that. And slide in like that. It's pretty easy and you have the back open on the, the back is open so you have access to plugging in all of your power and your, I was gonna say, scuzzy adapter but whatever interface you're gonna be using to hook these up to hopefully some circuit Python boards and the works. So super cool way to sort of bring the old retro tech back into the modern age. A lot of people on the video were asking, oh, why are you guys working on such old tech? And of course, very happy to see some of you commenting on there that a lot of these are still in use in like industrial purposes like in the government and military stuff like that. They are still using these. And for data recovery, I don't think you're gonna find like old Bitcoin wallets in here but there's definitely like, I don't know, wills or like photos and things that might be stored on some of your parents or grandparents old data. If you ever go through an estate cell or something like that, you can see or find some old documents on disks that are no longer readable. Hopefully you can pick these up like on eBay for like 20 bucks or whatever. So a nice little way to sort of with archive, archiving web stuff as time goes on, you definitely want to have some sort of ability to read all that old stuff again. So we jump into the learn guide for this and get all of the files, the Fusion 360 files, the step files since there seems to be some chatter on or to upload files and all that. I'm gonna make sure that everything is in one place. So super simple just goes over what I just said, you know, the reasons behind it, why you might want to have a nice little protective case for your desktop, save some space and all that. And one of the things I wanted to show was like how I created the geometric pattern but it is a paid add-on to Fusion and my trial already expired. So we won't be going over that. Let's go ahead and jump into the 3D printing. It's gonna be a pretty short one since it's pretty much just the case. And you can see here in, if you scroll down, there's all the files and links to all that. And the setting that I found made it the most translucent on this was enabling the fill gaps between walls. I'm sure it's like in the Prusa. We're using the Chura slicer here. So that's what it's labeled as. And we're gonna fill the gap between walls to everywhere. And that's just gonna ensure that you have one, so there's three perimeters, two on each side and one in the middle. And you need to have that one in the middle to sort of bind the other two together. I did try just having two perimeters but that falls apart especially with such a big print. You can't get some warping as the height increases with the print. And then the other thing, one of the other most important settings that I found, for getting the most translucent, clearest case was comb mode to off. Otherwise, the nozzle will sort of try to wipe itself on the inside and as it's doing that, it's creating sort of like a frosted look like in between the two layers. And you do not want that if you're trying to get the most translucent case that you can. So combing has to be turned off in the fill gaps, set it to everywhere. And that's just because of how thin, quote unquote thin, being a millimeter. How thin is it in CAD? It's one millimeter. Okay. And then how thick or thin rather is your line extrusion width? It's all like. 0.4. Yeah, 0.4. It's all standard. 0.4. Nothing there changed. The main things which I have highlighted here in the orange box here. I don't think folks are gonna play with their extrusion width too much, but we have to with like the ultimate makers would tend to go to like 3.8 or 3.5 or 3.3. Stick with 0.4. It's not labeled there, but you can just. The standard setting should be able to work, even like the 0.48. And if you're using a different nozzle, that's not a 0.4 nozzle. You're gonna have different settings. Looking over at the discord here, Yanni posting it. We were just watching this from her. We were just literally watching. I remember watching that so early. We were literally watching it. I was working at the App Store at that time. The App Store. At the Apple Store. And the retail Apple Store back in the early 2000s. R52 for anybody who worked at the Apple Store. You know what store that was? R52. Is that the code name? Yeah, they did the stores by like numbers. That was the one in Wellington. And down in West Palm Beach, Florida. And I lost my train of thought. What was I talking about? We're talking about floppies, old men. I know, we were joking. When these came in, I posted the video. When these came in, I was like, hey Gavin, look, because he refers to everything from the 90s. Old as, oh, that's so 1990s looking at the, you know, the way the mechanics on the drive works and everything. Older than 1990. Yeah, so. Did we finish the three trending days? I think that was it. Pretty much. We talked about, oops. We talked about the, the extrusion width is what I was saying there, but. Heater bed, prints completely up and no support materials. I have drafts on the little, the walls, so that should print up. There is a lip on one side. Let me go back to the right. Jump right here.  Same thing with the three and a half inch. There is a lip on here. So it doesn't go all the way through and all these little, the front cover stops it from going all the way through. I think the other thing that we can look at is just translucency of the colors because I did try printing a bunch of them and these, the blue, orange and green were the most translucent. I tried yellow, red and those were not as translucent which is kind of weird because you figure yellow, you know, would have, would be a little bit more translucent as the, it was like the green and the green was more translucent. So. Green. Here it is. So yeah, you just have fun printing all the different colors and recreating that Macintosh scene. I should have took pictures of these. But these, one thing I didn't mention in the 3D printing section is, or the settings is just how long these take to print. It's about, I think it's like eight hours for the little one and the big guy is 16 hours. So you're definitely gonna have to bring your patience with that. And we can actually test out how translucent they are. So this is ice blue from Filamentum and I think that's like, pretty much the only brand one that I could tell you what it is because all the other ones, they don't, they don't sell them anymore especially the orange which I'm so bummed out about because of how translucent, you know. It turns out, looks better on the back. And then, yeah, so here's the green. You can see how translucent that is. This doesn't really capture the popping of the color. Oh yeah, yeah. Or color temperature in this webcam is a hill, not true to, true to life. There you go. It's a little bit better, a little bit more yellow. Here's the yellow. And then the least translucent of all is this red. That's pretty good. Yeah. You can't see the- When the light hits it just right. Yeah, I did have to play a lot with how I lit this to not show because it looks like it's, the layer lines are extreme. You have it at certain light angles. Yeah. It's like, whoa, you got a lot of ringing. Yeah. So inside the file you can obviously delete the Adafruit logo if you want. You won't be able to change it around or update the settings unless you have the paid or if you're on the trial version of the geometric pattern. It was in what the heck? We're already paying. I don't know.  I don't see why you need to place your time on it. No, it's exactly what, the point. It's cool to play around with settings. Exactly. And it makes it fun and experimental, but. Yeah, what I'm gonna have to use now inside of Illustrator, you do have the ability to play with a lot of the settings. It took a lot of the ease away. I mean, it took, it gave you a ton of ease. Yeah, it was just a slider. And you can experiment with different orientations. So this is a circular based pattern and this one spreads it out and gives it variable sizes. So it's kind of neat, but. Yeah, that is, again, just a slider. There's no other tool that will do that so quick and easy for you so I can see why you thought it was really cool idea to play around with it, but. Yeah. Those three things, we were testing it out and the other thing too was the emboss. It's inspiring you to create your own kind of like patterns for your cases. They don't have to be just a flat simple thing. You can really stylize it. Exactly. It's some sort of artwork. It's vector based artwork that you can bring into your CAD. Yeah, and showing the least translucent of all is the. Purple. It doesn't look too bad. Yeah, the Blink of Purple. Oh gosh. So we're gonna have Blink of Purple. Goes really good with the yellow. Good way to do your color matching. But yeah, here is what it looks like with that. And I think these are from Ultimachine. Who has, who's been with me for a while? Yeah. That's as translucent as you can get with the darkest color. And that's pretty much it. You got your vents to dissipate any heat. Yeah. You could have powered these, but they wouldn't power. Yeah, this guy would not. So it shouldn't have any interference. You can kind of see. We sent two to LaMange. Yeah, to verify it. Go ahead, push it live. So as soon they fit and they were fine. It's about a millimeter of clearance from all sides. So you should be able to operate this without any interference. Cool. Yeah, I'd love to see somebody with an actual working floppy drive. Let's try out these cases. Lamar's busy. Yep, maybe tonight she'll try it out. I don't know. We'll ask during the meeting. Cool. Any comments for anything? Go ahead and drop them down in the discord. The irony is not lost on that. Jim Hendrickson saying that everything, the iMac or how the iMac was criticized for not having the floppy on there. How funny. Remember that? It was, yeah. I remember having to get the. The first Mac without a floppy. Like, what are you doing? It's like kind of, you know, how do you have an iPhone without a headphone jack? Even funnier still was in the video, if you guys have noticed, that I have the three and a half inch upside down. Yeah, it's upside down. We don't know what's upside. We were Mac users. So we saw the floppy disk go in. I didn't know which direction. Orientation, the. The eject is always at the bottom. The eject. Yeah. Or no. Well, you didn't have an eject button. It was all software eject. Oh, you're right. We had a hole. Our first Mac was to perform a 6300. And did have a three and a half floppy. But again, there was no like, I don't remember the button to eject. It was literally just a hole for the. My first. Paperclip. All right. My first electric piano from Yamaha was a PSR630. And that one had a floppy drive. And you would put MIDI files on the floppy disk. So that's how I learned about the floppies back in the 90s. That would have been a good idea. Lamar did mention to, if it did not come with a front, to design the front camera. Yeah, that's what Jan is saying. That the front color cover matching would be good. How do you remove the front panel? I don't know. Are there screws? Is it clip on? Oh, it looks like a clip. But I don't want to break it. You don't want to break it, huh? Even though it doesn't work. Well, this one I didn't test out. In terms of like, okay. Yeah, it's the big guy. Well, we're going to save these for when actual certified phone hardware from the mark comes out. Then we'll be able to actually. Get the mounts on there. Just getting all the pieces ready to do some fun things. Flippy drive. Flippy floppy. Let me know where YT is asking if these are ready. Plans to sell the floppy drives and disk. I don't think the actual drives or disks just. I've heard Lamar say they're easy to come by in eBay and you were able to purchase them on eBay, right? Yeah. They shipped Lake in a day. They're definitely not. There's no shortage of them. Yeah. It probably would have been faster and cheaper if it went to like a Goodwill or a thrift store, a consignment store to see what they have in stock. Oh, maybe. But this was the fastest for us. I'm totally impressed. Look how transparent that is, Pedro. I know. All of these. You can put your hands through it. You can see. Can I put the... You don't have another one? No. Another big one? I can kind of see the translucency on all of these. But again, this only works when the object is smushed right up against it. A pass like a millimeter, it starts getting, you know, not as translucent. And then funny enough, the ice blue, this other one is not as translucent because of how far away the drive motors are on the five and a quarter. So. So how big of a 3D printer do I need? Oh. Big one. Yeah. Very big. You should be able to get three. I'm so sorry. The sizes on them, let's see. It's a given, but like, come on. How big? 300 by 300 by 300. Something like that. Yeah. I'd open Cura, but my computer would crash. Let's see, you need at least 152 by 40. So. 152 tall? 152 length and then tall. Yeah, tall. You need 195. Hey, that's not bad. You think that might fit on a Prusa i3, i4, i5, whatever it is. Yeah, yeah. All right, cool. And that is this week's project.  Cool. All right. Cool. Let's go ahead and jump into this week's prototyping. Real quick, just don't forget, go to the learn guide and you get the files there. Get the step files. Yeah, so you can modify it in whatever cat package you'd like to use. That's still there as well. And then you have the fusion files if you want to do any editing. The tolerances. I'd noticed that there was a tolerance difference between the CR3 and the... How about the CP2? Just a little bit where you can definitely see some sort of, where it's too loose on the CR3s. Maybe start printing like just an inch or 10 millimeters. That is what I had to do. Right. And then see if that fits through your thing first.  Yeah. Print a little bit of it first. Very good tip, because that's what I was going for the longest time, especially with this guy. He's printing a little bit of it. 16 hours, so. Yeah, let it print for like half an hour. You'll get like that much. Because you don't want it to be so small to where it like bends into form as well you're trying to put it on. And then you can't gauge, you know, what the actual full size of the case is going to be. So let it print for like maybe half an hour. So I'm going to be like, I don't know about that much. If folks are wondering, Vaze mode, did you use Vaze mode? No, no Vaze mode, no. Because you wouldn't have that center, the layer right in the center that's like gluing the two outer. I think the dimensions, the internal dimensions are far more important than the external ones, aren't they? Because it's the internal that's going to fit your hardware. Exactly. Things to consider. Cool. Anybody have any other questions or is there would like to have the front covers changed out? Nippy John. Formal Hunt is asking, yeah, the infill, I mean, I have it listed as 10% but it's literally just going to fill one. There's no percent. It's like whatever one line is. So it's not zigzagging to create the infill. It's just one solid in the center. Which is kind of like a Vaze mode. But in order for Vaze mode to work, you kind of have to have a solid thing, not something that has an opening like this. See you afternoon, good afternoon from Rainey Scotland. Sonosis is asking, do we just need a MacBook with a floppy drive? I'm just like, shout out to Team LLR in France. Shout out. Shout out to you. I'm just looking at the cool speculative highlights. I know, I need to print the sense we're supposed to be talking about prototyping. Yeah, I was still. I want to print this out in this because look at the difference between the pigments on this. This is like the translucent blue and this is like the ice blue. So you can see that it has a little bit more of a vibrant pigment in there. But what this is supposed to be is PT found some really cool Etsy listings that were showing this glow-in-the-dark powder inside of like a CNC machined little encasing that the artist is saying would be really cool to add to like zipper pulls or like wearables. Like they gave other examples which I cannot recall, like a, I don't know, band. Like anything like that would be good for at dark and having visibility if you're like, exercising that night. So we have some of that glow-in-the-dark pigment in there and it looks super cool when it's like glowing especially since the filament that I'm using here is UV reactive. We should have tested how that looks like on the ice blue. But yeah, nice little threaded. Yeah, it's threaded design here. So you can insert your little vial and I'll post links to where to get the little vials and it was a hobby lobby where I got like a nice little assortment of those. And then I think Lamar is gonna try to stock the glow-in-the-dark pigment. I will print these out in the glow-in-the-dark filament to see if that increases the glow or how that looks like. But yeah, nice simple little wearable attachment with glow-in-the-dark capabilities. So we're cool. Nice, cool problem. Yeah, yeah. So this was actually the first thing I was testing that effusion geometric pattern and it did not work on cylindrical objects. It just used a circular pattern. I will show how to do that. Cause it's definitely the, we're gonna have to do it so I'm manually, I'm not paying. Oh no, no, careful, careful girl. Oh, that'll open the powder. Oh yeah, it'll pop out the powder. I need one of these guys. Yeah, that's actually why I have the holes down there. Pop that out like that. And I lost my train of thought on what I was going to say but just what the powder looks like. Oh yeah, I should have brought the UV light. Yeah, it's fine. It's a little tight. Yeah, so this powder is what we're gonna stock? Yeah. It's like the industrial glow-in-the-dark stuff that they mix with like pigments and like artwork. Would you get the powder? All that? Amazon or something? Amazon, yeah. Not the art store. No, no, I didn't look for it there. The main thing I was looking for there was just those. Cause I remember seeing them passing by in one of the aisles. Not glass, just like... No, this is glass.  I did not think so. I don't either do I. Until I started pushing on it from the bottom, I was like, oh good, it's not deforming or breaking. But yeah, that's what this guy is. It's very frightening. Oh, I know. Cause when I was placing it in there, like you can see, you know, when you have the UV light over here and you're like, oh no, it's everywhere now. But yeah, I'll have two, three, you print like a little funnel.  So I don't be, I don't think next week, the week after it. And I think, do you have one prototype to look at? Yeah, let's talk about. So we got some retro game toy inspired project. This is a Etch-a-Sketch inspired project. So we have these two potentiometers. This is the display. It's a 2.4 inch TFT feather wing. We have these two potentiometers. We're using display IO in circuit Python to move this little cursor. And so you have two controls here. We have a button and a toggle switch. So you notice that the screen has this little yellow thing. When I turn the knobs, you can see me moving the little thing. So what's really cool about this, so Carter Nielsen came with the code for this one. It's also in circuit Python using display IO.  Now you are drawing. So you have pen up and pen down. And it's very hard to draw things I found because I've never really used an Etch-a-Sketch before. So it's been really fun to do this. And this is a color TFT, right? It's a 2.4 inch TFT feather wing. It's 320 by 240, I believe. This is a fixal resolution. But you can see here, you can do all sorts of fun stuff. And then I can go pen up, and I can move my cursor around and start a new drawing, I think, if I wanted to. Super. And then you're wondering, what was this button for? Instead of shake to erase, we have a button. So the button erases. And I've been trying to learn how to draw with this tag and I'm very awful at it. About all the, I found all I can do is probably make a face. I think I can do like a little BMO style face. But huge shout out to Cardo Nielsen. Backstory, Cardo Nielsen works on the Eaterford remote team. He does support as well. And he has a couple of learn guides on the Eaterford Learn system. So about two years ago, pre-pandemic, I found one of his guides and it showed how to use an OLED display to create this project. So if you look in the description of our YouTube video, there's a link to Carter's learn guide. You can build this right now. However, it was built before display IO. It was built before our learn guides were on GitHub. So it's, he's completely revamped the code so that it is written in display IO and we'll be releasing this next week. But that is the prototype. That's just sketch inspired handheld. Take a look at the, this stuff is a 3D printed snap fit case. How do I open this? I don't remember. I did this project, I don't know. It feels like a month ago now. There it goes. So you got your snap fit delies. A little reset button pusher on the back case. But yeah, you got your feather in four.  So you can see here I'm using these right angled the header pins to make the wiring connections a bit of a plug and play going on. I got this nice beefy battery and a 3D printed bracket here, the green things, what keeps the display mounted nicely to the case. You got your regular pots here. These are 10K pots. Linear, tends to work out better than the analog for this type of thing. Standard toggle switch and these are, we carry 16 millimeter panel mounted momentary push buttons. That's what this is, but it's something I got somewhere else and it has these built in screw block terminals which I'm really happy about because the buttons that we carry in the shop don't have that, so this makes it modular.  Pretty simple case inspired of course by like a Nintendo Game Boy, Game Girl, everything snap fits. I really like doing these, when I have a feather based project or any type project I like doing these reset buttons, it's really easy to press it and then when you, it won't press it when you're down on a thing. So it's really nice when you're flat and you're not accidentally hitting reset. Carter did some fun things in the code where you'll be able to easily customize this if you want a bigger cursor, you can change the scale factor, you can of course change the colors and whatever else you want to try to do. What do you guys think about Edge Disketch? Have you ever played with Edge Disketch? It's really cool to be able to do this in the display IO. I don't think that's something that you could ever do with the Edge Disketch, right? Move. You can't do pen up or down. Yeah, you have to like trace the existing line to keep it within sort of like comb mode on a printer. You can see that if you go too fast, it tends to skip a little bit. So you can either play with the delay or just go slow. We thought about some things like shaking to erase, but as you saw, my battery's shaking in there. Yeah, Circuit Python. Love it, on and off switches right there. I have these, these are guitar knobs. They're super chunky, super heavy, and I love them. That is really nice. Hello. These are really cool. I like these. They have the spline in there, built in there for potentiometers. So yeah, these are for guitars. So that's why they're huge. I figure it gets some really, really nice ones because this is the majority of how you're using it, right, with these giant things. We don't stock these, but we hope we do. It's about gate-big. It's pretty thick. It's like two iPods. I was gonna save the whole morning, that's what we're watching. Give me the...  It was about the same thickness. Oh, it is so close. Pretty close. Whenever you're doing it, and this is with the short headers too, the feather. How's the short headers? Oh, that's fun. All right, that's the prototype. Hope you like. We'll do it next week. Super cool. Definitely have to do something. You wanna draw something? On there. Turn it on. At the bottom. Oops. Oh, that's the erase button. Yeah, that's the erase button. Clear button. Let's see if I can draw a blinker. No, wrong. It's inverted. Ah, I can't do it. You think it's inverted? No. So yeah, you're gonna wanna... Yeah, you need some practice to... Right, and you know what's up and down and what's left and right. Yup. So folks, you will have the ability to swap it into code so you won't have to re-solder anything. Just easily change that in the code. I'm sure there's drawn the Adderford logo very horribly. Which other people do like the Flight Simulator who is really good at inverted controls. So, I can't wait to see people posting cool Mona Lisa drawings of that. That'd be cool. Yeah, it's open. I think there's like a Mona Lisa of like Figment the Dragon. Yes, there is. One thing that's kind of, I don't like about this display. It's basically like a mirror. We were looking at like the matte screens to put all of our screens for when we're filming. We don't have like the blockers and the bouncers and the bouncing the light everywhere else, but the screen and the polarizers. So folks, the origin story here is the, look at this artwork.  Yes, this is an existing learning guide. You can guys check out right now. Right, now we steered away from using this OLED because you kind of have to desolder a surface mounted resistor in order to get the spy connection to work. And we use spy to get this working. I believe it's spy. Yeah, I think it's a spy. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, this is a kind of an older guide and Carter did this several years ago. When did he publish it? 2018.  I know. It's crazy to think that Circuit Python has grown so much. Not just Circuit Python, but like the learn. We now have the ability to learn repos and have display IO that's gonna work across all of these types of displays whether it's OLED or TFT. Pretty cool to see this. And I'm happy to like kind of find this as an archeologist dust off the thing and be like, hey, we need to get this going. We need to make this a nice project. There's so many projects like that and learn when you go through there. Yeah, I don't like them telling us like, ah, that's already been done. Let's not do that. No, if you need to redo it. When you look at your, To refine it. You're on this day, we're usually like two, three, four, five, eight years ago working on the exact same project. Just completely different, you know. It was no Circuit Python, it was Arduino, now it's Circuit Python two, now it's five, now it's seven. So it's like, we get to keep revisiting these projects with updated code, updated platforms, and of course, updated modeling techniques and filament. It is a question on the discord asking about any way to reduce shipping costs to Europe. Yes, we have distributors all over the world. Have the distributor pay for the shipping and you can locally grab it from them. I just posted link. It is 804.com slash distributors and we are all over the place. I can't even count how many distributors there's so many. If you ever look at any of the behind the scenes videos of like the factory running and all the people shipping, this is where it's all going to all over the world. Yay. It is quite a scroll on all of the distributors. Definitely check that out if you are outside of the US. It's been some CAD stuff here folks, drawing some components for next week's project. My brand new CAD thing. There's a quick question from Mark Gambler. Any idea why my Ninja Flex is burning at some points? I've seen that exact same thing. The Ninja Flex sometimes tends to like warp or curl. Take the nozzle? Yeah, and that's what's happening. It's getting closer to the nozzle and the nozzle is burning, either burning it or you know how filament gets like stuck on the side of the nozzle.  So it could be like from the retraction. Yeah. It's the part itself. You know how like Ninja Flex tends to like sort of droop a little bit like one way or the other and as it's printing around, it's like sort of cleaning your nozzle. Maybe turn off combing. Is that what's going on? Like it's combing and some of the extrusion bits, some of the string is just catching up on the combing. Yeah. We try turning off combing and see if that's on or off. I don't, yeah, I don't know if it's like a default thing. I think you can do two. I mean, it's cleaning the nozzle, just go in there and clean it a little bit more because there's no way to avoid how the Ninja Flex like deforms as it's printing. Yeah. Mike P is asking about the, I suppose the potentiometer which is a rotary encoder. Yeah, these are not rotary encoders. These are potentiometers. So the potentiometer goes from like zero to 10, 24. So it can't go any further back and as you go, that's as far as it goes. So in the code, Parker has mapped, he's using map range. So he's mapping the X and Y coordinate to the potentiometers zero to 10, 24. I believe that's how he's doing it. So that's how it's able to do that. With a rotary encoder, you just go all the way around and it's pulses as opposed to like a fixed value. So I think that's why Parker used the potentiometer. Probably easier to code, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And then Mike P says, oh, so they do stop. Yeah, yeah, they do stop. They hard stop. Yep, yep. Think about like a volume knob. Like it's gotta stop at some point, right? And then Fomi guys has an answer on there. Thoughts on it. And Mark Gambler is saying, yeah, coming was enabled, he'll try turning it off. You might get some stringing from it, but it's okay, it's ninja flex. You can just cut it up. We always have to do processing meaning cutting off all the retraction afterwards. Yeah, yeah, it's like if it's spinning more. Yeah, it's just the nature of the knobs just look like they just keep going. That's another reason why I choose the knob is like when you have notches here, you would get confused of where I am, I think, because this one doesn't really need to know exactly where you are, because there's no real value there. Yeah. All right, that is this week's prototyping. I think this comes out next week, and then the week after the global stuff. Codes already on GitHub, if you wanna take a look at it. We have a Learn Guide repo where all of the code for our projects and everyone's projects are published. Cool. All right, let's do shop talk real quick. I got a CAD walkthrough of the Zoetrope and Zoetrope from last week. So if you wanna take a look at how I structured the design in Fusion 360 and how I'm using sketches and joints and external parts to create this CAD assembly and just showing how I'm using all those tools to get a visual representation of how these gears are engaging. It's about a half an hour of me bantering about CAD stuff and how I did this. Can I check out this cool book? Yeah, and then we have this really cool book. I recommend this book. It was gifted to me. It's called 507 Mechanical Movements, Mechanisms and Devices. And if you are just getting started with mechanical engineering, it's a great reference book. So for our project, our Zoetrope, there's actually some things here. You might notice this, number 34. That is the mechanism for the Zoetrope. That's a internally tooth spur gear and pinion. Basically the main takeaway here is that the two rotate in the same direction and with the same strength of the tooth gears are capable of transmitting greater force because more teeth are engaged. So that's cool. And then for the gear itself, number 40 here, you can see it's a double helical gear. Rotary convert it into rotary motion. The teeth of these gears being oblique give more continuous bearing than ordinary spur gears. It kind of self centers too when you have a profile like that. So it works out really well. But yeah, there's 507 mechanisms here and it's great resource for folks that are interested in mechanical design and engineering. So yeah, 507 Mechanical Movements. I've always wanted this book. That's this week's shop talk. A cat tutorial and a book recommendation. Trying to answer Leon's question or response on the distributors. They tried the distributor website but it's a lot harder to find things than on the Adafruit website. The other suggestion would probably be Digikey. How are they shipping for the stuff you're looking for? Apparently this is a website too. I just have Mike P. Thanks, Mike, for sharing that. The Mechanical Movements is also on the website here. So if you want to add free and print copy and bigger photos, you can look here. Oh yeah, there it is. I think they show it animating too, look. Yeah, I remember seeing this actually. I completely forgot about this book, so I'm sorry. But it's cool that they kind of have this. Yeah, this was really cool to see too. It's great to see it in motion. Oh yeah, can you see the index here? Yeah, look at that, the angle pressure there. Very nice. I'm hypnotized. It's so funny to have a real 3D model of it and be like, yeah, yeah, do it the whole day long. Very cool. Good pick. That's 507movements.com. Yeah, Mike's piece is great for animation. It is, yeah. Yes, the lawnmower is back. We had hope they had switched their schedules since they weren't here last week. That's just a special day. All right, folks, you ready for community mages this week? It's very koi. This week is, this is really cool. I think it's a koi fish. It's this quantum filament printed flexi fish. I don't know what I'm showing you. Oh, there it is. I'm not showing you the thing because I'm getting the link up. So the flexi animal craze is still going strong. Flexi animal craze? Yeah, doing like the rose dragon, the spiky dragon. Like my favorite, the fork, the flexible fork. Flexible fork. Like the un- This is fantastic filament. It's a quantum filament for matter hackers. It's got that two tone. This is printed with that. So you can see one side is this beautiful pink. The other side is gout. It's such a great color. Like the fish actually have those like pinks and golds. So it's really great. Print without any supports, prints in place, articulation. Kind of see how it's like, like the filament got twisted while it was going in and then it untwisted itself and fixed itself. So you're gonna get those if you're not careful. This is the time lapse. Really? Normally time lapses look gross, like the print. This does not look gross. No, you can kind of see where, like gross. Yeah, where it attracts. It was over for like, I don't forget how many milliseconds it is for that long exposure. Very cool. Man, this filament is trying to get. I know, it mesmerized by the Quantum Matter Hacker's filament. The modeling of the scaling is excellent. The face, like, so this is really good. So this is by Wild Art 3D. Is it designed to be, yeah. Is there, is there a handle here on Colt 3D? It's a paid download because it's a fantastic model. It's $1.69 in the US currency. Oh, there were some photos of it. We like fun things. I'm sure the kids will love it. Somebody in the comments of the video was saying to add like a motor and some fishing string to make them move or embed the magnets in there. Like we did with that little fishy magnet thing. But yeah, the movement on it. Excellent job, like. Fantastic model. Yeah, you have movability in it and you can kind of see how it's like sort of like a chain link the way that the sections are connected. Oh, I can barely see. It's like a 45 degree like draft and that goes up so no supports needed. And again, yeah, you can get some twisting in the Quantum Filament. So it's got to be some sort of like filament guide where it like keeps it like at one from twisting. There you go. But I'd print something different that wasn't a dragon. Yeah, so there's fish again. Oh, hey look. I'm close to reading a lot. You can move just his head. Oh, he's switching. Okay, so I'm now, it's eating, it's got some bait, some kiwi, kiwi bait, I think. Cool, so check out the model if you wanna support the artist, you can download it. And make your own fish. There's a bunch of other ones from the same person, I believe. The same person makes all of the flexes. That snake is cool. There's that dragon. Yeah, very cool. I wanna do this one next. The flappy dragon looks kinda cool. Flap the dragon? Cool. All right, we got some other community makes. So let's walk through those. This one just came in in the morning. Hopefully it loads, it only gets louder. This is the Chief Tusken Raiders staff. Whoa. Fantastic print from Fingerverse user B Cotton 81, just posted this up. Looks fantastic. It barely fits on that dining table there.  Where's that next button? There it is. Yeah, and the person says, I honestly saw this and thought it would be good indeed to burn through some silk filaments that I've had laying around forever. That's why it's not color accurate. I had two other copper pipe parts to make the full length of my nephew broke it. Oh, my nephew broke it too. It, your son, I made duplicates in different colors. So once I settle on a final version, I'll glue it because from, so it doesn't feel fragile to breaking at the screw ends very quickly. I would say over 40% infill and no bigger than three layer height if you want to keep it modular. Well done. It's surprisingly big and substantial feeling once assembled even at the reduced length. The fact that it's so modular, I might try to scale it down to kid size and they can pick their colors. Didn't that print it on a cruelty? A little one? We'll have to re-watch this again, perhaps. Yeah, it looks better than mine. I kind of say it in that silk filament, it looks beautiful. Print it on a cruelty, ender three. Use prims, fill the longer pieces, 0.6 nozzle. Ooh, that would be real nice. I'll speed it up for sure. Oh yeah. Now 0.6 nozzle is my favorite one. Very, very cool. Shout out to B-Content, 81. That's so funny. We used to play around with all the nozzle sizes and the two look extrusion. Oh yeah. It's like meh, one color, 0.4 nozzle. That's why the Maticus Quantum is fun. You get those two tone colors there. Here is a make of our infamous unicorn horn that's printed in flexible filaments but also PLA in, here it is, Luke posted this up. It's unicorn part of time. It's cool that there are holes in there for a string. Yes. I printed it with the color change filament. In reality, you can see much more transition than the pictures, but I should have printed more of the simultaneous to see more. I'm trying to use something. That looks orange, yeah, looks great. Even the tips where it typically can deform because the heat zone is all in the same area there at the top. People love these unicorn horns. They're great for the kids. I don't know, I think we have to revisit it like everything else but make them Godzilla scales for the back because the child is all into Godzilla now. This is super cool. So think of our scissor Tiffy HH posted up there, pie, badge, thermal camera with some of their own additional things to it. Take a look at the surface on this. This is one of those perforated beds. It gives it like this composite carbon fiber look to it. It just looks fantastic. So yeah, you can see here in the PCB mount. Pager, take a look real quick. It really looks like carbon fiber, but it's not, it's just perforated bed. We've seen those before, but yeah, this is a cool way to make a DIY thermal imaging camera with the MLX90640 thermal camera sensor in the Adafruit Pie badge. These 3D prints parts house the pie badge, the module, a battery on off switch and a little button for reset. I believe that's what it is. The front cover exposes all of the buttons, this display, there's also an external, the frame bezel that gets super glued on top of the back cover and you have some holes that expose the neopixels. I really love this project. I had a lot of fun designing it in Fusion and it's great to see folks actually make it. So a huge shout out to Tiffy HH for posting up there. Awesome build, thermal camera pie badge. Okay, we've got another one. This is a very fun one. There's another prop. This prop is from Final Fantasy. This is called a gun blade. Pedro created this in 2015 and the photo, look at that. This is printed in that silk filament, I believe. Prints in two pieces. Really, really cool moving barrel. The barrel actually rotates. The backwards barrel. Oh, that's right. The barrel is backwards. But very, very cool. This was posted up by Lord. 814, looks great. And this was printed on a CR-10S cruelty. Super fun project, made it for my friend who loves Final Fantasy 7. Really satisfied with how it turned out. Yeah, me too, looks great. And they used Sunloo PLA Silver. That's cool. There's three more there with me folks. Last week, we didn't have many. This week, everybody posted stuff. Yeah, it was great. I'll pause it. All right, this is a little snap fit mount for your circuit plate and express or circuit plate on Brute Flute. This was posted up by Thanks. Thanks posted up there. Their make up of this really nice bumper. Yeah, I think it's so many uses. I didn't know you could put it on upside down like that. I did not either. I normally flip it the other way, but when you make it symmetrical, it can go either way I guess. That's news to me, it looks great. There's those two extra mounting holes in case somebody wants to add something else. That's what that's for. Yeah, that's what that's for. It's usually for the base. I do normally just like that. Yeah, I guess you could flip it around. Cool. Yeah, there's different. I use this a lot to just stuff this under an existing decoration just to give it some light. So it's nice way to kind of mount this to something else in its very low profile. But yeah, you can make this version if you want to strap it to something else, attach it to something else. Yeah, and the clearance on the bottom is for a little bit of battery. A little battery, yeah. Yeah, and folks have made their own remixes and stuff, I think, so that's cool. All right, and then let's keep moving. We have two more. This is another prop, it's a prop week here. This is a TVA, TVA time stick from the Disney Plus TV show, Loki. So this is a little baton with some feather, prop maker feather wing. So Thingiverse user, the director posted up their make, they did some post-processing as well. Some of the photos are a little difficult to kind of look as they're, it's like a quality shot. Yeah, Thingiverse, like something happened. Yeah, there's a good photo of it. Looks great, post-processed like that, all nice and sanded and painted. I like that weathering look, it looks like a light saber, I'm great. Yeah, super cool. I'm always jazzed when I see somebody do the sanding and the painting. Yeah, because it takes so much time, I don't know how difficult it is. I'd ever get to know. Time consuming, it is. Loving this print, currently working with the wiring, but until now it looks amazing, it did one modification, we'll post up their makes. Cool, very nice. Again, that's the director on Thingiverse. All right, we got one more. The director for Loki? The director for Loki? I'm surprised they don't sell that at the Disney parks, a baton. They have all these other wands and swords and, yeah. A bubble wand. A bubble wand would be great. This is posted up by JBeerCat, GBeerCat, bear, GBeerCat, on Thingiverse, posted up their modification of the Clue case non-wearable. Yes, so if you want to- I thought- Clue case without wearable. I've made a non-wearable version. You probably did, but it was a different style. People do their own fun things to it, so. I don't see any photos of it posted, but maybe they're printing it still. So I'm trying to- GBeerCat posted up their thing. This is a version of the Pylon Clue bike case, but instead adds a freestanding non-wearable unit. The reason for making it is to create remote control for the shared gain timer that could be passed around on the gaming table. Cool. The main difference here is the original Pylon case is removable of the mounting holes in the back plate, the walls, corners, and the floor have also been thickened to improve reliability. Cool. And they printed out on a Lowell's VotTaz 6. Hey. GBeerCat had two real estate. Oh, that's why. He was using a 0.6 millimeter nozzle. Mm. Oh, wow, look at that. These are even better photos. Oh, there are photos. They just weren't added to the bucket, cool. That's cool when you use a- You also have a button pusher for the reset button. I love doing that. It's a really good technique. I think that's where we started using it. It's like the concentric pattern on the first and top first layer. Very cool. And that is this week's Community Maze. Thank you everybody so much for sharing your stuff with us. It's really cool to see folks making things. And everybody out there, keep posting and keep making. They were cells, me, and blocker, and download files. So the team noticed this, sent this in, PT sent a letter to Thingiverse themselves. So the PR team- Hopefully they're having a meeting on removing that. Hopefully, keep our fingers crossed. Because although, you know, we use all the other sites as well as our own. We upload all the STLs and the step files to Brackley to learn. We're hosting them on- We've been hosting them for a long time. The GitHub has all of our 3D models on there as well. And beyond Thingiverse, it's on Prusa, Colts 3D, My Manufactory, PinShape, Is that still around? Yeah, it's still around. The Ultimaker one. Imagine. Imagine. It is everywhere. All of our stuff is everywhere. So we don't really- And it's weird because we've never noticed that our ad blocker is on our router. It's built into the router, the ERO, E-E-R-O routers. So we never see, we haven't gotten that message yet, but we have seen lots of people posting about that. So there are some discussions on, you know, what to do in terms of- Yeah, I think PT will talk about it tonight. Yeah, we're gonna talk about it in our meeting as well. Right, so what the action them going is, but yeah, he has emailed, think that MakerBot Thingiverse to see if they can stop this, because it's not really good for them. Yeah. We have plenty of other places we can go. Right, it's just the bummer that Thingiverse wins when it comes to traffic. And if you noticed, all of our makes are unfortunately from Thingiverse. People are just posting them there. Unfortunately, the whole- I was trying to promote Prusa more, but probably not a good idea to favor one over the other. This is the conflict of interest I want to get into. And so what are we gonna promote? Oh, the file's on an online site. Stop going to Thingiverse. Stop going to- I can't say that. You can get them where we want. It's unfortunate, because that's where I get all of the blog content. Like if you go to the Thingiverse RSS feed, ooh, it is a fire hose. People are uploading like- You go back- Yeah, you can go back there every hour and see frickin' so much stuff. And it's not just dedicated to one what is it called? A Curise thing. It's like so many little pieces and bits for things all over the house or the tools and all these holders that make it so- This is what the reprinting was supposed to be about.  But hopefully they'll do the right thing. Yeah. And yeah, they're, I think, because it was during the pandemic. You mentioned much money they were making from all these ads, like every single ad. Like if you look at their numbers at Thingiverse, like on a normal day, it's about 400 downloads a day. That's average too. So if every one of those has a link to Amazon, to Premiere, yeah, like buy this Premiere thing. But anyway, yeah, then they're in the middle of the pandemic. There was already chats on like, just our curated for the guides, all the files that we created for that. So that might get rebooted. No, no, maybe. Definitely not interested. So Deweyster, let's see if they change your mind. You'll hear more about it from PT and us next week. Yeah. So I hope they do the right thing and remove that. 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Hi, everybody. I hope you're enjoying the speakers so far today. I got to confess the next speaker actually intimidates me a little bit. Tom Kaepern intimidates me mostly because he's smarter than I am. He has very strong opinions about SEO, but he's very fun to argue with. Tom previously worked for years running the consulting arm of Distilled in London. Now he heads up search science teams at Moz during research and working with Moz's next generation of tools. Today he's talking about Core Web Vitals. If there has been a topic that has dominated SEO for the past year, it has been Core Web Vitals. But the problem with that conversation, it's been lacking a lot of actionable insights. So Tom's been diving into this to figure out what we should actually do with Core Web Vitals to see measurable results. His talk is titled, The Fast and the Spurious Core Web Vitals in SEO. Please welcome the smartest guy in the room, Mr. Tom Kaepern. At this point you may be thinking that you've heard everything that there is to be said about Core Web Vitals. This tweet is from my colleague Cyrus and this was way back in February months ago at this point. It's now been over a year since we first heard about this update from Google and since we've known that it was coming and what it was going to be about. And yeah, as he says, I'm physically unable to tweet one more word about these damn Core Web Vitals. I don't want to lose you straight away though. I'm going to try and give you a slightly different perspective.  Google is bluffing. However, your business is at stake here or maybe your boss or your client's business is at stake here. So you can't exactly afford to call the bluff, but you can sort of cheat. Is that more interesting? This is what we're going to talk about today. The flaws of Core Web Vitals, then why they're taking such a ridiculous amount of time to roll out still and then does it matter and what to do next? So firstly, the flaws. You've probably seen this graphic by now. This is from Google's original announcements or, well, from one of their 2020 announcements. I'm going to talk briefly about each of these three new metrics and why I think individually and taken together they actually have some rather large holes in them. So firstly, largest content. So this is the one that's kind of closest to a traditional site speed metric, right? This is how long it takes the largest element on the page to load. So if I take a page like this, what's the largest element is the first question we're going to ask, right? Because that's what it's going to judge. It's going to be how long it takes the largest element on this page to load. So what is the largest element? Well, intuitively, we might think it could be one of these two hero images or maybe one of these chunky text blocks. Now, if the text loads quicker than the images, we might be kind of incentivized to make the text larger, right? Because we would want the quicker element to be identified as the largest element. And that's kind of perverse incentive. That's probably not improving the page really, but it would improve this metric. As it happens, there are a lot of tools out there that will tell you which the largest element the page is according to this method. Which element you're going to be judged on by this metric. MozPro is one of those tools, and it turns out that it's this block at the top. This is the element that your large content page will be judged on if you are the Moz blog. Not that intuitive, right? What about this e-commerce page? I think probably I would guess it was this. This is, I think, an AMD advert. But it's actually this. The cookie overlay is what Google will judge your largest contentful paint on for this page. And is it fair to compare either of those with a page like this? So on this page, the diagram is kind of the very important key element of this page. And if the diagram's not there, then the page is kind of worthless. It's completely dominated. Now the largest item on the Moz blog page was not that important to the page. But the largest element here is. So is that fair, really, to compare the two using the same method? What about first input delay? So this is how long it takes from the user's first click, which is at their discretion, on an interactive element to when the processing happens for that click. So it's not how long it takes for the page to actually update, or the browser to update in response to that processing. It's how long it takes for the processing itself. And this only counts at click events on interactive elements. So it does not account for scrolls or zooms or that kind of thing. So again, if I wanted to optimize the Moz blog homepage for first input delay, I've got some kind of weird incentives going on. Those two big hero images that I highlighted before, those are both links at the moment. They're links to the blog posts.  So if I made those not links, then when the user clicked, nothing would happen. So the clock wouldn't start for measuring first input delay because the user hasn't yet clicked on something. They've clicked on something that wasn't a link. So as far as first input delay is concerned, they haven't clicked. So removing these links from these images would probably improve my first input delay metric. Again, rather at the expense of user experience. Similarly, I could make the titles of the blog posts absolutely tiny so that in order to click on them, my users have to sort of brush off their call of duty skills and get that precise click. And again, that's going to be pretty bad for user experience, but it should improve this metric because by the time the user has managed to click on these obscure elements, the page is going to have finished loading so they're going to get a much more reactive experience sort of. Or maybe I could put this big call to action at the top, which actually isn't a link but looks like one. Again, to base out their click and by time while we're waiting for the page to finish loading. All great ways to improve your first input delay by ruining user experience. What about cumulative layout shift? This is your maximum change to the layout of the page within a five second session window or so it's called. This is session not in the same sense that it's used in any other Google technology. Confusingly, it's completely different meaning of the word. But it's the maximum change in this five second duration. So if you have annoying pop-up maybe to collect your user's email addresses or something like that, then you definitely want to make sure that that's 20 seconds after page load when they're halfway through the article because that's not annoying at all, right? But it would improve this metric. Now clearly I'm being silly. You shouldn't do any of these terrible optimizations that I've just suggested to you. But my point is doesn't this all feel a little bit unwieldy? To compare two pages based on these kinds of factors, it's inevitably a bit of an Apple to oranges comparison. And that's not even getting to the data issue. What if all of this data that Google is going to use to judge you on for these metrics is based on real users using Chrome in what's called the crux database. So what if the page that you're trying to rank with doesn't have enough traffic yet to be in that database? What if your whole site doesn't have enough traffic to be in that database? Google have said that they'll try and aggregate based on similar pages. So presumably they'll judge a new page based on pages on the same template on your site. But what if your new page is on a new template? Or what if it's a new website altogether? Or what if you just don't get much traffic in general right now? Maybe that's why you're trying to do SEO in the first place, right? Maybe you're just not eligible for the boost in that case. Seems harsh. So hold all of those flaws, all of those problems in the back of your head for a moment. Because now we're going to talk about a very related topic, which is why this is all taking so long to actually roll out. So I'm going to take you back to the original announcement. May 2020, Google said this update is coming and it will be in 2021. Okay. Then in November they said, well, actually it won't be until May. Okay. And then a month before that new deadline they said, oh, well, hold up, we're not ready. It'll be at least June. I mean, fair enough, I guess we've all been there. But it didn't stop there. In May, they started backtracking what they said in the first place. In May 2021 this is the second May, they started backtracking. Because in the original announcement they said, if a page hits the recommended targets for all three metrics, so if you meet a certain threshold that they've set for performance, all of these metrics, then you would pass the assessment and you would get a boost. And they sort of said that twice on the same page. This wasn't a typo or an accident or something. But then in May 2021, they said something slightly different. They said it is not the case that unless you reach the good threshold for all of the Core Web Vitals metrics, that you have to reach the threshold to get a ranking boost. And when they issued this clarification, they said something like, oh, we've noticed some confusion. Well, yeah, you will notice some confusion if you directly contradict yourself. It's not too surprising, is it? But then in the same statement they said, in fact, it's kind of the opposite. You'll get a ranking boost for reaching the good threshold for all pages, presumably for all metrics. But these are not kind of the opposite. They're the same. So you've, yeah, issued a statement, the contradicts your previous statement, and then in the same statement, you've contradicted the new one. Great, okay, crystal clear. And then about the same time, now we're going to get a ranking boost if we just improve our speed, but don't hit the threshold. Presumably separate to the other ranking boost you just said would get if we did hit the threshold. Great, okay. I'm not going to try and pull these apart and do the chronology to figure out exactly what's meant by all of this. But my point is just to ask the question, why is there the need to constantly clarify, update, amend, delay? Why have they not made their minds up and decided how this is going to work and told us? Given that that seems to be what they're trying to do. To answer that question, I'm going to take you on a brief tangent into a thoughts experiment you may have heard of, which is called the Prisoner's Dilemma. So this is a situation, a hypothetical situation where there's two partners in crime who are in a prison cell together and they're going to be taken out of the cell one at a time to be interviewed in private. Now if they both confess in their separate private interviews, then obviously they'll both be found guilty, but they'll both get somewhat lenient sentences because they both confessed. On the other hand, if only one of them confesses or the one that confessed obviously incriminated the other one and was cooperative so they'll get an extra lenient sentence in fact they'll pretty much go away scot-free. But then the one that didn't confess while they were found guilty and they didn't confess so they can get a very harsh sentence. Obviously similarly if it's mirrored the sentences will be mirrored. But then in a scenario where both of them remain silent or they can't be convicted at all now the system is still a bit suspicious of them at this point so they both do remain in prison but only for very minimal sentences. So if you're one of these prisoners and you don't know what the other prisoner is going to do you can't collaborate. What are your incentives? This is kind of the bottom right cell here this is the optimal outcome, right? For the group as a whole. On aggregate. But the trouble is both prisoners face the risk of the other confessing they want zero years for themselves. So if I am one of these prisoners and I stay quiet the potential outcomes are either get one year or 20 years. But if I confess my potential outcomes are either zero years or five which is better in either case. So I'm going to confess, right? But the other prisoner is facing the same situation so they're going to confess as well. So we end up here. We're in the cell in the top left which is worse in every sense because it's coming from the bottom right. And it's kind of inevitable. And the idea is that this game is impossible to win. They cannot trust each other or cooperate when only one of them is in the room so they always lose the game and the system always wins. This is kind of like what's taking place with Core Web Vitals. We all know now, we have done for some time that when Google announces ranking factors like these it's because they want to use SEOs as a lever to change the shape of the web. So we've seen it quite a few times with HTTPS, with mobile friendliness. But ultimately it's a bluff. Google cannot roll out changes that reduce the quality of their search results. That would undermine them totally, right? So they're relying on all of us SEOs actually being manipulated and cooperating at the same time because you've been incentivized to do so. We are the prisoners here. If my competitor even might improve their site then I have to improve mine as well. Even though if both of us did nothing rankings would be the same as if both of us invested that effort, that cost. We ultimately can't guarantee that our fellow SEOs will not improve their sites. That's the theory that Google is going on. So they have made it extra hard for themselves. Remember that Web Vitals as opposed to Core Web Vitals is actually seven metrics four of which were already ranking factors. So if we understand Google correctly perhaps in some of those earlier statements depending how you read them you would actually have to pass all seven metrics for a boost. And it's possible that a lot of sites were already getting boosts for some of them but now wouldn't because they didn't do the top ones. So Google is in a situation where they could degrade their results. Basically Google has said if most of you SEOs can improve your websites you'll do better than those who don't. And they're hoping that as a result we will all improve our websites. We'll all end up in the top left. But as a collective SEOs have somehow done the impossible and won the prisoner's dilemma through our combination perhaps of ineptitude or maybe laziness or probably lack of executive buy-in we've won the prisoner's dilemma. We've ended up in the bottom right. So I want to back up this claim with a bit of data. So I took a look at the Mozcast corpus. So Mozcast if you're not familiar with it this is a corpus of 10,000 keywords where basically Moz reports on algorithm fluctuations and features coming and going based on 10,000 reasonably competitive keywords that are regularly recalled. I decided to take all the URLs ranking top 20 for a keyword in the Mozcast data set and see what was up. Now it turned out that only 30% of them actually had crocs data which is surprisingly low when you consider like I said that these are ranking top 20 for fairly competitive terms. And then of those 30% I was curious how many had actually passed? How many were eligible for a ranking boost? Initially I was quite impressed at 53% ish met the threshold for cumulative layer shift. 48% did for largest contentful pain. 88% met the threshold for first input delay. I'll probably publish more of this data over time with benchmarks and updates and ranking correlations and so on so look out for that but in this case I was mostly interested in how many were meeting all of these thresholds and it turned out although 64% ish were meeting 2 out of 3 less than 30% were meeting all 3 so now we're in a situation where 30% of URLs have the crocs data available at all and then of that 30% only 30% actually pass and are eligible for the boost. That's pretty tricky for Google we've seen this before remember how mobile get in seemed a bit of a non-event with so few URLs passing to be eligible for the boost this time we might end up looking back on this similarly or maybe it'll be like medic where they roll it out it seems to make the results worse perhaps later they pretty much roll it back to how it was before Google have alluded to this too they suggested oh it's going to be a tiebreaker they tried to downplay it although like my former colleague Will Critchlow I sort of don't buy that I think in a system as complex as Google was ranking out with them you can't really ever have a tie so if they're literally true and it's a tiebreaker I think it will do nothing but either way they're trying to downplay this so having said all of that having sort of downplayed and criticised everything about the whole system and suggested it's flawed and silly and a bluff am I suggesting you just shouldn't care well maybe not quite when I was looking at that MOSCAS data I also looked at the impact on ranking although maybe that's a bad way of putting it because I actually looked at the average difference in rank whether that's an impact because URLs which passed that small quantity of URLs that passed the assessment based on their crux data they ranked on average 2.3 places higher than those that didn't that's kind of if you do pay attention to your ranking factor studies you should be careful here because this is kind of flawed because in order to get this data in the first place based on crux data you have to have crux data which means you have to have traffic which means you probably already rank highly indeed URLs that had crux data at all regardless of how well they performed were already ranking 2.8 positions higher on average than URLs that didn't which is kind of inevitable right that's how they got the data in the first place but when I looked at the second one when I looked at URLs that passed the crux assessment controlling the availability of data there was still a positive impact they still ranked on average 0.4 positions higher and that doesn't sound like a lot but if I said to you oh you can rank half a position higher for all of your keywords I think you'd bite my hand off and incidentally that's a larger impact than being in the top 50% of pages by speed and it's also a larger impact than a lot of link based factors considering all of that if we zoom out a little bit and look at Mobilegedon like I said before sure it wasn't a big thing at the time but would you really launch a few years later in 2021 would you really launch a desktop only website or even an m.site it's got to be better to be ready for the future right on top of that there are plenty of other reasons to worry about speed there have been numerous correlations over the years at this point showing that numerous studies I should say showing there's a correlation between pages being very fast and then converting well and then there's a reason that you probably weren't thinking about which is Google Discover so this is the personalized article suggestions you see when you open the Google app or the new tab screen in Chrome on mobile it's a huge truck opportunity that SEOs are sleeping on at the moment basically every site I've seen that's taking Discover even remotely seriously is getting more Discover traffic than they are organic it's also incredibly responsive to site speed to such an extent I've often seen it written or I've seen SEOs advising that Discover is AMP only it's not AMP only at all it's just that if you're not a massive household brand national publisher you probably need to have AMP levels of site speeds to compete here this is an example of what I'm talking about this is traffic from late last year from a site with a domain authority of around 30 that was getting hardly any organic traffic this is a stacked chart so you can see that tiny purple sliver the thickness of that is the amount of organic traffic they were getting which is virtually none but they were getting hundreds of thousands of Discover hits per day and this is what happened to them in the December 3rd algorithm update and then that recovery afterwards that you can see at the end of the graph that was then when we started to fix some of their site speed issues so to reiterate Discover is a massive opportunity but it's incredibly and increasingly responsive to site speed and this is the future so that born in mind what should we do next well we just spent a good chunk of time I'm picking what on earth Google is doing I'm going to try and pick that into a few lessons and a few actions so what have we learned firstly we're going to want to prioritise our high traffic pages as cynical as it seems that is the game we're playing now secondly some of these metrics are not the most robust but we should not try to fix them at the expense of overall speed and experience so how are we going to go about those we're going to go through one by one prioritise high traffic pages I think it's worth briefly covering a key distinction which is between field and lab data so field data in this case means data collected in the field or data collected in in Chrome from real users and that's what Google is using lab data on the other hand is synthetic data that you might collect externally it's more scientific but it may not be as representative so the field data is more representative it's exactly what Google is using but it sometimes makes unfair comparisons based on arbitrary user devices and so on and the lab data is viable for staging sites new pages etc etc which field data obviously isn't and then you can if you use a Google methodology for your lab data it starts to look like the more useful of the two so for my personal site for example the field data doesn't exist but I can still look at lab data then if I look at a site like moz.com which has a mix of high traffic and newer pages I can still use lab data so this screenshot is from moz pro and you can see I'm prioritising by traffic level and comparing higher and lower traffic pages side by side I can then look at aggregate scores within maybe a template or certain groupings that might contain high and low traffic pages together then we need to optimise the metrics so there's some less obvious methods that are open to you for cumulative layout shift like we said this is the maximum change in a 5 second window so this is a screenshot from reddit while it's loading and you can see that even though the content at the top isn't there they've got blocks that hold the place so when the content does load it doesn't rearrange the page at all you can also move unstable elements beneath the fold this is an example from the Guardian don't worry about the tiny text I just want you to track the layout as this loads so you can see this tweet comes into view and then there's this advert as well that rearranges the text yet again but all of this is beneath the fold so the cumulative layout shift metric for this page is 0.05 which is well beneath the threshold this would pass that test despite all of this movement you could also in an extreme case even though the elements were already all together but I wouldn't really recommend that then there's largest content for paint so obviously like we talked about at the start the first thing you need to do is identify which element is actually the largest again this is a Moz Pro screenshot but there are ways you can do this if you were having hero images imagine if the Moz blog had a big hero image at the top that was the largest element and that was slow to load if you were on the fence previously about whether to have a hero image this might push you over the edge on that and then of course similar to what we talked about before you could drop large elements beneath the fold so they don't affect this and then the last metric is first input delay this is the weirdest one really because this is about humans this is about when the human decides they need to click so on a page like this that we looked at earlier a human kind of needs to click immediately to view the page so it's going to end up with a delay because they're clicking while the page is still loading obviously I'm just scratching the surface here with what you can do with some of these metrics you can make a heavy presentation about just that but sometimes it's difficult to know where to start and I think it's worth trying to identify the metrics you need to fix and then tracking your or then matching your fixes and your opportunities onto the metrics you're targeting so we tried to do this a little bit in Moz Pro again and sort of let you know that if layout shift is your weak point you can prioritize the issues that are likely to impact that but we'll also show you which elements are actually causing those issues however with all of this like I said before we can't be doing it at the expense of more holistic or user experience focused improvements Google have actually said that over time they plan to incorporate more and more metrics and signals each year so I think you need to make sure you have a holistic approach here you need to make sure that you're not just gaming a few metrics that are currently included and that you're tracking absolute speed alongside these new metrics that's what we're doing and that's what we recommend you do as well thank you and that's all from me