Welcome to Control-M's self-conversion overview video. In this video, you will learn why you would use Control-M's self-conversion, how to get it, and how you would use it to develop new conversions. Running your business flow through Control-M gives you a single point of control, visibility and security. In addition, you can see predictive alerts in case of future problems. Therefore, many customers want to bring their automation silos into Control-M. Control-M self-conversion enables you to consolidate automation silos from any scheduler, business application or homegrown application and converts them into Control-M job flows. You can also use it to convert data into your own Control-M application integrated job types. To start Control-M self-conversion, download the conversion tool zip file from fdp.bmc.com. After you have extracted the zip file, double-click the self-conversion batch file to launch the application. If you want to use one of the existing built-in conversion engines such as Chrome, CA Atomic, Tidal and so on, click the conversion batch file to launch the conversion tool. Before creating a conversion using Control-M self-conversion, you need to do the following. Extract the input data that you want to convert to Control-M into an XML format. Data contained in JSON, CSV, Excel or other formats can easily be converted into XML using free web tools. For example, open any web browser and search for convert CSV to XML. Remember, if you need assistance, you can always contact BMC support. You also need to understand the mapping logic between the input data and Control-M folders and jobs. You need to know what should be converted to Control-M job, folder and so on. In this example, we can see the following. The box XML element will be mapped to a smart folder. The box name XML attribute value will be mapped to a smart folder name. The job XML element will be mapped to a job and the name attribute value will be mapped to a job name. Now, let's open Control-M self-conversion and you will see the home page. In the bottom half of the screen, you can see the project repository which enables you to view and or edit existing projects. By default, self-conversion comes with a sample project that contains rules examples that use Groovy script and Conversion API on top of sample data. You can review these rules to understand how Conversion API is being used to create Control-M data. Conversion rules repository is where you can view, edit or export existing conversion rules or import new ones. In the top half of the screen, you can see the fields that need to be completed to create a new conversion project. Let's start a new conversion project. Let's add the name of the project. Select the input data that you want to convert to Control-M. It can be a single file or directory containing many files. Let's add the folder. Specify the target control inversion that you want to convert to. We'll use v918. Add the name of the vendor that you're converting from. If you have already created conversion rules, you can add them here. Add a project description. Click create project and you'll see the project created successfully. Now the conversion rules definition window is which consists of the following areas. In the middle, you can see the input data that you want to convert to Control-M. On the right, you can see all the input data files that have been imported. If you want to review a different file, just click on it. At the top, you can see the conversion rules category tabs that guide you through the flow for creating conversion rules. When clicking on a conversion rule category tab, you can see in the left hand pane the mandatory conversion rules you need to define for each category. If you want to set rules for additional Control-M folder attributes, click the plus sign, and from the drop-down list, select the attributes that you want to add. Click save to add them.  In this pane, you can create the rule using two modes, graphical or script mode. The graphical mode enables you to create simple rules that can be described using a graphical statement. Now let's create some rules. In the folder tab, let's create a folder from every element of the equals box. Let's also set the folder name according to the value of attribute box underscore name. Go through each category tab and add rules as necessary. For example, in the job tab, you can see we've added create a Control-M job, which equals job, and job name equals name. In the hierarchy category tab, we need to specify how to link jobs to the folders. If we need to create a multi-hierarchy, we need to define how to link folders to folders. The second mode is the script mode, which is where all the magic happens. The script mode enables you to create more sophisticated conversion rules using Groovy's scripting language and self-conversion API. Groovy is a Java syntax compatible, object-orientated programming language that can be used as a script language and used widely in many tools such as Jenkins. Let's look at Control-M Self-Conversion API in a little more detail. Control-M Self-Conversion API enables you to create Control-M data, folders and jobs, retrieve data from XML, and input data format. There are three API classes that are used to create Control-M data. CTM Job, that exposes API to define and retrieve Control-M job attributes. Control-M folder, which exposes API to define and retrieve Control-M folder attributes. Control-M workspace, which exposes API to define and retrieve Control-M folders, jobs and flows. There are two classes, which exposes API to retrieve data from your input data. Control-M XML element, which exposes API to retrieve data from the XML element. CTM XML query, which exposes API to retrieve XML data from the XML document. In the Control-M Self-Conversion documentation, we have many code examples demonstrating how to use Conversion API to go with Groovy to create Control-M data. You can use this as a sample for creating your own specific rules. Let's go back to self-conversion. To edit a rule in script mode, click Edit Script. You'll see a confirmation message, which states that by switching to script mode, the graphical mode of the specific rule will be disabled. You can always go back to graphical mode by discarding the changes in the script mode. You can now edit the script as you wish. The changes will be automatically saved. After you've finished the script, you can test that the syntax of the rule is correct by clicking Test Rule Syntax. You can also verify that the rule creates the Control-M data as expected by clicking Test Rule functionality. Let's test the Create Folder Rule. We can see that running this rule, two folders will be created. At any point during the Conversion Rule creation process, you can click Run to see the conversion results. So let's now run the conversion. The Conversion Results tab appears. At the top of the screen, you can see the status of the conversion, which completed successfully. If there were errors, the status will be in red, together with the error message. In case of warnings, the status will be in orange and will contain a list of warnings in the bottom part, with links to the specific rules that need correcting. Underneath the status, we can see the created Control-M data in XML format. You can review the data that has been created for verification. For example, look for a specific job and verify that it contains the expected attributes. In the bottom half of the screen, you can see a high level summary of all Control-M entities created, such as folders, jobs and job types. If you need to improve the conversion results, go back to any of the tabs and change any rules you require, then rerun the conversion. When you are satisfied with the results, you can save the rules for future projects by clicking Save as rules. Add a name and a description and click Save. To review the results in Control-M Client, firstly click Results and then select either Show in folder, copy path to clipboard. Then open Control-M Client and import the Control-M data file created by self-conversion. In Control-M Client, you can continue to verify the results and do additional adjustments using the Find and Update tool. This now concludes the video. For more information about Control-M Self-Conversion, click Help from the application to view the Control-M Self-Conversion online help.


Psst. Could you help the Dyson sphere with this homework? It's not very bright. Okay, let's get it out of our system so we can move on with our lives. Aliens. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is something that nerds like myself think about a whole lot, but why? What's the big deal? Is it just the nerdy equivalent of thinking about things like unicorns or fairies, just an idle daydream? Well, the truly insane number of planets in our universe and the relative simplicity of the evolutionary process are good reasons to be optimistic about something called life appearing somewhere else in the universe. I mean, with that many poles on the slot machine, you're bound to win more than once. But why the focus on finding other life? I mean, what would the discovery of alien bacteria swimming in the methane on Titan mean for our lives? Well, many instrumental technological and scientific discoveries have been the result of observation of other life forms here on earth. The massive testing facility of life on this planet has developed a whole bunch of very interesting solutions to complex problems. Those solutions often act like shortcuts for us to understand the underlying principles of the operation of the universe and how to exploit them. Antibiotics, genetic algorithms, biomaterials, there's a whole lot of really cool stuff that we've gotten out of simply observing how life on this planet evolved and the wide diversity of tricks that it's developed to survive. The usefulness of those tricks is frequently correlated with just how weird the species that we're looking at is. Like, we're not going to learn a whole lot by dissecting chimps or apes because they're more or less like us inside. But hagfish? Whaaat? Unfortunately, all life on earth, as far as we can tell, evolved from one common ancestor. One set of self-replicating chemical interactions gave rise to every single living thing here. And as different as we are from mushrooms, if you trace our family tree far enough back you'll find that we're actually distant cousins. A few times removed. In some sense, that limits just how much insight we can glean from observing living things. Even with all the weird crap we've got here on earth, we've only ever seen life develop in one particular way, which means that we're operating from one data point. That leaves us with all sorts of interesting questions that we don't have any reasonable answers to. Like, is DNA the best mechanism for life in general? There are some good reasons to think so. I mean, every life form here on earth uses it in one way or another. It uses elements which are commonly found throughout the universe. The double helix seems like a good way to do error correction. But there are some good reasons to think otherwise. Four nucleotides seems like an arbitrary number. Why not six or eight? There are all sorts of other ways to encode self-replicating information chemically, so maybe life elsewhere uses one of those.  Who can say? Again, we're only working from one data point here. If we were to find even the most primitive life forms on some other planet, then we'd have exponentially more information to answer questions like these. But for right now, we have precisely zero clues.   Which is part of the motivation for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, along with the fact that if the diversity of earth life is insufficient to answer these very interesting questions about biology, the diversity of earth intelligence is abysmal, and so is our understanding of intelligence. Anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and the like can talk at length about the fascinating variety of human thought. Studying various weird human cultures has given us tremendous insight into how our minds can work, very much in the way that studying weird species has given us insight into life and nature. But if you trace them back far enough, all of those myriad cultures stem from the same basic version of intelligence that evolution came up with first. There might be any number of interesting and very useful ways of thinking, which we've never had the chance to develop, just by the luck of the draw. You won't find a human culture which forbids the consumption of anything but solar energy, or which solves math problems by counting the lobes on its swim bladders. Our intelligence, as awesomely weird as it can get here on earth, is still intrinsically human. In that light, finding an intelligent alien species would be a massive jackpot, not only would we get useful information about biology, but also everything from philosophy and metaphysics to linguistics and sociology. We'd know a lot more about the sort of things which were necessary for intelligence, and which are just artifacts of the process which resulted in our particular version of it. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has only been going on in earnest for a little less than 100 years, since the discovery of radio. In astronomical terms, that's nothing. On the time scale of planets and stars, we've only just figured out how we might be able to talk to alien species. If there's any sort of interstellar relay chat, we're total noobs. That implies that anyone who we could talk to will have been using radio waves for much longer than we have, and is probably much further up the tech tree. So on top of the massive boon to our understanding of biology and intelligence, we might also get to crib off of someone who's a few hundred years ahead of us. That would be awesome. Unfortunately, we've got a limited set of resources to work with here. It's not like we're going to build a bunch of super powerful antennas to blast the universe with radio waves in the hope that someone's willing to lend us their physics homework. If we wanted to get in touch with an alien species who was smarter than we were, we would probably have to know where to look first. And we really don't have much to go on here. At the beginning, we were just trying to dream up what alien life might be like. Now we're trying to predict what an alien life form with alien biology and a superior alien intelligence would do. This is a serious stab in the dark. But it could be really cool, so let's give it a shot. From what we know about life and evolution, it helps to have some sort of energy input that fuels the evolutionary process. Some sort of battery that powers life and allows it to gradually increase in complexity. For us, it's the sun, and it's probably a good guess that it's the same for alien species. Stars put out an immense amount of easily harnessed energy, so we should probably look around stars. Actually, if you look at the history of human civilization, we're using more and more of that solar energy over time. I mean, we started by just using it to grow plants and feed livestock, but as we become more technologically capable, we're using an increasing amount of that power directly. Solar panels are springing up on everything from your grandma's roof to backpacks. Solar farms are pumping out gigawatts of electrical power. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency even has plans to build massive mirrored satellites out in space to harness solar energy directly, where it hasn't been weakened by Earth's atmosphere or magnetic field, and then beam it back down here where we can use it. That trend peaked the interest of theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, who ran a little thought experiment. If an intelligent technologically sophisticated alien species wanted to harness even more of that power, to run giant supercomputers, huge spacecraft, radio signals, whatever, how would they do it? Well, they might develop any number of energy technologies. But I mean, the star is right there. Dyson suggested that an advanced alien species would do more or less what the Japanese plan to, build some sort of structure out in space to harness additional solar energy. But instead of a couple of mirrors parked around Earth, he imagined something more like this. After all, why would they limit themselves to the planet? That's for noob species like humans. The more satellites they have encompassing the star, the more of that energy they can harness before it goes flying off into the cosmos, so they can use it to power whatever the alien version of Pokemon Go is. So, if we were looking to chat with an alien species that was advanced enough to build some badass orbital solar collectors, we might look for giant stars that aren't putting off quite as much light as we'd expect them to. The laws of thermodynamics forbid collecting 100% of a star's energy output. There has to be some amount lost to waste heat, no matter how efficient the collectors are. But with most of the high energy starlight captured, what we'd see would be a lot of low energy infrared radiation instead. The more advanced the civilization, the more satellites they'd be able to orbit, and the more starlight they'd be able to capture. If they really needed to fuel that poke fever, it might even be possible to completely envelop the star in energy collectors, something now called a Dyson Sphere. Again, this is a seriously rickety set of assumptions. We're so far out in the weeds that we've lost cell service and were hacking at vines with a machete. It would be mostly unsurprising if this whole chain of speculation described nothing that actually exists in the universe. But we have observed a few stars that have some peculiar characteristics that are reminiscent of Dyson's suggestions. It's pretty long odds that beaming bursts of radio signals at those stars will put us in touch with an advanced alien intelligence, but hey, one would be enough. Of course, there might also be some good reasons not to contact them. But let's be real, who do you think is running those radio antenna arrays? Star Trek fans. What would the discovery of an intelligent extraterrestrial species mean for you? What do you think of Dyson's pie slice in the sky ideas? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to blah blah subscribe, blah share, and don't stop thunking.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jazby's casebreaks.com We just sold out 2018 Chronicles hangar basketball one box break round in teams number eight on jazby's casebreaks.com And this is the last chance and last way to win five spots in our mixer that just sold out that'll be breaking next So again 30 total spots that are based around them team in the one box slash pack break of the hanger Remember no rookies or only rookies ship. No veteran based card ship So we're in randomized customer names and teams open up the box It should be the hits then at the end of this break will randomize all 30 customer names again And it's ever dice holder randomizer and numbers one through five top five will want to spot each in the basketball mixer So let's do the quick break first. Let's roll it and we got it three or six and a three nine times. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight and nine nine times There you go and nine times now teams one two three four five six seven eight and nine Nine times bulls Oklahoma City Thunder Our Brian Zeller you got a bulls Brian S with the nets David with the Raptors David C David Alford with the Raptors David C Hawks David Alford with the wars Lord with the Blazers John the Suns Robert the Rock and Zach of the Pelicans Scott Claremont with the Knicks Brian Zeller with the Bucks Brian S with the Jazz David a with the Kings David C with the Grizzlies David a with the Wizards David C with the Clippers Zach with the Hornets Mike with the Nuggets Tony with the magic David Aguilar with the Lakers Michael the Celtics David C with the spurs Brian Zeller with the 76ers Rolando with the Pistons Journey over the heat Kevin you have the Dallas Mavericks joining you with the calves Laura with the T Wolves Pacers and Brian with the Thunder So this is just a quick pack break. No one really ever trades in this. I'm just gonna close a trade window get to the pack break Yeah, I know there's a lot of dudes in here. It's gonna be very confusing for the shipping team But There you go guys Try one of the clothes and again Dice roller randomizer for the customer names in here to see who won spots in the mixer. All right.  Good luck everybody Roll it and it's six and a four ten times. Good luck ten times one two three four five six Again four more times seven eight nine and ten Ten times Good luck Rob you're in at number five Brian Tony Laura to David C Congratulations after ten times You guys are now in the mixer Which will be coming up next pretty sure you guys Jasper's case breaks calm


Hey, hello. Welcome to the show. It is show and tell, but surprise. I'm not LeMore. It's me, JP, I'm guest hosting tonight because Phil and LeMore had some stuff to attend to, but you will be able to see them a little later on Ask an Engineer after this show.  We have a few people from Adafruit who are going to be showing some stuff they are working on. And if you, a community member, want to come on and show or tell or show and tell, please do. If you want to find how to do that, just head on over to our blog. You will find a blog post with a link or go over to our Discord, which is at adafruit.it slash discord. Look for the live broadcast chat channel. And I've dropped a link in there as well so that you can jump in through your browser. You just need a webcam and a mic connected and you can join in our StreamYard stream and show us what you're up to. So let's see, let's get this thing underway. First off, we have maker Melissa. I'm going to bring on here. If you are ready, here we go. Hey, Melissa. Hi, I am ready. Oh, right. Excellent. So what are you up to? Well, I have this PowerBook 180 that I went ahead and I actually took two broken PowerBook 180s and combined them together. One had like no working screen, the other had no working keyboard and trackball. So now I got a working one. And cool thing about this particular one is I can actually unplug it and it is running on battery here because it actually is like a little aftermarket battery hooked in here. Oh, nice. So were you able to, you said you combined which parts from two to Frankenstein together, one working machine? I combined, well, the display from one and then the keyboard and trackball. And how was, I'm guessing you've probably taken apart and put batteries and logic boards in modern Macs which take about 907 screws. What was the, how friendly was that for tinkering around and plugging stuff in? I think it had like maybe eight screws or something like that to take out. Times of change and probably like ribbon connectors for the display and keyboard, things like that. Yeah, there was a lot of boards that were like socketed into another and then another one socketed into that one. Yeah. Oh, that's really cool. So what OS can you run on that? How late of was that like a system seven kind of machine? I think this one, let's see. I can't remember what I have on here. This one's running system 7.1.1. I don't remember the latest on this but I might go up to like system 7.4 or something like that. Yeah. And what can it, does it have like a token ring plug or what kind of ethernet? Actually, this one has just a modem on it but I actually have a blue SCSI installed on here with a ESP chip. So it could, it's theoretically able to connect to Wi-Fi but I haven't signed up yet. Oh, wow. That is cool.  Can you give us another shot of the screen here? Yeah. That's a beauty. And what year was that one? Do you know when those? I can't remember the exact year but it was early 90s I believe. Yeah. It feels like maybe mid 90s. Yeah, 90, 94 somewhere in that. Awesome. Well, thanks for, thanks for showing that. That's a blast from the past really. And I think those had, those could do some big docks, right? There were some big hulking docks that you could jam them into with like a monitor and keyboard mouse kind of thing. I actually haven't looked into that. Oh, look, you can see if there were docks. I feel like maybe there were for, for a while. It's possible. Yeah. I don't have one, but yeah. All right. Next quest. Awesome. All right. Thanks so much, Melissa. We'll see you next time. Okay. Thanks. All right. Really cool stuff. Next up, we've got Pedro. Hey, Pedro. Hey, John. Where am I? All right. Man, what a retro throwback. Oh my God. Oh, geez. The trackball. Right. So I'm here to show off the three printed cases for the Memento and the wet came up with this super cute little key cat inspired design. So it's compatible with the lanyards that we have. That's what the ears are for. And then if you want to hook this up to a tripod, we have the ability to put it in our three eighth by quarter 20 little threads in there. Really good. And then I came up with the little bear design type one, like a bigger shutter. So like easier for like the kids to push. And then the thing I forgot to talk about was I had a little ring on here so you can have the magnetic like fisheye lenses or this one's a polarizer. Nice. Definitely start adding stuff like that on there. And of course all the usual snap bit. I think this one just requires the, the tripod part. If you don't want it on there, you can attach it with the machine screws. And then doing it up with the Translucent Translucent filament. So we have this one, just regular PLA and then the Pet G once you can see all the cool stuff on the back there. That's cool. But the thing that I want to show off is hopefully go away. Really screen all of the pictures that I captured with it. Because you know what good as a camera project can't show off what it can actually do. So it's a five megapixel one. Did a couple experiments. I'm just shooting right into the sun for this one and see what the lens flare looked like. And it looks pretty good. Kind of nice. Yeah. Yeah. And then handed it off to the kids and took like a little simple one here. So autofocus is really good. Jeff implemented like hold down and the shutter. It'll like autofocus on. I think it's a center point. It's where the focus point is for that. And I was trying like some low light stuff. So like in Tomorrow Land where there's like a little shade when you see like how the ISO would generate like some noise. You can see a little bit of noise generated here. And then for fast shutter some snow. We don't have snow in Florida.  But I think it's I don't know maybe one or 20 over a thousand or something like that. The shutter speed on it. I was there a way to see what the settings the camera snap. It will if you look in the REPL when you boot it it does give a ton of info and that may be in there. But the yes. Yeah. It's worth looking at the ESP CAM which is what the library is based on to see if you can carry and if you can set. Yeah. That's okay. And just more focusing stuff again fake snow. And then just shooting into like where the multiple exposure or like different exposures where it's like dark and light and seeing how stuff comes up with that. And just you know your sky photo. Nice. Does that look more dark stuff like you know trying to see what the noise level would generate with the ISO being so high. And are you using the stock lens or did you try any of these with that? No. Yeah. I wanted to make sure it was all like what the camera module was picking up. So I didn't use any of that. I think the only filter I think that my son used was so nice little angle of his point of view. How fun. Just more like dark ones to see different levels of the with different exposures out how that comes out. But yeah. It works really good. None of these were like stuck in for processing like in your phone. But when you do do that.  The quality like just bump up like the shadows the contrast and a little bit of sharpening a little bit of detail. And wow. It looks phenomenal. Oh that's great. Should have saved one out from here. But I did not. But it looks so good. And you're shooting these at the highest quality. Actually no. When I shot all these I still had just the Arduino one. So I think this is like 1600 by oh yeah. It's not even the highest quality and it looks so good. So I am super impressed with fun. Yeah. So definitely check it out if you want to experiment.  Jeff's still working on really cool stuff too. So wow. I am super pumped to get like I don't know getting the trigger to go by like sound or by motion like you know. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting thing is adding your own spin on how it works. Exactly. Yeah. So where to come. Thanks for sharing the cases. Those look great. Grab them already. Take care. All right. Let's see. Next up we have got speaking of jewellers. There's one. Hi. Are we going to wax nostalgic about hypercard because I'd love to talk about some classic hypercard. I used to have this great hypercard deck for like D&D character sheets. Oh. And it is gone. Those floppies. I have no idea where they are but that was the sort of thing I did back in the day. Back on an era of Mac. Yeah.  I've got a memento camera. Whoops. Down here on down here on the down camera and I'm showing off some like kind of real time bitmap effects. So it's cycling through a number of different effects that I've coded up. So we've got blur and sharpen which are effects that kind of look at adjacent pixels in the image and do mathematics on them. And then the rest are working like with individual pixel values and multiplying them or adding them together. So we need to effects like negative or adjust the brightness, lower the contrast. These are just some filters that I came up with based on two building blocks that are in an open pull request. So morph is the one that operates on regions of pixels and does map and mixes the one that you can add channels together or subtract channels and multiply channels. So yeah. It's pretty fast once you like code the low level stuff in C. I forget if I actually showed this last week, but I did a version of this based on micro lab. And unfortunately it was running like one second to do one of these effects. And now it's running 100 times faster. So it was a little disappointing that micro lab didn't bring more performance. But this is this is the direction we're going to go. And so I'm going to continue with this. Yeah, that's some more effects. And so to be clear before you're doing you're displaying one image and then this is a real time effect processing that you're kind of slide through here. So yeah, I loaded one JPEG of a photo that I previously took, scaled down to screen size. And then each time it's working on that screen size image and transforming it into some other image. And that the amount of time it takes due to that step is the time it reports. And then it blitz it out to the display. So yeah, if you're interested in this kind of thing, you can drop by the pull request. I will put the pull request in a link to the pull request in our discord. So you can check that out. But yeah, we will be putting this into the next alpha version probably when it comes out. And this is great. Yeah, I know I was I was looking up someone had a nice interactive convolution kernel web page where you could just type in three by three or the six by six. Yeah, you should send me a link to that. I will. And I think they were the one making the comment that if you look at pretty much all of the original classic Photoshop filters, they're just all built on that. Like every year that's in there, every kind of sharpen that's in there, unsharp mask, they're all just variations on what set of numbers you throw into the convolution kernel, which is wild. Yeah, it's I mean, it's just numbers, right? It's like the the matrix. But yeah, I don't know what else I mean. Also, I want to say those those photos that Pedro was showing are awesome. I live in Nebraska.  So there's not beautiful green things. There's not tourists doing stuff and not having fun. There's no Disney world here. So I really appreciate you getting to see those photos. Yeah, yeah, I was happy to see those those look vibrant and colorful and mm hmm. Yes, they are. Awesome. Well, this is great. Thank you for for revisiting this with a an eye towards speed. It'll be really nice to have these as fast real time. Yeah, it's fun to get in that low levels, low level mode for a while. Really cool. Right. Well, thank you, Jeff. See you later. All right. Next up, we have got Liz. Hey, Liz. Hello. So a couple of weeks ago, I was out on a walk and I found a music on the side of the road and I had wanted one and I'd always resist. I'd see him at Target be like, no, control yourself. So when I was just sitting on the side of the road, I was like, I have to. So when we got home, everything was good, except the battery compartment was completely corroded. It was disgusting. So over break, I cleaned out the battery and everything. And I also printed a new battery door because what I did was I made it USB C and so I used our H USB three to three eight breakout. So it's USB C and because it's just the four alkaline is just five volts. And I just have the two wires are going to the battery compartment there. And I also snipped out all the plastic because it was it was a bad time. But it fits in nicely in the back there.  And then the other thing that I found to be a little annoying was that it didn't have indicator LED. So I added a LED right there. I'll turn it off so you can see I did a little three of mounts. So it's right there. And then it's a slow change RGB LED. It's a little blown out on the camera. But yeah. And the way that I modeled all up is I actually I brought in the photo that you have of the back in the guide and I was able to bring it to scale. Oh, great. And I was able to get kind of the shape for that. And then the other thing I did was I this is very chunky. And I didn't want to just be like on the floor or like in the way. So I modeled a little holder that press fits into this handle here and trace that out infusion print of it. So now it hangs on the wall and next to the synths and eventually I want to make it either MIDI or CV controlled and add it into my setup. But for now, it's just a nice art piece kind of bringing the room together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meowsic really brings the room together. That's fantastic. People who don't know the meowsic is not just a friend and a companion, but it is a musical instrument. Do you have it plugged in that we could hear? I do. Let me just turn up the volume tones. Let me know if you can hear it. Yes. Yes. Okay. Great. And you can also do, of course, the meow. That's the stuff right there. Yes. I love it. Now, I know you have a some really cool guitar pedals. And I think that's one of the great reasons to have the line out is now you can send your meowsic meows through crazy reverbs and shimmers and echoes. Yes. I'm very excited about that. And I didn't realize it was polyphonic either. I assumed it was monophonic. Right. Yeah. Is it two note or three note? It's two note. Yes. Which is impressive that they went that far with it. Very cool find. Nice hacks. I love them. A great idea to stop wasting batteries with adding the USB-C. I love that. Yes. Yes. Thank you for your guide for the line out. Yeah, sure. I'm so glad to see it put to use. That's really cool. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Liz. We'll talk to you soon. Have a good one. All right. And last up from the community, we've got Micah. Let me bring Micah on here. Hi, Micah. Hello. So I have a pretty quick show and tell thing. So I've recently gotten into ham radio. And for those who aren't familiar, it's also known as amateur radio. It's just basically people buy or build really powerful or sometimes not powerful radios and use them to talk to people either in their neighborhood or in their local cities or all around the world. So I was going to show my radio and it's called a shack in the hobby. So I'm just going to share my camera. Oops. Sorry. Give me one moment. And it's not working. No, no, hurry. You can, you can trouble shooting. Okay. Working it out. There we go. It's a good sound. That was, I really should have tested this. All right. There we go. There we go. And now I just need to, you know, live demos. They always end up like this. Unless they don't. All right. All right. It's not going to work. So I suppose I can try to... Hey, yeah. That's a good, there we go. All right. So there's my radio. This is an ICOM IC7200. It's a 100 watt output radio, which is not, the legal limit is 1500 watts. But if you do that, then you need to have like a giant tower and then you can't let anyone near it. So I'm avoiding that. Good call. Especially because I am 16 and live with my parents and they would not appreciate having a giant tower in the backyard. So, I mean, it's just a... So this is just all the stuff I've collected. So the tuner is up here. And I guess suppose what I'm sharing is that I've, I do have the license. Someone in chat is saying that I, if I have license, yes, I have, I'm general licensed. Excellent. And it's a lot, it's lots of fun. I'd recommend that anyone who's interested in learning more about anything relating to radio, reach out to their local radio club and say, hey, I'd like to get into Ham Radio, where I start, they're more than happy to help. I just, the local radio club in my area just installed an antenna for me. And it was really awesome. Oh, that's great. So that was going to be my question. Is the antenna external? Yeah, the antenna is in the backyard and it's 30 feet in the air. And it was lots of fun. So that was just, that was basically all I have to say. It's just, you got some more showing that I learned about Ham Radio in the last couple of months and it's really, really fun. And I'd recommend that anyone who's at all interested look into it. Yeah. Oh, that's great. One of my good friends got into it very recently too. And he was telling me that one of the sort of sub-hobbies within the hobby is just collecting communication with people in every state. Oh, yeah. There's all sorts of awards you can get. You can get awards for talking to all 50 states. You can get awards for talking to 100 countries, 200 countries. So fun. That's great. Very exciting. Yeah. Thanks for showing that, Micah. And congrats on getting your license and up and running with your Ham shack there. Very cool. Thank you for having me. Yeah, you bet. See you next time. See you. All right. Very cool. Well, thanks everyone for stopping by. And again, if you're wondering where the chat is, a lot of that is over on our Discord server. So you can go to adafru.it-slash-discord and jump in there for the live broadcast chat channel to see what people are chatting about. We also have some chat going on over in YouTube as well, which I can see here. I'm just checking to see if there's any questions. But someone said, nice rig. Yeah, okay. Well, that is going to do it for our show and tell. I will encourage you to go grab a snack and take a break and then come right on back in about eight minutes for Ask an Engineer with Lady Aida and PT. So come by for that. And then I will see you tomorrow on my workshop show at four o'clock Eastern Time. For A Different Industries, I'm John Park. This has been Show and Tell. See you next time. Bye-bye.


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel Drew here from Lone Fox and today We are diving back into something that I used to talk about rather often And I still do talk about it every now and then but as many of you know, I bought a house last year I can't believe it's been a year now And so since then we've been doing a lot of like house projects where they're not exactly rental friendly I'm able to customize a lot of things in my home However before this house and what I kind of built my channel and Lone Fox off of was rental friendly Makeovers and different upgrades and tips that you can do to your spaces to make them feel more customized and not like an actual rental And today I thought it would be fun because I've kind of gone over those one by one in different videos In today's video I wanted to compile all of my top favorite and also some of my least favorite Rental friendly upgrades that you can add So these are things that are Lone Fox approved per se and things I definitely would consider splurging on if I was renting and I will have a link below to my Amazon storefront Which actually has so many of the rental friendly options I've purchased in the past and things that I just have loved I curated a bunch of my favorites in one easy link so I'll add that to the description box for you guys So yes, but it actually feels so good to be back filming. I have been traveling so much I don't know if you guys follow me over on Instagram But I went to Sweden and then I went to New York went home for a few days And then back to New York and I have just been traveling so much this past month Which actually is not something I usually do because as many of you know I've talked about on the channel in the past that I struggle with anxiety and it really heightens around travel I have such bad travel anxiety when it comes to insomnia and sleep and such and today's video is actually Kindly sponsored by better help which I've worked with them in the past on videos because better help was a huge facet of my life For about a year and a half actually it's better help for a little over a year during a specific period when my anxiety was so So bad that I really couldn't even go out and talk to a therapist Like I didn't even want to kind of be in that environment if that makes sense Sometimes when you're in that moment It's so much easier to get on 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and talking to somebody and letting out your thoughts and hearing someone else's Perspective can be nice every now and then so if you would like to try out better help make sure to do so you can actually go To my link it is better help calm slash lone fox which I'll put at the top of the description box below And I want to thank better help for sponsoring today's video But we've got a dive on in to some of these rental friendly upgrades that I personally love some of them I don't like I'm gonna pinpoint which ones I've gone through trial and error with a lot So let's jump into our first The first one we're diving into is one that I feel like everyone is aware of and that is peel and stick wall Paper and peel and stick wallpaper can be kind of a touchy subject because some people feel like peel and stick wallpaper is Removable some people feel like it is not removable and it's definitely kind of a case-by-case basis I feel like you're going to need to look at reviews for peel and stick wallpaper to see if anyone's removed it Or try to do a little bit of research online for that specific brand to make sure because for example in my last Apartment not this last one that I was in but the one before that we did a peel and stick wallpaper from Society 6 And it was on the kind of accent wall for probably around a little over a year and when we went to remove it It totally removed so seamlessly and so easy But there definitely have been times where I've applied peel and stick wallpaper in bathrooms or in areas that get more Condensation where the peel and stick wallpaper kind of does start to adhere a little bit more to the walls And when it comes time to remove it You can get some paint that actually pulls off of the wall and in return You're gonna have to kind of sand that area fill in any gaps or holes and then repaint over which isn't the most Rental friendly option and I have to say too if you are choosing between peel and stick wallpaper and real wallpaper for your house Or your rental if you're renting it out whatever it may be I always suggest going with a real wallpaper because peel and stick wallpaper I find it's such a challenge to actually put up nicely and properly because it sticks to everything as you're holding it up It's a bit challenging sometimes to align up the lines as well However with the real wallpaper you do have to apply wallpaper glue to it, but it's really easy to shift around it sticks to the wall It's not super tacky So you kind of have a little more leeway with it if that makes sense a peel and stick again is a great alternative for Rentals, so I definitely would say that it is lone fox approved I'd also say you might want to go to the edge of your wall Whether it's the top by the crown molding or the bottom by the baseboard and see if you're able to even peel a little The paint away from the wall because that's kind of a sign before applying the wallpaper that your paint might have not been applied properly The walls might not have been primed properly and the results are going to be pulled off paint when you peel off that peel and stick wallpaper The next peel and stick I want to talk about is peel and stick floor tile And I have to say this is probably my favorite out of all the peel and stick products You can use just because it really does give you the biggest transformation And it's something that covers up a floor and I feel like there isn't a bunch of options always to cover up the floor You can't really paint it like you can a wall you can put a rug over it But it's not as easy to Demo a floor and redo it then to put peel and stick tile over the top of it And I actually really love the way a lot of the peel and stick tiles look and in my previous apartments and in some past Spaces as well even in my parents old house We did so many different peel and stick floor options and they've always withstood the test of time Like I had them in the space the entire time even at the apartment previous the owner wanted to keep them in there because he said It looked so much better than the previous tile and it was going strong So we did like a graphic one down at the bottom of the stairwell and then in my bathroom There was this really pretty star pattern that I loved so much and it was like a soft pastel color way And I also know that Chris loves Julia just came out with one with wall pops That's kind of that Harlequin marble pattern with the dark gray and the light marble, which is so pretty I've been wanting to kind of do something like that And I think McKenna actually just use that in her bathroom makeover as well, but I've always loved that peel and stick tile I think it's such a beautiful rendition of it So as you probably can tell peel and stick tile is definitely a hundred percent lone fox approved if I had floor and rental that I didn't love whether it be like some old vinyl flooring or just tile that's just outdated I totally swap it out for some peel and stick tile now when you go to leave I will say if you were to pull it up a lot of times there is gonna be a little bit of residue But it's pretty easy to scrape off with some goo gone or like some goof off if you have that It's not anything that's going to ruin the floors But it's also not going to be something that you just peel up and it's super clean in the end the last peel and stick we're talking about is back splash tile and Back splash tile is one that can be kind of a hit or a miss for me And it's more so based off of what the material you're applying it to because almost all back splash tiles Really aren't sold as a peel and stick backslash tile It's more so something that you can put over the top of a backslash and leave it at least everyone I've used the adhesive on the back sides are super strong So if your back splash is really glossy kind of like a tile that's super shiny really easy to clean down and wipe I would say putting a peel and stick backslash over the top of that if it wasn't your favorite is totally a plus And it is lone fox approved However, you should never put peel and stick tile for a backslash over the top of direct wall Whether it be like painted wall or just a backslash is a wall itself or over the top of a more kind of coarse tile So if you could imagine it's not polished it kind of has more of a dusty finish to it something like a natural stone You wouldn't want to put a peel and stick backslash on because it's not going to be easy to remove And it's probably going to damage the surface of the stone when you do go to remove it Now I've wrapped so many countertops with contact paper I did that for years on my channel many different bathrooms all the way back to like my first bathroom I ever did a makeover on which was in my apartment in downtown, Los Angeles I did wrapped countertops and in that apartment I will say those countertops were neon orange so they needed to be wrapped because they were bright However, if you can withstand your current countertops, I would definitely say contact papering a high traffic surface is Not loan box approved in my last apartment not the one in downtown I contact paper those countertops and they were kind of just a gray basic kind of plastic countertop And I contact papered them and I will tell you guys it was such a struggle getting that contact paper on them And second of all it really is not the easiest to clean the edges pop up if you're wrapping it around thin little areas It's not easy to keep those edges tacked down if it's like the edge of a countertop It looks a lot easier on video and also I will say it is not the easiest to smooth the air bubbles out of contact paper Unless your countertops are super smooth and you have them extremely cleaned down before Especially cutting out the hole for the sink cutting your own hardware. It's quite the challenge So I wouldn't necessarily go for a peel and stick contact paper I wouldn't really say it's long fucks approved However, if you are doing contact paper on like a DIY furniture piece or on like a small little side table I would say totally go for it. You know a small project that isn't high traffic I think is great to alter with some contact paper. However Countertops in your bathroom or kitchen countertops. I wouldn't wrap them in a contact paper most times You can tell it's been wrapped honestly, and it really just doesn't withstand the test of time And one of my favorite rental friendly solutions for hanging things up Which this is already loan fucks approved is command hooks now. I love using command hooks There's a specific one that I personally like the most I'm gonna pop them up here the ones that have the wire hook on them I feel like they have never done me wrong There are however some like the larger ones that you get that are like the really big ones with the large backing on them That I feel like can damage your wall. So you definitely want to be careful I wouldn't say put something extremely heavy on a command hook because anything that could be easily ripped off is Gonna pull the paint off with it If you're watching this video and you're gonna implement some of these tips and you freshly painted a space Do not put command hooks on a freshly painted wall for literally up to like a month to six weeks I'd say until the paint really has fully cured on that wall because if you put it on after a week It really is going to peel it right off like the paint hasn't fully cured down yet Even though it's dry it hasn't cured So just look at the cure time on the paint that you're actually working with or search it online a lot of times It will let you know like this product needs 30 days to cure down and that's when you should go in with your command Hooks, but otherwise use like a small little finishing nail or small picture nail for the time being and just fill it in One of the most focal points of any room is always the light fixture and a lot of times they're in the center of the room They're hanging from the ceiling whether via pendant light even a flush mount and with rentals I always suggest swapping out the lighting because adding a custom fixture Custom as in you added it and it wasn't like already there I always feel like you have such an elevated and personalized touch the space and you really can find so many incredible Fixtures on Facebook Marketplace I will have some of my favorites also linked in my Amazon shop below for you guys because I've used so many on the channel over the Years and I always suggest that if you are a renter just to store that current light fixture That's hanging there underneath your bed or in the back of a closet or in the top of a closet Until it comes time to move out if you really don't want to change those light fixtures And you don't care about them anymore If they're like a little Amazon purchase ask your landlord, you know, I swapped these out I could put back the other ones no worries at all It'll look exactly how it did or you can keep them if you'd like to because that's what I did with my previous two apartments And they of course wanted to keep all the light fixtures in them and for me it was easier than taking them out I knew I wanted to change up the look of those light fixtures. I had them for years So that was the easiest option for myself Now hardware can make a humongous impact in your kitchen and a lot of times when you're moving into a rental space They don't use the cutest hardware It is the cheap hardware from Amazon or the affordable option from Lowe's and sometimes you want to add your own hardware Whether it be some cute anthropology knobs or something else you found on Amazon actually have an entire folder of Hardware on my Amazon storefront, so it checked that out And I think swapping hardware is such an easy and great thing now I would never drill additional holes into cabinetry So I wouldn't consider doing that but if you can easily find the same exact size of handle Or you can find like a singular knob that would fit that hole I think swapping hardware is a hundred percent loan fox approved as a rental upgrade because you can take it with you When you leave and you can just keep the current hardware in like a little bag and put it in the back of one of the kitchen drawers Until it's time to actually leave and just swap it out quickly And I always feel like custom hardware can elevate a space so much and even in my previous apartment's bathroom There were just some brushed nickel little like chintzy knobs on the vanities And I swapped them out for some really pretty retan ones that I had gotten and I just loved with that look It really made the vanity feel custom and a little bit more special than those brushed nickel ones I just came with the vanity A lot of times when you move into a rental There's not a designer that has gone through and hung the curtains all the way up to the ceiling before you moved in Which normally does look quite good And I keep referencing my previous one because it was a rental but in that apartment We had the smallest little white metal rod mounted directly above the window with these sheer curtains that hit right under the window They didn't even go to the floor it was a very very bad look And I totally think that curtains are an upgrade that you can do to a space And it's also really not the biggest thing if you had to patch and repair those holes It's just two holes on either side of the bar or the bracket just patch them paint them and you're good However having the curtains installed of course floor to ceiling will elevate the walls and make it feel a lot nicer It also might help you personally if you want blackout curtains or having like the space really dark at night So totally something to consider, but I definitely would say they are a loan box approved And my last little hack I want to share with you is my electrical tape on the windows And this is another one that could lean either way You should either do it or you should not do it and when you should do it is if you live in a climate That doesn't get super super hot because they actually did this at my parents house in Arizona and the weather there is like always 100 degrees and it actually melted off of their window So if you do live in a cooler climate, this is something that can totally elevate the look of your windows I actually just use black electrical tape to tape grid patterns off on the windows Whether it be a sliding glass door a bathroom window anything that you want to give the look of custom painting to It's a great quick and easy way to do that extremely rental friendly because when you leave you can just pull that right off the window So something to consider just adding some designs to your window with some electrical tape can be a great way to make it look Like it actually has some sort of iron work on it or gives it more of an interesting kind of detail So those guys were all of the loan fox approved and not so much approved Now there are really a lot that are approved because most peel and stick products and rental friendly kind of update products Really do work well and I've used them on the channel in the past So I have touched and installed and done every single one of these that I've shared in this video I've done them by hand These really are my true honest kind of thoughts and ideas on each of these products and where you should use them where you Shouldn't use them and of course I want to give a big shout out to better help for sponsoring today's video again I will link it at the top of the description box below I know actually I found better help when I first started out through another youtubers video just exactly like this and it Was a platform that I used for so long. So definitely something you might want to look into Thank you all again so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe for brand new videos every single week on home decor and DIY And I will catch you all in the next one. Bye