So we have a construction update today. So this is not my footage that is on the screen now. It was sent into me. So as you can see, this is what looks like the vertical loop section. It actually may even be the zero G roll or even after the vertical loop. Cause if I remember the vertical loop was already on site, but it looks very loop-ish. So it might actually even be the return Imelman. But whatever it is, it was on its way last night right near Wonderland. So that's awesome. But lots going on at the park today. So I filmed this today. So by the time you're watching it, it is tomorrow. So this is filmed yesterday. I should word it. So I am gonna be in Niagara Falls all day today with the AI team kind of just like filming stuff, getting some content, doing some fun things together. So yeah, that's awesome. I will not be able to grab a construction update today even though I know they're gonna get a lot done. So as you can see, there is some interesting work going on on Behemoth. I don't know what it is. The same sensor machine is still there at the base of the drop and three maintenance trucks down there with guys just standing around. I don't know what it is. Probably just normal maintenance work. I could not begin to even speculate if anything is going on. So I'm just gonna ignore that. But as you can see, lots of track and supports on site sitting in that storage area. Looks awesome. This coaster again is scheduled to be done construction track wise by the end of December. So they have lots of work to do but also not too much work left to do. Again, the rest of the coaster is pretty low to the ground and as you see with Copperhead Strike, they get low to the ground portions done really quickly. So the remainder of this coaster is probably gonna go up as one, two, three done. And then we'll start seeing Frontier Canada start to take formation, which will be awesome. Again, every time I fly this drone now I'm literally like, any signs of Frontier Canada please be signs of Frontier Canada. I wanna even like I want to know what's going on in Frontier Canada. I wanna even know just one building, anything, just something. So super excited every time I go up and fly just looking for any signs of anything. So as you can see, let's get to the track. I feel like I've ignored the track this entire update so far. So as you can see, they are now pulling out of that Imlement. It is well above vortex but those support beams interact very closely to vortex. That is gonna be awesome. Near misses, adding that extra little element into vortex and Yukon Striker passing over vortex. So that's super awesome. I feel like I'm losing my voice while recording this video right now. So that's awesome as well. Maybe by the end of the video my voice will be completely gone. But yeah, so again, some old things that are still there. You have the catwalks for the mid-course break run or third course break run is what I like to call it. Sitting next to Timberwaf Falls, next to the L Crane. Here's an overall shot of the coaster coming out of the Imlement, out of the tunnel. So that's super awesome. Again, they're installing about two pieces of track a day now. There have been some weather conditions that have obviously slowed them down. There's nothing they can do about that. That's just for safety and obviously just ensuring the coaster gets installed properly without any rust issues or wind and damage issues. So there's nothing they can do about that. But when they do have on days like today they do get a lot done. So as you can see, support beams were installed in between vortex, two pieces of track were installed since my last visit. And actually near the end of the video you can see the L Crane kind of turning over and either going to shut down for the day. Again, night does come early. So I assume they were shutting down for the day or going to install another one or two pieces. I do not see a support beam that would suggest they were going to install any more than that. But tomorrow the weather is actually looking like it's not going to snow, which sucks they're going to be in Niagara Falls and won't be able to go grab a construction update. And we haven't figured out the Android process for my drone yet. So Craig will not be able to film a drone update tomorrow but I will be there Wednesday to film a drone update. Regardless, lots going on. More track pieces are sitting there for the zero G roll or a negative G roll is what Wonderland's calling it. So that'll probably start to go in tomorrow and Wednesday. Maybe by the end of this week if weather is forgiving and not a terrible person they might have the zero G roll done by the end of the week. If not next week for sure. Again, weather permitting, we are in this weird state in Canada where weather is not cooperative whatsoever and we can't begin to predict it. Anyways, that's it for the construction update. Nothing on Frontier Canada yet. I don't know what's going on with Behemoth yet and Yukon Stryker is making some pretty awesome advancements as usual. Again, we will be reporting on Yukon Stryker pretty often about two to three times a week depending on weather. We're aiming for about two days a week coverage on Yukon Stryker now just so you guys can see changes happening and we're not over reporting like we were before it's almost daily updates. So now that the lift hill and drop is done we feel like two updates a week is suffice. So hopefully you guys are okay with that. Hope you enjoyed this video. Hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. And don't forget to join us on Instagram and Patreon for some behind the scenes tours. 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Hey guys, welcome to Snowbreak Containment Zone, and I'm back, hopefully for more of a permanent basis, rather than missing for the past two months. So, to clarify things up, I've been doing some projects on the side. Doing a couple, actually. But I wanted to go back to this because I'm unloading a certain project soon. That would give me more time for this, for more research, for more gaming, for more content, for more Snowbreak, and for the other things that I have been playing. It doesn't mean that I haven't been uploading videos, I haven't been playing. So, I've been playing Snowbreak. I've been playing AetherGazer, surprisingly continuously, daily. So, I'm actually just waiting for the next upcoming game that would be added to this channel. But for the meantime, guys, let us dive into this new trailer. Okay, this is adding the first time that we've had a lot going on in terms of banners, in terms of SSRs. So, let's dive into the trailer, and I'll leave you my comments along the way and give you my thoughts on what has happened. The Dems are actually outdoing themselves. They outdid themselves this time. So, two new SSRs, guys, and two of the oldest, not the oldest, but the first characters that we have. We have Enya, we have Cherno, of course. This is something that they returned to, apart from giving us new characters. I think they gave us three new SSRs along the way before this one. So, I'm kind of excited for this, especially for Cherno. I'm excited how they actually are improving her from the previous one. So, hopefully, she doesn't disappoint. Also, for Enya, I think we're gonna get Enya for free if you log in from May 2 to 30. So, we'll be getting her for free, but for Cherno, you'll have to pull for her. Starting, I think on the 18th, if I'm not mistaken, April 18th. So, correct me if I'm wrong on that timetable. Yeah, April 18th to May 16th. So, they're actually ramping up on what they're doing with Snowbreak. And apart from characters, the costumes have been, or the skins, have been on par. These two are actually what we need. We need these. We badly need these.  Although, oh, okay. Cherno's skin, this one, the basic one, is actually on point. This is very unique. That is my comment. Unique in terms of the design. Similar, probably, to Kaguya's Chinese New Year, something, something. But for Enya, it's kind of a copy paste of an old skin. But I really don't mind, you know, what is going on here. So, new weapons, of course. We have new outfits. As I mentioned, I'm actually sweating already. What I'm seeing. So, this one is, I think one of the best that we've had. For those who are planning to get tests, this is way better than the previous outfit. I tell you, the secret date. And this one is one, I think, one of the outfits that we're all gonna get. It's too sheer for me. Can't concentrate. And this is a new, you know, new mode. So, interactable scene combo gift pack. My God. They are, they are really going into the fan service for this one. Not bad. I think this is more detailed. We'll go more further. There are a lot of scenes here. So, as you can see there, from what I know, you can only take off your shoe. Take off the shoe. I'm not sure what else can we take off. Not gonna say anything. But it's a lot of interaction, guys. And, oh my God. New logistics squad. So, they're doing without, they're doing all female. All female designs for the logistics. No longer males. And I think they're redoing the old ones. So, Asha is nice. Hopefully in the future, we could get some of these logistics to be characters, playable characters in the future. Hopefully, hopefully. So, we have new gameplay as well. So, this is a fun capture gameplay. So, capture your enemies. This one is also new for paradoxical labyrinth. I'm not sure if the old one will disappear and it will be replaced by this one, doesn't say. So, clash of honor update, fend off enemy waves, usual. We also have a new boss and the dread together. We also have endless battle, which is the usual content that we have. So, okay, other new content in the game. So, we do have a room for Nita, which a lot have been asking. Hopefully, she gets her five star soon. Five star, not SSR. I'm sorry if I mentioned that earlier. So, it's been a while since I recorded a video, guys. So, please bear with me. I am actually excited for this update. We're gonna be covering skills next. Again, as soon as the skills are available, we're gonna be covering it to see how they are going to be good. Well, Anya's gonna be free. But for Churno, if she is, you know, worth your pulls, new map here, blessed Bazaar, we're gonna be going out of the the rocket-based design, new maps, which is different, nice. So, that is it. So, gradient of souls, it's happening on April 18th, up to May 30th. What do I think? The devs are working hard on this, I tell you. The skins are really, really on point, even if you don't get the additional skins with the skins that they have right now for the default ones. I don't blame you guys if you stick with them. Again, terrific designs. I hope that this takes Snowbreak somewhere, you know, going up. I've seen that revenue has been up for Snowbreak, since Katia, and the other one, the recent one, I forgot her name, white-haired healer, the five-star one. But again, I'll do some backtrack videos and feature a tier list soon, build guides that I haven't covered before. The update drops on the 18th. So, it's now on, we still have a week, I think, to go. We're on April 11th, so I still have a week to catch up on videos for you guys. And hopefully, that makes up for the content that I missed in between after Katia. So, again, I'm not away, I'm still here. I'm just unloading a lot of projects right now for me to go back to this. And, well, I'm really happy to be back. So, just wanna go over the hump, give you guys more content. Hopefully, I could, you know, get the usual support from you guys. And for those who have been there with me from the start, thank you for sticking by me. I know life isn't easy. I still have to make a living for the family. Hopefully, you could support me, guys. Subscribe, watch the channel. This really helps me a lot. And also, you know, for future content for the channel. So, thank you very much, guys, for staying this far. Take care, stay safe, this is The Warden, and I'm outta here. I already have long hair.


On the 9th of June, local Manipuri newspapers reported a gunfight taking place between the villages of Sangaithel and Kokken. Sangaithel is a Mehta village west of Inval city on the edge of the plains. Kokken is a cookie village just one kilometre away from Sangaithel in the foothills. The Manipuri paper indicated there had been deaths and injuries but did not say who had died or where. They said the fight took place between cookie militants and armed Mehta villagers. National newspapers however reported that the deaths occurred in the cookie village of Kokken and the dead were residents of that village. And one of the casualties was an elderly woman. It was also reported in the national media that the attackers were dressed in khaki uniforms who entered the village claiming to be security forces engaged in kumbing operations. News click traveled to meet the cookie villagers of Kokken. They had fled to safety to another village further up the hill some distance away. As the news click team arrived, they gathered to tell their story. More than 80 people were there at that time.  Yeah we are angry because we lost so many lives. Yesterday we lost three lives in that spot and two injuries. So we cannot stay calmly in this situation. So we are angry, we are in tension, we are depressed. Around 4.30 a.m. in the morning they attacked. They surrounded our village from the upper side and started firing from all corners and they fired at us indiscriminately. And as soon as we heard the sound of the gunshot, we all wake up and try to escape. We evacuated to CRP camp and they just stormed the church and they fired at the church also. Those who are here are actually helpless people who are not having relative well-being. So this is the problem. And now since suddenly this thing happened suddenly, actually even everything even rise and for all these daily needs we are lack of all these things actually. How is all these people, how are they surviving? So far we are managing by ourselves. But some rifle poster here are called in, especially this mazel. He is very kind and very good. And this morning he brought his team and medical doctor and also medicine. Got some medicines. He was wearing a T-shirt and he went where? I don't know. I don't know. He is selling us all. He is selling us all. All okay? All good. Thank you. Siran, some news click. Okay. I am in love. You do your work. Since we could not even stayed about for tomorrow since we missed a lot of difficulties. I could not say anything. I could not explain anything right now since I am in tension right now. As we know that in studying even one hour also very precious and very valuable. And now the situation was not improving but it is almost two months. Two months for a student is a great loss for the student, losing two months. So we all know that student life is like that. We still have hope to occupy it back, to stay it back. To go back? Yeah. If the government, I don't mean the state government, if I say government then I don't have any hope in state government. But if the center government do it so, the security it properly, I hope it so to get back in the village.


from York, it's, that's this engineer. Hey everybody, welcome to Asken Engineer. It's me, Lady Aida, with me, Mr. Lady Aida on Camera Control. It's that time of year, we're wrapping up the year, we're kind of sliding in to the end of 2021. We still got plenty of cool stuff to show you on this Asken Engineer show, next hour full of hacking, making, software engineering, coding, videoing and more. We're broadcasting here from the Aida Food Factory in downtown Manhattan. We're not wearing masks because nobody else is around. We're keeping it safe, but at this moment, we're the only two people here. Yeah, I have to do those announcements to make sure we're setting a good example, but also we like being transparent, telling everybody how we're running this thing here in New York City. All right, so why don't we kick it off, Mr. Lady Aida? Tell them what's on tonight's show. On tonight's show, the code is resurrections. And the reason why is, so as soon as we're done with the show tonight, we're gonna go and watch the matrix for resurrections. So that's the code. It'll help me remember what date it is and stuff like that. So that's the code.  Watch the matrix. At Aida Food Live Series, the shows are gonna be talking about what we do during the week here in More and Clean Show and Tell. Time travel around the world of makers, hackers, artists, engineers, news going on in the maker world, engineering world and more. Help want it. We're gonna stop by the Aida Fruit Jobs Board, jobs.adafruit.com where you can post your skills or if you're a company, hire the best people in the world cause that's where they're hanging out. At Aida Fruit site. Got some main New York City factory footage, some 3D printing, including a cool speedup video. We got INMPI brought to you by Digikeon Aida Fruit. We got a cool one this week from TDK. Got some new products. Got some top secret. We're gonna answer your questions. That's right. We do that on Discord. AidaFruit.it slash Discord. We can join all 32,000 of us. We can hang out all the time. All that and more on, you guessed it. Ask an engineer. Okay, Lady Aida. So let's do one little quick thing and then we'll get into paying the bills and more. So we do these every couple of weeks or so. The spike is back here in New York City. So back in October, we purchased a ton of rabbit tests because we're like, hey, this isn't over. There's gonna be a spike probably right before Christmas. And here we are.  So we've been able to get our team members' rapid tests while they're waiting for some of the longer line tests here in New York now cause it's back to that. So far so good. We haven't had anyone test positive. There are some people in the external circles like households of family members or friends or they go to an event and something comes up. So it shields up again. We've been wearing masks even before all of this. We decided, let's just do that anyways. All the team members are vaccinated. Everyone has paid time off for boosters and more. Also flu shots. And so that's how we've been running stuff and it's been working out for us. But I understand not every company is the same as Adafrit. So in New York, some of the things that we decided to do was we had three events we can go to. We decided to only go to one. It was our visit to her folks because out of all the things that was the only one that was important to us. So we just minimized our risk profile. And who cares? There's things that we could do later for sure but seeing friends, family, especially when it was a trip that we needed to take. We haven't taken it for a long time. That was the one when we said, well, this is how we'll spend our risk. And we have COVID tests and everything. We're all boosted. So that's what we're doing. That's what a lot of the folks at Adafrit are doing. So if you ever have any questions about how we're doing stuff, you can always email me ptadafrit. We have no problems sharing all the stuff we're doing because we're still here, still standing. Speaking of, if you want to purchase stuff that will go directly into our employees paychecks because we're about to do our profit sharing bonus for the end of the year, you can also get free stuff. Lady, what do they get for free when they're shopping on the Adafrit site? I'm glad you asked. We still have our pink feather promotion going on. If you order $99 or more, you get a free pink feather RP2040. This adorable board is just like our RP2040 feather, but it's in pink. How can you not love that? 149 or more, you get a free STEM IQT board. We have a couple of different ones in stock. Depending on whether you, if you make an account we'll make sure to send you a different one each time. 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You could try, but probably not, and it's something that's outside our control. So we do a live series of shows. We just did show and tell. We had some Adafruit folks. We had Tim from the guy. We had Liz. We had some retro stuff and more. And then Jepler showed a project, Birdbeth, IOT, Birdbeth. And then we also discussed teapots that were rendered. So do check this out. And non-rendered. And non-rendered. And then I was talking about our idea. Sometimes I have to take the blame and or credit for some of these. I thought we could call IOT things Wicked Smart because we just got back from Boston. And instead of calling it Machine Learning or AI or Computing on the Edge or TinyML, we would just say, oh, that thing over there is Wicked Smart. What do you think? Yeah, okay. All right, well, you could tune in for all this excitement and my ideas and more on Sundays. You have great ideas. Yeah, on Sundays, we do Desk of Lady Eta. Lady Eta, we do part one and part two. What was part one of Desk of Lady Eta on? Oh, sorry, we didn't do it on Sunday. We did it on Monday. On Monday, because we were on time on Sunday. So Desk of Lady Eta, I showed off the final rev, rev C of the TFT ESP32 S2 Feather, fixed a couple of things with the power supply and showed off my power analysis test where I go into ultra low power mode, light sleep mode and normal mode. So showing that I can get down to 80 microamps of current. Okay, then we do a segment called The Great Search and this is kind of the more popular thing we do now because there is a part shortage and you showed how to find parts. What did you try to find this week? Okay, what I found this week was for the Scorpio board, I needed an eight channel three to five volt logic level shifter and I wanted one that had TTL inputs. I wanted one that was very, very small and so I showed how when I was designing the board, how I specced and located the correct logic level shifter. And hopefully I'll get the board put together and I'll make sure it works. Picking out TTL logic is a couple tips and tricks so I talked about this. Okay, and folks should stay tuned to the top secret because we have a new board announcement that we're gonna show off, Scorpio. Yes. It's a new board. Yes. Man of Fruit, okay. Yes. JP's product pick of the week on Ohioatis this week because JP is on vacation. So do tune in to JP show next week and or the week after, check your local listings as they say in the biz. But we have a little neat snippet. Gonna play these back to back. One is from JP's workshop show. This is a macro pad thing that he was working on and then I'm gonna show the latest Parsec. That's where we show some cool circuit Python based projects code and more that JP shares with the community. So I'll see you on the other side. First up JP workshop highlight and then circuit Python and Parsec. But the circuit Python Parsec, I wanted to show you how you can use pretty much any GPIO pin on your microcontroller as a ground pin. Why would you wanna do this? Well, sometimes you wanna plug things in. Like you can see here, I've got a couple of LEDs with resistors plugged in and they're on either side of a little cutie pie board. There's only one pin marked as ground on this. Point at it right there. That's the ground pin. Well, you can't share that too easily with a couple of these leads if you're going into a breadboard. Great, but sometimes you just have header pins on your board and you wanna plug things into them. What you can do in this case, if you don't wanna kinda crowd things in, is pick another available GPIO pin and set it at a low value, which essentially acts as a ground. Now, this isn't as high a current ground as the ground ground pin. So you only wanna use this for things like LEDs and buttons and switches, nothing higher current. But it works really easily and really well. So watch this. You can see here in my code, I'm setting up by importing library for board and digital IO. Then for this red LED, I'm simply setting the pin that the high side is plugged into, which in this case I'm plugging into the RX pin. So I set that to be a digital in-out pin with the direction set to output and I set the value to true. It lights it up because it's setting that pin high. So we're getting three volts out of that roughly. On this other side, what I'm gonna do is same sort of thing. I'll set up one of the pins, in this case the TX pin, for the high side of the LED, the positive side. But then to fake a ground, what I'm doing here is I've created a variable called fake ground pin. And here I'm setting up a digital pin. It's a GPIO pin A1 in this case. And I'm setting its direction to output, but then I'm keeping its value low. I'm setting the value to false. This essentially acts as a ground pin. 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So I've been reaching out to some of the folks who are a little surprised to find themselves for sale for ETH and so far so good. It's been working out. Next up, this is from Q. Q's in Texas. She just moved from New York to Texas and she sent me this thing. She just wants to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Adafruit, this quality is this friend of mine. So I just wanted to put this on her. I said, hey, can I put this on our show? And she said, yeah. Next up, adafruit.com forward slash cats of engineering and now has an RSS feed. Yes. Because that's what we do. Really excited about that. If you need help with that, you can email me ptadafruit.com. This is a screenshot of my newsreader for my Mac that I happen to like, which is NetNewsWire. Reminder, we did not buy Radio Shack. We have nothing to do with RadioShack.com. Please stop blaming us online for anything to do with Radio Shack. We have nothing to do with it. We interview the new owners of Radio Shack every couple of years because there's always new owners of Radio Shack every couple of years. This is my sign. From this sign that we bought off the side of a Radio Shack that got scrapped because Radio Shack went out of business a few years ago and it says, heck, and that's the back of my desk. So anyways, nothing to do with it. Cool sign. Didn't buy them. Stop blaming us. Y'all are jerks. You're mean guys online. Stop it. Move on. Okay. This is from 1999, Lady. We're gonna get this running. This is your, you have a text adventure that you made. For 6.001. For your MIT. It was the final project for freshman computer science class. I wrote a text adventure, which was the assignment was to write a text adventure. Little did they know that I'd always wanted to write a text adventure. So I went all out and I wrote in text adventure and we're gonna post the files up but they're in MIT scheme, which turns out that. You have to figure out how to get that running. We have to get that running and you think, well, why don't you just run an MIT scheme that's available from glue? Turns out whatever changes they made to Athena's scheme is slightly different. We're getting there. We got it to load and now we have to kind of, there's some things about like whether a list is empty when it's empty or it doesn't exist. I don't know. I think it's cool that this is like Lady at Archeology. We're all be able to. Some of the oldest code I've written. Really? I mean, I think I could dig up some older code. But this is, you know, I unfortunately lost a hard drive that had a lot of, I mean, before Dropbox, you know, it's like when you lost a hard drive, you really did lose everything. But very early code, but it's actually a funny game. Yeah. I'm going to upload it to archive.arch. I've not had luck with archive that are recently putting stuff on there, but we'll see. I will keep trying. Next up. So AdaBox, one year of AdaBox is possible for you to get. We have less than 50 slots open. I get an email notification. Don't forget it is AdaBox edition. So that means the holiday edition, which we would normally try to get out by, you know, Christmas is going to be shipping during a season. This season happens to be winter. This will be out January, February. Please, please, please get it out. There's going to be none left. It's the closest thing to like back orders that we have. It'll be for a new product. It'll be really cool. And I think it's going to be one of our best ones yet. AdaBox.com. Okay. Help Wanted. We are putting everybody back to work in this country. We're trying. Help Wanted, jobs.adafruit.com. There are three jobs on the Jobs Ward. There is an audio circuit. There's remote instructor for summer engineering program. That's with Bluestamp engineering. There is open source circuit pipeline driver for NFC chip. Must include point to two point communications. And another remote instructor position, which is for a summer engineering program. Do check this out jobs.adafruit.com. We moderate all of them. We look at all of them. We make sure they're not scammy or sketchy or whatever's. And so do check it out or post your skills. If you're looking to make some more coin. And I mean, that is a physical money thing, not the other stuff. Okay. Let's do some Python on hardware news, lady. Mm-hmm. Okay. This week, I'm going to talk about the podcasts that the team did with Tom's hardware soon. I thought this was kind of cool. This is a retro RPN calculator emulator using the PyPortal Titanium with Circuit Python. And the user interface is mostly done. You're going to be able to see it later in action. But I like people build in their own calculators. It's kind of like gradient backgrounds, Q. Yeah. It's the steps of building all of your own equipment. Topping your tree with a glowing, can you say this word? No. Rambi. Because he did a Dickey Heed one. Yeah. Anyways, Powered by Circuit Python. Okay. We have some guides on upgrading to the latest version of Raspberry Pi Buster. Sorry, from Buster to Bullseye. We have some LEGO plates that we've posted. We have a call for Moo translations. Do check that also. Also, breaking news. There's a new version of Moo. It's available for code with .moo. Next week, the guest editor, I'm back. The restraining order is over. No, I'm back. I'm back to doing the newsletter. Originally, it was here. No, Ann's been doing it. Yeah, Ann's been doing a great job. I promise you it's going to. So if you all know me, I did Hackaday, and I did Engadget, and I did magazine, a lot of online offering.  Yeah, the gothiest, the edgiest, the lowercase-iest. Yeah.  And you can look at drawings or photos. Parrots. And you can say mean things to me and dunk on me. Or you can enjoy the art. Or you can enjoy the art. Look at birds. And look at birds and some medical tests and stuff like that's kind of fun. I got some x-rays. Everything's fine. So next up, what I did want to show and talk about is keyboard. Wink, wink. Yeah, tick, tick, tick, tick. So keyboard is what we're calling a whole series of keyboard-based products from Adafruit. So we have a KB2040 and it's the pro-micro form factor. And the kind folks at Tom's Hardware had Dan and Jeff and Scott on the show that they do. So Lady Aida, what's the big deal about this pro-micro keyboard thing? Well, the RP2040. Why is it a pig? Because it's a key, but we don't want to call it a key because a lot of people can say key.  The KB2040 is an RP2040-based board. So it's using this extremely fast, very powerful chip from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, their first microcontroller. And we put it into a pro-micro form factor with 20 GPIO pins. We break out D plus and D minus as well. So you can also use it for advanced USB configurations. And the idea here is that you can use this design and existing macro pads and keyboards and upgrade it to use circuit Python or micro Python or Arduino. And it's a big upgrade from the 32U4 that a lot of people use for keyboards. It runs out of memory very easily. The 32U4 really only has 2K of RAM, 32K of flash, whereas this chip has eight megabytes of flash and 256 or 264K of RAM. So a ton of memory and it's very fast, like 133 megahertz dual core. Right now there isn't QMK support, but I think it's coming. I think people are working on QMK support because so many people are building RP2040-based boards. And also, catch the whole thing. I can dence this down to like 20 seconds, but it's about 30 minutes long and the entire crew is there and you'll be able to learn all about this and then more, it's a deep dive, as they say in the biz. Oh, it's also a dollar less. I wanted to make the QMK 2040 cheaper than the micro, the pro micro, but it has all the stuff you want, USB-C and. And then I say our big news for the week in the world of circuit Python and more is Pileap app is available in the App Store. Congratulations Trevor and Antonia and Scott and Kenny and Marcos and everyone who's been working on this. We have a guide, we have a blog post. It's in the App Store and I'll get to one little note in a second. When you go, you can open it up, you could see all of the screenshots, you can get the description and more. Will we have an Android version? Yes, don't be mean about it. Every single time we have an Android version and then only two people download the Android version of something, but leading all the way up until that, they're just mean. So stop doing that. It doesn't help the other Android users. So anyways, we're doing this one first. Expect an Android version down the road, but we also have other ways to get things on Bluetooth hardware. You also use it where you can use. From Android. From web browser. Yeah, from all sorts of things. So we're going to make sure you're able to do everything all the time, everywhere from multiple devices. That's kind of our jam, but there's this weird thing that comes up every single time. No matter what app we do, we released an Android version and someone said, do you have an Android version? I'm just like, are you kidding me? It's an Android version. And they're like, oh yeah, sorry. I'm just used to asking that. Please don't do that. So that's everything in the world of Python on hardware. We deliver these to your inbox every single week.  You can go to AdafruitDaily.com. Search around. We're the only site that I know of at this point that respects, do not track. It's a separate website for newsletters. You can't get spam from us. You can try, but we're just not going to do it. And you go to AdafruitDaily, not Adafruit.com to get any of our newsletters. We wanted something completely separate so no one could ever say, y'all are spamming me. We just don't have those pop-ups, don't do anything. Let's Python on hardware news this week. That's what we're doing. Okay, lady, we're an open source hardware company. I think Ann posted this up or is posting it up. It is the impact of open source software and hardware on the technological independence, dependiveness and innovation in the EU economy. Check it out. It's a PDF, you can download it, you can share it, you can read the summary and more. Don't know if they're doing one for the US yet, but this is EU, so do check it out and you can see what's going on with open source hardware and software and its impact in the EU. Speaking of, we have 2,601 guides. That's how I know we're an open source hardware company because we've got all these guides and code and stuff like that. Lady Eda, what is on the big board this week? Okay, we've got that guide for these, you saw a little video from JP on making an interface for doing color correction on images. So he showed how to plug together various STEMI QT boards to make a no solder control panel. We've also got a guide on, can you make the... Do you want? Well, I can't read the text. You want a bigger? Yeah, can you read that? The RGB matrix circuit Python guide, Jepler updated it. I think he added the RP2040 feather and RP, sorry, the RGB matrix feather wing to show how to use it. Or maybe it was the ESP32 S2 Metro with the shield, I don't remember, but we had another page. We've also got a guide on the Piley Bap. We do. We also have... Kenny started out the guide for the QT-Pi ESP32 S2. There's more to come. Kenny's on vacation, but we got some files up just because people are always asking for schematics and pinouts and files, so that's up there. Carter did a guide on making a DIY USB trinket that requires no soldering to make a DIY air quality monitor with humidity, temperature, biometric pressure and CO2. And then TAC wrote a quick guide on taking our NR52840 boards, whether that's a feather or a dongle, and turning it into a BLE sniffer. And you can install the firmware with UF2, which is super awesome, because you don't need to use a J-Tag or J-Link, J-Tag interface to load the firmware. You can just drag and drop it. There's a couple extra steps because the soft device needs to be updated as well, but he has written everything up for you. So if you have an old blue fruit feather and you wanna turn it into a sniffer, here's a tutorial on how to do that. Okay. And it wouldn't be a celebration of open source hardware without the place that makes it. Here, Adafruit, let's look at some factory footage. Hey, Dana. Yes. And it wouldn't be a main New York City factory footage without a time lapse from the Disney headquarters that it's gone from large to loud. That's its thing now. Initially it was just large, and now it's very loud. And then one other note, because I have to fill up our show with things so I can send links to people later. So we don't have hand models. Any hands that you see in any of our photos, it's people who work at Adafruit. Some of them have cool tattoos and scars and nails and all sorts of stuff. These are real people who really work here. Stop saying we have actors and hand models and no one really exists and birds aren't real and stuff like that. Okay, three printing. You want to do these back to back later, Dana? Yeah, let's do them back to back. Okay, we're going to do these back to back. We've got the cool project that Pedro did this week, and then we're going to do the speed up of the most recommended mask to wear now that'll keep you safe from everybody else. From variants and people who may have variants. Yes, so stay tuned for part one, which is the project, and then part two is the mask that everyone should print out and give it to their family and friends this holiday season. Hey, what's up, folks? In this project, we're making a visual light display with Neopixels. We designed a lamp with edgelet acrylic and added Neopixel LEDs. It looks like a frame by frame stop motion when each pixel is lit up one at a time. We thought it'd be fun to engrave some festive designs in different shapes. The acrylic panels are swappable so you can use this to make all sorts of creative animations. For this project, we have it powered by the Cutie Pie RP2040 running Circuit Python. It uses just a single strip of Neopixel LEDs with a total of eight quarter inch thick acrylic panels. We engrave some snowflakes and letters, but you can do all sorts of fun arts and graphics. For any Neopixel project, we like to use Circuit Python because it's easy to use the LED animation library. We strung together a few chase animations using the animation group module with each one having a different color. We set the timing to a quarter of a second so each panel has a little bit more time to be seen. The LED animation library makes trying out different settings really fast and easy. The LED strip is fitted into a 3D-printed holder with each LED fitting into a little cavity. Our 3D-printed holder keeps the LEDs isolated so the light doesn't leak into each other. The acrylic pieces feature tabs that are press-fitted into slots that are on a separate holder. They're placed directly over the LEDs so they're nicely edge lit. The parts are made with PLA filament and they can be printed without any support material. All you need to build this project is a strip of Neopixel LEDs in the QtiePie RP2040. The bottom cover features a built-in holder for the QtiePie and has special edges that snap-fit into the 3D-printed case. Each piece of quarter-inch thick acrylic features a 20-millimeter tab for slotting into the 3D-printed holder. The assembly is modular with the parts snap-fitting together. I designed the holders for the LED strip and acrylic to be parametrically driven. This means updating the pixel count will add or remove slots from the design so it's easily scalable. The CAD files are free to download. Links are in the description. We hope this inspires you to check out the QtiePie RP2040 in CircuitPython for your next light-up project. From everyone at Adafruit Industries, happy holidays and happy New Year. Don't forget on Wednesdays, learn how to make all this stuff and more. No Pedro. Okay, lady. It's almost time for, you guessed it. I NMPI, but first up, the code is Resurrections because it's matrix four tonight. That's why I'm gonna watch right after this. All right, let's do this. Ready? Yep. I NMPI. I NMPI, I brought you by DigiKey and Adafruit. Thank you, DigiKey. Every single week we show the latest, the greatest, the I on new product introductions this week. It's from TDK, lady. What is this week's NMPI? Okay, this week's I NMPI, like we mentioned, it's from TDK. We had them for their little sensor bugs so they're coming back. Do have one of the coolest logos. We see it in Times Square. The TDK sign is pretty sweet. This is, I wanted to make sure I get the part number right. The BCS4430B6, this is a series of ultra-thin, ultra-flexible solar cells for use with indoor electronics to power your IoT, your portable or wearable electronics, using- I look at the smart stuff. From lights inside building. So just what it looks like, these are amorphous cells and this one is I think like 44 millimeters by 30 millimeters, that's the name. And it's got six cells. You can even see all six cells one by one in this picture. And then it's super flexible and I'll show it on the overhead. Maybe I'll do that now before I get into it. Let's do it now. Okay, so this is the solar cell. So it's amorphous, so it's ultra-flexible and it's incredibly thin, it's 0.2 millimeters. It's basically a thin piece of paper and it feels about as thin as a thin piece of plastic or paper and on the back are these two points that you can connect to to make electrical contact. And even indoors, just with the fluorescent lights here, you can see it's lighting up this LED quite nicely. So this is extremely, extremely skinny and extremely flexible paper-like solar cell and it can be easily bonded or soldered into your project to give yourself some power, even from indoors. I mean, of course it'll work great outdoors but it's designed even to work with indoor lighting which is not that bright, to be honest. So this is the VCS series. They can make them in custom sizes and shapes but the goal of this one is just to make ultra-thin, ultra-light, one of the suggested use cases is like a credit card type thing, something so thin that could go into a wallet or it goes into a wearable, something that has to move around a lot so you can't use a fixed monocrystalline cell. This one will give you about 4.2 volts open circuits around 2.6 volts running circuit and operating current about 30 microamps of current. So yes, these are very, very small and thin. They don't give you a lot of current but depending on your circuit, you might be able to either charge up a super cap or use a buck-boost converter or whatever to convert that ultra-low amount of current into something usable. You can get these in custom sizes, even a circular size, customizable number of cells. So for your product, if you need a lot and you don't want to cut it down to size, of course you can cut this with scissors but let's say you're like, I want to come with a particular size, you can get them customized. And so what this reminded me of was when you had a solar calculator and I had one of these and they were great, I actually prefered it to the battery one because the battery would always die but with the solar one, you sometimes have to hold it up to light for a few seconds to kind of get the internal capacitor charged but I found that they worked quite well and that's the same idea here is that this is for ultra-low power electronics. It's gonna have to be designed to use a solar panel but of all the energy harvesting techniques that I've heard of, like piezoelectric or thermal, solar is kind of the most inexpensive, reliable and well understood. People who are always like, oh, I want to charge something based off of the motion of a person. It's like that's actually really hard to do and piezoelectric usually you have to press a lot harder than you think. Like it's not very comfortable with a solar. You know, it's trickle charging but there's always gonna be light around. So if you can work within the constraints of the low current, you're good to go. People who've never used solar panels, they're kind of weird because they're diodes running in reverse basically instead of an IV curve going the opposite way they go the positive way because there's positive power going out not going in and the operating curve does change with light levels. So this is a diagram from a linear tech MPPT controller and it's not for this panel but you can see the green line as you get more sunlight or ambient light you see the curve gets taller and taller and taller the how much current you can get out and then the blue line is the max power and so you notice that there was kind of a sweet spot called the max power point which is kind of at the tip of the curve just as it starts to sink down. So using a solar panel you can't just treat it as a voltage source or current source is kind of in the middle. You want to, it'll give you a voltage but as you draw more and more current the voltage will start to collapse. So what you wanna do is use just enough current that the voltage has started to collapse a little bit that'll give you the max power and so one thing to say is if you're gonna use these little solar cells you do have to design your circuitry and your power supply to take advantage of this and use it intelligently. This is the curbs for this particular panel you can see the different illumination levels based on lux and the voltage and current you can get and get out. One thing you can do is one just design your circuit to use under 30 microamps of current depending on what your circuit is like as a calculator you can design an ASIC to use less than that much power. Second thing is you can have it trickle charge a super cap or a primary or sorry secondary battery or a chargeable battery. It slowly, slowly trickle charges the battery capacitor when it gets to a certain voltage it turns on your circuit and then it runs that can be good for IoT where you know a little sensor or something lives in a room it only has to send the temperature or humidity data every 10, 15 minutes. So it slowly, slowly charges you know 30 microamps at a time charges up the super cap super cap gets to three volts or 3.5 volts whatever the circuit turns on depletes the capacitor while it's submitting that data or sending that data over a radio and then turns back off. Third option is to use something like this it's like a specialized chip it's gonna cost a little bit more but this is designed specifically for energy harvesting and is designed to use these ultra small ultra thin solar panels. You can't just use an everyday lipoly charger chip it has to be something that knows how to deal with again this IV curve where the max power point is as the voltage start to collapse and usually you set the max current or the max you know the cutoff voltage using resistors or capacitors on these chips and then they can charge up a battery for you or a super cap for you and they'll do it in a way that's a lot more efficient than just a plain trickle charger. Okay and in stock and good news there's 32 of these in stock and they're available on Digikey here's a short URL. Sorry there you go. And then the programmer. But very neat I do see I will say people who want to use who want to do IOT projects they want to make smart rooms solar panels really you know as long as you have the power supply designed for it they last decades they're very reliable they are you know they just work off of whatever light they've got just be aware that they'll give you a lot less current than you think whatever amount of current you think you're gonna get it's about a tenth of that but as long as you can work with that you're good to go. You sound like an advocate for big sun. I am. The lobbyist. The bigger sun. Big solar. Big lux. Okay so that's IONMPI I'm gonna do a couple of questions immediately afterwards then we're gonna go into new product cause there's a couple of questions that have something to do with this so we'll see you on the other side of this and that is this week's IONMPI. IONMPI. Okay I'm gonna add these questions real quick and then we're gonna do a new product so would you be able to recharge a small lipo with a solar cell like that and then how it would work with a tree ornament? You let the tree light to charge the ornament. I think that would work. Tree lights are really really dim you really want to have ambient lighting because it has to hit the whole front of the panel but yes you can just triple charge a small lipo. I think on a tree because a lot of people have it in front of a window. Yeah the window would be a good and then you charge up the things all throughout the day. Good option. That'd be kind of cool. Okay so let's remind everyone. Resurrections it's good cause we're gonna watch the matrix. Tonight let's do new products lady. Okay. Sing your song. It's time for new. It's time for new.  Okay first up I'm gonna do my little bit which is go to Adafruit.com slash gift certificates cause it's probably too late to get that gift. Get a gift certificate it works. They never expire. We don't do anything weird. We don't harvest the email. We don't spam the person getting it. You can print out. We have like a print out that you can do. Get a gift certificate from Adafruit. It's great. Adafruit.com slash gift certificates. You really sell it there. Well it is. It is. It's just like what should I do? And a lot of people are like what do I get someone who likes electronic stuff? Like get them a gift certificate from Adafruit. Yeah. Let's kick off the new products with this. Okay we've got a felt carrying case. So this is I think designed for either a book or a keyboard. But you know what it fits really well? The Raspberry Pi 400. If you have a Pi 400 you know you want to keep it safe while you're moving it to and from school or a workshop. We have a zipper case but this felt case was inexpensive and works very well. It has a little a flexi strap piece and some nice felt that is you know it's not waterproof but it's water resistant. It's a nice case. It's nice and padded.  Next up. We've got another Molex power cable pair. So you get a socket and a plug and they plug together. And I think all together it's 20 centimeters, 10 centimeters each. This one has eight connectors. And you know they just match up. You have you know right on one side and on the other pink, pink, yellow, yellow.  I like these super fine pitches. 1.25 millimeter pitch. Yeah, these are nice. Okay and then next up we have a tour of boards that are somewhat related to each other. Sort of kinda first up. They're all similar but they're not the same. So this is the ESP32 S3 dev board with eight megabytes of flash. And I can't remember how much PS RAM. Take the part of page. I think eight, sorry, eight megabytes of flash, eight megabytes of PS RAM. So this is the most you can get with the S3. You get two USB ports, one native, one reprogramming, plugs into your breadboard or whatnot. And it's just a very powerful S3 board. The S3 is very new. So just be aware of that. It's, we're adding circuit path on support. I think Arduino support isn't there as of this video but it might come in over the next few weeks. So that's the S3, it's the biggest dev board. Now this is a C3 dev board. The ESP32 C3 is a risk five chip and so it has a lot fewer pins. I will warn you about that. This does have eight megabytes of flash. No PS RAM. The C3 does have Arduino support and ESP IDF. I don't know that it's supported in circuit Python. I don't think it's supported in micro Python either. We're not really planning on adding circuit Python support but there is Arduino support and it's risk five. If you want to play with risk five, this is kind of a great way to do so because you get like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with it. It's got the little USB serial uploading and debugging port and you get a couple GPIO pins. Again, not a lot of GPIO pins but nothing you can start experimenting and of course it's got wireless as well. All right, and then this is a giant T-shirt sized one that you actually wear. It looks like a T-shirt but this is the ESP32 Warroom DA. The DA stands for dual antenna. So this is an ESP32 Warroom. So it's the, not the S2, it doesn't have native USB. It's like this classic ESP32 but it has two antennas and it has the antenna selector built in already so what it's designed for is to always get good antenna performance even if your normal PCB antenna isn't aligned with the source because one antenna, if the signal happens to be perpendicular to it you're gonna get very low signal strength but if you have two antennas, you'll be perpendicular to one, you're gonna be right in line with the other. So you're gonna get really good signal strength. You're gonna have a much better time and it's basically for free. You just have two antennas and it'll select her. So it's a very inexpensive way to double the chances of having a good signal strength for your ESP32. It does have this funky shape though. So just you'll watch out that your PCB layout will work with this design but I think the antenna switchover is probably done transparently for you so you can just treat it like an ESP32 and get better signal strength for free. Okay, and then the star of the show tonight so I do lay data, our team, our community, our customers and everyone hanging out is brr brr brr brr brr brr. Yes, it's finally here, another QT pie, the third in our QT pie family, the ESP32 S2 QT pie which brings some, so much expressive this week. This is ESP32 S2 which is a single core Tensilika Wi-Fi processor. It's a lot like the ESP32 but it doesn't need a USB serial converter chip which means we can make it so small that it fits in something that's like small in the corner. This is the tiniest board ever. It's so small. So there's an ESP32 S2, there's a USB type C connector for uploading and powering. There's a stomach QT port so you can plug and play add I2C sensors. It's got 13 GPIO total, 11 on pads and... It's so small we have to force the overhead to refocus. I know. The overhead is shocked. Okay. How is this so small? It's so small. So you've got analog, I think almost every one of these pins has analog but there's like four dedicated analog here. Two pins are labeled for I2C. There's a second I2C port on the stomach QT so you've got like another two pins. Hardware UART, hardware SPI pins on the high speed SPI port which means that these three pins cannot do analog. They're the only three pins that don't because the high speed SPI is worth it. It's amazing.  So to connect to TFTs or some devices, very, very high speed. You've got the boot button and the reset button. The boot button can also be used as a user button. There's a regulator, there's a little neopixel right here that glows rainbow or whatever you can use it for signaling. There's a ceramic antenna on the top. And on the bottom, you've got the ESP32 S2 chip with the crystals and passes a lot of 0402s. The antenna goes out here and here is two more pads for battery input and this is diode protected so you can have, you know that we're using the seed shell pinout and they kind of decided that the five volt line was output not input and so you'd have to diode and whatever but basically if you want to connect a battery up, you can connect to these two pads and they're diode protected so when you plug in USB, you're not gonna damage the USB or the battery from that. And it's got cast-layed pads and it's super small and you can use it with Arduino or circuit Python. It's got four megabytes of flash and two megabytes of PS RAM. So I was waiting to release this until I could get the chips that had the PS RAM because that two megabytes of PS RAM is so handy. And it's Wi-Fi, this is amazing. So tiny. And it's Wi-Fi. And it's in stock now. I even put in a little bit right before the show to make sure we had some. So pick some up. And that's a, that's a problem. Okay, let's do a couple of questions as we do the top secret. So go over to discordatifruit.it slash discord. We'll get to those. We're gonna do some top secret in a sec. So Lady Aida, the questions that happened during the chat. So for the CP-2102, the C3 doesn't have USB natively.  We have a version, we have things that we're working on. I think it does have some, it says it has built-in USB, but it's not native USB. It's got like a built-in JTAG or something. So yeah, we're not really planning on supporting the C3. Our next chip is probably the S3. Okay, next up, let's click the form factor. Does the BME280 run hot on the ESP32 S2 Feather? The HT20 on the Funhouse tends to run five degrees. Celsius higher than the off-board temperature sensor.  However, if you look at the ESP32 S2 Feather tutorial we show how you can turn on the board from deep sleep, read the sensor, send data online and then turn off the board for a couple of minutes so that you never get an ambient temperature increase. Okay, we're gonna do one more question and then we're gonna do top secret. QDPi ESP32 S2 design questions. Learn guys says up to six volts can you use four AA or triple A batteries or stick three batteries since new batteries output a little over 1.6 volts each. That's right. If your voltage, your new fresh batteries are over 1.5 volts. You just wanna make sure that the total number is under six. Oh, I'll answer this one. Adaford, will you please have a happy as holiday season as possible? Yes. Yes, sure. We're doing really good.  I like my cracks and scars. Okay, let's do some top secret. Okay, lady, at first up I'm gonna show a picture and then we're gonna do three videos and then you're gonna show something. So first up, we saw Liz. Yay, it's Liz. On disclose location somewhere, but we did, we saw Liz. But you can tell if there's a new carpet. So you'll see Liz somewhere and we're all masked up. You can tell. That guy wasn't in the background. Yeah. And then I'm gonna show three videos back to back to back of some upcoming stuff. And then you're gonna show the Scorpio boards to stick around folks. All right, lady, what is this? Hey, this is how we're gonna test the QDPI ESP32 S2s. I'm using a Raspberry Pi to do the test and that's because I can run ESP tool really easily over USB to program using the built-in DFU bootloader. Gonna use a GPIO pin to toggle the boot and reset lines to do that. And ESP tool compresses the firmware. So it's really the fastest way to upload a bunch of code to ESP32. And then I run a self test and one thing that I do because it's got an antenna is I have an access point created on the ESP32 S2 QDPI. And on the Raspberry Pi, I do a WPA CLI scan and I look for the access point and then check the signal. My hand's in the way, so it's 50, but usually it's about 40. So that means the antenna got started on correctly and this has passed test. All right, lady, what is this? Okay, so I'm just about to get ready to release the ESP32 S2 TFT feather. I actually ordered PCBs and then realized that I was not depowering the iSquad C pull-ups to peripherals which meant they were getting back powered which changed the low power draw. So now I'm really testing the heck out of it. I got this big chunky PM2.5 sensor connected to iSquad C. You can also see I'm testing turning the backlight on every second. And here's my power graph. So you can see the big power spike when that PM25 sensor turns on. And then this is low sleep mode which is about one milliamp and then deep sleep mode. Let's zoom all the way in. It's about 80 microamps which is as low as you're gonna get. That actually is the lowest powered deep sleep mode that you can get on the ESP32 S2. So this is ready to order. Be in the store soon. What lady, what is this? Hey, there's a lot of stuff going on my desk right now. First up, I've got this MCP 23017 breakout and I got my tester PCB. I have a new thing now where when I order my PCBs from JLCPCB, I get the prototype for the panel and I also get the tester PCB at the same time. So that way I put it together and then I just put some code that it's really fast but it actually tests like every PAN and GPIO and the iSquad C address and it beeps when it tests. And then I'm also checking out some samples of pink PCB. So we got our first batch of pink PCBs from PCBWay but our standard PCB house can also make pink PCBs. So they sent us some Pantone chip like samples. These are actually PCB but with the color. So going forward, we'll have two possible suppliers for these beautiful pink PCBs. Don't forget, free with your order, $99 or more. Okay, and then you have a new board that we're coming out with Scorpio. Yeah, it's the RP2040 Scorpio. You came up with this name. It's an amazing name. So this is, it's an amazing board. It's an RP2040 feather with eight GPIO that are buffered outputs to give five volt logic levels. So this would be really good for driving many addressable LEDs. It's also got iSquared C port and a NeoPixel and some cool graphics and eight megabytes of flash here. But with the PIO peripheral on the RP2040, it's really good at driving addressable LEDs very, very fast and using DMA and not requiring any weird timer stuff. You can just set it and forget it. It's very, very cool. So this is a board specifically designed to make that easy to do. And that's top secret. You can choose to answer this question if you wish. So is there gonna be a stem connector on this board? Yes, there's one. Is it gonna be vertical? Yeah, there's one right here. You can see on the guide. It's gonna be vertical, it'll be like a stinger.  You can check it, it's hard to see here because it's so shiny, but check out the blog post. All right, I'll answer this question from the other chat. Oh, should I, no, I should do this. I should be like, hey, look, we're doing questions in Discord. Oh yeah, we're doing questions in Discord. We're doing questions in Discord. Hey, we're doing questions in Discord. We're doing questions in Discord. We're doing questions in Discord. General 32,000, that's good to hear. We're doing questions in Discord. So this one, I'm gonna break my rule a little bit because I see this in the other chat. AmateurRedo, hey, I'm operator. Would like to learn more about the maker space. This may be a tough question, however. Where do I start? Is there a good starter kit? How about RPI? So I would not start with Raspberry Pi. I would start with something like the Circuit Playground Express or something that is Arduino compatible. Circuit Playground Express does it all.  And the projects in the maker world, take a look at learn.atafruit.com. There's over 2600, hey, kinda ham radio sounding. 2600 guides, check those out. And then later on I would say, as you get more advanced, there's a collision course with a lot of the ham radio stuff, a lot of Raspberry Pi stuff, a lot of Arduino circuit Python related stuff. There's lower radio stuff, but that's what I would do. I'd start with that. Okay, everybody likes pink. Great. Everyone likes pink. Yay. Have we ever thought of doing tutorial videos for YouTube? Yeah, check it out. We have lots of tutorial videos on YouTube. YouTube.com. Ford slash Adafruit. So many shows. We have tons. Are YouTube does not promote and spotlight women's STEM companies? It's like a fact. So, because we've asked and they're just like, well, if you did like make up tutorials, so sometimes it's hard to find our stuff. You'll find plenty of like lizard creatures and birds aren't real stuff, but it's harder to find STEM stuff. It just is. And I hope they continue to work on that. I know there's some good people working on it. I hope they continue to do that. Okay, next, BA for Buffered Outputs and PIO. Question, it's so neat that you show boards. You make the test new upcoming products. Can you share how long in general those takes to code and hardware design? It depends on the difficulty, but the good news is that I build on existing ones. So it usually takes me two or three days on some of the more tougher testers. A lot of times it's trying to figure out how to test what I'm trying to test. Then easy break up board like that MCP 23017. Designing the tester took like an hour and then I order the PCB right after I order the panel. And then, because I kind of know how to test it, it's pretty straightforward because I just test the GPIO. And then wearing the code for it also takes, you know, maybe two hours. Yeah, and then, you know, one of the things that someone mentioned just to get back to the previous question, for the person asking about like, you're coming from a hammering background. So if you start with a pie, there is like an OS, there is like a ton of stuff you have to do before you even get started. Where if you pick up a little bit of Python and you do things, the REPL and you do things in like circuit Python, you're instantly doing stuff immediately and you're seeing what you're doing and you're not compiling, you're not waiting, you're not downloading, you're doing everything in an instant. So that might give you that like special five minute like, oh my gosh, I got something done, I wanna keep doing more. Okay. Yeah, Blooper version is a good one to try too. Okay. And I think, I think, I think, I think, Gladiator, I think that is, I think that's it. Okay. That's wonderful. Okay. That's our show. Thanks everybody. Okay, thanks everybody. We will see you next week, special thanks to Jesse May behind the scenes.  Oh, we'll do one more. Any plans for a new power boost? 2000 C with more amp output for new pixel projects? That's harder than you think because there's not a lot of batteries that will give you the current you need. So it's not an easy problem to solve. It isn't just like get a bigger chip. There's a lot of underlying issues that come up with that. Okay. And again, special thanks to all of our team, the community, everyone who's purchasing stuff. When you purchase stuff tonight, for sure, it's going into our bonus and profit sharing account because that's how we do stuff here. Do check Adafruit.com slash free. We still have some pink boards. You get free stuff, do it, do it, do it. Just be aware of the shipping deadlines. We thank you so much for sticking with us over the last 18 months. And more, we've been doing this for like a decade. We're going to go and watch The Matrix because it is what one does if you run an electronics company. I'm also going to take on my record that I got. This is the reissue of hackers. And this is the one that came out later. So there's more stuff and bonus material. More Angelina Julie. Yeah. And there's a lot of stuff. More Jenny Miller. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff here. And there's some extra bonus-y things. And so this is going to- More putting that thing in that place that they put that thing that one time. Yeah. And then the other thing that came in the mail is the princess with power tools. This is a calendar for 2022. Starring some more favorite princesses. So this is 12 inspiring women and individuals in the STEM and the trades. So you can check this out. And more and- Scarlet Witch in there. What's going on? Yeah, that's pretty cool. I guess she's technically a Disney princess, I guess. You could say that. The lines are getting blurred. I mean, they're owned by Disney now. Yeah. We'll see everybody next week. We're going to keep doing this. Thank you so much. Have happy holidays. Happy holidays. Please stay safe, everybody. And continue to be wicked smart. Okay, bye. All right, buddy. This is a native fruit production. Here is your moment of zener.


Hello, and welcome to CEC 411 Intro to Artificial Intelligence. My name is Dr. Adam Gawida. I'm an assistant teaching professor here at NC State University, and welcome to my course. So one of the things I'd like to at least do, especially in this first video, is introduce you to who I am because you're going to be seeing my bobbing head quite a lot. So it's kind of nice to know who I am a little bit. And then what to expect in this course, because obviously, again, this is for NC State University. So again, there's a grade attached to it and assignments attached to this. So kind of important to know what you're getting into. So again, if we're kind of looking at it, like I said, my name is Adam Gawida. So my research over the years has spanned a number of different sort of areas when we're looking at artificial intelligence. So if we kind of take a look at the top here, you know, this is me and my masters in the good old days when my hair, you know, the Bieber look was popular. Now it's whatever.  And well, those dots are what we called landmark points. And the entire idea is if I had say 100 or 200 of those landmark points, I could draw out a mapping of the human face. And well, you know, again, I'm just one person, but we could build a statistical model off of sort of people sharing my demographic.  And we could do the same thing with, you know, African American males or Asian females, all these different kind of groups, but specifically in that idea of also different age ranges as well. Again, I was in my 20s in this picture. But if we did it, say, for example, with people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. As you can see, we can produce sort of average models of that face across now time. I could take, say, for example, my 20 something year old face and then say, well, based on how you look and based on your demographics, if we make some artificial intelligence, we can make estimations of what you're going to look like in your 80s.  Maybe I don't know. You know, I'm reaching my 40s now. So this is, you know, it's kind of right. Maybe I don't know. I've had a beard for a while. Either way, as you can see, sort of, you know, again, looking into artificial face aging for human trafficking or catching high value targets for the Department of Defense. After sort of my masters, I went into the startup life and I worked for a company known as E2 America. Unfortunately, the company as startup life happens, went under, but, you know, what we did was we focused on using statistical analysis to try and predict when quick service restaurant HVAC systems or fast food chain air conditioners for layman terms, based on how they perform and how quickly they can cool down a zone, well, can we look at that and then say, oh, you know, hey, your performance is declining because based on our model, you know, you're not cooling as fast as you used to and this might help before, you know, your system breaks and customers get mad and what refunds and things like that. But as you can clearly see, I'm here at NC State now. So my research actually now has focused in on sort of computer science education. I really like this world, especially since we have, again, a number of different practice exercises that we do in computer science to help learn this world. And as you can sort of see from sort of this wild and crazy graph here, one of the things I'm looking at is studying the relationship between all those different exercises. Because well, if you're struggling with, say, for example, the good old coding exercise, which we have seen students will struggle with them, typically through syntax errors and logic errors, whatever. Oh, well, you know, if you're struggling with that world, maybe one way to help teach it is to give you something like an outprediction, which has a little less problem solving aspects to there. You're still having to code trace, still having to work through the code, but you're not having to think up problems. Maybe this is something that will help kind of get you over that edge and then you're able to work on the coding problem.  Well, maybe what we can do is we can give you a typing exercise, something super low level. Here's a picture of code, retype it. Maybe that works. But one of the things that I'm looking at is again, how do these different activities relate to each other? And again, like I've said, a lot of times, you know, from what we've seen from students, you only pick one activity at a time. So can we say, for example, build a system that will build out a tailored training regimen for you, you know, do this activity, then this one, and then this, et cetera. That's sort of where my research kind of now is. But again, okay, my world of AI, you want to know about the course. Again, what is this course going to be about? So again, we're going to be focusing on Moodle. Again, this is a course at NC State. There's materials, there's assignments, there's all those lecture slides here, you know, all that will be hosted on Moodle. As you can clearly see from a bobbing head video on YouTube, I will be recording little 10 minute block videos about the topics we cover in class, uploading them to YouTube. But we also have sort of the lecture recordings. We're going to be working off a panopto for that, and again, you know, go access that. That is the actual lectures as they're happening in the classroom. There is going to be a live stream of that material as well. So make sure if you can't come to class for whatever reason, you know, you still have access to, again, the lectures. Finally, we're going to be working off of Piazza. There are two sections of this semester. And so you're both going to be running into the same problems. You know, you're going to be struggling when we get into like the A star algorithm. And so you may run into problems and I might be gone or not able to respond. There's other classmates who are also struggling.  We are going to have some office hours. We're going to do Monday, Wednesday from two to three via Zoom. There's a calendar to block out your appointments. Please use that. That's just going to help me, you know, make sure that enough people can work or have access to me at any given time. We are going to have an optional, optional textbook. So we're working off of the artificial intelligence, a modern approach textbook by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Again, it's optional. If you do choose to purchase it, fourth edition is fine, third edition is fine, international edition is fine, finding something on the internet is fine. I didn't say that.  But the algorithms haven't changed something like a neural network, right? That was invented in the 1960s. Edition isn't going to change how that algorithm was built, but it's still good to, you know, have these as a point of reference because, again, they are trying to help teach that stuff out. You know, pricing is its own little thing, find it on the internet. I didn't say anything. Moving on. So if we're looking at this again as a course, there is a grading breakdown. So, you know, at least to start from the bottom, obviously, there's going to be a final exam that's going to cover everything at the end of the semester, but we also have two midterms as well. So the first midterm will be in about four weeks. Again, it'll cover everything that we've talked about up to that point. Then we'll have another one about four weeks later, and then again, the final exam will be at the end of the semester, roughly four weeks later. So at least the important part and 50% of the grade kind of is coming down to these two activities. So if we think about what I said during my introduction, I'm really interested in lower level practice to help students learn computer science, and that's exactly what these lecture exercises are meant to do. The entire idea is these are going to be on Moodle and they're going to be just things that you can access. You can complete them literally as many times as you like. I don't care. The entire purpose of them is think of them like practice. You know, if you're into physical sports or maybe video games or music or something like that. Again, you don't just get better by doing something once. It's through the repetition that you start to build up that muscle memory and that becomes much more familiar to you. Same kind of things going on here. These lecture exercises are again meant to give you just a little bit of practice in those activities. And this is literally a sneak peek into your first lecture exercise. And the entire idea here is given a simple reflex agent. As you can see, you know, it's literally just a nested if statement. Given this logic, what does the agent do? Think through this because again, we're going to be working off of something known as time steps, which we'll talk about again. This helps frame your mind. Big thing here is pretty much once they're released, they are going to be due one week later unless otherwise noted before the first lecture. So if an activity is released literally the first day of class, it'll be due in a week right before that class starts. Again, these are just meant to give you practice. Again, you can complete them as many times as you want. But again, they are only 10% of that 50 we were looking at. Well, that's where obviously the problems, the problem sets there we are are going to be the big bulky kind of points of this semester. And we're going to be working off of two separate programming languages, Java, because again, here at NC State, we are a Java workhorse. But also we're going to explore the idea of using prologue. It's a little more, it's not as well represented in industry, but it is a great modeling language, especially when we get into natural language processing, or in our case, working off of knowledge representation. But one of the big things again as you can clearly see is you're going to be working off of giant projects and just to give you a sneak peek at one. So for example, this is literally problem set one. Build an agent that given some environment does an action. Literally build a simple reflex agent. And well, we'll have a video fully on this a little more to explain everything. You have a way to visualize this. And so if I run this, you're seeing it's crashing right now because again, the problem set that you are going to be doing is implement it. Have this agent clean the floor of dirt, a lot of dirt going on there. Right now it's again, just crashing because it, you know, you haven't implemented the algorithm and whatnot. But again, have fun. Last little part that we'll talk about is obviously the, you know, academic integrity violations. Don't cheat. You know, I'm a huge proponent of, and I will talk about it, but I'm a huge proponent of working and helping each other. But obviously do not copy someone's work. Go on the internet. Don't use chat GPT because again, you're trying to build these things. Don't have them build it for you. The mindset that I work off of is what if you choose to then go build life support software? I want to make sure you know how to work. I don't want you cheating your way through and then scrambling to figure that out because if I ever find myself on my support, I want to trust that you knew what you were doing. To kind of add a little bit more of a bite to this, it's not that you just get a zero, but if you do get caught, again, what we're going to be giving you is a negative 100 for that assignment and that exam, whatever you get caught cheating on. So don't, don't. Okay, well, I did sort of mention, I'm interested in you helping each other. So the way I look at this is again, we know that this is something called social learning theory. This is how we learn is by sharing. I've been doing this for decades, right? So I'm old, my jokes are bad. I don't know what TikTok is, right? You may have just figured this stuff out. You may understand something a little bit better or maybe able to explain it to your peer who is conveniently struggling with it and you may be able to help them. I'm perfectly fine with you working and helping each other out in that context. Can you look at their code? Yes, don't give them your code, don't tell them what you did and they do exactly that. But again, look at their code, help them out. The best way I like to think about it, if you're trying to figure out this weird gray area of am I cheating or not cheating? If you've already, you know, passed all of the test cases, you are confident that you're gonna be getting your 100 on a problem set, then be more than willing to help out with a student. If you're still struggling on your end, don't help a student again because you're still trying to figure it out on your end. Again, we're doing our best here, you know. The assignments are meant to be interesting so hopefully you're excited about them and you're not trying to find ways to cheat through them. I've seen my gradient, I know that you'll be okay. If you put into the work, yeah. If you put in the work, I assure you that you will understand the material and be able to solve these things without too much problem. So, again, welcome to CSE 411. My name's Adam Gowita and let's get started.