Hey, what's up, folks? I'll go back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noel Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit and joining me every week is my brother Pedro. Hello. Good morning, everybody. I'm Pedro. I was creative tech here at Adafruit. Every week we're here to share three printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is the show we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody hanging out in the live chats. This is episode 406. We are streaming on all the usual places. Facebook, Instagram, wait, Facebook, in, that's LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitch, and the X, I think, the X-Bird. Whatever it's called these days. Hello, everybody. We're also hanging out in the Discord chat room. That's where we are featuring the chat. Help me out here, Pedro. Hold on. I had to mute while I open up all the other streams. All right. Well, we're going to like to remember everybody that's hanging out live in the live broadcast chat channel. If you want the URL for the Discord, it's over there on the top of the banner. It's discord.gg slash Adafruit. I'm going to say hello to the folks that are in. We have Andy Calloway, Jim Hendrickson, Dew Wester, Andy Calloway. I already said you, but you get two shout outs. Thank you, everybody for tuning in live. Again, you can join us on any of the chat channels. We can bring your chats in for featuring questions, comments, gifts, memes, all that and more. We're going to start off with the housekeeping, as we do, in the beginning of the show. Then we'll jump into all of the segments that you know and love, such as this week's project, prototyping, community makes, shop talk in several orders. We'll mix it up a bit. Let's start off with Adafruit.com slash free. We have some updates this week. We have two tiers while supplies lasts. If your order is $149 or more, you'll get a free KB2040. That's that lovely deaf board. If your order is $299 or more, you get a free Circuit Playground Express and the KB2040. All of these wheels get added to your car automatically, so you don't have to worry about coupons. Speaking of coupons, you can also use our 10% off coupon that's good for the next 24 hours for the day. It is Wednesday, July 26th, and it's Master Saber. That is 10% off coupon good. I thought you were playing. You said you're going to change the coupon code. I think it's fun, Master Saber, because Pidge and I are both working on props and they're both light-up swords. I thought I'd just mix them together, Master Saber. All right. I'm going to go back to the Discord chat room. Two shout-outs. Does that mean I want something? Yes, you won the shout-out. Yeah. We are in the midst. Both Pidge and I are in the middle of these two builds, so our learn guides are in the works. First up, the lightening for remake with the Feather RP2040 prop maker. That's the all-in-one deaf board for making props. We've been talking about it for the past month, I want to say, and a huge shout-out to John Park and the whole team for making yesterday's product prick of the week. The Saber was on 50% off. It was $10, 990-something. Shout-out to everybody who purchased a half-off prop maker. It is 9 in stock. Let me refresh. They're 9 in stock. I'm running low on them because I'm using them like crazy, but these are already much more. All right. Good. We have some stock for the internal team, so that's good. Yeah. Thank you for everybody. We had, I think, 250 and stashed away just for the product picks. Shout-out to the team for making sure that went smoothly. If you've got your prop and you're looking for projects to make with it, we're going to flood the learning system with them. So far, we have two featured projects, Adabons, which was, I think, two weeks ago. Then, Pedro, you did the Mario magic wand, the Chemex magic wand, which can totally be adapted to any other type of prop. That's like a handheld kind of thing. Yeah. Take a look at those. We have some really good example code, and we have a ton of legacy prop maker feather wing projects that you should be able to convert with a couple of pin changes and stuff. So check those out. Great circuit python support for this board. My absolute favorite new board. Yeah, for sure. So pleasurable to work on with the terminal. It is. It's making all of our builds so much more streamlined. We're able to make the learn guides a little bit more streamlined. There's not so many steps to have them to wire up several boards together. It's all in one. So it's really nice to have it. Yeah. So I guess we'll take a look at some of the lightsaber features now. Big shout-out to Liz Clark for coming up with the code for it in circuit python. It has a new feature. Pedro, do you want to demo it? Yeah. So the coolest new feature is the color changing abilities on it. So you just press and hold, and you'll go into the color change mode. So once you're in the color change mode, you can then cycle through all the different colors. So we took this to galley six edge to get some hero shots and I was telling people that we are sith undercover siths so we can see what they're doing and then go for the Jedi's. Yota green, gray, yellow, Mace Windu purple or pink. I say the Barbie pink. It's pretty trending. Yeah. Yeah. So if you notice as I'm cycling through the colors, the LED RGB button matches the color. Yeah. Yeah. That is an awesome feature added. Also, the speaker is playing a kind of a little, yeah, kind of like this little mystical loop way file that's playing. Just to let you know that you are in color changing mode and then when you hold the button down for two more seconds, it'll go back into kind of swing saber mode. So it's using random choice. So every time you swing it, it plays a different swing sound. I think there's up to five different swing sounds. And then there's a few different crash sounds. So it's all nice and random and not repetitive. So that was a really cool feature. I like the way that everything is all nice and slim for the build. So you're using the smaller oval speaker. Yeah. It makes a good amount of sound when you stick it to the flat surface. It kind of amplifies a little bit. Yeah. It's a lot easier to recharge the battery now that it's easily accessible with the pommel. You can just screw it off instead of having the speaker attached to the pommel like the legacy lightsaber build we did. Oh yeah. So much better. Yeah. The legacy lightsaber. Yeah. It's a lot thicker because we had the feather wing and the feather and you had headers in between them. So it's a little bit thicker. It was our first time doing this. So we just kind of, you know, batch it together. And we had like dual extruded parts and it was it was quite the build. It went into this man. Yeah. It was a lot. And then we used like a speaker that is bigger but it like sticks to the it gets pressfitted into the pommel which is not a good thing when you're screwing it in because then the wires get twisted. I like using the 44. Right. Yeah. It was a bigger battery but it's heavier and the cost of the build is a little bit more. So yeah. It was our first time doing a lightsaber. So it was a little a little bit more intense. But it's so much cleaner to the wiring. Yeah it is because it's like terminals make it easy and we have, you know, JST connectors and stuff. Yeah. And then the circuitry on the prop maker is obviously way better now. You can actually charge it and turn it off. Oh yeah. Battery. Yep. That's right. And then one of the other things too that we like is that we tested out the resin printing service. So you can just go ahead and order the lightsaber and stuff. I haven't printed it out. Yeah. This was really cool. So this is Black Resin from JLCPCB. Lamar thought it'd be cool to try out their 3D printing service in resin. And these parts were I ordered two of each part and in total cost was around $50 minus shipping. I think total with shipping is like $60. So that's pretty good. Before this would be like hundreds of dollars. So it's nice. And all of it fits pretty much. Yeah. The only thing that doesn't fit is like the blade holder. Yeah. The blade holder. I needed it updated anyway because of just the way the filament printing works in different filaments. Like I had it kind of did a little bit of a shrinkage. So just be aware of that. But it's nice to see a nice resin print. And it's durable heat resistant. It has this nice kind of it kind of feels like a coffee mug. Like it has this kind of matte finish. They have different resins, different finishes, but we wanted to try out the black matte. And that turned out pretty good. I have mine. So you have the parts there. The one you were swinging around is the 3D FDM print. So let me share my screen or make it bigger. Here it is. Here's the same part. I'm using the iPhone camera here. So it's kind of looking a little bit more dark, which is more like gunmetal. Yeah. It's really gunmetal. It's not completely black. Or it's not completely dark gray, I guess. But yeah. Dark gray. Yeah. But all the taunts just fit out for the main parts that matter. Like the the pommel here. I'm actually using the FDM printed holder there. And we have our slide switch built into the bottom there. So you can turn it off and on. I just turned it off. But I did not add a slide switch to mine. You didn't? No, I know that somehow. Well, we're still building it and I'm working on the landing. Where'd you put it? It goes right in between. You see these two. Yeah, you see how that's flat there? That's where the slide switch goes. And then when the PCB gets fitted in there, you don't need to glue it because the PCB holds it in. And you have these little these little clips that hold the PCB in place. So you flex it just slightly like that to pop it in. But you can see that even with the resin print, it's flexible. And this is actually the resin print. Look how great it looks. Like it looks very nice. You don't see any layer lines. I think they sand it down. Yeah, I don't see where like any of the tree support structures would be. You can actually sand it down for you. They do the post-processing for you. And it's all part of the price there. That is that's great. Like I don't want to sand resin, you know, and like curate it in that bath of the alcohol. Oh my god. Yeah, it turns out. I'm remembering the smell of that stuff. Yeah. Well, resins change these days. The last time we played with resin was like a decade ago. So resins are different these days. But yeah, you get the RGB LED button that's metal. Let me go into color changing mode. There's blue, pink, red, yellow, green, and back to blue. But you can add more to it. It's all strictly pythons. You can add more, more to it. Yeah, the Neopixel is the mini skinny 144 per meter. And it's just one strip. We have it sandwiched in between two pieces of coroplasts. And that diffuses it. And then the tube, we purchased it from an online shop called I think custom sabers or ultra sabers.com. And they, they, they resin print these, these rounded tips. It's a polycarbonate tube, 24 inches long. And it has a bit of diffusion material already in there. So that helps out too. And there's a little plastic stuff that it comes with. I almost ripped this off. I didn't know. Yeah. Then here's the world class that it's wrapped around. There you go.  So thankfully, I was able to, both of us were able to reuse the blade from the legacy lightsaber because it's the exact same. Like the construction of that is not changed. It's still the same. So that's cool.  So these are battle ready. Yeah, they're pretty, they're pretty hard. Use use it as an actual sword for defense. Yeah. And this resin, I feel comfortable swing it around a little bit more than FDM because it is more durable and heat resistant with PLA have kind of a low temperature. So if you're taking this out into the desert, I think this will hold up better. Yeah. And it just looks so much more cleaner without any layer lines. But even still like these days you can, this is the FDM you probably can't tell, but you can if you look on the overhead. Let me see if I can bring it back. This is the glitter, everyone's glitter silver, which looks okay, but you mean you're still going to get things like the seam here, depending on your printer. And I kind of like the feeling of the slickness here. Yeah, there's yours. I think mine is different. Like random hide or something.  But it all prints without any supports, which is nice. Yeah. These little grips, I actually couldn't print these out in resin because like there were too thin to print. So I guess if you want to do these, you can stick these on. I just used double sided tape to stick on these grips. This is, I think, Galaxy Black from Everyone. Oh, you added them to yours? Yeah, yeah, but a couple fell off. They're like from every other one. Right, yeah. They're filming with the Child Hills somehow figure out how to rip them off. Well, it was probably the heat too. And I didn't do a... Oh, it was the heat. Yeah, it's pretty humid. But I didn't super glue them on. Yeah, I didn't either. I was like, I don't want to super glue things right now. But yeah, that just gives a little bit of color differentiation. And I didn't add it to the resin because I just didn't feel like I wanted to. But there's enough depth in there to add, I don't know, something in there, some sort of grip. Maybe you can resin print it in rubber or a different color. Or paint it in there. Or you can paint it in there.  Oh, that's something and add that there. So that's just to give a little bit of, you know, texture depth to it. So, yeah, let me do the off button. There you go. So that is the lightsaber build. I'm still working on the learn guide. I did all these assembly photos yesterday. I still got to go through editing them and then adding all the words. Oh, no, my camera. Give me a sec here. I'm trying. There I am. All right, I'm back. All right. So again, learn guide, hopefully next week we'll have it. Yep, get some hero shots last night. So it should look cool. We're laughing at the GIF that. Oh, I love this, like, the Jedi survivor game, where Luke is like trying to train the guy, Calcestus, the actor who plays Calcestus. Yeah. By the way, I was searching for Calcestus costumes on Amazon and they are out there. All various qualities and prices. I'm sure it'll be at Galaxy's Edge once the That would be great. Working on a live action, having Calcestus. With a BB, like with a real BB, BD1. That'd be pretty awesome. All right. That is what's being prototyped for the next project. Keeping it in the. Nope. No, you're up. You got your build. Yeah. Next thing that we're prototyping at the same time is the Master Sword. So again, updated with the prop maker RP2040 on here. And the difference with this one is, of course, having actual mounts, not using hot glue, having the parts being put together with the screws. So again, no hot glue. Yeah. Part of it was like, Oh my God, this thing is, how did this not fall apart? Or it's good hot glue, that's how. So all the usual ways to mount this, I did go with the screws to then and then the little mount on here also screws on to the handle as well as the speaker. I'm using the one with the tiny JST so I can have the socket version on this side. You can easily. Yeah, that's great. Because then when you're sizing this, you don't have to cut, you know, what you cut off the socket part.  There's no funkiness with, oh no, I need a heat shrink. And then same thing with the battery here. Cool thing about the battery part is that it just snaps in doing this backwards. So it makes it into like this flat bottom. So yeah, that's very nice. So it just snaps in just like that. Or just sign a little click on there and that grabs. That is very, very nice. So save that out as a widget for when you want to have it, you know, just flat along a bottom surface that you need so it doesn't roll around.  Same thing with the bottom so you can pop it out from the bottom. And then the, yes, it's just held in there with the screws. This little chamfer on there to make it nice and flat. The other thing was it, no, I think that's it. Yeah, that's what I like about the prop maker is like, yeah, it's feather. Everything's on the feather. Yeah, you just need a battery and a speaker. And there you go. Oh my God. Well, they get screwed in. So you don't have to worry about no, the memory that came back just now thinking of the old one is, oh no, you got to solder all the headers every single pin on here. Yep, twice because you have a wing and then yep. And then it's like, oh no, like, say the wing dies. Oh, there goes the whole feather. Right.  So much more palatable to build with these. Yeah, I think that's it. The only little frustration is the original one, the blade is just so much longer. So I think I'm going to have to chop it down to be what this size one was because otherwise. Yeah, that's a good size. So much more. Yeah, it's more pixels, more battery consumption, more build costs, lotteries and so not make it bigger. Oh, not to mention like five more hours printing. Maybe it doesn't even fit on the bed because it's longer. Oh yeah, it barely fits because I have these all at 300. Yeah, so for I think like the mid blade, I have to like rotate it at the 45 degrees so it'll fit on the corner from corner to corner on the bed and that gives just a little bit more room. Yep. I'm working on there. Updated master. Master Saber. Yeah, yeah, should be cool. The only other thing too is the painting. That's the only other annoying thing because I wasn't going to just leave it in black and paint over that. So I don't have to have like multiple coats to cover up the weight.  Actually, no, it doesn't. I don't know. Well, I was going to say you could see and try it out, see what happens.  So I'm not sitting there with the multiple coats of the acrylic paint. Yeah, because it is a little blue. Yeah, that's kind of annoying. Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much it. Updated master. Oh, yeah, more higher density new pixels, too, because you can totally see and hopefully the second Python code carries over without any issues. So yeah, I think I think it will show us update for that. All right. That is this week's kind of projects, really. Yeah. Yeah. So if anyone wants to pick up new pixels, buttons, the feather while it's in stock, coupon code is master say bye. All right, I think we're ready for prototype. Another prompt maker project. Of course. Do you folks remember the Talking D20 project we did in 2015? It is a oversized D20 dice or die, I guess. I don't have the other half because I'm printing it out. But it's basically a D20 that has an accelerometer. That's the feather right here. A speaker and a battery. And when you roll it and where it lands, it'll tell you what number it landed on because of the accelerometer. So that's what I'm prototyping. I'm working with Phil B. He is porting the Arduino code to Circuit Python because we didn't have Circuit Python in 2015 or MicroPython, I don't think. But yeah, it's kind of an old project. And I guess I could bring up the learn guide because it's just one heck of a build. It was so intense. There's so many boards that had to be attached for all of the different components to work together. The accelerometer, the battery charger, the USB, like the amplifier. Like I'll show you talking D20. Here it is. It's a very cool build. We did a really nice job on the video too. And it was amazing code as well. There's a quick look. We had to have wires go between the two halves. But yeah, look at all those boards. Amplifier. It was a pro trinket, a trinket, lipo backpack, a sound effects board, and then the accelerometer. So a total of five boards, different speaker. You had to solder everything together. There was no kind of like plug and play things. And the battery was like small. It was like a 100 milliamp lipo battery. We didn't have the 400 milliamp lipo battery before. It was a lot. Trying to look for the one that you left here. I think the kids took it. The kids always take it, huh? Yeah. Where's like the... Yeah, you had to do with so much stuff to it. Here's the circuit diagram. A beautiful circuit diagram, but just too many wired connections. I don't even want to look at it. I know it's so much. A few people did build it. Yeah, and it was all in Arduino, which is fine. But like to edit the code, you'd have to see if the libraries are updated or if it even compiles with the new board package. I don't know. But it's still there if you want it. You had the table for the... Oh, you had the vector? Yeah, like the accelerometer data stuff. Yeah. So this is a good prop maker project, I think. So much easier now with just one board, one battery, and one speaker. We do have a slide switch in there too, but that's easy enough to add, you know? But yeah, I'm working on it. This is the first half. It's basically the same model. Just added these standoffs here that get attached with machine screws. And then I have screw block terminal here for just the speaker, because there's no neopixels in this project, but you do it at an accelerometer. I love this battery, this nice, chunky 400-milliamp battery. It goes in there. I'll probably stick it down or something. I'll plug it in right now, just so you can hear the sound. Oh. Oh. But it does work pretty well. The other half has three more holes on the top. So wherever it lands, you'll have some air holes for the speaker. Yep. Well, try to do some counterweighting on it as well, so you can actually use it as a real one. Yeah, still be had a good idea of like having this like cavity on the other half for pennies. So you can hook the pennies to counter out the weight. But it's actually kind of light. Once you put the battery in there though, then you do get a couple grams or an ounce or something like that. But yeah, same model more or less. Like the shape is the same. I redid the magnets just because I wanted them to be parametric, but it's the same diameter of magnets. So those are the same. You get USB-C. So that's really nice. And it's a good buy then. Of course, you can change the audio if you ever want to or change the code or the sensitivity or something. So D20, it's in the works. That'll be the next prop maker project after the Master Sword. Yeah, it's a good overdue project. Again, 2015, right? So, oh my God, yeah. Eight years ago. Yeah, we're trying to rescue them from being lost the time. Like I think the Master Sword, like we were trying to look for the original links of the Chaos Court tech, I forget his name, made it originally. We can't even find his files. Like the links were broken to it. So it's a lot of these older projects are being lost the time in terms of libraries not being supported anymore. Hardware, you just can't get the chips for the X-Fax board. For example, I don't remember Lamar was talking about that. She's just wanting to do the sound effects board. Looking for a good chip to do that. Yeah. Awesomeness on the way. All right, let's shift gears to some CAD. I want to do a shop talk, I guess. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so the CAD package we like to use for doing all the 3D models is Fusion 360, you might know. I'm going to share my entire screen so you can see it. So I just want to share a little bit of an update to Fusion 360. If you are a Mac user and you have one of the M Apple Silicon chips, I have an M1 iMac and it is now fully native support. So it should be faster. So that's cool. The next feature I want to talk about is the emboss feature. Previously, the emboss feature only worked on cylinders and now it works on revolved things. So here's a quick look at the emboss. You can raise or recess a sketch profile relative to a face of a solid body or a specified depth or direction. So this is really nice. So what I did here is I grabbed this circuit trace pattern and I was able to emboss it, wrapped around this revolve. It's a bit of like a planter or a cup. It's kind of a simple shape, but before you could not do this because it only works on cylinders and this is cylinder but with a curve. The regular cylinder is just linear, but this nice spline-driven profile has some curve to it and you can slap a pattern on it now. Now there's some limitations I found. This whole circuit pattern, I was unable to add multiple sketch profiles to it. For example, I tried to select all of these little traces and then apply one feature, but I had to do each one. So you can see at the bottom here I have a dozen of the embosses, but it worked and I was able to circular pattern it to wrap around the entire thing and it didn't crash, it didn't air, and I was happy about that. There's still some things that you can't, depending on your shape, you may or may not be able to add chamfers to it. I wasn't able to add chamfers to it, it still errors out, but I could probably find some ways to do that. I think some of them work. Let me try to apply a chamfer here. If that works okay, but it errors out because there's just some issues between these tight corners, so it really depends on your shape. If you have a logo that you want to do a chamfer to, just be aware that it might not chamfer all the way. Yeah, try selecting just the whole body. Yeah, the center of the body and then chamfer that. Let's see what it does. Uh-huh, yep. Why would that? I'm not going to do that. It's weird. Yeah, I won't do it, but look how this is supposed to be a linear line and it's curved. It's very strange, but it's because it's wrapping around this curve, so. I mean, this is how I do the, I forget the name of it, the ultra hand. The ultra hand, yeah. It's like, here's some text wrapped around. That seems to work okay. Let's see if I can do a chamfer on this face here. I'm going to try it on just the body. Try it on the body and then it'll apply it to the entire thing. Really? I've never done that. Yeah, chamfer, yep, right there. Maybe a line. Oh my god. Yeah, I discovered that when doing the ultra hand where you don't have to select each individual part. That's nice. Just select the overall shape of it and it'll apply it. All right. It's trying to, it's thinking. I don't know how deep this is. I forgot. I thought this was native. It's just, it's asking for a lot. Oh, it did something. Oh, it's one millimeter. So let me try that again. Just put one there. Let's see if it works. Yeah. There's just too many tight corners there. Maybe if I put 0.999. Maybe it wants the centers, like the middle of the A, the middle of the A. Well, I was able to do 0.5. A lot faster than trying to select stuff because you don't get me into the tirade of fusion not supporting undo for selecting anything. Oh yeah. But you select 20 edges or 20 faces. Oops, I selected one wrong thing. Damn, because all your selections, this is definitely cad chat here. But yeah, you can see Maya, I could go undo, undo and you would undo selecting every single edge or face or vertex. So I would never, that was never my fear of having 50 objects because I know I could always undo and go backwards.  It really depends on the shape though.  But it's just some of those tight corners. Oh, maybe because they're intersecting here. That's probably what's going on. You can't intersect things there. So if I had more space in between the text, then I'd be able to do it. Or if I did each one individually, then I'd be doing it. There's always these hacks you have to do with any cad thing, but it's definitely a welcome feature. You couldn't do this before. Now you can do it. It's going to make designing details, wrapping around revolved shapes much easier. So that's going to be nice. So I just made a 3D hangout cup. Like let's say you made a wine glass or a trophy and you wanted to wrap some pattern around the trophy. This is going to be great. If you had just a basic shape or just some simple tax like this, it's going to work out great, I think. Awesome. So that is a welcome feature update to Fusion 360. Yeah. I know it'll come up. Yep, it definitely is going to come up. I think for one of the Halloween things we want to do is the tombstone. I think you're the link where the head of the tombstone is. And oh, how funny. The Halloween party is like what? In July. In August, yeah. It's already Halloween. We went to Joanne's fabric, which is a craft store here in the States and they already have Halloween stuff out. Everybody has Halloween stuff out. Everybody here in the big box stores, I guess. Yeah, what was it? The one that always has it out because it's a craft. Everybody has to do work on seasonal projects before the season comes up. Absolutely.  He's starting to work on his bigger build that he had where it was like a dragon cloaked with the ooze master kind of project. He was able to document the code, but he wasn't able to document the whole build, the physical build. So if he starts on it now, he shouldn't be able to have time for October. So I think after this D20, you're going to start working on this tombstone. Are you going to do foam tombstone and then add like a head to it and the servo will like turn around? Exactly. Have a speaker. It'll have the neopixel eyes, the glow. I'll have the prop maker. Yeah, of course. Prop maker. So many good Halloween projects.  I'm not sure what a robot one will come up to. So whatever new series robot tour. Yep. All right. Another shop talk, I guess we'll go through real quick is the let me share my screen again. Just if you want some 3D models of board components, we have a GitHub repo with all of the kind of legacy micro USB lipo charger that was a user requested part. And I added that we had some internal folks who were doing a project with the midi feather wing. So I had to make I made a model for them and added that to the GitHub repo. And also the new product, the quad rotary STEMA QT board. That one has now a 3D model. So you can check that out. That's what it looks like. It has the proper parts. Even the rotary encoder itself is on there with the D shaft, which is the actual type of encoder that we have in stock. So I think it was Ann who posted from Hackaday, the clear shafted. That looks so good. I'm sure Lamar's going to take a look at that. Yeah, we had a little issue with our supplier. They wouldn't sell it to us or something. So years ago, so hopefully we can get our hands on a good quantity of those clear shaft rotary encoders. They don't have buttons just because of the mechanics of having a clear shaft. Oh, it would block it. Yeah, so you want going around or something. Maybe. So that's very cool. All right. And that is shop talk. Pedro, you got the next segment with community makes and time ups Tuesday. Let's check out the community makes for this week. You got an awesome flexi elephant with I think it's 21 joints that all flex. So my idea of his trunk. I'll move. So cool. His ears. Here's move. His head moves. I love the low poly look of this. The low poly look. Yeah, the low poly look is so cool, especially with the rainbow filament that we're using on there.  And then if you're wondering what the next color of the rainbow would be for that, there's a continuation of what the rainbow filament would look like. Oh, that's a pretty I like that one more. Yeah, reds and blues and purples. So cool. Yeah. That's great.  Oh, yeah. That's incredible. Yeah. It's so cool. Very flexible. For us, it's interesting because we can see the smallest part that a printer can print for having these, what are these called, these little joints. So that is right there. I think the smallest part that you can have for something that'll be able to hinge. Yeah. Move. Hinge. You're right. And then the way that the ears are printed, where you have the part called, it's like a tube that goes through it. Yeah, you can see it better right there. So the tube that goes through. And then even some built-in supports like over on the knees, the way this prints. The arms are separate. So that's the only thing. I pop it up and I don't want to rip and break it. Right. Other than that, yeah. This is a for free model. So this is amazing for being free. What a totally paid for this. Yeah. I want to look at the time of Tuesday video. So I'm going to bring that in. Let me get the things right. Oh, the tail pops in. Sorry. I'm trying to front arms. There it is. You can see how the ears are going in there. The included supports that he added. And let's see the infill for that. Yeah. 6% infill. So not a lot of infill required. Wow. That is very nice. So you didn't need a brim. That's all included? Yeah. Those were included. Yeah. No support. That's amazing. I love the way when they include that in there. And it's easy to remove. It's always difficult to have when you include supports in your model. Sometimes it has a tendency to fuse if you make it too thick. So I was a little wary of it. But since it was free, I tried it out and check out the poses you can get on this. You can have them running. So it's nice and sturdy. It's not super floppy. And the size of it, too, I had to sink it into the bed, but the Z compensation on the printer, I had to have it go, the nozzle go down a little bit further down. And even with that, the hinges did not fuse or it was unable to fully move. I did have to go in there with an exacto and cut that so that I could have access to the sign balls here. You can do tricks. Yeah, I can sit down and kind of look up. It looks good in any color. Yeah. It looks good in white. Yeah. It's like a solid color. That's nice too. Yeah. I did the rainbow testing out the non-glitter rainbow since it looks like the plier may have changed or whatever if you guys want to post the link to that. Oh, yeah. Rucks in the Z is asking for it. So let me grab that while we're going over some other stuff. I'll grab the link for this. Real quick, AMAO is the designer behind it. So we'll check them out. And it's free download. Normally, our flexi things are paid prints, but this is all free. So check it out. It's an African elephant with 22 movable joints. Yeah, there you go. They printed it on their bamboo lab X1 series. So it's really nice. Yeah. So cool. Of course I printed too because the kids are like, oh my god. My kids love it, huh? But yeah, I think it's so cool.  Yeah. This is the rainbow filament used. Strong hero 3D. Oh, it's the same one we used? No. I looked at our orders. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's it, right? Okay. So for Ruexen is asking which rainbow filament there's no one. So just search for stronghold 3D filament and you should find it. It's good stuff. Yeah, the glitter version of that is pretty cool too, man. Yeah. They have a ton of different versions of it. We looked at this last week, but we'll just bring it up again. They've blown a dark rainbow, more dedicated rainbow, like a silver type of rainbow, a blue, all of the colors. Looks so cool. Yeah. I like the different variants. Like the color one looks cool too. Like just different shades of it or PLA glitter. I wonder if there's something. Yeah, it's cool because it gives you like a, yeah, like that.  Yeah, it gives it just more texture and depth to it. And whatever additives or whatever is so strong, especially for doing time lapses. So usually our big problem with the time lapses is you'll see so much string and like, you know, stuff that under extrudes or over extrudes and this came out perfect. Like you can't tell which one was time lapse and which one was not time lapsed. Yeah, that's great. You know the video. So yeah, this one. Yep. Yeah, they came out both just as perfect with all that head pausing, moving out of the way, doing like the retraction. Who fell? It doesn't breathe. That's not the first time the kids dropped it on the floor. So what? That's amazing. The name holds true stronghold. I didn't even think of that. It's funny. Oh man, just when you rotate it, that pixelization, the way that the shine is being affected with the metallicness of it. Oh my god. I love her chat. They're saying the eon is saying like articulation is the word you're probably looking for. Articulation. Yeah, the articulation on it. Yeah. And we're like, what's the hingey thing? The hingey word articulation. Oh, yeah, the name of the little hinges for the nose part, especially. That's the one that impressed me the most, right? The nose part. That's like, dude, that's how small we can make something. The printer doesn't completely fuse it. It's amazing. Nice. That's why we do these. So we see what other designers have because, you know, this probably didn't come out perfect the first time. There was a shitload of hours that went into figuring all these tolerances and how tight you can get things. And when you look at the, I don't want to take this out, the way that he modeled the inside for the nub to snap in, there's nice like limiters. So like it limits to how far you can go. Oh, interesting. You can't go past a certain point. So adding all those inside of the joints. Yeah. Yeah. Really good idea. Very cool. Examining these time lapses. Super cool way. Sweet. We'll check it out. It's on, like I said, Colts, I believe. Colts. I'll be a good Samaritan and add that to the chats. Oh, sorry. I usually do that. I got it. Sam and Amber with the freaking model. All the chats. Thank you StreamYard for being so robust on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, because they have chats and on Discord as well. So folks can get that. All right. Cool. Quick question. We may have missed from Gary T. asking about the encoder board. Yep. That was infusion 360, but the board itself was designed in Eagle CAD, yeah. Eagle CAD. Yeah. Eagle and infusion 360 are pretty much the same app now, and they have a good 3D push, like it generates it for us. I still have to manually map the parts, but they're already drawn for me, which is nice, because a lot of the manufacturers, I just go to Digikey and search Rotor Encoder, and then I sort it by who has CAD models available. And 99% of the time there's a model already made. So I just link that step file to it. And yeah, same thing with the PropMaker, like the manufacturer of this, the actual render that we get it from, they have a model of it. So I didn't have to draw it. Love the future. It's very nice these days. And I have been lacking on posting any of the links that I usually do. So there's a broad of the links from the 3D Parts Library on GitHub. Just link to that. Yeah, I have the filament. I'll paste that. Filament. Yeah, I got your filament here. Need layer by layer playlist, if you want more modeling techniques. Yep. Trying to push it all. All right, we have tons and tons of links now that just got posted. We probably just banned it. That's how it works. Thank you, Lana. The LinkedIn. Sorry about that. Yeah. All right. Yeah, if anybody has any more questions about anything, we'll get to them eventually. As we roll through the show, we have about 10 minutes, which gives them the time to get through all of the community makes first up. Yeah, first up, it's the Epcot Spaceship Earth Project. This looks so gorgeous in this filament, and the LEDs really look good. That is fantastic. I'm really impressed with this build, this make, disposed by Steve 15, rated at five stars. That looks fantastic. It looks so good.  So if you want to build your own Epcot Spaceship Earth replica with NeoPixels and WLED, IOT projects, amazing animations from the WLED software. Check it out. And that's really great filament. I wonder what kind of filament that is. So cool. After that, we have... Perfect for the start of the Food & Wine Festival. Yeah, that's it. Epcot. Oh, it starts tomorrow. We have a make here of the Dodecahedron model. We made a big version and a small version. This is posted by printing D. They printed it in protopasta, PLA, and it took a couple of tries because the contact with the bed was so low. Ended up with a larger than standard brim. Worth it though. Very cool model. Thanks for posting. Yeah, of course. Yeah, people seem to like this. This is a fun model. It's just a fun Dodecahedron. I just had fun doing it. We made a really big one. The jumbo one. But yeah. After that, we have a really nice post. I believe from Sarah R posted up there. This is the first make posted of this Snowflake. We did right at the December of 2022. This uses LED noodles. Sarah says, I made this a few months ago, but never posted my make. The LED noodles are really quite fun to create with and the instructions were fairly easy to follow. Despite the beginner label, it might be an ambitious very first time starting project. Yes, I agree. The printing was the easy part. In the end, I had to print the front case at 98 percent scale to snap fit correctly, but that could have just been my printer. Well, it's really nice. I probably should change it to a little bit more intermediate, but hopefully that didn't stir her away from finishing it. But it's a very fun LED noodle project. Maybe we'll see more noodle products and projects down the pipeline. But this is a lot of fun to make. It uses a coin cell battery holder. It's a CST connectors. You just press it in. Yeah, it's perfect for all the holidays. Yeah, it looks great with this color background. Looks very nice. That wood back, yeah. Which, of course, when Halloween is getting close, you know, that Christmas is right behind it. Right behind it, yeah. And Sarah also made this small RGB, what do we call it, the square display or something? Neo Matrix Square LED pixel display. Yes. Yes. So Sarah says I really appreciate the G360 models, made some modifications. They used a slightly different switch, decided to create a spacer for the battery pack. So they did their modifications and printed in protopasta obsidian in Optomic Age Gray Glitter HTPLA. And that looks really good. Look at that. Look at that battery space. Yeah, it looks great. So the battery isn't rattling around in there. And it's using the M4, which is very rare these days. I don't know if we'll ever have another M4. Oh my God, yeah. I can't say that, but I think it's 26, right? 2026. I think it's 24 a year. Oh, okay. Oh yeah, I like the switch here. It has a nice thing to it. But yeah, it uses black LED acrylic if you're wondering. Yeah, I was going to ask if that's what she used. I think so. I think so, because that's how the effect works. But yeah, very nice fun build. So shout out to Sarah for posting those makes. I know it's, it can be, you know, it takes some effort to post a make.  Not lazy, but just you make it. You get bombarded with everything else. I want to go do something. Oh, two printers are down. Oh, this will be easy. Unclog? No. You have to take the, disassemble the whole nozzle. Oh no, I broke the acrylic back plate that holds it together. Oh, there goes the ptf tube. Oh man, now I got to cut it. Let me measure it. Yeah. Oh no, no, it doesn't fit when I insert it back in the nozzle. We have a new segment now. Yeah, you almost had the office space where you like took the printer out and like, oh my God. Yeah, I know you had the printers at the same time decided to do that. So I threw them at both in the freaking bin. Yeah. More printers, more problems. That's the motto. That's the same. Yeah. Going back over to the chat, we have, Deweyster has an off topic question, eight of box news. It's worked on. It is definitely at least one this year. It's been very difficult with the part shortage and just getting back into the grind of it. I was about to say one, but hopefully we'll have some news for everybody. Sorry to talk over. Just be on the lookout for Lady Aida Streams, Ask an Engineer. We'll talk about it. I know that the internal team is working on the hardware and the software, making sure that it works. I'm not probably allowed to say what it is. No, I wouldn't say it, but they're working on the software in conjunction with the hardware redesign. Parts out of it. Respawn at least like 20 times. Yeah. It's going to be a nice long story though, when it's all said and done. So that'd be cool. But yeah, it is definitely more for it and all that. Yeah. Obviously some cool projects to go with it. For the dice, we have to handle our own more dice has to handle their own fulfillment. So getting all the training in the team, what needs to go in, you know, all that stuff. Yeah, a lot of coordination. Yes, we will. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to just go all thing to do. At least one. At least one. I remember in like the 2016 or 18, one of those years, it seemed like everybody had their own box. They had the loot crate and like all these different boxes to tell you how hard to do. Like, I don't know if the box is still around, right? So, yeah, it's hard to do. And here's how we should spend the d20. Oh, yeah. Wow, that's very nice. Yeah, hopefully we can get it to be weighed so that it can do something like that. Yeah, that'd be tough. We will attempt. We'll try and we'll go to try. All right. We've made it to the end of the show. Don't forget our coupon code today is Master Saber. You can get 10% off your total order if you want to pick up any of the things. Maybe some noodles. Maybe the Master Saber. Why Master Saber? Sorry, I'm playing this video by accident. I gotta add a slide switch to this one. To the lightsaber. So many sounds. The doku headshot. I challenged you. All right, it was doku, right? That is doku who got your headshot. Yeah, no spoilers, but that's all. Sorry. I heard it was gonna have like a doku series or something. Every side character is gonna get a everyone's getting Star Wars forever. We're gonna build that cow. How many billion, a billion dollars to buy from George? Anyway, tonight we invite you to come on show and tell at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. You can join in by going to the Discord server a little bit before 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. And I think it's being hosted by maker Melissa. She will be hosting. And then at 3, I forgot at 3 p.m. Eastern time, there is a hack chat with Scots and Lamar, Lady Eda. On hack, was it Hackster? Hackaday, I believe. Hackaday. Yeah, because it's a hack chat. Yeah. So tune in to those folks and then ask an engineer, of course, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. So you can get another coupon code. You can get INMPI, open source news, a look at the Python newsletter, all the fun stuff. Maybe some made-a-box news. Maybe. Maybe some news about the whole UPS thing. Seems like the strike was resolved. So maybe we'll get some updates. Yeah, what we're gonna do, because we had to deactivate UPS here a little bit. Yeah, we couldn't get batteries either, ships. Hopefully things are getting better. I went through some old projects to remove the 2200. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, that's all that. And then Banner was like, uh-oh. And then the all-important moment of Xenar at the end. Yeah. Yep. Oh, right. I think that's all the things. Tomorrow is John Park's workshop. You can tune in at 4 p.m. Eastern and then Foamy Guy on Friday at I think I believe 5 p.m. Eastern. Well, deep dive with Foamy Guy, Tim. All right, I'm gonna get back to editing photos and working on this learn guide so folks can build a better lightsaber. With all that said, thanks so much for watching. We'll see you next week. But until then, remember to make a great day. Bye, folks. See if I can get this cover in. There we go.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2017 Chevy Silverado 3500 Double Cab Long Box Dual Rewheel LTZ is stock number 12765Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2017 Chevy Silverado 3500 has the 6-liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around, inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood. Deep Ocean Blue Metallic is the color, and we shoot all of our videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now, because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. 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It does come with the cab lights up top, and the passenger side front fender is in very nice condition as well. Passenger side rim, didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on that. And as you go down this 2017 Chevy Silverado 3500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close buying, just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Dualty tub is in pretty nice shape. This back wheel stimulator is in excellent condition as well. And the back tires have probably about, I'd say, 50% on that outside tire and more like the 70% on the inside tire. The frame and underbody is in really nice shape. It does have, you always got to look at the box rails for any corrosion problems, but this one does have, I think it's a gooseneck in here. And underneath the rest of the way is a nice shape. It does have all the remaining factory exhaust. And the lower rockers and cab corners are in nice shape as well. Factory chrome step bars. And if this video helps you make a smart buying decision, definitely let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you because that keeps me doing these videos. Comes with the backup sensors, rear bumper steps, and the tailgate is in excellent condition as well. Comes with a truck's port by Truxedo Soft Tonneau Cover. That is in nice shape. I didn't see any rips or tears on that. Looks like it's in really nice condition. This one comes with a spring and bed liner. Also a bed mat, and this one does have the fifth wheel bed rails. Not a gooseneck, the bed rails. And it does come with some brake rotors back there as well. They came with the truck, so we left them in there. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. It does have the easy lift assist tailgate, so it's really easy to lift. And coming down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side. Back wheel simulator is in nice shape. Doors look really good. It does come with the telescopic tow mirrors, built-in directional signals and LED side lights. They do telescope out like so and fold in. My guess is that they power fold in, which they do. Inside the LTZ package gives you the gray leather interior. There are no rips or tears on the seat. It is in very nice shape. Comes with the factory all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, turned out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and memory driver seat. Like I said, these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides, so I do know that both sides are working properly. It also has the Bose sound system. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 76,319 miles. You do get the digital speedometer compass display, and that instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls, and heated steering wheel controls on the left. This one has the six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Comes with the Chevy MyLink radio, and it does have the factory navigation system on it. You also get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities, and a projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Does have a CD player as well, and this is where your backup camera shows up.  That's for your cargo lamps. That's also how you turn on the LED side lights on your mirrors. Two USBs, two 12-volt power points, and then a 110-volt, 150-watt plug-in. Get your cup holders there, and the passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. And the headliner looks really good. You do get power side and rear window button and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. On-star and SOS buttons in the rear view mirror. And last but not least, you do get the wireless cell phone charge pad. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. You do get the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. No rips, no tears. Got to mention it smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And you get the all-weather format back here. Which keeps your carpeting looking like new. Bottoms of the doors all look pretty good. You can get a little bit of wood grain trim on that back door too. There are those LED side lights I was telling you about. They are extremely bright. Once again, turn those on with the card lights. We'll start it up and then take a look under the hood. No check engine lights or anything like that. And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to verify the quality condition and options on this truck and cleanliness. Really a nice truck for the year and miles. And under the hood we have the six liter V8 gas engine. The engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. 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This is mini 2.0, narcissists idealize, then they devalue, then they discard, then they replace. Today I'm going to connect the dots for you. I'm going to explain to you how the narcissist uses the mechanism of vicarious traumatization to induce in you prolonged grief within a shared fantasy where the principle of dual mothering is in operation. I told you it's going to be simple. Oh, okay. And before we go there, a reminder, seven days. That's seven whole days of a free free like no cost, no payment, a free seminar with me in Romania at the end of September. Very few seats are left. You may wish to write to me in order to reserve one. Some of you have written in the comments section that you like $10 words. Here's my advice. Also free of charge. Be careful what you wish for. In the previous video, I introduced you to the tinnabulation of your supplication. Many of you have not recovered. And today I am responding to an avalanche of atrabilias, traculent and pugnacious messages and also to import tuning a during and beseeching messages. All of them begging me to make sense of all the theoretical models that I've been presenting or spewing out in the past two years. And so today I'm going to connect the dots, as I promised. But before I go there, I recommend that you watch. Narcissist is a grieving infant. It affects you. And the video. Your pain traumatizes others, vicarious secondary trauma. Now the links to these two videos, the links to these two videos are in the description field under the video. So just go down a bit in order to go up and be uplifted via my intellectual pyrotechnics. Okay, enough nonsense. Get to the point, will you? I will. The narcissist is in a state of prolonged grief. The narcissist as a child has been traumatized, has been abused in a variety of ways. I know by now that abuse is not only physical or sexual or verbal or psychological.  Using the child as an instrument is instrumentalizing the child, pedestalizing the child, smothering the child, isolating the child from reality, pampering the child, and parentifying the child. All forms of very, very nefarious and pernicious abuse. So, narcissists are the sad outcomes of early childhood abuse, and they grieve. They grieve what had happened, the loss, and they grieve what they could have become. They grieve the loss potentials. The narcissism is closely associated with depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Edition 5 Text Revision, finally acknowledges this. In the 60s, there were scholars who suggested that narcissism is actually a form of major depression. And they were not that far off the mark. The narcissist is in a state of constant grief. Constant mourning, and this is known as prolonged grief syndrome. And it's also a new diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Edition 5 Text Revision, released a few weeks ago. So there you are, the narcissist showing to the world a facade of imperturbability, of impermeability, of invulnerability, of happy-go-lucky, of total and utter and unmitigated self-confidence, and so on and so forth, while deep inside there's a child traumatized, wounded, bleeding, crying at a state of panic and loss and terror and profound, all-consuming sadness.  Narcissism is a compensatory mechanism intended to hide, to camouflage, to conceal this inner state. And so narcissists are in a state of grief, but misery likes and misery seeks company. And you are it, you are the company. The narcissist needs to infect you with his grief. He needs you to grieve with him. He needs you to commiserate.  He poisons you. He creates a toxic environment which invades every cell, every mental cell you have. An exposure to prolonged grief is in itself traumatizing. So the transmission vector is the narcissist's grief via exposure traumatizes you. It's very, very traumatizing to be in the presence of someone who had been negated and vitiated in early childhood. Someone who was made to disappear, someone who is in absence and avoid not a presence. So it's very terrifying. It's a little like a horror movie and exposure, prolonged exposure to this creates vicarious secondary trauma, trauma by proxy. Vicarious trauma, as I had explained in my previous video, also leads to dysregulation. When you are exposed, when you spend time with the narcissist, especially as an intimate partner, definitely if you love the narcissist, the narcissist's pain rubs off you. It affects you. It somehow subdues you. It saps your energy.  Because the narcissist is a death emanation. The narcissist creates a death cult. The narcissist had been objectified by his parents. So he treats himself and everyone around him as objects and objects are inanimate. They're dead. And this is very traumatizing and it creates in you dysregulation. Now psychology is very bad at distinguishing between endogenous dysregulation and exogenous dysregulation. Endogenous dysregulation happens from the inside. You can't control your emotions. They overwhelm you. You drown in them. But this comes from the in emanates from the inside. This is not something you can maneuver with or manipulate. This is not something you can mitigate or ameliorate. This is stronger than you. Now this is a situation, for example, with borderline personality disorder. But there is also exogenous dysregulation. When you're exposed to trauma, mistreatment, abuse, grief, fear. When you're exposed to stress, when you witness an event which challenges your belief in the order of the world and the justice of the cosmos. This only induces in your PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder or complex PTSD, complex trauma. And CPTSD and PTSD lead to emotional dysregulations.  And so the narcissist induces in you, creates in you, fosters and genders, severe emotional dysregulation. You don't recognize yourself. You're all over the place. You're up and down. You are vicissitudinal. Yes, another $10 word. I warned you. Be careful what you wish for.  The new definition of post-traumatic stress disorder in the text revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Edition 5, accepts that one can acquire PTSD just by listening to someone else's story. Just by being exposed to someone else's experience, you can get traumatized yourself. And this is what is known as secondary or vicarious trauma. So this is the first element that you should bear in mind. The narcissist is a traumatized, grieving, mourning entity. And he infects you by exposing you to the darkness of his penumbral mind. He infects you and you react. You react to this. You react to this by dysregulating, by developing depression and anxiety, and by systemic or pervasive dysfunction. What does the narcissist want from you? Why does he leverage use and abuse, vicarious traumatization to kind of control you and mold you and consume you? Why does he need you, in other words? The narcissist is driven to reenact the loss of his childhood, to resolve the trauma that happened to him at the inception of his unfulfilled life. The narcissist rejects life exactly like the psychopath because he had been rejected as a child. And he had internalized the point of view of his caregivers, what we call primary objects, his parents. They rejected him. And so he continues to reject himself because mommy and daddy are never wrong. And if they had rejected him, something must be wrong with him. So the narcissist has something called repetition compulsion. He needs to time travel back to his past, to his very early infancy, and to try once again to resolve the conflict. To make sense of what had happened, to somehow get rid of the trauma and to recuperate and recapture the lost objects, his mother. And so he needs a mother. He needs a mother for a role play. He needs a mother to replay his childhood with. It's a maternal stand in. And it is you. The role in the narcissist's life is to act as his mother. The narcissist recreates the trauma space. In the trauma space, there is an ideal mother, which is you, and an ideal kid or ideal child, which is the narcissist. And of course, this trauma space is imaginary. It's not real. And it incorporates very discernible elements of the narcissist's child and more generally of a mother-child interaction. And this is what we call the shared fantasy. And so we are beginning to connect the dots. The narcissist grieves for his lost childhood, for his abandoned potential, for what he could have been and will never be. The narcissist is in a state of mourning. In any case, this profound, all-devouring depression to you, and you get infected, you too develop grief, prolonged grief syndrome. You too become depressed and anxious and emotionally dysregulated.  And within this trauma space, which is essentially the shared fantasy, the narcissist continues to communicate to you the childlike aspects of his trauma. In other words, he continues to vicariously traumatize you. Second-hand trauma, he acts as the ideal kid and he expects you to act as the ideal good enough mother, initially at least. So here is the shared fantasy. He's idealizing you. You're idealizing him. Together it's known as co-idealization. And the field is ready. The scene is ready. The stage is ready for a reenactment of what had happened between the narcissist and his mother in his early childhood. You have been recruited into this theater play, this repetition compulsion, this loop in time. You are now an actress on the stage of the narcissist's life.  I want to explain this. This is very disorienting and very confusing. This is the source of the whiplash that you all experience when you're with the narcissist because there are shifts in roles, there are transitions between roles which are very abrupt and make no sense at all except to the narcissist. So I want to help you with this. I want you to understand what's going on. Phase one, the narcissist establishes a shared fantasy. He invites you into the shared fantasy. Within the shared fantasy, he exposes you to his grief, mourning, sadness and depression.   Now you're two pillars of a trauma space and in this trauma space, you're the mother and he's the kid. But the narcissist is terrified that as a mother, you have all the power and that you're going to do to him what his original mother had done to him. He's terrified that the trauma space inhabiting the trauma space with you as a mother and he is a kid would result in the same outcome. Nothing will change. Again, he will be rejected. Again, he will be humiliated. Again, he will be disparaged and chastised and criticised and put down again his mother, the new mother, you, the maternal understanding. Again, she will do to him what his original mother had done to him. So he needs to disempower you. He needs to take away your power, to harm him, to hurt him, to cause him pain. He needs you to be his mother in the shared fantasy, but without the powers that his original mother has had. He needs you to be, in other words, a disabled mother, inactivated mother, symbolic mother, unable to hurt him, unable to damage him, unable to reenact faithfully his early childhood. He doesn't want this.  This time he wants to prevail. This time he wants to triumph. This time he wants to resolve the conflict with him rejecting you, not you rejecting him. In other words, this time he wants to separate from the maternal figure and become an individual, individuate. And then this way he becomes empowered. He couldn't do this to his original mother. She was too strong. The power asymmetry was too great. The power play was rigged. There was no way for him to win. This time the circumstance is different. He's an adult. He has resources and he can diminish you as a mother. He can put you in your proper place. This time he will be standing tall and you will be cowering in the corner. But how to do this to you?  You have resources too.  He needs to abuse you. And he uses vicarious trauma as one of the main instruments of abuse. Let me explain again. You need to wrap your mind around this. This is so counter-intuitive. So sick. So inhuman. Then most people, even scholars, can't grasp it properly.  But it's terrified that you will do to him what his original mother did to him. So he needs to make you weak. He needs to break you. He needs to disempower you. He needs to take away your power so that you can do to him what his original mother had done to him. He needs to disable you and deactivate you. And to do this, the only way is to abuse you. The more he abuses you, the more broken you are, the less powerful you are, the less potent, the less menacing and threatening. The more he mistreats you, the more he humiliates you, the more he criticizes you, the more shattered and broken to smithereens you are. You can't put yourself together like Humpty Dumpty and so you are not a threat. And how does he abuse you? One mechanism is vicarious trauma. He constantly exposes you to his own trauma. He reenacts it. And as which said before in this video and my previous video, vicarious trauma is as powerful, as powerful as original trauma. It's recognized in the DSN.  He uses his own trauma to traumatize you by exposing you to the recesses and depths of his demented, very dark soul. To the black hole that is at his core. This is one way. And the other way is of course narcissistic abuse. This is when narcissistic abuse walks hand in hand.  Narcissistic abuse and vicarious trauma together serve, serve to reduce you, to reduce you to the point that you are not able to function and therefore not able to threaten the narcissist. One unintended consequence of this is that you regress. You regress to your own early childhood. This is called infantile regression. When we're exposed to pain, hurt, uncertainty, fear, horror, terror and so on, we regress. We become a lot more childish. We become infantile. This exactly is what happens to you. When you're introduced into the shared fantasy via the love bombing phase where you are idealized. And afterwards, afterwards you're put down. You are suppressed, oppressed and subjugated and subdued with vicarious trauma and with narcissistic abuse. You regress. You go back to your own early childhood and there is a role reversal.  I repeat, the narcissist is terrified that if you were to become his mother, you were treating the same way his original mother had treated him.   But this has the unintended consequence of you becoming a traumatized child.  And this is exactly the concept of the dual mothership. Dual mothership is a two phase affair.  Okay, I hope you followed me up to here.  The minute the narcissist feels godlike, the minute the narcissist feels that he is the mother figure and he has the power to abuse, you have become a child, you have regressed to your own infancy, that minute the power asymmetry between him and his original mother has been righted. Let me make it clear.   The original power asymmetry, the lack of justice, the injustice between him and his original mother is righted, is rectified, is fixed, by humiliating and destroying his new mother, you, the mother's substitute. The hurt asymmetry, the asymmetry of pain is also restored because his original mother had caused him pain and now he is causing pain and agony to his mother's substitute. In his demented, delirious mind, the narcissist is incapable to make distinctions between past and present, external and internal objects. Canberg was right, narcissism is a form of psychosis.      Now he is settling the accounts with you. He is restoring justice and order and structure into his life, imbuing it with meaning and sense because now everything falls into the right place. Everything is okay now. The power asymmetry, the hurt asymmetry are rectified. Now the narcissist can relax, mission accomplished. Mother has been put in her place. Mother has been punished for what she had done to him as a child. Mother, retribution and vengeance have been exacted on this parent. And the narcissist feels empowered at peace and without any form of anxiety. So now he can safely become a kid again. Now he can become a child again. Because now he has converted you from a dead mother, dead as in Andre Green's construct.    A mother who will never hurt him and will never cause him pain because she is too weak.  She cannot cause him pain. She cannot humiliate him. She cannot modify him. She cannot injure him. He is destroying you that the narcissist feels safe. Safe enough with you. He feels good with you only when you feel bad. He feels safe with you only when you feel unsafe. He feels happy with you only when you are unhappy. And he does his best to ruin every moment of happiness you have because it threatens him, your independence and autonomy and power threaten him. He needs you.  A mother who is not a menace, not a threat, will not inflict on him the horrors of his early childhood again. So now that you're weak and meek and subservient, the narcissist feels safe enough to revert to the role of a child. You have become safe based. Now you are a much less threatening mother. Again, we see a transition.    This is the second phase. Now you have regressed to your own infancy and you are the child. The narcissist is a mother. Originally you were the mother, the narcissist is a child.    And so now he is ready to take you on.  Why would he want to confront you as a mother? Now you are his mother now. You are not threatening. You don't have the power to hurt him and to harm him. Why would he want to confront you? Because remember, I don't know why but the coffee tastes different with this meeting. Because remember this unfinished business between the narcissist and his mother of origin and you are his mother of origin in the narcissist's mind. You are not a substitute, you are her. So this unfinished business with you and that's the unfinished business of separation, individuation. The narcissist was unable to separate from his original mother, from his birth mother because she was very punitive. She didn't let him separate. She didn't let him individually. She didn't allow him to set proper boundaries. And so his growth was stunted. He couldn't develop into an adult. He remained infantile with infantile defenses like splitting. He needs to grow up. He wants to grow up. It's a natural propensity in human beings to grow up. Growing up is a feature of nature. Everything grows up. Flowers grow up. Everything grows up. So narcissist wants to grow up. The only way to grow up is to separate from mother.   He can separate from you safely because you can't punish him. You don't have the force to punish him. You are disempowered. You are weak. So he feels okay. He feels that it's safe to separate from you. And he discards you. He discards you. That's why narcissists discard their intimate partners. Because discarding is a symbolic act of separating from mother. Symbolic act of separation. And there's no fear of retribution.  You are shattered. You're broken. You're damaged. You're nursing to your wounds.  You're in the corner.  So then he discards you. And that is the symbolic separation he had always wanted, has always wanted. Symbolic separation from mother. He couldn't do it with his mother of origin. He's doing it with you. And suddenly he feels more like an individual. He feels the pangs of growing up. He feels that he's becoming an adult. The more diminished you are, the more reduced, the more constricted, the more contracted, the more diminutive, to the point of vanishing, to the point of disappearing, the more the analysis is, by comparison, feels empowered, feels big, feels great, feels that he's evolving and developing.  It's like he's consuming you in the process and you serve as a form of psychological nutrition. What his mother should have done is a good enough mother. He imposes on you. He coerces you into doing it, into helping him.  So he separates from you.  He discards you, or he pushes you to abandon him. And when he's a gun, he feels that he has reasserted control, even at the cost of elevated anxiety. Because the narcissist has separation insecurity, exactly like the borderline, although a bit diminished, not the same intensity, like the borderline. He has separation anxiety, insecurity, I'm sorry, abandonment anxiety. So when he discards you, or when he pushes you to cheat on him or to abandon him, he experiences a normal sense of anxiety. He experiences a normal sense of insecurity. But he resolves it very fast by replacing you. And that's why narcissists don't wait one heartbeat between discarding you and finding someone else. Because they can't, the interval, the interval is anxiety laden. Narcissist is very anxious until he finds another mother figure, another maternal figure. And the cycle recommences. The narcissist hovers you from time to time, because the conflict is unresolved. Hovering is the outcome of this unresolved conflict. But wait a minute, Vaknin, you say, those of you who are still capable of talking. Wait a minute. You said that the narcissist makes his intimate partner weaker, shutters, breaks up, breaks his intimate narcissist, intimate partner. And then with a broken and feebled, weakened intimate partner in the role of a mother, he feels safe enough to separate and individuate mission accomplished, problem solved. Why is there a repetition compulsion? What's the problem? Why does a narcissist immediately needs to find a replacement, another mother figure? Why does he have anxiety, separation insecurity, abandonment anxiety in the interval between discarding an old intimate partner or being abandoned by a previous intimate partner and finding a new one? Why? Why does this need to replay or re-enact a conflict which on the face of it has been resolved? The narcissist emerges victorious.  He is individuated. So why go through this again?  There is still an introject of you. It's called introject permanence. There is an introject of you, a representation, an avatar, a snapshot of you in his mind. And this internal object is energy consuming, is demanding, is expressive. The narcissist cannot get rid of this internal object. And at some point he needs to match the internal object with reality so he comes back to you. He is trying to restore object permanence. I'm not going into details because there is a video about why I've made, about why the narcissist hovers you. And there you can find a much more detailed explanation. So I try to bring all the strands together. I showed you how the narcissist uses two mechanisms, vicarious trauma and narcissistic abuse.  I showed you how the narcissist creates a shared fantasy, which is actually a trauma space, where he can reenact the trauma. And by reenacting the trauma, actually weaken you and feeble you through vicarious trauma.   And this is the concept of dual mothering. So I try to put all the pieces together for you. Shared fantasy, dual mothering, vicarious trauma and narcissistic abuse. It's all about mother. It's all about unresolved conflicts from early childhood. Of course, the narcissist defends against the trauma and hurt and abuse of early childhood by developing the dual, the dual formation of the dual construct of false self and true self. That is true, metaphorically speaking of course. That is true. Of course, the narcissist goes on to develop a series of masks, which he puts on and puts off. Of course, there are other dimensions to narcissism. But the core problem is the shame of the rejection by the mother. The narcissist feels utterly negated. It's the shame which is at the core of narcissism, something that had been recognized, been recognized finally by the diagnostic and statistical manual committee in the latest text revision. Shame drives narcissism.  That sears into your soul, that creates enormous reservoirs of shame, fear, hurt and this seething abuse, you need to get rid of it. It's toxic. It poisons you from the inside as the narcissist. The narcissist's only way to get rid of these is to offload them on someone else and to mix this someone else, his mother, so that there is retribution and vengeance and writing of the scales of justice on the one hand. On the other hand, restoration of the power matrix. By weakening the mother, the narcissist becomes stronger. And so your weakness is his strength. The more you disappear, the more he reappears. The less assertive you are, the more he reasserts himself. Your minus is his plus within a shared fantastic trauma space where you intermittently play opposing roles of mother and child, depending on the psychological needs of the narcissist. The narcissist does all this to you with vicarious trauma, narcissistic abuse. Best of luck. What can I say? No contact, no other solution if you want to survive. Intact. Mentally at least.