How did you discover urolithin A in the first place? This is a great story. You know, it all started out in the very beginning of the company. We were really looking at natural products and trying to understand what are the compounds inside of natural products that can really create a meaningful impact on people's lives and really target specific biological pathways. And we're looking at a number of different foods. And one of those foods was the pomegranate at the time. And so we're very interested. There was talk about antioxidant abilities of pomegranate. A lot of people were taking pomegranate juice that was very popular time. And so we took this deep dive and we started doing things like juicing the pomegranate, trying to understand what types of compounds are in different strains of pomegranates actually. And this led us to a greater understanding of the various compounds inside the pomegranates and looking particularly at a class of compounds called the elagitanins. And inside of the pomegranate, there's a very rich source of elagitanins. And one of those is the punykalagen, which is a compound that's very predominant in the pomegranate. And I'll tell you about how our discovery went from there into urolithin A. In fact, what's interesting about punykalagen is that while it's in the fruit of the pomegranate, when you consume it, it's transformed into other compounds. And this is something that you don't really think about when you're consuming different types of foods. You think, okay, I'm getting vitamin C from orange juice, et cetera. But here you have punykalagen that's transformed by a gut microflora into urolithin A, which is a post biotic. And so that's sort of how it started in that journey from looking at fruits themselves to getting to urolithin A. How did you guys actually make that connection that there's an intermediary here that we really didn't know about that was you could kind of drink all the pomegranate juice in the world and you might not end up with what you were actually looking for from the benefit of that pomegranate? It was very interesting. When we started, we were looking at specifically at punykalagen and we were testing this in various animal models. And particularly we're looking at animal models of cognition and brain health. And we were feeding punykalagen to mice that had Alzheimer's disease through genetic mutation. And we were seeing an improvement in their swimming as they get older, their swimming and their memory declines. And so we saw this improvement linked to punykalagen. And then we started to go deeper to take a look at how could that actually, as the punykalagen is consumed by the animals, what transforms afterwards. And so this was where we started looking at the postbiotics and we started making different postbiotics that were derived from punykalagen and then taking those into the lab and studying those in the lab. And we did that together with here at the EPFL with Professor Johan O'Rourke who is a specialist in mitochondrial biology. Let me back up for a second.  But postbiotics, I've written several books about them. But people I think know probiotics was, let's just say, friendly bacteria. And people know prebiotics. They're beginning to understand these are, if you will, the compounds that bacteria want to eat. And postbiotics for our listeners are the compounds that the bacteria make when they eat these certain compounds like pomegranates. Is that a good, simple description? That's perfect. And what we're finding, quite frankly, is that the postbiotics are probably the most important missing link between our gut microbiome and the end effect on our overall health. And that's why I think this discussion, particularly with mitopure, but in postbiotics in general, is so important for all of us to understand. You know, we take for granted that our body is designed to extract all the benefits from the foods we eat. But in fact, it's really depending upon, you know, the composition of the microflora that we have in our gut. And then its ability to actually make this transformation of the compounds in our foods into postbiotics. Once you discovered that, you know, these mice were making urolithin A, then you turned it over to your scientists and said, all right, why is this compound getting these observed effects? And take it from there. We were very curious about, you know, how did that compound transform and translate into these effects? And so we started studying the metabolism of the compound punicallagin, the salagitanin found in the pomegranate. And it was known that it was transformed into compounds like urolithin A and other urolithins in this sort of class of postbiotics. All of your ability to transform into different types of urolithins depending upon the actual gut microflora that each person has. And so we started, we asked ourselves, are these compounds more than just the body's way of clearing the punicallagin from the body? Because most people who had been studying it had been looking at this is what is excreted, you know, when you take this type of a food. And so less at what is the nutritional value. And so we took a deeper dive to see and explore, are there any real health benefits linked to urolithin A? And what did you find? The most exciting thing was when we were working together with Professor O'Rourke, he put it onto cells in the lab and he put it into worms in the lab, and I'll talk a little bit more about that, and he saw an improvement in mitochondria function. And so what's, you know, what was exciting about this was, first of all, Professor O'Rourke is an expert on mitochondria and mitochondrial biology and has tested lots of different compounds, including resveratrol and others. And so he understands sort of the potency of these compounds in his hands and in his various models. But what struck him was how much more potent urolithin A was than all the other compounds. And one of the ways that he studies fundamental sort of lifespan and health span is using this worm model. It's a very basic model. It's the C. elegan model that they don't live very long. And so when you feed them different types of bioactives, you can follow life extension. You can also follow the what we call health span, which is like sort of the quality of life as you get older. And you do that by looking at their movements in a dish with time. And what he saw was that when he administered urolithin A to these worms that you got an expansion of lifespan by about 45%. And this compares to caloric restriction, which is sort of the gold standard, getting you the highest expansion and extension of lifespan worms, which is around 50%. And if you compare this to other natural compounds like resveratrol, you're in the 15 to 20% depending upon that experimental setup. It was really quite a dramatic effect on mitochondrial function that he saw it on and in this worm model. These results caused us to really take notice and think that this could be something really special and take it to that next level and start studying it by administering it directly to the various mouse models. I've written about C. elegans in a lot of my books. And I think people should know that it is a really, really useful model that really what happens in C. elegans can pretty much be duplicated in higher animal models, whether it's a mouse, whether it's a Reese's monkey, and as we'll get to a human. So what happens in these worms, luckily, is able to be brought to the clinic. And that's what's exciting about this model. And you're right. Caloric restriction is still probably the gold standard, but quite frankly, nobody particularly wants to do that for obvious reasons, and which looks even better than resveratrol, the famous red wine molecule. So now these Alzheimer's mice are doing better. Take it from there. What we started doing is then feeding it to mice that we're getting older.  And this is basically feeding mice sort of the super-sized meat type of diet.   And these were mice at the later start of their later part of their years. And what we saw was that as the mice were getting older, we started looking at various parameters. And one of those was their physical activity and physical function and muscle strength. And we saw that the muscle strength was increasing in those mice that were taking urolithin A by about 10%. And there's a grip strength as you measure in these types of models. But the thing that surprised us the most is we looked at the running distance and sort of the spontaneous running distance.  And what we saw was that these mice were running more than 40% more than the mice that weren't administered urolithin A. So it was a real shock to us. And then we started looking deeper into the benefits of improving mitochondrial function on muscle function and on skeletal muscle function and the general health. And we went that next step and we said, well, let's take a look in older mice. And this time, in that first study, it was a long term administration. We said, well, let's do it for a shorter period of time and look at older mice. And let's give mice the best diet. So no high fat diet. And so we followed these mice for about eight weeks. And what we saw was something very comparable. And in fact, we saw an improvement between 40 to 50% and running endurance in these mice. And it was very impressive. And taking a closer look, we saw all these biomarkers that were linked to improved mitochondrial function and the skeletal muscle of these mice that were taking urolithin A. And so it was at this point when we started to see in multiple studies conducted by different groups that we were all seeing the same thing in terms of improvement in muscle function that this was something worth going that next step and scaling up into humans and seeing if it actually translated into humans. And I'm already getting something to translate from cells to worms to mice is quite a feat. Translating to humans is another story. And so this is where we took that step of going from a small few grams into manufacturing at a much larger scale and then actually developing products that we could administer to humans supplements and foods. And that's sort of how it started in our exploration in human biology. And I've written about this and you know this as well. You got to have the right set of bacteria to take these precursors to make urolithin A in our gut, correct? Correct. And one of the interesting things is that super old people, people who are thriving at a very ripe old age, remarkably, these people have 50% of them have the right combination of bacteria to produce urolithin A. And yet most of us 14% of us have the right set of bacteria to make urolithin A approximately. It's very interesting. I mean there's been studies that have come out I think it was the year before last on looking at people who are taking a Mediterranean diet and they tend to find more urolithin A in their blood than people who aren't taking a Mediterranean diet. And so that's certainly a combination of eating the right foods because these compounds we were talking about that are in pomegranates are also found in different types of berries, sort of raspberry and strawberry and different nuts like walnuts. But you have to have that right, that microflora. So I have to believe that if you have that right diet that helps steer the bacteria and the composition of the bacteria in the right way because they develop to actually transform the foods that they're eating on a regular basis. The point I'm trying to make is unless you are doing these other things unless you are what you eat but you are what the things you're eating ate, you're kind of screwed if you think you're going to make a lot of urolithin A and probably we should be making a lot of urolithin A. All right, so what happens when we give it to humans? Our first study was trying to explore what was the dose you need to give to humans to actually see that effect. And so we did what normally pharma companies do when they take a first drug into humans. We applied the same sort of methodologies for nutrition and we started giving different doses and we used that to sort of identify what would be an active dose. And what we saw was that after giving people 500 milligrams of urolithin A for a period of 30 days we saw an impact on the mitochondria function in the skeletal muscle, particularly in the leg skeletal muscle. And we saw that with both 500 milligrams a day as well as one gram a day. And we assessed this in a couple of different ways but the key way was the direct assessment by taking a muscle biopsy. So we went and took a biopsy before and after and we looked at the gene expression pattern. And what you really saw was this and this is a very unbiased approach and meaning that we didn't you know we saw all the genes that were expressed and then we looked at the ones that were changed after taking urolithin A for a month. And what we saw was that there was an increase in the expression of genes linked to mitochondrial function which is very interesting because when you have this enrichment of the genes of mitochondria function it's a clear sign that there's increased mitochondria biogenesis. And this is something that you want to see and you see this in athletes after they're exercising. And we've also seen it in another study where we were looking at people who are sedentary versus active and we were seeing a decline in the expression of these genes and those people who are sedentary and what they call free frail so they're starting to have mobility problems versus those people who are active and maintaining active when they're old. So mitochondria function is really a key indicator of overall muscle health and that's what I thought was very exciting about that first study.  This was sedentary these people were older people who were average age of 70 but sort of 65 and maybe 80 something like that and they were sedentary individuals and so they weren't exercising so there was nothing that was sort of turning on the mitochondria no change in diets etc. So very exciting to see that in the very beginning and of course we then started repeating that in more robust studies but I let you. Mitogenesis you and I know what that means for our listeners mitogenesis means make more mitochondria and quite frankly the more mitochondria you have packed in your cells the better. We also toss around the term mitophagy and some people have heard of autophagy as probably a really good way to extend lifespan improve health span just basic science here mitochondria have their own DNA apart from the cellular DNA and mitochondria can reproduce without the cell dividing and make more of themselves and mitogenesis but they can repair themselves from damage which is part of mitophagy or god forbid they can explode and have apoptosis which is a bad thing that I've written about and you and I know about so you're finding not only mitogenesis with urolithin A but also mitophagy repair of mitochondria yes yes well that was I think that was that kind of goes back to the lab experiments that were done and trying to understand how was urolithin A impacting the mitochondria and we were talking about um mitochondrial biogenesis and what's fascinating is that you know inside of your cells you have all of these mitochondrists not just you have one mitochondria in your cell you have hundreds and thousands depending upon you know what cell type and these mitochondria are working non-stop to creating energy for all the different biological reactions that are taking place inside of your cell and in the consequence of doing that these mitochondria get damaged because of these reactive oxygen species that are produced and the cell that is in the body in the cell it has come up with a very clever way of dealing with that they have sort of a its own recycling mechanism and that recycling mechanism is called mitophagy and so basically those damaged parts of the mitochondria are separated from the healthy parts and sequestered and brought into a basically a little cellular garbage bag and they're digested by cellular enzymes that allows the the damaged part of the mitochondria to be broken down and then recycled by the cell into and to make healthier mitochondria and and this is a normal process that's always going on inside of our cells that we need to maintain now um the problem happens when that mitophagy slows down and there's a lot of things that can link to that one is simply you know poor diet that can link to a lot of metabolic disturbances the other one is simply um being not very active we're talking before about older people who are active versus sedentary being active actually stimulates this process you were talking about mitophagy but also mitophagy so that this activity is stimulating that and then it's maybe not be evident but as you get older this rate of mitophagy declines and this has been shown to be recently one of those one of those hallmarks of aging that people talk so much about is the decline in mitochondria function as you get older and this decline is largely due to a decrease in the level of mitophagy this is what's very interesting about you know how do you maintain proper cellular health from an energetic standpoint as you get older and just at every stage of your life and the way to do this is to maintain your mitochondria health and we were talking about mitochondria biogenesis before and the production of of healthy mitochondria but getting rid of the damage mitochondria is equally important because you don't want to have a bunch of damaged mitochondria inside of your cells and not a lot of energy and then the cells sort of being starved for that energy and so this is what makes mitophagy so interesting and then going back to what we were talking about urolithin A the discovery that was made by but in yoan oryx's lab around urolithin A and and the mitochondria function it also went to that next stage and showed that the mechanism of action was by stimulating mitophagy and what was so exciting is that this is the first compound that was a non-toxic compound that was a safe natural compound that was shown to stimulate mitophagy not only in worms and in cells but also in mice and then we see this these very nice effects on mitochondria function in humans and you subsequently publish papers about improvement in humans in muscle function in in a fairly short period of time can you elaborate on that we ran a number of studies now looking at muscle function I think one of the more interesting ones is is a study that we did in people that were middle age of overweight sedentary and what they saw was that after four months of taking urolithin A at 500 milligrams a day they showed an improvement in leg muscle strength by about 10 so this was something that was a notably physiological impact on the health and that you don't see you know just sitting around taking a supplement right this was a big conversion from just taking a biopsy to actually seeing a functional benefit we've we've since done other studies looking at people who are older and having a lower mitochondrial function and what we saw was that after two months we improved muscle endurance both in the first interosseous muscle which is the basically your your hand muscle and it's the kind that you use to sort of grip your arms that you open and and also your leg muscle so that was really exciting to see that transformation there so we started to see we've now started to see the impact of urolithin A and a number of different human studies all linked to mitochondria function now I know you guys are are very interested in nutrition 2.0 if we're listening okay if I'm 70 years old my mitochondria aren't doing very well and it would be really smart for me to take urolithin A but my 35 year old listener is now saying well I'm not 70 years old I'm at my prime when should I start you know considering something like urolithin A like might appear it's an interesting point that a lot of people have asked us you know what well I'm not old enough for it yet and quite the contrary it's never too you're never too young we have a lot of athletes that are taking our product and really enjoy it in fact we've we've recently run a study in an elite and sub elite athletes for a period of a month and they experienced better muscle recovery after and less received exertion after a month of taking our product and these are athletes at the highest level who are training we're at a training camp and you'll see the impact differently depending upon what your lifestyle is like you know if you're an athlete you're looking you're probably thinking about muscle recovery as you get older you're looking to maintain that muscle strength maintain that endurance and so it's a trade-off and of course there's there's things that you don't feel but it's you're having an impact on the mitochondria function you may not feel it in terms of muscle but you may feel it in a different way like general energy for example and just to be clear this is perfectly legal for athletes to take the Olympic committee will not ban this substance no no for sure I mean we've been you know the nice thing about urolithin A is you know we've been consuming urolithin A for thousands and thousands of years this is what you get when you consume pomegranate juice when you consume walnuts raspberries there's there's nothing at all harmful with urolithin A it's the the safety has stood the test of time of you know of thousands of millions of people consuming it so you've talked about muscle recovery muscle strength I think getting back to one of your original points about these mice who weren't very smart um and memory and everything we we tend to forget that our brain is a rather a big consumer of ATP and our brain our neurons are packed with mitochondria we want to flex our brain muscle well into late adulthood what you find in you know in muscular mitochondria is that now happening in mitochondria and neurons as well well there have been a number of preclinical studies in mice basically administering urolithin A to them and not by us by other scientists and and they have seen an improvement in memory in in various animal models and it's logical that that you would see that simply because that there's a demonstration that in a lot of disease models and a lot of progressive degenerative diseases of cognition there's a strong link to mitochondrial function and not only for just memory but also a mood disorders too it's a whole sort of spectrum of cognitive deficits have a mitochondrial link and I know you and I have talked you know offline that our immune system is also a very important part of us in fighting disease and in fighting cancer and you've recently done some studies looking at mitopure's ability to improve the the immune system surveillance as well for sure I mean there's been now a couple of studies that have been published on mitopure and the effect on immune cells and the benefits are quite remarkable you basically are seeing that it's helping the immune cells retain their stemness which basically means it's preventing this immune aging and that's something that's that's really exciting we have a clinical study underway now over in Germany where we're doing a full spectrum analysis on all the different immune cells and individuals taking urolithin A and so this is something that you know we hope to have some more knowledge and and share with the public next year when the study is completed and all the analysis has been made this observation that administering urolithin A to mice was able to boost immune systems and I think you're referring to this paper where it was a boosting immune systems in mice and helping the mice immune system fight cancer better which I thought was very interesting and of course you can't you know that type of thing you can't talk about for for humans but uh because we're talking about supplement but I think that the fact that you see the impact on the immune system is is just so exciting I mean because the immune system has immune cells have mitochondria too right and so you're having this broad spectrum effect on the body by improving the mitochondria function and this is where I think that you know the power of of urolithin A and mitopure have for general health this is not just something that's targeting muscle we were talking about brain before we have a we're have plans to run a study um looking at the effects in brain you know there's this broad impact on mitochondria function in cells and those cells are basically everywhere in your body so that's the exciting uh future as a former transplant surgeon heart transplant surgeon nothing made us happier than having a getting to do a heart transplant in a 75 year old person uh why because their immune systems were so lousy that we didn't have to give them a lot of immunosuppressant drugs uh to allow them to accept that heart as opposed to doing it in a in a 10 year old child we really have to you know whack the immune system because it's so vigorous and your point is well taken that anything that we can do to improve our immune systems function surveillance ability as we get older is is well worth it um in so many ways I started taking uh mitopure actually I think when it first came out I'm in my mid 70s now and my wife and I are avid hikers um and hike a lot over in Europe and Italy and France and we we happen to notice through the years that a great number of people from Germany and Switzerland were hiking trekking with trekking poles and uh we'd say oh we we can spot the Germans and the Swiss because they're all all got their trekking poles and as as time went on particularly on challenging uh particularly downhill slopes I found that I'm going you know I can see why these guys are using trekking poles because my you know ability to head down these rather treacherous slopes is not as good as it used to be and I'm I was talking to my wife I'm going you know maybe it's time for me to consider these poles for a balance ability and I was really kicking it around and then I started taking mitopure and quite frankly within a couple of months my balance and my ability was back to you know what it was 15 years ago and my wife and I laughed about she said well I guess you won't be needing the trekking bowls like all the Swiss and Germans we see I said well not yet so it and that was all I changed I you know I didn't change my exercise routine I didn't change you know my diet that's the only thing I I I added and I tell my patients look you know I I can tell you this this was the effect at least in me so good for you I don't want trekking bowls yet sorry well that's a that's a great story you know I mean it's we've had so many people write in and tell you know their own stories about how it's improved their energy or or their muscle function people who have had you know leg cramps you don't have leg cramps on a personal level you know energy I found a lot of energy it's been now more than two and a half years that I stopped drinking coffee you know I just don't feel the need for it and it's very fascinating just just to see that level of energy you get on a daily basis you know there a lot of this at least for me is my neuro feedback from my legs to my brain was definitely improved and you know I could feel it and I could see it in my balance so good for you what's the future hold for timeline and where you going from here well we were talking about the all the difference of health benefits that you might be able to to achieve by acting on mitochondria and you've been talking about the nutritional aspects you know we think now that there's this potential to have this very holistic approach to aging with mitochondria going across all the different health benefits including topical and you were mentioning earlier the topical creams to me and this is something that we're very excited about because you have something you have a molecule here that's you know this is working on your skin and we've recently published an article on this and you can actually see the benefits so it's not when you're it's not like taking a pill and you feel it you you look in the mirror and you see it it's not just sort of your physical look but it's the biology of your cells that is important the skin is the largest organ of your body if you put product on that can activate your mitochondria this is something that we think is very potent by taking something and applying it locally to your skin we've we've run studies we've seen the impact on inflammation sort of post UV exposure we see the anti-inflammatory properties that we've seen taking orally that it goes it also applies topically we've also seen benefits on on gene pathways and proteins around collagen expression and this is something very exciting because we know that as you get older the collagen the lack of collagen in your skin is what starts to cause that sort of change in that structure of your skin and then that changing physical appearance so you can swallow it and you can put it on your skin yeah i think that i think that's what is ideal right and that's what people want that's a holistic solution thanks for watching but don't go anywhere the next episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast is waiting for you now now this one's a no-brainer anyone who actually thinks that cereal is good for you and is a health food please think again but let's make sure let's read the label


Designing an infrared machine vision system that can efficiently perceive, convert, and process a massive amount of data remains a challenge. Here, the authors present a retina-inspired 2D optoelectronic device based on Vanduwal's heterostructure that can perform the data perception and spike encoding simultaneously for night vision, sensing, spectroscopy, and free space communications. This article was authored by Faqun Wang, Fangchen Hu, Mingjin Dai, and others.


Before the invention of engines and electricity we transported ourselves around on land using muscle power of humans, horses and bullocks, a solar energy source derived from photosynthesis which gives us biomass, the horses or our food, and oxygen. On water we used the wind, again solar power, to push our boats across the oceans. In the 19th century we started joining coal with oxygen to power the industrial revolution and started moving around on steam ships and steam railways. In the 20th and now the 21st century we found oil and gas that had been buried for millions of years and joined it with oxygen to provide energy for motor vehicles, ships and planes and for generating electricity for trains and trams. This has the unfortunate consequence of releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year into the atmosphere resulting in climate change. In a future where we no longer rely on fossil fuels we need to return to using solar energy or other replenishable energy sources such as tidal power and geothermal. Can you think of what solar powered energy sources are available to us? Pause and think. The sun lifts water from the ocean so hydropower is solar power. The sun heats the earth unevenly causing winds to blow giving us wind turbines and wave power. The sun's energy can be transferred directly to electricity using photovoltaic cells and through photosynthesis biomass and oxygen are generated which we can rejoin when we use our own or animal muscle power or when we use biofuels. In the future it is likely that all transport except aircraft will use electric motors powered by a direct line as in trains and trams or by some sort of battery or fuel cell. The fuel of the future might be hydrogen if we're able to store it efficiently see our related video hydrogen and fuel cells. In this case one of the two reactants is freely available from the air oxygen otherwise it will be a more standard battery where both reactants are stored together. The batteries need to be charged needing electricity generated by non-fossil fuel means. The charging process regenerates the reactants in the batteries which then react in the electrolytic cells generating the electrical energy needed that drives the vehicle. In the case of hydrogen fuel electricity will be needed to generate hydrogen from water though we might one day find an efficient way of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly. Aircraft need to be as light as possible so they use oxygen from the atmosphere as one of the reactants which they join with aviation fuel such as kerosene in their jet engines. Over 200 billion litres of fossil fuel are used annually and it's not practical to replace this with so-called first generation biofuels those derived from food crops such as sugarcane or maize. There simply is not enough land for human crops and biofuels. For more see our video on carbon neutral and biofuels. However research on using algae to grow biofuels is underway this would mean that flight would become solar powered as photosynthesis traps carbon dioxide making biomass and releases oxygen. During the flight the biomass now converted to aviation spirit rejoins with the oxygen and the carbon dioxide returns to the atmosphere to start the cycle again.


TFNN, headline, news update. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, non-AmEastern time. Tuesday morning, 30 minutes to go until the opening bell, we got markets in quite a positive territory. Dow futures up 368 points or 1.3% trading $28,737, S&P futures positive by 42. That's 1.3% as well. At 32.88, NASDAQ futures up 140 or more than 1.5% at 92.54. That's with Google trading in the negative as well with their earnings last night. We'll start things off. We'll start it off with a chart of the S&P as low as 32.12 where we were. You back things up to Friday afternoon. We're now trading at 32.88. You really back it up to see the high that we traded down from on Thursday evening. We're almost right back in that highs in the S&P. We go over to some of the other indices. There's your Dow 30, 28,737. What to pay attention to is that when 6 o'clock last night rolled around, every market turned around to the positive. There's the Dow as in not even turned around, right? Just extended kind of the rebound. We saw yesterday's action, but the Dow at that time, 28.88, we're now above 28,700. NASDAQ 100, there is 6 p.m. last night. This line is midnight. The run begins at 6 p.m. from 9,075. We're now at 9,255. S&P, there's 6 o'clock when the futures open last night. We trade from 32, 36, now at 32,87. Crude oil even, the low. Right then, when futures are there, 6 o'clock, 49,66, we're now at 51,21. Gold contract trading inverse, the high right there, 15,83. Now trading 15,64. There's your euro, US dollar at 1,1045. In terms of what else is happening, an update on the coronavirus, 425 deaths, more than 20,400 people confirmed, but the market reacting nonetheless, Chinese annual GDP growth could fall below 2%, but indexes over in Asia finishing in the positive, pulling out their numbers because this is what the market is kind of reacting to, that China is going to be stimulating their economy, adding money, Nikkei up half a percent, Shanghai 1.3, HSI 1.2, ASX 4 tenths, and the Cosby 1.8 even in the region. So China stocks were covering after Monday's 7% to 9% decline, and you have the US markets reacting with the S&Ps right now up more than 1.3% ahead of the open, and we got to put Tesla up there. Tesla, above 900, looking open today, up about $100 from the close yesterday as the run continues. Stay tuned folks, Larry Pesavento coming up online at 9 o'clock with Trade What You See. I'll be back at 10 with Tom. Have a great Tuesday.


This is when the Narcissist finally gets their karma. One thing you need to remember is that their disorder does not allow them to be successful for long periods of time. It causes them to end up failing suddenly and dramatically. It causes them to break down and fall apart from within. Even if you put the Narcissist in the perfect situation, they will find a way to mess it up because they don't learn from their mistakes. They don't adjust to adapt themselves to work better or make themselves more suitable. They often repeat the same issues that cause their loss of power and prosperity. They do the same thing again and again. But it may look like they've moved on. It may look like they're doing great with this new person, but they're a ticking time bomb. It's only a matter of time until they experience the effects of their actions because their disorder will only allow them to experience short term success. If the Narcissist you were with has been successful over a long period of time, then maybe you weren't dealing with a full blown Narcissist. Because that's the whole point. Narcissists are a problem to themselves and everyone that they are with. They bring disaster and turmoil to whoever they're around, and it soon comes back to get them. No matter how they portray it to be, beneath the illusion there is a massacre, there is mass destruction, there is drama, chaos and disruption. But you won't always see it because you may not be there and they're only going to show you what they want you to see. But if you were really dealing with a Narcissist, you could be sure that whatever happened with you and them, they are going to repeat those same paths again and again. And it's just never going to stop, so you can already predict their future. You should already know what's going to happen based upon how they've treated you. And it may not happen immediately, but in time the patterns of their behavior will come back to haunt them because their behavior produces certain results.  They're stuck on repeat. They don't change. They don't adapt or adjust. They just keep doing what they've always done because they don't see that their actions are producing their results. They don't take accountability. They blame everyone else. It's never them. It's never their fault. There's always someone else to blame, even if they do manage to change their behavior. It will only be for a short period of time and then they will go back to being reckless and careless. They will become depressed and be looking for sympathy until someone believes in their lies and illusions and decides to give them a chance. And then they bring the narcissist back to their self-inflating self again where they feel like they are more impressive, successful, and important than they really are. Where they make self-inflating claims that are demonstratively untrue. And then that will go wrong. So then they have to hurry up and desperately find someone else to uplift them because what they're actually doing is they are running from their karma. They are trying to escape it. They're trying to escape the consequences of their own actions by using people to regulate their emotions. But everything they try to establish just ends up falling apart because they don't see the issues they're causing. Which is why they don't even try to correct it. Before it comes back to get them because they're so wrapped up in their own reality. They're so wrapped up in their own self-interest and needs so they don't even see the big picture. They don't see what is going on outside of their own situation outside the point of their fixation. They only see what they are focused on which is why they often end up struck by surprise. They never make a decision or take positive action. They never begin to live in a good and sensible way because they never try to correct the things that are harming them and the people around them which is why all they've got to show for their lives is they path for destruction from their past but sometimes they will run into codependents who become their enablers and these types of people will stick with them no matter what no matter what they're going through no matter what they've done which is why you may not see the narcissist experiencing the effects of their actions because their enabler is taking the fall for them and they deliberately seek out these types of people because they already know that karma is coming for them so they're looking for people to take the fall for them they're looking for people to bail them out and this person may not always be a relationship partner it could be a family member or friend but if they have this type of person in their lives it may seem like they're doing okay because they have someone to depend on they have someone to keep them out of difficulty but narcissists are impolite and bad-mannered so after some time they become annoying people no longer want to deal with them so even if they have found a codependent eventually even that type of person will want to get rid of them because no one wants to deal with that no one wants to be around it for long periods of time and when they were younger they might have gotten away with it but the older they get the less patient people become until their lives end up in shambles they experience all sorts of problems and setbacks so many failures and disappointments until they finally end up alone they end up on the streets when shared accommodation because they never tried to correct the things that later become a problem for them in the future thank you for watching if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up share your thoughts in the comment section hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications if you would like to support the channel you can donate at payable.me slash Narc Surviver you can book a one on one with me on our website thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Hello and welcome back to another 3d hangouts. My name is no ever weeks I'm a designer here at Adafruit joining me every week is some brother Pedro. Hello. Good morning everybody I'm Pedro has creative tech here at Adafruit and every week We're here to share 3d print the projects feature 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 discord chat room if you'd like to join us during the show You can stop by the Adafruit discord server and say hello drop some memes Gifts gifs all of the things are fun The link for that is discord.gg slash Adafruit Let me get my banner banner. There it is We are Hanging out there in the discord chat room welcome to episode 421 or is it 22? I forget It is November 8th 2023 and We're hanging out. Do you know what episode number it is? I don't remember. I don't know Yeah, let me Check real quick here We have a boy Why is our playlist truncated? Like there it is add new things and make it more complicated. I think it's 21 if I'm not mistaken Did I add last week's to the playlist? Let me see here We are struggling a bit. We're a little late We're catching up on stuff, but deal with us Pedro you want to shout out people in the discord chat room? Yes Shout out everybody hanging out this morning with us. We got Vince We've got squid that JPEG cup of coffee Rozen to Wester all hanging out of the discord. We're also hanging out in the youtube chat on twitch Which yep did load on Instagram periscope cool, and All right, I added last week's show to the playlist. So we have 421 Videos so we are indeed 421 and good morning Nico over at the youtube chat Get a couple of festive projects coming up. 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Yeah, so this is a fun project that I started a couple weeks ago It is eight LED noodles that are strung together and they're powered by a QT pie RP 2040 With the assistance of an LED driver, so it's plugged over ice I squared C You can control it using PWM and circuit pythons. You can do some really nice Fading of the brightness with a gamma correction. It's pretty cool Pedro you have like all of the LED noodle colors Blue yellow This one's warm white. I believe a warm white. I miss yellow I think I've had them all but yeah, you can see the difference between like say the red and the pink You can clearly see the different gamma on that. I Went for a more traditional Combination of just two colors the outer spokes are green and the inner spokes are red The my camera is a little bit hard to kind of distinguish between the colors because it's light But they look really vivid in real life So the tree itself is a one-piece Kind of design that you would print in a translucent material or a clear resin if you're doing a resin print And then I have this clever a tree topper that's designed one piece here and then Two halves that are glued together to form and they'll go as the star. It's a little bit of a Has some depth to it. It's not completely flat Actually didn't glue mine in. Oh yours just Well, I glued mine and You can do that. I printed mine at like a point one. Oh They're height so you can get a little bit more detail out of it So if you're printing it in resin, you're gonna get really good detail Oh, yeah, but everything prints with no support material the voltage wires are actually hidden behind this Heat shrink tubing Pedro used a straw which works out really well, too It's just a clever way to keep your wires bundled together But you kind of have to route the wires down into the bottom here in order to to properly power it Because the LED noodle is you know a cathode and anode on each end and how would you bring them together? Well, you you get them at the tip You can see all the wires kind of Coming down into itself and then this is just hollow and Then I'm using a little bit of mounting tack to kind of keep it in place because doesn't it press fits But it doesn't stay in place So a little bit of mounting tack goes a long way and then the base is two pieces You have actually three pieces you have a cover here that has a snowflake that's engraved into it Which looks really clever. It has these four mounting tabs that get secured to this base And the base itself has these counter sunk screws that attach to the cover and to the LED tree and then you have a separate mount for the cutie pie and the LED driver, which is the AW 9523 That's the LED driver chip, which is really nice. You can do up to 16 LEDs Some of the LEDs you can do without resistors, but because these have a pretty they these are pretty current hungry LEDs We we are using resistors, but for smaller projects. You don't have to use a resistor, but we'll go over that And yeah, I like that it's modular So if you have something else like an Arduino pro micro or something else or a Joe seed studio thing you can swap that out here But we're using of course the cutie pie with the RP 2040 chip because it has a built-in stem a QT port Which allows you to just connect it to the LED driver board which makes assembly a lot easier So that's pretty much the whole model electronics pretty straightforward It can be a little it's pretty challenging. Yeah, because I know I put it as an advanced in the guide because It's like almost building like a ship in a bottle because you do have to like use tweezers and be very Very finesse to get these wires to all fit through Your piece of heat shrink tubing and then Pedro you did something clever with the cover You actually created a slit so that you can just feed the wire instead of feeding the wires through this one hole in the center Of the snowflake you can just pass the wires through the slit which makes it a lot easier So I have those both as an option Same thing with the the straw too If you don't pass it through while you're still threading everything through yeah cut the entire this is like a chick-fil-a Straw just cut it vertically all the way through and it should have enough It'll like close up on itself. So yeah the heat shrink I still have a heat shrink in there though just to have it bundled up You can see the way that it pops out of there. It keeps the string nice and like bundled right at the top here So you can see that the white Shrink wrap is still there. I just have the straw right over top of it. Cool very nice. Yeah, it's about 11 inches tall So it's desktop-sized It's meant to be powered through the wall. So I have this, you know USB-C cable that goes to my wall adapter But you could power it off a battery. We were doing that for some of the shots where it's rotating But it's only remixable the the STL and the step file and the fusion 360 models are all available And you can use all sorts of fun filaments for the top I'm using a copper and then that tri-color filament from Xyro that has this really cool Gradient this this topper works really well for that and then you can use whatever for the base But having said that I used PCB way to 3d print me a super nice resin version It was a little late, but this is printed in clear resin using their 3d printing service from PCB way It came in a little deformed So it was like kind of squished But I was able to flex it and then use the topper the cover for the base. I was able to Squeeze it into place and then get my screws in between the tabs. I did have to tap these Threads with my screw tap, but it worked out. Well, I Was only I ran out of time, but I was able to get one LED noodle fitted in there and because it's super smooth Yeah, it It installs beautifully like it's so nice if it's perfectly like a glove it stays in place I can still take it out. No need to add glue to it It looks beautiful. I can't wait to I think over the weekend. I'll like swapping over. Yeah Actually, it's very nice. It isn't cheap Right it costs $30 to get this but plus $30 shipping you're looking at $60 But if you want something one-of-a-kind, you know model And it's fairly big, you know, it's this big if you have like a resin printer That's that can print it big do it on yourself, but if you don't and you want to spend a little bit of money You can get it printed from PCB way. I think they're the only ones that do a clear Varnish finish on their resin parts and it is flexible. So it might come in a little Distorted deformed, but it will flex back into shape once you mount it to this to this cover Yeah, we were chatting about the material properties of that before the show you were saying it's not grippy So it's not like a ninja flex 85a. No, it's not good at all. It's very slick very slippery But yeah, that's a nice part for it. You're saying they spray a varnish on there to get that. Yeah, right Yeah, they do it has no smell and it's not tacky. So that's very nicely cured So they cure it and post-process it for you, but it's very very clear. You've seen us print other models like this d20 Very clear and some of the place models. Yeah, but it's not hard that it's like Like like mope malleable. It is valuable. Yeah, the thinner it is the more malleable it is So we we three printed our snap fit cases as a test and that seems to work out so you can do snap fit geometry The exact same geometry for like an FDM print Yeah, I don't know if it had supports. It probably did but I don't see any You know blemishes or anything like that in the print. It just looks super smooth and clear So if you want to do resin you can do resin Very nice, and that is my review of PCB way came into farmed, but it wasn't too bad of an issue. No, it actually Probably it's one of the material properties for it. I'm sure I think they give you like a list Like if it's good for a temperature like high temperature or something like that and yeah, you can do some Italy durability Yeah, this one here is like a high temperature That's that black resin. It's a different type of resin. It's like high resistant to High temperatures and a little bit more durable. So we had our lightsaber held printed in that material But yeah There you go That is our quick update Okay Over on learn.eatafruit.com is the learn guide was published yesterday Overview covers two product guides We have a uber guide on noodles if you want to learn more about noodles or some more demo code You can check that out or if you want more information on the LED driver. You can check that out Everything is in stock you can choose your color of LED noodle we have a bunch of them and They're the 300 millimeter long version If you click on one you can see that we have all the different colors blue yellow pink Red they're all about the same price Just be careful that Is the voltage who wants? Wants to be more power hungry and just by looking at it with the resistors on there You can see it's like the green the blue And the orange it's like the pink Probably put like a 100 ohm resistor on it to get So it's not you know so dim where you can see all the individual little lights Yeah, but yeah, the blue one You can see the green there that it's all Yeah, the blue one is Yeah So you can scroll down to it tells you that the the specs for the data sheet for each color to yeah, yep So one thing I always thought was funny as we'll get to it So these are the parts you'll definitely want a stem a QT cable, right? I guess we're at a stock for the shorter ones Maybe you can get those from other places The QT pi between 40s in stock and of course the led drivers in stock. You do want to have some resistors So when I originally did the first prototype I didn't use any resistors and they power on But they draw so much current that the circuit Python drive doesn't mount This is a very strange thing but if you look at the product data or the The product learn guide about the led driver you'll see that in some cases where you do draw too much current You'll use a resistor even though you don't need a resistor on some smaller leds So I think up to four leds. You don't need a resistor, but once you max out the current You're gonna need some resistors. So that's just the way it is And then a couple screws here listed, but that's pretty much the main circuit Well as speaking of the circuit over on the circuit diagram, you can see here that I have my leds wired up But only four of them have resistors Pedro you put resistors on all of them, which is a smart way to go. I Didn't know yeah, that's fine I was testing like all sorts of different combinations of resistors and it turns out just Four of them was just enough to not like, you know draw too much current So depending on your colors, you'll want to use resistors depending on which color you have But for me in my setup where I had the four reds and the four greens the red the green ones Tntu have worked best with the resistors But yeah, otherwise, it's pretty straightforward. You'll want to make sure that your ground and Voltage wires are matching in pairs Because they're not then the driver just won't power them properly So you just want to make sure that they're you know in the right corresponding matching pairs of pins But it's pretty easy to read the pins. Yeah, otherwise it won't light up sequentially how you want it exactly Yeah, yeah, and I we came up with a clever solution to to kind of test The the wires once they're wired up. We'll see here in the in the assembly in a minute But yeah, this is all put together with the the open-source fritzing software Adafruit has a parts library. So you can always Download the parts or the library as a whole and create your own wiring diagrams But yeah, we still use fritzing and probably always well All right over to the CAD files you can get the source files It's the step file the fusion 360 file and this STL's Handful of parts The nice photo there your build volume you'll want a 3d printer with a you know minimum build volume of 112 By 230 so that's kind of tall. I printed it on a cruelty Ender V2 and or 3v2 Pedro use this your 10 s pro. I believe Definitely enough space there. Yeah, and then that's just you know helps you See before you download the files if it's gonna fit your printer If not, of course, you could use a third-party like PCB way or Some of the other ones you do want to use a translucent filament if you're doing FDM 3d printer. We use just your regular clear filament. I use clear filament. Did you use clear filament or white filament? Yeah, it's the clear from hatchbox that came out really good. Cool. That's a translucent and sturdy like strong nice I use clear filament from Matterhackers I believe and You could try white, but it's gonna be a little bit more washed out I think mm-hmm the clear tends to work well no support material on this because just the geometry works out where you don't Maybe you want a brim maybe not did you use a brim? Yes, I did I did okay, so sometimes a good idea. I didn't I was lucky my bed still fresh So it's still got a lot of stick to it so that worked out well and Then if you want some 3d models of like the LED driver the QDPI you can go to our repo on github and download those models or fetch them out of the The fusion 360 model if you want, but we have these in different file formats, too And that is the cat parts Over on the circuit python page just walks you through installing the latest version circuit python on your QDPI board So you just walk through that and then the code the code is basically the demo code that I cribbed from Phil B. Phil Burgess is uber noodle guide He he already had like it set up for like two LED noodles, so I just added more pins And that was it. I just added more pins, but this takes care of Doing really smooth Fading using gamma correction is using like a sine wave to Using math ramp that yeah ramp it up and make a really nice smoothing thing if you look at like the the demo code for the LED Driver, I think it's not as smooth So Phil B. Did a good job here where he like added a little bit of math and gamma correction to make it really nice and smooth So you can get some really nice animations With this demo code, but yeah, it's pretty much from Phil B. I just added more pins. That was it But we do have an LED driver library. That's the Adafruit AW 9523 library We'll set up an Arduino library for it if you want to use that But you can use the project bundle, I think there's just two libraries that get added to your circuit pi drive But yeah, it's pretty straightforward Onto the wiring you'll want some short wires and some long wires. I have the what the lengths of the wires for each of the ground and the voltage And you just want to solder them up. I really like these Omni fixo Helping hands. They're the best in my opinion. They're magnetic. So I'm using them here So you want to create your sets of LED noodles depending on the colors, you know, just want to make sure that you That you have some sort of way to differentiate between the voltage and the ground wires So I'm using white wires for the ground and red wires for the voltage wires The LED noodles have these little dots on them on one of the pins and that lets you know That's the anode which is the voltage like the the positive pin and Then the one without the notch is the ground And so on the noodles is pretty straightforward. They literally press fit into the channels of the spokes on the LED tree part They can come off but because they're silicone based Skin like they they grip on pretty well So you just want to make sure that they're like kind of evenly spaced. There is a little bit extra space on the top and bottom Just because that's just the way it worked out with the model like I couldn't get it exactly precise No, you need it actually for the soldering part there for the wire way connects You're gonna need that extra bit there So try to when you're putting like dry fitting it on to see where you need it to go Make sure you have extra the space is even on the bottom and the top so that the wires Yeah, the space to put them on there and then don't twist them. They are not us. They're not a like a Circle they're more like a It's the shape called I know it's in the uber guide Yeah, it's like oblong so it's like a little stretched So I get like the thinner Section to press it in there because then it'll hold The wider part will like press fit against the walls to sort of press fit it in yeah It's we it squishes in because of the silicon. Yeah With friction and as you're like press fitting it into the the little the channels make sure not to twist the Noodle to so make sure that it's like all in one like unison. So it's all not twisting around as you're Twisting it around. Yeah, it could break I guess in that sense because I haven't been able to break it but I Was saying I was thinking not breaking but more long lines of the way that it looks when it's gonna light up You don't want that because you do see like sort of a dark spot like on one of the sides So what I'm doing is like hiding it, you know, so it's against the wall. So it's not visible So that's one thing to look out for to when it lights up You will notice if you're twisting at your noodle around. So just try to have it all all the LEDs facing One side direction. Yeah, one direction. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, totally So I just thought of this for the wiring you should have put header the header The headers that it comes with and then just use female jumper wires Connected to one. So if you get it wrong oops, let me just pop it out and yeah, you could do that or Yeah, probably that'd be better idea than like using because then it's like non-destructors. Yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah Those are good. Of course that's right always when you've done building a thing Yeah, I'm sure folks will come up with their own solutions too, but I recommend using the silicone wire We have spools of them in different colors. They're here in the product list link And we have all the different colors of heat shrink tubing, but you could use a straw or some sort of crafty Thing I ended up using two Heat shrink to beings because they weren't long enough. Yeah So, yeah You want to get the wires in there though and they're all pretend so that's good to have everything pretend before you start installing it So and then feeding it through the center can be a little bit tricky, but just kind of squeeze it through I ended up like budding up the heat shrink tubing just to the tip of the wire so I can like Avoid fraying the wires, you know when you're inserting it. It's like threading a needle essentially So well once you got that going on you can slowly pull the wire so that it's taught at the tip here And here's what the tip looks like And then from there you can get you can either choose to use The the cover that has a slit or the cover that does not have a slit and get them threaded through the hole depending on how you want to do it and Then from there You want to you can you can either have the Let me assume in you can either have the the top cover or bottom cover fitted through The inside of the tree or have it on the outside of the tree I have it on the inside of the tree, but I had to flex it a little bit to get those Yeah, I couldn't I couldn't get it in. Yeah, I noticed you didn't need to yeah, I tried but yeah You know, yeah, like with this one. I think yeah with this one. I have it on the outside So it works either way. It really does. It really doesn't matter So you can choose how you want to do it and then here's how we came up with like testing because once you have the wires all Threaded through the heat shrink to be threaded through the top thread it through the hole in the center of the bottom cover How do you know what wires what because they're all the same color? Well, I'm using a CR 2032 coin cell battery to test out the pairs of wires So I'm just like testing out the wires making sure what lights up and then that way you can figure out what kind of Order do I want my noodles to fade in because if you're doing it? Through the code you can change it, of course, but if you want to be all kind of sequential going around in a circle you want to Create your order by figuring out what wire goes where So you can use a coin cell battery to test out your matching pairs of wires. So that's what we did here Yeah, I did the hard way Looping hard way Doing each one one at a time Because that involves taking it off the helping hands moving it over like So you're doing this back and forth of remounting unmounting remounting unmounting because you're soldering each one like getting it through The ground and the the power soldering it up having the AW9 held on on mounting it moving it over moving your tree over Yeah I didn't want to do that.  Oh, yeah, it definitely is It's easier when you're not filming because I didn't have to worry about that. Right. Yeah Right, I'm sure people come up with their own method, but I found that to be okay Yeah, I think the other way too is just having like little strips I mean, we used to do this when first started having like little pieces of the tape and then taping it Oh labeling them labeling it that way. Yeah, that's just as time-consuming Yeah, which which one you want to do? I think it's all the same It is it's all time-consuming and that's just the nature of this and even with that I mean like, okay, I know this is grown. I know this is positive. I had a Frickin flip the wrong way So how to go back in there well, it's out of the ground put it in the you know Just basically just swap them out for each end. Oh sure a quick story when I originally did it I actually had all of the voltage wires going to one pin. Oh So they wouldn't animate. They would just stay on. Mm-hmm. So I learned quickly that like, oh, yeah The LED driver needs to have individual voltage pins. That's why there's so many voltage pins You know, I had the same idea but with the ground I was like, why don't I why don't we just hook it all up to one around? Oh, yeah. Oh, because that's Yeah, figuring out which one to go next. Right. It'll just yeah, the driver wants individual pins. So That's why you're doing it. But other way you have a whole set of pins here. Um, I have the the resistors um on the ground, but you know resistors are They're not very polarity driven like Polaris if I think you go on either way, I just like having them a little bit on I remember doing it on power going Is this correct? I don't know Oh really? No, it doesn't matter. That's what I thought one of the problems was when it was Yeah, 220 ohm is kind of the the standard Roll of thumb for your led. So that's what we're using here. You can get a pack of them um, I just trim the wires or trim the the leads of the resistor short and um Yeah, just uh, I guess you could add heat shrink tubing here if you were afraid that you'll short them out But I didn't did you have to no, there's enough spacing between the Resistors you can see there. Yeah, unless you bend them right at the tip. They're not gonna, right, but yeah Me too. Yeah, and you kind of create a right angle I did yeah Yeah, so and then you could always bend them a little bit just be careful Oh, yeah, they're yeah bent at a what is that 90 degree or whatever? Yeah But uh, yeah, once you get them soldered in It's easy to plug in the cutie pie. That's so nice. I don't have to solder four extra There that's a nice break and then from here the pie is now Non-destructive, man. This is very nice Swap out the cutie pie if you wanted this be a wi-fi you can add in the cutie pie Or the esp pico and then you can have a wi-fi led tree if you want We have all sorts of cutie pie bffs if you want it to go off a battery you can do that Or sound reactive or sound reactive. Yeah, I thought that's what the code you grabbed the one How lis made it with the with the midi controller where she had it plugged in To the thing that that that's what the code was Nope Just standard pretty basic, but from here you definitely want to test out Um You're wiring before you start installing the mounting the mounting the pcb mal and the base and all that So this is a good stopping point to test out your noodles Um, I do have a bracket here. Um, it the the cutie pie just press fits in Um clips into the little holder there and then we have some standoffs um and some m25 screws for securing the uh The led driver because that one does have four mounting holes or m25 size holes so you just pass them through and then um The um you're basically self tap them with the screws um to the uh onto the standoffs It's pretty thin. It's pretty flexible. So it should print pretty pretty easily And then there's two extra tabs On the pcb mount to attach it to the two holes the corresponding holes on the base here Um, so you get those in you use some hex nuts To secure it in place Although I didn't need hex nuts because like the tolerances were tight. So it just As you can see in the photo, I actually don't have hex nuts But if it's loose on your printer, you know, you'll want to add those hex nuts so it doesn't fall out um, but from there you uh, you just want to be careful with the wires and make sure you're not kinking them And that the led noodles stay in place inside the channels when you're fitting when you're when you're joining the base to the tree Um, so you just line up those mounting tabs and then you can insert those m3 screws um Through the bottom of the base and they kind of poke out through the top of the cover Or the top of the led tree and then use some hex nuts here here. You can see i'm using um My wire cutters as a way to get in between the spokes to hold the uh You know to get the the hex nuts like secure it on tightly Um, when you use a drill, um, it'll tighten it without really hold it. Yeah, because it spins so fast that it Tightens it for you Yeah, I thought about doing it in the reverse where I'd have the screw come up from the top But then you can't get it unless you have like a right angled Yeah thing. Oh, what about the long ones I sent you the long bits. That's why I got them actually for It's still a very tight spot. I think the spoke just gets in the way Uh, so Do you have a drill the the little Let me just send you one of the little drill. No, I have one of these things and He's a right angled socket. Oh, no. I meant like just drill Oh, like I stopped using the that little pen when we used to sell.  Yeah, you got that The bigger drill. Yeah. Yeah, I'll get one. Maybe christmas Uh from there though, I got these rubber feet because if you don't have them Those screws stick out a little bit So rubber feet are great and they give you grip. I still have to add mine. I forgot because otherwise it's going to lock Just a little bit scratch your table Yeah screws on there Yep, the last bit is to uh Attach the topper and the Adafruit star to the little hole Um, they should have a nice friction fit. If not, you could add some glue Uh deeper tool to the Open up the hole a little bit if you need. Yeah, you can do that. I think I used the my little sandy filing tool to open it up a little bit After that, you know, just plug it in. You got a nice hole for the usb Cable to stick through you want to use a 5 volt 1 amp power supply or your computer's laptop or usb battery And that's it. That's pretty much it. Um, the hardest part is like, you know, just firing it. Yeah, wiring it up And uh Getting it even if it's randomized, I think it's still going to give you a good. Oh, yeah, yeah in fact like I I will never see this in a store for purchase because of the assembly for this.  So yeah, and and it was modeled for the led noodle like the length of the noodle like it's modeled for it So you could scale it up. But like, what would you use? I guess like a neopixel strip or something? But then you're looking at like But yeah, it's pretty neat. I want I've been wanting to do a three-dimensional led project With the holiday here It just made sense to make it an led tree. So it's perfect for the desk. It is uh, so colorful It's the the design of it. It's like yay Yeah, it was very it was very tricky to infusion to come up with like a way to create a channel Because I can maybe I spokey thing But it took it took a lot of trial and error infusion to do a layer by layer on the construction. Yeah, I'm thinking about it Yeah, it's a combination of like using the coil And then sweep and then the pipe tool like I rarely use But the pipe tool works out really well for creating that channel Yeah, so That is this week's project. Let's check it out It is live Should uh, send the print to jp so we can use it on his lego town build Like it would fit so well with all the light up decoration stuff that's going on right now Yeah, for sure Yay, led noodles So pick up your led noodles or your led driver With our kubanko led tree You get 10% off your festive Parts is a good idea vince is saying that he wants to do some cnc Uh cnc some channels and wood for them. Oh, wow. That would be cool. This is a good idea Yeah Yeah, you want to use a small they're about two millimeters Um in diameter the noodles. Mm-hmm Yeah, stay around there So what is two millimeters to inches in the attempt of not being too repetitive? Too repetitive. I wanted to do one with the noodles where it was the um The mighty pups the new movie for The mighty pups while it came up. Yeah, and it's basically avengers with the pups Okay, like these uh, like their suits look just like the avengers, but it the it looks like it's led noodles in the freaking You know, it's just a cartoon, but it looks like the way that they're doing the The lighting for the costume. I was like, oh, this would be awesome for a harness for our dog Hmm. Oh, that's a good on discord Um, getting the length would be a challenge from Vince. Yes, that was a challenge for me Like I couldn't get it precise. So a little bit of slack is okay. I think And then DJ Devin is saying, um, it's thinking the same thing with aquarium tubing That could be cool. Yeah getting them in though like, um Getting them to stay in place is I guess the thing like how would you do that? But uh, good idea. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking too like what could I print or what could I Take from off the shelf to uh to keep the noodle in shape um, there is the um the solid core wire like a brass wire that you could shape and form and then you can kind of Use nylon filament or something fishing string to kind of tie it to that so you can do that I think the easiest one is the one that we ran out of time for and man, I was sick over the weekend Otherwise, this is exactly what I was going to do with uh, what um is mentioned here by Oh, where'd it go? Looks like it was just deleted somebody in the discord just said that can we 3d print? I thought it was squid the comments gone now if we could just 3d print the tube And yeah, that's what I was going to do but man I was under the weather Oh, and you were already like filming and yeah the learn guide at a certain point. It's like it's cut off man We can't do anything more. I thought about creating um It would be like integrating a tube into the cover Would be interesting because then you can create this kind of cool shapes, too But I say separate with a with a Spirals so it's hidden, you know, I mean so you don't see like the slit on there Yeah, you could 3d print the tube for sure. Yeah, you could totally do the different one Yeah, then it would be the perfect link and everything. Yeah the straws These Chick-fil-A straws perfectly perfect color perfect diameter And then the characteristics of the straw itself like I'm saying it like closes in on itself So it hides where the um where you you know, thread it through or not even thread and just push it through Yeah, yeah all sorts of Different ways to do it fastest way. I didn't think it was gonna work I thought it was gonna look lame and it was the last straw To literally the last straw the last straw. I think the other one was like a mcdonald's one I was like this is gonna look like a freaking straw Because it has the yellow and the red in there This is a this is going DJ Devon's like you could with a slip ring. You could have a rotating Christmas tree. Yes I actually was thinking to do that, but I was like man that is so involved a little bit too Over the top like I really thought about doing that and I was about to get the smallest Uh slip ring. We do have a pretty small slip ring, but it's just a lot of extra work I did think about like having it spinning slowly Yeah, that was I was like I I need to come up with like a minimal minimum viable project And having it just being static Was it was enough for me? Um, but yeah, I give that a give that a try man. That sounds really cool. I did think about it Um, I've been wanting to use a slip ring to do something like that Had something spinning. It's going to be the r2d2, man Yeah, probably r2d2. There's no way around it for that one. Yeah, I'm gonna get that But yeah, we do have slip rings Yes, that's definitely a mechanical gear project the r2d2 Yeah, all right. Well, we yeah again Apologies, this is not a simple one Like I did this like right when at the peak when I was sick at one in the morning soldering this stuff I'm like, oh my god This is a cool idea from Yanni So using nails on a on a using nails on a piece of wood To kind of create this That is a good idea. Yeah, so imagine having your noodles kind of go through Obviously, you don't have the dexterity like a like like yarn Or or thread. Yeah, you think there's the idea is there's a radius that you can bend it I think philby has it in the uber guide the right that you're able to bend it at. Yep. Yep about a millimeter. I think It's like bending metal like you have this like allowance of uh of clearance and the bend radius Yep I Cool pass that on one of the edges for doing the ultra hand Where it was like, I don't know like when you bend it a certain way the whole strip would just turn off Oh, that's dope. That is a nice idea It's a nude with heat shrink on brass wire That's cool. Very nice. Yeah, the brass wire is a good idea and I just so many Awesome touches just having like a little strip of light on stuff. Mm-hmm All right. Thank you.  Are you proud of that? Yeah Let's see it All right, this week continuing going on with the cases for The qualita supported round displays. Oh, I did not load my camera Extra camera. Well, you do that. I'm gonna load Nothing really it's um Still the same switch camera angles Do do there you go. All right So, yeah, here is the round display case for this guy finally got the lid on there. I'm using translucent because Feeling festive so everything's going to be translucent for this build I've got the yellow and the green going on there. We have the usb port so plug in unfortunately I don't want to use like any wires to sort of route this around so it's just going to go directly through and plug in there's just enough clearance for that And then the lid that goes on top And I got finally got this to snap in Yeah, so again not a true circle. It's like this weird Like oval you can see here Just because of the way that this thing is here And this part right here is the way it like bevels around so it's not like a real circle It's like an ellipse that's like squished So that was fun to figure out the shape with that um, I saw lamar did have the And one of the previews. What was it the 2.1 inch touchable? uh round display And that'll be a lot more easier because the touch um Thing that they put on top forces it to have that circle. So Hopefully that'll be easier in model But we'll have this guy and then I got the 3.4 inch this one is the touch display And I got the buttons on here Super happy with the ninja flex buttons on here. I didn't think it was going to work. It's just one strip. Yay Push down on the buttons. You have access to your usb port If we open this thing up, you still have I still have to add snaps into this But I just got the tolerances, right? I was like way off. I don't know how I got it instead of point two I put like point four I was like, oh no, that's for when you're fitting things into parts. That's the tolerance for that Yeah So yeah, uh, here's the strip for that you got the frame that goes around it that holds on the qualia Send it with this guy here, but it's holding on And then uh, yeah, it's just a little strip in here of ninja flex and this is the 95a so Uh, even bowden printers should be able to print this. Yeah, they do and you have access to all your buttons there Yeah, that's good. Great use of the tpu. Mm-hmm And yeah, pretty much it Was for some demo code and this one the video for this one. It's just going to be really highlighting the yeah qualia qualia Yeah driver for this because there's just so many displays. I think the Next one I'll do. Hopefully it's not too hard the uh rectangular. If not, it's just going to be these two for I mean, it's just about the board anyway, so Yeah, I think two is fine. Mm-hmm. It's going to be the popular one people really want round Yeah, um Devin has an idea for the round display wants to do a giant minion Yes I think it's steward. Uh, well Hang it, uh, for these on vacation, but I wanted to do the snow globe, you know, but that particle does it That's it'll be game. Yeah for a couple. Yeah. Yeah, well some more cool interesting eyeball, of course Yeah, the eyeballs big one Abominable snowman Eyeball or something. I don't know All day And I think the demo that uh lemar keeps showing off is like the best one the for the touch screen anyway Where you can change the colors? It'll be so cool. I has a little digital sketchbook for the kids, you know Sure. Yeah excellent for that And I think that's it. Yeah Yeah, it's getting the uh Taunts is going going there Cool. Yeah, uh after this we're going to do um A mars earth clock So we'll go with some fun kind of mid-century modern case design Using your model as a reference and then just kind of create some amounts Yeah, some sort of curvy thing for it to make it look like it's from the 50s of the future of the 1950s The idea is to have um, you know the the image of The round mars and then you tap the screen and it'll change to earth and you'll be able to see the different times And it'll have the analog hands So that'd be a cool thing, but that's after this one I'm just kind of highlighting the the board and the displays. That's our Python support the Arduino support And then a dedicated project. So that is the lineup Yep, they're cool Wasowski Yeah, Mike was asking is a good idea too All the Cyclops unite Get some single eyeballs Cool. Um, what we're prototyping. Yeah. Okay. We got 10 minutes left. Oh, we are ready for Um Community makes community makes. Yeah. So what you got there makes I think I have the video loaded up You want to grab it?  We were laughing That usually the stringy that we see in the time lapses is frowned upon but yeah, that's when it's part of the design It makes it. Yeah And it's cool. Yeah, this is definitely like a A different style of modeling where you use these strings to create something of art So in this case, it's just Kind of creating these different Lines as a pattern. It almost reminds me like an Indian catcher a dream catcher rather Also, there are models where you can suspend A model inside the string that yeah, so that's another thing I've been seeing a lot of and 3d bunny Um on printables has a whole collection of these models. Yeah, they're so very cool And it's a great use of the um The rainbow filament. Oh, yeah, yeah One thing to note though is right right when I was done with shooting that I dropped it I'm even far down and you can kind of see a bunch of wires broke. Oh, I see it now a bunch of them did.  Yeah, it's so it's amazing that you can get one line going across it is delicate, but you can You know, it's it's a bit of an art So when you sliced it, it just knows to use one string and not like I'm guessing the um the size of it is just small enough to where the geometry is picked up. Yeah So, mm-hmm, I guess the size of it is what it is. Yeah No support This would be cool as nudes too. Yeah Yes, be insane String art with noodles. That's a lot of noodles.  True Cool, but yeah, uh, let me pull up, uh, uh, I already have showed the time lapse. Yes, let's look at 3d bunny Uh, so here's uh her Her model I think she did the color swaps Here's like a regular color single color great use of the um Of the rainbow filament though if you do And then, you know, some of one of some of their designs Or just a slew of these like Yeah, those right there. Where's the public models? There's some more string art here Some suspended stuff here's like a skull That's probably the one I could do next Yeah, right Maybe the quality ones. Yeah, you can see here how like the shapes Wait, let me get fed into it and they create the suspended thing So the idea is that you know, it's a whole art the frame is what keeps the Aligned in place I like the one where it's the raining on uh, what's his name? alone Yeah, I think I saw one where there's like a hand Suspended in it. There it is. Yeah. Yeah, here's like the rain where the line becomes the rain It looks like this umbrella is suspended So that's a super clever way Here's the cow this one. I think got an award or something featured With the cow. I think it's a multi material part But you can see the cow and its umbrella Very cute And on and on and on so definitely check out 3d bunny On uh on all the the printing sites That's awesome designs There's some more the vase with string. That's cool All sorts of fun stiff So shout out to 3d bunny for sharing their models for free On printables All right, so that's this week's time-lapse Tuesday. Check it out. We have links to the model In the description And now Let's check out Some community makes You only have a handful here First up we have a make of The tva time stick from the tv show Loki This was posted up by Michelle Tran And they say uh first time doing electronics project starting out just 3d printing came across Give it a shot. That's it. It wasn't easy. The project was listed as intermediate But I went straight into it following the instructions step by step 3d printing part was the easiest every part Needed no supports and it came out perfect easily screwed together with no glue I had so much fun with this learning the solder understanding how the feather and form Thing works. Thank you What? How cool that Michelle? This looks great. Yeah, very nice and Goal achieved All right, all right there A little bit when like the 3d printing is the easy part and the electronics is the learning part So that's kind of what our whole shtick is Not like that. The avenue to get them into that was Loki. How Loki's yeah, right? Yeah And the next one is another tba stick. This one is for candy Brooklyn this model is amazing. I had to reprint some of the parts to do it breaking But he fixed it with using four wall loops and a hexagon infill. Thanks for sharing He fixed the temporal loom. What that's funny Yeah, so you can pick whatever color you can sand it you can post process if you like or you just use a nice filament And here you can see how I think they're just gonna print the model you don't even have to do electronics if you don't want We're just cool too because they all just screw together. They all snap fit So that's really nice. And this was again from canon on printables And then the last one from this week is the lightsaber the rp20 40 lightsaber Darren posted theirs up. They said in the process of building the electronics love the design And they printed it in this nice Shiny black. Well, and there's the prop maker Very cool Yeah, it's funny to see two back-to-back Time-sticks because um season two of bloke It's the one from the past. Yeah That's funny Yeah, and of course you can get a tba time-stick from shop that disney, but it's like 100 Yeah, and that's probably not as responsive or Fun. Mm-hmm, but it has sound effects, of course We use not even that good Yeah Thanks everybody for posting your community mates. They're super awesome to look at Let's head back over don't swear Like our goal is to make things better than what they do for the For disney at the park. Yeah from mass manufacturing, you know, they got a cheap out to make it affordable. Oh boy. Did they cheap out? Yeah Yeah, they have nice looks though like the outer skin. You could always take The outer skin looks nice. The asoka lightsabers Great example. Yeah, yeah and upgrading it. Yeah, not all of that It's a better code. Uh-huh. There was a comment. I want to laugh at What was it? He he ha ha All right All right Thank you everybody. We're gonna round off the show.  We'll have a coupon code later tonight On ask an engineer But before then we have show and tell hosted by Liz Clark. Liz Clark will be hosting tonight. Come on The discord chat room. Say hello. We'll get an invite link to the stream yard So you can come on and share your projects your working projects your crafts Whatever and then at 8 p.m. Eastern time is asking engineer open source hardware news new products iron mpi and more Oh, that's what the question was. Will we be making a raspberry 5 case? Yes, yes, yes, I'll give a shout out here to um grab head Uh, yeah grab cad um mats Mate whose zelka nice post it up a really nice model of the raspberry pi 5 it's free to download I haven't checked it out yet, but it's in a step file. So you can import it into open shape on shape solidworks fusion 360 Yep, and it has all the things I think it's correct. Do they have the cooler the active cooler because that's A lot more wants she wants the I'll just add it to it You know add the cooler to it But it seems to be accurate I'll have to check it out. I have one on hand. I finally got my hands on one still in the box I don't think I I know it's like What works? Yeah, this was published november 2nd It's a new book. We're the os bookworm I'm not sure. This is still like Everything for it like everything broke, of course. Oh, let me put a link to this On discord if you want a CAD model But yeah, the case is being worked on With room for the active cooler on top. Yeah, definitely at least a case. So We'll see uh, when we get to that We do have the the qualia cases to kind of dish out, but then we'll get on some pie cases Maybe I'll mill one. I don't know. We'll see what's this This is part something about the Dg Devon talking about the sensitivity about the lightsaber you can uh, yes, of course Yeah by default set to the most sensitive Comments so people know how to decrease sensitivity Yeah We show a layer-by-layer on the design process of the raspberry pi case Maybe That's a good it's a good one. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'll save it three one first though Although the case would definitely get more views though. Yeah, I think it'd be more Oh, no, they want the tree. Oh the tree. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, because it is a fun Yeah, all these are really for us in case we forget or something right. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I'll uh I'll take a stab at one Any other comments? You know, I think we're good there Oh, he wants added to the uh, the code page for that the sensitivity adjustment for that Is it better to do a github? Issue a pr. I think you can do a pr. Yeah, if you want to add a pr. Definitely. We'll take a look at it Because I'm way more easier for yeah Because then we just bring in the code change. Yeah, we need the receipts and for for us not forgetting to yeah It's easy to put it in a task that way Exactly. Yep Yeah, and I still have a backlog of CAD parts to catch up on so Yeah, we uh, we were very busy these days But we appreciate you for um Upping us out see And since anybody's still sticking around the Raspberry Pi fives Get launched. I think Live on the show Live during ask an engineer. So yeah, that's the best way to do watching. Yep. Um, they'll say when it launches So just be on the site That's all I can say Yeah, it's a great way to So The gift to y'all I don't think the coupon code works on Maybe it does. I don't know On what on the pi five? Yeah, because the margin is raised but then I don't think there's any money No, I know We sell them at a loss Everybody does I think everybody does yeah But we sell them when we have them, which is a lot better than the backorder Yeah, all right. That's it. All right. That is it. We've exceeded our hour long But thanks everybody for coming on the show everybody in the discord chat room. Thank you so much for tuning in We hope you're inspired to work on some festive projects We'll be back next week, but until then remember you make a great day Bye everybody. See you tonight