Hey what's up folks and welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noah Reyes. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Enjoying me every week is my brother Pedro. Good morning everybody. I'm Pedro's creative tech here at Adafruit. And every week we're here to share 3D printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This year we combine 3D printing and CNC milling sometimes. To make inspirational projects for you folks, hello everybody in the Discord chat room. We are hanging out. So if you'd like to join us during the show, you can check out the Discord chat room. It is located at discord.gg slash eat fruit. Come on in and join. Everybody hanging out in the chat rooms. Not just Discord, but on the YouTube's Twitch LinkedIn. Give everybody a shout out while I adjust our temperature, our stuff here. All right, giving shout out to all of the usuals hanging out. We got Deweyster, Scare, got Mister, certainly Bruce. We got Rosin. Hello. Short rigs. Hello. Cup of coffee. Perfect name. I could do some more. All right. We'll give you more shout outs for the show. I'm going to do kind of the intro. Okay. Welcome to episode 338, maybe it's 339, entitled, what was the title? Wooden keycaps, rat catcher and tentacles. On today's show we have, we're celebrating eight years of making. We have a special coupon code. We'll look more on the coupon code. We are celebrating, well, we're not celebrating. We're promoting this Halloween hack fest contest by DigiKey and Hackaday. We have some jobs. We have a new project this week. We got some prototyping. We got some shop talk, community makes, all this and more on, you guessed it, 3D Hangouts. Yay. Eight years of making. Yeah. So I guess we'll start off with the eight years of making. Let's celebrate. We got this 10% off coupon code. That's right. So if you put anything in your 80 food shopping cart, we'll get 10% off your order at checkout. Be sure to enter code NPTHANKS. Expire that 11.59 PM tonight. 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You definitely don't want to miss on this one. It looks so cool. Then cue the lawnmowers going on. Yeah, that's how you know it's live 3D hang outing. All right, let's go ahead and... I think that's it, right? I don't know. Oh, right. Sorry. It's been a while. Circuit Python meetings happen every Monday, typically on a Monday at 2 p.m. eastern time. That's where the Circuit Python devs and the community come together and chat about what's going on with Circuit Python. You can tune in, and you can tune in live, or you can listen to the archive that's posted in all the different podcasting services and also on YouTube. Check those out every Monday at 2 p.m. They're done in the Discord chat room, the Discord server, rather. To get it invited there, it's discord.gg slash ate a fruit. We can check it out. Hello, everybody. I think that's the last one. All right. Yes. It is eight years. I know. Mine blown as well. I think it's the longest... Eight years? ...place we've been at. We haven't been doing 3D hangouts for eight years, but we've been doing eight different projects for eight years. So don't we check out all of the guides we've worked on? It's over 300 guides. You can check out. I think we've done everything at least five times or more. No, there's still some new. I haven't done any wooden keycaps, so that's fun. So this week's project, it's CNC milling. I got my little CNC mill. We created some CNC milled keycaps out of wood. I got really interested in making these keycaps out of wood. So hey, buddy, that's our dog.  So it was quite a fun learning lesson in CNC milling. It is a job that requires a custom fixture in order to do both sides. Because with CNC milling, you can't really do undercuts. So I had to design a custom fixture to make the top side. So what we have here is we have these little square cubes that we start off with as the first operation. So this is the stem and the cross that will fit any of these Cherry MX compatible switches. Here I have the Kalebox switches. They're kind of designed better for these, like they fit better. So getting that tolerances to work out was a little bit of a, how do I do that? But we figured that out, and then after we mill these out, we can then use our custom fixture to press fit these on like so. And once this is set up, come on, it's got a really tight tolerance, then we can place this on our mill and align it with a L bracket or a PCB bracket. And that way we can offset our G code so we can do the top side. So this is what they kind of look like when they're milled. So that's kind of the gist of it, right? Definitely check out the video on our YouTube channel. It's a nice 10 minute video that breaks down all of the process, the recipes, the tools, all those things. So it's really like a learn guide that's been turned into a video. And so we'll have a full learn guide right up, I think by Friday, if not next week. But hey, you can check out the video and download the project files, which are on Thingiverse. And there's a public share link of Fusion 360, so you can check that out. So all of this was designed in Fusion 360 because it has really good CAM workspace tools. So I'm able to switch between the design workspace and the machining workspace to create a design that's parametric. So I really needed to be able to adjust the offsets for the fixture and be able to use a pattern to lay out the fixtures. So if I wanted a one by four, or in this case a three by four layout, it's fairly easy to do so using user parameters. There was a few design iterations I did on the part holder. And mainly, ideally rather, I would have milled this part holder out of aluminum because aluminum is less likely to warp. And you can run into that when you're doing wood. You can run into warped. And there were some instances where I designed this fixture with a two millimeter base. You see how thick this is? This is actually five millimeter base because when it was two millimeters, I basically broke the fixture when pulling it off the bed of the CNC mill. The way I like to attach my material, my stock to the bed of the CNC mill is with some Nitto tape. And I got myself two different sizes of Nitto tape. This is a one inch wide and this is a half inch wide. If you're doing some bigger stock, it's actually nice to invest into a bigger role of tape. So this is some strong double-sided tape and you have to account for the thickness of your tape when you're adding it to your offset in your cam software. So there's a lot of that going on. What is the thickness of that? This is .2 millimeters thick or 200 microns. That's how thick this stuff is. They both have the same thickness. Again, Nitto tape, N-I-T-T-O tape. This stuff is awesome for fixturing your stock to your bed of your CNC mill. Speaking of the CNC mill. I really like this mill. I hope Band of Tools makes more of them. It's a small mill. It's got crate software. It's got a conductive spoil board. So when you probe your tool, it probes it really nice so that you don't have to worry about manually probing. When it comes to the material, it has an L bracket that you can attach to the spoil board. And with that, you can probe it so that you know exactly where the alignment is of your bracket so that way I can get this thing fixtured down. And when I apply my second G-code, I can get an exact placement position for the second thing. Man, these are so like... Oh yeah, there's already a thing there. That's why. I hope it's not stuck now. You kind of need it to be tight so that... Oh yeah. The drill bit wouldn't knock it off. Right. One of the things I ran into is applying extra offsets to your fixture. So all the geometries that are touching need to have an offset of 0.2 millimeters. That way it actually fits because there were some instances where my keycap wouldn't go all the way to the bottom which made it not mill correctly because the offset wasn't correct. So having offsets in your geometry is definitely something you want to consider when you're making a fixture. Yeah, this is good. Also a pallet knife would work better but it's got such...  There it goes. So you do want to have that offset there. Another thing I ran into was the thicknesses for these, like the shell thickness of the internal geometry. This is version one which is 1.5 millimeters thick and if you're milling, it's the exact opposite of printing. So if you are milling away more material, it takes longer. If you're milling away less material, it takes less time. So this is a stronger part. It's 2 millimeters thick. This is a 1.5 millimeters thick or thin rather. So it feels like the weight difference is... There's something there about weight difference. So you don't want to make it too thin, right? So although these didn't break or anything, it's still something where like, oh, you want to make it this little bit thicker so that you aren't machining so much material away. Yeah, so that's what I ended up doing. So funny that instead of additive, like through printing, this is subtractive so it's like the complete opposite.  But if you're milling it, it's okay. The less material you take away, the better. So here it is like looking at the internal geometry. It's just about clears the tapered angle for these kale box switches. So if it's like a glove, can y'all hear my stomach just rar. So I played around with different types of wood. This is purple heart. This is cherry. This is maple. And this is walnut. I think I really like the cherry when it comes to milling. Some of these other ones are fibrous. These two kind of have some good chips. They don't, they're not as fibrous.  So it's a little bit trickier but the cherry stuff tends to have finer chips at least in my experience and it's less prone to warp. I think some of the other wood is prone to warp more but yeah, whatever, it's fine. It's good to have a thick base here. That way when you're pulling it off the bed you're not getting, you're less likely to break your fixture when you pull it off the bed. I think what would have been really cool is if I had some holes drilled in here and that way I can like just drill this to the spoil board. I don't think I have any, I don't want to do that to the spoil board so I just figure now I'll just stick it down and then use the L bracket to line it perfectly. So that's kind of it in a nutshell. Definitely check out the video if you haven't already. It's a lot more complicated than that. It really breaks down, yeah. It's so funny for such a simple little thing with the keycap. It is, yeah, it was quite the journey to learn. Quite a bit of trial and error to get everything perfect to get the recipe down so to speak. Let me look, let me walk through the Fusion 360 file. Well you're loading it up, just taking a look at some of the comments. Seeker is saying it looks really cool. I wonder if the right wood PLA would get a similar color and effects. Obviously the milling is way more fun. On the point of the fibrous on some of the wooden material that's what we've seen with the PLA wood material. It is like very goopy, you get lots of stringing and in terms of the strength it would not be as strong as the real wood but that is definitely a route to go. Because you can still stain it and sand it down. That's right, yeah. And a real quick word about finishing, none of these keys are actually finished so they're just straight off the... Finishing in terms of applying like a lacquer or oil. Or even super, like you can still see some of the machining lines there, yeah. I could have used a finer tool but I figured a 1.16 inch was going to do it, yeah. So you can still see some of the machining lines but at a distance it looks fine. But yeah, each one of these keys have different grains and they have some really nice patterns. Each one is very unique and none of them are the same because it's the way wood is. Some of them are less impactful. But I think some shellac or some maker finish, simple finish would make these really, really pop and I ran out of time, folks, so I didn't finish any of them. So they got this kind of, I don't know, it just feels... What would you say the feeling is? Yeah, I have it turned off. What would you say the feeling of these are? I don't want to say dusty because that sounds bad. The grain, you can feel the texture, the different stepping that is on here, you can definitely feel that. So it has this very tactile feel to it.  But it doesn't still, I guess. Yeah, so I think when you're adding some finish, you want to be mindful of what the finish is. If it's glossy, if it's going to be tacky, you don't want that, I think, when you're touching these. So there's another reason to kind of don't finish it, but hey, that's up to you all if you want to finish it. Patrick Ranskin on the YouTube says that the Danish oil. Danish oil, that's a good one. Probably a good one to try out. Yeah, some oils would probably be real nice. Linseed oil is another one. And then De Wester is saying that either dogwood, apple or persimmon would be a great wood for the keys. And Mr. St. Bruce is saying that maybe beeswax, mineral oil is the food safe version. That's finishing and enriches the wood. Yeah, that's a good idea. You got enough to try a couple of different ones here? Yep. Again, those are the main four wood types. That's why I haven't laid out like that. I got my wood from Inventables. They do a good job of selling like a six by 12. And I was able to cut these down and they're all about 13 millimeters. I don't know how many inches that is, 13 millimeters thick. So when you're when you're cutting these up, you do want to be aware of how big is your spoil boards? You want to cut these down to fit your spoil board. And then hopefully they're all surfaced and even. So you don't have to mill both sides. I did have to mill both sides on a few of them. Yeah, face. Did have to face, meaning I have to put this on the mill and then just cut away one millimeters, flip it, cut away another millimeters and hopefully I can get it down to 10 millimeters, which is the final thickness of our fixture. And then to get these guys, they're actually eight millimeters thick. So I had to surface these a little bit different for the actual keycaps themselves. Yeah, so that's where I get my wood from all over the place. But I like getting it from Inventables because they ship it pretty fast, sells pretty good price and they have all the different types of wood. So again, walnut, maple, purple heart, cherry. And of course, the star that is doing the modeling, so to speak, on the macropad macropad, which is, hey, it's in stock, y'all know that it's in stock. We did not 32 in stock of the bare bones. Holy moly. It's the three before a key encoder with 32 in stock right now.  We usually tell people to wait until the afternoon for ask an engineer. So you can see all of the latest, newest products that are released into stock. But hey, if you've been waiting for a macropad, go ahead and jump on that. Wait, do you have a max one per customer? Oh, okay. Yeah, you don't want to buy all 32 in one go. Make sure that. Okay, yeah, and we also sell the kale box switches. I don't know if those are in stock, but are they? We have this thing here. Oh, they are. They're actually in stock. My favorite, of course. Do you like the white and the navy blue? Yeah, I don't think there's a difference between them. I just like the navy blue color. If you like clicks, I tend to not like the clicks anymore lately. Yeah, actually, the blue and the black and the brown ones are less loud. They're not clicky. They just have a, I don't know. They just have a feeling. They don't have a sound. So I used mechanical with the clicky, the terium X blues for years. Right when we started doing keyboard projects, you stopped using it. I switched over to just like a standard Mac keyboard, you know, the butterfly switch. Yeah, how funny. But no, I still use the macro pad for the hot keys. And yeah, yeah, I think for some fun camera switching and bigger things, editing, designing, that sort of stuff. Your macro pad really feels feels good when you're when you're working on something bigger. Cool. What else can I say about it? It's on Thingiverse, the CAD files. It's the Fusion 360, a step file and then some STLs of just like, if you want to print it, I mean, some folks say they want to print it. So I do have this printable. The, you probably don't even need supports because it'll catch itself. You know, yeah, it'll just catch itself level. Yeah, it'll definitely level. Yeah, the stem is level, it's flush with the surface there. Yeah, so check that out. And thanks to everybody for putting comments on the video. Don't really get many.  There's a snap maker and then of course the X-Carve. There's so many CNC mills that are getting better software, more affordable prices. That's awesome. So I'm glad I can share some interesting projects, some recipes. Yeah, some recipes. It really does feel like we're cooking here and these are delicious. Yeah, they're so great. I really like the color of the green and the brown. It gives me like this avocado, like a sense of avocado. I want some avocado toast. All right. Well, any other comments about it? Questions? Again, I'm going to do a full Fusion 360 thing. Later, we got a lot of stuff to cover in the show, so we're about half an hour in. So I think, yeah, let's go ahead and jump on to prototyping. So last week or two weeks ago, we'll take a time code as well. Lamar and PT, we're checking out the latest superhero movie. Are they superheroes? Call them that, right? They're supervillains. Super villains with the, I forgot the name of the suicide squad. The Suicide Squad.  Next up is the rat catcher prop. Yes, so the rat catcher, she has this wand that attracts all the mice and rats. And I think she mind controls all the rats with this device. Yeah, so we don't know too much about the device. So then it's like this wand, it's got this glowy dome with this kind of cool cage. And it's pretty accurate. Like if you look at it in the movies, you only see it for a couple frames. You see it in three scenes, each one of which is like about obscured by literally frames, not seconds, but you can see like this wire is literally there. So like all of that worked out really well. So this is super, super good detail. So as much as I am able to check out the screenshots with such little airtime that it got, I was able to get some of the greeblies on there.  They're not real potentiometers. They don't need to be. Yeah, we want to keep it a bit simple so that you're not wiring. So it really it's at this point, it turns into a lightsaber. Once you start mounting, I know every time I hold it, I visualize like the hum of a lightsaber as it's moving it around. But one of the things I'm proud about is just the the the grid. You're like, I guess it's like the the cage, the cage that was able to print out on. And when you're able to get something that is so thin printing in with support materials that come off super clean. You get the half of the deaf start. Yeah, we got the printer like really dialed in so good. So yeah, that's what excited me about this project. Being able to get super cool and then the little dome on there goes on there like that. So some will obviously that's great for diffusing. It gets a really nice even to feel like that. It looks so cool. So what's inside here is the circuit playground Express. I think we use in the blue fruit version in here. And it's just being used to illuminate the neopixels to get this dome nice and diffused. Yeah. And you did really clever. The wiring is hidden inside of this post. So the wiring from the circuit playground goes in there. There's some screws here that secure the two pieces together. And then this right here is the this is the access the JST extension. And inside here is the battery. It's a WAPA 2200. I love that battery because it's it's very rigid. So you can drop it and burst into flames. Yeah. So for a lot of the cosplay props, the cylindrical ballot battery is really good for that. And of course, it fits inside the handle for most props. So a perfect shake for that. Yeah, man. And then we'll go over more of it next week. This will be next week's project. And yeah, it's completely modular. So you can get in there and change up your code. Because right now it's super together. You can still take apart. Essential for us when we're filming, we got to document it. I can't take it apart because I glued it shut. Hey, it helps to have your your props modular, even if it's just screwed together or held together with friction.   So yeah, it's all screws that hold it together when it's still modular, but using screw screws just to increase the probability of you not. Yeah, the rigidity, if you're going to take it to, you know, you want to throw it in your backpack and don't worry about breaking it. Yeah, it's for shipping. If you want to send it like disassembled, so you can reassemble it. That's a good point. The battery or something. Yeah, exactly. So what do you guys think? Did you see the movie yet? Is it something you all want to check out? I thought it was OK. The only gripe, of course, is I can't show my kids that movie. Yeah, it's quite quite boring.  Rats, except except how little air time or screen time the prop got. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I like the way that the grade is on there. Some interesting stuff in terms of the modeling that went into it to like slice this up and get these. You see how these aren't how it's like twisted, you know, to have that grid. So yeah, I'll probably add some embossing textures on there because I did see a little bit what you can't see because she's usually, you know, completely covering up the entire handle. So I don't know what else is underneath here. I think there's like wires or like some sort of like texture emboss. Yeah, it's on there. But other than that, I have to watch it again because I don't think there's a sound effect. I wanted to add like sound effects. Like I was saying, I was like you making like you can use accelerometer because it has a built-in accelerometer. It has a built-in speaker. So let me quickly switch over to the circuit playground. So those are in stock. If you spend enough money, you'll get a free one. But hey, you can always get the circuit playground if you haven't yet. It's kind of a different like flagship board has everything on it that you could ever need for like learning how to work with accelerometers and other sensors. I think there's a temperature sensor as well, a light sensor. It has an IR LED for doing like remote control stuff. Yeah, the temperature sensor is there. It's got like so much stuff going on it. I would definitely, though, it was probably with the blue fruit version. The blue fruit? Once, I don't know that it's that blue fruit playground. So Trevor is working on a way to send code over to the same price. Yeah, I'll probably go with that one. OK, go with that one. Because once you can program this over the air, which is it's in the works. Yeah, then you can send your code.py file. You can just edit your code.py file. And I want it read or you can use the blue fruit app and change it to read. But it's cool that you have access to the code file and you can change and manipulate it right on a mobile device because we think most folks will be interfacing with their with their dev boards on their phone. It's kind of hard to do that right now. But it's been worked on. It's been worked on. Yeah, so it'll definitely make designing to a lot more user sense. Yeah, you want to worry. You don't have to route USB. Yeah, that's the thing.  So it's like conforms to the shape of the prop this way. You can just stay sealed in there. You can like glue it if you want and then still have access to the code. Yeah, maybe put like a cheap charger on there so you can even wirelessly wirelessly charge it somewhere. I have played with wirelessly charging stuff. So we're not there with completely wireless programming and charging for this form factor anyway. Again, like one day you can swap the board with some of these projects. I'm looking at like all the learn guides that use the circuit playground express and there's there's a billion of them. Yeah, there's like swords and potatoes and Simon says is and. They can do it all. You can do it all. Put it in a pumpkin and it's the flame. You could put a screen on it and now it's your eyeball. Yeah. Yeah. So circuit playground Simon says we got that coming up. Lots of fun stuff, so check them out. Circuit playgrounds are in stock. So is the blue fruit one and they're both the same prize. Yes, these would be cool. Yanni and the discord is posting the wireless LEDs that Lamar showed off. Yeah, these are really, really cool. Yeah, we'll definitely use those for some cool holiday props. Yeah, if we get them in stock by then. So cool. That's cool stuff on the horizon. So that's what we're. Benjamin prototyping, I think next week you'll have a video. Yeah, we'll have the guy in the video for this. It's not too complicated. So we should have that out. It's mainly just the printout design. You didn't have solder or anything, right? No, I didn't. That's funny. Awesome. Just the extension cord and just plug it into the CPX. That's it. Like a battery, the battery into the tube. You go and if you want to recharge it, just take out this. Yeah, you just recharge from here. Yeah, this is this is literally how you turn it on. That's how you turn it on, which is very much how I think the rat catcher does it. I think so. I wanted, of course, I wanted to have like a slide switch down here somewhere. But, you know, if they have in the prop, the wires all hanging out. I'm going to take a man to that. Just do that. Yeah, comfortable that. Cool. Very well done. Can't wait for next week. So you guys next week will be the rat catcher wand. I think I think that's what it's called when you look it up on the what is it called the RPF? RPF, yeah, forms prop form. Yeah. Super cool. I think after that, I don't know, probably like the wearable star row that goes on your face or something. Yeah, maybe we might change it up. It's worth saying to watch out for rats with that. Yes, I think we have to print out some rubber ninja flex rats to go along with the props for the video. All right, I think we're ready for shop talks. Let me take a time code. This week's shop talk, I think is taking a look at the fusion set up for doing the keycaps or for milling. I just realized I'm not doing a live report or I'm not oh, that's all right, that's fine. You're going to have to take a twitch. It's better that way. It's faster. All right, cool. All right, this week's shop talk. I have some fun. It's been of a community makes as well. So let me queue up everything I need. All right, ready? All right. For shop talk this week on the Adderfoot blog, I saw this come through. This is a blog post by Ann Borrella and Ann posted up a Simon Says game with the Adderfoot Macro Pad. So I sparked my curiosity and I said, I would love to play Simon Says on the Macro Pad. So here is a link to the form. So I click on that. I see Rebecca Wilson posted up this. She says, I made a Simon Says game with a Macro Pad. It's my first AdoBox in my first time writing a program that isn't a book question. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learned a lot and really ready to come up with a new game. As it turns out, I really don't care for Simon Says. In case everybody wants to try, here's my code. So shout out to you, Rebecca. This is really, really fun while while written piece of code. And down here, we can see that another fellow updated the game with a little bit of a tweak where it's a little bit faster. So I tried out both and I'm quite happy with both. So shout out to Rebecca and the form users name is Kirk Sun. So Kirk Sun did a kind of a remix of it. But here it is. I have it running. So it's a memory game start to start. Press the encoder button. So I'll go ahead and press that. I'm already at game over. I think I might have messed it up. Yeah, let me reboot it. Sorry, folks. I might have something else running. Oh, yeah, you can see there like used to be like reloading it. All right, cool. It was the one right now. Yeah, I think I messed up. So it's very much like a Simon Says game. It gives you a beep and you have to repeat the pattern. So now it is a light up the new pixels, but also gives you a sound effect because there's a built in speaker.  I messed up. I got up to level nine, which I'm super proud about. But again, shout out to Kirk Sun and Rebecca for coming up with such a fun game. I like this more as a gaming platform to be honest, because like anyway, yeah, it's really, really funny. You you can see all the colors. You hopefully can hear it as well. I don't think you could change the the sound, right? Like the volume, but hey, it's got a built in piezo in the back there. You've got your built in new pixels. So if you do want to make a game, you have so many different options. You got all these buttons. You got this rotor encoder. It's a button as well.  And if you wanted to add more stuff, more breakouts, you got your stem, a QT, so you could do I squared C peripherals over here in Daisy chain, if you want to do something crazy. But this is so fun. Like, I really like anything with sounds and and game memory matching. It's so fun. So check it out. It's a blog post is on the Adafruit blog post. And again, huge shout to Rebecca and Kirkson for bouncing back. These these awesome codes. And I literally just grabbed the code and put it on the board in like under a minute. And it's very well docked, very well commented as well. Like they should be on GitHub. They put this on GitHub so folks can can enjoy it there. Oh, it's only on the forum. It's only on the forum, man. So I just posted a link to that. If anybody wants to try it out, please try it out. It's so fun and give Rebecca good, good. Couragements of encouragement. This is her first time and it's first aid of ox. So it's so good. All right. So that is. That is a bit of the shop talk. I think we have another shop talk segment. Do we know? Another shop talk. We have notes. Yes, we have the Hackaday Halloween Contest to promote. There's a couple of more entries added. These are so cool. This is amazing. Halloween coming up. Let me tell you real quick. OK, so head over to the link that we posted. Or you can search on hackaday.io. It's the Halloween hack fest that's going on right now. The deadline for this is I believe October 11th. So you have plenty of time to get your projects in. But the name of the game is you create a project on hackaday.io. And if you use Adafruit gear, your prize is doubled. How cool. So that is awesome. The prize is money with Digikey. So it's like credits for the Digikey store. They carry everything. So you're going to have lots of fun there. There's more awards and stuff that's there, but check them out. I just want to look at some of the entries. So far, I see five of them. And one of them that really caught my eye was this adorable baby Yoda. Do we still call him baby Yoda? I guess we call him the child. But this is like a Disney doll, I believe, that you can purchase. And this fellow completely 3D printed these fixtures and parts for these servos. I believe they're servo motors. And basically it's an amatronic baby Yoda. I mean, look at the movements. It's so adorable, creepy, and all the things together. It's so good. Look how fast it is, too. Yeah. It looks like he's puppeteering it. It's really, really cute. And he's walking. He's walking. Oh my god. So check out. Look how perfect this photo is. It's like happy. You're giving me a skeleton in life. So this is an excellent project. I'm biased, of course. But if you have my audio, none of the screen. What's wrong with it? Is there? Maybe for a second in the beginning of the segment. But yeah, check it out. There's lots of fun submissions. Even if you're not entering the contest, I think it'd be fun to just look at some of the submissions for inspiration. I know I'm inspired. Like I want to get into making a robot now with like eight servos. And there's some other really cool ones.  Probably moves his head or something. I think there's some servos in there as well. Of course. And of course, this is going to be a hard one for judging because they're just getting super awesome. Yeah, we showed this one last week, I think. The talking skeleton, which is pretty cool. So check this out. Good luck and have fun, right? Because the way to say it, the Halloween hack fest going on now. It's the maker holidays. Is that all the shop talk? I guess one last thing. Promote our CAD files. If you are looking to design an enclosure or a robot with Adafruit parts, we got lots of 3D models of just about every circuit python board, the trinkets, the cutie pies, the feathers, the 1x4s, the displays, even keycaps and other things like that. You can check out our GitHub repository with all of those lovely CAD files in different various formats as well. So if you are using something other than Fusion 360, you can use our step files or STL files or any other number of files that you want to re-export them as. Check them out. We'll have a link in the description of this video. And that is your shop talk. All right. Let's go ahead and jump into this week's community makes. All right. This week we have a time lapse every Tuesday. Pedro finds something on the whatever verses and prints something from the community that he thinks is really cool. This week, tentacles. I think it's pretty much Halloween themed. Tentacles. Having the tentacles and with the other show that we watch from What If, Marvel's What If. Of course, the, I forget the name of the dude, the octopus guy comes through the portal. There's an octopus guy? Yeah. This is the Carter episode. Like a Captain Carter, right? Yeah. Cofulo or something. Something like that. But this came up on the thing of the verse and I thought, hey, that looks pretty similar to what is going on in terms of shows we watch. So it's a little tentacle pen holder. If you guys use a Wacom pen or something as a mouse as I do, using the mouse hurts my hand for extended period of time. It's a really cool way to hold your Wacom pen. Does it hold the screwdriver? I mean, you can adjust the diameter of the hole, but yeah, it can hold it. Nice little holder. Probably put a couple of them in there since it's pretty big. This is made for the bigger pen sizes that the Wacom's have. But yeah, like the detail on all of the suction cups and prints without support, like this top part here. This was actually printed quite a while ago. I have like a backlog of time lapses and try to chew the time when, you know, it lines up with things that are going to pop culture or themed holidays or something. So the print quality on this one is not as up to par as I've been able to adjust all of the settings on the printer. But nonetheless, it's pretty good in terms of, you know, not having so much stringing going on with it. It kind of contributes, it kind of adds to the design. Like it has a little bit of zits and stuff like that. But hey, that's kind of the texture of the skin. This is like rainbow filament like what's going on? Yeah, this is rainbow filament and I caught it right out of perfect timing when it's going from like, it's like a coppery red into a green.  Green and browns, they kind of match. It's like a reddish brown. Yeah, greens and browns go well together. Really do. But yeah, great job on the color choice. Yeah, you got the, I didn't know at first because it looks like it, the colors doesn't look, yeah, it slowly fades in and it gives you this gradient which is like you did a multi-material, you paint it or something, but no. So let's look on Thingiverse. This is a thing that you can download by Bidu Madio, Thingiverse user, Bidu Madio posted this up and you can see a render of it and it comes in what different sizes or you can adjust the size yourself. You can adjust the size yourself. Cool, so shout out to Bidu Madio for posting that up on Thingiverse. It's a fun pen holder stylistic. That's sort of saying that it looks like little baby Starro. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's... Make it definitely add more textures on there with painting all the suction cups and all that. Yeah, a little way to hold on to your pen. All right, cool. So that's this week's Timeless Tuesday. We've got some more community makes that came in through the day. So let's take a look at some of them. Huge shout out to Tech Tile on Tech Tite on Thingiverse for posting their make of the Raspberry Pi B plus face case. Yes, the face case. This is a fun Raspberry Pi case. It has a face. I don't know what else to say about it. It's good for off your print and things like that. So check it out. So many folks have made this. I'm so happy. It was a bit of my thing to add a face to a case. 2014 and it's inspired by Domokan. Do I remember Domokan? No, if you don't, then sorry. All right, another one we have this week. It's the LED sand toy. Remember this one? It's a giant matrix. Pedro, you remember this. You designed this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So here you go. It's huge. Look at these big... Was inspired by like the speaking spell or something like that? I don't remember. It was inspired by the speaking spell. I think yeah, Philby because he did the code and Pedro did the handles design and the bracket design. So in the description here, Thingiverse user, Am Voxsite says, I reverted the button hole sizes needed for the 8 of your buttons and made the handles thinner so that we can screw on the fastening nut. I love when folks like redesign it to fit a different button or different hardware or for their purpose. This in this case it was wanted to make it thinner so that they can screw it in. But yeah, it's a super fun project. I think it uses the witch accelerometer, the LIS-Rediage brand. Is this updated? I think it's like updated. We didn't have a stem up back then. I know. That's cool. Yeah. So they remade the bracket so that it fits all this. But look at that. You have compartment for this giant beefy battery because you definitely need that. And it's powered by the Raspberry Pi. I completely forgot about that. This predates a lot of things. Yeah. I mean, yeah. But it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with the speaker bonnet or the RGB matrix bonnet. Yeah. I think this is like Lamar's first RGB matrix thing and it has a power boost for doing the five volts and you can recharge it. It's quite a build, but it's still easy. I think even for today's standards. So I printed it on a Prusa, Prusa clone. And yeah. There you go. So shout out to M-Box Tite. I don't think I've ever supposed to in their make. Of the LED Matrix Sand Toy. All right. We got another one. This is, remember Nefertiti? Well, somebody made the Nefertiti bust. We turned it into a planter. But yeah, this was back in the day. Well, a year was in 2016. Some rogue folks took a 3D scan. They allegedly took a 3D scan of the Nefertiti bust. And they uploaded the super high resolution STL model of Nefertiti's bust. We took that. What do you call it when you hollowed it out inside of? No, no, you take away the detail. Oh, gosh, my brains. You optimize it for less faces. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Decimate this. There's a word for it. God, we're dumb. Help me out. We lowered the polygon count so that it wouldn't, so that your slicer wouldn't crash when you opened it. Because this was like 100 megabyte file. So we brought it down, shelled it out, turned it into a planter, and we put some Terniverse plants in her head, which is a great use of it. So I think our user here, Epulga, posted up there, make of the Nefertiti bust. And it looks great in this shiny copper-esque filament. Yeah, this is a really good demo test for, if you've got a big build plate, there's a way to maximize the whole size of your printer. And you get a nice little planter out of that. Give her an Afro, that'd be super dope. And it looks like it was printed on an Ender, though Ender printers are awesome. So check this out, cruelty. Now you can see a bunch of the other makes there. You do a, do some, somebody like did some painting on it as well. Yeah, we printed it in wood filament, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like this was the, what was it? Quark? What was it? Oh, yeah. What was it, the hemp filament? The hemp filament? Remember the beer filament? There was a beer filament? There's so many filaments. There was a year of just like, the year of composites. Yeah, every year there was a new, every month there was a new flavor of filaments. But people tend to like turning it into a planter, so I thought that was fun. All right. We got one more, or two more here. I think it's one more. Yeah, one more here. This is from John Gallifer, a professor at Boston University. Made the eight by eight NeoPixel matrix square display in here. He's showing the difference between no black LED acrylic and some LED acrylic. It's quite the fact. Black LED acrylic is something that we love so much to be stock this acrylic. I don't know if it's still in stock. So let's check. Just type in black LED. There it is. Lamp. We still sell it. Get the 12 by 12 version. Get it using a scoring knife or a CNC mill. It's 10 bucks for a 12 by 12 sheet. And it's a 0.2 millimeter stick, which makes it great for really poppin' those colors out. We love this stuff so much. And we've used it in several projects. Shout out to for Charlotte. For, you know, that was the first person I saw use this stuff. She just used it not too long ago. I think we talked about it last week. On keycaps, yeah. Which is really cool. All right. So that is the, I think that was the last make, right? Yeah. John, Jeff, or did we talk about that last week? That was last week. Yeah, Jeff. The key cap. Yeah. Yeah. Remix. So thank you for posting your makes. It's always fun to see folks making things. Yeah. Even if it's not ours, it's always good to see. And that is. Give me your makes. All right. Well, celebrating eight years. Here we are. We're still here. Don't forget the coupon code is. And Pete, thanks. You know, could you take it to the positive things? No. And Pedro, thanks. Okay. Ten percent off on your order does not work on gift certificates or I owe subscriptions. Yes. Software or something. I don't think we sell software anymore. We're doing software anymore. But we used to sell Eagle like seven. Crazy. Oh, yeah. Now it's just in the past. It's literally in fusion. Mm hmm. Well, the times changed these eight years. But don't go anywhere later tonight. Full set of shows starting off with show and tell will be there on tonight. And if you want to come on and show on show off some of the cool projects you guys are working on doesn't have to be completed. We like seeing that work in progress projects or if you just want to show off your workspace or something that you're working on in the new CNC machine. Perhaps. Yeah. Very cool. Your modular synth. I'd love to see what kind of since you're cooking up. We'll post the stream yard link in the discord over at discord.gg slash a fruit. That's a couple minutes before the show starts. You can get in line and shelf your awesome project. That's right. And it's hosted this week by I think Lamar and Phil. So check them out. We hosted last week and that was a lot of fun. Thanks for everybody coming in last week. And then right after show and tell is asking engineer with Lamar and Phil. Full hour of all of the cool projects being worked on. All of the behind the scenes at the office and of course all of the new products coming out. So definitely stick around for that. Thank you everybody for your comments on coupon code. Sorry. What's a coupon code? Oh right. All right. On asking engineer there's a coupon code. I wonder if it's the same one. That'd be cool. That'd be easy. That would be easy. We like sometimes it's fine to be easy. And then tomorrow another set of shows coming up with John Park's workshop. Yeah. Episode 201. Yeah. Amazing John. Everybody's getting up there on the amount of projects and shows. So awesome. And then I think Friday. Friday's got to celebrate a five years too. Four years. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So every Friday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. What time is it? 5 p.m. Easter time. Yeah. On Fridays. A most popular live stream show I believe. Yeah. Scots is doing it up man. This is great. Really, really deep done. Watch him as he really gets into the nooks and crannies of getting the next circuit python build out. Yeah. And we just had circuit python seven beta zero released I believe yesterday. So shout out to Dan and everybody else on the team. Cool. Cool. And then Sundays. Sometimes Saturdays from the desk of Lady Eda. Check out the one of the most popular segments on there I think is Digikey's a great search. Yeah. Everybody needs to swap out whatever component they're using. So Lamar goes through, takes suggestions on a part that you might be looking for and finds alternatives. Yeah. So if you yourself are knee deep into your design, your designing a PCB or a product, you just can't find a replacement for your part. Ask Lady Eda. She will go out and research and find parts for you, which is amazing. So check her out. You can, where do you let her know? Probably email her. I think on the discord. Anywhere, yeah. You'll find it somehow. Discord is a good way to do it. Where's my discord thing? All right. Well, that's going to do it for the show folks. Huge thank you everybody in the chat room. Yes. We really appreciate your kind words. We are, yeah. We definitely love doing what we do here. We're eight years old. We're going to keep doing it. You would have won the lottery or something. We'd still show up and do this every single week. Yeah. Dude, can I tell you what I would want to do if I win the lottery? I would invest a lot of money in making circuit playground, the kid show again. I would love for that to just be the Sesame Street of this upcoming generation. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I would do if I had all the money. I would make a kid show with puppets about electronics and making stuff and what it means to do that. So much fun. All right. Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart. It's so awesome to see all your colleagues' comments. And yeah, we'll be here next week. We'll be on show and tell. So if we check that out until then. Remember to make a great day. Bye folks. See you later tonight. Later tonight.


I'm Shane Harris with the Albany Cooperative Extension System. Today is the first day of spring. A lot of folks are eager to get outside and do a little yard work. Maybe even get those spring gardeners ready to go. It's been a long winter. It's been a wet winter. But there's lots of things to be done. One thing is to get rid of the weeds. Get the garden ready.  Maybe take a soil test. Things like that. Let's talk about a few things that you can do this time of year. The traditional method of getting the spring garden ready each year is to get the tractor out and disk and plow the garden. I always call this the pop-all method because pop-all was always ready to get out and use this tractor for the first time each spring. Disking and plowing turns the weeds over, prepares the seabed and gets the garden and feel ready to plant in the springtime. Be sure to check the moisture content. You don't want to disk when it's too wet as it will cause heavy clods. Although laborsome, hand removal is another method of removing the weeds from the spring garden. This can take a lot of time and effort, but the chore must be done. One common method of controlling weeds in the garden is use of herbicides. Herbicides containing glyphosate, which is a non-selective herbicide, is commonly used to prepare the garden as well as control weeds. If such herbicides are used, it may take two weeks for symptoms to show as well as control to take place. Also, do not plant immediately. Allow a few weeks after the kill to plant the seeds or incorporate transplants. In addition to controlling the weeds, it's a good idea to take a soil test if you've not done one in the last three years. Using a soil test on a file is very valuable because it's going to tell you where your pH soil is, where your fertility level is, and what nutrients you may need to add. A soil test will check the pH level of your soil and tell you if you need to add lime or not to raise the pH up to six to six and a half, which is ideal for vegetable gardening. Many summer's problems, including blossom enrot, are related to low pH or high pH, so that's one way to correct those. But also check to tell you what your fertility level is and what nutrients you need to add or in case you may not need any at all for that particular year. Soil test kits and boxes are available at your local county extension office and located also at many of your local garden centers. For $7, you can test your soil to see exactly what you'll need this spring. Good luck in your spring garden this year. I hope you have a wonderful harvest. For more information, contact the local county extension office or visit us online at aces.edu. Go gardening.


Ladies and gentlemen, for the final award, Agency of the Year for third edition of Eforum Health Markup Award goes to How Us Life Sorento Private Limited. Truly How Us Blood right there. Come on, How Us Bolt. Let's give them a huge round of applause. Agency of the Year for the third edition of Eforum Health Markup Awards, How Us Life Sorento Private Limited. Have the team to please say a few words on winning this award. Please, anyone? Yes. All of you. Couple of things, right? I think winning awards is no joke. It's always really hard. Especially to win awards and stuff that you've done, real work that you've done for real clients, right?  So what is the hardest part of doing this? Convincing our creative team. More than convincing a client, these guys are tough, okay? So that's my answer. Congratulations. Okay. Well, the best convincing comes from the right brief. Not blaming the client. Now, I mean, I'm just going to thank everyone. I think today has been our day. It's been incredible. And like I said, this award, because it's not just judged by the creatives, but also by the industry, big weeks. It's special to us. It's very, very relevant. It's effective. It's creative. Thanks a lot. Thank you very much.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're going to be breaking down the intro riff to the Iron Maiden track Two Minutes to Midnight. So this video is part of a new little series we're doing with Blackstar where we're going to break down classic riffs and licks. Now this is where you guys come in so if there's any riffs or licks you guys want to see us break down in these videos throw them in the comments below. It doesn't matter what they are or what style we want to know what riffs and licks you guys want broken down. All the tones you're hearing in this video are coming direct from the Blackstar IDCore V3 that you see right beside me here. This is going direct into my DAW over a USB connection and I'm using the cab rig sim to get my speaker simulation. So for this tone I'm using the OD1 voice of the amplifier. I've got the gain on about one to two o'clock with the volume at about halfway. The EQ is pretty flat everything's pretty much up at midnight but the bass is cut back a little bit. I've also got the resonance boosted up to about two o'clock and the presence to about one o'clock. The cab I'm using is a 4x12 vintage cab which I've gone with a condenser mic option for. I've boosted the lows and cut the highs. This is a very kind of mid focused tone. If you like the tone from this video you can download the preset which is linked in the description below this video. You can download this and install the preset on your own IDCore amplifier or you can go onto the Blackstar online community and download it from there. So as I said at the start the riff I'm going to be playing is the intro riff to the Iron Maiden track two minutes to midnight. This was played by the guitar player Adrian Smith. Adrian Smith has actually used some Blackstar products on some fairly recent Iron Maiden albums. Although this album was not recorded with the Blackstar amp you can still dial in a tone that's very close to the record. So here's the riff in full and then we'll break it down. So this is a great effective heavy rock riff that uses some double stops on the D and G strings and a palm muted open A. So most of this rhythm is actually pretty straightforward. We're doing things in groups of three but we're actually playing straight eighth notes for most of this riff. So straight eighth note is going to go one and two and three and four and so there's not a lot of weird timing going on here. So the main pattern of this riff is pretty easy to get to grips with. We're starting with two open A strings which are both palm muted then I'm playing a double stop on the D and G strings. So I'm placing my index finger on the fifth fret of both of those notes. So I'm combining that with the open strings so it's one and two. I hit that double stop on the two. The next thing I'm doing is playing another two open A notes and then hitting another double stop but this time on the seventh fret. Now you can use whichever fingers you want for this whenever I do it I use my third and my little finger at the same time. You could just play this with a single finger if you wanted to though. So now if you put those two parts together you get this. So with this being straight eighth notes that takes us up to the end of our third beat. One and two and three and so we've actually hit that second double stop on the end of three. On the fourth beat there's just two more open strings. So the first part is and then if I play that one bar at full speed this is what it sounds like. So the second bar now is going to start with that fifth fret double stop once more on the first beat then we've got another pair of open strings on the A followed by another seventh fret double stop. This comes on the end to end. So if I put those two bars together I have the entirety of the first bar and then in the second bar I have one and two and. So this is where we deviate from that note length slightly so instead of playing straight eighth notes at this point I'm actually holding that final seventh fret double stop for an entire beat. Even though it falls on the end of two I'm holding it until the end of three. Then I'm playing it again on the end of three holding that for a full beat and then on the end of four I'm playing it once more. On those second two repeats so on the end of three and on the end of four I'm actually applying some vibrato to this as well. This is why I prefer to play this with my little finger and my third finger I just find it a bit easier to apply that vibrato. So here's those two bars slowly and then at full speed. This riff also has a second part so the next bar is going to be the same as the first bar and then the fourth bar of the riff instead of going back up to that seventh fret double stop I'm coming down to this A power chord. So that's the open A string and the second frets on the D and G. Still doing the fifth fret double stop before that on the one followed by the two open A strings. Then I hit that A power chord on the end of two and let that ring for the entire rest of the bar. So here's the back half of the riff slowly and then at full speed. So now we just have to put both halves of that together so here's the entire riff start to finish all four bars slowly and then once more at full speed. So there you go there is a breakdown of the riff from the Iron Maiden track two minutes to midnight. Let me know down below in the comments how you guys have gotten on with that riff and also let me know if there are any other riffs or licks from classic tracks you'd like to see us break down in these videos and if you are using an idcore v3 amp don't forget to download the patch and apply that to your own amp as well so you can get in the right ballpark with the sound. Thank you all so much for watching I hope you've enjoyed this lesson don't forget to check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for more video lessons just like this and if you're looking for a guitar teacher please head to musicteacher.com and check out the Music Teacher Database there's a network of great teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon.


There are plenty of stories about victory at the Boston's head of the Charles Regatta. We have the ones that brag about it, the ones that celebrate it, and then we have the sincere emotions of stars Petty Mitchell, Cameron Sinclair, and their charismatic coach, Joe Dobson. I only raced once. That was 51 years ago. I spent 25 years in the Navy driving destroyers, got back into rowing in 1989, and been coaching since then. Dobson started training Mitchell and Sinclair three years ago. They competed in one of the para-rowing categories of the Regatta. Petty has a disability where she has her left leg fused from her hip all the way down to her ankle. Cam, who's the stroke of the boat, he is a neurological issue where his legs go to sleep when he sits down, he just can't use them. Not longer after the races started, Mitchell and Sinclair were already ahead of their rivals. And here they go! It is Mitchell and Sinclair! Well, the experience of today was a great one. We got up around five o'clock in the morning, got to BU. We had a short time where we did some warm-up. We tried to do a visualization, but it ran out of time. And then we're in a situation where we talked over what we're going to do. They went out on the water, and this is where, as a coach, I feel very helpless because they're gone, my puppies have left the kennel, what am I going to do? Well, he didn't have to do much at that point. Mitchell and Sinclair won the Regatta and received the gold medal for the third year in a row. Hugs, smiles, greetings, and another victory for them to take home. It's Canada for Sinclair, Florida for Mitchell. The collection for Coach Dubson will be towards the success of their team and the sparkle of a gold medal that also belongs to him. Emilio Domenic, BU News Service.


Welcome to The Anxious Morning. Every weekday morning we'll take a few minutes to go over some important lessons that you can use in your anxiety recovery journey. Away from the endless noisy scroll of social media, The Anxious Morning brings you support, education, inspiration, encouragement, and empowerment. For more, visit us at theanxiousmorning.com Our community is quite full of people that identify very strongly with their thoughts. They have formed the habit of latching onto their thoughts almost automatically. They see thoughts as sacred, powerful, and worthy of attention, honor, and respect at all times. This must be important. It comes from inside me. If you feel that statement in your bones, then you are likely used to following some basic rules surrounding thinking and interpreting your thoughts. Do any of these statements about thinking sound familiar to you? I must trust my gut. My thoughts are my intuition telling me something. I must find out what that is. My thoughts are who I am. They signal my virtues and represent the core of my being. My thoughts are the voice of my soul. To heal, I must examine my thoughts to find out what my soul is saying. These are just a few short examples. If any of them resonate with you, then there is a chance that you are on the habit of identifying with your thoughts and treating them as very important automatically and by default. This is likely having a real impact on your mental state by helping to fuel your anxiety or at least keeping you stuck and struggling in recovery. Now let me be clear on this to avoid any confusion. Nobody is ever telling you that you're not allowed to have thoughts or that nothing you think ever matters. This is not an Ein Rand book. I am only saying that automatically treating all or most of your thoughts as sacred and worthy of attention and examination can be problematic. Why? To put it bluntly, our minds are capable of producing extreme genius and astounding beauty, but they are also capable of producing mundane nonsense or even complete garbage.  A stressed out anxious mind will throw all kinds of stuff at the wall just to see what sticks. Much of it winds up being unhelpful to say the least. If you're reading this, the odds are high that you've experienced rapid, persistent thoughts that tell you that you are in continuous danger of dying, losing control, going insane, or performing unspeakable acts against your will. These thoughts never come true, no matter how loud and powerful they may seem, yet they persist. Here we have real world examples of the ability of a human mind to produce content of questionable value. Now before you freak out, take a breath. You are still a beautiful being, but sometimes your mind just doesn't bring its A game. That's okay. When you stop and look at this situation, can you start to see why operating from the assertion that you must follow every thought could cause a problem? Maybe you can start to see how viewing your thoughts as sacred and important has already contributed to anxiety and recovery problems in your life. If you're in the habit of following your catastrophic what if thoughts every single time they pop up, you know what I'm saying. The goal today is to point out the habit of living as if every thought is special and why this is not terribly helpful, especially in the context of anxiety and recovery. This is a topic we will return to and touch on pretty regularly here. For now, see if you can take a few minutes today to consider how you relate to your thoughts and what you believe about them. Are you relating to your thoughts in a way that is helping you or hurting you? Do you really want to be your thoughts? Tomorrow we'll take a look at the benefits of doing one thing at a time. Hey, if you're enjoying the podcast and you'd like to get a copy of it delivered every morning into your email inbox, including a full text transcription, head on over to the anxious morning dot email and sign up for the newsletter. And if you're listening on iTunes or Spotify or someplace where you can leave us a rating or a review, take a moment and rate the podcast and maybe write a small review. It really helps us out or just tell a friend about us. Thanks a lot.


So I wanted to talk to you guys today about mastering your didactic gear. So that is what we're going to be talking about in this video. I'm going to give you a tool that I think is really the ultimate tool to your success. So let's get into the video right now.  Isidana. Welcome back to my channel. Okay. So like I said, this video is going to be about mastering your didactic gear. Now didactic gear can be very difficult. You're doing a lot of studying. You're getting a lot of information and it can be difficult to process and then kind of like also go over and keep in your mind. So I wanted to talk to you about the didactic cube bank that Ross review has. Now obviously if you've seen some of other videos I've actually done a video on this but I wanted to do a little bit more like of a deep dive a more in-depth review slash kind of tutorial about this particular cube bank. So you can see all of the various different things that you have at your disposal and that will help you not only master didactic gear but really like succeed in didactic gear. So let's take a look at the cube bank and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about. So this is the desktop version of Ross review. You would go to the PA section and go to the didactic gear. Here in the didactic gear section you would have not only your didactic gear exams but you would have access to also purchase the clinical EKG cube bank. This allows you to just kind of get more familiar with EKGs and just be more comfortable with them. When you sign into the interface you'll see just an overall view of what you've done so far and then they'll also have various different exams that you can either purchase or those that you can obtain for free which is a really nice feature that they do offer in these boost exams and just kind of testing your knowledge with respect to what you've learned thus far in PA school and kind of what you've learned while doing the various different Ross review cube banks. To create your own exam you just go to the create your exam tab. You want to make sure that you're in the right cube bank because there are several different cube banks that they offer so I'm in the didactic gear cube bank.  Something simple is really all you need and I'm going to just do five questions because I want to show you what it what it offers. You can do test or tutor mode. Tutor mode will give you answers and then you can choose if you want all or used unused items flagged items or items that you've missed. You can also decide whether or not it's time. Another really cool feature is that you can use it across your different technologies so you can use it with your tablet or with your cell phone which is actually a really nice feature to have it as an app so that you're able to have it right at your fingertips when you're on the go. It still has the same setup. You can still see the test you've paid for and the exams that you've already started. Here you can also review the exams you've started or do one that's already in progress. I like this feature that gives you a cumulative just view of your overall performance. It shows you your probability of passing the boards, how you're faring on the particular blueprint content, how you fare with different age demographics and the various different question types which is really nice so that it helps you better prepare for not only your didactic gear exams but your board exams. So as you can see the question bank really is a very nice way to not only truly like get your answers and questions and test your knowledge but reinforce that knowledge as well with the explanations and the diving further into your like your little extra nuggets of questions. It's really a benefit and I know for me like I didn't have the didactic year cue bank and I wish I did but I was able to use rush reviews cue bank to help test me and reinforce that knowledge. It's also really has benefits that go beyond just like your individual study and so you can use this cue bank to not only study in your individual small setting but in a small group setting where you're able to bounce these questions off of each other off of the other individuals in your group so that you're able to actually not only like see like what your train of thought is but what some of your classmates train of thought is and you guys can discuss why you thought the answer was what it was and you know why it may not have been what it was. Let's take another look at the cue bank and I'll show you like some of the really cool features that I like about this cue bank. So one of my favorite features is the fact that you get an explanation when you submit your answer and this is really in the tutor mode it shows you why your answer is correct and why the other answers are incorrect. It also gives you a peer comparison so you can see how you fear against your peers that are taking the exam and it gives you a picture of the material. It also allows you to just kind of go one step further with the various different questions which is such a benefit when going into your clinical year of PA school. You also have the opportunity to pause your exam and restart it at a later time if you so choose which is a nice option. Lastly I wanted to show you this option right here which I think is a game changer. You can actually type in any subject matter that you want into the search bar and then search for it. That way you will be able to see all of the various different content on that particular material that you're asking about and you can choose to go in and look at the question look at the scenario so you can see why that particular answer of subject matter pertains to this particular scenario and it still gives you the information of going one step further. This is really really great for not only your didactic year learning but for also your clinical year learning because if you're being asked a question or if you have seen something on your clinical year that you were unfamiliar with or heard something that you were unfamiliar with you can simply just type it in to the search bar and then all of the different content that is across Roche Reviews Cubing will be pulled and you can choose to see hey look why is it this why does it pertain to that why is this information preeclampsia and it's really really a benefit for you because this allows you not only to reinforce information that you may already be fully aware of but it also gives you the opportunity to truly learn information and just kind of grasp the various different concepts that you're learning not only in didactic year but being able to now apply it to your clinical year so this feature right here is truly a game changer. So as you can see the question bank is not only useful in your learning in didactic year but you can really translate it and use it to reinforce what you've learned in a clinical year as well when you're going through these rotations and getting pimped by your various different preceptors on questions in particular rotations and specialties. So ultimately with dedication and studying and the right tools like this particular q-bank that Roche Review offers for your didactic year you can not only like succeed in didactic year but truly conquer didactic year okay so if you have any of the questions for me leave them in the comment section below don't forget to like and subscribe follow me on instagram and addon the pa and on instagram and get that to university we have some like fresh revamps coming so hopefully you can start mastering your didactic year today with the use of Roche Review's q-bank and i wish you many blessings on your journey.


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