Live from New York, it's Ask an Engineer. Hey, everybody, and welcome to yet another Ask an Engineer. It's me, Lady Aida, the engineer. With me is Mr. Lady Aida on camera control and keeping everything behind the scenes running so that I can do the engineering. And we got an exciting show for you tonight, a lot of news and updates and videos and products. So we're gonna get right into it. Mr. Lady Aida, what's on tonight's show? On tonight's show, the code is deluxe. Code is deluxe, 10% off in the Adafruit Store, all the way up to 11.59 p.m. Eastern time. Or if I fall asleep and I don't remember to turn off the code, you probably have a little bit more time than that. But do try to get your orders in also because it's a time for high demand. Lots of people want lots of things and you get to save 10% off in the Adafruit Store. We'll talk about the Adafruit Live series of shows, including Show and Tell, how to fantastic show and tell. Thank you everyone who stopped by. Oh, that was amazing. Yeah. Time travel, look around the world makers, hackers, artists, engineers. We'll also do some fun retro tech. We did a little bit of a preview of that as I just started. Main New York City factory footage, a look around here at Adafruit, what we're making and more. 3D printing, what November page we're up to and a cool speed up. We have IonMPI, I brought to you by Adafruit and Digikey where Lady Aida shows you the newest product that's on digikey.com. Got new products, top secret. We answer your questions and big news. We did have 33,000 people in our Discord server community and now we have 34,000. That just happened right before we went on air. And you can join us, adafruit.it, slash discord or discord.gg, forward slash adafruit, all that and more on, you guessed it. Okay, so I wanna start off before we do the full show and first off just say thank you to everyone out there who emailed our team, asked us how we were doing. A lot of folks know we're in New York City, a lot of folks know that our team lives and works also in Brooklyn and there was a mass shooting on the subway yesterday and it was terrible for everyone in the city. New York City comes together but this is all still very raw but what I wanted to do is just say here's what happened here in New York City, here's the impact it had and here's some of the things that we did. It's gonna take a while to process this and earlier today before we went live on the shows, they have arrested the person who did this. So that was a bit of a relief because we were all about to commute home, people have kids in school, yesterday there were school lockdowns. So yesterday in the morning, not 8.30 or so, there was a shooting but it took a little while for the news to come out. It was unknown what happened, there was maybe 30 people injured. One thing I wanna mention is thank goodness there was 30 shots all together and no one died, no one was killed. There was 20-something people in the hospital and all but three have been discharged already and it looks like all are gonna be okay. There was some shots fired, there was like a smoke bomb, smoke grenade and it was scary and we all watched this real time on social media and we were getting information and there was nothing on the news yet and so we immediately sent out an email to our entire team and let them know this is something that's happening. Don't worry about getting to work, if there's delays or whatever, don't worry about it, we'll take care of any of the time off, pay you for this, don't worry about that, some people worry about that. And folks got in, it happened earlier and no one happened to be at that spot, we have 100 plus people commuting every day to Adafruit in some way and so as soon as we got some of the news we used our email system together, we also used, we have an internal Slack and then we also, and this is just something that I thought would be helpful to tell other people who work at companies or run businesses, we have everyone's contact information and their emergency contact and so what we did immediately is make sure we could account for everyone who was supposed to be here if they were running late, text them, where are you, are you okay? Cause there was a lot of people missing at the time. And then one of the things, as the situation developed, we reassured folks, if there's things that are continuing on, don't worry about that, we are going to take care of one another because it's unknown what's gonna happen with subways today, it's unknown what's gonna happen with transportation, don't worry about getting to your loved ones, make sure you tell them that you're okay. And it was just a lot of like reassuring folks what was gonna happen in the next 24 hours. I lived through 9-11 and it just, it reminded me a little bit of that and we also had last couple of years have been really challenging. And so after the team got in, everyone was accounted for, we started to get up more information as the story developed throughout the day. They were looking for the suspect, there was information that the authorities were trying to get out and we just kept our team updated. We did an end of day recap. We made sure there was open line communication to everyone, what are you worried about? Some of the things that you don't think about is if you're someone who kind of looks like the person they're looking for, that makes your life complicated and it makes, you're worried that maybe their cops are gonna mistake you for this person and this has happened before and so there's a lot of things that go on and a lot of anxiety when things like this happen. So we made sure that our team knew, maybe you don't take the subway, maybe we could send a car to get you home. So there's a lot of things that go into this and the news paints a different picture of New York than what New York is. It is a very good, fun, safe place. This type of thing is very rare but of course it's very shocking. So a couple of years ago we also added pay time offer gun violence for anyone affected by gun violence because it is a thing in the USA unfortunately and so we made sure our team knew if they had a circumstance, even if it wasn't related to this, that they had that for mental health there or whatever and so today was a bit of relief. I think we all had a collective sigh of relief. The person was apprehended not too far from here. It was in Manhattan, the East Village, first in St. Mark's, one of the places we walk by all the time and so the person had left Brooklyn and they were in Manhattan. So that's what went on here. So I wanted to just give you like, this is like real time, this is from people that you all know and that's what we did to take care of our team and it's not over. It's gonna take a while for everyone to feel safe again and we're just gonna continue to work with one another and on a last note, I don't know how to solve the mental health crisis in the world or the US but what I do know is every single person has a chance to be good to one another every single day. You get to decide every day if you're gonna help someone, if you're going to hurt someone and some people are struggling and they need help and they're alone and things bubble up and things build up and this is one of the outcomes and it seems to be happening more and more. So that extra one minute maybe sometimes to check in on someone or talk to someone in a family that's not doing so well. It could save a lot of lives. Thank goodness, this particular incident, it was terrible, no one died. That's not always true. So anyways, that's what's been going on here and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who immediately reached out. Some folks know us really well and they're like, are you okay? I know some of you live right there. So thank you, we appreciate it and we're all okay. All right, let's go on to the show, Lady Aida. So as folks stock up their cart and support a New York City company, I got to roll out- Local employees. Yeah, by the way, we're not going anywhere, we're here to stay. We like building stuff in the USA and New York City and we like it so much, we give you free stuff. That's right, when you order from AdFruit, we give you some freebies in your cart, we're gonna be adding some more freebies soon, we just have to get components but we hope to be adding another RP2040 freebie soon but for now, $99 or more, we get a free permaporto half-sized breadboard, $149 or more, you get a STEMI QT breakout. If you make an account, we'll send you a different one each time. In fact, the Vemmel 770 that we're gonna be announcing today is, it just got added because it's a fun luck sensor, it's very easy to use, works of our I-Squared-C and then $199 or more, you get free UPS ground shipping in the content of United States. Yeah, and I don't know how long the $200 free shipping tier, sorry, the shipping tier that we have is gonna last because we might have to raise it because of even Amazon's raising their prices because fuel and surcharges are getting expensive. Yeah, the cost of ground shipping is up 50% basically. Yeah, it's going up. And another reminder, make sure you have an account, verify it via email and then put two factor authentication because that's the only way to get a Raspberry Pi in a lot of high demand. Yeah, if you want to pick up one of our Raspberry Pies and we tend to put in a couple hundred every week, so just be aware, maybe someone's going tomorrow, maybe someone Friday, make your account, get two factor authenticated, get all your shipping information ready to go, fill your cart with anything else you want so that when we do put the pies in, you can add it and check it immediately. Don't, people are like, oh, I didn't sign up for two factor and I didn't put my address in and then by the time I checked out, I went out of time.  All right, so we did a live series of shows this week. There was a couple of things that got moving around because of schedules and more, but so far so good. We just finished up the show and tell. We do that every Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. It's either a late eight and I or no one Pedro or JP and this week on the show and tell, there was lots, watch it. We showed the connection machine, we showed a lot of cool LEDs, we showed the doom stroller, but I think the thing that was, I mean, they were all good projects, but one of the things I thought that was really neat this week was Matt stopped by and showed all of these IOT sensor things to automate a food bank. And a food bank not as, I have to be careful because the word bank doesn't mean anything anymore. It's where people go who need food. A food pantry. Food pantry, yeah. And so it's a really neat thing that Matt's been volunteering for since he's been 18 and you can see all the problems that were solved. Oh, what's the temperature of the refrigerator? What if the refrigerator is open and that has to reset the temperature of the refrigerator because you also want to know if someone accidentally left it open and there's this cool ticket system and how the numbering works. And it is amazing. So here's just like one, Matt sent this to me, I had a time in case because he did a mobile demo, which is always challenging with like, you know, walking around show and stuff. And it prints out things and it uses a lot of really neat off the shelf things to basically run a food pantry. So excellent work Matt and I'll be using that link when people say, well, what can IOT do? Because there's a lot of like, oh, smart cities. Well, what about smart pantries? What about smart food banks? Well, I thought it was interesting about the food bank is the first thing you should is, you know, people may pick up, want to pick up their food and they don't have a phone. And it's true, like some people don't have a phone or their phone is broken. It's like, you can't have something where it depends on you having a cell phone number and SMS. So you made sure that it was possible for people to put their hand over the sensor and it would just print out a tag with unique identifiers that then, you know, if they didn't have a phone, they at least had a number and identifier that they could use. Okay. On Sundays, we do from the desk of Lady Aida this week. It's always in two parts. The first part, we showed off some things from the mailbag and this cool space ball mouse-like entity that you showed how to use with Python. Yeah, and I got that working and I put the gist app. So if you have a space ball 2000, I mean, there's other projects to get it working with CAD software, but I want to just get the raw data out. And so we did that, you know, I looked at the protocol and quickly threw together a PySerial script and yeah, well, the buttons and the ball rotation worked pretty well. So it's, you know, it could be used for other user interface needs. We also had a weird, or do we know compatible that was pink that we showed off from the mailbag. Yeah, let's keep that. And then the great search that we do every week is how to find stuff because you need to find stuff because stuff is hard to find. Stuff is hard to find. So I looked up a three volts RS232 to serial converter, which would be the chip I'd used to talk to this kind of space ball 2000 device and I thought I'd maybe make a feather wing with it. So I wanted to find a chip that was inexpensive and in stock and I did find one. That's the challenge, not just finding the part, but finding the part you can get. Yeah. JP's product picture of the week was off this week. You will see it coming up soon. JP's show will be back tomorrow. JP was on vacation. And we have this week's highlight that we normally show right after JP's show. So we have this week's Circuit Python Parsec. Take it away, JP. The Circuit Python Parsec. For the Circuit Python Parsec, today I wanted to show you how to use a touch screen in Circuit Python. In this case, I'm using a PyPortal Titano, the big one. So you can see here what I have to start with is this really cool bouncing logo. Touch screen element here can give us X and Y position as well as pressure. I'm just using X and Y. So all I need to do is touch somewhere on the screen and you can see I'm repositioning where that logo is. I'm not changing anything about its sort of inertia and angle that it's going at. But if I have it, let's say bouncing down into the left and I just wanna speed things along and get closer to the bottom there, I can tap it, just moves the logo to that new position. And in fact, if I click and drag, you can see it, it'll follow my finger around until I let go. So the way I'm doing this in code, first of all, I'm importing the Adafruit Touchscreen Library and then I do some display stuff, some set up some palettes and set up my logo as a bitmap. But the touch screen stuff is right here. I'm creating this object, I call it TS for touch screen. TS equals AdafruitTouchScreen.touchScreen and then we're telling it four pins that it uses, a four wire touch screen. And on this particular board, they're named TouchYD, so y-axis up and down, y-u and x-right, x-left. So those four pins are selected. The calibration values actually are set at the factory, so you generally don't have to mess with those. And then I'm telling it what size the display is. That's all you have to do for set up. Then to use it, all we do is query this, touch equals TS.touchPoint. And what that's gonna give us is an x and a y position on the screen. It also gives us that z depth, I'm just not showing that here. And then I'm using those to adjust that value that was already in the code for moving this around. So you can use this for things like painting or placing objects or drawing, maybe even changing vertices on vector IO stuff would be kind of a cool use for it. And so that is how you can use a touch screen inside of CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython, far sec. Okay, and as we mentioned on the show and tell, Tim, stop by. And this Friday at 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern, there's gonna be a big CircuitPython library deep dive and especially as Catney. Yeah, so Catney's a snake in that little graphic. We have some news about libraries in CircuitPython later on in the show. But if you wanna learn about how these are all made, how they're structured, how to join in, how to participate. You're welcome. Yeah, come on by. All right, let's do some time traveling. Okay, a little bit of a reminder because we gotta say it every single week, we are still waiting on many things to arrive for the next eight of box. We appreciate all the patience people have. Also, one thing I wouldn't have expected over the last few years. So I would have expected folks to say, well, you know, it's COVID, there's lockdown. Not gonna, I'm gonna cancel all my subscriptions and everything because there's uncertainty. No, we actually had more people sign up for the eight of box subscriptions during that time because they wanted to occupy themselves with things that made them happy and they wanted to get through that time. And then there's been a part shortage and I was worried, okay, well, folks are gonna say, well, I didn't get the eight of box.  So would it be the end of eight of box? No, turns out we have more people waiting to sign up for eight of boxes than we've ever had before. So we appreciate the patience. We're shipping soon. We're now calling this the spring edition. We don't charge for eight of box until it's shipped. So you don't have to worry about that, but we do have a limited number of slots. So if you wanna get eight of box, go to eightofbox.com. Sign up, you'll get notified if anyone leaves and that's one of the things that does happen. Sometimes someone will leave and then someone immediately gets their slot. You get notified that you can join in. So anyways, thank you for your patience. We appreciate it, but y'all know what's going on in the world and in every way, shape, and form. So thanks for being patient. Okay, RetroTech. This is probably one of the more popular RetroTech video and photo shoots that we did. So this is a book from the 80s and it's called Inside the Personal Computer and Illustrated Introduction in Three Dimensions. And every single page has a 3D pop-up that has computers, which in 1984, they were very understandable and you could open them up and you could see what was going on, but not everyone had computers yet. And the concepts still need to be explained and a lot of these concepts are still the same. And when you go through each page and I'm gonna show the video without the sound because we showed them at the beginning of the show, it explains what is RAM, what are hard drives, what are, how does it, how does it chip work? And I- It's so cute. And I really hope that, here's Floppy. And I think this is the only book that has a like, quote, functional floppy in it because it shows how it works. But I really hope that there's a a revisiting of this approach because how does your phone work? Wouldn't it be nice if there was like a pop-up book or something that explained the concepts of how the LEDs get on the screen? And so one of the things about a pop-up book though is yeah, we could scan it in, but you kind of have to see it. So we also made a video that highlighted all the different things. So there's a floppy coming out. Next page, it's a keyboard. Here's how bytes work. And it explains all these concepts. So if you grew up in this era, you have a better idea of how computers work. Maybe you went on to do stuff with technology, but right now it's all kind of sealed up. You don't get to understand how all these things work as much. So one of the reasons that we do these retro, retrospect is to hopefully inspire people to do things like this. I'd like to see a pop-up book that explains how the Raspberry Pi works. That'd be cool. I maybe will email them about this. So that's this week retro. Python on hardware. Okay, this week, lots of news. And I'm gonna divide up the news in two sections. Straight-up newsletter stuff. So this is from the newsletter. I've already scrolled down because we're gonna talk about some other stuff in a second, but Python 311 to be twice as fast as its predecessors. Ooh. That's a- To people like that. That's a big deal. Because Python is, Python's not slow, but it could be faster. Yeah, in October of 2022, the plan is to have it quadrupled, but we'll see. Okay. It's in there. So the presentation about all this is more is on GitHub. PSF, Python Software Foundation has a new executive director, meet Deb. Can read about Deb and more. This was interesting. I'm gonna caution y'all who are Super Python fans. So IEEE spectrum, top programming languages for embedded. Python, Python? Could it be? Was it embedded or just- Yeah, so see the little chip? So it's web, it's computer. Oh, and embed. And embed. So Java is still being on mobile, C, mobile, C++, but I think these results are a little skewed and I think it's our fault. Okay. So there's a lot of people getting into programming on microcontrollers and they're using circuit Python, they're using MicroPython, they're using Python on something like a Raspberry Pi. Yeah. And so I think that it's skewing that way, which is fine. I don't necessarily think that everyone who's doing embedded is doing Python yet, but I think we're getting closer and closer because so many people know Python that it translates really well to whatever you happen to be in front of. And batteries included so you get very far, very fast. And when people need to do things, like you were doing this HID mouse from 30 years ago, use Python to interact with it. It makes it real easy, makes it real easy. So it's interesting, like I said, I don't think that Python is number one. And they also classify Arduino as its own language on here so that Arduino is number 11. Python zip to the top at number one. I think obviously there's a lot of people using Arduino for embedded. So anyways, interesting stuff. Take a look at it. I believe Spectrum is serious business so that's kind of neat to see. We have all of the news that you can expect in our newsletter every single week. This is kind of a neat, portable severance limit terminal. I think Todd bought that one. It's kind of like the DVD logo. And all the projects that you know and love and get inspired by YouTube. There's some fun part.  It's called the Cooks Radiometer. Somebody made like a cyber one. There is a LinkedIn class, CircuitPython, connecting a robot cat to the internet. I mean, look at that cat. Yeah, and E-Ink badges and more, but the news this week, a lot of it is CircuitPython related, because we gotta talk about it. First up, thank you again, everyone who joined the Discord, 34,000 people. This particular month happened faster or the time period to get there. This is what the Discord growth looks like all the way back from 2019. It's pretty linear. And not bad. And we also don't publish our server into the directory because it bots use it and spam and lots of drive buys. And so this is people who actually wanna stop in and do things. Yeah, it's interesting. If you look, it looks like right when COVID hit, there was a big spike. It looks like it was about March, 2020. A lot of people joined. We also did a membership drive when we were in server discovery. We're just like, hey, everybody stop by, but it turns out that wasn't great for all of our moderators and for all of us because there was just a lot of bots spam. And then on Reddit, we just hit 3,000 people on the CircuitPython Reddit and go to reddit.com slash r slash circuitpython. And then we hit 350 libraries. And that's what we're talking about on Friday in deep dive. And here's a chart of how the libraries are going. Looking good. Nice graph. Yeah. And so I guess I wanted to ask you because we turned this little segment into a standalone thing. Why do you think there's so many CircuitPython libraries? There's 350. I vote a lot. But why do you think? Because we have more CircuitPython libraries and Arduino libraries. And why did that happen? We actually have about the same number. But I think we have about, well, I mean CircuitPython, we have contributions too. It's almost the same. Okay, let's say it's, why did it catch up so fast? Yeah, why catch up so fast? Which is a good question. You know, one of the things when we designed CircuitPython is we kind of came at it backwards. One of the things I wanted to make sure is that we had a lot of libraries. It was easy to write libraries. It was these support libraries because at the time, I was writing libraries for, you know, MicroPython as well as for Python on Raspberry Pi. And that was what was driving me nuts was like I had to support both because MicroPython was different enough from Python that the code wasn't compatible. And so we specifically designed CircuitPython to make it so that code could run on a Raspberry Pi computer or a Raspberry Pi Pico now. And it would be the same code. You know, the pin numbers would change, but that's normal. Like that, you know, that always changes. But the functionality and the way the code was written and the libraries was written and supported would be the same. So what's great is that for every product we make now, we make sure to have a CircuitPython library because it covers, you know, hundreds of single board computers because Raspberry Pi and all the Raspberry Pi likes as well as the, you know, 200 different, you know, 250, 260 different CircuitPython boards. And the universality of those libraries was, yeah, it was really important. 295 boards. 290, almost 300, almost 300 boards. It was a graphic company that's gonna be the three. It's like this, but 300. It's like three with 300. And another thing is that, you know, we sell hardware and so I wanna make sure that people can use our hardware with CircuitPython.  Like why is it different than MicroPython? Why didn't you just use machine? And the answer was at the time there was actually wasn't a unified interface. There wasn't a unified way to make sure that a library would run on every MicroPython board. You know, later on machine was invented and PiB went away, but for a long time, it was like every board had their own kind of slightly different way of defining stuff. And so having a universal bus library, a bus interface for CircuitPython meant that we could write libraries and they would work on every board. And so far, other than a couple of freaky exceptions with like I squared C and, you know, whether they have clock stretching support or not, pretty much every library will run on any CircuitPython board and that was a goal and I think we've done a really good job of it. And just from like a very high level thing, from I think an observer would say, oh, you have, because you have lots of libraries, you have lots of boards, but because we have lots of boards, we have lots of libraries. Like it's really neat. No, we wrote the libraries first. The libraries came before the boards. It's really neat and there's folks that have entire businesses based on the fact that they don't have to worry about the software for the hardware because every time there's a new version of CircuitPython, it just works because there's universal support across 295 boards. And another, you know, 150 Linux boards. Yeah, so anyways, big milestone. Thank you everyone who's been a contributor and everyone who's been watching this story. It is part of the newsletter delivered to you every single week. We don't spam or anything like that. You can go to AdafruitDaily.com and sign up. All right, open source hardware time, Lady Aida. First up, big news. Next week is the Open Hardware Summit April 22nd. It is virtual. Look at these cool graphics. And we were asked by the Open Hardware Summit folks, will you get the word out about a special thing that's happening? And when I said, yeah, sure. Let me put it on our show. Cause these are the folks that will actually do the call to action as they say in the biz. So, Ashwa is excited to share that SparkFind is sponsoring one more round of goodie bag shipping after the summit, April 2022. They have 95 more bags available globally, as well as free and donation tickets are available. This is the bag you get.  Thank you, SparkFind. It will be shipped. Okay, we have 2,655 guides in the Adafruit Learning System, Ladiata. There is a bunch. The guides get better and better each week. What is this week's guides? Okay, well, we've got a guide for the QDPI BFF LiPoly add-on. That was something that folks wanted me to build and then Katni kindly wrote a quick guide for it. It's straightforward, but good to have. The ESP32 S2 Feather Guide got a whipper snapper page, how to install whipper snapper and use it. We're adding quick start whipper snapper guides to all of our Wi-Fi boards to make it really easy for people who don't want to write any code at all. Even CircuitPython Arduino, they want to get started with a no-code IoT solution to do so. And next up. Same with the QDPI ESP32 S2 that also got a whipper snapper guide and the quick start for Adafruit IO whipper snapper. Some of the pages got gutted out of there and we just point people towards the hardware page. Liz did this really cool doom scrolling shell. It's a wireless, we're going to show the video, but it's a scroll wheel. We have this really cool like iPod classic-esque scroll wheel and we thought it would be really funny to make a scrolling controller that you could also play doom with. And also the Feather ESP32 S2 TFT I think also got a whipper snapper upgrade. So that's a whipper. And here's a demo from Liz. And it's time for some Manurex City Factory footage. We can't stop, we won't stop. Here it is. And it wouldn't be Manurex City Factory footage without a view outside Adafruit, which is the Disney headquarters. Ooh, they're putting the windows. They're putting the outer shell on it. That's actually kind of fun. Yeah. All right, 3D printing time. We have Feather video and then we have a speedup. So we're going to show these back to back. You ready? Yep. Hey, what's up, folks? In this video, we're taking a look at the new Adafruit Feather ESP32 V2. This is a big upgrade over the original. The V2 has eight megabytes of flash. That's twice as much storage. It also has two megabytes of PS RAM, mini NeoPixel, Stem AQT, and a USB C port. It's designed for low power usage, so you can use a light poly battery in deep sleep. It features the ESP32 Pico module, so you get extra space for pin labels and mounting holes. With Stem AQT, you can just plug in your favorite sensor breakouts and start plotting data. It's a great way to quickly get your IoT projects up and running. You can use it with Arduino IDE, just like other ESP32 boards.  With Whip or Snapper, you can easily make IoT projects without having to write any code. Just install the firmware with a Chrome-based browser and now your Feather will appear automatically in Adafruit I.O. ESP32 V2 also has MicroPython support, so you can write Python code in libraries to create your IoT projects. Follow along with the Adafruit Learn Guide to install and set up your Feather ESP32 V2. So what type of IoT projects would you make? You can let us know on Discord and share your projects on Adafruit Show and Tell. Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more videos from Adafruit. Every Wednesday, so you can learn how to make all this stuff and more with 3D Hangouts. You know, Pedro, the longest running live 3D printing show in the known universe. All right, Lady Aida, let's remind folks of the discount code, deluxe, and let's kick it off with some IonMPI. This week's IonMPI is from NXP, Lady Aida. What is this week's IonMPI? Okay, well, I've got a bridge to sell you. No, it's, well, I mean, technically, yes. This week's IonMPI is from NXP and it is the, let's get the part number right, SC-18-IM-704-UR-2-I-squared-C bridge. That's not a bridge too far. We're not burning bridges here. We're gonna make bridges.  You got the good, you got the good jokes. All right, so this is the, as I said, the SC-18-IM-704, long part number. This is a 16T SOP chip that is a RS-2, sorry, a TTL UART to I-squared-C plus eight GPIO converter bridge. So you send it UART data and it will perform I-squared-C commands on the other side. It also comes as a handy dandy RS-232, ready to go UART board. So this has a plus minus 10 volt RS-232 port, has the chip and some circuitry, some LEDs. This is the eval board, but I'll say actually this board could come in quite useful if you have a computer that is so old or some sort of robot that's so old it doesn't have a USB port at all and it just has RS-232. This is ready to go. Dev board that you just plug in directly and it gives you some GPIO and I-squared-C. So this chip is one of many chips. There's a lot of chips in this family. This is a UART to I-squared-C bridge. And you know, NXP is interesting. It's one of the only companies that makes these bridges because I've looked into this and they make like, you know, like UART to Onewire or UART to SPI or I-squared-I-squared-C, like all sorts of combos.   So you know it's going to work well. I didn't see any mention of clock stretching, but it does definitely support a repeated start, which I'll show in a moment. So this is actually an update to a previous product. I think it goes a little bit faster and it's a little bit more solid.  So it could be also interesting for people doing retro computing, if you want to like connect something that's so old that only has RS-232 as a, you know, it's so non-standard, it only has UART or RS-232. You could connect your I-squared-C sensors to it.  So here are some specifications. It's, I like that it has five-volt tolerance on the input pins. The UART is standard eight and one. There's a 256-byte TX and RX-5O, which is handy, especially once in a while you've got sensors or devices that really need very long messages sent back and forth. The UART I think has auto-bot detection and I think you can also program the bot rate and go up to half a megabit per second. One multi-master bus controller and eight GPIO. And this is the structure. I mean, it's pretty straightforward. There's RX-TX as you expect. Power it, reset it, and then, you know, the GPIO pins I thought would be handy, not just of course if you want to control a relay, but say you want to reset a chip. We have some I-squared-C sensors that sometimes need, hey, reset them before you start talking to them. They act a little bit nicer. Or you could use address selection pins or maybe read a busy pin or an IRQ pin. So a couple of things that could be useful for those GPIOs. And of course, you know, there's like nearly infinite number of I-squared-C devices you can connect, ADCs and DACs and expanders and every kind of sensor. We've got thermal cameras even that go over I-squared-C. We've got extenders and expanders and et cetera, et cetera. So, you know, no matter what it is, what I like about having it support I-squared-C is that if you have something with a Yord and you need like a DAC or, you know, a 24-bit ADC, you actually have a shot of connecting it if you have I-squared-C because, you know, I-squared-C, there's almost anything has that as a peripheral available. Like I said, it supports repeated start, so it's kind of handy because there are sensors that really need repeated start or right after right support, something that they thought of because they're an XP. And again, they wrote the spec. This is the format, so there's also, you know, there's commands for the GPIO port, there's commands for I-squared-C. What is nice is that Yord's actually kind of a good protocol to use with converting to I-squared-C bridge because, you know, Yord is a synchronous, but it's like you can send commands and I-squared-C is a truly synchronous protocol, which can make parsing a little easier. Like you're not gonna get random data coming back on the RX pin from the Yord, you know, you'll send a command and you'll wait for the response because you send I-squared-C data and you get a response or you get a knack. Here's some example bytes, so they give you some, you know, if you wanna read or write an SM bus register, pretty standard stuff you wanna do, also how to set the GPIO input output and value. This is the eval board, which I actually picked up. I can also show it on the overhead real fast if you wanna do that. Yeah.  But, you know, there's so many times I've had to interface with really old computers or devices and it's like they didn't have USB or they had one USB port, but nothing else. They didn't have I-squared-C, you know, so many like industrial computers that I've seen only have an RS232 port. And this could be, you know, an easy way if you don't have USB. There are USB to I-squared-C converters that I've used, but, you know, if you don't have I-squared-C, this is a solution and this will drop in work quite well. So, check this out. This USB port right here just for power, for convenience, you can also power it because RS232, of course, doesn't power. You can also power it, of course, through the pins over here. You said bridges, so this is bridges. Yes, so I don't want to mention, if you're like, well, I don't really need UR to I-squared-C. I could use I-squared-C to SPI or SPI to I-squared-C or I-squared-C to UR. Worry not, because NXPs that you covered, they've got like every kind of combo. Some of them have multiple URs or multiple buses, whatever, all available. So this is just one of the family which popped up on digikey.com slash new, which I recommend, but there are others in this family. So if you want to add a UR to a device that has SPI or I-squared-C, that's actually pretty common need as well because a lot of times microcontrollers or microcontrollers or microcomputers only have one UR and sometimes you're like, I need a GPS and a cell module or something. You could use one of these bridges for that use case as well. Available on digikey. Well, it's not available right now, but it will be. I will say it's getting tougher to get devices that, so if you go back one, I did type in. So it looks like in two months they're gonna get at least 1,000 in stock. So if you order now, you'll get it in two months. In the meantime, you can design with it. Of course, if you need some samples immediately contact digikey, they will hook you up with samples. Yeah, and we have a pretty good video. It's one of the better ones that a manufacturer makes. So we're gonna play it. It's two minutes, but it's worth your time. Yes, covers the entire family. During device selection, the host and peripheral normally have matched communications protocols. Take for example, this conference camera. The 24-bit DAC has either an I2C or a SPI interface which matches the embedded processor. However, there can be situations where in mid-production, there is a sudden long-term supply constraint. For example, in this case, the I2C DAC is no longer available and it requires a permanent move to an SPI DAC. The easiest solution is to use a protocol bridge that translates the different protocols with minimal change to the embedded process of firmware. There is also a similar case where the embedded processor must be reused for new platforms due to extensive use of legacy firmware, but the interface of the peripheral required for the application is different. Again, the solution for this situation is the drop-in bridge that translates between protocols. NXP has an array of bridges that overcome the limitation of different protocols between the host and peripherals. These bridges easily convert between UART, I2C, and SPI buses. This allows greater design flexibility and the ability to retain the original design investment while providing faster time to market. This also allows the ability to link legacy systems to new systems. There are four types of bridges, with the first being this family of five I2C or SPI to UART bridges with different SPI speeds, number of downstream UART channels, and number of general-purpose IOs. The next device is the SPI to I2C bridge, which allows the SPI to communicate to fast-mode I2C peripherals and is multiple-master capable. There are five general-purpose IOs for things like LEDs and switches. The next device is the I2C to SPI bridge, which allows fast-mode I2C to communicate to SPI peripherals. The three GPIO can be used for the chip select in SPI parallel architecture applications. The next device is the UART to I2C bridge, which allows UART communications using RS232 protocol to fast-mode I2C peripherals and is multiple-master capable. Hi, I'm MPI. Okay, we're gonna do some new products. Yeah. I forgot the code is deluxe. All right, Lady, I gotta kick it. Yeah. Noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon. Noon, noon, noon, noon, noon. All right, you said you needed a lot of new... We had a special request for that. Long story, it'll make sense later. Yeah. Okay, we have it coming soon. I'll stick to the engineering. Okay, so the new Create 3 from iRobot. It's not quite out yet, but we do have a sign-up. We're out of the Create 2. The Create 3, it looks like a nice upgrade. It's got Wi-Fi, I think it's got Bluetooth. It's got... Python, powered. Python, this looks like a really cool robot. Maybe we'll get CircuitPythonPlanca. We will. We're gonna have you pretty sweet. Just for the folks, so one of the cool things about iRobot is they're like, oh, we solved the biggest problem with robotics is like you need to make power supply. You need to make this. You need to make that. We happen to make it. So it just comes without the vacuum parts, basically, but it's a learning robot. But that's... It's a great platform. That's the genesis of this. Yeah, and it's a really good deal. You get the battery, you get the motors, you get the sensors, you get the computer.  So coming soon, sign up. All right, I don't know what this is. What is this? I think... Built from the blueprint of a Roomba robot vacuum, meet the Create 3 educational robot. iRobot's new mobile robot development platform for learning ROS2. A canvas for your creativity, the Create 3 arrives preassembled and ready to go with a suite of smart technology. Program the Create 3 to perform simple behaviors, sounds, and movements to grasp the fundamentals of robotics, computer science, and engineering. Or tap into advanced applications including autonomous localization, navigation, and telepresence. The Create 3 lets you mountain power payloads, connect and run third-party hardware, use its cargo bay for storage, and dock the robot on its home-based charging station. As a connected robot, you can talk to the Create 3 in multiple ways and choose between running ROS2, the iRobot coding app, or iRobot Education's Python web playground. Looking for ways to get started? Explore the iRobot Education Learning Library for basic tutorials and sample projects. Or check out the 3D simulation of the Create 3 using Ignition Gizibo or the iRobot coding app for increased access to robotics education and research. What will you create? Okay, watch this. Watch this. This is the Bangal.js2, and this is really cool. When I saw this watch, I'm like, this is sweet. I'm gonna show it on the overhead actually because it's, of course, you want to see the watch. So it's got the sharp memory display. So here's something interesting. So you see how this display is still on, but it's like really dark. So this is a display that, I mean, I can see it, but you can't because it's like the polarization of the screen, it's all tough to see, but you can still read that, right? You can read that. It's always on screen, but it's not yank. It's got like, it's a little bit like the pebble, two or three, I think, had a screen like this. And when you press the button, it does turn on the backlight. It's, I think, a nine-bit color screen or something. And this is running Esparino. So, hold on, I have to remember how to make it do stuff. Okay, so there's a capacitive touch screen and there's all these programs that you can, this is, I think, actually running Esparino. So you can reprogram it over BLE and it's got temperature reading data and you can just have data scroll through. Looks like there's actually a bug in the app. Oh well, I probably shouldn't have done something I didn't know. Oh wait, there you go. So you can write custom apps for this in JavaScript using Esparino, which is super cool. They had a watch before that was a little chunkier and this one is, an off-the-shelf watch, I think it's called the QA3 or something. There's a heart rate sensor, there's a temperature sensor, I think barometric pressure and all that. So you can do heart rates and blood oxygen. But what's really interesting is there's a little magnetic cable that of course I have it plugged into my computer and bring it with me that plugs onto here and this actually is power ground so you can charge the watch up of course. But then the two middle pins are SWD clock and data. So you can actually reprogram this as an NRF 52-840 BLE microcontroller, you could install Arduino on it, you can install CircuitPython on it, you could code it directly with the Nordic NRF API. I think this is really neat. You know, Esprino of course is a very easy way to reprogram it, I don't know how to get out of this app. I just got this, I just got this thing, why am I making it? Maybe it doesn't quit. But you got the button, capacitive touch screen, I think it's like 200 by 200 pixels program it using the Esprino Bluetooth app. Maybe we'll do a little video where we show how to do that because this is kind of interesting. And the processor inside is the Cortex-M4 NRF 52-840 with one megabyte of flash, 256K of RAM, and it's also got additional eight megabytes of SPI flash memory storage as well. So all the sensors and a great reverse engineering of this off-the-shelf watch by Esprino. So check out on Hackaday IOI, they actually have a document with all of the settings. So if you're interested in learning about the internals, you can do that there. There's also a Kickstarter that completed its funding and so we've got this in stock now. Next up, Revision. Revision, the Vemmel 7700, one of the last sensors we made before we started turning everything into STEMI QT, this is now STEMI QT-ified. So it's great for plug and play usage. We have a right angle version and this is the flat version. So you can see the sensor is pointing straight up. It's the same PCB for both versions, just one has the chip like rotated. And this just shows it gives you lux output. It's a really easy to use sensor, it's really reliable and we've got circuit python and Arduino code for it. Okay, we have more of the D-Lux D-Lite LEDs. This is by our friend Mark who we've worked with and been friends with for over a decade. And we have more types available. So that was the blue round one. You can see. The round ones are like this kind of crystalline globes. They come five in a pack and we have green ones. Green ones, also spherical. And as Philby said, this is not a drill. Skulls. This is real. Skull shaped LEDs. White skulls that you could also paint if you wanted to have them. I can't think of another company besides Adafruit that you would expect to have skull LEDs. These are beautiful. I don't know what folks are gonna do with these and that's what the cool part about is. But it's gonna be got. It's gonna be neat. It's gonna be interesting. They're gonna be like cool macro photography with them. They are fantastic. I love them. Got. Good work Mark. Skull. And we'll have Mark on one of our shows in some way, shape or form. And we're also gonna do a whole bunch of other additional photos. These are nice too. We also showed the crystal one. It's a crystal shape last week and we have more permutations on the way. Mark is deciding if there's enough demand, all sorts of different ideas and designs. I think there was a request for dragon shaped ones. Maybe that'll happen. Who knows? But if folks pick them up and if you use the code, we could tell Mark, hey, these are selling like not hot cakes. They're selling like deluxe delight LEDs. Which. Like skull cakes. Like skull cakes. All right. So besides ULA data, our team, our city, our customers, our staff, our community is. The VL53L4CX. So this is another time of flight sensor from ST. And you're probably like, aren't there like eight of these by now? And the answer is yes. There's about eight of them. And they all look very similar. But this one is actually kind of neat in that it is a very long distance one. So far that previously the longest distance it could do was four meters. The VL53L4CX can do six meter distance and it can do multi-target. So that means it can actually detect if there's two objects at different distances within its range of vision, which I think is about 18 degrees. Right now there's only an Arduino library. And I will mention the Arduino library is really like chunky. So it can't run in an UNO. You really do need like a Cortex M0 or M4 ESP32. But they do have a library written for this sensor. I just got it working yesterday pretty much. And it's got an amazing range of 10 millimeters to 6,000 millimeters. It can actually go a little bit under 10 millimeters, but it's no longer linear. The multi-target is cool too. We were chatting with Liz and we said this would be a great sensor for making like a laser harp. But it could also be used for robotics if you wanna do like distance sensing, but against six meters away is really far away. I could also do, I think, if you wanna make a digital measurement device, what's it called? Like a tape measure. Like a laser tape measure. A distance sensor? A distance sensor, but like not, usually distance sensors don't aren't that precise. This one is precise to a couple millimeters. So check it out. It's the same format as our other VL53 sensors. But again, we don't have circuit Python or Python code. As of yet, we're gonna start writing that library hopefully soon. That's new products. All right, don't forget the code deluxe. You can use it, you know, to get these skulls. Skulls. And other things, but like, this is what you want. Skulls. You got five of each in that. All right, we're gonna do questions, but first we're gonna do some top secrets. So load up your questions in adafruit.it slash discord where you can join. I figured how to quit. You have to hold the button down. Oh yeah? Yeah. So let's do some top secret. All right, first up for top secret this week. This is just a bunch of stuff that we're working on.  Not explaining what it is. We're showing these off on some of our shows, some of the things that we're up to. And there's a lot of interesting projects you're gonna be able to do with accelerometers. Get in the cube. With LED panels. The future's cubic. The future is cubic. And I think there's another demo. I can keep lighting this play. Well, I mean the globe is kind of neat. I think there's another demo too, I don't know. I'm just gonna let this play all the way to the end because it's so cool to watch. Like how Arizona's just getting squished constantly. Squish. Flat land. I think this is it.  This is the music, I guess, visualizer for the connection machine. And then the other top secret is one that we just shot today. So we're gonna play it. All right, Lady, what is this? These are still panelized ESP32 S3 QT Pi. So this is coming soon. We released the S2 QT Pi. The S3 has dual core and it has BLE and a lot more RAM. So this is a lovely little chip now in QT Pi format. And this is how it comes on panels.  It's like little like grapes or something. And then this is the tester. So the board goes in here. I plug it into USB-C and then there's a little testing jig. And the test code was gonna test the GPIO. It programs it, test the WiFi strength and everything. So I'm finishing this tester now and this is going to be in the store really soon. QT Pi ESP32 S3. Okay, let's do some questions. All right. We're doing this. All right, here we go. Let me hit Discord. The gigantic question. I'm gonna scroll back. Could the Crate 3 run circuit Python? If not, is circuit Python gonna be able to run stuff like this in the future? I don't know yet, because I'm not, yeah, I don't know anything more than that press release, but I think we could probably get circuit Python Blanka working on it if it's Linux. Okay, there was a question about the, I think it was the IonMPI. Was it like I squared C or something? But I'm having a hard time scrolling back all the way. So we bet it is. Well, if I missed your comment from a while ago, go ahead and post it up in the chat. Yeah. Let me go to the other question that I have lined up. I think. Not a question. Sometimes there's tons of questions. Yeah, well, no, it was a, I want the one that you, Bridges, you are. I got that. Yeah, if you could post your questions again, because I got, I lost some of the chat. It looks like, sorry. We might be, I had a schedule here. I think it was like, what protocols did that NXP sensor use? The inputs you are, so you send it just like binary ASCII data? Is it on the bridge picture? Yeah. Okay, well, the one that we showed is you are to I squared C, but they have ones that do like every other kind of combo. Yeah. I could show more of the watch, but like not mess it up. Yeah, you wanna do that? Yeah. Okay. I'm like, I just got this and it's like, I'm supposed to be an expert. So, you wanna go to the overhead? When will the next TFT nine inch come out? The TFT nine inch? I don't, I don't have a plans for nine inch. Okay. Okay. So there's Anton clock. Let's go to a Q clock and then, yeah, so the thermometer, this hung, but then it eventually, maybe it didn't work, I don't know. Oh, does the ESP32 V2 support circuit Python? The ESP32 does not, only the S2 and the S3 support it right now, but we're thinking of how we could support the ESP32. But you could use MicroPython. All right. Someone, so these arrived in the show, they wanna know how is New York City doing with the latest COVID variant? So I'm glad you asked because, yeah, I'm glad you asked because like, so by the way, let me just do a disclaimer as usual. More than I live together, we're the only people here during the day-to-day, we've decided to keep the mass on indoors and our team is fully vaccinated. So this is my observation. The number of COVID testing pop-ups like the independent business ones in New York City, there's definitely less of them. There is more rapid tests in every possible place that people can get them. And a lot of people have them. There's no run-on rapid tests. We have a bunch here at Adafruit if we need to give anyone a test. And then our staff has these at home as well. And we can give any to anyone as well. We have enough to do that and everything has worked out that way. But those aren't reported. And when they're not reported, the numbers that we used to be able to get, like what's the positivity rate and how do you know what's really going on? It's a little unclear. People don't seem to be getting severely ill at all. In fact, the two people right now that are isolating and or have tested positive with a rapid test out of 130 plus people, mild symptoms and maybe one of them does or doesn't have it. So, so far so good, but it does seem to be like another wave. So our mayor in New York City is isolating with COVID. Lots of folks that are well known in like the media in New York, I think like Anderson Cooper or something to some positive. And it's just like a lot. It's like it's been happening and happening and happening and happening and happening. And folks are okay, but this variant seems to be spiking up again. So we'll see what happens, but it's getting a little difficult to know what's really going on nationwide because some states aren't reporting anymore. The wastewater numbers seems to indicate that there is a spike happening. And so I think we're all just gonna have to continue to live with this thing. And if you work at a place that allows feedback for things, our team has decided together consistently that it didn't make sense for us to take off masks indoors when we're around people. So we do that here when there's people, it just happens to be the two of us now. And so we're gonna continue to do that until our team collectively says, well, enough's enough. Yeah. Or it doesn't look like we need to do it anymore. So that's the way you gotta be fast and flexible. Okay. I think that is no response time listed for the time of flight sensor. Any idea what it is seems like? You have to check the datasheet. I don't know what it is, but it's usually about 50 Hertz. Okay. All right. And I think that's our questions for today. Okay. All right. A little bit of a reminder. Don't forget the code is deluxe. Pick up some skulls. You may as well. Pick up a skull. And- He'll be your friend. I wanted to say thank you to all the Adafruit team members for running things behind the scenes. Dakar is running it in select behind the scenes this week. All the Adafruit community members that are here in all the chats that have been helping out in the moderators, students, and stuff on Discord. Thanks for getting us 34,000. We did it together, everyone. It's a safe place, a cool place, a great place to bring people together. And that's why there's a lot of folks at Stop By. We'll see everybody next week. This has been an Adafruit production. Thanks, everybody. Here is your moment of zener. Goodnight, everybody.


Cwysinair Mike. Well, there's been some contentious things going on. One of which was about how to colour blind children, people, with Cwysinair rods. And it is a real issue, certainly. One strategy which we've started to deploy is to have a set of the ten rods rods i'r coulers oherwydd dych yn hyrdd gyda hynny i ni, ychydig i ni rhoi roedd yn cael ei rodydd y cwlad o'r un o'r ullwerd wediці, mae'n yahair yn cael y dynol, ac mae'n gwneud o'r cwlad o yn oed hynny'n yn cael ei tro i'r llwyth ac oedd yn ddell. OK. I've never found a problem with the colours because they are all related by size. Then that's what we focus on really. We might call them the orange one. There's your orange one. You might call them the orange one or the brown one or the pink one. But on the whole, I haven't found the naming of the colours an issue. And with older students where it has been, I'm using the word students because sometimes we teach as these are handy to help remind them what to call them. But with younger children it is a matter of having a tray and letting them make pictures and patterns with them, which they will do ad infinitum. A lot of them are symmetrical. And a lot of them employ the structures of the rods. So this is the absolutely iconic structure for a set of all 10 rods. And gradually when they've made that, that starts getting integrated into what else they're making. So that'll be built into some sort of sail for a boat or a house roof. And you can begin to see these iconic patterns sort of coming through. So it is a matter of making something, talking about describing it, making something similar or different to somebody else and getting to grips with all the relationships between the rods. Yes, and in terms of relationships because we can label these as W, half a red, G for green and so on down to capital B for blue and O for orange. We can have young children writing equations. So if we take the pink as the answer, what can we make that's the same length? I was going to do yellow. That's fine. How many equations can we make where the answer's yellow? Or in simplest sorts of words, how many trains can you make with a train being a number of rods lined up? End to end. So how many trains can you make of equal length to the yellow? How many different trains can you make? So or as a charter to me once, I'm going to make a yellow sandwich with all the different fillings in it. And how many different fillings can you make? What counts as different? And how does that alter, according to which of the rods you use? And I did some work with some younger children which involved them. Sorry, do you want to do something? No, I just want to do that. I just want to do that in terms of this being R plus R plus W equals Y for yellow. And here is another equation.  And getting them to not worry about the length of them, looking at them in terms of the proportional lengths, and writing symbols to describe what they've done. And with very young children, I'm referring to reception-age children, some of the children who had an equation such as this R plus R plus W equals Y. I mentioned that they could write this as 2R. R plus R is the same as 2Rs. And they seemed quite happy with that. That didn't seem to be problematic at all. No, I think it's timing or something like that, isn't it? You don't do that straight away. Absolutely. You feed that in. It's because they'd already done something in the first instance that I could then respond to. Already, I can see that there's quite a lot of sandwich fillings that you can make that are different to each other. So that's a really lovely task. It can stretch right the way up. And I did want to say something about the values, because I think people commonly get moved quite quickly to calling this the one, the two, the three, the four, the five, and that we've got to get on how do they know what number that is. Well, it isn't one-year-one number. And I actually would not use any number values specifically attached to these rods until about year three. I think the reception of the one-year-two would just work on the relationships between them and working on the equations. And then when you get as far as year three, you can say, OK, if I'm calling this one, tell me what the values of the other rods are. Or if I'm calling this one, what are the value of the other rods? What's the fractional value of that one? And that, in year three, then opens up a whole new cuisine world, doesn't it?


27th architecture review board meeting to order. You've already run through the roll call. I can do that if you'd like. To be official if you wouldn't mind doing that again now that we're yep adjourned for session. Sounds good. Joe Clark. Here. Marcus. Here. Jerry Jones. Richard. Here. Here. Pam. Robert and Charlie. Sounds like we have a quorum with four. All right. Thank you, Steve. If I could ask everyone to please stand in their respective locations, face the flag or east for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Somebody will get that in sync. Right. I think the trick is not to listen to the other folks. Item 1.3 any potential conflicts of interest that need to be identified today. Hearing none, I'll move to item 2.1 approval of the minutes from the July 13th meeting. Move to approve. Marcus Savalia. Thank you, Marcus. Do we have a second? Second. Was that Richard seconding? Yep. Yep. Richard seconding. Perfect. All right. Thank you. Any further discussion?  Hearing no additional discussion items. Steve, if you could call the roll for the votes. Sure. Joe. Marcus. Aye. Richard. Aye. And Robert. Thank you, everyone. That brings us to item 3.1, the discussion and possible action on the 1402 Union Avenue. Chad, if you could take the podium and tell us what is being discussed and proposed, please. So, thank you, Chair. This is Chad, the planning director, and I'm here to talk about the property at 1402 Union Avenue. So, on the packet, those that are in attendance have a drawing, but in the actual item, there's a side elevation of this building. This building is on the corner of 14th and Union. If you've driven down Union Avenue, you've seen this building. It's the side of the brick. Cream City brick is falling off at the top of the building. There's been Joe Schmidt and Son barricades around it for probably a good six to eight months. So, the city building inspector wrote this property up. We were going to move forward with a raise order and after touring the inside of the building decided that raising it wasn't the best option because we would have been just stuck with a vacant lot on a prime intersection that we would have had to mow the grass on for the next five years. So, the idea came up of it was going into foreclosure at the time. So, we left the building go into foreclosure and the city negotiated a deal in lieu of the building code citations on the property to have them deed it over to the city for a dollar from the bank. So, Wisconsin Bank and Trust turned the building over to the city a couple weeks ago and so now we're in the process. We've got a couple interested parties and we would like to get some thoughts on how to handle this brick in a cost-effective manner versus re-bricking this whole side back up. So, the estimates from cautious construction and Schmidt construction that the lender Wisconsin Bank and Trust obtained were almost $200,000 and the property is assessed at $90,000. So, we're looking at what options are out there. We've talked to the interested party that the city probably would be interested in selling it to and they recommended taking the brick down halfway. So, splitting the first and the second levels and then capping it off and then putting some type of either siding or a material of plastic looking siding, plastic looking brick that I have in the chambers with me. So, you're going to have to base it on your friends here at the table to see what this stuff looks like. But basically, it's a product that you buy at Menards. It would be a siding, but it would act like brick and you can get it in different colors. And the idea would be do you put something like this back up because from a distance it would look like it was, you know, that it wasn't the cream city. Maybe you tie it into the color that's on the front of the building on that far southeast corner. You can see where there's a different color like a reddish brick and then wraps around to the front. So, do you bring that around in the same kind of material on a higher up? They're going to have to do some insulating to deal with this and deal with some structural stuff. But the owner that's interested in the property, the buyer, is saying that he believes it can be done. It's just that it's going to have to be done in a cost effective manner. So, what we're trying to understand from the committee is, number one, what would you guys accept? What's your recommendations? And if you have recommendations, are they something that's relatively inexpensive that we can keep this property on the tax roll, get some use in this building and be able to, you know, move forward with life because the rest of the building is in relatively good shape. Chad, can you clarify for us on the elevation that's on our screens now or was on our screens exactly how much brick is needing to be removed? Is it just this elevation and what is the extent that has to be taken this ago all the way to the corners or do we just go to the window jam? The idea the idea was is we thought as staff that it would make sense to on that elevation just behind that taller tree there's like an exhaust fan in some place you know a foot or so above that exhaust fan to break it. So if you broke it where the floor trust maybe is between the two floors took it down to that point and took it corner to corner and maybe I the build the this is the only elevation that has this problem. The north and south or the front and back of the building appear to be in good shape so they you know they may leave a course or two of brick on those corners to wrap it around and then try to just feel to kind of mimic what you see on the front corner where the the front brick color wraps around to the east elevation maybe you leave the cream city on that north east corner like a row or two of that brick and then just fill in the in the middle if you will. My initial look at the elevation I had thought that if we could leave everything from the window sills down this brick that would be aesthetically a nice breaking point but structurally if the brick needs to come down all the way to the floor level then yes we could consider that my personal preference would be to go with some sort of a different siding material rather than the fake brick and personal preference not to mix the real with the fake brick on the same building so something horizontal siding or a panelized siding of some sort would be my preference there other board members your thoughts Mr. Chairman Mr. Lindy yes it sounds to me like we're trying to he's turned off again one the latest don't touch it oh okay there you go you're good you like okay sounds to me like we're trying to design by committee I have a suggestion that we hire an architect namely me at a fee of zero to do a study to find out what can actually be done and what will look reasonable and report back at the next meeting we we could go with that we like to zero because we have we paid a buck for this so we don't have much money but we could we could work with you and come up with some concepts I think the plan I was hoping was that we could given that the council process takes three weeks and we've got brick that's a safety hazard that's falling off of that building and you know in neighbors that are there's a whole sheet that's ready to just fall you can see it above that window we were hoping to get an answer today that's why we amended the agenda to be discussion and possible actions so we can include that in the offer and hopefully start the council process to sell this property sooner than later but if it's the committee's wishes we can hold off for two weeks Mr. Chairman yes with that Bob this Marcus I've got a question thank you is there anything preventing us from taking down the dangerous portion of the brick without a plan to replace it at this point in time Chad there is nothing there is nothing doing that I we're going to have to hire a contractor to do it city staff won't take this on so I don't have any money budgeted to do this so yeah I guess we can you know get somebody in there and see what they're you know what the problem is is when you look at it it's like where do you stop so you know just because that piece is is loose the rest of it you can see is pulling away from the windows below and and on the side but we can get the real rough stuff off I guess as soon as we can I'll just have to find money to pay for it just a chime in here this is Bob I agree with what Joe said I like the idea of stopping at the cell if it structurally can do that and I also agree with not using the fake brick but using the siding for what it's worth so I don't know if I don't think we're going to be I pet I Rick and I were out there and I don't think we're going to be able to stop at the sill it looks like they're peeling away further at the sill I I think there's a point in between where we're hoping to go and where the sill stop is so you know hopefully we can I don't think it's going to be at the sill though when I look at it it looks like that's already pulled away in some areas as well but we would do have them you know disturb the minimum I think there are a number of steps that we need to take on this the first one would be the safety factor architecture review board isn't in the position to have any input on the safety of that that's something we'd have to leave to to you chatter the city to evaluate to see if something needs to be done right away or if it can be left until there's a direction and get a contractor in there to do all the work at once so if if we could defer that to the city powers of the be to make that assessment second piece the cost it sounds as if most folks have weighed in that some sort of siding approach would be acceptable obviously we'll work with the city as best we can to get a budget approach that is still aesthetically pleasing and doesn't set horrible precedents for us but then I think we we do need to have some sort of assessment of the existing structure there how much brick can safely be saved or whether so much of it's deteriorated that pretty much that entire elevation would need to be addressed and I think if that's something that the inspector has been able to establish and can review with Dick Lindy then I I would love to take him up on his wonderful offer of doing architectural work for no fee to be able to take a look at some suggestions otherwise as he said where we're designing by committee a lot of arm waving and doing this remotely is really going to be difficult so if that's something that can be done fairly soon for the next council meeting and your schedule chat is this something that if Dick's able to come up with ideas and we can review this with board members via email to be able to get some consensus and then leave it to staff to make that approval to the council I think that would work Mr. Chair what I would recommend is that as part of your motion if you just so we can get it in the minutes that you're authorizing staff to work with Mr. Lindy and provide some estimates and that maybe option one is to preserve as much brick as you can so you know option one might be only to take it down to the windows if that's possible and then if absolute worse has to go a little bit further than that there's an option to and that it's documented in the minutes I think to help you out the motion would be to authorize staff to work with Dick Lindy to come up with a plan that would be shared with the committee via email with option one being to leave the brick intact up to the bottom of the window sills and then if that's not possible option two would be to go to the first you know row of bricks that are structurally sound that can stay in place so moved careful thank you Marcus do we have a second second Marcus and Dick perfect thank you any further discussion one one sorry sorry Joe one other question is that the potential purchaser of the building was thinking of converting the downstairs unit downstairs a commercial unit to a residential unit and had talked about maybe some windows in that first floor elevation on the east side and you know on the drawing that I gave the group there he's got them as horizontal windows or vertical or whatever you guys call them in the architectural world I'm of the opinion that they should kind of match the upstairs windows so the idea of in that kind of sorry to throw this in there but in that kind of south southeast corridor basically between the bush and the corner of the the front of the building would be to put in some windows there that if they were if those were bedrooms they would have some daylight so what is is the committee you know and we could work with dick on some recommendations of what that might look like but would you guys be against adding some additional kind of street level windows on that east elevation if this became a two-unit apartment building from my standpoint I don't have an issue with that but I think it's going to be difficult to save brick and cut openings into it by the time you're putting new lintels in for that you're probably better off taking the brick all the way down to maybe a wainscote height and that isn't even worth saving at that point do you know if there's any sort of plan anticipated for that residential conversion to know where the windows should be located we seem to be expanding the scope that a volunteer to work for I don't want it to get beyond what he's comfortable with at this stage I don't know that for surely underneath the two windows that are on the on the top side there would probably be a need to have at least two on the the bottom side and that towards the front of the building but I don't that would be up to that that would be up to them to present and come forward with at a later date I don't think I would have Dick look at that I think that's more structural and they can hire their own architect to do so could I comment on that too Joe please do in order to convert that to a two family they would have to go through a conditional use permit process so maybe at that time when that gentleman has that more put together if he chooses to go that direction he would have a bit more of a floor plan and then if he would choose to do some windows or something to that effect he could have you know he could review that and come in at that time and we could review that aspect of it then if he chooses to move forward that way I think we can certainly split it into a near-term and long-term evaluation my my concern with that is in setting up this first phase do we then take some of the options off the table for what they can do in the future whereas if we do exactly what we're doing now being able to evaluate it all at once would definitely be preferable but it sounds as if that just isn't an option dick the only other thing I would ask of you is is that something that is you're looking at the elevation you could make some recommendations based on as that elevation is coming together with the infill of the siding where lower level windows might architecturally be most appropriate and then they can try to work a plan to those windows even though we wouldn't have actually approved those yet I'd be comfortable with that and mr chairman that would be fantastic and I'm sorry I'm volunteering you for more work not a problem I seem to have plenty of time excellent so we have a motion and a second and I believe we were then amending that to include the possibility of residential windows on the lower floor are the motioner and seconder comfortable with that amendment yes sure any further discussion needed on those points if not Steve could you please call the roll for the vote sure Joe I Marcus I Richard I and Robert as if it is approved the chat does that get you what you need to be able to move it forward it does and I thank you for this because we wanted to have it documented before we started the council selling process and I think this is a good plan moving forward to keep the building on the tax rolls and standing and get somebody in there that can use it glad to help and if through the development Dick and Steve if there's additional feedback needed from the board please contact us and we'll try to help you expedite this to get it so that it keeps your schedule on track sounds good next meeting is looking like August 10th do we have things on the agenda for that yet Steve yes all right perfect and with that I think we are done unless anyone has anything else just a motion to adjourn move to adjourn second all those in favor hi anyone opposed okay we are adjourned all right thanks everyone


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video and it's a day's Destiny video. We have top 5 Titan Fist of Havoc Kills of the week. Now if you guys do enjoy the video at the end if you could leave a like I would appreciate the support and also if you have any badass clips to send in, send them into the email address linked in the top of the video description. Now enjoy the video and I'll catch you on the next one.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com nightly wrap up show. I hope everybody is doing well. If you are new to us, thank you very much for tuning in, spending 15 minutes of your day. All we ask is click a like. That's it. Take a second, guys. We really, really appreciate it. It helped the channel out. It helped to spread the word of technical analysis. All you need to do is click the like button, share, subscribe, and thank you very much for all your support. One really quick announcement, and I think it'll be live either today or tomorrow. As most of you guys know, I am approaching literally the next couple of weeks. My 25th anniversary. It's pretty kind of a big deal. I've been doing this since 1999. A lot of war wounds, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of headaches, a lot of everything. But you know what? At the end of the day, in a weird way, you kind of don't want to change the thing because you went through this. Because we are celebrating our 25th anniversary, or at least my 25th anniversary. AccessToTrader has been around for 14 years. For all you guys who are interested, we are doing a one-time thing. 25 bucks for 25 years. Come in. Check out the pivots for a month. It'll cost you 25 bucks. Literally a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee, especially with inflation. See if it's right for you. See if it's right for you. We're doing it for a batch of people. If you like it, I think it'll be something very, very unique to your approach to the market. Kind of look at the market in a different way. Again, all you can do is try everything to figure out what's the best fit for you. Hopefully you guys will take advantage. I believe the link is either going to be today or tomorrow in the comments section on the YouTube feed. Hopefully you guys will check it out. Let's talk about it. This morning, complete euphoria. We'll get to the pivots in a second. This was definitely a day of a two-sided market. The bulls won the morning. The bears won the afternoon. Now, we have to decipher what happens next. We talked about it on the weekend video. This is the most important part. I've been talking about this on and off now for a couple of weeks. On the weekend video, we talked about potentially how every market ends. How every market doesn't tap you on the shoulder and say, by the way, this is going to be the end of the move or the end of the short-term move. It's just going to do it. What we saw this morning was complete euphoria. Out of control euphoria, whether it was ARM or SMCI or NVIDIA, it was just going nuts and it didn't stop there. Again, we'll get to the pivots in a second. Just ridiculous chasing price action today. But the point is, when you look at a market like this and you see how easily the pull was around lunchtime, you realize that the institutional money flow is not there for the significant pull. What I mean by that is usually when I'm trading, let's just use Tesla as an example in a normal market. When I'm buying Tesla, Tesla usually goes up a dollar, pauses, goes up another dollar, pauses. If there's a pull, there's a pull of the futures. Maybe it'll come in 60, 70 cents, 80 cents. A name like Tesla, and I was saying, I'm just using this kind of as an example. A stock like Tesla or a stock like NVIDIA, let's use NVIDIA as a better example. Shouldn't go up $7.01 candle and come in $5 at three minutes later. It shouldn't do that. And what it basically shows you is that the institutional money flow has been coming slowly out of these trades. Slowly, right? Slowly out of these trades because you keep this in mind. If you're a fund manager and you're long NVIDIA anywhere, anywhere from 500 to 550 to even 600, don't you think at some point they're going to be coming out of the stock? And that's exactly what we saw today. We saw the aggressive pulls. The aggressive pulls were worth $5, $7, $8.  And that's a very, very, very specific sign of a potential. We started talking about that on the weekend video, potential that we talked about around the bow top. Doesn't mean it has to happen, but you have to learn signs. What these signs are is the leaders resting, right? What do we see today? We saw the leaders resting, right? Microsoft today rested. Apple today, not that Apple is the leader anymore, but Apple today, it was tired, right? Amazon, after a really, really good run, backed up into the five-day moving average. Again, can this mean something? Could this mean nothing? We don't know yet. We've seen this scenario several times just in the last two weeks. Now, we see aggressive pulls, and what happens the next day? The next day we start rallying again. We saw that on January 31st, followed by the next day of explosion. We saw that on February 6th, the next day explosion. And now we saw that today, a really, really aggressive pull. Because if you see what the Qs did from the morning run-up, okay, they traded all the way up to, this is called 439 to around 434, which is the lowest. That's a pretty big pull. The Qs shouldn't have a $6 rally one way and then a $5 pull the other way. It's just a lot of volatility. Really, they'll show you that more retail is being represented in these least moves, recent moves last day or so than institutional money flow continuing to bid up the stocks. Now, here's the key, right? Here's the key, absolute key going in tomorrow. Number one, for this to be a significant, anything more than a significant pullback, okay, the Qs need to lose the previous day's challenge. That's it, guys. It's the most basic rule in technical analysis. If a stock wants to go higher, it has to take out the previous day's highs and it has to build on those previous day's highs. If the stock wants to go lower, well, let's flip it around. It has to take out the previous day's low and has to build below the previous day's low. If we look at the Qs, there's two areas here that we definitely want to pay attention to for tomorrow, for a potential, again, for a potential. I feel like I've been using the word potential just because, again, as a new trader, especially going out to new traders, you can't anticipate. I've been saying this for years. You cannot anticipate a potential blow off top. You can't participate in a situation that's not playing out. You can't know where it squeezed water out of a rock. So you have to know your levels, right? Once you know your levels, then you know exactly what potentially could happen if those levels get breached. So let's talk about those two levels for, again, for a potential, right? Potential day two pull. I know it sounds crazy. It'll probably never happen. But just in case, this wacky, kooky, crazy market, right? Just in case it does, we have to be prepared. So these are the two levels we want to watch for tomorrow. Number one, we want to watch this 3, 434, 50, 434 area on the Qs. If they start building this 434, 50, 434 level below the channel, it could get pulled. And we want to also look at the previous day's channel as well, because the more days they get engulfed, the higher probability, the stronger the sell-off potentially could be. Again, if there is a sell-off in the first place, we don't know. We're just trying to be prepared for it. So you have the 434, 50, 434 level today, and then you have Friday's low of 433. And again, if you're unsure about today, well, definitely use Friday's low as a barometer, because that's the five-day moving average. And if you're watching this broadcast for the first time, the five-day moving average, at least for me, has been the shortest-term sentiment for the last 24 and 7 eighths of my trading journey, right? 25 years is going to be in a couple of weeks. So the moral of the story is, guys, be prepared. We don't know if it's going to happen. We've seen several times just in the last couple of weeks, we've seen aggressive pulls after euphoria-type run-ups. And all we've seen next day was, well, continuation of the rally. Thank you for your week's shares by the dip, bro, by the dip. So we don't know, right? So that's why, again, we're always preparing on both sides of the market. But definitely watch, especially last Friday's low of this 433 level. It would also confirm the five-day moving average. And then we could get more of a back test going into tomorrow's session. If you look at the SPX, right? Again, Friday, we had our first close over 5,000. Now we have our second close over 5,000. The only issue is we put in an inverted hammer, right? An inverted hammer is usually, at least, a short-term... I don't even want to use the word sell signal anymore. It's a short-term pause signal. Is that fair, right? It's like a pregnant pause. I think it's more pause than anything else. Nobody wants to use the word sell because that's not what it is. There's no such thing as a concrete sell signal. But this inverted hammer is definitely something to pay attention on. So watch tomorrow the SPX. If the SPX starts losing 50-16, right? 50-16, 50-17 level, yeah, that's going to cause more selling to come in. So definitely be prepared on both sides of the market. Have a two-way game plan. Always remember anything can happen in the market. But as long as you are prepared for those anything based on specific levels, I think you'll be okay. So let's talk about today's pivots. I mean, incredible moves, incredible moves. And I'll give you guys some, obviously, some ideas for tomorrow. So Apple, I was watching. We talked about Apple on the weekend update. Obviously, never got to the 190 or 191 macro level. So obviously, this didn't confirm. Coin, when nuts. Pretty much everything when nuts. But Coin, 144, 56. I believe we talked about Coin on the weekend update. Is the 50-day moving average needs to confirm? Here was Coin. So it took out the 144, 56, and went all the way up to 150. Absolute huge move. It actually has held up pretty well here. So it would be kind of good if this thing could consolidate a couple of days above the 50-day moving average. But nearly a $7 move on Coin was absolutely amazing. Amazon gained the initial push above 175. Shared it up to like 175, 40s, 175, 50s. And it kind of got pulled along with a lot of other the beta names that we talked about with the leaders, right? The Microsofts of the world, the Googles of the world, and stuff like that. But again, nice run. Nice run on Amazon probably needs a couple of days' rest. ARM was obviously the rock star of the day. Not only did it confirm 170, 1782, and I believe we talked about ARM on the weekend video, it confirmed the earnings highs, right? And this is what happens, not this aggressive, but this is what happens usually when the earnings highs get confirmed. So they took out the 1780s. That was Friday's channel. And then it confirmed the earnings highs of 12680s.  And this thing went from 126 all the way up to 164, just an absolutely insane move. Again, this is where the euphoria really kicked in. Disney, about a dollar move on Disney. We also talked about Disney last night on the video. It had a dollar move before everything came in. So not a bad move on Disney. AMD, nice pop on Disney. Nice pop on AMD 7510 needs to build. Look at that dollar and change trade in seconds, man. That's how crazy it was. So here was the break right here. Excuse me, here was the break right here, the 7510, right? That was Friday's channel. And stock went all the way up to 7740s. Obviously it got pulled towards the end of the day, just like everything else. But you can see the euphoria is going nuts. AI, I believe we covered AI also on the weekend video. 2963 Fridays and the pre-market highs needs to build. Here was AI and closed really well. So it took out the 2963 and traded within 30 cents, closed within 30 cents at the 3155 highs. Just a really, really big move. Still strong momentum in this name as well. And here was Meta. Remember last night in the video? I said I want to give it every opportunity. We finally got that opportunity. Really nice move on Meta today. 473.60 and 474.20 last Friday's highs needs to build. The buyer came in for the 480s. Nice move on Meta. All the way up to the 479 level again. And then the guy just kind of pulled with everything else. So again, great value today. Really, really great value today. But the question now because of this aggressive pull that we saw with the Qs, well, can there actually be a day two? Now, before you throw eggs at the screen and say you're on crack and this, that, the other thing, I probably am and we probably won't. But let's play crazy talk, right? Let's play absolutely crazy talk. Let's pretend the market actually can actually go down. I know it sounds nuts. But let's play crazy talk. So if we do pull in, you want to start looking at the stocks that had the biggest run-ups, right? There's the biggest run-ups and then one with the most obvious natural pivot of all. The obvious run-ups were NVIDIA, right? NVIDIA, definitely watching it below today's channel. Okay, definitely, definitely watching this thing below today's channel on NVIDIA for tomorrow. Again, you had this inverted hammer. Again, it's a short term. I want to use the word sell, pause signal, SMCI, obviously of the two. NVIDIA is probably a better trader just because of the liquidity in the spread. So if you have to, if I got to my head, I'm always going to trade NVIDIA over SMCI. But these are the two kind of stocks that if we do get pulled and there is a day two, this has the highest potential for gravity trade. And this is the one with the natural pivot, right? So Tesla had its dead cab bounce. We talked about the potential short term bottom. It rallied for five days.  It got rejected at the top of the range today, and it closed right at the five-day moving average. Here's the key for tomorrow, okay? And this is where very few natural pivots in the downside take place, but this is definitely one of them. If Tesla starts losing back the five-day moving average, then guys, look how much room we have all the way back down to recent lows. So this is definitely one I am going to be paying attention to very, very closely considering it's also my favorite stock. It's usually not really... I'm going on a limb saying I'm going to pay attention to it. So definitely watching Tesla tomorrow for potential, another pull, NVIDIA, SMCI. And there's a whole slew. If you go through a whole NASDAQ 100 names, you'll see a whole slew. The key is for these stocks to lose the previous range. But let me give you guys a couple of names that I like potentially for tomorrow that have nothing to do with technology. Look at Goldman Sachs. Look at this chart on Goldman Sachs, right? Keep an eye on this. There's a day two in Goldman Sachs, in the banks, this thing could wake up. Look at General Motors, right? I know it's crazy. You turn on the broadcast, and I'm going to be talking about an 18T, maybe Ford next. But look at General Motors. They have a great quarter consolidated for two weeks. Say, what happens if it takes out their earnings highs? It will all turn into an arm, I promise you that. But hey, that's a pretty good-looking chart. Look at a name like Tollbrunners, right? Look how long, guys, look how long this distribution is going all the way back to December. If the home is, right, the home builders have a second day of buying. This is a gorgeous breakout. And the last one is a company that will never go on sale, for God's sake. Never, never go on sale. Canada Goose, right? Canada Goose is attempting to get above this daily supply, the 50-day SMA, excuse me, the 150-day SMA. I know it looked a little weird. If they can get above the 150-day SMA, this thing could wake up as well. So keep an eye on that. So again, guys, we are set up. Can we have a day-to-pull to be determined, right? To be determined for all you guys who are taking advantage, guys, and you want to see if the pivots are right fit for you? Again, guys, I think the link will be in the comment section. I really look forward to exposing you guys to the PS60 theory and looking at the market for a little bit different point of view. Guys, God bless, and I will see you all tomorrow. Take care.