Hi there, it's Sandy, and I'm going to be coloring a enchanted winter fairy for you today. It's a digital image from Sweet Escape, and I have added the oval myself, so the stamp does not come with that. But I got tired of doing squares and rectangles, so I'm going to do an oval today. But first I want to talk about the Winter Copic Enchantment class that launches today. The cards you're seeing are from the class. If it has no stamped image in it, then that's the demo from the class. If it has a stamped image, that's just an extra sample. Because what I do is what I am working on a class and the ideas for it, I'll color like 20, 30, 40 different things and then pair it down to the ones I think will teach the best, which ones will teach the most useful types of techniques and images and that kind of thing. So that's why I have so many samples and it is a Level 4 class, by the way. There's no numbers on the screen, so if you're a person who needs that kind of hand-holding, it might not be for you. If you've taken the mini classes and you've done really great with them, you felt really comfortable with them, you're probably ready to move on to a Level 4 class, but you'll be given the list of markers that are in each lesson and then you'll need to just watch which one's the dark green and the light green. And I think at Level 4, you're smart enough to figure out that. And if there's any subtle differences in color choices, I'll be talking about that in the voiceover, so don't worry about that. And you can always substitute any of your own colors. The pre-class lesson always has the color list in it so that you can see all the colors that I use and then figure out if you have something comparable to use yourself. The idea for this class, for doing a winter version of the Copic Enchantment class that we did this summer, that came from patrons. And my patrons are wonderful, awesome, fabulous, fantastic, super califragilistic, expialidocious people who decide to contribute for the cause of my art and anywhere from a buck to five bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks, whatever a month and support my work. And in exchange, they will get sometimes coupon codes. If they're at particular levels, they'll get cards in the mail sometimes or art in the mail and they also get access to other things that I share. Sometimes I'll sneak peek a video. Sometimes I'll ask them to help me name a class. And if somebody picks the name that wins, they get the class for free. There's all kinds of different things that we've done there. We've done some live videos, haven't found too many people interested in live videos over there, so haven't done much of that anymore. But they are my people, my tribe, really nice folks who care about my art enough to support it. And I really love that. So grateful to them. And yeah, so I am not watching the video you're watching. Just thought I'd let you know that the computer that I'm working on is dying ever so slowly and it's making me crazy. Lately it started doing this weird thing where all of a sudden it just shuts down and it displays the icon that's normally the out of power icon. And I jiggle the plug and I'm checking it to make sure that it didn't just run out of power while I was working away and when I reboot it, it says it's at 76 percent. So it just decided randomly to pretend it was out of power and lose all my work. Since this was going to be a really long video, I decided not to tax it and not make it display the video as well as record my audio. So I thought I'll just talk about random stuff and let you watch the video and see how that goes and if my computer will cooperate with that. And so far so good in just a few minutes, it has not crashed yet. Keep our fingers crossed. And I want to apologize for some portions of the video because my camera was focused in the upper right corner. And you'll notice whenever my hand goes up into that upper right corner, the focus goes wonky because it's focusing on my hand instead of on the paper. And I decided not to recolor everything in order to reshoot all of that because there was way too much work. So I I also was editing the video down. What I did was try to chop out all of the places where I went to search for a marker. But you get to see everything else in real time, all the coloring. And I almost was going to when I found a first a couple of the spots where the fuzziness happened or the focus weirdness. I almost deleted those and then I realized I'm going to be deleting a lot of that hair section because that's usually when my hand went up there. So if you have run into any of those sections yet, I have no idea where we are in the video. But if it's gotten to the hair, then you're probably annoyed with me by now. But at least you can see where the color goes. And that might still help to show you how to color an image like this. Speaking of an image like this, I would like to ask your help with something. I want to do another in the Human Rainbow series classes. And in order to do that, I have prevailed upon Sweet Escape to help me by creating some images at my direction for the class. And I don't know a whole lot about what's going on out there in Digiland, as well as in Stampland. I don't have time to keep up on everything. I keep up on some things. But I would love your help if you're somebody who colors people. Let me know where you get your stamps from, your digital stamps or regular stamp stamps to color. Because I want to go and survey them, not for like, I'm going to steal that idea. I'm going to not send them any stamped images. When I send in my request for what I want, I'm going to send in photographs. But what I'd like to do is do a survey to see our braids popular right now, our afros popular right now. Like, what are the kinds of hairstyles and ethnicities that everybody's doing so that when I teach you how to color something, I can combine a number of those ideas into one image so that you're going to be able to not only color this one, but you can go and color that other stamp that you may already have. Because I like to make my things broadly useful. I also don't know how many stamps I'm going to need for this class. And I need to just sort of figure out some stuff. And it would help if I had a head start because I've got to get on this soon. My hope is to launch it for my Black Friday sale, because I usually try to have, you know, one, two, maybe even three classes available for that big sale. And if I'm going to do that, then I've got to get the artist busy right away on getting the drawings done. So that I leave them time. So I'm really excited about that. I love this style of drawing.  So there there's some stylized aspects to it. But it's not like the super big heads, you know, things that are out of proportion. I want to do realistic stuff. And I'm also not going to do things like I want a birthday themed image because I don't want to teach you how to color balloons. This is going to be a class focusing on the person and drawing that person and coloring that that particular image, not on drawing like all the accessories that go with it. There might be something like wings, you know, if there's a lot of fairies out there and that sort of thing. Then maybe I will do something with wings. But I don't really know yet because I haven't done all the research, but you guys can help me by giving me a head start about which companies are the ones that have the best images out there right now of people. So that is a little bit about that class coming up for Black Friday, maybe. Knock on wood, knock on wood that this computer stays in intact until then. I've also had some of my keys on the computer start to come off. Like I have the E and the C key, which don't set down in there. They're not attached anymore, so they're loose. And if I have fingers that are at all damp in the least, then I when I type and touch one of those keys, it pops off and sometimes goes flying. And then I also have several keys that have rubbed off the letters on them. That's how much this computer has been used. God bless it for lasting as long as it has. But I have since college, like when I was in college, I got into deep debt and in the few years afterward and I spent a long time spent decades trying to get that all paid off. And I finally did and I promised myself I was never going to get in debt again. So I have never had to borrow money for my business ever, which I know a lot of people can't say that. But I am just blessed that I have not had to do that. And I'm hoping not to have to to get this silly computer and to get the new lights that I need. Some of you guys have been pointing out. Thank you so much that my lights are doing a little flickering here and there. And it's random with the lights, like one of them has decided it's going to do this flickering thing on occasion. I don't know why, just one of them. And they no longer make these lights. So I'm going to have to switch to a new kind of light. I did find some that are cheaper than these, but they're bigger. And I'm trying to figure out like if I can set the wattage on one so I can buy one at a time and make both of them work, or do I have to buy a full set of lights? Yeah, you know, we artists should be able to just focus on the art and not worry about all the tech stuff and the cameras and the lights and the computers and all that stuff. I just want to snap my fingers and all that icky part of doing this would go away and I could just teach. That would make me so happy if I could, you know, like hire a munchkin or like train the dogs to do all the computer work. Wouldn't that be nice? If that would happen. Oh, and as soon as I mentioned dogs, Beanna got up. She knows I'm talking about her. I have to not look in that direction. I'll she'll get all excited. Let's see. What else did I want to talk about today? Oh, since we're talking about doing people, I thought I'd maybe tell you about my new drawing group that I'm part of. I mentioned it in my clouds drawing video that I posted a couple of weeks ago and we've been meeting every week since then, which has been really fun. The group is somewhat small, but that's good because the gallery we're in is small and each one of us pays $20 a week to be there. And that covers the model and the space that we're in. So the rental of the space.  There's mostly older people. I am usually the youngest one there. There was one week when there was a young guy who was an architect and he had the day off so he could come. And most of the rest of the time it's retired folks because we're doing it on the middle of an afternoon and most people are working. But it's been super fun to be with these people because I feel like they're my tribe. We talk about things during breaks, like having been to a gallery in Paris or Amsterdam in, you know, 2003 and what you saw there. And oh, I saw that painting in 2007. And just the conversation that we're having about art itself is one that I haven't had since college back in the day. And really talking about art at that kind of a level. I just haven't had those kinds of friends in a long time. I have my sketcher friends and we go out and do urban sketching, but it's a different kind of crowd, a different kind of vibe. And these people, like one of them is an abstract painter and he does his drawings in our group are like Picasso-esque and has this really interesting line quality that he has. There's another person who was an illustrator and designer, graphic designer, an illustrator like me. And he tells me stories about back in the day and showed me his portfolio. I mean, it's just like really cool to meet this kind of a group of people at this stage in my art career and talk to them about about things that I haven't talked about with anybody in so very long because I haven't had those kinds of contacts with people. So it's very exciting for me being in that I bought myself this really cute plastic tote and I felt like a kid going back to school. I packed all my my charcoals and my my vine charcoal and my erasers in all the little containers, the little slots in there and my pencils, my charcoal pencils, my blending stumps, all my blending tools, like just packed this whole little box. And I feel like I'm carrying a lunchbox. It's so silly. It is just so, so silly. But I love it. I really am enjoying it. And if if it's something that's ever occurred to you to do, I suggest just going ahead and doing it now. Just in case you're wondering, because you probably are, what is life drawing? Life drawing is drawing people. And yes, they are people who don't wear clothes in general. There was one week when our model didn't show up. So we all modeled for each other and we modeled clothes. Nobody wants to see this. But generally, you have a model and they will take different poses. We start off with, you know, usually ten practice poses, ten warm-ups, and they're a minute to two minutes. So very, very quick, just doing some barely gestures to just try to get some form in. And then we do usually twenty five minute poses the rest of the time. Twenty five minutes is not all that long to get something done. It's interesting to see each artist's approach and, you know, when when each person feels done and, you know, like, have they have they gotten very far in their drawing and some people are faster and some are slower and some just focus on a hand. Some will focus on different things. It's it's an interesting thing to be there with a group of artists all drawing the same thing.  I'm a member of those sketch groups, as I said, and plein air groups. And we're all dispersed, drawing and painting, whatever we feel like in the area. And then we get back together at the end. And this has a different vibe to it just because we're all doing the same thing. And we're not really talking to each other while we're doing it. We only talk in between. But we're all engaged in the same activity, drawing the same subject. So it's just kind of interesting to experience art in that different kind of a way. In addition to joining art groups, I've been doing it feels like creative things everywhere I go and everywhere I look anymore. Not much rest for the weary around here. I was listening to the radio last Saturday morning and the woman on the radio said, if you have anything you want to do today that's outside, you should do it right now because by the end of the day, it's going to start raining. It's going to be raining for five days. And I kind of panicked because I had a project that I needed to get done, which was painting a cabinet. Now, there's lots of other things I should have been doing outside. There's lots of weeding to be done. But I thought, after it rains, the weeds will be easier to pick out, right? So I decided to focus on painting instead. And I had this cabinet. It was one that I bought at Ikea probably 20, 25 years ago. It was really old. And I had covered it in patterned paper when it was in my studio. It used to hold, it had lots of little drawers. It used to hold all of my embellishments, my stickers, all the little tiny itty bitty things in these drawers. And eventually I'd gotten rid of all that stuff. So I moved the cabinet out, replaced it with something else that was better storage for the things I was using. And the cabinet sat in the hallway for this entire time for years and years and years. And it was just a dust catcher and a stuff catcher. I just kept setting the mail on it or whatever. And I needed to either use it or get rid of it. And I realized when I was thinking about renovating the laundry room, that's the second room that I wanted to renovate. When I started this back in May, and I only did one room, didn't get very far. Second room, I realized that this cabinet would fit in there and I could use it to hold all of my hardware stuff. The nails, the screws, the hammers, all of the tools that I use around the house. I can't tell you how many times I've bought another screwdriver because I couldn't find any screwdrivers. I have so many of them, like I have to have a yard sale just to get rid of all the extras that I bought. But I don't even know where they all are. So I thought if I start putting everything in that cabinet, then it's all going to be in one place and I can at least sort through what I've got. Well, I needed to repaint this thing because it had patterned paper on it that was now coming off. It was falling apart, so I needed to do something. So I had to peel off all the patterned paper and then I repainted it using the colors that I'd used in the bathroom because I'm going to use the same colors in the laundry room. In the bathroom, the blue is on top and the white's on bottom. So I'm going to flip that and I'm going to do the blue on bottom and the white on top in the laundry room.  And the bottom is going to be painted like the ocean. And then the top is going to be clouds. So this cabinet is going to be the first thing that I handled in that laundry room. I painted the cabinet. You can see over on my Instagram, there's a short video I did of it and I painted clouds on the doors using just the regular brushes and paint that I was going to use for the walls eventually so I could practice to see if this was going to work on the walls. And it really came out cool just using the regular wall paint. I didn't get out any acrylics or anything. I just use the paint for the walls to make swishy marks to turn them into clouds. So I think the laundry room is going to work out really cool if I ever get around to getting it done. Maybe, maybe this fall I'll get to it. I don't know, I'm going to cross my fingers that I find some time under the sofa cushions or something to get that done because I have all the stuff for it. I already bought the paint earlier this year. So let's see if I can get to that. Another area that I've been dabbling in something that I haven't done in forever is some graphic design stuff for my new church that I have just joined. And they have started this food bank and clothing bank and I've been doing all the signage, just making handmade signs for them. And at first when we were talking about, you know, I said, do you need any art type of stuff for this new food bank that you're launching? Just knowing that you need signs, you need a sign that says shirts are here, diapers are here, you know, like just to direct people. And they kind of looked at me weird and I had all of this extra poster board that somebody had donated to me years ago. And it was in the garage for, I don't know, 10 years at least, a huge box of this poster board. And I've been trying to find out how to use it. And when I saw this thing, I said, hey, can I use this poster board and make you guys any signs? Do you need any signs? And I came in with the first set of signs and their jaws just hit the floor. They were like, we just thought you're going to like take a piece of paper and scribble something on it, not like, and here I am, like measuring the letters and making sure everything's straight. So now I'm making like tons of signs. And then the pastor messaged me on Instagram and asked if I would do some environmental graphics for the church. I haven't done environmental graphics in, oh, gosh, 20 years, maybe? It's been a long time. And, you know, starting now to research who can install all these graphics and I'm designing and stuff and get some estimates and all that sort of thing is a whole different ball of wax from the kinds of things that I do now. And they chose a design that's just got lots of great color on it. I'm I'm excited to see this thing come to fruition. They've got to have a lot of meetings and figure out wording on stuff. But it's going to be pretty cool when it's done. And it's always nice to be able to use the skills that you have as an artist to help in something else that you care about in, you know, helping this church. And I think it's going to be really fun as well. I am guessing that we must be getting closer to the end of this video because I'm I'm watching my timer. I have the timer set for the full length of this video. And I can't see where we're at. But let me say that you're not going to see the background colored. Just in case you're looking at how long you have left in this video. No, I'm not going to zip through and do that background really fast because the background is one from the class. And I never put class content here on YouTube because people are paying for it and I don't want them to feel like they're not getting the value of the exclusive content in the class. But for those who do take the class, you'll have to note that the colors that I'm using for the background in the class are more traditional types of greens for the trees. And in this particular case, I'm going to be using the blue green colors that I'm using on the girl. So on her outfit on the flowers in her hair and some of the color in the wings, I'm going to pull into the trees and the darker color that you're going to see in those trees is actually one of the purple colors that was using her hair. So I pulled colors from the person to pull into the background. So anytime you're trying to coordinate the color of the image with the colors that you're using in the background of whatever it is that you're creating, it's really helpful to bring some unity to the whole thing and and some balance and harmony by using the same colors. So I often set all the markers out as I'm coloring something. I usually start with the main image and I set all those markers out so they're on the table or in a basket or whatever you want to put them in. And then when you go to create your background, don't just grab new colors from your marker bag. Use stuff that you had already used in the picture itself. You may have noticed as I was coloring her hair, it were like, I don't know, it felt like 70,000 colors in it, but I counted at the end and it was only 10. On my blog, there are two photographs. One photograph has my hand holding all of the colors that were used just in the hair. And then the other handful is the skin tones and the outfit. And then, as I said, the background color is combining purples with the blue greens to create all the colors that you see in that.  It's the Signo Uniball gel pen and it is a fantabulous, fantabulous pen. There's a video next week that I will be posting all about a white gel pen and how you can unstick it if it gets stuck. And I actually tried some of the methods that I had posted on social media a few weeks back and I'm putting it here on YouTube so YouTube people can also see it because y'all are missing out if you're not coming over to Instagram and Facebook to see what is going on in the world. So we must be at the end because my timer is about running out, so I am going to call it a day and give my voice a rest after all of this because I feel like I've been talking forever. I hope you're not bored. If you're still here, thank you. Thank you for sticking around. I appreciate you very much. I appreciate your likes on this video as well.  All right. There's links in the doobly-doo to get to the Copic enchantment class, the winter enchantment class. And I'm probably going to put, yeah, let's put the regular Copic enchantment class on sale too. So I'm going to put both of them down there in case you want to see the other one as well if you aren't into coloring winter things because I know my friends in the other side of the world on the upside down part of the world have their warm weather coming right now.  So I will put them both on sale and you can enjoy those. And all of the other holiday and winter and anything Christmas related classes are also all on sale this month because that's what everybody's working on right now. So go find yourself something to inspire you and I will see you again soon and hopefully not with a video that's this long and full of me yammering about all kinds of useless things. Alrighty, I will see you guys later. Thank you so much. Have an awesome day. Bye bye.


Well, we always play great at home. We've been in this game like 11 years in a row in the Mac. And we've historically always played great. And we've always put a nice crowd. And the men's volleyball team really gets everybody up and really into it. And they're just having fun. And when we're doing positive things on the court, they just get even louder. So it's very overwhelming for the other team. And our kids just feed off of that kind of enthusiasm. Well, it was. And Weider hadn't played in the same amount of time we hadn't played. And they have gone 13 and 5 in their last 18 games. So they have been playing extremely well. And so they were going to come in here with a lot of confidence. So for us to get off to a good start was just paramount tonight. Well, they're going to have a big crowd. So we're going to have to be composed and be loose. Last time it went 5. And it was 8 to 7 when we switched sides in the fifth set. And then we just made a couple of errors. And that was the difference between winning and losing because when it went 5 like that, I really feel like we can play better. And so we'll work on some things that we know that we're going to need to be at Eastern in practice.


Do I got everybody plugged in ready to go? Yeah! We're at the Nook flight line. Welcome to the rampage. I've got to do it again. Oh yeah, definitely midair. And then I was coming around a turn, and then I'm upside down. I hear the car coming around. I'm like, oh jeez. Trying to turtle mode, but I'm panicking. So I over turtle-moded. Then I finally got it, and then right as the car is coming, dude. With that, I took off. Right there. I think I got it all on camera then. So... I'm surprised I could actually keep up with it. You know? It's the first time trying it, so I'm excited. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, let's get back out there. We hit the gap, you know, so that's what it's about.  I need tricks here that you want to do a band-a-line. Is this your first pack here? This is my first pack here. So you're just going to take a chill for the first one? Oh, you're going straight for the exploration. Okay, nice. That's the gap, bro. That's the bubby dive tower. I'm going to... this is the video where I destroy my quad.  This is going to be the video where I destroy my quad. Nice. Okay, you got the bottom one. That's sick. You got this. Oh, nice prep flip through that. That was sick. Oh, you think you can fly through that, bro? It's so risky. It's good, though. Good. Keep full sending. Keep full sending. Nice, man. What do you think of new band-a-line after your first battery here? I like it. You like it? Are you doing good stuff right now? No. I'm trying to learn these motors, dude. I just put them on. I've never flown them before. What motors? The Pacers. Oh, I just... Where'd you get those? I just mashed myself. I'm done. Is this done? Yeah, I got them for free from Rotor Riot. Shout out Rotor Riot. Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Thank you, Team Rotor, for sponsoring this event. Of course. Going for it. See some carnage, some awesome flying as well. Hopefully, I can get in the air too soon. Yeah. Today, we have a lot of amazing events going on. We have a Rate My Rip freestyle competition hosted by Alex Fanover. This is something we've really wanted to be doing for a really long time. It is a live freestyle competition where the winner will get a full frame and motor sponsorship from Rotor Riot for one year. So this is definitely one of the biggest competitions that we have ever done. Oh! After that later tonight, we have a live community spotlight. Everything's live here at Rampage. Live community spotlight where you guys, the audience, has chosen the videos that me and Lidrib will be reacting to. It's going to be an awesome time.  It's going to be an awesome party, so I'm super excited for today. Let's get to it. I'm Austin Spard. I'm from Alsterland, Kentucky. Dylan Franco. I'm from Los Angeles, California. Ari Altem, FPV's Danny. I'm from Eastford, Virginia. I'm Nicholas, Murders FPV, and from Maryland. Liam Finn, aka Cape Callion, from New Jersey. I'm Carl Stomroyd, FPV. I'm from Montreal. Dylan Mint, FPV. Fancy. Dadbot! Dadbot! Hey, Danny, Stallion. You guys ready for a pony show? Yeah! Who should win? I think it's up there. What I'm about to do is on purpose. So it wasn't my accident, it's not because I'm being a pilot. It'll buff out. That wasn't what I meant to do, actually. It's fine. Sexy thing. Yeah, baby, that's right. What do you got to say that people haven't been to Rampage? You should come. If you've never came, you should come. No matter what, it's worth it. Every dime, every dollar, every hour spent, like, literally. Thank you guys so much.  Caddox, FPV, and Walksnail. We're giving away so many of these video transmitters to the winners of all the contests. Team Motor, our platinum passes, they got motors in their bags, so sick. China HobbyLine, we also gave out some batteries, paid FPV. We have some CVSs that we're going to be giving out later. Drone Nation, again, made an app that made this whole event possible. Both HQCrop and Gemfan came on hard with all the props. We got you all hooked up with props. We're going to be throwing off more in a minute. And Camera Butter, talking about making things look cinematic. Newsel 3D, here, we're printing on demand. I would like to thank everyone for showing up to this event. I'm making a rampage super special, guys. I'm so thankful for the community for always being awesome. And really, everyone, the community, we always support each other and that's what FPV is all about. So thank you guys so much.


Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com You're watching one of my jiff travel videos and today I'm taking to the Great Sphinx of Iza which is located right next to the Great Pyramids. The giant 4,500 years old limestone statue is 245 feet or 73 meters long and 66 feet or 20 meters high. The guide told us that the Great Sphinx was there even before the pyramids were built and no one really knew why or how they were there. The Sphinx has a body of a lion and the head of a human. I saw that the face was badly damaged on one side, especially the nose. It looked like the Sphinx even has a tail or the remnant of a tail. I saw some restoration works in progress. Thank you for watching this video, there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly. Thank you.


This is the title that Leon is complaining about just now. It actually shows that we can draw anything onto the wall. So I'm talking a little bit about new pixels, because this is majority part of the base of the whole project. Okay, so just in case somebody have never heard of new pixels, it all starts with a small little chip called WS2811 developed by a very small semiconductor company in Shenzhen, but with a very big name called Watt Semi. And it is kind of an LED driver in a very dull A-Ping package, and soon they release a nicer one with the pack, with our LED itself integrated with the controller and making it into a small single monopiece item. And this soon become, and the name is WS2812B, and this was picked up by Adafruit, and they renamed it to New Pixel and become very popular. And today you can buy new pixels in all kinds of formats. For example, you can buy in strips, you can buy in panels in all kinds of assorted shapes, and this has become a huge market for this single LED. And how we did this, actually we made this, this is one of the 132 PCBs we made. It actually is quite simple, we buy the new pixels in strip format and we cut into small pieces and sold it on top. And for each like this square, we put into a small little case with a poly panel in the front and some of the people from PA helped us to draw all the offensive pictures on top of it. So all together we have 11 columns with 6 rows of each side. So this is 66 pixels, 66 blocks on each side of the wall. And each side we are controlled by ESPA266, people know me, I'm kind of addicted to this microcontroller. And how does the work is actually quite simple. Zaya write the browser page and which posts the RGB data for each of the big wall and into ESPA266 and we receive this data and we just tokenize the information of RGB or this kind of information that we pump into a new pixel. It's actually very simple. So there's not too much to talk about the whole architecture of this project but I really want to share some of what we have learned from this project. So first thing is that driving a new pixel is a very simple way that you just pump all the pixel data from the first pixel and it will in turn retransfer the same to the second and the third one. What happens is, for example, we have 3 pixels here and what happens is for each pixel we need 3 bytes of data which is red, green and blue and what you need to do is just pump 9 bytes of data into the first pixel and the processor inside will chop off the first 3 bytes and use it to display a color and retransfer the remaining 6 bytes to the next pixel and hence so on and so forth and all the way you can run thousands of pixels with this kind of arrangement. And you do not really need to write all your program to transfer your data and spread into bits and bit streams and there's a huge number of libraries available. For example, if you use an Arduino platform just launch the library manager and search for new pixel or search for WS-208-12 there's a huge amount of libraries available but you do really need to look at whether this library supports the microcontroller you are using because now the Arduino platform has included so many of the microcontrollers that you better look at for certain of the libraries it doesn't support like it only supports AVR or only supports ARM it may not have other supports so this is some of the trap for some people who are not in this scene. So a little bit of internal of our new pixel is that we know that it's extremely fast because we are talking about sending 3 bytes or we say 28 bits of data into per LED that is they give a very strict timing of 1.25 microsecond per bit that makes 24 bits per LED which is 29.7 microsecond if you calculate upwards that you can if you want to animate a string of pixels in a 30 frame per second you can actually animate 10,000... sorry this is 120 new pixels that you can actually animate this in 30 frames per second so that with our project we only... for each side of the world we only use like 500 over we can actually run much, much faster than what you see at the moment this is one of the points we understand the other thing is power consumption so Adafruit has a very nice web page called the best practice of using new pixel they're talking about the power consumption of new pixels and they give a number of 60 milliamps per LED although there are some of the preconditions they say if we are running at 6 milliamps that means that you are driving full force of the 3 LEDs that will become white colour and most of the time you may not want to use white colour you use other colours then they give an assumption it's like 20 milliamp per LED then if you times this by thousands there's a huge amount of power that you require so we calculate based on our case each block has 9 pixels 20 milliamp, 180 milliamps so each panel got 66 blocks that is 11.8 amps so it's... you cannot expect that you have... like when we use a 100 water power supply you have 20 amps of power you cannot just feed this power into one end of new pixel and expect to power the whole chain because the kind of 20 amps of power at this kind of current all the contacts, all the connectors you use have to be specially made otherwise the loss is tremendous and the heat and the loss is tremendous so very luckily we actually found this something like this it's a power distribution block that is split your white input to the output and we actually use 4 of those so that for each of the... and we divide each string into... we actually parallel the power supply for each string although the signal is in zero but the power supply is in parallel so we use this kind of block to power them in parallel so in the end we can still measure about 5 volt in the last pixel so this is some of the taking homes for our project and I want to share, that's it, thank you okay, I have this body if somebody interested can take a look and thanks for all the people helping us to solder this up so the blocks have 3 pins so that's why you ended up with 6 by 11 in the panel per panel we have 2 of these blocks so we have 6 rows in parallel and you have an ESP in every block? we have a 1 ESP in every block sorry, every panel every big panel, so there's only 2 ESP there one thing to share 5 meters of NeoPixel if you power them from one side the last meter of the pixels doesn't work anymore properly so what worked out then was connect the power on one end and the ground on the other end so the distance between power and ground was the same for each pixel then it worked nicely that's interesting


Okay, ready? Okay, cool. So try this one. How many significant things are contained in each of the following? So if you'll notice A is 1,0.0, okay? So all of these zeros are significant, okay? Because the last zero of course is after the decimal point, so that's all the significant. So this one has three significant figures. B has a zero before the first non-zero integer, so that zero is not significant, okay? So it only has one, two, three significant figures. What's the reason? So this zero is before any non-zero integer. You always want to convert them to scientific notation. If you do that, then you'll be able to see how many significant figures are more easily. C is the same thing. This zero is not insignificant or non-significant because it's not before or it's not after a non-zero, even though, but this one here is significant, okay? This one, the n1 after the decimal. Okay, this zero, I guess they call it a captive zero, okay? It's always significant, okay? So we got 1, 2, 3, 4 here. Here we've got a captive zero and a zero at the end, but since it's after the decimal point, it's also significant. So we got 1, 2, 3, 4. And this one actually is the third question of the whole thing. This zero is significant, but this one's not, okay? Because it's the last zero before the decimal point without the decimal point there. Okay? So this one actually has three significant figures. And just to show you guys, right, if I were to put a decimal point afterwards, then we would have four significant figures.


This is break number 290 with the chance to win the final eight Noir basketball spots. That's going to come up in a separate video. First we're going to do the break itself. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into the action. There's everybody right here, appreciate it. There's all the teams right here, so we're going to do the break first. Let's roll it. We're going to analyze it one and a two, three times for each list, one, two, and three, easy. Josh down to Josh. Three times for the teams, easy, Grizzly is down to Caps. Little bit of reserve, Colts beat the Titans tonight, Thursday night football. All right, so there's everyone right here and everyone right here. Nice. Looks like it's down to three, down to four, three or four. Good, yeah, let's get that number block filled up. Let's add it to the schedule. Let's make that happen. Thank you. Oh, we've got a LeBron in the back here, another LeBron James. Those LeBrons are pretty good. Who got the Lakers? That'll be for Raymond, Raymond with my Lakers, the World Champs. Thanks, LeBron. Appreciate it. Appreciate bringing the chip back. There's Carson Edwards back here too. That'll go to the Celtics. That's the copper version of that card, which I think is exclusive to this Hanger pack. I think I threw away the pack, but there you go. A couple for the Lakers. Nothing too earth-shattering there beyond that. No big rookies or anything like that. Raymond with the Lakers. All right, now let's see who wins spots in that noir break back there. Let's grab everyone's names from Kyle down to Josh, put them in a blank list. New dice. Let's randomize the top eight after four. One, two. So from nine, from nine down to 30, sad times. Sad people here, but we'll get them next time. We'll try to make you happy next time. Top eight, Michael, Nick, Sean, Michael, Josh, Derek, Josh, Josh. Congrats to the eight of you. You are in that two box noir break coming up in a separate video. Jasky's Case Breaks.com, we'll see you for that.