Let me come to you Julius, now when, let's talk about the judiciary because now we need to also not fail to address the legal issues that were also highlighted in the report. Deputy president will never say this and I quote, on the matter of the judiciary allow me to say that there is a huge space to have an improvement on the proposal that has been made. Having an ombudsman appointed by the executive into the judiciary is a derogation from the independence of the institution. Do you agree with that? Well, not absolutely. I agree to an extent that questions of independence of the judiciary will arise when you have an ombudsman appointed by the executive. Coming from a lawyer does it affect you? The issue is the question is, what is the role of the ombudsman? Ombudsman is now what I would call the prefect. Somebody that Araya would go and report to when they have problems emanating from the judiciary. If they have a problem with a particular court, they have a problem with a particular judge, they have a problem following a particular case, where do they go to? They go to the ombudsman. Now, if this ombudsman is appointed by the judicial service commission and he is supposed to be like a watchdog against the judicial service commission and its appointee is the judge and the magistrate, how will you report to him if he is appointed by the same institution that you are complaining against? Then there is no independence. How do you report to him? There will be conflict of interest if the ombudsman is appointed by the judicial service commission and then Araya wants to report against the judicial service commission to the ombudsman. How will he now watch over the person who appointed him? There is a question, it's a catch-22. If it's appointed by the executive, there is a problem if it's not appointed by the other side. But it's a conversation that I think is healthy to have. It puts a question about the independence of the judiciary. I agree with Wakili, but look at the role of that amendment in Article 172. Now, the judiciary ombudsman has got three specific roles. But most importantly is to encourage transparency. Remember this is a judiciary that has been accused of bribery, has been accused of corruption, so many things. And therefore there must be another angle of looking at that accusation and sorting it out. But again, look at the JSE. These are also members of JSE. So for me, the judiciary ombudsman does not do the discipline. They don't do that. They are just perfect. They are doing the investigation. Then they fought with JSE. JSE does the discipline and even management. I want to believe, as we are talking about judiciary, if you look at the substantive amendments in the judiciary, look at the amendment in appointing the court of appeal president. Given the time limit of five years, look at the experience that they need to be appointed as chief justice 20 years now, not 15. Look at the appointment for the judges in the Supreme Court. Now 15 years, not 10. It means you are taking efficiency, suitability and competency into the judiciary. You are actually strengthening judiciary. And that is a question. Is the judiciary going to be independent? Let's take a look at what Honorable Musala Mudavadi said about this. The judiciary is independent. There is a very good provision recommending the appointment of the ombudsman to handle the issues of the judiciary. I think that is good. However, I strongly believe that in order to enhance the independence of the judiciary, there is that last part. In order to enhance the independence of the judiciary, he was saying that that part needs to be looked into.  What do you think needs to be done? Because we said the BBI is a report that needs to be looked into. There are some issues that can be corrected here and there. Is this one issue? What needs to be done to the judiciary to be independent, so to speak, is to give them what we call financial independence. That is actually what will answer the query we are talking about, not even to have to do with the ombudsman. Because the problem is that the judiciary still has to go back every time to the executive and parliament to give them money whenever they need money to do a project. That is why I remember the DP yesterday talking about and he was right that there are about 5 counties that don't have high courts to date which is contrary to the constitution. There are about more than 100 constituencies that don't have a court at all. The problem is the Judiciary and Judicial Service Commission really wants to have courts everywhere so that there is access to justice. So for them to do, they have to go back to the executive to give them money. Now if the executive does not give them money, then the raya will suffer because the raya will not have access to justice and then independence of the judiciary will be stifled. You've mentioned money which makes me want to ask this. Hon. Mudavadi said this. The document has very good provisions and he said that the strength of the Senate needs to be looked at again. The articles that have when touched tend to downgrade the role of the Senate when it comes to allocation of resources to the counties. It requires a review. Does that require a review? I remember even the deputy president himself mentioned about this and the deputy said that it would be ironical to release more funds to them when the Senate has been downgraded because the BBI proposes to increase allocation of funds to the counties from the current 15 to 35. Aguko, that statement is a lie. In fact, article 98, the amendment is only to the extent that it is now introducing the 50-50 in terms of gender ensuring that elusive gender principle is achieved in the bicameral house of Senate. But in terms of their work as participants of lawmaking as the people who protect the counties, it is still there. But look, the women of this country, why is it that we don't want to give them an opportunity to make decisions of the amount of money that is going to the counties because the Senate protects the interests of the counties and they also participate in the equitable share among the counties. That is guided by article 203 that gives the criteria. It is not guided by what the Senate says. So it is not a downgrade? No, it is not a downgrade. What they would have done, what in our view as a party that we think can be made better to make it an upper house with veto force so that they can check the excess of a lower house if they do or they make laws that are injurious. That's it. Okay, let me hear your comments on this. Thank you. Did you know that under the current article 123 of the constitution there are two types of senators. They are elected senators and then they are the non-elected senators. The nominated? Yes. Now in terms of decision making in Senate there are decisions that the non-elected senators don't take. The speaker is given the mandate to declare that a particular decision affects counties and then a particular decision does not affect counties. Now a decision that does not affect counties then everybody will vote. A decision that affects counties only the elected senators will vote. I remember just recently when there was a still meet in terms of sharing of revenue the senators that are nominated did not participate. They were being excluded. Even if there was a vote to be taken they are not allowed to vote. And do you know who they are? They are women. Because majority of the nominated senators I think they are almost 17 or 18 who are women. So that basically means that women were excluded from taking decisions that are discriminative. Now the current amendment proposes to have two senators from each county one man, one woman. So that there will be no discrimination as to whether a particular matter affects counties or not. Is there any downgrade when it comes to the Senate looking into county allocations? No, none at all. Let's take a look at the tweets. The hashtag is the stand KE. We have Unis saying I need an honest answer to this if there is one. How would we get into BBI assuming it will pass with ethnicity mindset and still say there will be national unity? I'm sure parties will stick work will still work with ethnic numbers to form coalitions. That is why I said it is work in progress. That is why we are having this conversation so that people are ready for those who cannot read are ready for this document. Those who are able to read read for themselves so that they are able to engage in this discourse from a point of information. So that we are not misled by whoever is talking because truly speaking people have already taken the conversation is already almost taking ethnic balkanization. Let's go to this is Mata Karua. BBI is not a national conversation but a conversation of two friends and their allies to the exclusion of others a breaking bridges initiative. I saw Mata Karua presenting before the BBI she gave her views it is ridiculous for her not to defend the views that she presented before this task force and therefore that is very wanting from her as a leader. Number two, national conversations means a conversation that belongs and involves all Kenyans. I remember this task force going to 47 counties and even when corona came they managed to meet the rift valet team that they had not met before corona and therefore it is a lie to say that it is between two friends but even as we say that the two friends that she is talking about she is talking about I want to believe they are Rayl Odinga and Uru Kenyatta these are gentlemen who went for a contest and competed one of them swore himself in one of them was swore by the instruments of power and therefore the conflict that it was creating the people who lost their jobs baby Pendo lost her life their parents were there you cannot say that it is not a national conversation while their people lost their lives you cannot say that it is not a national conversation while their people lost businesses. Let's take a look at what Ahamed Nasir said his excellency Uru must give Kenyans 18 months to digest and internalize the BBI report he receives it tomorrow at 9 am it's a complex and very difficult document for Wanjiku to understand and appreciate that was on Sunday we have David D said the constitution provides for two processes of Ahmed Med Popular initiative and legislative there is no provision for an executive initiative the BBI task force is an executive body gazetted and financed by presidential let me just attack that immediately I'm sure David D is watching let me tell you there is a lie it is true the constitution gives two routes to amend popular initiative that goes through the county like we did in Puzan they go under parliamentary now he is bringing in the aspect of executive initiative which is nonexistent to ridicule the process that it is an executive project it is not and article 257 and Wakiliya will confirm that give the provision for popular initiative says any promoter a promoter can be executive can be Wakili can be Okango can be you shall meet the threshold of one million signatures and submit with a bill or general propositions and therefore it does not exclude executive as a promoter so what is your take on that if I may add what does the word popular initiative means the word popular must must be read from the context of the population correct it has to originate from the population but an idea can only be conceived by an individual at the time ok once conceived the conceiver of the idea can sell it to the populace once the populace adopted and embrace it it becomes popular initiative alright now so many to it so many comments you cannot be able to sample them up just one by David WBBI is the solution to Kenya as a country there won't be any fight against again after every election no blood will be shed whatever correction to be done could be necessary ok let me just sample just one more comment this is Odongo he is saying Aguko I am watching you enjoying the show we have one more tweet by this is Anitwanani Evans he is saying watching from Zimaman Kazi Ikoshwari Sana the willbarrow the reason why willbarrow is being used doesn't mean we don't want to embrace modernity we are only using willbarrow for substance use that is what Odongo is saying alright so our time is not on our side but I would like to give you each just 30 seconds to give us a final remark about the BBI report and how moving forward the country or the nation should be like let me start with you Julius thank you Ram this BBI report is a good report I started by saying so and I would add Kenyans to read it let's not allow ourselves to be read for and let's not also allow ourselves to say that since Juma has read it and Juma has told me what it contains so I believe him if we are able to read it this document is good it may not be perfect but surely I tell you it will answer most of our problems and that's where our focus should be it is time for national conversation and the report is out Jisome and once you Jisome make a decision and remember this report is not an individual's report it is a report that culminates from the people of Kenya we have so many recommendations that will benefit all of us alright read it alright thank you very much for your comments that was Frederico Kang or Tadua Alliance Secretary General just Juma a constitutional lawyer gentlemen it has been a pleasure thank you now remember we are live we are that's on our website www.y254.co.ke keep tweeting and keep texting the hashtag is the stand keatramaguko.net Y254 channel that brings us to the end of this evening conversation it was all about understanding the BBI remember it is your civic duty to read and understand it my name is Ramawuko God bless you have a good night this is a stand see you again next week on Tuesday at 8pm


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Hi, it's my hand. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to 3D Hangouts. My name is Noel Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Joining me every week is my brother Pedro Ruiz. Good morning, everybody. Pedro has creative tech here at Adafruit. Every week we're here to share three printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. Yeah, that's right. This is a show we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody. It is Wednesday, February 14th, 2020, or we're doing episode 431. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. We're hanging out in the Discord server. If you'd like to join us, you go to discord.gg slash Adafruit. We're hanging out in the live broadcast chat channel. We're going to shout out folks that are watching live. We're streaming on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and ex formerly known as Twithaw. Pedro. I'm getting lost in the tabs, but here we go. Shoutouts to Jim Hendrickson, Squid.jpg, Gary Z hanging out in the Adafruit Discord server. And on YouTube, we're hanging out there as well. And the other places, I said. Let's see on YouTube. Yeah, YouTube chat. Good morning. We've got Kinger North, we've got Bob Pear, Fleece, and Cavendome. Shoutouts to the awesome looking designs, he says. Cool. Yay. I got a question from Bob real quick. We were looking at this. I think you're going to have to contact that one if that's not loading. Support. You can email support at Adafruit.com. Our support engineers can assist you in all of the questions you might have with hardware. Yeah, they're pretty quick too in responsive. So definitely check out support at Adafruit.com for all your technical questions. This sounds like we might need the board swapped though, but that's pretty fast. Cool. All right. All right, I'm going to take a look at Adafruit.com slash free and see what kind of deals are going on this week. Free stuff. If your order is $99 or more, you get a free PCB coaster with a golden Adafruit logo. If your order is $149 or more, you'll get the free PCB coaster plus native fruit, KB2040. That's the lovely dev board with the RP 2040 chip, stem QT port, tons of GPIO, and a pro micro format. If your order is $199 or more, you get the KB2040, the PCB coaster, and free UPS ground shipping for continental us only. And if your order is $299 or more, you get the free shipping, the KB2040, the PCB coaster, and a free circuit playground express Adafruit.com slash free for all the details. These get automatically added to your cart. No need for coupons with that. But on top of that, we have a coupon code for today, 10% off your total order clock time. We do appreciate your orders as it supports everybody here at Adafruit. And that is the freebies. I'm posting that all in the chats. Page was posting links. I'm hanging out. I know what time it is. It's 1104 p.m. Eastern time. What time is it? It's clock time. Where's the code? Clock time. All right, so this week, oh, man, I got to manage windows here. There we go. Let me flip that around. All right. All right, this week is a 3D printed mid-century modern design clock with a 1.2-inch 7-segment LED display powered by a Feather RP2040 running circuit Python code. It's a collab project with Liz Clark. You can change the time using the rotary encoder on the side here, press and hold, and you go into edit mode. A little dot here lets you know that you are editing the hour. If you click again, it'll switch the dot to the lower half of the screen, and that means you're editing the minutes. And you use the rotary encoder to change the hour or the minutes so you can rotate it back and forth. And then you notice there's another dot up here. What's that other dot mean? Well, it means it is p.m. or a.m. If there's a dot, it means it's p.m. And if there's no dot, it is a.m. It is a 12-hour clock. But you can change the 24-hour clock you like and then the circuit Python code. So let me fix the time because I changed it. Go back to hours. It is 11.05. And what I forgot to mention is it has a real time clock module. It's the DS3231, which you may have remembered from yesterday's product pick of the week from JP. It was a half off. All of the components are connected together with stem QT cables, making it a kind of a no solder project, which is pretty cool. The rotary encoders now come pre-soldered, which is really nice. And I think the only thing you will have to solder is the LED display. So this is the 1.2 inch LED display. And we currently have two versions, one that's red and another one's yellow. Pedro, you have the yellow version. Did you get Joe? Do a little swap here. And this looks a little red. Yeah, it looks a little bit different there. But it is yellow. You can see in the learn guide photos, it comes out very nice. Mine actually looks more yellow than yours. How funny. But in any way, you can print the 3D printed parts in any color. Yours looks a lot more kind of, I don't know, future kind of colors. It's got that kind of glitter black, dark purple, a little bit more masculine. I've got these fun mint green and orange. And then we have these legs here that get attached to the bottom that kind of give it this cool angle. And I have them printed in this kind of coffee brown and you have them in that purple. Very cool. One of the things we used to make the display look really nice is these gel filters to kind of soften, not really soften. What would you say it does? It kind of polarizes the LED so they look a little bit more legible. Not a little bit a lot more legible.  And you can see it's a huge difference. I think most clocks that have these seven-segment displays probably have some sort of filter to... There's no way you can make that. Yeah, that looks awful. You can't read it. Even not looking it through a webcam, it really is hard to see without the gel filter. You can pick those up from Amazon or other stores. You can get them in different colors and you can cut them to size with scissors or hobby knife. But yeah, that was really important to get that in there because otherwise the photos would be very hard to get. So that's kind of the project in a nutshell. Really good example of how you can use the RTC module to display time on these seven-segment displays. We really didn't want it to be an internet clock, mainly because sometimes the internet goes down and it's kind of nice to have a clock that isn't dependent on the internet. And we didn't have a project that was in CircuitPython on the Adafruit Learn system that used that real-time clock module in CircuitPython. I think we have one in Arduino from JP a couple years back, but this one all on CircuitPython and it's all using the latest StemAQT enabled electronics. I have it powered through USB-C, so you can actually use a battery if you'd like with a non-off switch since the feather has built-in battery charging or you could use a USB battery bank like Peter has there. I have mine plugged into a wall adapter, but that's pretty much the gist of it. It's just a nice looking simple minimalistic clock. Hold on, CircuitPython. Yeah, real quick. Question or just comment from Calvadoom saying that that blue color looks like a Weller soldering iron. Yeah, yeah, this is a I think it's called Mint Green from Hatchbox. So they make some pretty good filaments. I'm using the Hatchbox filament. I think Peter is using the every one filament for the darker tones. Yeah, I see the glitters there. Yeah, everything snap fits. There's no supports. And then a follow-up question here. Does the clock design allow for a speaker? There's plenty of room in the clock for adding a speaker, maybe even like a one-by-four NeoKey or a panel mounted button. There's definitely room in there for a speaker for sure. Yeah, it's a good starting point. Like if you want to add features to it, there's plenty of room in there for some more components. Yeah, definitely inside here. You have your mounting holes up there. Or even down here, there's plenty of room still available. Yeah, and again, there's room for a battery as well. So if you want to put like one of those 1200, I think 1200 or 2200 milliamp lipo batteries, the cylindrical ones, those work pretty well. Yep, so definitely upgradeable. Like we say in the video, it's perfect for upgrading and adding, plusing it up, however you would like. Yeah, if you do want to add sound, I would recommend the Feather PropMaker RP2040 because it has built-in I2S amplifier.  It'd be easy to like just connect those up. Yeah, yep. Or if you want a talking clock, we also have Liz's Adibot talking clock, which she did last year, I think in December, which will tell you what the time is with the Adibot's voice. Maybe you can mash it together. That'd be kind of cool, huh? All right, let's take a look at the learning guide. We'll kind of browse through a little bit. So it looks like we have everything in stock except the display. If you ever want to get notified when these things are back in stock, there's always a little sign up on the side here at a stock. You can enter email and get notified when these are back in stock. This particular product comes with the LED display. Is the yellow one in stock? Let's take a look. If you scroll down, you'll see recommended products and here's the yellow one. This one is also out of stock. There is a buy on Digi-Key button. Let's see if it's available on Digi-Key. Our partner is at Digi-Key. Let me click on it. They have six in stock. Get it from Digi-Key. They have fast shipping and they're our partners. So you can purchase from Digi-Key if you'd like. Yeah, it says it can ship immediately. That means they have it on hand. Pretty cool. How about that? So these aren't stock at Digi-Key. Pick those up. We like Digi-Key. The feathers in stock, the RTC is still in stock.  So congrats on that. You will need a CR 1220 quencil battery. That's how it is able to keep track of time when the device is shut off. That's how the RTC works. Other than that, you've got cables and the rotor encoder. The rotor encoder comes soldered already with the rotor encoder itself. Those are out of stock, unfortunately, but you can get the PCB breakout with no encoder and buy them separately. So you have options there. But yeah, recently these were added to the store with them pre-soldered on. Very nice. I think that's about it. Definitely speeds up workflow. It is a little tricky to solder those guys on. We had to set up the little clamps for it. Handful of screws. I have them all listed here. So if you want to pick those up, you can get them from get assortment packs from all sorts of different places. And then I linked these light diffuser gel overlays from Amazon, but you can search for them elsewhere. They come in different colors. The one I'm using is this kind of smoky black. Yeah, that's the one I used, but I suppose you could use any of these other ones and they would be okay too. But they're meant for like a joke. Yeah, they're meant for film. Yeah, that's exactly why we picked these up. So we were lucky that we had these lying around. Yeah, I picked out a pack, a couple years back. It's called T-Black. Look at that. Yeah. And these come in like 11 by 8 inches. So not too big. You should be able to cut them. Okay, so I think that's all the products. The circuit diagram. We put this together using the fritzing software. If you want to create your own, you can download fritzing. And then we have a link to the Adafruit library for fritzing parts on GitHub. So you can get those up. That's how we put them together. Pretty straightforward. Shemik connectors to connect everything together. Pretty nice. For the CAD files, the STLs are oriented to print as is, but you could always reorient them. If you're printing them in something like Resin or something, you might want to do that. Add some supports for Resin. But if you're doing the FDM style 3D printers, they're ready to go. Just choose your colors. We also have a step file of the whole design assembly. So if you want to remix it, you can import it into FreeCAD or Blender and add all sorts of different modifications to it. Fusion 360 has all the sketches and parametric timelines. You can update those a little bit easier. You can download these separate parts like the feather or the display or the rotor encoder or the DS3231 real-time clock module from our GitHub Parts repo. I got a link for that there. Those are handy for importing into your CAD package. The biggest part is going to be the case and that comes out to 140 millimeters by 66 millimeters by 80 millimeters. So just be aware, you kind of need a minimum build volume of that to be able to print it out. Otherwise, you can send it off to like PCBWay if you want to get it printed in like Resin or Resin. They have nylon printing as well and maybe even CNC if you want to pay the price. Get it in some aluminum. That'd be kind of cool. But that's it for the CAD stuff. Our next page walks through the Staling Circuit Python. If you haven't done it yet, there's how to do it. There's a whole page on how to update your board to the latest version of Circuit Python. Shout out to Liz for putting together the coding page. You can use the download project bundle to get all the libraries and dependencies for this project. It's using the DS3231 library, the library for the LED display driver, which is the HT16K33. The debounce library is used, I think, for doing a long press, for going into edit mode, and then the seesaw library for the rotary encoder and I2C stuff. The main thing you want to look at is changing the minimum and maximum brightness. One of the cool features about this is that the display can have different brightnesses depending on the time of day. If you want it to be not so bright during night, so you're not blinded at night, you can turn that down all the way down to like 0.01 or 1 for max brightness during the day. That's how it's set up here. You just want to change that how you like. It is set up on 24-hour time, so just be aware of that. When you initially set up your real-time clock module, you want to update the line here, which is timed out struct. You'll want to change the year, the month, the date, and just make that to your current time. Turn it on to true on the first time, and then turn it to false when you have the time set. And that's pretty straightforward. Lots of comments here, so you can change it up if you like. And then Liz has a nice code breakdown of all the different spots. For example, if you wanted to change it from being a 12-hour to 24-hour, you could update that part here where it's doing the whole clock conversion. Next page is the wiring, which is pretty much plug everything together. We do have a product guide on soldering the LED display to the LED backpack breakout. It comes with some pins. There's only one way to put it in correctly, so just install it and solder those pins. And you'll want to trim those leads short so they're not poking through any of the other components. So I started off with the... Oh, wow. I did not. So close to the stem. Oh, you didn't trim your pins? Yeah, I did not. I guess I'll put those to the encoder. It's not touching, but it's pretty close. Remember? Well, if you're in a rush, don't trip the... I thought they would. Yeah. Anyway, I guess it's optional. You can trim or not. Let's see. The coin cell battery gets installed to the RTC module. There's a nice symbol for positive. It's facing up. I think you can connect it differently, but for the StemicAT cables, I went with this orientation. So if you want to follow that, you got the photo there to reference. The LED breakout has a dedicated mount that only fits one way. I'm using M2 side screws and hex nuts to attach that together, but it gets attached to the back of the display instead of the front. That's just kind of the way it worked out. And then there's a dedicated PCB mount for the Feather and the RTC module. Those get attached directly to the built-in standoffs of the PCB mount with these M2 5 screws. You just kind of create the threads with the screws themselves, so pretty clean that way. And then we have everything connected.  I have a recommended size here. It's about 5.2 inches by two inches. Give it a take. Oh, I think it's easier to trace that line. Yeah, you trace the front cover plate. That's a good way to do it, too. That's pretty much what I did. I just took the dimensions from CAD and threw it in there. But yeah, you could use that as a good straight edge, I guess. The first thing you want to do is put the, once all the mounts are secured, you can fit the LED display through the casing. And then that way you can line it up with the built-in standoffs and those get attached with those M3 screws. Make sure the orientation is correct. You can use the silk screen, the lettering on the silk screen, the labels, as a point of reference to know which way is up, the right way up. And then the next part is to panel mount the rotary encoder pretty straightforward. The rotary encoders come with a hex nut and a washer. You want to install those properly. And then the rotary knob just gets press-fitted onto the shaft of the rotary encoder. And then depending on if you want the base legs or not, you'll want to position the PCB mount with the mounting holes lined up to the four mounting holes on the bottom of the casing. Hold those in place, and then you want to sandwich in between the casing, the base legs, and the PCB mount. Because we're actually using the same screws to secure the base legs to the casing to the PCB mount. So it gets sandwiched together with these M3 screws. So you kind of need the longer screws. These are 10 millimeter long screws. But it's kind of neat that you can reuse those same four screws for the base legs. I found it to just be kind of an easy way to kind of attach those base legs instead of doing them individually. So that's what I got going on there. And then you use some hex nuts to just kind of keep it in. Although I didn't, to be honest, I didn't use hex nuts. Did you use hex nuts, Pedro? No, I didn't. And I was able to, like you said, create the threads right into there. Yeah, so whether or not you want it, you know, hex nuts or not, it's optional. And then the back cover is kind of one of the last parts. It only goes one way, because there's these nice fillets that kind of key and register the parts together. There's only one hole, and that's for the USB-C port.  And then the faceplate just press fits. And it should have a nice tight fit. And that's it. That's the whole build. Man, what a difference. Here's a photo of the gel filter off and on. It's like night and day. Oh, yeah.  It does look pink. It's mainly because the flash or the lighting or whatever, it just makes it pink. Oh, the color correction too. Yeah, the color correction too. And I don't have a reference of what that pink really looks like, so I just took a guess on what and matched all the things together. Yeah, I suppose you could use one of the color gel filters to kind of make it more pink. Maybe like a yellow tint or something would make the red look more, because if you color mix red with yellow, I think you get pink. Anyway, there's a usage page that lets you know how to change the time. We tend to do usage pages just as a reference. Like, how do I use the thing once it's all built? So, yeah. I already did a demo, but you press and hold down the rotary encoder for, I think, a second. And then the LED display, the characters will start blinking. Now, it's, you know, you're in edit mode. You're editing the hour first and you press once to switch it to the minute the minutes, and then you can use the rotary encoder again to change the minutes. And then press and hold to save and exit. I haven't used a clock, a digital clock in a while, but I think that's how they work, right? Yeah. I don't think, I remember having one like as a kid, but I think it had buttons. I don't think it had a, and there was always be like a set time button that you would hold down. And sometimes it was more complicated than using, I don't know. I feel like this is more intuitive with the rotary encoder. Oh, definitely. All right. Quick comment from Connor asking, would it be difficult to add a proximity sensor of some time to the clock? I'm guessing probably in like some around this area, so when you walk close, it'll turn on the display and then turn it off. Oh, that's interesting. After a couple, like a minute or so after not seeing someone. Yeah. Cool addition to add. Yeah, that sounds fun. I would, yeah, maybe up on the top, there's more space there for it, for a proximity sensor. Yeah. Cavaldoom is saying a yellow would remove blue, which is less pink. That's my color theory. Yeah, my bad. So I guess use a blue filter to make it more pink. Anyway, the pack has all sorts of colors. So mix and match them if you want. Yeah, you can try them out. Mix them together. Jim Hendrickson has a really good point that the digital clocks, the biggest pain about them was that you couldn't only set them forward. You can go back and forth between setting the clock. And that's true.  You're like, oh, no, I gotta do it again. Yeah. I think the easiest is on our oven where it's literally you push the clock and then just push up or down. There's no holding down anything. Yeah. Yeah. I remember it being a challenge to change the time in our cars in the 1990s. Oh, yeah. People are like, how do I do it again? Well, I hold it down. Yeah. Changing clocks is one of my pet peeves, says Andy Calaway. Well, not with this one. Very encoders, especially ones with a button, are very, very versatile for lots of things really. Yeah, I agree. One of my favorite things is in the Discord chat there, if you scroll up a little bit, DJ Devin has these rubber feet that he used. I'm going to point those out if you want to. Oh, yeah, these are cool. Yeah, you can always add your own rubber feet as well. Yeah, that's a whole. You know, I originally did have just rubber feet with the self-adhesive on it originally. But yeah, I like the angle there. What am I going to add these like kind of fun legs? Yeah. Because I was looking at some mid-century modern furniture and I was like, you know, they got these cool angles. Maybe I can add those. Yeah, you can even add those on the bottom of these feet, huh? Make it all nice and grippy, although. They might be a little bit too slim. Like it doesn't slide as much. Yeah, right. Yeah, I thought that was interesting. The center of gravity is pretty low. What does Deweyster saying? Does it bother anybody that the pre-mode tech of the day, just a few short years ago, is now so confusing to us? Well, that's this week's projects. If you want to pick up any of the stuff, remember, DigiKey has some stuff in stock. You can use a coupon code to get 10% off using the coupon code. Clock time. I know it is time for what are you prototyping this week? Pedro has a Star Wars-looking Rebels. Yeah, so this is going to be the shoulder bot, which is pretty much a servo-controlled camera. So here's what we've got so far for that prototype. I have it on a tripod, so Brett can do some coding on it. It'll be a lot more easier than having tried and balance it on your shoulder. So it's a tripod version for now. We're going to update the design. So it's Minerva the owl. So it'll have the robot one-eyed bird that'll look around like that. So what we have here is, I want to call this like a pref board version of it since you have all these abilities to attach stem of boards for additional sensing. You have all of your port openings on all the sides right here. It's actually how the Neopixel ring is attached to the A0 port on the Memento. And then the servo, I'm assuming, is going to plug into the A1 port. And then you've got your stemma. So if you want to, again, I think there's room for like two or three of the 0.9 inch stemma boards so I can attach to there. Everything a snap fit. So it can all be disassembled pretty easily. So if you don't need the tripod portion here, you can have that. See how the servo is attached to that. Little bit of intricacy in the terms of the way the horn is sandwiched in to the quarter inch three-fourths, three-eighths by quarter inch tripod adapter. So that is sandwiching in the servo horns that these guys come with. So that's attached on there very nice. And there's the screw also that is holding the horn in place.  So when it'll detect a face, it'll light up the LEDs from red, yellow to green when it spots a face and then take a picture. So you'll have the button on the back. So if you want to do the display. So you have believe to get all that and go ahead and actually turn it on. It has the Arduino code on there, but I'm just using it to show that you do actually have quite a bit of, it's called the view angle on here. Yes. So you're not actually blocking that. That was one of my fears since it's pointing so far out that you wouldn't block stuff. But yeah, it looks like it's not structuring the view at all. So it looks good. Cool. So yeah, the default Arduino one. Oh, there it is. Yeah, yeah. They probably does not have the controls for the LEDs. I'll go ahead and put on the, the bin file that Brent has available. Yeah, so probably I didn't get it in case until last night. Right. Brent recently published his guide on kind of getting the facial detection and recognition on the Memento working. So folks want to play around with it now. I think the only addition is that the servo isn't, you know, a part of this project, but that's for, that's for Pedro's project. You get a bin file and then you use the, the ESP web tool to upload the bin file. And then he has a usage page and how it works.  And then you get some overlay text that says whether it detects the face or not. So that's kind of cool. Got these nice gifts here to let you know kind of what the UI looks like. Here's the light working. So it does use the new pixel ring. Or if you have access to the front facing camera plate that has the built-in LED ring, adder this. But yeah, cool. I'm definitely going to try it out later this week. And then I'm just now kind of walking through the, I know, I've been in the woods. Exactly. But I guess there's some configurable stuff, code history and explanation. This project is an example written by me, no dev for expressive systems. So there's a GitHub repo. And then he kind of walks through all the different bits here for doing the face detection. Pretty cool. So this will be our first kind of robot that can actually detect faces. That's pretty cool. I think later down, we'll add crazy features like sound effects and actually track maybe. But right now, it's just like really want to get a base feature set where it's like, okay, we can detect the face. Let's light up a new pixel ring to say it's green if you detect the face or red if it's not detected. Just really basic. Yeah, that's why I'm releasing this design as well. Since he did say he's going to split it up in two different guides, so maybe we should do the same thing. Because this works very well as just a desktop dev board. And then the case for it too, just because it has the ability to have all those expansion point accessories. Yeah. So this is like, oh, wow, this is why I didn't start on the owl. I was like, let me finish this. Yeah, it's a good prototype-y kind of design. That's modular as well. You can add different parts to the top or the bottom of the case. Yeah, yeah, modular. It's a lot like the doorbell project where it's like this sleeve design that prints up right. You figure out the snaps. And I like this version actually gives you access to the display and the onboard buttons. Because the doorbell, you know, didn't really. Yeah, really, you don't need to. I mean, it's a completely different functionality for it. It's supposed to hang outside. This is supposed to be like on your desk or where you can have access to it to be able to interact with it as well. And then upgrade your test code for what we're going to use it later down the line, the shoulder bot. So you make sure all that works before I update the case for it. Yeah, I think. Yeah, everything is accessible to the SD card, all the ports. And then we do have the 420 milliamp hour battery inside here. But because we have all this space, you know, you can have a much bigger one. Yeah. And I like how well, 100. Yeah, all the additional space in here, nothing's wasted. So we're using all the wires.  But you're saving and, you know, having to shorten wires. We can just coil it up and have it inside there or have your battery be inside there. So you're did you need a question? Did you need any supports for the casing? Any what? Any support material for the casing or does this print without any supports? Something needed supports. Oh, yeah. The only thing they need supports is the base plate for. Oh, really? I want to. Yeah, I should have grabbed it. But everything else you have prints without supports, the prints straight up. Yeah. You can see here some of the design considerations just making sure that the snaps, where to put the snap on each part of the object so that you don't have to print with supports. Yeah.  So on both sides. So you can pass through your stemma. Oh, the stemma can actually go through the grills here as well. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Whatever position you might want. So yeah, nice little way to pretty much for testing and for. Yeah. Lots of ventilation. A little bit grits. Yeah. And over here. The right, yeah. The vents printed nice like that because they're. Yeah, me too. I don't know. They're probably 12 or 15 millimeters across. So that's a pretty good active cooling on the printer. Yeah. The all the printers had turns printing all these parts. I'm trying to figure everything. So the smart pro or the the SP cruelty SP crew. You know, they all printed parts and everything fits together. Cool. Cool. Um, yeah. The base plate is the only part that needs support material and only for like a millimeter. And I'll show it off next week. Why you need supports because of the way the overhangs are for the way that it sandwiches the servo horn. Yep. All right. We got some comments. DJ Devon saying really cool. Great design. Thank you. Is there a guide on doing this with Circa Python and Adafruit IO or currently only for Whippersnapper? This is for. If you're talking about the face detection, it's like an Arduino project. Yeah. Because like the support is only through the expressive stuff. Squid.JPEG really love the mounting slots. Yeah. I don't know the name of the aesthetic, but it's very raw with the expose. Yeah. I was thinking kind of like a rebels star wars because like in that universe, like everything's like kind of a kit bash together.  So that's kind of having the screws expose, I think helps out with that too. Or in the grass as well. Yeah. Very kind of grungy. I should probably make the this or the squirrel. I don't know. I was going to say make it compatible with the Stemma spacing as well so you could mount something here. But no, it's Marfa. I think it's better for aesthetics. Yeah. Well, this one's supposed to be for aesthetics. This fake like grill, whatever those bumps are. I think it's supposed to be like a radiator for heat. So it disperses the heat out from these. Yeah. If it was metal. DJ Devon is asking if the 2,500 mAh battery is the biggest single cell diachromatic lipo battery that heater food carries. Looks like it would fit in the top compartment. Yeah. I don't know. Do you think it would fit?  Should fit. Yeah. I think it's too wide. I might be trying to search for it. There it is. Yeah. It's a little bit too wide. I think the the 1200 might work better. But yeah. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I think that's the biggest single cell that we carry. The next one up is the 6,600, right? Yeah, but that's that's not the way soft. Yeah, harder. We have a bottom. We have the category for all the lipos. Pretty sure the 2500 is the biggest one. Oh, yeah. We have 2000. That's cool. Forgot about that one. It's less. It's a little bit more slim. The 1200 is about the same size and about half the. Yeah, I like these because they're nice and rigid. Mm-hmm. They're not soft. They're kind of a little bit more hard shell. Anywho. Good stuff. All right. And that's what you're prototyping. Yes, this will be our shoulder button. Two weeks, something like that. The shoulder button about three or a month. So it took me a while to get everything mounted on there. Let's see how this guy is all wired in. That's where you got to get the end file on there. It just snaps right in. Yeah. Yeah. So next week, you'll have the sum code to play with. Yeah. It's just like the big line. No, I'm going to do it. I'm just going to make sure we can do some stuff. Cool. Yep. So I don't think we'll have... It won't be completed for next week, but I'll release it the week after. Yeah. Have the clock in view. Okay. Let's move on to the next segment with Time Lapse Tuesday. Every Tuesday, Pedro finds a fun... Timely... ...took it. That's funny. Declan Page is a three-year-old. So I have a Time Lapse video. Let's play it now to celebrate. What are we celebrating now? There are some rays and sharks. This is the blob typus. So it's the blobfish and an octopus offspring. And it's supposed to be the Valentine's Day. It's supposed to be the Valentine's Day. So it's a printed place design. Flexible appendages. I suppose are each of them, am I right? Or is there any? Yeah. Two, four, six. Wait a minute. Two, four, six, seven. So it's the second place. It doesn't even have eight tentacles. So this was designed by... That's the alternate base. Yeah. So if you guys don't know, this is what... It's supposed to be modeled after a fish that they call the blobfish. That usually does not look like this underwater.  And it looks like that. And they just called it the blobfish. But I like the... I like the one with the tongue sticking out just because of the way that it's designed. So it doesn't require a support instead of a 45-degree angle. So I thought that was cool. It looks like some sort of cartoon from Bob's Burger. Doesn't it? It does. The basic features that we're having. The design of it. Right? Yeah. Kind of like it's coughing. So the most weirdest Valentine's gift that you can get. Yeah. Well, you know, 84 likes to keep it weird. I think BT would do. So this design is like big over easy. I'm walking on a clothes duty. It is a free download. You can download it for free. Two different versions. It prints like that. Print in place with the seven... Count them. Seven legs. There's another version here where it has like two legs. The legs are hilarious. It's hilarious. It's like kind of doing this sort of dance. And I suppose you could paint it. Yeah. Reminds me of Crumb from Aria Monsters. Remember Crumb? Oh, yeah, yeah. He would hold his eyeballs though. But each color. And the blobby nature. Reminds me of Crumb. Anyway, free design. Check it out. Support the design on Patreon if you like these models. Yeah, so another cool design part about it is the spacing between the little rings here that makes it flexible. It has a nice spacing, so it should not fuse in even the most uncalibrated printer. Yeah. So that should work across all printers. What did Declan think of it when he showed him? What did he say? What was his reaction? I posted the video of him reacting to it. They see weird stuff all the time, so definitely nothing that affected them. That's funny. It wasn't scared. I don't know. No. I don't like it. Cool. Good. Good filament choice. You know, pink. Yes, the legs version is killing me. It's a squid. Yeah. Sorry. I know I should have done that one. That's funny. Yeah. Seven tentacles. Yeah. Except the pus. Yeah. All right. Very strange, very weird. We like it. Two up-puss. The two-legged one. Two up-puss. All right. That's the time lapse of the week. Very strange. Free to download. Try it out. Next up, we're going to do community makes next. So let's take a look at some community makes. First up, we have a dodecahedron posted up by Willy on printables. This is just a simple dodecahedron design that you can print with no supports. Lots of folks kind of print it out just because it kind of a, you know, kind of when you have a first printer, you want to do like a cube calibration test. You can print this out as a test to see how good your printer is or test different filaments out. Anyway, it's kind of a neat shape.  So you can print that out. Shout out to Willy for posting his make. Nice. All right. After that, we have a remix of the heat set press insert rig. So think of a user gene z22 posted up their thing. They have a nice description here. They were not happy with the counterweight mechanics, so they changed it to be an ID card system like solution. Okay. Constructed the holder and redesigned the original try bearing plate. And they use this ID holder that they linked to Amazon and it works fine. Printed on a cruelty ender s3 s1 pro. Very nice. I think there's more photos of it. Yeah. Oh, I see. So it kind of has a retractable ID badge mechanism. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's kind of cool. I've never seen, I haven't seen anyone do that before. So that's neat. Yeah, I've been wanting to get one for the printer, so it moves the wire out of the way. You know how it kind of, you know, Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, it's good to reuse these kind of mechanisms. So that's a good idea. I haven't thought of that. Yeah, that's cool. Huh. Good job. All right. After that, we have another heat set insert. This is a custom mounting clamp for the solder. For the soldering iron has like a built-in OLED display. So this was posted up by random prints on printables. They said, what's time waiting for the hardware for me to build the Adafruit heat set press insert rig? I thought I would print all the parts I needed when I came across this brilliant design. It's the pin style clamp by Kimmel. Only thing I want to do is see the screen and remove the clamp pressure that would be on the screen. So this remix is born. Unfortunately, I haven't built my press yet. So the photos are a bit lackluster, but I will update it when I build it. Very cool. Yeah, love seeing different types of soldering irons used in this design. So it's nice to see some of the more modern soldering irons. They have like LED OLED displays. That's pretty cool. Looks like it's powered by USB-C. It's kind of neat. All right. After that, we have a make of... This was a make posted on Colts 3D by Jono Grant. Jono Grant made the Star Trek communicator build from a couple of years back now. It's all nice and painted. Excuse me. No need to print out the ST button holder. I did not need it. Tricky to get the top and bottom together, but eventually snap fit into place with some patience and no glue needed. A hand-painted silver trim on the outside trick to get the outside mesh cover to move up and down while still being affixed to the holder are two nails, one on each side. There are small holes that you can place the nails into. Hold the top cover. They painted the nails black. Oh, I used 175 filament. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they wanted nails. That works too. Whatever works. Yeah. This design is from like 2015 or something. It's pretty old. Yeah. It's ready to come back to life as soon as we get the new stuff. Yeah. This actually made phone calls. All right. This is a real phone. Yeah. There's a real SIM card inside there. Right. Unfortunately, 3G is no longer a thing. It worked with 3G. You remember buying a phone number, you had to get phone number, and there was a service that probably doesn't exist anymore? Yeah. No. We sold the SIM cards with the cell phone service phone up. Wow. Yeah. So the phone, maybe it was going to be. Coming back, she's been checking out the new module. So one of these days, we will revisit and remake a actual phone calling Star Trek communicator. Yeah. Yeah. Bunny the numbers program to Phil's phone. Did you design this in Maya or something? Or 1, 2, 3D? Oh, this is a fusion. No, this is a fusion. Oh, wow. Cool. I thought it would be. Yeah, because you built the CNC paths for the, because we used the metal. Oh, yeah. Great thing. You made the paths for the CNC, for the Bantam poles. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's one. It's not the name anymore. No, it is. No, it is Bantam. Yeah. It used to be other mill. Other mill. That's what I was thinking. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Back when it was called other mill. Now, I like the Bantam is burnt into my head, instead of other. Yeah. In the last project, we saved the last, best for last, this squid.jpg, he posted up their custom firmware for the ANO Fidget. NeoPixel project. Super awesome write up on 804playground.com. The code is available on GitHub, which you can download. You can either clone it or download the zip with all the library dependencies. Super awesome. This reads a lot like a native root learn guide. All the code is broken down. All the different modes are explained here. There's the spin, the bottle mode, or rainbow particle mode, power meter simulator mode, and the Simon says style memory sequence game. So I went ahead and tried it out, and I have it loaded on my Fidget device. Let me see if I can switch my camera and just kind of give a little demo of it. So here's the, our version uses the 24 NeoPixel ring. Squid.jpg version has a 16 NeoPixel ring, but it's adaptable. So I just turned it on. It starts off with one white LED, and this is the particle mode. So as you rotate, it accelerates. If you spin it faster, and then you can use the directional buttons. You want to full screen me? You can use the directional buttons to change the color of the background LEDs and the foreground LED. So like the particle that's kind of moving. So you can see this really nice color combo. And it's super responsive. So you can change the colors. You can rotate it backwards and get this really nice inertia kind of effect going on. And if you hold it, if you hold the select button down, it kind of reverses a little bit. If you press and hold down for a second, you'll switch to modes. So this is the rainbow particle mode. Rotate the rainbow as you rotate it. Press to get these kind of cool effects here. And then the directional buttons have these kind of directional kind of flashes going left and right. Super cool. The code is really nice and versus how where you can kind of change up the pin assignments and it kind of scales depending on how many pixels you have in your setup. You also make so you can use either the Stemma QT version of the ANO or the breakout version of the ANO. So it's really easy to kind of switch between those two in the code. Let's check out the next version. This is the battery simulator mode. Kind of has this nice. Yeah, it's super cool. And on top of that, you can change the colors of either end of this by pressing the directional buttons. So that's really cool. And then let's see the last mode. This Simon says the memory style game. So you have this kind of the memory style game. So you have this kind of pre game to start it. You'll want to press and hold on the green. And then it starts the game. It dims it. And then there's the memory. You have to match the pattern using directional buttons. So that that that that that that. Oh, I got it wrong. Yeah, very, very cool. Really, really cool. This really extends the the memory, the memory matching or the sorry, the fidget fidgeting. So very fun, really good use of the new pixels and the rotary encoder. So big shout out to squid.jpeg. Definitely check out their post on Adafruit Playground. You get a really nice breakdown of what he went through to make it do all the things. Excellent use. We love seeing it when folks like take our projects or any other project in this learning system and just like really make it expand that much. Yeah, that much better. So fun. Definitely update a page room for the kids. They're going to love it. Oh, yeah. I got to find it first. Yeah, you got to find it. They have it somewhere. Keep taking all the stuff. Very cool. So shout out. Something I want to say. Oh, squid says he added a late edition. It is motion blur. Check it out. It's a rainbow particle mode. There is now motion blur. Wow. Very cool. Yeah, I grabbed it yesterday evening. So if you just updated your GitHub, I'll have to try it out. Very cool. And then definitely folks, if you want a place to publish your projects, documentation, photos, definitely check out Adafruit Playground. It's kind of like a carbon copy of the Adafruit Learn system. So you have like a nice kind of editor for creating cool blog posts. And you'll get featured on the blog and all that stuff. So cool way to get here. And you have some of the functionality of the learning, like having the project bundle and things like that. And the code embeds. Yeah. I'm just having fun. That's the end of the show. Just playing with it. It's great that it picks firmware. Cool. Oh, he says you might already have the latest build. Yeah. If you got it. Yeah. It's really, really cool how all the different, like it's just, it's slowly pulsing, fading. That's a good way to kind of let the user know that you haven't started digging in yet. Yeah. The idle-ness of it is really cool. So fun. Yeah. Oh, failed one. I guess I can have a blast. Yeah. Super fun. All right. That is going to do it for the show. Don't forget. If you want to pick up anything from the Adafruit shop, you can use our 10% off discount code, clock time. And what else? Tonight. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You got another question? Yeah. Somebody's asking if we've done any work with the bracelets that they have at concerts. I think John was going to maybe poke at the LED bracelets that they got at the Taylor Swift concert. Right. Yeah. I think he had a discussion about it. I'm not sure if he took it apart or was talking about the protocol. I think he was working at it. Yeah. Yeah. So check out JP's workshop on Thursdays and look back at his playlist and see if there's some info that might interest you there. But tonight we have back-to-back shows starting off with Show and Tell starting at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Hosted by Liz Clark. You can come by on the Discord server, get an invite link to the stream yard so you can join in. Love to see your stuff. And then at 8 p.m. Eastern Time is Ask Engineer with Mr. and Mrs. LaYada. We'll get some open source hardware news, some new products, INMPI, and more. Tomorrow is JP's product pick of the week. Wait, no, it's not. It's JP's workshop. Where is my... There it is. JP's workshop. It starts at 4 p.m. Eastern or 2 p.m. Pacific, I think. Am I right? Am I wrong? I don't know. Check out the Ad for Discord Showtimes. You can always use the Showtime code to get all the different listings. Friday's is a deep dive with Scott. Scott's back. I need to update this graphic. But sometimes it's Tim, a foamy guy who comes on. Friday is 2 p.m. Pacific or 5 p.m. Eastern to do a deep dive live stream. Sundays are from the desk of LaYada live streams. Mondays are Circuit Python Weekly. Community meetings. Tuesday is JP's product pick of the week. And then we're wrapping back around to Wednesday mornings with our show, 3D Hangouts. It's not Thursday. It's supposed to be a Wednesday. Geez. My old adedate, you know, my graphics are adedate now. All right, thank you, everybody, so much for joining us. This has been an Adafruit production. We'll see you tonight on Show and Tell. But until next week, remember to make a... Make a great day. We need to work on that. We need to synchronize ourselves. Bye, everybody.


Main hoon na, main hoon na. I must say, it's not only lovely because there's no work for anybody in TV and film here right now. Except for me. I'm a scab. But. The process, I so wish TV and film processed the whole breakdown, submission, and audition process the way they do with theater. Because with theater, if you're a member of actors' equity, the breakdowns all show up on actors' equity site, two weeks in advance. You have a sign-up date, the minute it opens, you can sign up for the audition, full breakdowns, full everything, and obviously it's theater, which I adore. So it's just been so wonderful to have this nonstop flow. And it's in-person auditions and callbacks.  I said to one casting director in a callback, I said it is so beautiful to have face-to-face and interactive creativity and focusing on art. And he said, isn't that the way it's supposed to be? I said, yes, it is.  Thank you for letting me just go off on that. Gross. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon. Follow us on Twitter, Twitter accounts, subscribe, like, button. Today we got a, this is a little snippet from Madness in the Desert, which is the two-hour documentary on Lagann. So this is actually Audition Tapes, Cricketers for Lagann. So this is a little snippet from it. Audition Tapes of the Cricketers for Lagann. Yeah, so they go into a little depth of some of the casting. I can't wait. It's going to be so fun to watch this. I've wanted to watch the Madness in the Desert for a while. I would like to, I don't think, no, Steph did watch it with me. This is one she did watch with me. Okay. But I would like to watch it again because it was such a good movie, but it's three and a half hours, right? I think it's more than that. I think it's just over four, yeah. But the documentary itself is over two. Yeah, not a surprise. It's just very funny. Yeah. A lot of people told us to watch it. But anyways, just get a little glimpse here of what it's about. Is that written in pencil? Oh, it was in the nineties. Yeah, that's great. We only did stuff in pencil in the nineties. Pre-production is now in full swing and we're in the midst of frenzied activity. In India, having screen tests is very unusual and looked down upon and actors feel insulted if they ask to test for a film. He's been around for a long time. And it's a process which really clears your mind as a director. Heck yes. You have the screen test. When an actor tests in front of the camera, you come to know whether he is, you know, close to the character you want or not. And the chemistry. Did she, who gave her the choreography or did she just come up with it? Oh, I'm sure it was, I'm sure she probably was giving it. I'm thinking. Oh, the white lady. Sing it. She's lip syncing. Oh, that's definitely Julie Andrews. Well, gotta show your lip syncing skills. You know, one of the difficult aspects of the casting was the British casting. Have you ever made any other films? No. This is our first film. Why do you think you're here? To play games? Is the film in English? No, the film in the Hindi. You mean you want British actors for an Indian film, which to be made in Hindi for an Indian audience and not for an international audience. So, I mean, what? But the moment they read the script, you know, they should certainly look at us from a different point of view. Yeah, I want to watch the whole thing. Bummer. I want to watch the whole thing now. Yeah. That's what I was hoping. I was like, I was hoping. I think I remember hearing something about screen testing being an insult once before somewhere, maybe with a coffee with Quran. Yeah. I mean, not that I understand. Not that I agree with it, but I understand from like big stars why they would be insulted. I wouldn't be insulted. But like, since these people are like, why would you want me to audition? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's happened here too. It's not just India. No, I know. But for those that it happens to, that's just ego. Yeah. It is. 100%. Yeah. 100%. That's what it is. It's like my word. I've heard so many stories of Oscar-winning legends. Yeah. Thankful for the opportunity to screen test for some films. Yeah. It's just so common.  Yeah. The reason people are going to go see your film. Yeah. Not if you're not right for the role. Yeah. Well, you know. Wild. Yeah, right? Yeah. But yeah, I already wanted to watch it, but it makes me very intrigued to watch it. It also speaks volumes into the mindset behind, it's something that Raj and DK said in our interview of them that is really important. That it matters when they have a creative team together. It really matters that the, I think it was when I asked them the question, what's one of the things you dislike the most? I said, it's when we have to, when actors are giving us advice about things that doesn't fall in alignment with what we want to do. Yeah. Because an actor's job is to serve the text and come into alignment with the director's vision. You should absolutely collaborate. There's many times a director will hear an idea and think, that was great. Let's do that. But ultimately, you submit to whatever the director's wanting to do. And that includes in the audition process. If they ask you to do a screen test, you do a screen test. If they ask you to do a chemistry read, you do a chemistry read. It's just you're there to serve the project. Screen tests aren't as prevalent as they used to be, though. Maybe not for like the leads of films, obviously, though they're probably still doing that. It's definitely 100% happening for new people playing new roles. So like when they're looking for the new Bond, when they're looking for the new Superman, when they're looking for the new you fill in the blank, you're going to screen test. And it's going to be a months-long process. But like I mentioned Sally Field, she has a beautiful story. I've mentioned a little bit of it here where she had to screen test to play Mary in Lincoln for Spielberg and Daniel de Lewis. And that's an Oscar-winning legend who was just so happy to be doing the process with them. Imagine asking Sally Fields, too. I know. Because he's Steven Spielberg, he can ask whatever he wants. He can, right? But I think even from what I know of her, I think if you asked that of Meryl Streep, without hesitation, she would screen test for you. I wonder what that conversation is like. Is it just like we would like you to screen test and are they are like, okay, I'm sure it's prefaced with I'm really sorry to ask you this. We want you. Yes. But we just need to see if it works.  What are you talking about? I'm sure any time a legend has asked a screen test, it's prefaced with I'm sorry to ask Sally Fields to screen test. Oh, no. Because I'd be like, you're fine. Yeah. I'm thankful that you could be in my film. But when you're Steven Spielberg, I would never ask you. Or Christopher Nolan. Because I'm like, yeah, you're going to knock it out of the park. So different actors maybe. I'm just grateful to have you. Yeah. Different actors maybe. But Sally Fields when I'm like, yeah, no. So I want to, yeah, I want to watch this. Let us know if it's one that we should watch. Is it worth a watch or should we just watch it? I don't know. Because it is a documentary. Let us know. So let us know down below.