Okay, so in this video, I'm going to show you how I pick a winning product I have two great examples to show you two products that I know for a fact are selling really well this Q4 And I'm going to prove that by showing you how I know they're selling for this Q4 This is a series I do every single week So if you're still yet to find a product to back and build a business for around for Q4 Make sure you subscribe to the channel stay tuned to get two great product examples That being said then let's jump straight into product number one So this hands down is probably one of the best ever products I've ever featured on the channel. It's on Facebook It's the perfect perfect perfect products for Facebook Anybody who has any kind of experience marketing or having some marketing success on Facebook will probably agree with me when I say that by Far the biggest market the biggest buyers are grandparents people over the age of sort of 55 plus this also matches the niche that this particular product is in It's in the garden in niche. There's not many teenagers out there that are interested in gardening It tends to be people of an older generation that have that free and spare time It also solves the pain point of having painful knees or a painful lower back again typically a pain point That's associated with an older generation So there's three things that are just massive massive wins for this product and Facebook ads as this video plays in the background Then as you can see all the different benefits to it It's basically a really lightweight bench with really thick foam padding on the underneath as well as on the top So you can flip it over and kneel on it to do your weeding Whatever you may be or when you get tired and need a rest or if you're doing something a bit higher up as we just saw Therefore come back You can flip it round and actually sit on the top of it as well Because it has it also has this handy pouch as you can see to keep your tools in which is just a handy Extra feature and what it also does which I think I missed it This guy does a brilliant demonstration of it Is it has the handles there as well to help you get back up onto your feet again another pain point? That's typically associated with an older generation However, that's not enough. Yes, it's a brilliant product But if we're gonna be picking a product to commit ourselves to to invest in invest our time into building a website Investing our money into running ads for a product We want to make sure that we can pretty much as damn near possible Guarantee that the product is already selling because if it's already selling for one business There's no reason why it shouldn't sell for our business and the best evidence You will find behind a product is on an actual Facebook ad like this one Try not to base your research too much on AliExpress order numbers because AliExpress is not a drop shipping platform Yes, you can drop ship from it. However, the majority of their business goes straight to the end user So just because something has a thousand orders 10,000 orders on AliExpress doesn't always make it a great product to drop ship So let's have a look at the numbers on this one then I'll make this a bit bigger for you guys 27,000 reactions 2.5 thousand comments and over 4 million views It's pretty safe to say at this point I post doesn't get that level of viewership unless it's doing something right unless they're seeing some sort of return Ignore the dates on this I'll show you the newest comments in a section so you can see in fact It's still selling really well, but seriously what we're looking for is things like this So Susan the best purchase I ever made great idea. I love mine. This looks great real good. My husband loves his I love mine. I have one. I want one. I like this a lot love mine mine has wheels also love my gallon bench I love mine. I have one. I need this. This is what we need I have one of these you get the gist almost every other comment is from somebody who actually owns one of these products So there's hat. There's non-deniable evidence there that people are buying this thing What we want to make sure though is that it's working now We don't want to be selling the product that is out of season or a past winner However, if we come into the newest comments, we can see 10 hours 13 hours one day one day one day one day one day One day one day two days two days two days It's getting a pretty significant amount of comments all within the last 24 hours never mind last week This proves that this particular product is selling still selling today making it a great contender If you haven't yet found a product, definitely do your own research into this one Let's jump on to the Shopify store. Then let's see what a winning Shopify store looks like a very Well put together very well designed and I think very well Suiting for the target market as well. Everything is kind of very literal and there's a lot of wording There's a lot of text on this page, which typically an older generation prefer It's a very American styled website as well with the fonts and used and with the big bold colors That's also backed up by the fact that they're selling it in dollars even though I'm viewing this from a UK IP So this could indeed Indicate an opportunity there in itself to sell this in the UK or to sell this in Europe selling it for $70 So a nicely priced product not too expensive to price a majority of people out But not too cheap to make the profit margins super low either let's jump on to Aliexpress then to get an idea purely for Cost this is not where you should be going to source your items from I've done videos in the past And I recommended alternatives to Aliexpress This just gives you purely an idea of what it costs to get this thing shipped to your customers Aliexpress is always kind of top of the scale as well by the way Aliexpress is a Chinese business that accommodates and sells to the Westernized world And they take advantage of that by charging a premium on the products or making the product more expensive There's no way they're going to be selling the products for this same amount of money if they were selling within China themselves So Aliexpress it's always kind of top of the roof level pricing So $70 these guys are selling it for that is including free shipping Let's see what we can get it to our customers for there's quite a few options here So we've got $25 plus 30 that's 65 doesn't leave us much room. This one is 17 plus 30 That's about 50. This is 8 plus 35 35, which is about 45. That's about 45 This is more or less 45 and that one's slightly more expensive So with this product it looks like the difficulty is going to lie in the actual sourcing of it So it could be a tricky one to source and get hold of nonetheless. It's definitely worth an investigation It's definitely worth sending the link to your go-to guys and seeing what they can offer you again Aliexpress is not equipped to be a dropship and supplier in the same way that a Dedicated dropship and supplier is so it's always worth asking the question Sending the link to CJ sending the link to other agents and seeing what comes back for you So if that was products number one if you enjoyed that product and you agree with me that it's a winning product Then you need to get yourself your hands on a copy of this This is my personalized my personalized a personal list put together by myself. Let's go to this Of 127 vetted winning products that are working right now using the very same strategy I just showed you to find that product.  You've got to watch doesn't cost you any money You put your name in you put your email address in and 30 seconds later an instant downloadable copy of this e-book Will be in your inbox if you want to grab yourself a copy of this It's the top link in the video description below. Cheers back to products number two then a different style of business However, it still does allow you to take advantage of that awesome dropship in business model that we also love It's called print on demand Basically what this is is suppliers like printify who keeps all these these white label t-shirts in stock They have the machinery to press your design onto a t-shirt as you get the order where the difficulty lies with this business It's number one is some level of creativeness Creativism is that you can either put these designs together yourself Obviously if you have the ability to do that and you're familiar with Photoshop that sort of thing Or you can have to pay somebody to do it for you Before we get into the second one though, let's have a look at what people are saying about this So 7.7 thousand reactions nearly 2,000 comments and 650 shares again. It's in the perfect niche pet niches I don't need to talk too much about it But we all know that the pet niche does super well on Facebook going straight into the newest comments 21 minutes 3 hours 4 hours 4 hours 7 hours 14 14 1 day 1 day 2 days 2 days 2 days 2 days 2 days You get the gist lots and lots of engagement all in the last couple of days this proves that this is active and Working let's jump on to the shop if I saw them because this is where the second kind of difficulty lies But again if you have experience building websites and you are somewhat technically minded there are apps that add-ons Which will allow you to put together something like this So I'll go through and create t-shirt for myself as if I was going to order it so you can see Just how well put together how user-friendly this is so stick to a t-shirt. I am a large I'm going to go for Navy so they've actually got the black and navy the wrong way around. I know it's just an off kind of black I'm going to stick with man, of course. I'm going to go for a young man. I'm going to go kind of Middle of the road and then we'll go for in fact We won't do that because that's boring and you guys haven't come here to watch me put together a t-shirt What do you want to see is how it functions though? So you have something to kind of base your own business off of but it's really good because there's all these different Customizations you get to put your name in and add it to the t-shirt You can select how many cats are out which then opens up all these different other customizations So you can see a lot of thought and practice has been put into this site Which is one of the reasons why I believe it's been so successful because to have this level of Personalization and not make it complicated is a difficult thing to achieve So in and around sort of $27 for a t-shirt That's not taken into account any potential shipping options Let's jump on to printify if we go for kind of like middle of the road. So 780 990 14 dollars These typical sites, they're not usually like a premium type t-shirt They're usually quite cheap So if we were to go kind of bottom of the road you can see you can get t-shirts printed for as little As six dollars so the profits are there to be had even though this is what I would call a low ticket item I would of course you know if you do go down this route don't copy and plagiarize people's designs Obviously put your own spin and put your own thought into it So instead of it being an official sleep shirt with the person in bed with the two cats Put your own spin on it So it could be for golfers that have dogs and you could have a picture of a golfer and a golf course And they're dog walking alongside them or it could be gamers and dogs Or it doesn't have to be dogs at all It could just be formula one racing or it could just be your favorite tv show Whatever it is just make sure it's interesting enough to get people's attention It's unique enough to get people's attention And so with that being said guys that is two products I wanted to show you before you go though Then I have a gift a secret gift that I want to share with you So most people actually watch my videos for about three or four minutes However, if you've stuck with me this long you've been watching this video for a lot longer than that And if you have then the chances are you're pretty serious about starting a dropship in business That actually makes money If you are if that is you you are that person then those are the types of people I want to work with I want to work with you If you like the idea of working with me working alongside together Helping you find products like the one I've just shown you in this video Helping you launch a business and helping you scale it more importantly to 10k months Then I have something that I think you'll be interested in So what I want you to do right now is go to the The description below this video and click this more button here Once you've done that it's going to open out the entire description of the video And at the very bottom here you'll see this this is a secret link clicking this will take you to this page here What this page will do is it will ask you a series of questions And it will allow you to book in a one-to-one call with me for free We can have a discussion about where you are now what you want to achieve in the next three to six months And then we can have a chat and see if I am the person that can help you get to that point I'll put some time to decide in my calendar so you can go into there pick It only takes two minutes as you can see pick a date and time that suits you and I'll see you on the call We'll talk soon if you're not ready for that level of involvement. That's totally fine Don't forget to grab yourself a copy of this go and check that out and see what's inside that And after reading that if you think hang on a second This guy does actually know what he's talking about then make sure you grab yourself that free call. Cheers


One of the biggest challenges that we have right now in Africa is really the restlessness in higher education. That's where you have a lot of the strikes, that's where you have a lot of programs. So we have an SDG's university initiative that is having partnerships between African universities and universities in particular in the United States, 350 universities historically black and are willing to do this program. This has been going on for 10 years. And within that framework, as you know, there are three types of universities in the continent. The well-established universities, which draw a lot of the resources. But then you have new universities and then you have rural universities. And the idea is to leave no university behind. But then when you're talking about universities, you have to also go down and make sure that early childhood, primary and secondary education are taken care of. So we're taking universities as low-hunging fruit, but then we go down to secondary education.


Mardia birds destroyed Russian unit of operators of FPV drones. The aerial reconnaissance group Mardia birds destroyed a unit of Russian operators of FPV drones Ghoul, which for a long time created problems for Ukrainian soldiers in the south. Mardia wrote about this on its telegram channel and showed a video. Burns in Worm timeline. The combined forces of the Radio Electronic Intelligence Group of the Naval Infantry and Mardia birds and the virtuosic work of the Samosud crew of the 11th Brigade of National Guardsmen eliminated the Worm crew of FPV Ghoul, Burn in Hell Worm pilots of the FPV crew Ghoul wrote Mardia. He writes that the eliminated enemy unit has been a nightmare for our soldiers in the south for a long time. But we're already here. Two white ladders are already waiting. Worms from the doomsday should get ready, the commander of the aerial reconnaissance warns. In June of this year, Mardia birds showed the destruction of the 8th Russian enemy complex Morom-P. Morom-P is an autonomous long range visual surveillance system for security and data collection.


Again, we know that everyone is busy as well. We're busy, I know we're afraid, now we're, oh my god, how am I going to keep all these balls in the air and all these connections? And Keith Verrazi have had an opportunity to hang out with him a couple of times. He wrote a phenomenal book, Never Eat Alone, and he has a great trick that he uses to basically keep those connections brewing when you are short on time. And it's simply reaching out to people when, you know, they're busy and you know there's not going to be a 30-minute conversation, you know it's going to be a quick text back, just thinking to you, I know you're at work, I know you're slam, just wanted to let you know you popped in my mind and give them an opportunity to reach back out to you and it's a better time for them. So you're not having to constantly rearrange your schedule, I know some people listening to this right now are like, AJ, I'm going to be on the phone for hours every day, how am I going to do this after work? These are simple ways to utilize the technology available to us to foster connection to show up for the people in our lives. And there is a note section in your address book for a reason. Taking notes and writing down important things about the people in your life and keeping track of them is easy nowadays. This is low effort. You don't need to carry around a moleskine with all of the notes about every single person you're talking to. You don't need to have countless pages digitally following along, keeping track of the people that matter to you and the things that matter to them go a long way towards showing up and putting their events on your calendar. As I said, I have birthdays coming in. I have big events like exams, presentations, vacations. When you keep track of the people's lives that you care about, it goes a long way towards showing them that you care about them. And technology is great for this sort of stuff.  I'm already hearing our listeners come back with. So create a separate calendar, calendar for friends, throw all your little friend activities on that calendar and uncheck it when you don't need to see it. When you're busy at work and check it on your designated. Oh, I'm going to check in on my friend's days. You start to build these habits and all of a sudden you're following along more closely, you're paying closer attention to the people that matter. You are showing up for them.


What is this lady Aida? Hey everybody and welcome to show and tell we're back to hosting Thanks to known Pedro and JP who have jumped in and Liz was co-hosting we've got it's a superstar team But we're here me miss lady Aida I you know thing one thing too of Adafruit behind us the Adafruit headquarters But for the next 30 minutes or so we're going to check in with everybody from the maker community Adafruit folks did you key folks make folks? It's going to be a star Studded we have we have some yeah, we have all the luminaries, I guess of Some are literally glowing what's called the maker movement But you know one of the cool things about the world of making is everyone is a star and everyone is Able to show and share it's not just it's just not just a few people. It's everyone. So this is uh pretty exciting So that's right. Let's kick it off right off. So first up Jay from did you key jay? What do you got? This week. Okay. So this week what I'm doing is I'm actually Recording a lot because I finally got done with all my trips And I'm finally writing up and recording a video on how I made my project hella and backpack So this on my desk right here is my test setup for recording for people can see on my screen Which can't really show it right now and stuff, but if I turn everything on It should oh, yeah, it'll start looking for a face. That's cool. Okay But yeah, I'm just currently running everything up, which I get. Oh, well that happened Yeah Um, should I get everything written up and together that way I can post the video soon and show everyone how they can make Their own helen or take the stuff from helen that I've learned and put it in your own projects Just you know, open sourcing everything and making sure everyone can learn and continue making some cool stuff All right, where can if people wanted to um start following You on social media or where all these videos again Going to be when you release them. What should they do? They should follow me on twitter or instagram and also follow digikey Yeah, I've always wanted to be tagging digikey I'm always going to be reposting the work and sharing the work But the best way to keep in contact me and my random Head tick lifestyle is definitely twitter because I just post everything there. Okay. What's your handle your tag? j Understore j a two y's because I'm weird that way It's all good. Okay. All right. Well folks can post that a link to it in the chat and then also folks follow digikey Definitely the videos that you're working on there Will be there. Yep All right. Okay. Well, thanks so much j and keep coming back and showing the um the progress of your bots and more Of course Okay, thanks so much. It's great to see you and your bots.  Yeah I like your I like your backdrop But we should do wasn't there like a website that was rating Bookshelves for all the talking heads of politicians and yeah And unlike on the news We could do it for like makers like hey like check out You're gonna do a work you're gonna do a workbench Like like right before covid you're like, let's do a workbench like share a workbench gallery thing Yeah, it would be a social network of just workbenches Um, so anyways, we'll maybe try that out. Okay See you later j Okay, next up one of my favorite people in the entire world one of the bestest people on planet earth Sherry, what are you doing? What are you up to? Well this week? We're up to this is our second annual maker music festival and campus And we are getting ready to launch on saturday may 14th and 15th It's a virtual campus. Which is open all year We'll be adding 10 9 or 10 new buildings About 100 makers and that'll take us up to 30 buildings and over 400 maker projects New this year. We've added search Which now it's going to make it really easy for anyone to go in and figure out How to find someone and actually even a genre of music if you want to follow along We we put in place a young maker competition All around circuit bending this year and we have five winners All young um young students 12 to 16 years old out of the uk Your names are thomas heath lucy and rainbow and isabel I'll come back and maybe maybe we can do something and showcase them, but they they You know one and a half minute video. They actually created circuit bending instruments and they documented it It's really brilliant. So So love to see them doing that and maybe we could run a video and show some of the other great acts And then I'll wrap it up. That's right We have video and I'm going to play it Now as soon as I remember how the interface works on this. Yes, I do. Okay. Here we go Um, so good play the video now. All right. Okay. That was a journey into music in space It was I mean it's um as you can see a lot of amazing makers doing really cool things We have five curated buildings one by dorkbot san francisco Or you'll see like nat hecker nat hecker mold over a few other great people Brian alexander a product designer out of michigan Umass Lowell is doing a whole building on minecraft your students Performance on making music in minecraft Our french friends are doing something and we have kept incredible out of um kopenhagen Um, and he's got a whole building to doing things in micro bit So I don't know join us. It's free. We've got the schedule up on the website. You need to just register There's a saturday link and sunday link The first session on saturday saturday is mostly perform or mostly presentations and workshops The first one is by brian alexander workflows for makers and artists How to help get you going on designing instruments? So anyway, it'll be a great weekend and also just a shout out to our super maker Morey ono who's down in argentina who's really pushing forward Circuit bending and making around the world. So this is truly a global show and thanks everyone and thanks ate a fruit for your support Okay, and if folks can um I gotta go on to the next person But folks can put them in all the chats so they can check out I know the url was on the screen, but just put it there too. All right, sherry We'll keep coming back leading up to the event too. You're welcome here every single show and tell thank you All right, and thank you for all the work on this. I know No, thanks. Amen. It's nothing compared to what everyone's done and you guys. So thank you Teamwork dream work, you know, absolutely. All right next up Welcome back scott. How's it going? Thanks for having me What have you been installing circuit python on? Well, this this latest project of mine doesn't run circuit python yet. Although we'll use circuit python So yeah, it's folks know i've been on paternity leave, which it's important I want to say it's important for everybody to to both have paternity leave and take it Um, so this is just the first stint of paternity leave, but we have my wife now I have a new project This is harry. Oh, you got sleep mode working. That's great. Uh, there are some bugs in it We'll see if i'll be able to put it down. It wakes up at an opportune times Yeah, but uh, yeah, it's been a Quite the journey so far and uh, i'm happy to be back and if folks need something for me Please let me know because my schedule will be more flexible than it was before because i'll have Another project that i'm working on. Okay. All right.  So, um, i'm looking forward to meeting meeting this kiddo um and uh blinka Puppets and more ahead like, you know, we have the puppet show and stuff for our younger kids, but um There's a lot of things that we want to do for even younger kids as they explore technology and more So you have our one of our first uh beta testers maybe for some of this stuff Oh, yeah, for sure.  So all right, and so um for folks who tune into deep dive for me Guys probably gonna be continuing to do some of it all of it. We're working this out But yeah, I got to talk with him. He's been doing a great job. So I don't I don't see I'm hoping he'll keep up Well, I yeah figure things out and then um, you know hug report to to you That's what we do at a different to to use got the the momentum of circuit python Um things just kept happening the community kept building and you're coming back and the whole thing is not on fire Yeah, it's been great It's been great to see the circuit python's doing so well and and it doesn't need me to to keep moving forward So 300 all the folks that joined over the break. I saw a lot of new folks come in. So that's just awesome Yeah, so thank you so much for building something that is bigger than all of us Yeah, well, I knew at some point I wouldn't want to step away. Yeah, it's nice to be able to prove it out All right. Well, thanks god and thanks for bringing kiddo by oh, yeah, no problem. Okay Okay You are giving me a tough act to follow. I know it is. Yeah, that's true Yeah, so, um, I recently uh got a lot more into the pio peripheral of the rp20 40 and Added some stuff to the guide. So I'm going to switch over to my down camera so, uh with the pio Peripheral we had the ability and serve a python to send data out to it once and then it would return to your python program And your python program would keep running And we decided well, maybe we want to do that in the background so This uh demo here is running without an LED controller It's just controlling all of the lines directly from the pio peripheral Which writes out the digits continuously while the circuit python program continues counting up So if you look at it, there's just one call to background right and then after that it just changes the digits and they automatically update So that's pretty cool There are about four demos um in the learn guide And this is another one. It's writing neopixels. Hey, yeah, you have you have a limited edition keycap on there. I saw I do. Yes Yeah, thanks for that. That was handed to me by uh pt himself. That's right So anyway, this one is writing neopixels in the background So you can eke out a little more performance when you are updating your animation at the same time as it's outputting And so just to demo. I'm not sure how my frame rate is on this camera Yeah, but as we get faster and faster For me, it just turns to white or slightly purple because of the keycaps because it can update So quickly it actually updates faster than the neopixels do so that's uh A little fun project this one uses No, I don't know if this one uses async. I one of the demos uses async. I which is cool And then this one did not make the guide because I was just wiring it up today last one Um, I am controlling 128 leds And just updating them in software in circuit python with a new brightness level And then the pio peripheral is continuously updating the leds And it's a really slick display and it's pretty mesmerizing in person So that's what I've been up to check out the guide and you know for me This really kind of opened my third eye of what pio Can do let me switch back to my camera for the last couple seconds. By the way, your overhead camera looks really good this week I don't know if you've been doing anything different, but good work before we went on I just pressed the autofocus lock Or I was supposed to lock button 92 times until it was right That's that's what I did too. We have a turn through oven at home That has a button that just has a picture of a pizza on it. So sometimes the automatic settings just work Yeah Anyway, so I mean this really kind of opened up my mind to more things that pio can do and I hope other people will check out the guide and you know find other cool stuff All right on so learn dot adafruit.com folks can check it out Okay, thanks so much. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. Phil B. What you get going on this week? Oh my gosh.  I have done collecting computers. Yeah, I don't need to collect any more computers That I I'll show you in a second. I know I've brought this to show until before this is a um hot msx computer, which was a a kind of a standardized Computer format from the 1980s. Yeah, it didn't make inroads here. It was kind of a european japan thing And they were all based on the same reference design So they were all the same machine and so every company they kind of focused on their industrial design The case and the keyboard to kind of set them all apart And I thought this one was pretty cool just with this very angular keyboard I love the space has the word space on it space. Yes Um, and then like caps and there's that line. It's kind of a nice graphic design on the yeah There's always always something very visual going on with these machines. I like this one. You know, this is cool But honestly, it's it was a bit of a compromise. It wasn't really the machine. I wanted Which is like extremely rare. You'll never find one, right? Except yeah, you found a red one. Yeah, I have a black one. Yeah, that's oh man The condition of that looks perfect. Wow. That's shiny. It's not there's some little scuffs here and there, but it's in Very nice shape And oh wow the reason I wanted this one specifically um They made this uh in in three colors, uh black white and red but outside japan Like all of your you could only get the black model. Yeah, so this is exclusively japanese and interesting thing This was kind of a trend in the mid 80s. Um Jvc did it with their camcorders and a couple others um In japanese design um There's like a primacy to the color red Like it's not on the rainbow. It sits up there alongside black and white and red. Yeah, you know, and so, um You know think about you see had a lot of like red only tvd's and stuff We have one so you think about You know ultraman or uh The movie akira the poster with the the red motorcycle, you know, it's a very japanese aesthetic and I think Like the rest of the world would look at it and think oh, it's cute like a ladybug or or Yeah toy, but it was a very serious thing Um for its intended market So that's why I was I was happy to uh find one of these that I could actually afford Even has the original. It's a sony sticker on it too. Yeah, I'm glad it still has the sticker Uh, this is great. That's nice. That was a happy find and that was that was one of my holy grail computers Well, it fits in a shadow box. You can put on the wall. We have a black one. Um, and so, uh, I don't know I guess that means there's a market share of these Now out there we we have at least probably 10 of the ones that are in uh remaining circulation It got me thinking, you know, how there's these cultural artifacts that get pillaged And like time goes by and people like you know what you really should return that Yeah, it's cultural to them. I wonder if some of these some of these things we collect are someday going to reach That kind of thing where it's like, you know, that that belongs in a japanese museum specifically um, I'm totally willing to um work with any Museum like I have like this arduino museum of like all the arduinos I would love to work with a museum in italy one day if they don't have them to make sure that you know, there's A place where people could see all these things. It's not like we're gonna have one Um museum anytime soon uh here in new york city, but maybe um, that's beautiful. Thanks for sharing it All right. Yeah, but I I I thought you would appreciate that. Yeah, it's beautiful because yeah Yeah, I think we both I think we both were seeking that that item Yeah, I mean this is almost as cool as scott's baby. I mean like it's it's really it's up there No All right. Anyway, take care. Thank you. All right JP what you got going on? Uh, that was gorgeous. I love that computer. Yeah, uh speaking of computers A lot of you know that people are trying to get their hands on these raspberry pi computers because they're they're uh, they're hard to find and uh What's been happening is we've been putting them out in batches 50 or 100 when we get them, but they sell out really quickly. So A website called our pi locator.com Use a bunch of bots and things to figure out when different resellers have them in stock and they automatically tweet So working with lizz I built this alarm That goes off the moment that tweet goes out. So this is a feather tft esp 32 s2 It is on my wi-fi. It is checking the twitter feed of our pi locator for the key words in stock at ate a fruit and when that comes in stock this thing Goes off so you can't ignore it. You'll see it. You'll hear it. You can come over you can look on the screen It'll tell you the time stamp for when those were in stock Uh, and I think how many were released basically is the text of the tweet And you can quickly run to your computer and buy one and don't uh, don't Don't resell them like a jerk. Just buy one. Yeah, don't don't buy one every day We don't try to be fancy with fake addresses. Don't do any of that. But if you have a legitimate need, uh, this could come in handy it's also of course a Project that you could generalize to searching pretty much any twitter feed for a particular keyword and having an alarm go off So so use it for whatever you like, but I've got it set up for uh raspberry pi finding right now Right.  You never know. I mean like whatever Whatever's going on. What are the odds of that happening? Fine. Um, all right Well jp folks can tune in tomorrow to see you work on this and more on jp. Yes Come on by tomorrow. I've got a cool little composite video hack sort of esp thing going on. So all right All right, check that out. Okay. We're a little talky tonight So we're gonna do no page or liz and then mat the makers so if each keep it to three minutes each We can do it. Which is totally possible. Possibilities Oh wow first off scott. Oh my heart. It's filling in. It's not ever gonna Your heart will never start filling. Oh and I heard what jeff said. Don't worry. The kid's gonna be super fun Like right now.  It's fine. We have a dog too. We got some 3d printed signs using these neon like Neopixel strips. They're really fun and flexible So we thought we'd make a nice easy project where you just use the full meter long strip And just press fit it into a little 3d printed sign. So we have a lightning bolt a blink A rainbow and a kid cat So folks want to find out how to make your own 3d printed sign with a nice neon like neopixel strip Check out the learn guide. It's running off of the qt pie rp2040 running circuit python with the led animation library Awesome. All right Anything else before I continue on Yeah, um, do you want to show this one off fedora? That's all you. Oh, okay. Um, we got our apple Air pod max, um headphones. Yeah, we're 3d printing some of these kind of covers. So this is that flexible filament stuff And it just press fits into it. So it's gonna protect the the mesh And we got some ideas like maybe some lego studs. Yeah some kitty ears some horns dragon horns It might be really handy them is you put the you know the email or How to get in touch with the person who owns it in case you leave him somewhere because it's like Yeah, right? You put it on the top. Yeah, well, they have the fine line Yeah So one of the things about this, um, you can use the little sim card, um popper outer And you can there is some customization, but it's interesting I think what we're doing now is what apple is about to do So all these different pieces can be customized and just like apple watch bands and stuff like that So I think we're ahead of it So we have a lot of cool ideas that are super weird and I've been experimenting Around and um in in new york where we're at everyone has had phones on and I've been asked about like Where did you get those different ones from apple because I have some weird things I've been doing? So this is gonna be neat. I think folks are gonna enjoy this Yeah, we'll do some side ones too. The real estate on our heads is valuable We should decorate it and do cool things and light it up and other stuff as well Make a handle like a handle. Yeah All sorts of stuff. Yeah. All right, cool. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much All right, Liz what you got going on? Hey, how's it going? Um, this week I built a laser harp. Of course you did right And so, um, we were talking last night of adding some more features. So, um, this is some new code That's not yet in the guide where depending on the height Um, you got different instruments playing Who the cats excited? Yeah, uh, the lasers are not on because the cats go insane. Um I added a switch specifically for them. Um cat mode. Yes, uh, and then there's also pitch bend too Um When you raise and lower your hand, so that's new as well And I'll be doing a demo video for that and one minute build that'll be going around This is super cool. This is one of the, um, Adafruit projects that we wanted to do it's always it was always hard always expensive Impossible to make impossible to like do a guide or something, but now it's all possible So thanks for bringing this to life, Liz. Yeah, it was really fun And I play a lot with pocket operators and kind of the tabletop sense and this integrated right into my setup. So I'll be Going forward. I think it's because it's so it's so like interact. It's like it's so like, um Expressive, you know what I mean because you can really move your body into it And I love instruments where it's like the body gets involved. Yeah, same same It is cool to go to shows, but when the dj or the musician is just pressing like a button on a mac on stage It's you know, there's a lot that went into it. However, um, this seems to me like something that you might See at a at a live show That complements some of the electronic music that's going on too. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. All right, cool Well, thank you, Liz. All right. Nice work, Liz. And thank you, Liz's cats for being patient Yes, and understanding. All right math make the place out How's it going? Good. How are you? All right, what you got going on? So, um, I'm working on a pie zero two upgrade of this project, which is um, like a heads up display nerf scope It's got the pie cam hdmi port and then the interface is a rotary encoder um, so for the the new one I use um this game pad that I use for pie glass v2 So you can um move the crosshair with the d-pad um change the color change the pattern And uh reset it Then one of the new features I came up with is there's an imu in here And if I turn it past two thirds, it rotates the camera So you're looking um right side up even though the gun is is uh being held sideways cool So you're taking this project and doing more and more with it like every week Yeah, um the fun part like whenever I'm really having fun with the project It's in a cardboard box, and I'm working on the software, you know, like that's like the that's where I get the most enjoyment and the most, um Stuff done all right Well, thank you matt and uh, please continue to keep coming back on the show and tell and then you're also working on some guys with us too Yep happening. All right. Cool. All right. Thanks so much matt. Thank you matt All right, that's our show It's good to be back. Thanks so much for spending this half an hour with us This is our favorite half an hour of the week every single week when we get a chance to do it But also when we don't we um enjoy the show When we get finished with ask an engineer and then we watch all the makers there So keep coming back keep showing and sharing your projects. Thanks so much everyone We're here every Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Eastern time Ask an engineer starts in a couple minutes. See y'all soon see you in a couple minutes everybody Thank you


If you haven't yet created your own online course, I encourage you to do that as soon as you can. Or if you have in the past and you haven't done it recently, well, maybe it's time to do it again. Creating online courses is one of the most easiest kind of business models to have for solopreneurs today. You'll notice that many of the most successful solopreneurs and thought leaders that you follow, they have an online course. It's no surprise because it's such a good business model. So why don't you have an online course? I'm genuinely curious why you don't have an online course. So if you can comment below, I'd love to know. And if I could provide any tips for you, I will. Please do be patient with how long it takes me to comment. Sometimes it takes me a while, but I'll try to provide some tips for you. So why don't you have an online course that you're launching soon? I'd love to know below because I really feel that anybody who loves to learn and clearly you love to learn, that's why you're watching these videos. If you love to learn, you have something to teach because you've been learning a lot for many years and online courses don't have to be complicated. They can be quite simple and they can bring you a passive income and an active income as well. So I wanted to share with you eight small online courses that are being launched this month by members of my support group for creating and launching online courses. Yes, I have a support group and a course for doing all this. So if you want my guidance and the support of community of fellow course creators, you might wanna join us. At this time of this video, it's only $150 to join one time. When it relaunches again next year, it'll be more but you might wanna join us if you'd like to, you know, if you can afford that price. Anyway, I wanna show you the eight courses that are launching and I'm hoping that by showing you this, these descriptions and these pages that it'll inspire you to think about what you could be creating as well. So let me share my screen and let's get going on this. All right, so I have a blog post about this so you wanna read the blog post. It's all there. Okay, so the first one is creating personal boundaries that work for you and this is by Aida Butler. And in this course, you'll learn the fundamentals for building healthy boundaries. You'll gain effective tools to set and honor your boundaries without fear, guilt or anxiety and practice techniques to confidently deal with any violation of your boundaries and how many of us need that, especially these days. So let's take a look at and one cool thing about what I'm gonna show you each of these courses is launched as simply as possible. Some of them using different platforms and Aida is a very simple example. You know what, this link, her course description is basically a Google doc. Yes, you can also create a Google document with a course description and people can buy it from you. You just need a PayPal link. Now, as of this recording, Aida is still working on getting her PayPal link in here but you can certainly contact Aida if you're interested in this course. She has, yeah, PayPal link is not here yet but the full description of the course, who she is and you can basically connect with her through Facebook. So very simple. If you wanna sign up for this, contact her. All right, so congratulations Aida. All right, next up is Michael Williams and he is teaching a course on basically creating an ethical will, right? Ethical will is your legacy letter. So Michael writes, leaving the legacy, it's an important part of your end-of-life planning. It's as important as your will and your advance directive. The 75-minute online session will guide you towards completing your legacy letter. Give this gift to a loved one, awesome. And we can see what it looks like here, great. And he's an expert end-of-life planning consultant. And by the way, I really think that this kind of thing, creating a legacy letter, end-of-life planning, it's not just, oh, what happens when I die but it's also renews our purpose. I really believe that because I've done it myself and it really is a very powerful exercise. So I recommend that you consider doing it. So Michael has a webpage here and then the register goes to an Eventbrite signup page. So that's the way that he's taking money and taking registrations through Eventbrite. So that's another example, yeah. Great, congrats Michael. All right, next one is by Carmel Finan. I'm sorry, I'm mispronouncing your name here. It's called the Human Factor, how to tell stories that create genuine client connection. Do you want to be able to tell authentic, hustle-free stories that reflect the values of your business and create real engagement between you and your audience? If so, this 90-minute live storytelling skills workshop will show you how. So let's take a look here, great. So this is a webpage and excellent. It's all described here. It's quite reasonable in price. Right now it's a special price and testimonials about her and you just... So the way she's doing it is you basically fill out your name and email first and then when you click here, it'll be taken to the way to make payment. Awesome, great. All right, next up we have Inner Peace in the Mids of Chaos by Gemma Ramirez. Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed because of the current world situation? Would you like to know how to keep your mental health in Inner Peace regardless of what's going on around you? Join me to understand what is peace and to learn techniques to support you during hard time. So let's check it out here. All right, so beautiful website and it's all nicely laid out and described here. Again, reasonable price, wow, six modules. It includes workbook and exercises, Q&A calls, private Facebook group, so quite affordable for all that and there's a PayPal button, it's very simple. 100% money back guarantee as well, cool. All right, next up and congrats Gemma on that. Next up we've got a course from Bing Huang and it's called Empower Your Life with Gentleness. Bing wrote, I believe that gentleness is a strength and it's becoming much more relevant with so many harsh and painful events happening worldwide. Through this mini course, you'll find simple ways to release more harshness and to practice more gentleness to empower your life and let's take a look at how Bing is launching this. So she's doing this through a course creation platform called VIP member vault, VIP or it's called member vault but the website I guess is VIP member vault. So check it out here, nicely laid out page. You can basically, it kind of shows you very briefly what the modules are, you can unlock them by signing up for the course. Here's her video right there, it's great to have video at the top of your course sales page, whatever possible.  This is nice and she's using pay from the heart pricing. So it's very, again, very gentle way of doing it because of course that's, Bing's is the gentleness coach. So excellent, congrats, Bing's and there's the button to pay from the heart. Awesome, great, wonderful. Okay, let's keep going. Finding calm in the chaos and staying cool under pressure by Dianne Carter, a leadership consultant. Do you need de-stressing tools right now? This four part course is here to support you in about two hours, I guess it's four parts but two hours and about two hours with guided strategies, you will shift your energy, eliminate and update all programming and find more calm. And this goes right to Dianne's website and then you simply scroll down until you find the state cool under pressure and there it is. So it's just 49 and there's the buy now button, PayPal button and very simple. Good, congrats, Dianne. All right, next up we've got connecting conversations and intimate relationships with Nati Beltran a two hour webinar exploring how to connect and disconnect in our closest relationships. We will take a look at the backbone of a conversation that flows with honesty, understanding and connection. Then it's based in NBC or non-violent communication. Let's take a look at the website here. Great, so everything's laid out, all the logistics are laid out right in the beginning there and you know, quite affordable about the course, Ames who's for the content, et cetera. And then there's a video that shows you a bit about her speaking, so that's nice. And then book now button goes to the sales page and that goes to PayPal, great. All right, congrats Nati, excellent. And then last but not least, we've got a course for those of you who are horse riders. So, or if you have a friend who is a horse who has a horse who rides horses, set this on to them. Jenny has a lot of experience coaching and teaching horse riders on what she has created called Equestrian Tai Chi. Yes, mindfulness while you're riding horses. So, this is a program for riders who like to feel less anxious riding and be able to calm themselves and their horse. We'll learn to balance your emotions, let go of the energy that's driving them and to build a connection with your horse. So let's take a look here. And yeah, quite a nice website.  So that's really nice. And of course, you can chat with her right here. That's really nice. And so, check it out, nicely laid out. And yeah, even the diagram, it's really nice. So, good job Jenny. So, is it your turn? Right, as you can see, there are a variety of topics above and a variety of different platforms. And again, I just want to encourage you create an online course. I can almost certainly promise that you have some topic that is being sought after in the world and that you would be able to teach joyfully.  So it's a great way to build an online business by creating online courses. And as you can see, they can be mini courses, short courses like the ones that have given you here as examples. So I hope this is helpful. I hope this is inspiring for you. As always, I'm looking forward to your comments and go ahead and make a comment below. If you'd like to, any questions you have, and I'm gonna go ahead and if you'll give me a moment, I'm gonna take a look to see if there are any comments from the live Facebook live that I'm making right now. So go ahead and comment below. And Brian says, I'm finally doing it. Awesome. Wonderful. I'm so happy for you. And anyway, thanks all for joining me. I really appreciate your presence here. And I look forward to hearing. If you're creating online course, let us know below. And if not, why not? You should be creating online course. You really should. All right. My name is George Gao. I love talking about building online businesses from the place of heart. And I will see you in the next video. Take care.