Hello guys in this video. We are going to see how to implement the qubit So in the last video you have seen we have discussed these packages block and Flutter block so I already told block is a way to implement the business logic pattern and If you want to work with a flutter underscore block That is providing flutter widgets that make it easy to implement the block So basically this package is going to provide us the widgets that we have already discussed like if you scroll down You can see they have listed the examples here so like block provider Multi-block listener block listener all these widgets are provided by this packet. So we need to use this package So let's go to the sample app first that we are going to implement So here it is. I just reloaded. So I just have simple created a model page Repository so this repository is hitting this URL in order to fetch the list of users So we have implemented it with the help of set state So just we are Using this loading flag. So we are doing what on init We are calling the API and waiting for the response once we got the response We are setting the state that is loading has been done. So it is false In the build if you take a look We are checking if it is loading then simply display the loader. Otherwise display the list view with whatever data we have received So let's convert it into qubit. So once you learn about qubit, it would be very easy to understand block So let's take a look on qubit. So for that first of all, I will add this package Let's go here and save it So meanwhile it is saved. So in order to work with qubit, let's create a separate folder for qubit So here we will keep all our qubits. Okay, so let me just restart So if you can recall in the last video, we have discussed that qubit is having states Only there are no events. So let's create couple of files inside qubit. The first one is qubit underscore users underscore states dot So we'll create some states based on that we will be displaying the data second we will create the qubit users underscore qubit dot dot So before going to this qubit, we need to create a couple of states here So what we do is we generally create a abstract class so that we can pass the generalized state and From that reference we can specify what type of state it is fine So let's create a class and saying qubit user state Or you can say states fine So now you have to create states So let's create some states here. Let's say class qubit users loading So this states may vary depending on your requirement. So I am going with a simple example. Let's extend this Okay So one state we have created this loading same way we can create one more state This one I will say loaded and once The data is loaded. What we need we need to display the list of users So this type of thing we need. Okay, so go back here and specify the same over here and let's import this and here We need to create a constructor so that we can pass this values over here. So let's see who's required this start users Okay, so for simplicity, I have created two states only and it is recommended to create a Journalize abstract class that we can pass to the qubit Okay, so this states part is over from my side. Let's save it and Go back to qubit. So let's create here class Users qubit and in order to create a qubit, you need to extend qubit Okay, so there is by default class qubit Which is again coming from this letter block. So this letter block provides us The widgets as well as block package both so this is coming here and Here we need to specify the type of qubit So for the type we need to provide states So now we can have multiple states. That is why we need this Journalize state so that later on we can identify what type of state it is so let me just import this and I just want to do one thing So here it is inside the same packet same folder Yeah, fine So once you do this it is going to give you some sort of error It is saying we need to call super So let's do this and this gonna do what this gonna call the super class constructor So before that, let me do one more thing first of all here We will be writing the code that is doing to get data from the repository Okay, so let's do what first of all create one final Users repo And we'll say Users repo is equal to users repo. So I just Correct this thing Okay, so this is fine. We will be using it in order to fetch all the users second is we have this constructor and here What we can do is we are doing this So we need to do what? Let's create one matter first of all in order to get data Okay So for this let's create a method So this gonna be a sink because that is going to do API call and this gonna create what a list of Users that is users model and say users is equal to await for Let's use the user repo Dot get users fine So this is gonna give list of users that we have assigned to this users very Now once your task is done, you need to do what you need to omit the state So how do you do so? What that there is a function omit and Here you need to pass the state Now which state you need to pass? We need to pass once we receive the data. That means this is Cupid user loaded state Okay, so simply say QB user loaded state And it is expecting the list of users if you go here and you can see it is expecting List of users which we have already received in the cerebral and you can simply pass it So that is all for this But this Function you need to call it So what we want once a qubit is created It sells call this function both that what we can do we can just create a constructor over here Which is already there. Let's create the body part for this and Change something so here we need to do super call what we can do instead of writing this way We can just empty this and say colon super and here We can do what simply pass the initial state that is you bet loading Okay Fine and here we can do what just get this data Okay, so first time we have created this state that is loading where we are not doing anything Okay, so once it is there Then we are calling this get data. So once this data is received. We are emitting second state that is loaded state fine This is how we implement the logic. So let me just Write like this. This is how we implement the logic in qubit. We have created a function We have called it in the constructor. So it depends on your requirement. This is just a simple example So I have taken a simple example Now your states are fine. Your qubit is ready You just have to implement it on your page that how we can use it. So let's go to home page So before going to home page, you need to create the qubit as well Okay, this is just the logic that how the qubit would be created But we have not created any instance of it and it is not passed to the widget tree So for that we have to go to the main So here on your home page What we are doing? We are passing this instead of passing this we need to change this Here we need to write block Provider, okay. So once you will write block provider Let me just add comma it is having one create property Okay, so this create property gonna create the qubit or block for you. So first of all this will take one Function with context and it gonna return you either a block or a qubit So we have created the qubit. So that is user Users qubit we can pass it over here fine This is how we can create it now we have to pass the child as well because this home page otherwise will not work so let's do what cut it from here and Inside this provider simply write child and pass this home page Now this qubit is created and passed to this widget Save it Just come back to home page. Now here. We don't need this Stateful widget. So what to do is let's delete all these things We don't need all these things over here and We don't need this init state and Let's try to now Remove all these things and we can also remove this So what I can do is Let's delete this thing What is wrong here? It should be state less widget. Well, that is why we are facing problem. Okay, fine Save this. We don't need this repository first of all and We may need it Okay, let's remove this. We will take it later on Now let's come to the logic here. So here in this body what we need to do In the main we have provided that qubit now here. We need to assess that So for that we can use block builder Okay So block builder is expecting one builder So builder is again a function which is taking context as well as state Okay, and here we need to return the widgets So what we will do over here based on the state we will return a widget for example if this state is the state this is coming is What are the states we have created? This loading state that is qubit user loading. Let me just import it like this If this is loading state, then we have to do what then simply return the loader that is center and Your child would be circular progress indicator. Let's add the const here Okay, this is how we do once it is done That is fine If it is not this state, then we have to do what we have to check for one more thing if your state is qubit users loader If the state is user loader, then do what we need to return this list view Fine Let's do what now once you are Assessing this state you can see in the state. We already have list of users So what to do just go back here and here instead of writing users. We will say state dot users Fine from this state that is qubit loaded. We can simply assess this list of users So go back here and just change this That is state dot users that is state dot users, sorry Fine This is done now this should be a return fine and Once the padding is done instead of writing comma just put this semicolon Okay. Now what else we have left with? Okay So in better we have used if else if Now it might happen none of this condition satisfied Which is as of now will not be happening but still as per logic they want it might Not complete normally Fine, so what we can do instead of using this as if we can use one more as after this and here We can return anything. Let's say return Center and simply say child and simply say text and say Something went Wrong, so which is not going to happen any time Let me add a course here So with this we have done Let's try to restart it and Are we missing something and what is wrong with this? Let me just stop it and run it again Let me check this. Okay. What is wrong happened? We missed something. Let me just go check Provider not found exception Let me cross-check it. We missed one thing that is here. We need to mention this Users qubit. Okay. So only then it's gonna provide that particular type of qubit To the widget tree Let me just stop it and run it again. Okay again. We have a problem. Let's run this And see what it is saying Okay, I missed something We missed one more thing over here here whenever we are passing the builder We also need to specify a couple of things so the first thing would be your block that is Qubit Qubit users what it is Okay, let me just cross-check. What is the name of this? Users Qubit go back here and Mention this and you need to import this as well and the second thing is the state The state we have already created that is Here, so we will pass this generalized one Okay, so that is all Now we can restart it should work. So here you go. You can see now. It is working perfectly. Okay Why just restarted again, that's why So I think this is clear. We just have created states then we have created a Qubit which is Expecting one state while extending the Qubit and here we just created the repository so that we can get data from that repository and Initially we passes this loading state and later on we call this so meanwhile the data was coming this state should work that is the loader is going on and Once the data is loaded here. We are meeting the loader state So loader state we are passing this users variable which is holding the list of users, okay, and on UI side What we are doing in the block builder? You must have to specify the block or Qubit and along with that you have to specify the state Here we are checking if the state is Qubit users loading state then simply return a loader If the state is loaded state, we can simply display the list of users Otherwise, you can simply say something went wrong So most of the time these two scenarios will work. This will hardly work Okay, and don't forget to do what on your main Don't forget to add block provider and specify what Qubit or block you are going to provide to its child widget tree and Don't forget to use this create where it is taking one function with a context and this gonna give you instance of Qubit or block. So here we are working with Qubit That's why it is Qubit in the next video I will use the same example in order to display the block So let me delete this unnecessary code that is default boilerplate Okay, so that is all for this video if you have any doubt do comment in the comment section Otherwise like share and subscribe. Thank you


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a quick quick-pitch-pack break. Break number 16 with 10 flawless baseball spots being given away at the end. That'll be a second dice roll. First dice roll will be for the break itself. Big thanks to this group for giving this a shot. Let's roll it. Randomized names and teams. Four and a six, ten times. One, two, three, four, four and a six, ten times, four of the teams. One. Here's the first half of the list right here and the second half of the list right over here, and let's just print. All right, here's the final printout. Hot off the presses. And if you're watching live, you just have to do one more of these filler packs, and then we'll give away the final ten spots in that flawless baseball break and we can rip that open. All right, there's Reese Haskins, David Smith, Michael Conforto. All right, nothing too crazy there. But, crazy part. The big hits in this break are those flawless spots that were given away. So, new dice, new list, and once again, top ten after ten. Top ten after ten will get flawless baseball random team spots. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and good luck. Tenth and final time after ten. From eleven on down, it's gonna be sad times. Very close, Carlos. We'll get him next time. Thanks, everybody. But on the other hand, happy times for the top ten. Michael is happy. So is David, Matt, Nicholas, Matt, David, Ed, Danny, Danny, and Danny. Congrats to the top ten. Thanks, everybody. We got one more of these. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


I worked Saturday night and I decided I wanted braids and I wanted to bring my hair. So I went to YouTube University period and watched like five or six videos and here we are. If you're here, hey, my name's Keira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and turn the bell before you leave. In this vlog, I know I do want to do a clean with me video, but one of my friends was like, you should record you doing your own hair basically. So that's what we're doing. You're not the best. This is my very first time ever feeding in hair into my real hair, ever doing braids, not anything like this is my very first time. So I do look a little crazy, but I'm trying to figure out how I want to do the top. So I have like two sections parted off. I don't know if I want to make this like it's on braid because this is a little big. I may have to do like four braids up top from there, but I want the braids to be down. So I don't know how that's going to work. I may have to part another part through the middle and then have it kind of staggering over. I really don't know because if I do this, then I'll just go down. I don't know. I'm going to do, I'm going to do this back one or no, I'm going to do this front one and then we're going to see how that looks. So I started at one o'clock. It's 5.39. So not too bad timing. Last night I just parted the whole like back section, midsection of my hair. And then last night I got like the back done. And then today I started on literally the rest of my hair. So I had to still part the front. So with the parting, the front, doing this for my first time and then braiding in and stuff, I feel like that's good timing. So I'm kind of proud of myself, but yeah, I'm going to speed the rest of this up to make this like not a very, very long intro. And we're going to see how these turned out at the end. Obviously as you can see, I'm not really a big edge person. I can't really do my own edges or whatever. So I'm just going to do a little swoopy, swoop, swoop, swoop, swoop tomorrow, you know, when they come. We're probably going to go window shopping and stuff for like, I want to look at the holiday stuff. Anyway, that's the size of the point. This video is something totally different. So I'm going to finish like really doing my hair tomorrow, but today my bathroom is a mess. Literally I've been braiding here for nine hours. So that's when it's why I need to do this clean with me video because if I'm recording it, then obviously I got to get it done. So I'm going to start in the bathroom. I just cooked me some noodles to kind of hold me over. I did want to do chicken Alfredo, but I don't know, we'll see who is cold in here. Yeah, I'm going to start in the bathroom, going to give y'all an overview first so y'all can see how bad it's looking. So this, I went to the beauty supply store today and I've been seeing this all over social media. So I bought the little can to see if I like it because I've been using the got to be glue. So I do got some weeks coming in. They're just going to have to wait about three weeks, but yeah, I want to try this out. I needed some more lace tints. So I got some more lace tints. This one was $5.99. This isn't the brand I usually get, but it was cheaper and yeah. I got the color golden. There's prints. And then I also got some developer because I need more of that. And then I did have another bag of hair. This is the hair that I have left over from doing my whole head and kind of like small medium braids. And then yeah. So this is what we're working with, looks and absolute mess. Like I should be shh, hey, you know, hair is looking good. And then over here, I had on socks, but I kept sliding so I switched my socks, but I had those socks on, but I kept sliding from the hair on the floor and I actually used this to hang the hair on. So since I don't got like a braiding little, whatever those braiding things are called, I don't got one.  So yeah, it's just a mess. And then I do need to clean my toilet and stuff like that. I just did a deep cleaning in my shower. So my shower, I'm not going to do like a full deep clean. I'm just going to clean it out because I did do a deep clean like four days ago. But yeah, that's our review. We're about to get to cleaning this mess up. I'm going to sweep last. I'm going to sweep now, but I'm not going to like finish sweeping until I clean off my countertop because I know hair is going to fall down.


The next part is what to pursue in the world? What is to be pursued? That is the second aspect of dharmic life or dharmya kriya. So, what should be pursued in life? What is worth pursuing are called purushartha and these are four dharma, artha, kam and moksha. Dharma as being mentioned many times earlier, it is righteousness, virtue, duty arising from harmony with self and harmony with social and natural environment. Kam is fulfillment of our sensuous pleasure, biological needs and artha is fulfillment of our social needs that includes material gains but artha also in my understanding includes acquisition of social recognition, reputation, all that which brings us reputation in the society. So, social recognition is the form of artha. Moksha is the liberation that is a spiritual enlightenment. In yogic tradition it is realization of Brahman and in general in the Hindu tradition it is called self realization. The real self is not which is limited by ignorance, limited by the ego but real self is that bigger one. Real self is that which includes everything and awakening to that so what so liberation from what liberation from the limited identity. So, moksha is the liberation from the limited identity to the cosmic or Brahmanic Brahman identity. So, these four aims highlight the harmony of different dimensions. The indica today's picture is taken from to explain this concept. Indica many of you must be aware is a very active organization which gives courses on the Indian tradition and Indian culture. In one of the lectures artha, kam, dharma and moksha are compared with the Maslow's need hierarchy theory and many of you must be aware of the Maslow's need hierarchy theory which says that human beings live at different needs which are generally arranged at hierarchical level. Physiological needs, safety need, need for belongingness, having a self esteem and self actualization. Artha they have compared that with the safety and physiological need. Kam is related to belonging and esteem needs and dharma is related to self actualization need. There is lot of debate whether needs are actually arranged in hierarchical manner or not or they might be arising simultaneously. Some people may live at the higher level of needs without actually satisfying lower level of needs. All that debate is there in the Maslow's need hierarchy schema but this comparison seems to be valid and that is why it is included over here. The comparison of self actualization with dharma is also seems to be valid because self actualization is our ability to be what we can be and dharma is also realization of our true potential and realization of our true nature and that realization and enacting on that nature in harmony with self and in harmony with the social and natural environment. So, that comparison seems to be valid that is why this schema is here to further understand this idea of the dharma kriya and how it is connected to the one modern concept. None of these four is more or less important that means dharma and mojh they sound adhyatma they sound spiritual. Kama and earth they sound mundane more worldly. None of these four are more or less important. So, in our tradition avidya is considered the one which is employed which is about something other than brahman, something other than adhyatma, something other than spiritual that is called avidya. Vidya is considered only that pursuit which is to realize the brahman or to realize our spiritual self or to awaken and evolve our adhyatma or spiritual self. In Upanishad it is said that that means they who follow avidya enter into gloomy darkness. Andham tamah pravishanti they enter into the darkness. Who enter the darkness? Those who only follow the vidya. Tatobhue evate those as well enter into the gloomy darkness who only follow avidya. So, only following vidya and only following avidya both will lead to darkness and the Ishopanishad further in the other mantras says that we have to follow all four vidya and avidya dharma, earth, kama, mojh. Of course, earth and kama must be governed by, must be limited by, must be disciplined by the dharma and all that should lead to mojh the liberation that is the ultimate objective and dharma is the pivot around which earth and kama have to be managed. So, that is the second aspect of dharmya akriya. Third aspect of dharmya akriya is right livelihood, dharmic livelihood. Why we enter into livelihood? Why we pursue livelihood? To pursue, to get earth, to get prosperity. The prosperity in the Indian tradition is reflected in the form of goddess Lakshmi. In the tradition eight types of Lakshmi's are identified. That means livelihood should be aimed at attaining any or more than one Lakshmi's as explained here. So, different form of Lakshmi's are Adi Lakshmi that is the central one you see in this picture. Adi Lakshmi is the eternal Lakshmi that gives spiritual pursuit that gives spiritual awakening. So, if people are able to integrate their livelihood with their spiritual urge then that then they get the Adi Lakshmi means the ultimate Lakshmi from where all other Lakshmi's actually emanate. Second aspect is Dhanalakshmi. We all know we all work for prosperity. Dhanalakshmi that which gives food crop that is related to Dhanalakshmi. Ghazalakshmi that gives cattle power. We all know that even today a lot of societies are agrarian societies or societies which are predominantly based on whose economy is predominantly based on the cattle's. Santanalakshmi the progeny. Progeny is also reflection is a kind of prosperity. So, that is reflected in this picture with the Lakshmi having a small child in her lap. Vir Lakshmi and Dharia Lakshmi that is the another form of Lakshmi. Weller self-management Dharia also means patience. These aspects are also very important in some of the professions some of the livelihoods for example in the armed forces they pursue weller they pursue discipline. So, they are actually pursuing Vir Lakshmi or Dharia Lakshmi. Jaya Lakshmi and Vijaya Lakshmi these are the those form of Lakshmi's which give power for realizing our Shobhasankalp right intentions. Many of us have right intentions. Many of us have Shobhasankalp. Many of us wish to do good things. Many a time our sankalpas our deep resolve are not able to fructify and that spiritual power which gives us energy to fructify to materialize our right intentions that power is embodied in the form of Jaya Lakshmi or Vijaya Lakshmi. Those who are listening to this lecture some of their name also may be like Jaya Lakshmi and Vijaya Lakshmi these are very common names and last is Vidya Lakshmi that is knowledge. So, that form of Lakshmi that form of livelihood where people pursue knowledge and that is blessed by the spiritual power called Vidya Lakshmi. So, livelihood should be in line with acquiring having Lakshmi having the blessing of Lakshmi not acquiring because Lakshmi is form of the mother you cannot acquire mother you can only pray to brother or you can only get Sneha get affection from the mother you cannot acquire mother so that is why Lakshmi or prosperity in the yogic tradition is not acquired it is embraced it is respected. So, these are the form of Lakshmi and interestingly when this typology was explained in the classical text somebody would have asked that we see in society people who collect prosperity and collect crop and they attain prosperity even with the unholy means dishonest ways. So, will that prosperity be not be called Lakshmi? So, for that prosperity which is attained without following dharma is called a Lakshmi means that might be money but that is not qualified to be called Lakshmi. So, a Lakshmi is also one of the terms used to explain this idea of livelihood must be anchored in the righteousness in the harmony with self and the social and natural environment.


This talk is called Upset, the first open-source satellite, so I'll just fall back a little bit. Before I was born, there was a situation where a beep freaked out half of the world, and the other half of the world had a big party. Today, you could send that beep from outer space down to the world with Upset, an open-source satellite. Here I give you Piero Papadeas with this talk. Give me a warm welcome for him, please. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Piero Papadeas, and we're here to talk about Upset, or Upset, or Upset. It's going to be a brief history of the satellite itself, how we got started, what are the struggles to create an open-source satellite in the process of doing so, and why we did that and what do we want to do more around it than other projects. The project is a Libre Space Foundation project, and we are also members of Libre Space Foundation. LSF, Libre Space Foundation, is a nonprofit organization designed to create open-source technologies in space. That includes satellites, what we call upstream in the space industry, but also downstream and midstream applications. We're going to be having a talk right after ours here about Satnurks from Nikos, which is the ground station network that we built with Libre Space Foundation. How it all started. Basically it was 2012, and von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics in Belgium set out to create an audacious project, which was QB50. QB50, the concept is basically this, there is a central institute that is managing the science part of many satellites, and it's making a call out to all different academic institutions and research institutions, universities, to create a satellite around a sensor and help you along this process, mainly with securing you a launch, which is super critical on getting a satellite in space, but also a bit of guidance around the science itself. Because every satellite needs a reason to be up there, and science is a reason good enough actually. What we started with, and what every project of QB50 started with, was basically a sensor. This sensor, the specifics of it, is basically a MNLP, multi-needle Lagamo R probe, which practically is used to measure plasma concentrations on the thermosphere, that's a part of the atmosphere. Von Karman Institute would like to do some more science around modeling this part of the atmosphere, the thermosphere, and they built many designs and built many different sensors around it. So basically you got started with one of those. So early in 2012, they opened up applications for different universities to come in and build satellites around those sensors. And the concept was that in Greece, one of the universities, University of Patras, initially got accepted in 2013, that's four years ago, to create one of the satellites, one of the 50 satellites. And while most, if not all, QB50 satellites went in a way which was pretty traditional for CubeSats, and by the way CubeSats are small satellites, it's a form factor, and this is the form factor that you can see here. So most of the universities in the QB50 program went on a traditional way of just going out and buying off the self modules and assembling a satellite. There is a quite growing market of commercial and off the self components to buy and create your own satellite, but this is the costly road to go down, but it's also the non exploratory and non innovative road to go down. And to their credit, the University of Patras said, well, we're not going to be buying components from here and there, we're going to be designing a satellite from scratch and building from scratch. And that's actually quite a, quite an adventure to go down to, and due to various different reasons, financial, organizational reasons, and reasons within the university itself like managerial type of things that you always have, they were not really able to progress with the building of the satellite. So at some point, and that was late 2015, like December 2015, they picked up the phone and called Libre Space Foundation and they said, well, initially they wanted the ground station and then after the ground station, it came different components of the satellite itself and one thing led to another, and finally we were building the whole satellite from scratch because most of the research that was done around the satellite up until that point was not really usable. When we first got the call about building the satellite, we asked, well, how much time do we have? And they said, well, six months. And for those of you that know like the time in space projects and time frame that space for projects are involved, six months is pretty much nothing, like most of the Cube sets or even really small satellites ranging up to really large satellites take a couple of years at least in development and then verification and then actually getting a launch in space. So when they told us six months, we were like, yeah, that's like, yeah, let us get back to you on that. And the fact is that there is a hard deadline, which is the launch itself, like there's a rocket waiting for you, or almost like this. And you have to rush to meet those deadlines, right? And we sat down together with the rest of the Libre Space Foundation, like the whole team, and we said, well, we might not be getting a chance to build an open source satellite from scratch anytime soon, so yeah, what the hell, let's do it. So yeah, started with a really short time frame. What the responsible engineers do is check if there is anything out there that we can reuse or take knowledge from abstracts and best practices and how we can really kick start the effort of creating a satellite. So we went into our favorite search engine and typed in, well, open source satellite or documentation about Cube sets or how do I build a satellite? Or more complicated questions like this. And what we found out is that there were a couple of groups in the past couple of years that have tried to do things in the open, not necessarily open source in the licensing aspect of things, starting with ARDUSAT, which claimed to be open source, but unfortunately was not at all. The only thing that was open source was the part that was executing Arduino code while in orbit, like none of the hardware, none of the software underlying the mission itself. Then we had the open source satellite initiative satellite that was never really operational plus the documentation. It was not licensed as an open source in the typical sense that we've grown accustomed to, like ZPL license or whatever else it is. And there were some guidelines about what you should be careful and what you should do, but nothing more than that. And then ARMSAT groups, specifically ARMSAT US, North America. ARMSAT is the amateur satellite groups that are creating satellites for amateur radio usage, have done things in the past and published them in various different formats on papers and proceedings in conferences and congresses, but that's really far away from open source plus due to ITAR regulations, that's export regulations from US, it was really hard to actually reuse or even get a hold of those paper proceedings from conferences. And then a couple of other things like SwissCube, which is the example done right, that have published extremely well documentation about the project itself, but still the actual schematics for the hardware or the actual code of the software was completely missing. So we said, well, yeah, not really. It's nothing completely open source that we can reuse or build upon. So we started to design everything from scratch. And we had to take care of many mechanical considerations around the science payload itself. You can see the science payload on the left side, together with four probes folded on the sides. And then as you move your way up to two units cubesat like this, so 10 by 10 centimeters by 20 in height, then you can find the electrical and power system, that's the EPS, then the attitude, termination and control that understands where the satellite is and how it's positioned and tries to control that. Then the onboard computer, which is the heart of the satellite itself with the imaging unit, the IAC, it's an imaging acquisition component. Everything in space has to be in fancy acronyms, although this is just a camera. And then the communication subsystem, the GPS subsystem, the antenna deployment structure itself, as you can see here on the mock-up of the satellite. So starting to do a bit of design around the satellite itself, then went down into the, and kind of in parallel, into the electrical and electronics side of things, and this is the main diagram of how the different components communicate with each other. We try to stay as relevant and as up to the latest developments around microcontrollers and best practices around them as we can be, which is not typical for the space industry. Like the default for space industries, if it works, you never change it. And that's how you end up running code that has been written 30 years ago for microcontrollers that were designed 50 years ago. So our main microcontroller is an STM32, various different flavors of it, depending on the system. And then you would have the power lines and all the communications among the STMs themselves. And that's how you end up with a master plan about how you're going to be building your satellite. And then we had to start from something in terms of the physical format of the satellite itself. And as this was developed in our Hockey space, the first thing that you do is that you print quickly something that you can see, right? So literally that was the first week of development. Like we had to start from something and be able to communicate whether we meant the Z minus side and then left to the XY side. It's much more usable to actually have a mock-up, like a model that you can point to. And then along the way, we had to discover a lot of the processes. And reading through documentations and trying to figure out the standards and how big satellites are built. We designed many things and discovered them from scratch, starting from clean room procedures or cleanness procedures to also how you integrate and start building things that have a physical form in the sense of a satellite. And gradually over the course of weeks and weeks in and weeks out, many of the things were starting to be developed much more efficiently and trying to work each other as a team really in as parallelized way as possible, given the really short time frame that we had. And quickly, one thing led to another in terms of the design. And we were able to produce really fast and interactive approaches on the open hardware side of things, like the hardware side of things. So we used KeyCAD for the EDA, for the schematics and the components themselves. And the boards were designed there. And then FreeCAD to most extent for the structure itself and some of the analysis around it. And things moved rather quickly. And you can see the progress here within only a month or probably less in this case, where on the right side you can see what we call an engineering model. So an engineering model would be a board that is not meant to be in space, but it's meant to be staying here around your engineers and actually quickly verifying what you do. And some of the components changed, some of the manufacturing processes changed, and are less restrictive than the actual flight model, which you can see on the left side. And this is the exact same board with the same functionality. That's the electrical and power system, the EPS. And then the satellite started to take form by itself. And we need to build and find out how to even build a carrying case, like a case that we can carry the satellite around for different testing purposes, or even for doing vibrational tests and everything else. And that involved a lot of back and forth. So we built something, and then we didn't work over the weekend. We rebuilt it and tried to make use of the Hikerspace that we are operating out of. That's the hikerspace.gr in Athens, Greece. And tried to get access to as much materials and tools that we could in order to progress as fast as possible. One of those things was that during various different phases of the satellite integration, you actually need a clean box, like something that is clean enough in order to assemble your satellite. So basically, here you can see the clean box that we designed and built. We were looking around for different best practices around that. Again, zero open source or documented designs around it, but we were lucky enough to have enough people to be able to concentrate on that and create something that was actually usable. So the clean box and then some thermal verifications, when we first booted up the components just to make sure that nothing is off the chart. You can see the power amplifier on the coms platform really hitting up there when it first got operated. And then one critical component in order to do a really fast-paced and as open as possible procedure of creating a satellite is to be able to give your engineers, especially on the software side of things, give them the ability to work on the hardware as fast and as direct as possible. So one thing we set out to do was that we created multiple engineering models that we distributed to all the core members of the software engineering team so that they were able to quickly verify their code in real hardware. So you can see here one of the engineering stacks that was given to the engineering team. And while doing that, keeping everything in the open. Like we defaulted to open and publishing everything from scratch. From the day one, we just had the public repositories and we were pushing code there and taking everything there because one thing that we found out is that many people say that they're going to be publishing things along the way. And maybe they do sometime down the road. But it's completely different in terms of the mentality that it creates for the engineers and the teams that are working together to get everything public from day zero until the project is delivered. It provides visibility and it gives a much better history of the project so you can see where the mistakes were made and whatnot. In the process of almost completing the satellite, we had to create the telecommand and control capability itself. And that's built on top of SATNOX. You're going to be hearing about SATNOX in the next talk. That's the ground station network that we have. And again, trying to stay as modular as possible so that other missions can reuse this. So here are a couple of photos about the last integration steps of the satellite in the local hacker space. Here we are on the vibrational testing chamber. Unfortunately, we couldn't build the vibrational table ourselves, although this is a challenge that we should accept for the next satellite. And you can see the satellite in there in the vibration box ready to be tested on one of the axes. And here is a vacuum chamber that does the thermal testing. So basically, you put something in there. There's vacuum generated inside the box itself. And then there are thermal cycles that you go through. So plus 40 degrees Celsius, minus 20 degrees Celsius. And that, again and again, is simulating as much as you can the space environment. And we built it also from scratch as we couldn't have access to a facility like this. That's the satellite right after the thermal and vacuum testing. And then, unfortunately, we couldn't build an echo chamber like this, because that's quite huge. This is a military facility in Greece that we got access. Actually, it's demilitarized now, so that's good. And we got access to do some testing around the electromagnetic compatibility and the electromagnetic interference among the components. So this is Manolis Arhapi, RF engineer that the RF components actually worked as predicted. And those are the final pictures of the satellite literally a day before it was delivered to the launch coordinator that then it can be integrated into the deployer as we're going to be seeing. So this is a photo of us basically delivering the satellite to the big clean room of the integrator. Those are some final touches on the satellite itself. One of the science components had to be integrated at the end of it. And this is the official picture of delivery of the satellite. And that happened August 2016. And from that point, you just wait. There's nothing you can do. You have delivered your satellite. You're just waiting for other satellites to come in, get delivered, be integrated inside the deployer box, which is basically an aluminum box with a spring on one side and then a door on the other side. And that gets in space. The door opens. The spring pushes the satellites out. And that's the deployment. There's nothing more fancy around it. So you can see UP-SAT on the left side. And then barely see the next cubes next to us. That's a France satellite FR04 from QB50 program also. So that happened August and September 2016. And then once everything is integrated, they have to be exported to US, get into the delivery spacecraft to the International Space Station. That was our launch procedure. We would be delivered to the International Space Station. And once we are up there, we would be deployed from the ISS. And we were waiting. And we were waiting. And for those of you that have been following space exploration and space time schedules, it can be really frustrating. Like one thing leads another. And there's always delays on the launches and everything else. But the magical moment came. And that happened on the 17th of May, 2017. So this year, basically. So we were waiting for almost eight months, basically, to get to see our satellites in space. And once you are in space, then you have to wait another month in order to be deployed out of the ISS. And that's the magical moment of deployment. You can see the people opening and pushing the three satellites outwards. And the first one would be our satellite, and then two others following that. And you can see the glorious solar panels of ISS, too. It's a really nice picture. Thank you. And then you wait again. But this time, you wait for a short time. And you have to wait for basically 30 minutes. The regulations state that once you're deployed from ISS, you have to shut down everything for 30 minutes and then start pulling everything in operational mode, because you have to be far away, enough far away from the ISS itself, in order to not interfere with anything which is a human-arrated environment, because there are astronauts actually in ISS, and you wouldn't want to upset that part. So we have the Global Ground Station Network. So we were scheduling passes of the predicted position of the UPSAT, and rightfully so, 30 minutes after the satellite, we got word that the satellite was deployed from the ISS. There was one pass of the UPSAT above one of our ground stations in Bloomington, Indiana. And that was 3 AM in the morning from Bloomington, and we were all actually traveling to US for a different conference. And we're anxiously waiting to see if UPSAT is alive. And you can see in the middle, I cannot even point to that, but really in the middle of the waterfall that you see here, you can see the CW beacon of the UPSAT, some anxious minutes of decoding and trying to figure out if it's actually our satellite or someone else because we have multiple deployments of satellites, and then more clear passes come along from the ground station network, and we can clearly see that this is us beaconing. So super happy times for the team that it actually worked. And then we started monitoring the process and how the satellite is performing. And you can see some of the initial diagrams. That's the charging cycles of the satellite itself. We're pretty happy that most of the components were actually working OK. Not everything worked as expected. And that's unfortunate to some extent, but really that's to be expected, especially first timers in space missions like us. And although we could see most of the things working really well, one of the things was really not accounted for. And that was the consumption of the heating around the battery component itself. So we had to hit the batteries in order to make sure that they're not degraded if they fall below 0 degrees Celsius. But at the same time, the consumption of those heaters was actually large enough that we expected more thermal insulation than we actually saw in space. So we had to overuse that. And right now, we are in the phase that the satellite is operational, but at the same time, most of the time is actually in safe mode in terms of power itself. So it senses that it's going below the power that is safe enough to use all the different components. And it protects itself by cutting down the various different components. And then once it charges again, it beacons and says that it's OK. And then same thing goes on and on. That means, unfortunately, we cannot perform the science mission to its entirety. But still, if we can communicate and actually have these beacons, that verifies that many of the things that we built were designed correctly. So what have we learned from that? That it's really not rocket science? Well, it is to some extent. But it's really not as hard as people think it is. And the critical thing for us would be to make sure that no one has to go through the same ordeal that we did in terms of lack of documentation and lack of open code or hardware or best practices in order to create the mission for themselves. So what we set out to do after UPSat was basically to try to find who else is interested in open source satellites. So we co-organized an open source CubeSat workshop, the first of its kind, in the European Space Agency, Facilities in Darmstadt. And that happened almost a month ago. And that was pretty successful for the first gathering of people around open source, especially if you consider that open source was not really a word shared in space industry up until really recently. So we would like to extend the call to all of you and all of you watching the streaming right now that if you have in mind something which is related to open source, it's open source and it's related to space technologies, feel free to reach out. We are creating a much diverse and global community of people, which we named the Libre Space Community, and we'd like to claim space the Libre way and make sure that no one has to reinvent the wheel and we can really work on innovative projects at the edge of today's available things in technology. So thank you a lot for your presentation. So that was Piero's paparazzi. We still have a little bit of time for Q&A. If you have questions, please line up at the mics. We have four in the whole area, so just line up and you will be called up. We'll just start up with mic one. Yeah, thanks for the interesting presentation. I actually wondered what you would guess, how long it would take actually to get some open source satellites with inverted band pipe transponders up into low orbit. Like, you know, we have SELSAT2, which is going to be up there hopefully in 2018, but it's on a commercial satellite from the Qatar Satellite Company, they're in cooperation with AMSAT and so on. But what would you guess like getting such a transponder only as an open source project with no commercial and no secondary status of actually the project and payload itself? So that has to come from close collaboration with the AMSAT communities around the world. I'm aware of phase for ground and phase for space, which are AMSAT-backed projects for such specific technology aspect of the transponder itself. Unfortunately, I think that the pace that this is going on right now is really slow, so I wouldn't expect anything within 2018 as it stands right now at least. Mic two, please. How do you cool the electronics in vacuum? Is just the radiation enough to dissipate it or do you have some sort of active cooling as well? So no active cooling, you have to rely on radiation and actually touching of thermal transfer through actual physical contact between the different components. Okay, mic four, please. Hi, thanks so much for the information. I was wondering about the GPS chips. As far as I know, consumer available are locked, so what did you do about it? I'm wondering, thanks. Yeah, so that's one of the black spots of the open source side of things. And the concept is that in order to use a GPS in such altitude and such velocity, you have to have a chip which has a license to bypass the COCOM restrictions, which are the restrictions put in place for GPS. So you have to buy that and this is not open source when you buy the actual GPS receiver. Consumer available? Yeah, although it's pricey, like you can get to the couple of thousand. Mic one, please. Hi, so first of all, thanks for doing the hard work for us. I think you did some cost evaluations, so is there any numbers you can give us? Yeah, so the total cost for the hardware of the satellite amounted around $30,000, and almost half of it was actually the solar panels, which we should invest on creating open source solutions about actually doing that. And then for the whole project itself, like together with the engineers that worked on it and everything else, like I would say that the total was around 120,000, like together with the launch and everything, like the entirety of the project. Um, Mike Four. Two little questions. The first question, can I as a random person try to communicate with your satellite? Okay, I see, he's nodding, okay, great. Then there's the next question, is this alone enough to postulate kind of open source global satellite battle mesh, like taking a fly funk to another level? Yeah, all another level. We would be really interested in talking with anyone who's developing networks like terrestrial networks right now, or actually how we can move this to space. And yes, we're super interested about that. There's been a couple of ideas, so feel free to reach out or actually do reach out, not feel free. You or anyone else that has interest on creating networks of satellites, we actually have a table on the fly funk guys. There's a little bit of space foundation table and there's a ground station you can find it for sure. So, yeah. Mike Two, please. So the Cube set ideas are already a little bit older and stuff and so what I was wondering as it is also like used commercial by companies like Planet, we are doing these imaging solutions and stuff. Have you had any experience working with these startup companies who are also working with basically the same technology as you are? And do you think that there's a future of maybe learning from each other? Yeah, I think that the answer to that lies on the difference on the business models around those initiatives. And as long as the business models of the current conversion of the self suppliers of satellite components is based around actually licensing the code and well, paying for that license and paying for getting access to any kind of documentation or even the designs itself. Like most of the times you don't even get access to design even if you pay, then that's completely different from our approach in terms of how we create sustainability around that. I think that there are ways of collaboration but really that has to come through hard work among each other in order to find the sweet spots on that. But for us, not working in the open is not an option. So that step has to come to some sense from the other side too. So I think we're through, we don't have any time anymore. That was Piros Papadeas, thank you very much. Thank you. Awesome talk.


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So here we are, this is watching a work on the Dalai Lai, and I'm just wondering if people won't mind. This is a man of the action called Free Writing in the Class. It's also a play, and here's how the action and the dialogue goes. First, we're going to have to be able to create the action of a play, which is all of us will be working on whatever we want. And then in the time after we finish working, after the timers, our timers go off, and you're just going to work on your time, we will take, we'll create a dialogue of a play, which will be you asking questions about your work and your creative process. And this is on your work. So is that clear? If you have questions on your work for five minutes, they're going to talk for as long as we need to. These people line up for Shakespeare and choir.  Have you seen any of the Russians? Have you seen any of the women? Have you got a chance? Their chance is awesome. And they're very kind. Anyway, so we're going to work for 45 minutes. Oh, yeah. People in the world, people in the world of the interwebs might want to tweet us with their questions. Indeed. You can tweet us at watchmeworkslp with hashtag newplay. Thank you very much. And so here we will go. We will work with some. So that was the action part. Now we're going to get the dialogue part in which you might want to ask questions about your work and your creative process. We're actually working down there. They're doing real work. I mean, ours is pretend work. Ours is play work. But they're working. And right at this moment, every Wednesday, they refill the ice container. Everybody can hear it unless you're like Dan. Is that your name? Yes. Dan can project like a mofo. So I don't know if he has a question, but any of the other of you probably will. So anybody have a question or an answer? Anybody? A conventional question, but also could really use your strategy. Sure. Trying to balance being an artist with all the everyday pull, like do you have any strategies? Yes. What is your name? Yolanda. Yolanda, where are you from? I'm from DC. You're from DC. Are you visiting here? I'm really a New Yorker for like 30 years. Oh right, I'll see you then. You're one of us. Yes. So Yolanda has a question. Everybody pretty much hear her? Yes. So how to balance her artistic life and her artistic commitments with the everyday like everything from maybe I got on the laundry, to I got in the kids to the schools, to I got to move the car from one side of the street to the other, to act like maybe a day job or a night job or something like that. And friends. And friends. Oh friends. Yeah. And good to meet you. Good to meet you.   Right, right, right, right, right. That's good and right. So maybe friends, maybe you know you're going to want to hang out with some good stuff and you want to spend time with them. It's a great major function. It's like that. So just keep it up.   You're perfectionist. That's great. This is what I do, maybe some folks out here have some idea also because everybody to be sure gets work done and has other things to do. What I do is I schedule, and it sounds like, you know what I mean?  And the inspiration comes, it just kind of comes. But for those of us who are different from that, we make schedules. And so, pick a time every day that you're going to commit to working on your art. Okay? Try to pick a time where you feel fresh and positive.  If you're a night owl type, choose some time in the evening.  I don't know who that is, but, you know, just pick a time around 3 p.m. Okay? So pick a time that's in your favorite time, make it a manageable amount of time. 45 minutes an hour, something that you can manage, something that isn't overwhelming to you. Stick with it, and show up for your work. So if your writing time, for example, is from 6 to 7 in the morning, every morning, show up every morning if you have something going on that day or flying out of town or whatever, maybe move it a little earlier or make sure you're even at the airport or find it, you know, another hour down the plane, whatever, find that hour of charm. Okay? Daily practice, the key. I can't really say enough about it, but I just go on and on. But basically, daily practice can get the work that you show for the work. Even if you just sit for an hour and you're just going for the work. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm lost. I'm confused. And you're just going through the motions. You know? Daily practice can show you the number of day. And your friends, if they need you, say, you know, not between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. You know what I mean?  I have a toddler, right? Where I can, ooh, I get up before he does. And then he started taking off his nightmares. Like, mommy, I mean, this is it. Like, mommy, I'm awake. And I want your attention. So he started taking off his nightmares. So now I go. I've got some nighter pants. Get it on. So, huh, he's in the crib. Right? He's in bed. Occupying himself. Shouldn't he wake up before 7 a.m.? You know what I mean? So you can make the time. Does anybody else have anything to add? I don't think so. Working? Yes, Carol, of course. I find that sometimes people don't realize that you're working. I'll just just talk about it. That people don't realize that you're working. And that they see that you're sitting and staring. That's what I have to actually say. That's really good. Yeah. And also, if you do laundry, you know, some of the chores are laundry stuff. That's good thinking. You use it for part of your work and count it. That's really great. That's really great. So sometimes you have to tell your loved ones, your family folk, hey, I'm working over here. And I just, you know, I'm not just staring at the space. I'm working. And sometimes combining work with a household and children like doing the laundry, you're down there in the basement or at the laundromat watching the laundry go or in your home if you have a laundry, you should go to the laundry. Watching it go, you can go to the laundry. You have a television set. How much TV do you watch a day? Very little. Very little. Good. Maybe cut that back to even less. So if you watch a 30-minute today, cut back to 15 minutes. You'll have an actual 15-hour. Jeremy, do you have anything? I was going to say my schedule is never the same every day. So I count. So whatever hours I do write, I keep track of them so that at the end of the week, I know if I'm writing or if I just read my book. Ah, great. So Jeremy, it's like, so Jeremy has a schedule that's very, every day is different. So what he does is he keeps track. I keep track of it. So you see you have like an hour of writing a writer's poems. Like you want to do like a marathon. If you're training for a marathon, you want to say 40 hours a week or 20 hours a week. So you want to make sure you get to that by the end of the week. That's a really great idea. It's a really great idea. Anybody else have an idea? Actually I have a question. Okay, go ahead. So did you have an idea? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay, go ahead Scott. Oh sure. Do you want to go first? No. Me? Okay. Yeah. What I do, I sometimes, I found that if I do something right as I'm about to leave the house, it actually weirdly does this thing where it gives you an internal deadline. Like if you're going out to dinner with your friends and you're like, I've got to meet my friends in 20 minutes. So I've only got five minutes to get this idea down and then you get it. You know what I mean?  That's great. If that makes sense? That's good idea. So create a deadline or if you have an event that you're going to, I have to do, I have to do this creative act before I do that. That's a great thing to sort of get something out quickly. Yeah. It kind of puts you in an over a long period of time. You want to find ways to work in a new world. You know, we're trading. We're trading. We're trading. We're Ultramarathon. Artists are Ultramarathon. You know Ultramarathon, they're at the desert. They're at the desert. They're running 100 miles or whatever. And you want to trade to a career like that because that's the artistic life. So while sprinting does help. Yeah. And it's great. Really, you know, get to the finish line. We want to create something that's also in addition to sprinting. We want to create habits that allows to, like everything. But that's good. That's good. Yeah. But no, that's cool. I can create deadlines. We can also create deadlines. Like I asked people, people are working on a draft when you want to be done. And they say, next week I go, okay, let's break it down. Let's see how you can do that next week. That's all, I always create deadlines. I just, I created deadlines in July. And I just finished it. I finished it one day over yesterday. Yeah. Always grab. Always. Always create deadlines. Always create deadlines. Yeah. Okay, your question. Hi. So I'm also from Washington DC. I just moved here a couple weeks ago. So I'm still figuring this out. And in DC, I've created a school. A theater school. It was a volunteer school. Right. So before I introduced materials based on women and women tissue. Right. So in doing that, I used to writing material that is just solely women characters. Right. And maybe in the last year or so, I started writing stuff that introduced men into the pieces. Right. And sometimes I feel like that when I'm writing male characters, and I'm writing the female character in the same scene, for example, that the male character comes always stronger. I don't know if it's just because I'm more excited because I haven't written male characters for so long or if it's something so powerful, whatever the case may be. But I was just wondering if you had any tips or just any insight on that in terms of just making sure that the female characters, male characters, they're not, you know, unbalanced. Right. They're both strong characters. Right. Okay. What's your name? I'm Star. Okay. So Star is from DC.  And she notices that her male characters seem to be stronger in the scene. And any tips you might have to sort of make the characters more balanced, make the scene more balanced. I would say this. Maybe it's not about males, female, maybe it's about what the characters want. If you just take it out of the, you know what I mean, for a moment to spin, you really need to spin your disbelief, like the great Ford said. Right. Imagine that maybe you have more of a hook into, or an understanding of what your male character wants than you do of what your female character wants. You see what I'm saying?  Right. And she doesn't really know what she wants to do. So she's kind of like this. Okay. So go back and look at that. Because I imagine that you can write strong characters if you know what they want and, you know, sort of move them in the direction of what they want. Because there's no sort of secret in writing stronger men or weaker women or stronger women or weaker men. It's not about that. It's really knowing what your characters want and allowing them to go there. But we said the other, the other week, two points make a lie. That's a, if you forget this, if you can't measure it, it's a given in geometry. Someone knows geometry. Do you know geometry? No. Don't ask me any one question. I said it before. So two points make a lie. So it's the same thing what's in playwriting. Your character, where is your character at point A? Where does your character want to go? Point B? Those are the two points.  So you're probably, so check out, am I strong? Am I clear about where my female character is? And am I clear about where she wants to go? And see if that helps. You know what I mean? See if that helps you. Maybe it doesn't, I'm trusting you on this. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Um, it's made, it's made. Oh, what's that? Oh, what's that? Is that all? Oh, can it be? Is that okay? No. No, is that not good? All right. All right. Sorry. I'm from that, I'm sorry. I'm from that techie generation I'm sorry. I'm also from, I'm from Maryland. Well that's like almost. What part of this, what part of that, what part of that? It's Alex Timina. I'm original. I'm original. Um, I just wanted to know like what, what kind of music do you listen to right now? Right now? Yeah, like what are you into? Because I'm learning, I was just actually looking at that. I was learning, I'm learning a, a record here, this is me talking about a world which never happens, but I'm learning a, a song called 12 Pages of the City. So I'm listening to it a lot. He's a great guitar player and it's really hard to, it's a hard song to learn. Yeah. Are you learning to play? Do you play guitar? I do. Do you find, do you find that helps with your writing? No, no, no, because when I play it's also hard and tight, you know. So, I know that, I got to, I know it, yeah. Yeah. You're probably going to, I don't know. I love it. Are there any non-writers? I'm a, I'm an actor. Yeah. Yeah, so, but it's, it's interesting, life is interesting. Because, you know, I ran into you a week ago on the street and so I wanted to look to see what's happening at the public and I saw that you were doing something online and so I came and I didn't know what to expect. because I knew I had this time in my child care's cover. So I wanted to just come and check it out. And I thought maybe it was gonna be like that, where we would serve you writing, or talk or something like that. The computer's in the writing, and then I texted him like, is there a theme? Because I assumed, okay, this is right. Everyone is writing, it's not, you know. And he said, no writing whatever you want. And so writing for me as an actor is something that I figured wasn't my lane. I've been avoiding writing. I'm not gonna say how old I am for a long time, because I figured, you know, okay, that's not my lane.  And instead of like, okay, oh my God, what am I gonna write about? I was like, let me write about just how I'm being right now. And because I actually painted with a stomach ache, and I decided to write about it. And now my stomach ache is gone, because I had to deal with the source of why I was having a stomach ache. And so I'm just grateful to be here and to observe and to hear when writing. I love writers, and I don't know, what's in store from that? The St. Theater is one of the healing arts. Yes, it's so true. So there you go, thanks for writing. You know, and the theme, actually, there is a theme. The theme is write whatever you want. That's actually the theme. Straight up, do your thing. There's that quote, who said that? Do your thing so that I may know you sometimes. The rover ever said, I don't know, I get confused. Do your thing so that I may know you. Anybody else have a question? Thanks for all of it. It's interesting because writing is one of the stuff that's stuck in the subject. Where do we live? Do it. He wrote a symphony. Can anybody hear you? Oh. Right, okay. I just want to tell you what I'm interested in, to know that the story I've written is that Beethoven also did a sym, he wrote music, imitating how he wrote a symphony, imitating the voice that was started in May, because he had a lot of core issues.  But I don't remember which one it is. I mean, not that he'd necessarily stop this. Right. He'd have to be broke and play guitar, right? Anybody else have a question? So I often find it difficult to know when you turn off the critical voice. And as I was sitting here writing, I definitely, I tend to edit as I go and have those moments where you're like, eh, no, new world. But sometimes I find that that, particularly in these kinds of exercises, can get in the way where it makes you want to go back and try the whole first paragraph again, or rewrite that whole thing. And I'm just wondering if people have thoughts about, I haven't really come to a conclusion about whether it's better to edit as you're going, or to step back and not touch anything and just let it be sort of brainstorming with extra structure. So I'm just curious about what you and others feel about that. I think I have strong feelings about this. I would suggest to write and then rewrite. I said before, the two kinds of courage, the first to write and the first to rewrite. Okay? Writing in the garden where anything goes, everything grows. Be writing there on that white paper. My voice is white today, or the white horse with a sort of discrimination and your favorite Beethoven music playing. And you're going to feel cutting everything that doesn't fit, right? Two separate acts, okay? I would suggest what we have. And this, the exercise for today is a replication of what you could be doing every day in your writing process. So it should be no different than a writing process. You try to make it, I mean, you can imagine us all here. I imagine you here, and I'm writing it, but okay? So I would suggest write, and then rewrite. And what happens is you have that inner critic in your head and they come up in a variety of forms and you'll hear people saying things like, will hear people saying things like, gosh, my mother always calls when I'm writing, or gee, I get nervous about the dry cleaning when I'm writing, or I don't know if my writing is good enough, you'll hear people say all these kinds of things. Resistance to doing your work, okay? And resistance to basically some form of fear, which is basically a form of lack of faith. So it's all the same thing, no matter if you're with or you're always not in some of the doors and say, hey, maybe come back to bed, we're not waiting for this, whatever. It's all a form of the same thing. And your job is to just continue regardless, okay? So practice, part of your practice can be just keep going.  What do you wanna do?  There you are, through the desert, through death family, you got the number eight dollar, you got the spiky, you got the sun, the sprain, all the whatever, you can take your work. You'll be right later. When I get to the end, then I go back to my work, okay, that's what I do, right? You know, and people have other takes on it, that's sort of the right thing to do. What's your opinion on the playwrights' change, right?  Sometimes I just wanna tell a good story. What's your take on it? Yeah, yeah, what's my take on the playwrights' or artists needing to have a message? Keep it to work, because I make kind of a face, I say, ah, what's your take on it? I say, I think messages are great, great, great. Things for the audience to think about after they've seen your play. That's the audience's job, where the critics, scholar, people, right?  Chris's play, it was about the author, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. You didn't get Chris to say, yeah, or really, you know, I could tell a story of my mom and dad, that game in the 70s or whatever, you know what I'm saying? So whatever, that's cool, but again, this is just me, I lean on the side of telling this story. If you tell a good story, if you tell a good story really well, it will have a strong, important message, because that's how we understand it, you know what I mean? I find that when things have a strong message that's kind of all they have, when you think of a place I really love, like King Winger, got lots of messages about fathers and daughters and kingdoms and Royals and fools and blindness, you name it, there it is, or Hamlet, you know, right? And I think if it had been written as a message, that's all they would be getting, just one message, which is kind of, you know, meter. So I like to tell a good story and they just let people go, why do you think it's about this? Well, I think it's about this, you know what I'm saying? What do you feel the differences between TV writing, film writing, and play writing? And like, I mean, not just in terms of like, like from a business standpoint, but like in terms of like what you can do with all those, artistically, does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, it depends what kind of TV writing, difference between TV writing, film writing, and play writing, it depends. If you're writing for a network like a sitcom, it comes down to time. You know, you've got to write in certain time, sort of seconds to actually fit in the form, okay? There are certain restrictions on what you can do in that, was those time buckets, you know? With cable shows, there's a lot of room now when there was like five years for you. There's a lot more freedom. Theater, yeah, you know, it's a lot more. And there's, to me, nothing more interesting than a living person having a little bit of a relationship with somebody that we're not.  Life, you know what I mean? I mean, that's kind of fun.  You know what I mean? There's something that you said for the live action. But TV and film are cool? Yeah. I mean, it's all good, it's all writing, it's all hard. It's all difficult, you know, it's all the same kind of thing, the process is just so exciting. Sure. That's several discussions. Can everybody hear me? Yeah. Where are you from? Are you from? Yeah. Chicago. Yeah, I was there. Can everybody hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can everybody hear me? Can everybody hear me? Yes, go ahead. I've had several discussions of people here and other places about form. Yeah. I've had discussions with people about how it, it's somewhat harder, this is all in theory, but it's harder to be Lemon Anderson at the Public Theater than it is to be Macklemore and achieve grassroots success. So can you talk a little bit about before you were Susan Murray Parks and when you were trying to get the plays made about like bringing, yeah, I mean, I mean, it's just really like bringing new form and thinking about theater because even though we're doing theater in front of a live audience, we often lean back on how things have been done. So about bringing new ideas and not only new stories, but new ways and how, like that struggle and or if you're doing the commission, how do you kind of fit within the compound? Right, right. Does that make sense to you?  Yeah, just in how we move, I mean, everything from one extremes, let's give it more, right? One extreme is improv everywhere. One extreme is in and of your stuff. One extreme is the conventional plays, you know. Gats and, right, so talking to new ideas, what do you struggle with and what do you find is a process when you're trying to take a new idea to a theater and want something that says like, oh, well, this is universities, here's a hip-hop player, here's from the genitalia, here's a black player, here's a black player, when these boxes are constructed, I can deal with that and even as an established writer, we have a new idea when we do something new. Right, well, because I have two questions. One, what do you do when you're starting out or you're sort of making your way in your career and you are interested, I'm sorry, I'm trying to think of... I gave you the wrong answer. No, no, no, no, no. It's, this is a couple things. One, I never tried to write anything that, oh, nobody's ever seen before. I never thought, I'm gonna write something nobody's ever seen before. I've never tried to do that. But it depends on your career. Yeah, but I just tried to tell the story to the best of my head. You know what I mean? So I saw reality as I saw it and tried to write the story as I, the best that I could. And then people said, that's such and such and this is how they labeled it. And then it was able to get produced where it could, okay?  So people labels for things, oh well. People want to put things in boxes, oh well. You know what I do? I write the best writer that I can. And I'm trying to figure out, oh, that's what I can control. I can't control what so-and-so and such-and-such theaters and stuff like that. I can't. So I just focus on my writing and my craft. You see, you're saying- You're writing out the size that you can find for what anyone else expects of you or even if it's a brand new show. Yeah, you think you're right.  You should be writing like they put a label on you. And your job is to write the best, do the best writing that you can do. And it will find its way. It will find its venue, it will find its home. I have no doubt. You see what I mean? So it kind of takes them out of the equation and forces you or us to focus on us. We have to think about what we're doing. We can't be thinking about them. That's like thinking, what will the audience think of my play? The audience. The thousands of people who will see your play. They will think, I just focus on me. What does this work right here on this page? See, it's a little, it's basically controlling what you control and kind of letting the rest go. Drew's waiting as he's speaking out to the audience. And I have to get the mic back. Oh, you have to get the mic back? Thank you. Okay, we'll see you next week.


What's going on guys got Kyle here with the late in sports cards and we are ripping 2023 Star Wars six series 20 box case number 38 Random hit style, so we'll have Donnie typing in the hits as they come out Then at the end we'll do a random between the 20 hits and the 20 names in the break and we'll line them up See what everybody got good luck here guys 20 boxes. I don't think I can Jonathan Don't think we got any space tonight First auto is Toby to be one on the auto. This is Jane Waldman as Toby Tobi one. Yeah, Sean definitely needs a stream definitely needs a stream tonight We've got Hondo Oh Naka on the auto there that one is Jim Cummings as Hondo Oh Naka hadn't seen this one yet This one is printing plate one of one gonna be Valin Hess Valin Hess there on the printing plate one of one nice hit there and is Richard break as Valin Hess nice one on the one of one Good luck on this one guys Fox for this one is bead on the auto Scott caporo as bead on the throwback Scott caporo Fox five I Haven't seen any of it yet. Randy. I'm interested though.  I'm down We've got Mon Mothma on the auto now that is Caroline Blackiston as Mon Mothma on the auto Number six. Is it good so far? Randy? Did they release the whole season? I'm guessing that's usually the Netflix move There's a Cad Bain auto now nice one here Cad Bain Dorian Kingie as Cad Bain. We've got Mayor Mock Shies now on the auto Mayor Mock Shies That one is John Rosengrant Mayor Mock Shies See the mayor of Yeah, I didn't see that one We've got auto now gonna be Zeb Aurelios Zeb Aurelios that one is Steve Blum as Zeb Aurelios Action debut. I appreciate that Jonathan Got number nine now for 80 galia 80 galia on the auto that one is Angelique Perrin. It'll break tonight Tron. It'll break at the end of the night here About 12 30 or one Closer to one probably We'll break that one that did fill up. We moved it to the end of the night So wasn't feeling earlier, but it did fill so we'll get it rape and rip and there's a twilight server That one is Andrea Bartlow on the twilight server auto base not numbered first episode was okay. Yeah, they're um They were kind of hit or miss from the beginning for sure uh black mare There's an auto here. It is dr. Pershing Dr. Pershing from the mandalorian um omib abtahi as dr. Pershing number 12 We've got base auto tally lintra tally lintra on the base auto that one is from the last jedi uh hermione corfield as tally lintra 17 Or that's not 17. That's uh 13 Got another base auto this time is imperial security officer On the base auto this one is from the mandalorian Philip alexander as the um imperial security officer. It's a 50 on the blue auto. This is evan peel even peel That is from the phantom menace mackaylacatral as even peel Yeah, not bad Number 15 For the most part the guys in this have much better than the athlete autos. Not for the most part We have throwback. This one's going to be eddie two tubes edrio Edrio two tubes on a throwback david accord as edrio two tubes 16 Yeah, it ain't a case without edrio That's for sure We've got the hask triplet on the base auto now that is paul warren. Um from the force awakens hask triplet 17 This one is fixer on the auto Now one is from the book of boba fed skylar bible as fixer I just saw on the team needs for uh The piss ends it said kade cunningham healthy How is that a team need 18? I understand but that does not be the draft That has nothing to do with the draft. They eat them healthy, man We've got green number to 25. This one's twilight major domo twilight major domo david posquecy from the book of boba fed twilight major domo Two left guys Get a randomizer going after this. We'll line up the names with the uh hits here We'll see who gets what this one is blue on the throwback rio durant. That one is numbered number 250 katie cartwheel as rio durant 38 of 50 on the blue throwback And last box One is red. It is grand moth tarkin Grand moth tarkin there guy henry from the new um The new trilogy there guy henry as grand moth tarkin What up joe? What up joe? All right guys, we'll run a random here Um, see who gets what good luck guys Give me a moment here get all the names in all right guys. Let's roll a dice. See how many times are going on the random Got six times four and two Six times on the random. Good luck guys We've got alexander t down to yana b going six times There's one two three four five and six Got shigunori down to roland r Now for the hits we had tobi down to grand moth tarkin on the auto six times on this as well There's one two three four five and six had dr. Pershing down to the hask triplet Give me one moment. We'll get this copied over Alrighty guys had shigunori you with dr. Pershing uh for e d had cad bane donald b zeborellios marcus e had imperial security officer alexander t fixer jeff j with the tobi Tob one brian f with valin hess printing plate one of one nice one brian Shigunori had the mayor mox shies jason r had edrio two tubes and eddie galea Hano b had even peel number 250 josh h with the onaka Trussin m has twilex server josh h tally lintra jusson o has the rio duranta 50 chat i with mod mothma jusson c with bd Yana b has the grand moth tarkin Michael has the twilex major domo to 25 and ronald has the hask triplet Alrighty guys


Well, hello everyone! I'm so glad you've joined me today. I know you guys have been asking me for quite a while to make a video about this topic and look, I get it. I get it. You're seeing me and you're like, Isaac, what is it like to be not married at 21? It's just like one of those things that where you're like, Isaac, can you just pour down some of your wisdom on me? I need, just give me just a morsel of it and I'm just like here like God just morseling down the manna to the Egyptians or whatever. It was kind of funny. I caught myself the other day. I was like, I woke up in the morning and I looked beside me and saw nobody there and I was like, oh my goodness, I'm not married at 21. That's crazy.  And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I mean, it's not for everyone, but for me, it's just, it's so, you know, it's so natural. It's like, it's just like nothing changed.    Like they're married and kids and all that. And you're like, am I missing out on all that stuff?  I like being sad. Okay guys, enough of that. If you didn't get the joke, I'm not even going to explain it to you. Look up some married at 21 videos or married 18 videos and come back to this one. It might make more sense.  All I'm saying is that, look, God has different things for different people and that's okay. You don't need to be sad or feel like you're missing out if you're single at 21 or at 18 or 26 or 30 or whatever. Because look, I just think God has so much more to offer than we could even realize. And when we're actually pushed out of what we think is conventional or what should be happening, I think we can discover things that are actually really beautiful and really meaningful to us that we wouldn't have experienced if we were in the exact path that we wish we were in. I mean, look, we've all heard of the Bridal College and Ring by Spring and all that stuff, all the pressure that's put on that stuff. And I think even now, I mean, where I live, we're like in lockdown mode, you know, in terms of the coronavirus. So not a lot of people are meeting each other. There's not a lot of dates going on. There's not a lot of that kind of thing. And people are feeling some anxiety because it's like, hey, look, this is time. This is I'm missing out opportunity here. But look, God's timing is perfect. I know it's cliche, but it's true. And I mean, until we actually realize that and believe it, we're always going to be dissatisfied with what he has to offer us in the here and now. God has not forgotten you in this because I just want to lay out some great things about being single. You get to make fun of people that are in relationships. It's a lot of fun. Like you don't realize how much it how much fun it is when you have a sibling or close friend that's in a relationship. You can make fun of them for days. It's really enjoyable. That's a blessing from God in the comments down below. Let me know what are some fun things that single people can do. Don't hold back. I'd love to hear from you. And also, thank you so much for watching this video. I know this is kind of a more goofy video, but I'm just so thankful that I have the platform to be able to do this have fun with you guys and also engage with real meaningful truth. If you want to get behind my mission of helping people follow Jesus daily on all my platforms, a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, all the above, you want to support me in that head on over to patreon.com daily underscore disciple and become a patron for $5 a month. I'm trying to get to 50 patrons this year. And so if you can help me out in that, that would be amazing link in description. Thank you so much for watching guys. I will see you soon. God bless.