Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel I'm going to be playing a team that I took to a PC and MSS over this past weekend down in Openton. I finished 3-2 in the MSS so just missing cut there. I think I finished 11th but a couple of matches definitely could have won one of them and the other one was just a really well played zoned on team that I just didn't feel like I had the resources to kind of overcome and it just whittled the team down which is a little bit of a shame but a positive in a way because it's something I can look at at the team and see where we can go and maybe change things up to make that match up a bit more favorable a bit more open so we can we can maybe overcome that in the future if I do decide to go on and use this any further then the PC happened after that didn't change teams decided to stick with it one more pop and finish second in the PC only getting defeated by a Chansey Anisella-Sneela-Matti running that and I couldn't break it down the defensive wall there was just too much with light screen support I even game 2 I went for double Geomancy and it still wasn't enough to break through the team but second place wasn't too bad got some points came away and the team did itself very proud so as always the team is down in the description below there is a roll pace and a poker pace check it out and try the team out if you want ask me any questions if you've got any about the team or the build in general but we've got Assault Vest, Evelto we've got Zernius standard Serena is a little bit different got the focus session there wanted to try out Endeavor with that Endeavor Faint if we ever have a one-on-one situation with any sort of Pokemon you can always win out in that situation unless psychic terrains on the field and then we've got a little bit of a problem but majority of the time you can kind of maneuver yourself around to get yourself in that end position where Serena can clean things up if you have brought it also nice with that Queenly Majesty ability just to support against any fake-out pressure that you may see Incinero standard there but we've got Roa on it I think we didn't really need the dark type of attack since we've got Evelto to deal with that side of things and we've got Scarf Landeress it was probably the MVP of the weekend and then Tapu Finney so the team all in all really nice XY isn't something that we see commonly used in the ultra series did really well in Sun and Moon series but as soon as the ultra series came around it kind of fell off a little bit so it was nice to bring this back especially with so many Lunala, Duskman and other dark weak Pokemon in the format at the minute Evelto did really well when I did bring it but some matches where I felt like I couldn't bring it and I think that's probably why you're not seeing it so commonly used in the ultra series but I would suggest giving it a go it's still a very good Pokemon and I can do a lot of work against a lot of other teams that it doesn't struggle against so much but we will jump straight into it today hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent and as always my friends if you do enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments down below in the comment section and we'll get into this first one today we'll pick some music but it was just a really nice weekend honestly it was it was great seeing everyone down there so some of our patreons our flinch squad members down there will costar and craig all then and manage actually face will and craig so that was really nice at the event overall um but of course I've come away from it thinking I wish I could have done a little bit better but um the pc went on to like half 10 11 o'clock on Saturday night which was just crazy so I was pretty wiped out I didn't get back to my hotel till about 12 o'clock and then up again uh really early to get across to the venue for nine on Sunday morning so I was pretty wiped out on Sunday didn't feel great and uh changed up teams um but didn't perform as well and I was off to a very slow start that day so came away with uh not as much cp as I would have liked but it was it was nice seeing everyone and I think a nice um a way for me to kind of get back into the swing of competitive Pokemon at least I had a nice finish on the Saturday that's the big thing but uh we'll get into our first match today and uh hoping to team preview okay so our opponent is running a team with a velto groudon uh tap cocoa stack attacker incinero and lucario so lucario probably the mega on the team here and one thing that we need to watch out for does have access to redirection but whether it's got it or not is another question then you're gonna have probably tailwind and trick room elements on this team tailwind from the velto and then the um the trick room from this stack attacker um now the one thing I would say here is that there's probably five out of the six pokemon my opponent's team are all physical type attackers maybe the velto's mixed um but our double intimidating it can be really really valuable for us um I don't think we're gonna see the stack attacker lead and we've um had a little bit of a disconnect on our end so um I'm just gonna go for incinero I think we'll go zonius we'll need some sort of um other thing is I could probably go eval tol lander us here or eval tol incinero lander us and zonius I think that's what I'd go for but I don't think we're gonna be able to get into because our opponent disconnected which is a little bit of a shame so we'll uh we'll hop back on see if we can um find our opponent or our first opponent pretty quickly that's a bit of a shame isn't it I am I was looking forward to that match because it's nice to play kind of like a similar mirror um and the the eval tol groudon is like if you're gonna see eval tol you're normally gonna see it paired up with groudon it makes a lot more sense to pair your eval tol with groudon because groudon covers a lot of the things a lot better than um what zonius does for eval tol um so um but never mind lander us kind of fills that role in for our team I will just say that hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent I'm just gonna cut it right now and we'll come back to when we do bump into our first one of the day and we've got our first opponent of the episode so we'll hop straight into team preview see what we're going up against and it is a team of zonius requires a persian incineroar tapu finny and stack attack us so we've got the x-ray call here um between zonius and requiser they got support and cast from persian um and then the incineroar offering fake out support fast taunt as well from that persian stop any setup from our end and then the tapu finny and then stab stack attacker who is probably going to be the trick room setter of the team um and also a good deterrent for things like zonius things like nyligo that would otherwise cause this team a lot of problems now the one thing that i would say on here is what we need to probably utilize our double intimidate especially for that requiser the stack attacker as well and the incineroar um but we also need to make sure that we've got our zonius checks in place um okay we could potentially go zonius incineroar serena and landeris now i don't feel like i need evalto here we're not really doing too much with evalto this is a matchup where evalto is not really needed um it's not really going to be able to damage the the finny or the incineroar very well uh the stack attacker it can do a little bit of work against but not a great deal we're going to have to rely a little bit more on our landeris for that um and the zonius we need as a news check so um something like incineroar that we've got here with the rory helps out in that respect so i'll click in and we'll get into this first one today i need to get a bit better with the clicky fingers i'm just the the screens it's too early in the morning i didn't have an episode up yesterday it was um i was kind of like after the weekend to go back i was um i was so wiped out so i didn't really have time to put one up yesterday unfortunately but we are back today and we'll be finishing up the week with this team so it should be a lot of fun hopefully it all works out pretty nicely so we're going to see um persian and zonius come out from my opponent um now do we trade fake outs or do we switch it into serena and go for a cheeky gmancy or do we just roll the opposing zonius and allow it to gmancy that might be a nice way to do it because we could potentially switch into um or we could protect we could geo i mean what's going to be better here letting my opponent geo up we could potentially go for the geo here it's just if they taunt us that's the only only issue is if they go for the taunt um into our zonius which would be a bit of a pain and if they detect maybe the serena switching then um we could get caught up by that i'm gonna go for it i'm gonna go for it i'm gonna go for the serena switching and the geo mancy i think we'll get it and if we can get this ooh zonius switches out stacks coming in that's not too bad you might see a taunt like a taunt would probably be a bit more in our favor now um but we are just gonna see the fake out so that's all right that's not the worst um we need to be a bit careful around this stack attack but we do still have aren't in a row to come back onto the field we're not probably going to be able to stop a trickery and groan up but we do have fake out we do have double intimidate which will help support our zonius a little bit more um and we also have open arm and blast as well we could potentially use um okay so i'll protect zonius i think we'll play a little bit more of a long game here i'm going to switch in incinero on our serena and we'll see what this stack attack does it probably goes for a trick room i would imagine probably the best player my opponent can do at this stage they might just go for an attack though uh if they do go for the gyro ball it puts us in a better position going into the next turn so we're not having to uh stall out the five turns of trickering they do get set up but like i say i think the best thing if i was my opponent right now i'd probably say let's get the trick room up let's start um pressuring this zonius so it's not able to just freely pick up knockouts here there and everywhere um so we'll switch in incinero we'll get this nice tasty juicy intimidate off onto the stack attack i'm not really worried about the Persian right now and we'll just throw up and protect just to get around any potential channel i'll i switch okay that's uh interest important shot coming out into zone okay well that's fine i mean if you don't mind that too much uh we'll just go for a dazzle just get some damage on this stack attacker and we'll go for a fake out into the stacks as well um you just want to start getting damage onto it really is the person sashed potentially i guess um but i don't know if that like it's going to get a parting shot off for sure if it is yeah and i mean we could have faked out that slot but i'd rather take a parting shot than take a chunk of damage from gyro ball the other option there would have been potentially just going for um to switch out into liner us and get a double intimidate off and then just wow we're not chipping in the the sash would still be active we could fake out into the Persian and then um yeah it's not it's not ideal it's not an ideal situation uh the opposing zoning is going to come onto the field now now i would like to try i think we're going to have to try and roll the opposing zonius out and moon blast the stack attack and hopefully take a minus one we'll take a minus one uh gyro ball we're going to roll the zonius and i'm just going to moon blast into the stack attacker unless we see an ally switch again which we don't which is good because that would have been bad that does enough and it does all get that the next turn there's a gem anti so as long as we don't lose incinero here which we shouldn't do unless we see like a connell crush which would be bad um we should be able to remove the opposing zonius from the field so getting rid of their boosts all right let's see gyro ball zonius should take this yeah just about um and if it is the ray aquasar in the back we're not really too threatened by um okay this is fine um now we just switch in serena and go for another dozen gleam and that should be enough to get the stacker and the persian and we get around the faker that way as well so prevent my opponent from really being too disruptive having the serena on the field yeah with that queenie majesty ability anything to worry about maybe is why god but like you've got ally switch gyro ball you've probably got star nedger rock slide and you've definitely got trick room i think on your stacker um like i would say probably more like to have protect them why god on this old build yeah so there's a dazzle this should oh we don't get stuck in here okay we actually missed the stack and stacker kill we needed yeah that minus one coming super handy um okay it's not the worst beast boost where we going defense all right right we've got to deal with ray can serena shine through in this match uh we'll bring in incinero get another into here onto the stacker attacker and it might be worth cycling in landers at some point the zernia is going to come back onto the field and we could always power up the stack attacker now um and just go for a faker into zernias but we've got to start thinking about our next turn i think more than anything else i don't think the trick room goes up now i don't think it really helps my opponent too much we'll bring in landers but i think we've got to be quite mindful that the raker as it could be in the back and we need to have at least one intimidator in the back when raker as it comes out into the field so we can cycle that intimidate we tough gonna be tough gonna be tough now but we'll see what we can do zernias protect what we're gonna see stacks go for variable it's good job it's like on minus whatever it's on i don't know what it is minus three wow okay um it's probably a good idea to start getting rid of the zernias because if we can start chunking the zernias um i can't really earthquake like earthquake would be nice here but i'm gonna just u-turn out on the zernias and flare blitz into it as well okay well that's fine because we'll get rid of the stack attacker with the the um the u-turn this should be enough to take it down hopefully yeah just about and then we'll get serena onto the field and we've got the intimidate in the back for when this ray comes in now the issue is serena sash will be broken here unless we see a moonblast into the incident which i'm kind of hoping we do that would be ideal because serena we really want its sash intact come on be into serena okay wow that does like nothing this is a bulky deer it's gonna be ray 100 come on my dude let's bring in that ray let's see what you can do yeah there's the ray okay now are you worried too much about right i mean where would you go where would you where would you target if you're my opponent would you go sold stands maybe because i'm tempted to go for another i'm tempted to go for the endeavor into the into the ray uh i'm gonna u-turn out onto the ray and i'm gonna endeavor it as well and i'm hoping we see like a dragon ascent into incinero and it's not banded ray because that would be bad but if you can get the endeavor off now because i don't think that serena's really putting any pressure on my opponent's overfield other than the fact that it's got queen your majesty and i don't think you're really worried about that right now delta stream gonna hit hit the field trying to send come on be into incinero please no for serena okay well it does take defense drop and we're only going to be able to get two intimidates onto the raid it is actually life or which is interesting the moon blast coming now from the zernis incinero taking a big chunk of damage probably in it trying to send range now i'd imagine we will take another moon blast but it's where the protect comes this next turn so we'll get landers in because we've got the active fake out can we do this it's going to be difficult we need incinero's berry to activate that's the big thing i think um and i'm gonna fake out the zernis because i think if you go for moon blast into landers then we can be picked up by an extreme speed so i think it's probably better that we rock slide we could always flinch can't we and we flip we fake out into zernis hopefully we don't lose this one i think it's a little bit of a misplay where we didn't protect zern and then bring in serena on the on the persian i think it would have been better to potentially protect it that turn rather than let it go down to that gyro ball because if we just keep zernis around for like that one extra turn and we got the help and hand dazzle the next turn gets rid of that stack it's like a lot easier and we wouldn't be in this position if we've done that but um a little bit complacency from ourselves in that respect so we'll go for the rock slide um and we'll go for another flag let's into the zernis we need some flinches though come on big boy flinches come on come on come on yes okay well that's all right yeah going for the lander because yeah it takes us down and then i think we just lose now because we can't can't deal with the rear quasi with incident unless we can take down this now we can't and it doesn't even proc our berry so it's done it's done good game to my opponent and uh i think when you look at on on the face of it it was definitely that turn where we protected the zern we didn't protect the zern and let it go down to the stack attack we need to preserve it there and i think when you look at the like the rest of our teams makeup and how much we would struggle against the restrictives without our zernis uh it's a lot more obvious that we should have done that um in hindsight but never mind things to think about um and it's i think with this team as well every turn feels like it's super important in in these matches and like you get one turn wrong and maybe that means the team's not really um up to the task in this this format where you've got because you don't want to be playing a team that you where you have to be getting pretty much every turn correct um and i mean like that sounds a bit strange because really you want to be getting every turn correct when you're playing pokemon that's what you want to do you want to play every turn correct so you win the game but you it's it's impossible to do that in pokemon sometimes your opponent's going to do something that you don't expect and maybe rng crops up at a time so you need a little bit of room to kind of like a buffer almost with your team where it can kind of suck up a little bit of pressure um and suck up some maybe players which don't go your way and you can still kind of overcome things in the end but this team it did feel like that on the weekend as well it did feel like you had to get pretty much most of the time the the switch right or the the attack right or the protect right and uh if you don't then it's very difficult to kind of come back from in the situations anyway we will hop on we will try and find our next opponent and hopefully it doesn't take too long and we'll just cut it right now we'll cut it right now we'll come back when we do find our next opponent my friends and we've got our next opponent the episode we got meth vgc so we'll hop straight into team preview and it's going to be another x-ray call so it'll be a good one to go up again see if we can kind of overcome where we went a little bit wrong in our last match so their team made up of incinero requires a type of finny zonius bravery and the toga tomorrow so um oh the braveries making things very difficult for us to bring our um intimidate users so we're gonna have to really play around it another way i think i don't really want to proc and i think it's something that my opponent probably will bring to lead with i'm gonna lead with tapu finny zonius and i'm gonna bring serena in the back i don't think i bring eval tol again and i'm gonna bring incinero the reason i'm leading tapu finny zonius is because the toga tomorrow is likely to try and go fake out and nuzzle into our zonius um and if we've got the misty terrain in effect then it can't do that and if they try to go for the fake out turn one then we've got the serena switching and we also have intimidate with incinero in the back to kind of help us out in the late game so that makes a lot of sense you're going down a geomancy route here with the team so that's what we're going to do we're going to lock in there ready so let's get into it right we need a victory come on we can do this it's going to be tough like bravery is always like a pokemon it's a pain to play against because of that defined ability you've got to be very careful about um how you switch your board position around especially if it requires it comes up to the field uh but we are going to see that and toga tomorrow come out for my opponent um i mean it's not a bad idea to actually just switch in serena and go for the geomancy here i don't know if i think we'll 100% see a fake out and once you've got the geomancy we can get rid of the bravery the problem is if we see like a z move into zonius that could be pretty bad for us like once again we lose zonius um early doors and we don't really have too much to get around and what my opponent's going to do hopefully we see it something like a tailwind that would be a lot better for us um but we'll have to see what what they go for the bird scares me though 100% so we got the geomancy off we do see the fake out from the toga tomorrow so serena coming in pretty nice in that respect but let's see if it pays off in this next and there's a tailwind okay so that's fine that is fine now we can get rid of the the bravery uh toga tomorrow is not really causing us too many problems and i think what we might be better doing is going for a faint uh bravery is not going to be sashed no way we'll go for a help in hand dazzlingly what's the toga tomorrow gonna do like ironhead or zingzap maybe u-turn bravery could protect i guess but the bird definitely will go down to a help in hand dazzle 100% unless it's sashed but i would imagine toga tomorrow of everything on my points team it's more likely that's sashed than anything else so um you do get the dazzle help in hand get rid yeah wow the bird goes down without doing anything ironhead coming out not ideal but it's not the strongest ironhead in the world so not in the worst position um and then we still have access to our help in hand dazzles or help in hand wind blasts going into the next turn and we could even faint the toga tomorrow depending what comes in next to my opponent um but we'll see it is the ray of the zernius if you would imagine it probably is in the back tailwind is in effect so we have to keep that in mind if rick waza comes onto the field it's going to make things a little bit more difficult for us we probably have to switch serena out to incinero get intimidate off protect our zernius and then go from there but it is the opposing zernius must be timid i'd imagine um to try and get its geo off i'd imagine that's what it's probably going to try and do um but we will go for the help in hand again and we'll go for another dazzling gleam because the toga tomorrow will go down here uh if we outspeed the opposing zernius like it has to be a speed tie that's the worst so we'll lose a speed tie potentially it gets its geo off but we still get a plus two dazzling gleam off which will do a nice chunk of damage to it spiky shield coming out from the toga tomorrow we could have went for a faint there but uh don't really need to dazzling gleam gonna hit first and that's the big thing we need to get this damage off before that geomancy so that's really helpful and now yeah it does get its geomancy up but and now it is in tailwind but there's only one more turn of tailwind left so we can potentially stall things out a little bit get around this tailwind um and bring an incinero maybe this next turn uh because the opposing zernius is going to be faster than us for like one more turn so we will bring an incinero um and we'll just protect here with our zernius and then that stalls out that tailwind we've got access to fake out this next turn um and we can just go for a fake out dazzle and we've also got serena in the back to bring back in once the rear quasi comes out into the field because it'll try and go for potentially an extreme speed and we want to try and deny that so my opponent just thinking about what they're going to do come on my dude all right there we go serena out incinero in as long as incinero doesn't go down this turn i mean even if incinero goes down this turn it's not the worst but i'd imagine you probably want to try i don't know he probably dazzle here get rid of the serena if you can um and then an iron head follow up into the zernius incinero taking a nice chunk of damage there and then an iron head into incinero yeah so there we go let tailwind pit us out and i think one of the things we could potentially do is actually switch serena in right now or we could be really cheeky and go for a roll into the zernius expecting it to protect get rid of its it's uh it's geomancy yeah because i think ray comes in now oh it's a type of finny okay well this works out even better because no ray in this matchup and there we go okay this just kind of rub salt into the wound expecting the protect there means that we can go for the roll and it punishes my opponent for making that play we get some nice damage onto the type of finny and then yeah the next turn we've got the switch from the incinero back into the serena to stop that fake out and just dazzle again and that will finish up the game for for uh for ourselves so uh yeah we'll bring in serena and then we'll just click that dazzle button and that should wrap things up for us uh because the zernius is the only thing left for my opponent we've got no worries about ray coming back in but i think this is a really good example of how well serena can can help control the field on your your end because a lot of players will use uh fake out support and priority attacks to get around um boosted zernius to slow it down and try and get a board position back whereas once your setup and in a decent position if you can utilize serena well enough it really denies your opponent from building any kind of pressure against you or anywhere around your zernius setup and because zernius is such a ridiculously powerful pokemon um that really does help here we're probably gonna see a haze maybe from the the finny but from that initial damage roll that we did with the dazzle this should pick up the knockout here um yeah and then the zernius to come back in next to the toga tomorrow uh but we've just got the help in hand and i mean what we could do is just to close it out make sure the zernius does go for protect just to drag this out a little bit longer we could always go for feint which is another nice option with serena you know you'll kind of deny your opponent's ability to um use priority attacks but you've got your own in feint as well and it also breaks um protects so there we go really nice clean match for us to end with today especially after that first game where i think uh we just got a little bit complacent in that one turn um so we'll wrap things up there my friends thank you so much for tuning in i hope you've enjoyed today's episode and we'll see you for another one very soon so i'll be back tomorrow with more action from this team center lentic and bye bye


All right, we have a ginormous amount of pots. That's right. As you may know, pots are not legal in New York. And so we are stocking them. Adafruit is the pot dispensary. Yeah, it's like those trucks that you see on Times Square. So we basically are carrying all the different styles of alpha pots. And basically I had a bunch of synth friends email me and say, there's this company that used to sell all these alpha pots and they're closing and it would be really cool if Adafruit's stocked. These are great for repair. Or if you're making synthesizers and I was like, sure, why not? How many could there be? Okay, it turns out there's like 25. So we've got like 1K, 5K, 2K, 20, 50, 100. Okay, one mega ohm, linear log, audio taper, reverse log and audio taper. And then we even got like W taper, which is half reverse log and then half normal log. We got them all. These are all right angle, 0.2 inch spacings. They work in breadboards, their panel mount. They are round shaft. I was a little bit like, why do we want round shaft? But apparently that's what people want. So you can use knobs that are either designed for round shafts or have a set screw in them. Or you can like sand them down or whatever if you want to put a D-shaft knob on them. But great for repair or if you're building stuff. There are like this right angle size style but like guess what? You can bend those legs out. They don't have to be right angle if you want them to be straightforward style.  We'll do the dual gang stereo ones next week because this was quite a party to get every one of these in stock. But you know, there's a little drop down to select which one you'd like. Next up. Okay, next up we've got this like dual head USB-C type connector. And don't say it. And then this is, so basically you've got a cutie pie and you want to turn it into a trinket. This will do the job. So let me grab one and I'll show it overhead. So hold on a second. Okay, this is it. So, boom. 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Plug it upside down. Amazing. All right. Next up. Oh, that's the image for the penchant. All right. Yeah, that was fun. In case you forgot the penchiometers. Remember that. Remember that? It was a long time ago. OK. OK. Next up. Next up. It's a USB-C SOIC clip. And you're probably like, lady, why is this kind of expensive for a SOIC clip? And this is because it's actually a good one. I've not carried these for a while because they've always been really painful to use. And or they don't work with wide SOIC clips. And I'm like, look, if I'm going to get this, it has to work with wide SOIC clips. This one does. As shown here, we've got the pink RP Feather 2040. And hold on. Hard to do on the overhead one second. I want to make sure I get the things lined up. You've got to look carefully. OK. Perfect. So now, and if I didn't have bad vision and biomechatronic control of my body, you can clip onto this very easily. It doesn't hurt to use, unlike many SOIC clips. It works with wide and narrow.  So what is this good for? Well, first off, you're debugging your QSBI connection on your RP 2040. How many times have you had to do that? I had to do it three times. If I had a nickel for each time, I'd only have $0.15. But it's still weird that it happened three times. And then it's also good if you want to program E-Proms that are on a motherboard. I squared C E-Proms, you clip this on, and then you can program them without desoldering the chip. You want to dump the firmware from an SPI chip that holds firmware for your FPGA or whatever. All that and more with this handy dandy SOIC to dip chip. And it's just like got little, like it's like dragon teeth. Ah, like this hurts. Now, don't do that. Uses for SYC clips only do not put on your body. All right, we have another Custom Keep cap from one of our favorite companies in the world, Glitch. That's right. Glitch, they are a New York City company. They do cool web stuff. And we use their web stuff to do our web serial and web USB projects. Like basically whenever we have a little mini JavaScript projects, we use Glitch. And it's a great way to code. And like I said, they're here local in New York City run by Neil Dash. Glitch.com is really interesting. It's the simplest way to create a web app. So everybody always talks about it, but this is where you can actually do it. So it's like developer tools, but it's in a way that. And sharing. Yeah, you can mix and remix. I think that's why there's two fish. There's one fish and then you clone it and you make another fish. Yeah, and I think for the folks that remember back when the web was creative, you'll really like Glitch. So you want to share this off? Yes, this is the key cap. I mean, honestly, the videos. OK, yeah, that's fine. Let's stick to the video. But we spent a lot of time on these videos. Yeah, it's on this video. So this is a standard key cap, like a scape key, so you can put on the top row of your Cherry MX keyboard. Next up. Next up. It's a QTfication, the MCP 4725. We've had this break out for a very long time. It's a product 935. That's how old it is. We have updated it to be STEMI QT compatible. Another pinout is actually the same. The size has physically changed. It has mounting holes. It's got STEMI QT connectors. You can plug and play it. We added a terminal block at the top. So if you wanted to use this with just having the V out and ground pins exposed, and of course, it's much easier to use now because you don't need to wire it. It is an I2C 12-bit DAC. So it's not super fast because it's I2C. That said, you can drive it at 3.4 megahertz, like super speed I2C. We have some code to generate like a signed wave or triangle wave. I don't know if it would necessarily be great for audio waveforms.  But it would be good for controlling something that takes analog in. It's a good control signal generator. You can have two-on-one I2C port by soldering the jumper on the back. All right, next up. OK.  I rearranged stuff. But my demo. I hid the power supply, sorry. My demo was not so successful. And I really wanted to show this off. So bring it back. So this is the ESP32 S2 TFT. So it's ESP32 S2 chip with a 240 by 135 color IPS TFT. And what IPS means is that even from angles, you can read it. And the color is beautiful. Color TFT, it's got battery port here. So I can run this off of a battery. Now I'm like super paranoid. You can run off a battery. It's got a STEMI QT port. So hey, you've got that MCP4725. You want to add a DAC to this? Go to town. You can plug it in and chain I2C devices. I got the reset button. And you've got the boot button on the bottom there. This is just running a little demo that is scanning the I2C port. So when I unplug it, the I2C disappears. New pixel on the top and on the bottom is the ESP32 S2, which is a single core 10-silica 240 megahertz processor with built-in Wi-Fi. It doesn't have Bluetooth low energy. It doesn't have Bluetooth classic. And it's only single core. But it does have native USB, which means it can act like a keyboard or a mouse or a disk drive. And you can use it with circuit Python. It's got a lot of support circuitry here, a battery monitor chip on I2C. The TFT and the I2C port are on separate low dropout regulators, which means you can totally turn off any external hardware connected to I2C or the TFT to get into really low power. So in sleep mode, you can get down to about 80 microamps, which is about as low as you can get on the ESP32 S2. The chip itself doesn't really go much lower. Got battery charging. There's an optional spot for a BME280 if you wanted to solder one in. But otherwise, it's just kind of nice, because it's all in one. You can even use the boot button as a GPIO button input if you wanted to. So you can have a display with a single button, I2C sensors and stuff. And of course, it's feather compatible, so you can use all the feather wings you know and love. It's all in one. It's very cute, inspired by the Lily Teeny Go. But I wanted something that was feather compatible, so you could use it in the feather ecosystem, swapping out different boards as desired. OK, and to start this show tonight, besides you, lady and our community, our customers, our team, and everyone who supports open source hardware. And more is, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. It's the ESP32 S2 QDPi with UFL connector. This might look really familiar. You might be like, hey, this looks just like the ESP32 S2 QDPi with antenna that you released two weeks ago. Yes, it looks very similar, except instead of an onboard antenna, it has a UFL connector. Why? Because Wi-Fi, often, you want to have really good range, or you want to connect to a route or far away, or you want to transfer a lot of data, and you don't want to have signal dropout. And the antenna that is on the QDPi with a built-in antenna, it's a small one. Now, it'll work indoors. I had no problems with it, but it is a small antenna. And if you want to use this in a box or outdoors, or you want to just have range between different floors, we now have a UFL connector. And you can connect any size antenna you like. In this case here, it's just a little simple wire UFL antenna. But you can also use this with a UFL to RP-SMA adapter and then use an off-the-shelf Wi-Fi antenna. I want to say again that you need a UFL to RP-SMA. Do not use a UFL to SMA connector, because that will not actually connect a signal through. Wi-Fi antennas are weird. They've picked a different standard. Just make sure you get an RP-SMA. Otherwise, you'll be like, I'm not getting any signal. And then I'll say, check that you have the RP-SMA. And you'll say, I don't. And then I'll be like, yep, that's what happened. And then you'll have to get another adapter. So just get it right the first time. Do you want me to go to the overhead to show this thing on? Yeah, I got a little, just a simple demo here. I'm just showing, this is what it looks like with the antenna connected. You've got the reset and boot buttons. Up top, there's a NeoPixel. You can just see blinking really fast here. Purple. And on the back is the ESP32 S2. Also, four megabytes of flash, two megabytes of PSRAM. RP-2049 included. There's a little battery connector up here. You can connect. It doesn't have a built-in battery charger, but it does have the ability to have external battery inputs that won't, that is the diode protected. Because a lot of people requested that for our QDPIs. And I think with Wi-Fi, it's especially useful. And what's really nice is that the QDPI series has the STEM at QT port. And so you can, again, plug and play sensors and DACs and OLEDs. So yes, you can plug into a breadboard and connect the 13 GPIO up 11 pins here, iSquad C analog inputs, hardware SPI, or the extra two pins on the iSquad C port. Or you can just plug and play. So wireless connectivity to sensors. And then you program it with Arduino or circuit Python with a nice antenna. You don't need the external antenna. Go get the one with the built-in antenna. Maybe the signal strength is good enough for you there. UFL. And that's new product. IFL UFL.


A recent surge of positive COVID-19 cases across eastern Kentucky has health officials concerned. I had the chance to speak with the director of the Martin County Health Department to find out more regarding COVID-19 guideline compliance and why their COVID-19 incidence rate is among the highest in eastern Kentucky. The Martin County Health Department, like Pike, Floyd, and other surrounding county health departments, continue to provide updates on numbers to be as transparent as possible with citizens of those counties. Although the numbers they post on a certain day may not reflect the same amount as found on the state's COVID-19 map, due to the amount of information the state must process. After the county's largest spike of 25 positive cases of yesterday and over the weekend, Ward says that he sees the county staying in the red for a little while longer. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Jeremy Justice.


Jack, the APIA investment in the new Brazil project has brought a lot of debate online at Investor Intel. What are your thoughts about this deal? I think it's a beautifully intelligent vertical integration by APIA. APIA is the most interesting project in Canadian wearers today because it may well be the premier deposit of neodymium-rich monazite in North America, and if that pans out, adding to it the heavy wearers that would be contained in the ionic clays in Brazil, it is just perfect. All right, so let's ask, let me ask you another question I saw online this week is, what are the benefits of being an ionic clay? The benefits of ionic clays are that they are very low in radiation, very little thorium, no uranium, and they tend to be enriched in the heavier atomic-numbered wearers like dysprosium and tervium, which are the key materials for magnets. We talk about neodymium all of the time, but in fact, without dysprosium and tervium, the only thing you can do with wearer-permanent magnets is put your shopping list on the refrigerator door or use it as a jewelry clasp. So additional commentary with regards to the APIA acquisition was that maybe they're trying to draw our attention away from Alice's lake. Is that true? No, no, no. The acquisition in Brazil is a natural addition to the Alice's lake discovery, which we're hoping is going to be approved in deposit very shortly, and that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they're synergistic. The one enhances the value of the other in both directions. So you're going to be the kickoff speaker. You're going to actually introduce Konstantin Karinopoulos from Neopreformance Materials at the Critical Minerals Institute Summit on June 14. Can you tell us, give us a little glimpse into what your number one issue is that you're going to be talking about? My number one issue is can North American industry become self-sufficient in critical minerals? This is yet to be determined, but it is the most important discussion in the critical mineral space, believe me. I'm going to give my opinion on that date, and we hope we're going to have other opinions and we're going to have a lively debate on whether or not North America can in fact become self-sufficient, not reliant on other countries who are the critical minerals for our manufacturing base. OK, so in addition, of course, to the shortage of critical minerals, that's why they're called critical minerals. Can you tell us whether or not you're going to get involved as well in another heated debate that I'm hearing a lot reoccurring themes about, which is the critical shortage of professional and qualified professionals? Actually, that is probably more of a problem for us in not only North America, but also in Europe, than even the supply of critical minerals. In fact, the most critical shortage in the Western world is experienced, competent mining engineers who are also chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, but we produce hardly any mining engineers in the Western world while China is churning them out on an assembly line. And this is going to come back and bite us into, you know what, it may be it already has, but you've hit on a very key issue, Tracy. This is the problem of our time because you can't create new mining engineers just by snapping your fingers or allocating money. That doesn't work. It takes time and we better find the skills. We need the people to teach these people. We have them now, but they're getting older by the day, believe me. So on that note, the critical minerals Institute will be hosting a debate on that particular topic at the end of April. For more information, go to criticalmineralsinstitute.com. And Jack, as always, it's a pleasure. Thank you.


To draw out my creative process, I started with a piece of blank paper, a big sheet of Bristol, and I sketched out my idea. This Bristol did not turn out to be the best idea for pen and ink work. It kind of feathers a bit with the ink, but I had already gotten this far, so I proceeded. There's two pie charts, one on either end of this drawing, and this pie chart is basically how I spend my time. I do something creative every day, and this is documenting what that creative time is spent on. I didn't include my sleeping time and eating time and walking the dog time. But about a quarter, a little bit more than a quarter of my creative time in a month is spent on YouTube content, creating videos for my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday videos there in Copic markers, color pencils, watercolor pencils, watercolor, pen and ink, regular old graphite. I've done pastel videos and all different kinds of things because I love to play with all the mediums. I love to try out everything. And for those of you who want more free content from me, watching my videos in mediums you don't normally use, which I know a lot of people don't want to do because if they're not a watercolorist or not a pencil artist, they only want to watch the Copic videos. You can learn a lot from those other videos because if you know me and the way I teach, I give tips on color and shading and layout and design and all sorts of things in every video. I don't necessarily limit them to one and sometimes leave and talk about if you're using another medium, here's something you could try and a way to mimic that. So don't think that just because it's a medium you don't normally use that you wouldn't learn something from it. So in addition to making videos for YouTube, I also do some videos sometimes for social media for Instagram and Facebook. There are going to be some others that will be added in the near future. So stay tuned for news about that when I figure out what I'm doing because I have some ideas for doing some live stuff elsewhere. The next section is for the classes that I teach and I teach over on my teaching site. I developed that because I wanted a place to do successive lessons one after another after another where things build on each other on YouTube. You get sometimes one concept in a video that you'll see the next step in it a month later. And that's not very helpful for teaching things. So I wanted a place where I could teach a group of concepts that build on each other. And that's where I developed my teaching site. There are really inexpensive mini classes there. There's jumpstart classes if you're just learning a medium and there's some advanced classes as well. There's stuff for kids. There's things for doodlers. Just lots of fun to be had if you're interested in that. Links in the doobly-doo. The stuff below the middle here is stuff that most people don't see very much of. Sometimes I'll show a still of it on social media. But this section is for things I make for friends and family and my house and other projects, Christmas gifts and birthday gifts and things that I just don't really show anybody. Then we have my plein air and sketching stuff. I go out with friends a lot. I belong to several art groups and we go out and paint together. We go out sketching in the city together. Lots of different types of work that I do out in the world. And those don't normally get seen. You might see a still picture on social media of what I did that day. But that's generally not something that ends up on my video content at all. I do love getting out in the world and doing things, not just sitting in the studio. It is inspiring to just get out and do something in a very different setting. For some people, if they're not sitting at their dining room table where they're used to drawing and creating, they can't fathom doing it. But I challenge you to try it because it is really well worth it in my mind to get out into the world and create. Next, we come to the idea section and that is kind of a mishmash. Each month, it's something completely different. And sometimes I'm researching things that I'm going to try in the future. Sometimes I'm just brainstorming new ideas. I'm journaling and filling sketchbooks with things that I want to do. Eventually a class I want to teach or a venue I want to do something at or a different way to approach something. And I usually don't get a chance to try all the things, though, because I, yeah, I have too many ideas. I have loads and loads of books full of ideas that just can't. There's not hours in the day. So then we get to the actual creation process. And that always starts with a big blank piece of paper of some kind. Sometimes it's the right piece of paper for the medium. And sometimes I switch that paper because it's not going to work with what I'm creating. If I'm making cards, there's going to be stamp sets involved. And I have a pile of stamp sets in my to-do list. Things that I want to do something with. Sometimes I get the idea instantly for that stamp set that I want to do. Other times it's going to take me a while to figure out what I'm going to create. I also have to decide the medium. And sometimes that medium is based on what I'm teaching. One medium is going to actually work better than another to teach that idea or that concept or convey it. And sometimes it's just the mood I'm in. I would just rather use one than another. And I also rotate the mediums here on YouTube. So I'm using different things all the time. Sometimes there's a calendar involved where I have to meet a deadline if there's a new release coming out. I try to get something out close to that.   I love to tell a story with my art. I think about the relationships between elements in a picture. You know, the different things that create a scene. And what story can I tell? Can I tell something that's going to make people laugh? Can I tell something that's going to move them to want to do something and take an action? What's that going to be? There's sometimes when the big idea is all about who it's for. So it's all about people. If I'm making cards for first responders, those cards might have a very different flavor than I'm making for someone else. If I'm making something that's going to be given to an individual, then I might customize it for them. If I'm looking for something for a particular gender, I'm trying to make stuff for men that might guide what the project is. But every project is going to have a different different flavor to it. And sometimes the thinking, the kind of ethereal head decisions drive things and other times it's more tangible things. Sometimes it's just you need a project because you've committed you're going to help somebody with their new release. And that's just what you do. So that just because there's graphics here doesn't mean there's any order to the things that I create. Aside from that, there's also is it for a season? Is it Christmas? Is it Valentine's Day? Is it a birthday card? Is it a painting for a particular event? Is it for a show? Is it, you know, all different kinds of things can guide it that way as well? And I don't really always know what those things are going to be for. And sometimes I end up creating a video in a totally different time of year for Christmas because I had that idea. And then it just sits there waiting for the Christmas season to come around because I had to do it. I had to strike while the iron was hot. Sometimes I'll forget things if I don't do that idea right away. And and that will just push me to get things done ahead of time. In general, I do have roughly eight to ten projects ahead of time scheduled in my YouTube channel. I move them around on a regular basis, flip flop them if I have another project that's more timely or that sort of thing. But it gives me a lot of flexibility so I don't have any things on fire. I don't create very well when everything's on fire and I'm under a really big, crazy deadline that is not how I function. Some people thrive in that kind of a situation. But for me, it makes me nuts if if I have something that has to post in two days and I haven't begun it yet. And there are some people who love that, you know, working over the night and and trying to stay up until three in the morning to finish it. And that is just not me. Now, this section is about the art ideas. So a little more in the tangibility. What is the big concept that I'm trying to teach? And this is where most of my projects get their their idea, their their their purpose. I think about color a lot and how to teach different ideas about color. I think about techniques and specific things about mediums. And a lot of it is ideas that I hope people can use for more than just replicating the project that I'm doing. While it's certainly fine that you replicate that, I want to give you tools that you can have in the hopper for creating with something else, that you can combine it with another idea. And I love seeing when a lot of my students, especially start combining things they've learned from different classes. That gives me a super big thrill to know that they're internalizing things enough that they don't need me to hold their hand. They're just they're soaring because they've gotten all these different pieces of information and they can combine them in different ways. So the ideas sometimes come from the color. Sometimes they come from the technique. Sometimes they come from just trying something. A lot of that time where I'm spending doing my own art and my own projects for friends and family, that's where I test things out. I sit on the sofa at night and I have a medium beside me and I just start playing with it. I play with it on different papers, that papers that it wasn't expected to work on and see what happens and just trying out different things gets me inspired to see what else I can come up with. So that there are the two sets of types of thinking that I do when I'm deciding on what I'm going to do with a particular project, it's either that what's the story, the outward purpose for it, the person who's going to see it and love it, or is it the internal teaching of the art that's important in that particular project? And sometimes I go immediately into creating a video, knowing I'm going to teach a particular thing. And then other times it doesn't happen until I'm halfway through creating the thing and I'm like, oh, that totally will make a great lesson. So I I get really tickled when that happens, because if I go into it, not knowing what I'm going to be teaching, it's a little more challenging to figure out how I'm going to impart some good information, something that's going to be helpful. So now we're on to the last pie chart over here on the right. And this is about where my work goes after I finish it, because I get a lot of questions since I post so many cards. What do you do with them all? Because a lot of people don't spend their whole day doing art. They don't have that many cards and they can't figure out where they'd send them. Well, a lot of my cards, about a quarter of them, go to friends and family. Sometimes, of course, immediate family, but a lot of times it's for friends like my toastmasters. I make things for them. I send cards out to people at my church or just different people that I know in real life. And they're they're people that I customize things for.  And it keeps me in touch with them. I love physical mail going into someone's hands because they can look at that again and again and know that I'm thinking of them, that somebody cares about them, not just dropping an email in their box, but they have something physical that they can look at. And the number of times I get notes back that say it really meant a lot to get it on that day is really kind of amazing. The next group I don't really talk about very much because it's hard to explain what I do. But I send a lot of cards to people that I don't know. I'm a news junkie. I read a lot of local papers across the country. Read a lot of just news of things happening. And when I see something good happening, there's a first responder, a nurse, a policeman, a fire company, somebody who does something amazing. I look up if at all possible, the organization they're with and I make a card to send them. Other times it's like somebody in business makes a really good decision that I see they're doing something really good for the people that work for them. And I'm just so impressed. I send them a note. I usually don't even give my return address on the envelope. I just want them to know that somebody out there is watching. And it's a way to focus on good news and good things that people do. And that makes me happy to know that there's somebody somewhere that gets a random card and they realize there are people around the world that keep an eye on what they do and it might give them motivation to do good things again. This last section of Little Faces is my other big group that I send a lot of cards to. And that's my patrons over on the Patreon website. These folks all donate a little bit each month from a buck to three bucks, five bucks, ten bucks, 20 bucks, whatever they feel like all this free content is worth to them. And I send out cards on a fairly regular basis. Some people get one card a year. Some people at higher levels will get a piece of art every year. There's different things you can see on the website for what the rewards are for those. I know a lot of them don't do it for the rewards at all. They just feel like they want to help me stay in art supplies. So I don't run out of stuff, which is really nice. But they're such wonderful people and they give me a lot of good feedback. I ask them questions. I pull them on, you know, I'm thinking about teaching something on this. What do you think? And they're just really awesome people. They sometimes get sneak peeks. I'm not usually good at remembering to give them that ahead of time. But there are some videos that they'll get to see first and that sort of thing. Or if I know it's something really spectacular, I'll give them a heads up. So they know when something's coming. When something's coming. There are also certain levels at which they get a coupon code for classes and try to give them some rewards for all the support that they give me each month, which is fantastic and much, much appreciated. Big shout out to the Patreon peeps. The last section is going to be what I do with my fine art. I developed recently a fine art website and I've posted my paintings and some of my drawings over there. Some of them are for sale, not all of them, but a lot of them have been sold and mailed out, which is wonderful to part ways with them a bit so that I can, I can just make some room around here. I had a giant stack of paintings for a while and it's, it's finally getting a little bit more under control as people are falling in love with them and wanting them for themselves. So that is what I do with the fine art. Someday, who knows? I might have a show. I have no idea. We'll see. The final stage of this is just removing the pencil lines with an eraser. It's a kneaded eraser and I sense soft and the pen is all dry by now. So it's not going to smush anything. And I don't even have any purpose for this drawing other than having a reason to talk about my process. So I hope that you enjoyed it on my blog. I'm going to have some kind of close up stills of each one of these sections. You can see them individually if you're interested in that. But it's, yeah, it's been a fun little drawing to do and a way to think through what it is that I do here as an artist all day long on YouTube, etc. So that is all I have for you today. I hope you have a great one. Go draw out your process and see, see what it is that you spend your time on and what inspires you. What, what helps you make decisions about the art that you create. I will see you all later. Take care. Bye bye.


So here are the guidelines for how to apply sig figs to your calculations and before I even start Let me just bring up one more crucial point when you're doing a multi step calculation That is a calculation where you'll get several intermediate answers before you get to your final one Do not round off or apply significant figures until you get to your final answer. This is really important Okay, so here are the rules. When you're multiplying or dividing Look for the number that you've used that has the least number of sig figs You should then round your final answer to that number of sig figs For instance, if we do the calculation 16.35 grams divided by 7.09 mils calculator gives me the answer 2.3060648 etc etc. I'm going to write that down to five or six decimal places I'm going to leave some dots after it to show that it continues on But I know that my final answer can't possibly be that accurate I go back to the values that I used in the calculation 16.35 has four sig figs and 7.09 has three sig figs of those the three sig figs is the lower So that is the number of sig figs that I should express my final answer to So I round that number to 2.31 grams per mil Now when you're adding and subtracting the rule is slightly different rather than looking for the number with the fewer sig figs You're looking for the number with the fewest decimal places for instance, if I add 46.1 meters to 0.901 meters calculator tells me the answer is 47.001 meters But 46.1 has only one decimal place So my final answer must also be rounded to one decimal place So the answer is forty seven point zero meters And let me just remind you again, although I haven't done an example here when you're doing multi-step Calculations wait until you have your absolutely final answer to round off and then go back through all your calculation steps to find the Value that limits your accuracy and then you can round off accordingly