Welcome to the complete collection of Larry Bird's greatest stories part 4. If you have missed part 1, 2 and 3, they're up on the channel and there is a playlist link in the description box down below and on the top right of your screen amongst every other player that I've done so far, but I think it is about time that we switch it up and do a new player, so let me know which player you would like to see in the next episode of this series. Before the video begins, I would really really appreciate it if you guys could go check out a recent video that I did. The video took about a year to make with so much editing going on and it was something that took me a long long long long time, so I'd really appreciate it. If you're an NBA fan and you think you may enjoy it, here is the snippet. But I would really appreciate it if you guys could go check it out if you did happen to miss it. Without further ado, here is part 4 of the complete collection of Larry Bird's stories. And Larry looks right into the soul, right through the eyes of that referee and he says to him, we're not going to quit, you make sure you don't quit either. He casts the ball and licks over at our bench and goes, I'm going to take two dribbles right, cross over left. And Derek Mckey is on it. And Derek Sato! Don't let him do that to you, D. I remember the game he played against the Lakers the first year that the Celtics won the World Championship with him on the team. He was ridiculous. He came on here. Remember? Our sportscaster played the Superman theme when he was talking about him that night after the game because he did everything, points, rebounds, assists, just steals. You name it, Larry has such a great mind for the game and you know, a great touch. I had a lot of respect for him as a competitor.  Larry Bird talked more trash on the basketball court than anybody else has ever played against. Larry talked more trash on the court than anybody. He'd tell you where he's going. He'd tell you when he catches, there's nothing you could do about it. He was, and it was, it was, it was great trash talking because it wasn't vulgar.  You can just be standing next to him. He told me two things, one game. You know, our rotations, double team and Kevin McHale always had to rotate to the corner and Larry Bird was the one shooting it.   And he would just tell me, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're not getting that.  You know, a little too late, which why are you even jumping? Why are you running out of it? But it was all games. They say something like, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. I mean, and he talked the whole game and it was, you know, after the game and after years of thinking about you, like, man, that dude, but he was like kept saying he was ridiculous as far as the way he played the game. And that's why he's one of the greatest players I've ever played. Played it here. Right. And that's where it starts, right here, right. The other great memory I had, and I told him this earlier, it's my, it's my greatest memory in the NBA.     He'd stand over there and he'd stand right over Ed Pinkney every day. And he'd go, Ed Pinkney, Ed Pinkney.     And I mean, then it was on.  One of the best lines ever heard was I think it was 86. We're playing Houston and we're going into game six. It's the Celtics trying to attack batter number 16 up on the roof and the Houston Rockets trying to battle and bring about a seventh game in the 1986 NBA finals. And the crowd is absolutely going berserk all about an hour before the game. And some of the guys were still shooting before they came in.  We lose. It's our blood. And it was right because man, that place was rocking that day. I mean, it's always rocking. And in that game, Larry Bird played his self admitted and acknowledged greatest game that he ever played because in a game that had tons of guys that were winners of the genetic lottery, seven for Ralph Sampson, seven foot Akimolage one, seven foot Robert Parish, six, 10. Kevin Mikaela, we called him Frankenstein, though Kevin could stand up straight as can be, six, 10, but dangle those long arms. He has to scratch his shins without bending over. And Kevin, when he needed that foot operated on and had the screw put in, they just took the screw out of his neck and put it right into his foot there. Frankenstein. And here's Larry. Here's Larry, who can't jump this high. I saw him dunk in one of these videos, I couldn't believe it. Must have been a photo shop or something. And then and Larry, who couldn't run faster than I can move today. I'm 61 years old. I've had 37 orthopedic operations. Both of my ankles are fused. I've got a few spine and my knees just been replaced. Larry and his peak couldn't run faster than I can move today. Yeah, with all these guys playing above the rim and just dominating everything. There was Larry grabbing every rebound, every single rebound. And instead of just putting it right back up, he would go run out to the three point line and just throw it up there or not even look at it. Just run down the court going like this. And in that game, I was playing so poorly that Larry Bird came up with his regularly repeated mantra where he would go to Casey Jones during the dead ball situation. It says, Casey, you can either take Walton out or you're going to take me out. It's your choice. That's true. And Casey Jones. I got taken out of the right decision. A lot of people don't remember in those days that the rivalry was Philadelphia and Boston, Julia Serving and Larry Bird. Both teams were undefeated and, you know, I'm the baby in the group. There's only two referees. I'm with a veteran official. The officials for tonight's ball game, Jack Madden, the veteran is going to be one of them. That is Jack on the left and that is Dick Pavetta on the right. And we do the first half and the start of the second half. Dennis Johnson dives for a ball and crashes into my partner and breaks his leg. Dennis takes it to the hole, takes down Jack Madden. And that gets a big hand from the ground. But Madden is hurt. Madden is hurt. Well, we stopped the game. They carry him off on a stretcher. And I do, you know, my my plea to both coaches. I get I get Casey Jones and I get Billy Cunningham. And I said, coaches, listen, I'm by myself. I'm going to work for two men. I'm going to work as hard as one person can possibly work. Dick Pavetta is going to whistle this one alone. He goes up to talk right now to Casey Jones. I'm sure he'll be back and explain to Billy Cunningham. I was going to work this. But this is only going to be successful if I have your cooperation. Dick, you got it. No problem. Everything is fine. And I think Billy Cunningham had to say to his assistant. What's his name? What's that guy's name? Yeah, Dick. Yeah, they didn't even know who I was. Look at Cunningham. He's just he's doing laps over there, folks. And of course, as luck would have it, Larry Bird has an unbelievable night. Every shot he took, Irving is guarding him. And as every shot went in that Larry took, he went further back and he kept on saying to Irving, aren't you going to guard me? Bird on a give and go. Nicely gets the ball quarter. They find bird for two bird spins on Jay. Finds him, gets a step on Jay and gets two. Man, sitting there waiting for a pass right at the top. Bird open on Robert Parran. Bird through the lane. Left-hander is good, Nefau. Twenty-five first half points for Larry Bird with 309 to play. Aren't you going to guard me? Can't you do any better?  Finally, it got too much. And I look up and I see them choking each other. But there's a photograph choking one another. Actually, there was an offensive foul called on Larry. One, obviously, the offensive end of the court. He didn't like the call, so he was really mad at the referee.  It looked like a moment in which. He was going to take a swing and it was very uncharacteristic because, you know, we did converse commercials together. We did spaulding commercials together. The converse Star-Tex designed for the best pro player. Thank you, Larry. Star-Tex Unicidal protects my ankles and gives that extra midfoot support. A great rebounder need. It's reinforced for me. And me. Hey, maybe it was made for both of us. Must be magic. Now, that's who this shoe was made for. So, you know, we were kind of cool. But I thought something was going to happen because he was, you know, he was he was definitely mad, but he was mad at the referee. He wasn't mad at me. And and I just extended my arm to hold him back. And it ended up sliding up to his neck. And then a fight between Jay and Bird has broken out on the court. And Moses Malone takes Bird down. He's got him in a headlock. And Amile ensues. And so I just kind of I learned from my brother, Joe, that if you can't stop something before it starts, you kind of step back and take license plate numbers. Yeah. So I just kind of step back and watch what was going on. And in so doing, then I informed them that Bird and Irving were gone. Dr. Jay's going. Yeah, I think Bird might be going. Yep, they're both going. They better not go at the same time. I'll tell you. Four technical fouls later, you know, thanks to their cooperation, it was only four technical fouls.  He said, you don't have the guts. Bing, bang, goodbye. Very upset. So he leaves. Man, there goes Cunningham out. Cunningham has got, who's he talking to? Somebody in the crowd now. Well, who's going to coach this game now for the Sixers? As Billy got hit with something from the crowd, that's not altogether what you call Boston appreciation, folks. And I go over to the Scorer's table and Andy Jick. I always remember Andy Jick was the announcer for the Celtics and and the Scorer says, Dick, you're throwing him on one technical foul, right? And I said, no, the other official in the first half called a technical foul on Cunningham. And he's because I said, I heard it announced. He said, yes, but he come over afterwards and changed it to Matt Gukas. So Cunningham only has one technical. Do you really want to throw him on one? I said, no, no. Let's someone go into the locker room. Let's bring him back out again.  On the floor again. Boston ends up winning by 15, 18. And the response, more so from the Philadelphia people, was that Cunningham said, I really didn't know that much about this guy, Bavetta. But for anyone to have the courage to throw out two superstars, and that was the first time and only time either one of them have ever been thrown out of the game. So I do want to start with your first championship, which actually none of these guys were here for. Nope. And the reason I want to get to that is, well, for a lot of reasons. But one of them was because you said this one's for Tara Holt, which I always thought was amazing. I want this one for Tara Holt. You wanted for Tara Holt. I'll tell you that. Why did you really feel compelled to do that? Well, I didn't feel compelled.  You're killing me here. OK, I felt compelled, compelled that we played against Irving the first time. And you know, Jackie, if you remember that series, what you know you do, we lose game one. The Celtics had been stunned by game one and held practice behind closed doors in an attempt to regroup. We lucked out one game two and overtime. Now to Magic, back over to Worthy. And it's picked off, goes to him as he lays it off of him. The Lakers knew they had given this game away. But it went into the Celtics' score book as a victory. We get blown out by 32 in game. Am I right? Yeah, but I was to count. 32 or something. Pretty good. The most lopsided defeat in Boston playoff history. And the Celtics looked like beaten men. What did you call your teammates after game three, remember? I just feel that, you know, we got some great players on this team, but we don't have the players with the heart sometimes that we need. And until we get our hearts where they belong, we're in trouble. Bunch of sissies, that was great. No, I know what you called us. I called all of us. You called.  We, not you. I didn't say that you, whoa. I meant you, but I have somehow just came out weak. And the Lakers called his teammates sissies, challenged the entire squad. You were obviously upset because it was a bad performance, but what were you just trying to motivate them? Or did you really feel that way or both? No, I felt that way. We just got, they had us down 38. Remember, we kept running too fast for us. We can't catch them. We can't catch them. And the Lakers were loose, confident, and happy. As far as they were concerned, they won all three games. The second game lost, a minor slip up. In the heat of the moment, Boston developed a battle plan. He should go the distance. And tempers flared. The Lakers' cool was blown. Instead of setting the tone, they found themselves retaliating. And their well-honed concentration was disrupted. But the physical pounding paid off for Boston. That's a halony. Heck, are we still in this? In overtime, worthy, stolen by Enno Carr. Boston Celtic have even this NBA World Championship series at two games apiece. But somehow we end up winning game four, go back to Boston. Having criticized his teammates, the Celtic captain took it upon himself to leave them. Moving without the ball, hitting from all over the court, bustling for position underneath. He played a brilliant all-round game. And we say, now we got to put the hammer down. We cannot let them get out of the win. We win game five. Byrd had an extraordinary game, scoring 34 points on 15 of 20 from the field and grabbing 17 rebounds. We had a pretty good lead in game six, lose it. Got away. Game seven was absolutely crazy. The Lakers would remember for a long time the one they let get away. Larry Byrd's two free throws kept the scoring. And in moments, the Celtics would be championed. Time finally ran out on the talent in Lakers. It was Boston's year. After the game, they were asking some questions. I won a little trophy. Larry Byrd was chosen to play off MVP. They asked me a couple questions. It's a little trophy. A little trophy, MVP. It would be the MVP trophy. And it just hit me. Everything just came back to 1979 and how Irvin got the best of a stand. Does this get you even with magic, but what happened between Michigan State and Indiana State all those years ago? We're professionals now, but I won this one for Terahode. You won it for Terahode. I'll tell you that. Finally, I got rematch with him and we beat him. And I meant, I wouldn't have set up, I didn't meant it. Sure, of course. Yeah, very good. You know, you caused me a lot of sleepless nights. You know, I tell people all around the country when they ask me a question, who's the best, who is, who's that. And I always tell them that, you know, I didn't play back and way back and all that, but when I was playing, that you're the best all around player that ever played. And that, but more than that, you were the most feared player. I feared you more than anybody else because I knew if it was a little time on the clock, you know, 0.1, 1 half, 1 half a second, this man would find a way to win that damn game. So I'm hurt. So I can't play against ourselves. As you know, I'm killing myself. So, you know, Larry warming up. So the anthem is sung and get introduced and right before they go out on the court, Larry comes down and he says, you know what? Don't worry, I'm going to put a show on for you. And he went out. I think he scored 38 points, about 20 rebounds, about 15 assists. And every shot, he would shoot. He would turn to me.   We're playing a game down in Atlanta. And this is how long ago this was because Atlanta was a good team. And they had Dominique and Doc Rivers and Reggie Theis and Kevin the Penguin Willis and Tree Rollins and all these guys. And we are getting hammered. We're just getting killed. We're down 25 at the half. Three seconds left in the half. Bane, it does not go. A standing ovation at the army for the Red Heart, Red Hearts. They lead the Celtics 70 to 48.  And fans are throwing stuff at us.   What are you talking about? With the exception of Dominique Wilkins, who had too much class to ever say a thing. So we come in at halftime. We're just sulking in there. We tail between our legs. We walk in. We're sitting in the locker room. And Casey Jones, our fantastic coach, the most like John Wooden of any coach I've ever been a part of. Casey walks in. He looks at us, looks at his watch, doesn't say a word, walks over to the cooler and pulls out a beer. Pops the beer, goes and sit down, pounds down the beer, just sitting there. Finishes the beer, looks at his watch, looks at us, goes over to the cooler and gets a second beer. Pops the beer, pounding it down, doesn't say a word, looks at his watch, looks around at us, goes and gets a third beer, does the same thing. And then he gets up, looks at his watch for the final time, and he says, let's go.  We'll start just the third quarter. And I got a record sellout crowd there at the Omni. And they're going to start the third quarter. And you watch an NBA game.  Larry Bird always took the ball out of bounds. And that referee comes and the referee hands the ball to Larry to start the third. We're down 25. Larry takes the ball and pushes it back into the midsection of the referee so that he can't get away. And the referee is like startled and staggered. What's going on here? It was all right there right in front of the Celtic bench. And Larry looks right into the sole, right through the eyes of that referee. And he says to him, we're not going to quit. You make sure you don't quit either. The crowd just like melted on the spot. Larry hit 11 straight shots to start the third, including seven threes. Ben has written it on him a much smaller man. Take it into when something goes wrong. They find Bird open. He winds up from 20. Meanwhile, he got nothing but net. And Larry Bird is smoky. DJ will take it all the way. Has it bled? Bird comes up with it. The basket counts. Angel finds Bird cutting through. Larry falls away. Glass twirl. Moment ago, they took their lead. Bird in the lane. 33 points for number 33. Harris hits Larry Bird with it. 18 footer. Larry Bird. We were tied at the end of the third. We wanted overtime. We did not need a plane to get home. That foul shooter. Now that is what that was the strategy. Let him make to bird is giving him a little verbiage, by the way. Rich gets the rebound to Larry Bird. Well done. Shadex win it by three. Larry Bird, you're awesome. Now you played, of course, against them. Who do you think was better? Again, individually. Not anywhere in the same era. They count out of that with the air talk. I'm going to give you old and Polynesians take on this. Magic, yes, the showtime and everything else. I got to give the S to Bird. I'm not going to say a name, but there's a phenomenal player today who agrees with you.   Fans love to do this. I'm going to put it in the spot. Best three players of all time. Best three players of all time. Michael Jordan, Dr. J, Larry Bird. That is tough. You give me three. I know. Oh, my god. Three, Larry Bird, Dr. J, Michael Jordan. You just got into that magic bird thing, which is tough, too. I know. Can I get four? Sure. All right, magic. Magic fourth? Is Larry the better player? I've always said that Larry was the better player. Really? Because he could do more, shoot from the outside, all those type of things. I have to give the edge to Bird.  He can get his teammate. Basically, what that magic did, he was able to do plus be an offensive threat all the way out to the three point line. That's an incredible asset. This guy here can ball. And that's why we used to always look at birds like, hmm, maybe he's not white in a little bit of a way. Because he's got a lot of swag before the world was really high. Bird has swag. Oh, yeah. He was the biggest, they say the greatest trash talker.  So we're playing in Boston. I'm on the bench at the time. We have Derek McKee. Who you with at that time? I'm with CF. We have Derek McKee, one of the top defensive guys around. KC is coaching us. KC Jones, who had coached Boston. Oh, had coached Boston, yeah. Boston Celtics. But after a year away, KC is back on the bench as an assistant to Seattle. And tonight he's back in Boston. So he looks, he catches the ball on the left side. He catches the ball and looks over at our bench and goes, I'm going to take two dribbles right, cross over left. So we're all on the bench. Like, this dude's not a rift. And Derek McKee is on it. And Derek Sano. Don't let him do that till you do. He takes his two dribbles, cross over, pull up, jump shot, and looks over at our bench. And we're all looking at each other like, is he for real? It's like, come on. Just like when we put Scott Webman on, you know, I don't know if you heard about that. It's like, don't, come on, that's him bad. Don't put him on me. Oh yeah, Burr said it. Yeah, don't put a white guy on me. Don't put a white guy on me. Did he say that to y'all? Man, he talked more trash than any. I don't think anybody can talk trash like him. Really? And the fact that he's able to back it up made it that much special. And that he was white probably ribs on. Oh, that never came in the place of fact that he could back it up. That's what we looked at.  I remember my very first game in the Boston Garden. Now I had been in the Boston Garden with The Grateful Dead and heard the fans chant, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. And the fans are starting to chant, Larry, Larry, MVP, MVP, and the scoreboard is shaking up and down.  What are they saying? Are they cheering for Jerry? And he said, no, they're cheering for me. Larry. And then at the very end of the game, we're going to win the game unless we miss our free throws. And so I'm inbound in the ball and I throw it to Larry, who gets fouled immediately and goes up and he makes two free throws. Very next time, same exact thing. I throw it to Larry, two more free throws. Next time, Larry's guarded. I throw it to DJ. DJ goes up there and knocks down two free throws. Next time, Larry's guarded, DJ's guarded. I throw it to Danny Ainge, who's the best free throw shooter on the team.  And if you can't get it to me, then it's okay to throw it to DJ. If you can't get it to me, your DJ just throw it to me anyway and I'll take care of business. There was nobody like Larry Bird. Oh my gosh. I know you worked out with him that summer. You knew his mindset that summer. I actually came to work out with him in the French Lick and I realized what I, I thought I worked hard. I really did. And we started running up and down the hill over there. Running up and down that hill. If you've been in the French Lick, there's a hill that's on the backside and now it goes up the P die. I thought I was gonna die. And I realized, and he'd been doing it routinely, I had come to visit and I was doing, and I knew his intent was to get back there. I'm speaking for him, so that's always dangerous. His passion for being so supportive of whatever it is he's doing and in this case, the Celtics and Red Orbot had him at a high level in terms of his competitiveness and his ability to prepare. Cause you can't have success unless you prepare. I don't know anyone in my life that's ever prepared better. My very first game was a professional. We're playing up in Portland, Maine. I was with the NAPS at the time and it's an exhibition game. And Larry's out there and he's got some free agent guarding him and everything. And here I am new in the league and kind of excited about having a professional uniform on and it was a great moment for me. And he came down with about, I think it was about 18 seconds ago in the quarter. Sitting on the bench and Larry takes a move. The move where he always takes the ball and he puts it over this guy's head.  I thought he'd do it. I swear to God, you know, use it. Just turn around. This guy not only turned around but took about three steps towards the basket like Larry shot it.  He was standing like that, shaking his head like this.  Larry almost, almost looked like he's got his hips on under his hands on his hip with the ball. And then he shot a three on me. He drills a three. And I'm on the bench or I'm playing with a Nix. I stand him off the bench and go, oh, man.  I mean, that's just big shot in my mind. You know, just one thing that he's done to me. Probably one of the most embarrassing moments of my career. But you played with Larry when Larry was really hurting when his back was starting to fail. And you saw him do some amazing things when he was a lot less than 100%. Larry had two jobs his last seven years of playing. It was playing basketball. And then it was him being committed to taking care of his back. I would see him on TV laying down. And then they told me that he had to lay down on planes, different things like that. And I was like, wow. He did everything. I always laugh at him all the time. I called him last year. I saw him in Miami about, you know, I just happened to turn on the TV and I was sitting there and he was in Miami or the game or something a year or so ago at Dan Derrick who was sitting next to him. And I was like, good, that's his back doctor.  Every day just for him to go to shoot around, just for him to practice and then the games, he would sit there. Nobody saw it. I mean, I remember we were playing Detroit in the playoffs.  And I mean, I remember sitting there and I'm like, it was my first year.  I mean, he rode the bike for an hour to get his back loose so he could play the game. From 88 to 92, it was painful to watch. It was painful to cover. Larry is quite ornery when he's not feeling well, which means he was ornery for those next four years. He could manage the pain in a way that very few people can do. There'd be days he could come in the office and he couldn't stand up straight. But even after two ruptured Achilles tendons and surgery on his back in 1991, the bird kept going to work. Product of a lesson learned many years before seeing the swollen ankle of a man long since gone. Well, we don't know if it broke or not, but it looked broke to me. Had to go to work and had to get his boot on. And it took everything I had to help him get that boot on his foot. Then he stood up limping and he says, well, I'll see you this weekend because he was working instruction at the time. And I was pretty amazed how he could fight through that all week and come home on the weekend. And it was black and swollen. He'd sit around on the weekend and put that boot on go again. If you get paid to go to work, you got to go to work. And to me, those are greater memories to me than any championship because I saw the will of a guy. I mean, Larry could have hung it up. Larry could have said this is too much, but he knew how much it meant for us. We had no chance. I mean, we had no chance without him. Bird knew that if the Celtics are to win a 17th title, he will have to lead them there. And I mean, he sacrificed a lot of pain and did a lot of great things so that we could have a chance. Not to win it. We weren't gonna win the championship, but we had a chance just because of the sacrifice he went through every day to give us that chance. And every time I would play, I was wondering if I was gonna be in a wheelchair. I was never gonna be able to walk on the beach or hold my kids. His pain and his quest for basketball became all-encompassing. Very few people really knew what Larry was living with because this was Larry's issue and there was no sharing of his pain. You know, I probably should have retired in 88, 89, but it's that competition. I saw this dude right here go out against Portland. And I mean, we were in a playoff hunt and he had a plastic thing on him.  It was a full body brace. It was body armor. He got 48. Bird turning on Robinson as he was shooting tomorrow. Here's Bird from Robinson. 3 for 13 from Downing and the fourth quarter. Thumb assist the way from a triple-double. A triple-double, 49 points, was thought to be a scratch for today because of the Achilles tendon injury and a bruise thigh. And he has come through with his best game of the season. I'm wearing that and hit the game shot and called it. My God, I mean, the pain that he went through to give us a chance, not to win it. You know, we weren't gonna win the championship, but we had a chance just because of the sacrifice he went through every day to give us that chance. And I hope you guys enjoyed the episode. If you did, please leave a like to show support, subscribe if you're new, and here are two new episodes that you may enjoy.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to Meet the Experts. I'm Katie Wolfson with UCAR Center for Science Education, and we are so excited to bring you Meet the Experts, which is our program we do every other week during the school year where we connect you with experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. And one of the really amazing things about working for the National Center for Atmospheric Research is there are so many different kinds of jobs that you can have.  So there are so many different jobs. And so what we love to do is we love to have a chance for you to connect with the folks at the National Center for Atmospheric Research so that you can ask questions and hear about the types of cool research and work that they're doing here. So I'm Katie Wolfson, the science education specialist. A few housekeeping things before we meet our expert is that I wanna invite all of you to stay muted during the program. And at the very end, we'll have a chance to take questions and we'll ask you to unmute if you'd like to. But then and now throughout the whole program, you can type in the chat for questions. So if the teacher has a class, you can go ahead and type questions that your students have throughout the program. And anything that you see during the program that in maybe in the background for our expert, feel free to ask questions about that as well. So stay muted, type us in the chat if you need anything at all, Q and A at the end. And we do have closed captioning available that if you can turn it on and off in Zoom, that is now enabled now.  This recording will be available later as well for you to review probably next week. The last thing I wanna tell you about is that we do have a survey opportunity. We are looking at what our fifth through 12th grade students like and have learned about program programs like Meet the Experts. So we are gonna drop a link to that survey in the chat that we invite the students to fill out if you're in fifth through 12th grade. And even if you've done it before, we would love to have you fill that out again to let us know how we're doing and how we can better improve our programs for you. So without further ado, I would love to turn it over to our expert today. And today we are talking to Ag Velia Miko, also you can call him Ag, who is with the Computational and Information Systems Lab at the National Center for Administrative Research. He's gonna talk to us today about 3D-printed science labs and the Internet of Things. So Ag, are you there? And can you tell us a little bit about what do you mean by Internet of Things? Thank you, Katie. Hi, everyone. Hope you are having a great day. I'd like to chat with you about Internet of Things.  You probably have Internet of Things at home. So for example, you may have the term smart homes or you might have an Xbox and the Xbox can connect to other devices inside of your home. So Internet of Things is basically being able to have small devices that you connect to the internet to run various different other things. So now one of the things you'll notice in the Internet of Things can be used in our daily lives, i.e. it could be used for turning on a blender, opening a garage door, it could be used for in terms of your glasses. So here's an example that you'll see here and I would like for you to think of and maybe you can type into the chat or have your teacher type into the chat. What Internet of Things do you use or do you see in your everyday life? So your watch, for example, can control things. You have smart watches. What you'll see here is you can see that there are things like TVs. So you may have an Apple TV that can connect to various different devices and you have things like cooking devices like cookers or kettles. So you'll see oftentimes when you get ready for school in the morning, the coffee machine just turns on and starts producing coffee for your parents or you'll see other devices like that. So yeah, what we're doing is we're taking that concept of using very small devices to do science. So we have a couple of examples. We have some examples coming in, Ag. Would you like to hear what some of them are? Yes, yes, of course. Google Home, Alexa, Ring. So these are all some of the examples and there's, yeah, great. Are those good examples then? Yeah, those are very good examples. And I won't advise you to do this, but if you broke it open and you took it apart, like when one is broken or it's not working, you can actually take it apart and inside of them will be computer chips and there will be computer chips that you see like this one. Here's a small microcontroller that's really tiny. It's about the size of a watch or the size of a quarter. So if you were to break it open and look at what's inside of it, you'll notice that there are little processors inside of them and ways to add electricity and connect them to sensors. So what we're doing with science is we're using these small sensors, small microcontrollers to collect data from the atmosphere. So basically if you have a sensor like this, this little sensor measures what the temperature is, what the relative humidity is, what the air pressure is and it is connected to one of those small little microcontrollers. So now when I break it apart and take the case off, you can see it's a really tiny little microcontroller. So these little things are just like the internet of things that you have at home. When someone drives up to your garage, when you drive home and the garage opens automatically, there's a sensor that's actually pointing out, it can tell when the car is coming and it will be infrared or a little light that you can't see with your eyes, but there's a light that will be beaming down and as soon as the car comes and your parents press the button to open the garage door, you'll notice the garage door opens and you can drive in. That's the internet of thing because it is connected using a simple microcontroller like this and a simple sensor that's looking down and taking that command. Same thing with Alexa. You speak and the sensors hear the command and do something. So we're looking at two different types of sensors and some sensors are smarter or have other features than different sensors. Here's another one.  So if you know this here, on this side actually, you can connect a mouse, you can connect the keyboard, you can connect it to the internet and by connecting a mouse, keyboard and you can even connect the monitor to it like on this bit here, just like your Xbox or some other things you have, you can actually connect it to your screen and on here you can have a whole computer and you can program sensors like this to take data, to store the data and to measure the environment. And so when you look at it, you can see this one has a full computer. I can play a video game on here. I can play Solitaire on this Raspberry Pi. This tiny little one, I can't play Solitaire, right? I can't play a video game or I can't send an email because this one doesn't have a full operating system.  So I can't do anything super, super, you know, like play video games on it, but I can do other cool stuff like connected to sensors and there are lots of different types of sensors and you could almost think of sensors for anything.  So there are lots of things you can determine with just these tiny little sensors. And one question I might ask is, what would you find interesting to measure? There's a lot of things you could measure. It doesn't necessarily have to be whether it could be weather or, you know, other things that you would like to measure. And if you could type in or let everyone know what are the types of cool measurements you would like to measure. And then we can talk about what kind of sensors could perhaps do some of those measurements that you were referring that we're looking at. So these are sort of the core things that we use inside of it. And then the next step is we have to 3D print. We use a 3D printer to print out the housing or the connection. So what you can see here, and this is sped up very fast, is that we are 3D printing a rain gauge. And now I see some cool answers coming up in terms of what we would like to measure. We see people looking at steps. That's a good one. So if you have inside of your watch, and so now how are steps measured?  And based on that motion, it can tell how many steps you make in a day. Another one, let's see, I think Timmer, it went off the screen there, but another one. Well, looks like we also have water intake, particles in air and stream flow. Yes. So particles in the air is another, there's another similar sensor that looks similar to this one. This one measured, actually this one measures VOC, which is like organic compounds. And it gives you sort of an indicator of how many particles are in the air. So when we have in Colorado, we had these forest fires and the forest fires, you can almost your eyes get a little watery. It's a little bit difficult to breathe. And that's something that you'll be able to tell. The miles per hour in the car, that's a really good one because the wind, when you spin a wind gauge around, it tells you miles per hour of wind. So now if you're in a car and you're driving, you can actually pick up how many miles per hour you're driving based on the spin and the rate of spin. And what we have here, and I'm gonna take this thing apart, hope they don't break anything, what we have here. And I think this is a real cool concept is we are using, there's just a little line in here, right? And then there's a sensor that basically counts the amount of times that crosses that line. And it's called revolutions per minute. And once you look at revolutions per minute, you can convert revolutions per minute to miles per hour. So that's exactly the same principle on how a speedometer would work on your car. And it's a- There was a question, how do you measure sound? Now, sound is another one. Sound, you can have a different sensor and we don't have these sensors right now, but you can add it to this. You have the same microcontroller and you can have another sensor that actually measures that collects the sound. It has a microphone and it can collect sound waves and it actually tell you how many decibels of sound that you're having. That's a cool thing now. Think about what we could do with sound, even for science, right? So if there is a very windy day, you're gonna have higher sound, right? If it's a calm day, you're going to have lower sound. So maybe you could use sound sensor to measure storminess or rain, but that would be another even probably better example. We have a rain bucket, right? Where when it rains, the rain comes down, it drops into this bucket, right? And then it actually tips when it fills up this side, it tips over and then it tips over again. But what if we used a sound sensor so that when it rains, the heavier it rains, the louder it is. You could maybe use a sensor like that to determine whether or not it's raining or not or the rain dripping on a piece of plastic or a piece of 3D printed parts. So there's lots of real ways or cool ways that you can use cool little sensors just like Alexa and just like the sensors you have at home to actually do different science things or to discover different ideas that you may have and you want to learn about. So Tim, what else did, this is fun. What else did they... We did have voltage, that's interesting one. And let's see, water intake. Water intake is an interesting one because this is just looking at water falling from the sky, right? So this one as it collects in here on one part it'll tip over and basically we just count the number of tips and that tells you the amount of water intake coming in. Now, if you wanted to do water intake, say in a stream, I might do something like I have a propeller, right? And as the stream comes through, it turns the propeller. And what I can do is look at how fast the propeller moves could tell me how fast, for example, a stream is moving. So that would be one way that you can do it. Another way is you may be able to have something that fills up and then unfills up. So similar to rain bucket, but you turn it in a different direction depending on what you are checking out or what you're trying to measure. If it's a lake, you might have a taller, instead of just a rain bucket like this, you might have something that measures the height of the lake to see how full the tub is or the lake is. So there are lots of different measurements and they would all be collected from our measure and collected with a sensor and some kind of computer to take the information from the sensor and store it onto some kind of device. And we did have one additional, very interesting one and that is measuring how much we sit while we're doing virtual learning like right now. That's another good one. There's another sensor, I have this one. This one is called a compass or an accelerometer. And basically it's like a gyroscope. And you may have seen a gyroscope in some of your science classes and looks at your emotions. And if I spin around in my chair, for example, it knows that I'm spinning around, but it doesn't necessarily, it can also tell that I'm not standing up.  So it knows the direction of your spin and the direction of your up and down.  So the sensor will know that you're actually running. And you can see this in your Apple Y. So it knows when you're running, it knows when you're like walking because the sensor has sort of like a three-dimensional, you know, multi-dimensional view. It can tell if I'm spinning. It can tell if I'm moving up and down. And because of that, it can also tell when I'm actually just sitting still. And a lot of times to really check that because now what this sensor does is it tells my directions and everything up and down around. What they also add to this is what's called a GPS. And that's a global positioning system. And you might see that in your car, it tells you where you're going on your phone. You can look at Google Maps or sometimes you'll look at your car and tell you exactly where you're going. And you wonder, how does it know that? Well, it has a connection to the satellites and it tells you how you're moving. That technology has gotten so smart that it can fit inside of your watch. So it's tiny just like this. And so together when I have, I know if I'm standing up or if I'm running and then it can tell me my exact position, I can know how active I am in a day. Am I outside doing recess and I'm playing dodgeball or am I outside doing games or am I at home on Zoom? Well, watching things. But then you can see, of course, at the end of the day, how many steps you took. So wonderful. Do you want to show them how it all fits together? Yeah, yeah, let's do that. And then I think we have a couple of slides on this. OK, so we have a weather station and these weather stations come in three different parts. So this part here, and you can see that sort of in the middle, this measures temperature, pressure, relative humidity, air quality. And what you have in here, the sensors just like this fit inside this. And the reason why you have this weird looking, you know, birdhouse almost looking thing is because you want enough air to flow into it, but it not be too closed out so that it gets too hot. It's almost like if you put a dog or animal inside of a car and it's all closed, you have to open the window so you get circulation. It's the same thing here. If we want enough circulation to come through so that you get what's called ambient, or in other words, normal air temperature, air temperature of what's around it. And this is what we call the arrow node. This is one section. So if I can use this on the station, and then the next thing is I have wind. Again, it's the same thing as this, the sensors plug in here, and you have wind direction, and this will turn as the wind direction changes. And then you have wind speed, and all the wind speed is doing is just like measuring speed of a car is I'm actually looking at how many times per minute or per second does this rotate. And based on the rotation of this, it determines the wind speed. That calculation is done on this little computer, which is really cool, right? It just, it counts the spin. This thing could spend 500 or 100 revolutions per minute, and it will tell you exactly how many miles per hour that is with very high accuracy because it's using a very simple formula to calculate that. And then last is we have the rain bucket. And then the rain bucket is basically used to collect rain. And one of the things that you'll notice on this bucket is we have this little net. And I wonder if you could guess why we do that. And we have this because we learned in a interesting way that sometimes if you don't have something covering it at least holding it up, birds or other things will come in a nest in here. So instead of having the birds go there, we prefer them to stay in the trees. And we just put this on top so that the rain can come through, but other critters can't. So that's pretty much what we did here. So what happens is all of these instruments all have sensors and they all have computers, little microcontrollers. Now these little microcontrollers, believe it or not, also have Wi-Fi, just like you have Wi-Fi at home and just like your Xbox or your telephone or even your watch all have Wi-Fi, these sensors also have Wi-Fi. And one of the things that the sensors allow you to do is to collect information and to collect anything. Like if I'm doing steps, if I'm walking through the day, it's counting my steps and it has a little Wi-Fi that can then send that information out to us or to you at home. And then you can look at a little app on your phone. And once you take your phone out and you look at the app, it'll tell you how many steps, it'll tell you what the temperature and what the rain is. And that's the same thing we've made here. So what we've done is you actually program these. So you take these and you plug it in just like this, but you plug it into the computer and when you plug this into your computer, you can tell it here is the program or the software to read data from your sensor. And once it has that software, it can read the data from the sensor and always send information back to the user. Now I see there's a few questions. Yes, we do have a couple of questions. One is in regards to privacy with all the monitoring that these little, the microprocessors can do. And the other question is what kind of 3D printer could an elementary school use or purchase to do this kind of work? Okay, so on the privacy front, there's a number of ways, especially on these stations. These are controlled 100% by you or the user. So when I take this data, I tell it where to send the data. So I have complete control over my data. So I can choose who I can share it with or who I don't want to share it with. So that's a very good thing is that you can control where privacy is automatically opt in, in other words, you get to choose. Second, on the other thing, basically 3D printers have come down in costs. So 3D printers now, they cost, I guess the most basic 3D printer costs around $200. And it can still do the job, right? So it takes time to print these things. For example, each one of these pieces, depending on how big your 3D printer is, we have to be printed individually, right? So, and maybe this one piece right here might take about 30, 45 minutes to print. Another piece will take 35, 45 minutes. So each piece takes time and it may take, depending on if you did it all on one full day, that would be a long day, but you could sit down all day and print it and you'd be up very late. Or you could do it like one classroom day, print one piece or two pieces. The next day you come back to class, you print another two pieces. And it would take a couple of weeks to print all of these things out. But the good news is that you don't have to print them all out at once. So I could just print this and have the sensors and put this outside and I would be able to collect temperature, pressure, relative humidity, air quality. I would have all of that just with this one thing. Then later on, I could come back and print the rain bucket. And then now I have rain and I know what, how much it's raining and everything else. And last I could come back and I can print the pieces for these things. Like this piece right here, some of these pieces are pretty sturdy, right? So they take a little bit of time to print out. We also did have a question about, how do you keep the insects out? Yeah, so that's a really good question. So on the rain bucket, we have this. So that is more for birds. Little insects could probably get in here, right? If you, depending on how small they are, could get in here. Spiders, I think you probably would not go in there. So that's good. And then another thing we do, and I'll show this example, is we use PVC pipe to connect all of this stuff. And when it's put outside, it's used with these PVC pipes. So what we do is we make sure when we connect it, it's very much sealed, right? So that little critters and bugs can't get inside and chew on the wires. So the wires will come through these pieces and come down to a battery. And we make sure that that's really sealed tight and really sealed and we add glue and make sure that no critters can get inside. Excellent. And I will share also a website, right? Ag, there's a place that if students want to go print one of the weather stations using your design, right? They can find that online? Yes. So we have a site online where we show how to, and this is still a work in progress, but we show how to build and print a station. So this is like open source. So basically like, if you know how Apple and Google, you can build your own apps. This is the same thing, similar thing, where it's all online and you can download the original plans, you can print the document, you can print the stations, we show you where to, we have links on how you can get the different sensors. A lot of these things are available either on a company called Mauser or Amazon or somewhere it's like online, they're very low cost things. So for example, this little microcontroller cost $6 or $7. One of these sensors you can get between $4 and some of the more expensive sensors, depending on what you want to measure can be $15 or $20. So it all depends on what you want to measure and depending on what you wanna measure, you can also come up with your own sensors. So for example, people mentioned other different things like stream flows or maybe you wanna measure soil moisture. One thing like if I wanna have a soil moisture sensor, there's another sensor that we stick in the soil and if I water a plant, it will tell that the ground is wet and then when the ground goes drier, it'll actually give you an alert and let you know that you need to water the plant again. So that's another thing. I see people use sensors to tell them when to feed the fish, like they have a fish tank with a bunch of fish in the tank, you can actually have a sensor that knows when and how often you feed your fish. So there's lots of cool things you can do with 3D printers and with just some low cost sensors. Wonderful. Well, we are actually a couple of minutes over on time. I think if you're free Ag, we can stay on and answer some more questions. I see more coming in the chat. I did put the link to that Internet of Things manual in the chat as well. If you want to check it out, please check it out. Thank you so much for coming. I want to respect everyone's time as we need to take off, but we would love to continue answering questions. And if anybody wants to ask questions over the microphone, you can type in the chat and just say, I have a question and we'll call on you. Happy to do that as well. I see one question coming from Mr. Birch's class. Can you also get different colors for the 3D printing or only white? We can have different colors. So in this one, we have like we have a different color or this one is a black color. There's also purple, you can get yellow. They have one that is actually wood and they can you can 3D print and it basically takes like wood shavings and it can be printed. Ag, were you into computers and weather and things like that in high school as well? Yeah, very much so. I did science fair. I guess I started science fair in like eighth grade. And then computing a lot of different computing things like science Olympiad. I was at the high school in New Mexico in New Mexico and I also did a super computing challenge way back in the day. And here's some just pictures of me back in the day in junior high slash high school. And you can see that I worked on, I did like lots of different science fairs across country that I did there as well and wrestling, I was on the wrestling team. So yeah, so it was kind of a mix of things but I really always enjoyed doing fun stuff with science. Right, I'm seeing questions slow down and some folks might need to take off. So I think one more question for you Ag before we go is, is there anything that you want to share with the students, any final words or advice that you have for them if they're interested in this kind of thing? Yeah, well, I mean, if you're passionate or you have a problem or something that you'd like to see solved, just go after it and try to figure out if there are little sensors and just study it and see what's online now and try to come up with a solution. And it doesn't necessarily have to, you don't necessarily have to just be an engineer or a scientist. A lot of times solutions to problems take people not just, it takes a diverse people, right? It takes people who are artists, people who know how to design things. iPhone, for example, is a beautiful phone, but it's not just the engineers who make iPhones and you have people who are artists who make it work and like the user has such a good experience because there are people who are not just scientists working on a problem, but also artists and social scientists and others. So your talents can always be applied to solve some of the world's problems that we see and things that could make the world a better place. Oh, Katie, I think you're muted. I'm muted. Wonderful, thank you so much, Ag. Thank you, students for connecting to us from all over and asking such wonderful questions. We're excited to see what you do. Maybe you'll start 3D printing some awesome science labs of your own or beautiful art pieces, all sorts of things. So thank you so much for your questions. Thanks for joining us for Meet the Experts today and thank you to everyone who's joined us for Meet the Experts throughout the school year. We're gonna take a little break for the summer but we will be back in the fall with the next generation Meet the Experts 2.0. So we hope to see you all there. Ag, thank you again so much for showing us a bit about what you do and introducing yourself to all of us. Oh, thank you. Awesome, thanks, everybody. We'll see you later. Bye. Bye. Bye.


All right, let's talk about this movie, The Pros. It looks really nice. Cinematography is solid. I know it's got a smaller budget. They're tricking me. It's a beautiful looking film, Front to Back. As for the acting, we've got Jim Caviesal in this, aka The Count. The Count de Monte Cristo, by the way, fantastic film. The first 20 to 30 minutes of this movie is damn good. It hits hard. I was pretty tensed up the whole time.  Man, the pacing's terrible.  But it goes on way too long, and it kind of loses the plot halfway through, and you don't really have a chance to emotionally connect with any of these characters at that point. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't very good. Oh.


According to ancient Greek texts and myths, a group of Trojan prisoners found the city of Tynia after their devastating defeat by Greek hero Odysseus and an enormous wooden horse in the Trojan War. More than 3,000 years later, near a small village in southern Greece called Chiliamodi, researchers have uncovered archaeological evidence of the city's existence for the first time. Wait, do you hear this? The search began back in 1984 when the archaeologist Elena Korka uncovered a sarcophagus in the village, which is located in the Peloponnesia region south of Athens. Korka, who directs the office for supervision of antiquaries and private archaeological collections and Greece's Ministry of Culture, returned with a team to the site in 2013 to begin the current excavations. In September 2018, following an ancient road, the researchers found a graveyard containing the remains of two men, five women and two children. The tombs were stocked with bone, bronze and gold jewelry, silver and gold coins, vases and other valuable grave items indicating the wealth of those buried there. But when the archaeologists continued their search north of the cemetery, they stumbled on an even bigger find, the remains of buildings from the ancient city of Tynia itself. They said they had discovered the remains of a housing settlement, jewelry, coins and several burial sites in the southern Peloponnesia area. Until now, archaeologists had a rough idea of where the city might have been located but had no tangible proof. The items date from 4th century BC to Roman times. We have often assumed that the Greeks not only borrowed a lot of ingenious inventions from a much older, far more advanced civilization, but it seems that this is another site which could in all possibility further support this argument. This borrowing of technology and strategic design would have aided the Greeks, just like the Incas of Peru and the Egyptians of Giza, in an illusionary perception of strength and intelligence, which we feel undoubtedly helped these once successful civilizations flourish. Little is known about Tynia, but legend has it that it was founded by Trojans who had been captured by King Agamemnon of Messini during his war with Troy in the 12th and 13th century BC. Agamemnon was the king of Messini and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan Wars of Homer's Iliad. He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonged the war and suffering of his men. A hero from Greek mythology, there are no historical records of a Mycenaean king of that name, but the city was a prosperous one in the Bronze Age and there perhaps was a real, albeit much shorter, Greek-led attack on Troy. Both these propositions are supported by archaeological evidence. Unfortunately though, the famous gold mask found in a shaft grave at Mycenae and widely known as the Mask of Agamemnon is dated as up to 400 years before any possible Agamemnon candidate that fits a chronology of the Trojan War. Our main source of information of the Trojan War is Homer's epic mythological account in the Iliad written in the 8th century before Christ but almost certainly based on a much older oral tradition. The ancient Greeks themselves considered the conflict to have been a real one and taken place in the 13th century BC. The story came to represent the struggle of Greeks against foreign powers and it told tales of a time when men were better, more able and more honorable. After Homer, the Trojan War became a staple theme in classical Greek and Roman literature and was revised many times by writers in work such as the Asculus. Later authors, especially Asculus, altered parts of the story probably for dramatic effect on an audience all too familiar with it. Scenes from the conflict were also a favorite with visual artists for the next millennium. The war began when Paris, a Trojan prince abducted Helen, wife of Minilis from Sparta. Paris regarded her as his rightful reward for choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess in a competition with Athena and Hera at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. A furious Minilos then appealed to his brother Agamemnon to create a coalition force of Greek warriors and rescue Helen from Troy. This Agamemnon did and the force from such cities as Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Rose and just about everywhere else across Greek sailed in a huge fleet across the wine dark sea to Anatolia. Well, they would have done if Agamemnon hadn't upset the goddess Artemis when he killed one of her sacred stags and then boasted he was a better hunter than the goddess herself famous for her hunting skills. As punishment Artemis blamed the Greek fleet and only the sacrifice of Epigenia would appease the goddess into granting a fair win to Troy. Agamemnon duly offered his daughter in sacrifice but in pity and at the last moment the goddess substituted a deer for the girl and made Epigenia a priestess at Percentuary at Tarras.   The next big event was when the Trojans attacked the Greek camp and set fire to their ships. Things were not going as well for the Greeks as Agamemnon was largely to blame. He had upset the Greeks greatest fighter Achilles when he pulled rank and stole the hero's girlfriend. As a result Achilles refused to fight. Agamemnon sent Odysseus to persuade Achilles to rejoin the fight on the promise of tremendous treasure. Achilles refused and it was only when his great friend Protarchilus was killed by Hector that he put on his armor and helped the Greeks regain the initiative in the war by killing Hector. The war still rumbled on though and it was only Odysseus' ruse of the wooden horse which allowed the Greeks to get inside the city which finally brought the fall of Troy.


Different parts of the world are exploring other things like sesame credit in China or or genetic engineering without regulation So people are kind of tweaking around with things, you know Ron was saying met was pointing at this earlier just this idea of maybe it's maybe it is Totally fine. You know, we are talking about prioritizing humanity over the markets and putting UBI in early and saving people's lives And like yeah, they're likelihood livelihoods and then the others alternatives like well What happens? We're like aren't we fighting against evolution the survival of the fittest right now There are these groups of people on the planet that have accumulated so much wealth. They have they have made so much impact and The other ones might not have and it's a role of the dice for you to be born in a place that has a That is just less sociocon status than another and so is it Fucking roll the dice. So so is it is it our responsibility? Is it the responsibility of high SES to figure out how to?  Well, I mean I know you know people that have that point of view and and to me that the whole thing is just so Dumb because like let's say I'm you know a rich person in San Francisco Do I really think that you know the society can disintegrate and then like my life will be just as like easy and happy and Frictionless as it is now like of course not like if I have to hire bodyguards and get a bulletproof car and like You know take my kids out of school and get like a bunker somewhere and like you know I have to redecorate the bunker You know and like have to live with like constant anxiety and fear Because studies have shown that people who are at the top of unequal societies are less happy than people who are at the top of more Equal societies so to me it's just like enlightened self-interest to be like look Let's try and keep society whole and it's not like the the like the survival of the fittest thing I mean like you know it's like it's not like people Stop having kids by the numbers. I mean right now as we're sitting here 40% of American children are born to a single Well, we're an unmarried mother So bad and it's it's not good And so but it just goes to show that it's not like all of a sudden there's like a total curtailment of like reproduction I mean that's not the case, you know, so But but there is something very fundamental there Which is like if you follow just like the economic rationale being like I'm worth a billion like you're worth zero Then you wind up in very very dark dystopian realities very very quickly


Three, two, one.  What's up guys? Welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Wes Flair C. And I'm Alex Manover. Now, Alex is the fastest pilot that I know. He is so fast that there's no chance I would ever beat him in a race, right? So I made something new. Check it out. Woo-hoo! This is Turbo Drone. Interesting. You have some pretty crazy projects, Sean. I, it's not expecting this. But once again, you seem to surprise. It's really cool. So far, all I've done is hovered it. So I haven't actually got a chance to do anything cool with it yet. But I think it's going to be pretty neat. I talked to Barwell about how to set up a flight controller to make a servo output. The ESC, the fifth ESC, is actually connected to a servo output on the flight controller. So when you flip a switch, the middle position is half throttle and the up position is full throttle. So I want to beat you out of race. So I'm going to see if my little cheater drone can give me the advantage that I need. All right, so let's talk about the differences in our quad. Because there are some slight differences. Obviously you have a fifth motor. I don't have a fifth motor. This is the Rotorite CL-1 BS, which stands for Vanny Style. I worked with Druitt Rotorite to basically make a more sleek and aerodynamic version of the CL-1. That's ultra light weight, much more stiff than the original version. And it's a little bit different, though, than the SEPI IPA. This is the HT-1. Right, this is the HT-1. I actually put the HT-1 frame with your arms and your motors. So it's almost identical. But the middle section is actually a little bit fatter or longer, I should say. And that gives me a little bit further to stick the motor out towards the back a little bit. I do think, though, if just going on a racing track or in a drag race where our quads are tilted like this, I think if you can get the angle of this just right, I think you'll definitely. But yeah, I did make this mount adjustable so that I could actually match the camera angle so that when I am tilted up like this, these motors will be acting against gravity and actually pulling the quad forward. And this one's just going to be pushing it forward. I don't know if I can even handle the speed through the course, but we'll see. Let me find out. All right, line of sight, flying, test. All right, so we're just having a race. It just looks cool. It does look really cool. Three, two, one. Oh my god, oh! It wasn't supposed to do that. That didn't work at all. I just got to change the problem, though. It's OK. So I haven't actually tried to go full throttle yet from zero to full throttle. And I just went zero to full throttle and it freaked out. And I think because it gave it this direction, it wasn't expecting it, the flight controller probably freaked out. So I'm going to try to give it half throttle, because I can flip the switch to the middle position and only give it half throttle. And then if that works, maybe I'll switch to full throttle. We'll see. All right, here we go. I'll try to stand back. Three, two, one. Here we go. Oh, that was pretty cool. Here we go. It worked. That was pretty cool. Is this? It's not that cool. It's so funny. So cool. I want to try it. You want to try it? I want to try it. Oh my gosh, it's so cool. Oh my god. Look, I have zero throttle. I have zero throttle. What? Zero throttle. No way. Look at the throttle. Oh my gosh. That is so crazy. Is it like flying an airplane? A little bit, is it? Where can you go full throttle? Oh no, it's just on. Uh-oh. He saved it. He saved it. I don't know how I saved that, but so yeah, I'll do it again. So it's like an airplane. I'll switch it on. It's so cool. That's zero throttle. That is so funny. That is so insane. Oh my god. Here we go. What? What? That's half. That's not even four. That's half the back power. Oh no, rock switch. Rock switch. I'm just sorry. This is so funny. That was 50% throttle on the switch. I know. We haven't even gone full yet. I was at zero throttle and it was I think that if we get the camera angle actually correct. The motor angle. Yeah, if we get the rear motor angle to match the camera angle, then when we get it full throttle, it won't react as badly because it's going to go in the right direction. I want to see the drag race. It's time for the draw. I want to see if Sean can beat Alex Vanover. Everybody freeze the golf thing. Three, two, one. Straight line. And then just going past that gate is the finish line. So today we're using the DJI digital FPV system. What's nice about that is for the first time in FPV drones we're flying in high definition. It makes it much easier to fly through a race course or freestyle around some trees or some buildings. Just really makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. We have the Cadix Vista, which is the not only FPV video transmitter but it's also the RC controller receiver. So we're using the DJI radio as well. Overall it makes the combo super sleek, easy to wire up and really no failure points. Although just Venmo you. Venmo works. So what I've done on the quad is I actually removed the bottom two screws so I could crank the camera angle up. So this is about a 45 degree angle. It's going to allow me to fly much faster. I'll still be looking at the ground a little bit but not very much. In the yellow corner we've got Captain Vanover the fastest real drone pilot in the world. Don't give him a sim. In the orange corner we've got Let's Fly RC has to build a cheer to even have a chance of keeping up. Who will win this Titan throw down? I think Skull is out of a job. Ready to take off? Taking off. Okay, on your marks. Get set, go. Three, two, one. Woo! Oh man, I'm keeping up with you. A little bit.  Do you want to do it again? Dude, I did trail you though for a good set. Like I was on you I just couldn't catch it. On your marks. Get set, go. Okay, I'll see you now. Oh, you passed me on you. I didn't know I'd catch you but you were catching up. Hold on, let's go back again. Let's go after her. Are you just boosting right away? No, I boosted in the middle. Okay, just boost right away. On your marks. Get set, go. And boost. Boost. You're so fast. Woo! Okay, I got to remember to turn it off. I could see your shadow in my FVV feed. I felt like your shadow was catching up. Yeah, I felt like your shadow was catching up. Yeah, I think one of the times I beat you but I'm not sure if I did it. Oh, you beat him one time? Yeah. For sure. Okay. He's at a slight disadvantage in weight and he's obviously at an advantage in power with the boost. Regardless of boosted doing something. No, I just think Alex is so much better at flying that fast. Yeah, absolutely. I just think keeping up with Alex is hard even if you have turbo boost. Yeah. I think what we need to do then set it up so it's van over versus van over so we should set up a course and Alex should run it once with no turbo boost and then run it again and see if he can actually improve his time using the boost. I'm thinking that the turbo if I can get used to being able to flip the switch while I'm flying I think during the actual course itself it's going to be really hard to fly but when I hit the straight away I think I'm going to be able to really get going faster. So what Alex is doing right now is he is changing the rates on the drone. So rates are something that change how the drone responds to the stick. How much the drone moves given a relative stick position.  Normally changing these settings requires a computer and you need to use a program called Betaflight and go in and all this stuff but with the DJI goggles it's really nice you can just use the menus in there to change the rates to the ones that you like. It's a little bit slower than using the computer but it's really convenient when you need to make quick adjustments out in the field. So I got the DJI screen here I'm able to see everything that Alex sees in real time. Anyway this DJI screen will allow me to be able to see my stopwatch and see Alex's flight at the same time I will be able to time his flaps. It does have a lap option You're okay. Can you beat that with turbo boost? I don't know. I think I'm so used to the way my normal like 5 inch quad with like my PIDs and everything flies. However I think when I hit the sweeper as long as I can keep it smooth on the course just normally flying it I think when I hit the straights with the turbo boost I think I might be able to beat the time. I'm actually very excited about this. It's very draggy. It's supposed to be using the boost. Now he's using the boost. You can hear it. Oh it doesn't like it. Alright I have two. Lap. That was 24.7 seconds.  Thank you Captain Obvious. It's on. Oh no. I tried turning it on. Here we go on. Forward right into the ground. That was a really long lap. I gotta say this though when I was just in the sweeper I turned it on I didn't feel like I was going faster. We have almost identical quads but when I'm flying this one just without the boost on it just feels like I'm having to really try hard to get it through. It feels heavier. Yeah it's probably because of the drag when you don't have the boost on it's almost like you would have to have the boost on the whole time to make it useful. Yeah like with the boost on it was controllable until I turned. Hopefully we didn't make a simpler course so let's just try an oval. Like all the way around all the trees. That's the plan. I'm just gonna do an oval around these trees.  Full throttle turn off. Here we go. Ready? Here we go. 15.1 seconds. That's incredibly consistent. Yeah it was like 5.5.5. Yeah. Oh she's vibrating. Ready? I'm ready. Yeah we started. That one. Is the boost on? Oh my God. Oh my God. It was so fast. Oh my God. Oh my God. 15.01. How are you kidding me? We made it by 15.01. That was half throttle. That was only half throttle. What do you mean that was only half throttle? Oh you're doing it all the way? No I didn't do all the way. Ready? Ready? Here we go. Oh my God. I didn't get used to the tiny movement you made on pitch. It was so fast. I couldn't believe how fast it was going. That was only half. I was shocked. I genuinely thought at half. I literally saw the turbo boost. It was pretty slow. I didn't think I would see it. I saw the boost. So it was a hair faster. Oh yeah. It felt faster. It felt like going around the trees. It was noticeably faster in the video. I could see it bolt forward. It was crazy. I messed the motor angle so I tilted it more. So I tried to match it somewhat with my camera angle. I know I'm going to be looking at the ground a little bit. You probably changed a little bit when you hit the ground. It did. Because every now and then we hit the ground and it kind of changes its angle. We have to readjust. I want to try it in the air to see. Count us down on the turbo. Hold on. I want to try it. Oh my God. It's so fast. All right. All right. It's possible. Three. Two. One. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. That one. I'm adjusting it. Half turbo, full turbo. Oh wow. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Okay. I did get to fly though. I did actually hang in there. That was worse. It's so much faster though. Why does it work? Probably because it's not turning as smooth. I can't. Let me try another one. Let me try one more. It is clear. Here. Reset, reset. You can do another three. See if it's really done. I wasn't interested. That's it. The carbon is perfectly fine. Oh, dang. Look at this. The screw ripped out of the mount. I just want everyone to see. The carbon is perfectly fine. Oh my God. I just want everyone to see that. Then you stop. What did you hit? I'm just saying. Most durable. Oh my God. Is that? Wow. Is this what you did? Yeah. Look at this. It's like metal. This is rebar. Oh my God. Are you sure that's where you hit? I'm 100% sure. Was it like that before? No, no, no. Sorry. I was not. I was not like that before. No, I think of this today. It was not like that before. That's why he just did? He just did this. There's no way. Okay. Look at this. Look at this. It's cracked. Oh my gosh. The turbo mechanism is a little... Yeah, it's done. Oh, I broke. The stack? Oh, the stack is...  The stack screws are bent. Oh my gosh. The impact. Are you kidding me? You broke the stack screws. Yeah, I hit it at Mach 6. You hit it. John works for weeks in advance of view pilots coming in. He knows Vanova's going, oh, I got to build something cool. I got to build something exciting. I got to make it special for Vanova. Vanova shows up one day. Bam. That's what you do. Oh, come on. That's what you do. So, Sean, I broke the build that you made for me. I'm sorry. But I had a lot of fun flying. I'm very thankful because it was a whole new experience for me. And I don't know about you, but I had a lot of fun flying. This thing was crazy. I'm super excited about how fast it went. I can't believe how much difference the motor made. I didn't think it was going to do that much difference, but it was insane. Yeah, I think once we got the angle right that last time around on the motor, you could really see the speed of it in the straights. The problem is it just got really hard to do corners. If I was trying to turn it on and off, and actually I could get into a rhythm of doing so, but it is a little bit distracting, and that makes it hard to fly tight. I could see that. Yeah, I could see it being distracting, trying to remember to hit the switch at the right time. And you have to, if you got it timed perfectly, it's where you could flip it on during the straightways and turn it off right before you turn. It might be beneficial. Well, guys, that was my turn for you. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. If this is something you want to see us maybe or you visit in the future, leave a comment down below. Tell us what you think. What would you have done different? What would you think we did wrong? I'm very, very curious. I could have flown it better, I'm sure. But I had a lot of fun doing it, and I hope you guys had fun watching it. I'm Les Flaircy. And I'm Alex Manover. Thank you so much for watching this episode. 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Here is the first time I'm using the Blade 3000. I can see a screen right here. Oh, that's cool. And does it look like I have smart glasses? Aye, aye, aye. This is amazing. This is so cool. Here you go. Wait, wait, wait. You can both be. So, who are you? That's fantastic. So, this is the latest music. The most advanced ever. You can see the, how does it work? Well, you know, it's a pair of glasses. How does glasses work? If you want more detail than that, I would assume. Well, there's a screen, it's like a...  This thing puts out a great big image out in space. The image comes down through here, and then it goes into a thing that we call a wave guide. You can kind of see it light up a little bit right there. The light comes in, it spreads down through, and then comes out into an eye box.  That's so cool. And this guy's running a quad-core ARM-based processor, Android 5.0, Gyro's accelerometers, magnetic field set. This is a phone minus cellular service. Where's the processor? It's over here. Right there. So, what CPU do you use? It's a Marvell processor. Marvell? Yeah. So, it's a 64-bit. I have no idea about that level of detail, and I'm not sure how much... But it runs Android, and you can, there's a battery on the other side here. There's the battery end processor are on this side. And what's on the other side? There's batteries back here also.  There's haptic sensors in this. When you're walking down the street, if there's a Pokemon Go character to your right, the little haptic sensor over here tells you to look that way.  Directional information, answer your phone. This is the beginnings of leaving your phone in your pocket. I was doing the music videos maybe five years ago. All kinds of models coming out. And they were... You have a model also that looks like you have something external, right? Yeah, these are enterprise industrial products. And these are already very successful for a specific market, right? It's really starting to crank up an enterprise. Warehouse picking, field service applications. Which one is this one? This is the M300. Enterprise smart glasses. So, what's the micro display technology? Is it a... Is it a topium? No, it's DLP. DLP. Texas Instruments. There's a small DLP projector. It's a .2 inch. It's a .2 inch wide VGA. Wide VGA, that's so awesome. This is the coolest use... It's got an 8 megapixel camera in the front here too. I can't even see a camera anywhere. It's in there. Don't worry, it's in there. We don't hide it on purpose. And in fact, there's even a little illuminator in there so that if you're recording, just like this guy it's on, so you know. Just like Snapchat with their glasses, think about that. But they can... They still look a little out there, Snapchat glasses, but they're cool, okay? These guys are not just a pair of cameras with glasses. This is everything you'd find in a phone but cellular. 1080p video, 8 megapixel camera, but you can see the... It's not cellular. But you can Bluetooth to your phone. Or Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi or Bluetooth pair to your phone. iOS or Android. And does James Bond even have something like this exclusive Woosick's consumer product? These are James Bond-esque. Even he doesn't have it, right? No, no, not yet. Like, like, like... Basically glasses, that's it. Yes, this is the future of computing. I mean, HoloLens and some of these other companies' products are cool, but they're giant tour de force beasts. This thing people would wear. It has the look and feel of a conventional pair of Oakley glasses. If you can just try it again. Can you hold my camera? Yep, certainly. Okay, sure. Yep. Go on. So, well, I see a globe right here. It's very clear. And do I have an interaction UI? Or is it just voice? On your right temple, there's a touch pad right there. Yep. Back and forth, up down, it uses voice also. Voice commands. And I can't tell you this. You zoom back just to tag here. Yeah, okay, good. So it's actually very clear. And it's designed so that when your phone's in your pocket, you don't have to take it out anymore.  You don't have to do that anymore with these glasses on. And is there focus pulling or how does it work? Is it unlimited focus? Is it laser? It's focused at infinity. But if you have glasses, if you have reading glasses, or excuse me, if you have distance vision glasses, you can get your script filled. So these become your glasses. And when they're off, the image completely disappears. When they're on, because we're using a DLP with all that high contrast, it's cutouts in front of you. This is so cool. So is there enough battery life too? You can charge it with a, you can have a power bank and charge it longer. How long is battery? There's micro USB slot connection on this. How long do you think the battery will last? If you're watching movies, let's say, which is not terribly difficult, you can watch a full length movie on this thing if you want to. If you're using it the way you might use a watch, this is an all day device. They answer the phone, do those kinds of things. If you're chasing Pokemon Go characters in New York City running down the street, you probably got an hour and a half worth of runtime. So you should plug in. You can also, right now, there's a flash slot so you can put in more memory if you want to. And we are looking at having wireless charging on the glasses so that you don't have to plug them in. So 199, I'm drinking 409, how much can we, I hope for, you know, it's all about mass production, right? Yeah.  How are you gonna get there? We have big partners already. Yes. In fact, we just announced a great relationship with our friends at Toshiba. There's a bunch of, who's whose list of partners that are using our products? Big companies. Big companies, they even kind of like BarQ and stuff. Like some big partner, really. No acquisitions. No acquisitions. We're a public company. We're on the, Music's is on the Nasdaq. And it's one of the only companies that's a pure play in this business. There are companies down in Florida that have four billion dollar valuations that are trying to make a pair of glasses. Are you talking about ODG or something else? No, we're talking about Magic Leap. Okay, Magic Leap? Yes. But there's some big stuff happening and Microsoft delayed their products. It doesn't really come out. They say 2019 wait for it. Yeah, they're gonna wait till 20, because they're trying to, I think, deal with form factor issues more than anything else. This is augmented. We're not talking about a side screen. It's basically nearly augmented, right? This is about location aware content. It's connecting the web to the real world. I'm the first guy to say this is not about watching dinosaurs walk down the street. This is about putting the glasses on, having your phone in your pocket, connected information, the web to the real world, but it is not about the dinosaurs and stuff like that. It's about the GPS. It's about the Yelp reviews as you walk past a restaurant. And you look a lot cooler in those than you do in this. And you had another for the third one also? At the booth? That was, Yeah. 3,000. Down on the end. And that one over there? What does that one do? So, very similar to the M300. You have the M3000. Same concept, industrial enterprise device, full featured, but with a see-through wave guide. Similar to the blade that you were just wearing. Nice. So where's your company based? Rochester, New York. And how many engineers do you have to make this happen? Make this work? In house, there's about 25 engineers. And they're at every discipline you can imagine. Even one of them has a nuclear physics degree, but he's mostly doing optics. We don't figure that. Yeah, he's mostly optics-related kind of guys. So, optics, hardware, software, mechanical, electrical engineering guys, it's quite an amazing crew of folks. If you want to know how to make wearable technology, these guys have been doing it longer than any company on the planet. And there's about 60 total employees that views X50, some odd kind of a thing around the world. And this is so cool. So, hopefully Google is at Mobile World Congress and comes up and says, hey, how about, let's get this cuckoo glass thing come back and help you make better software, UI, everything, they should invest a billion in this, right? Yeah, you would think that that would be the case. That would be sure. It makes a lot of sense to me. You know, they're, yeah, we'll see. I'd sit down at the table for a billion dollars. How much is it going to be, do you think? Price to the market, this will be less than 500 bucks. Less than 500? Yes. 2017? In 2018, it'll be less than 500 bucks. When do we have to wait? It's going to start, at the end of this year, they'll start shipping. They'll be premium price to begin with. We have a bunch of enterprise partners that in effect, probably there'll be a $500 version that maybe some features change and stuff on a bit. And then there's a $1,000 version that's pointed more to B to C kinds of applications. The ecosystem of applications has to come on board enough so the mass is to purchase in high volume. Yeah, but you'll even need a few killer apps. Yes, exactly. Like one or two perfect apps. Navigation. And then something, and then you're in. Navigation. Playing golf. Golf course. Yeah. Simple things, karaoke. Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go might work. All right. Cool.


It's been healing for me to tell my story and hopefully allow somebody else to get something out of it So I really want other veterans to tell their story and hopefully find that healing as well Every veteran's got a story.


This is the last of the gears All right, I got all the gears printed And I printed a couple of the main body pieces To check that the gears, you know to check that the spacing is all correct and Gears will mesh correctly and yes, they're excellent. Oh Look at that. Oh, oh beauty some good stuff now When the gears get printed out, you know, they have a hole in them That's not perfect, but I have a Drill that matches all these little sticks. I have and these little sticks are just from a like Robot-making part.  You just Need to have a drill bit that matches and this drill bit is actually a little bit too small So when I Drill out my hole for my gears here You know, it's just kind of cleaning out the hole making sure it's round mostly All right, if I do that Then one of these sticks fits real snug Which is great for you know for Cleaning out the holes in the the main body where I want the sticks to stick, but the gears themselves. They need to be loose so I Got one of these sticks and kind of roughed it up to get a bit of rust on it You know, it's a little bit filing and then I put in my drill and just go through here and When I'm holding it, I keep rotating the gear so my hand doesn't Create some bias Because if I hold it in the same spot the whole time I might accidentally put pressure in one direction and have a crooked hole But if I keep rotating it every now and then Then it should more or less Okay Then yeah pretty good. So I just do that with all the gears as I'm putting And then any of the any of the holes where I'm putting these sticks where I want them to fit snug I'll just drill them out with this And leave them like that So they don't get loose because in these I'm pretty sure I want the sticks to like Hold themselves in there, you know fit snug make sure don't break any pieces Do all these holes too Anyway, this will make more sense and a few people have asked if I could give out the STL files or the g-code files for all these all these parts. I'm putting together Yes, but let me put one together first because well Right here, I mean you got to keep in mind. I drew all these parts in three days and three nights With no sleep. So there are a few little mistakes. So like right here. I have to cut out a chunk because This gear is supposed to fit in there But obviously it hits hits that right so I Just have to You know carve out a little chunk there and hopefully I can figure out how to do that in one of my Drafting programs. Maybe I'll go back to AutoCAD. I don't remember how to use it now and put the hole there I was also missing a piece and I'm looking through all the files.  And then I checked my emails of When I originally put one of these together and sent the guys the the files and then they 3d printed them and sent them back And right in my email.  I'm missing a piece, but that's okay. I can make it So I dug around in my files and found the piece. So anyway by the time I get this all put together I'll have all the pieces and hopefully like I'll Edit, you know any any parts left out And then there are some some little things like Like this is kind of thin and this is kind of thin too, you know I mean they never broke off in the original one, but they could definitely be thicker Which would be nice so maybe I'll edit those a little bit But other than that everything's going really well like these gears are meshing so nice Yeah, really good.  Maybe Oh, I didn't drill these holes up I don't even know if the wheels in there are turning but whatever slides pretty easily. This is the gear that runs along there These are the gears that turn it the motor turns this one Move to these other ways Yeah, that was great music Oh, look, this is the piece that I foolishly forgot many years ago Luckily, I did have the file all those printed out Starting the leg pieces


Before we turn to deep learning, let's look in a little more detail at what goes into the actual language processing. And the key here is representation. Now the simplest version is to take words, like avocado, and do a context-free embedding, like word-de-vec, or tokens in context, like I ate the avocado, and do a context-sensitive embedding. And people often do that. But it's becoming increasingly common to use subword encodings, encoding a piece of a word, the most common of these being the byte pair encoding, or BPE, and in a subword encoding, the computer automatically finds frequently reoccurring character strings, subsequences, and these are treated as the fundamental units that are embedded. And this helps a lot because lots of words are misspelled or have never been seen before, and you can always then find embeddings for them. So for example, if one saw the word B-B-I-B-T-E-C-H, BIMTECH, this might be recognized as three subwords, the first one, B, the second one, BIM, which would be embedded based on its frequent context, like a bibliography or whatever, maybe a BIM, like a child's BIM, it's ambiguous, and TECH, which is great because that shows up like technology and technophobia and technical. And so by embedding each of these subwords, these substrings, one can now have embeddings that get any word whenever it sees. Finally, lots of representations used in the advanced systems like BERT, which we'll see later this week, look at a number of special tokens that are added to the text, a separation token that's put between each sentence or between each string, if you're concatenating a bunch of tweets, you put a SEP token between each of them, an unknown token, if you're not using a subword encoding, you need some way to encode a word like BIMTECH you've never seen, replace it with an unknown token. If you're doing padding, truncate pad, remember, don't put in zeros, that's a zero, put in a special token for padding, a pad token, and finally when we do BERT, we will have a special token that's at the beginning of each sequence, the beginning of each tweet, the beginning of each sentence, a CLS token that will represent in some sense the entire sequence. So income characters, outcome words, or tokens, or subwords, which are then encoded into vectors we can use for deep learning. So typical NLP pipeline, first of all, you tokenize or extract the byte pair encodings and I'll use those terms sort of interchangeably, then you map these tokens to some sort of an embedding, either context oblivious, context free, like WordDeVec or context sensitive like BERT, these are trained on huge billions of words corporeye, and then given that map of embeddings, now we will train a neural net with those embedding this input, and finally, for many of the applications, the mapping from word to embedding is part of the neural net, and we'll use gradient descent to fine tune, technical term, to fine tune these embeddings so that they do a better job of predicting the actual outputs one wants. So initially train vector embeddings on huge data sets, then use gradient descent to adjust them so they're a little bit better on the problem that you want to solve.