Welcome to the show, it's me, JP, and I'm making all kinds of noise over here. Sorry about the hot mic before the show, but now I think we're listening to the things we intend to. So welcome. First of all, I wanna say thanks for stopping by over in the chats. We've got people over in our Discord chat as well as our YouTube chat.  This is the Adafruit Discord at adafruit.it slash discord, join it, and then head over to the, there it is, live broadcast chat channel inside of our server. And you'll find people hanging out and chatting there during the show. And there's also, as you can see here, a whole host of other channels that you can visit any time of the day, ask questions, answer people's questions, chat about stuff. That's the place to do it. Hello, Dave Odessa, Beata Grafdahl Hagen, Ruben Aspero, Rich Sidowski, Wet Willy over in our YouTube chat, nice username. And you can see all the people over here in our Discord chat as well. So let's see, I was off at the end of last week, beginning of this week, so I did not have a new product show on Tuesday. So I won't be showing a clip from that. But I will be back next Tuesday with a new product show. But I do have a CircuitPython Parsec for you today. I've got a coupon code, in case you want to go buy some good stuff over at Adafruit.com. I will give you a 10% off coupon. In fact, I'm talking about it right now, I'll give it to you right now. This is playtime. Just type in playtime at the coupon code PROMPT on your way out. And you can get 10% off on your entire order of things. It won't work on gift certificates or subscriptions or software, but it will work on stuff, physical stuff.  I gotta share this gift that just showed up over in the Discord. He's got a little boopy nose joystick. It's the third joystick on the Xbox controller. Thanks for that. Get any SKU-7, I appreciate your gifts. Let's see what else is happening. Well, we are gonna be talking about joysticks or controllers today, so that's a good, that's a nice on-topic gift, I appreciate that. I know there are no accidents, everything is well-considered. And what else do we have going on? I think that's the thrust of it. Last week, I showed the beginnings of the computer perfection project and I've been working with Jephler, who's been writing some updates to the Synth.io library in CircuitPython, which I didn't know about this library.  You can give it a .mid file and it'll play the notes with a simple synthesizer. And Jephler has been updating it to be less simple. He's now got, I think, 12-voice polyphony or polyphony going and some wavetable types of things going on where you can shift between wavetables, different waveforms. So that could be a really exciting synth engine for all kinds of things and I've been working on putting that inside of the computer perfection toy. I will get back to that. That's gonna take a little longer than the typical one week boom and we've got a guide kind of project. But I do have a new project this week, which is based on these beauties over here. So we'll be jumping on those cuties in a moment. But before I do that, let's see how about we jump right into a CircuitPython Parsec. So let me prep for that and here we go. The CircuitPython. All right. Here we are. For the CircuitPython Parsec today, I wanted to show you how to use an integer divide. So when we take numbers in CircuitPython and we divide them, we can just use the regular slash sign to divide them as a float and that means we can get sort of decimal numbers in the result. But there are a lot of cases where we want an integer, for example, to light up a particular number of neopixels. You'll want an even whole number. You can't use a float or a decimal for that. Or for positioning stuff on a screen, such as the example that I have here, what you can see is as I turn this knob, I have it plugged into a little pie portal pint, I'm displaying both the raw analog read, that's that big number, like 18,000 something. And then you can see I'm dividing it by 256 to get some sort of nice usable number range for typical things. And you can see the answer there is 71.5156. Well, I can't move that many asterisks. That's not a whole number. I need an integer number. So the number I'm actually using for how many asterisks I'm drawing on screen is the one below it, which is that number and then two slashes, which then divides by 256 but gives me an integer number as the result. So 57, 60, 70, 80, and so on as I turn this. You can see in my code how this works when I am checking this position, which is an analog read, position is equal to the knob value, which I then am doing a little check on. This is sort of a filtering I'm doing here. I'm using this, get a whole number thing because the little decimal values are bouncing all over the place all the time. And then I'm printing either the divide by, which gives us the float or the integer divide, the two slashes, and that gives us the integer whole number. And then I am printing a number of asterisks multiplied by the position. And again, two slashes divided by in an integer fashion 256. And that gives us usable numbers in a really nice, easy to use syntax. And that is how you can use integer divide inside of circuit Python. And that is your circuit Python parsec. All right. We had a question in the chat. I saw Rich Sad said, is the coupon code only for the duration of the show? Coupon code for this show is good until midnight tonight, east coast time. So do your global time math if you have to find out what time that's gonna be. But that is good until essentially midnight tonight on the east coast time. So you've got some time. Do not panic. In the circuit Python, sorry, in the product pick of the week show, too many acronyms in my head. In the product pick of the week show, that discount is only good during the show. There is no coupon code for that. That's just the price gets changed during the show and then changed back after the show. But this one right here, if you want to use the play time coupon code over in the Adafruit store, then this will be good until midnight. And to clarify, because Todd was really confused, he said, which east coast? That's right. I'm so United States of America centric, but east coast of the United States of America time. What do we call that? Eastern time, Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Daylight Savings Time. One of those. I never know which one it is. Yes, so not the east coast of Wagadugu. So, let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions on upcoming circuit pythons. You can let me know, circuit python parsec so you can let me know in the chat or you can message anytime. And we will take a look at your ideas for things to show, things that you find helpful and useful. Often I take these from things that I find useful in the code I'm working on for projects. I'll go, hey, this is a neat thing. This is useful and turns into a circuit python parsec. All right, let's see. What else have we got going on here? Let's talk about, well, I like that idea. Pete Curry in a hurry says global time math. That sounds like a EuroRack module. It kind of does. Let's talk about these controllers. So first, let me give you a little history. The message came to me from Phil Turon, PT. He said, hey, take a look at this tweet from Robert Dale Smith. And here you can see it's gonna, the frame rate won't be great on my browser here, but you can see he's got a Nintendo Switch with this Fisher Price Game Controller plugged in and he's playing, I don't know what that is. It looks like Prince of Persia or Karateca or something like that. So he's playing one of the retro games on the Switch using this controller. It looks like two buttons and a D-pad that are being used. And Phil said, hey, go get some of these controllers and build some of these. We want one for sure and we wanna find out more and maybe see if we can get a guide put together or share some of the info out here. So first of all, check out Robert Dale Smith. That's his Twitter handle. And if you follow his links, you'll see Robert runs this site, controlleradapter.com, which creates a bunch of different adapters that allow you to take a controller, like a 3DO controller and plug it into an SNES or vice versa. So he's got all these adapters that are useful for different game controllers on different game systems and some other stuff. He also does giveaways. So these, even though they show like they're in the store, these are actually giveaways that he just uses as a store to keep track of. It looks like he gave away that Fisher Price Controller. And so I followed his links too and reached out to Robert and he shared this GitHub. If you go to github.com slash Robert Dale Smith, you'll find there this GP2040CE fork. So this is from the OpenStick community, which is a group of people who work on game controllers and making game controllers work in different scenarios. They have a project called GP2040CE. That uses a Pico with the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip to allow you to build custom controllers which can talk over USB. Now, when you are talking about USB game controllers, there are a number of different modes and they have a lot of particularities about the type of game messages that they're sending over USB, including the switch has some particularities, there's a direct input, which works on a lot of older systems, including PS3. And then there's a, I forget the name of it, I'll check my notes here, there's the X input, which is kind of the most modern windows type of input. So what Robert did was create a project where this KB2040, one of our beloved little boards here that has the RP2040 on it and is set up for keyboard types of stuff. This, he has ported the project to run on the KB2040, has a default configuration that you can follow for the pinout. It reads button presses and then it allows you to configure those as whatever you want over on the USB receiving end. So I followed those instructions and have built one of these. What I wanted to do is take you through it a little bit. So let's jump over to this view of the world and let me do a little focus fix here. There we go. So first of all, let's talk about this controller. Where did my boxed one go? Here it is. So this right here is our game controller. You can find these on Amazon anywhere from about $6 to about $15 depending on the seller. But Amazon themselves sells it for about $6. You probably find these in toy stores. I'm guessing retail price of around $15, $12 or $15. So really inexpensive, but they're very high quality. They're made for ages six to 36 months. So that means they're durable. No parts are gonna break off that you can choke on. They will handle a beating. They're probably fairly stain resistant, stain proof. And out of the box, you'll see it says, okay, press buttons. Let me change my shutter on here a little bit so you can, oh, that one doesn't wanna change. All right, we'll leave it alone. You can see there's a RGB LED in there. I'm gonna shade it a bit. So that's different colors. There's one RGB LED in there, different colors. You can press these four buttons. You can press this sort of joystick button. It's only one switch in there. It's not directional. It's definitely not analog. Plays a song, plays a bunch of different songs each time you press it. Level one, level three, level four, level two. You can also switch. So that's like a learning mode where you press the number and then it does a number of zap sounds. One zap, three zaps. Has these up here that are just tactile fidget. That's not connected to anything switch-wise, electronics-wise. Same with this little dial here. This switches between two modes of what the sounds are gonna be. And then there's a switch on the back. So I have one out of the package. Switch on the back here that has three positions. This is off, off medium volume and high volume. And a couple of other interesting things. I noticed here it says player tip. Up, up, down, down, dot, dot, dot. Cheat code unlock fun surprises. Cheat codes unlock fun surprises. If you know them, try them. So of course we gotta try the Konami code. So I think that's up, down, up, down, left, right. No, wait, I've got it wrong. Is it up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right button, button. No, I've got it wrong. Up, down, up, down, left, left, right, right. All right, I have to look it up. I just killed all my cred. What's the Konami code? Everyone in the chat is probably dying. Hold on one second. Konami code. Oh, that's so embarrassing. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and start. Okay, I think this will work up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. So that's the cheat code surprise you get there. That boop, boop, boop, you win. Let me try it again and see if we can do it faster. Yeah, so I guess that might be the only one. There's probably a different one in this mode, let's see. Okay, that's what it always says. So if there are other ones, you might want to try them. If you got any that you think I definitely should try, let me know. Let's forget about that embarrassing moment where I got it all wrong. The battery cover comes off here and we have a, sorry, I was going to check the chat because I think people are probably chiming in with, it's because I'm older than 36 months, someone said. Yeah, it's the babies that know the cheat codes. Let me just check my Discord chat here. Any others? Okay, let me know if you know others. So we can take off the battery cover here. This takes three double A's. We pull those out. And we're going to end up powering this over USB. So we actually don't need the batteries, which also means we have a lot of spare room in here. In Robert's version of this, what he did is he cut out a little hole for the USB connection on the KB2040. So that'll live right about there. And then he made a couple of little holes for the two buttons on here. And he also removed the STEMAQT port just to have some extra room. I'll show you what I did on mine. I hacked one of mine up a heck of a lot more than that just to kind of get things to fit and see where things were, to keep the STEMAQT port on there. So let's open this up. And what I found is there is some hot glue that was used or some kind of glue that was used to just keep the battery box wires neat. And that glue ends up, when they assemble this, it ends up sort of sticking to the back of the PCB. I don't think they were actually trying to glue it shut. I think it was just a coincidence on one of the Fisher Price toys that's similar that I opened. They put some tape over that glue first so it wouldn't stick. But these are really amazingly easy to get into which is super nice. There's no plastic snap tabs or anything like that to worry about. You don't have to get a guitar pick in there to open it from what I found. Just gotta get these screws out. That one's biting on and staying there. And, oh, that's nice. I see there's some job talk going on over in the chat there. This is another one of these that I really like how they've changed the way they connect these to the cardboard. There's a pair of little discs that slot into these key holes and turn that keeps it on there instead of wire wraps, no zip ties either. So you can see once you get all of these or just actually these two, the ones that matter, these screws off, there's a little liftoff cover there and that just looks mostly. It kind of pinches this in here but also means we get something and a nice receptacle for the screw there. This one, that screw's just determined not to come out. It doesn't really matter. There we go. So now if we pull this open, what I recommend is face down and then pull this up and just be careful because the battery box wires are connected there but in this orientation you won't lose any of these plastic fidget parts. So let's see. Yeah, so there's a little sticking going on there and that is some of this goo, this adhesive goo just sort of stuck to some wires but there you can see that's with it open. Kind of just flip that off to the side. So really friendly, hacker friendly, modification friendly things they did.  Same with this switch. So that's the switch or button that gets pressed by this sort of joystick here. That one, for one reason or another was very hard to unclip on the other one that I did. And same with this one yet. It really wants to get, let me see if I can use a small screwdriver. It's meant to just be a press clip but for some reason it doesn't flex enough and it gets caught. You don't actually need to remove this one for any particular reason but I just want to get the, there we go, the whole PCB out. Yeah, so that one's on like a very, for some reason it looks the same stuff but it's a very bitey plastic. And then the speaker also, and this one comes off very easily but at least it did on the other one. So there's the little speaker there. You can see Fisher Price does this on a lot of the toys of theirs that I've opened up. They've got a little sound board that is pressing against the back of the speaker to help use some of that plastic for amplification. So they have kind of that little flexy U shape there to give it a lot of pressure against the back of the speaker. And you can see there's a one screw that was part of holding the case in place that held one side of that speaker holder in place and then there's another one right in there. These just simply lift off so you can take these on and off. You can see that just has a little snapping clip there. And also this one can just be taken off like so. The front switch that goes between modes, sound modes just as flipping that little two position switch there. And this one is the one that was just straight exposed through the back there that didn't get fancy with it. So there is a single screw holding the PCB in place now. Again, you can see there was one that was coming through with the case screws that was holding it in place there, I believe. That is the only short screw that you'll pull out. So you should be left with seven long screws from the case and that one short screw for the PCB. And now if we pull this out, you'll see just like any game controller, you've got the plastic injection molded buttons, D-pad pivots on a little stem. So just like any D-pad, there's a central part that's pressed up against the circuit board right here and then that can rock in the four directions. And I think it's a decent, I've used worse D-pads. It's not gonna break any records for speed runs using this controller, but it's actually pretty playable. So you can see here, there are four D-pad elastomer with carbon pills underneath them and the four A, B, C and D buttons as they called them there. This is a nice little, let me zoom up in here. This is a nice little RGB LED here, mounted at a very jaunty angle. I have no idea what necessitated that, you know, they fit stuff where they wanted to fit stuff, but this guy is at this happy little like 12 degree angle for some reason, no idea why.  You can't put them in wrong too, because with three, these are keyed, they can only go in one way, which is nice. So there's no confusion there when you go to put that back in. And there you see, we've got our little typical traces that have a common routed sort of around the circuit these outer ones and then the individual button presses and those are all running to the microcontroller underneath this epoxy blob here. I don't think anyone has done a decapping or a de-epoxying or anything like that on mine, so it's a mystery and I'm not gonna do that, it's a mystery what that's running there. I did use, there's another one I'll probably looking at in the future, a different toy from Fisher Price where they didn't blob it, so we can see what the controller is, which is kind of neat. And there are test points for everything. So you can see every single one of these has a nice fat test pad so we can solder to those. What I'm using for this, and actually this is a slight bit of a gear report, I picked up this wire wrap wire rainbow assortment that we have in the Adafruit store because I often use this wire wrap wire as little very thin bodge wire type of wire for these projects and I realized, hey if I get this stuff now I've got, I think it's six colors, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight colors to work with which is nice, it makes things easier to see.  Yoink on that, you don't need to get fancier than that. And then what I did is I tinned all of these and I tinned all of those pads and then you'll just go in there and solder those down. Good thing to do at the beginning when you're doing this is just test it out with a multimeter, see if you can get any continuity. Now what we're gonna end up doing here is I think this will be like so and this is where the KB2040 is so you'll end up wanting enough length to come around from pads and feed up to the different pins on the KB2040 which is what I've done. So in fact, that's as far as I'll go with this one. What I'll do now is a cooking show style let me demo the working one and then take apart the working one. So I'd like to demo it first just in case something terrible happens. But let's see, what I'll do is I'm just gonna bring this laptop into view here, I think. Or you know what, you might be able to see this better. Let me, I'm gonna change a view here to show you my, let me see if you can see this LCD if it's too bright. Second, let's do, yeah, so you can see that one there. So I'll have that playing on this TV. So I've got a VGA cable running through one of these Apple Thunderbolt to VGA thingamajigs over here on this old MacBook Air. And I've got my controller plugged in here and you can see I'm pressing buttons and it's lighting up, but it's not making any sound.   So what I'll do, I'll leave it on for now and this is a game of scramble, which is the video game that I got those arcade boards for. So I feel okay playing a ROM of it on MAME. So here's a MAME ROM, let me full screen this. And so what I've done is in the MAME software I've connected up that little star button. You can see that, pressing that star button there. You know what, in fact, let me switch, I don't know, my camera, switcher there. I'll go to a top down view for this. I'll do that one so you can see what I'm pressing. So every time I press that, the, oh, I think I can't full screen that. All right, let's not full screen that. That's disappearing off of the, there you can see credits. Oh no, it's still too big. All right, let's see if I can squash you down. All right, just take my word for it. I've got like six credits on there now. And then I have this as start. And now I'm gonna use the D-pad and A and B. And you can hear, in fact, let me turn up the volume. So you can't even hear the game over that. So I'll flip that switch and turn off sound. So you can see it's working really well. And as it turns out, this project, which is written in using the Pico SDK has incredibly low latency. So this is actually a really fun to play with controller that is honestly better than your average, hey, I've just hooked up a PS3 controller or something like that. So there you can see, there is an action. So that's enough of that. Enough of me getting killed in Scramble. Scramble, by the way, I learned a bit more about it. Scramble has the distinction of being one of the first games to have levels. The notion of not just going and going and going and getting your score up until you're dead but actually having levels, as well as I think the idea of having fuel. So you have to blow up those little fuel cells to keep going or your fuel goes lower and lower and you eventually crash. So let's take this one and now unplug it. So you can see this one, I'll turn the sound back on. So this one has the KB2040 right there. When I plug that in, it's powering microcontroller on there and my KB2040. So we've got the button presses going both to the internal controller, doing its noises as well as all of the USB button presses going out to game pad stuff. So let's take this one apart and I'm sure I'll regret this, but what the heck? I'm gonna separate bin for these screws, mix them up. If you're happy with whatever setting you've got that sound on or off with, you could, by the way, just close this up so you're not dealing with that. Now, one of the things that Robert said he may consider is adding additional sensors in there to do maybe a four-way joystick or an analog joystick with that big blue button. Maybe add switches for these shoulder buttons. So given that we've got the little Stem-a-QT connector on there, you could potentially put in an accelerometer or haptic motor driver and do some little feedback, force feedback stuff if your game supports that. DJ Devin said, hey, since this is such low latency, you could really blow minds if you showed up at a game competition with this silly thing and beat a record, that'd be amazing. Yeah, these little ribbed hand grips on the back remind me of some of the ASCII wear or mad cats like third-party controllers back in sort of the PlayStation era or Xbox era. They'd always have these like ribbed grips on the back there. And it's just kind of like a HDPE plastic, sort of a nice soft-ish feeling, but sturdy plastic has some flex. Yeah, you could add a turbo button and we'll take a look at that project. It has provisions for anything and everything. So LEDs, OLEDs, there's a ton of stuff you can do. Okay, so you can see there my little switch for the speaker on-off. I just have it kind of wedged into a little opening that I artlessly cut out with an X-Acto knife there. Robert's work is much neater than mine. So here you can see I've got this little slide switch which I just grafted into one side of the speaker line. So speaker is always on, but audio is always being sent, but this is just cutting whether it's going to that speaker or not. And then you can see here, I've got my KB2040 and I don't think I'll, yeah, I might as well take it all the way apart. What the heck? Or do I have photos of, I don't think I have photos of where I soldered that in. So yeah, I'll take it all the way apart. Why not? So Robert said he hot glued his KB2040 down. I actually was able to just wedge it in there and it doesn't really want to move at all. You just got to be slightly careful with plugging and unplugging the USB, but it really is kind of nicely smudged in there and not going anywhere, especially because I cut out that hole for these buttons and that connector. So I should be able to just take out this one, screw and pull the PCB. I will, I'm going to leave, if I can, I'm going to leave the speaker connector and this button connector, I think I can and just flip this over. One thing I'll say before I do that, you'll notice that I still have the power cable where is it? This one here, this is the power connector and I just cut those, oh sorry, it's up here. I cut those connections off of the battery box. I actually ended up pulling the metal and spring contacts out of there. So I just am using that same connector. It's just running to three volts and ground on the KB2040. So let's pull that out. Like that. And now you can see I've just got my little rainbow wire, wrap wires running up to all these pads. So there are these four for the ABCD buttons and or button one, button two, button three, button four I think is how they're called in the software. And then on this side, we have the four D-pad connections here, here, here, and here. And then I think this one, yeah, this one right here that I'm pointing at, this is the D-pad one, right next to it where that red wire is going, that is the blue joystick button, that single switch that's in there that gets pressed. So that is me just following Robert's lead on putting that together. He has some nice photos and I think he'll be putting together a guide and some images on the GitHub and maybe more, but that just wraps up to the KB2040 and then there's a particular set of pins that these go to. And so what I like to do at this time is just head over to look at that config. Oh, and the other thing I'll mention actually, let me jump over here, I can turn this light back on now. Yeah, it's running off of three volts and it's seemingly happy with that. I know the batteries we're gonna add up to about what, 3.75, is that right? No, three, four, four and a half, something like that. Seems to run fine off of three, so I'm not messing with it and that's how Robert had it set up. Maybe you could run the thing off the five volt line since we have USB there, you could run it off of that as well. I think you might have to cut the raw jumper on the bottom of the KB2040. It says at that point, is there any connection? The controller's original controller, I thought the wire's bypassed it. Yeah, we're not actually bypassing it, we're actually running the two microcontrollers concurrently, which, so the KB2040 is just touching the test points but nothing's been severed, so that connection to ground or to high, whichever way it's going on the microcontroller inside of the toy is still happy, it's still getting the same commands. So let me jump over to this window right here, and I think, is it in configs here? No, by the way, this is the main info for the main project that Robert forks, this is GP2040.info, and that's all about making gamepad firmware for a host of different systems using RP2040-based microcontrollers. It was geared towards PICOs and a few others, and Robert has forked it to add the KB2040 support, which I appreciate. So let me see, where is that pinout? Oh, you know what, I made a little note of this, so yeah, not that this is super important, but we'll make sure this info's easy to find, but essentially there's just up, down, left, and right, which are on pins 27, 29, 28, and 26, that's GPIO of the chip, so you just have to look at our pinout to see which pins that is on the KB2040, and then three, two, five, and four for the four buttons, and then the joystick switches on 18. So you can go to releases here, and if you click on that, you can download a UF2, so that's all you need is throw that UF2 on there. Search around in here to find the, is it in the docs? I can't remember, sorry, yeah, I can't remember where the pin definitions are, but it is in here somewhere. And stay tuned, because there'll be more info about that coming up, maybe even a learn guide. So let me know if anyone has any other thoughts or questions. Yeah, diagrams would help, today we have the camera. Let me see, I'm just gonna double check. Hold on one second, I have one other place to look. Sure, it's here somewhere. Okay, here's the pinout reference, no? Aha, boardconfig.h, shoulda known it. So there you go, this is kind of interesting. So this is kind of multi-purpose for different boards and different setups. So this is nice, you get a flavor of how fully featured this is, you can set some of these that you're not using just to a negative one for the pin, so it won't use them. So you can see here, we have pin active high, these are the four D-pad pins that we're using that I mentioned there. These are the three, four buttons. I don't think that L2 is actually being used. Shoulder buttons, turbo button, so you could wire something up to be the turbo button. And then there's, if you wanna use LEDs, like turbo LEDs or mode LEDs, you can take a look at some of that commented out code there, turbo, if it's enabled or not, which pin to use for the turbo. I believe this even supports OLEDs and some other display types over I squared C. So you can see here, there's a whole section on OLED displays, and on and on and on. So really cool, I was not aware of this project, this GP2040 project at all before this. So thanks, thanks Robert for pointing this out. Yeah, that blue rocker would be cool for a turbo button. So I think that is gonna do it. So I will say again, playtime, and that came directly off the box here. I saw that on here somewhere. Well, take playtime to the next level. It's kind of bright, but do it, take your playtime to the next level, and get 10% off in the Adafruit store today. Go pick up a KB2040 and maybe one of these, one of these little controllers. I will post over in the Discord the GitHub for this, and that should give you a lot of, if not all of the info you need for now. So there's a link over in the Discord for you. And Davodesa, is this the way you spent your youth? Pretty much, yep. Very first controller I took apart was the Atari 2600 controller, and it just needed, it had a sticky contact. So that was one of my first controller mods as a kid. It was probably around 1983 or something like that. All right, so that's gonna do it. Thanks everyone for joining today for John Park's workshop. I will see you next week again on Tuesday for a product pick of the week and then another John Park's workshop on Thursday. Stay tuned for, I believe we have some deep dive with Tim, potentially tomorrow. Check the broadcast announce page for that and double check the blogs in case anything changes. And then we'll get back to a whole host of shows starting on Tuesday. On Wednesday we'll have 3D Hangouts. We'll have Show and Tell, Ask an Engineer, possibly a Desk of Lady Aida sometime in various hacker times. So we appreciate you hanging out for Aida Fruit Industries. I'm John Park, this has been John Park's workshop. Bye bye.


While staying staying with the House of Reps, the House of Representatives said on Tuesday there will be no budgetary allocation to the Nigeria sovereign wealth fund from the Federation account for the 2022 fiscal year. Chairman of the House Committee on Finance, James Falake, made the position of the House known as the budgeted defense of the Ministry of Finance and its agencies. He said the agency had failed to present its budget to the parliament for consideration since it was created. He said the sovereign wealth fund has continued to rely on its enabling law, which said that the board of the agency will approve its budget. According to him, the House will write to the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to ensure that no money is dispersed to the agency and the 2022 budget.


Good evening and thank you for being here today. My name is Michelle Hewitt and I'm the Public Information Officer at El Paso County Public Health. We are holding this event to provide the most recent update on COVID-19 in our community. We have some sad news to report today but we also want to share the many steps we are taking to continue to fight the spread of this disease in our community. We are pleased to have with us today Governor Jared Polis, El Paso County Commissioner Mark Waller, El Paso County Public Health Medical Director, as well as Lieutenant Governor Diane Primavera, Mayor John Souther, Colorado Springs City Councilman Wayne Williams, El Paso County Public Health Director Susan Whelan and serving as El Paso County Public Health Deputy Medical Director Dr. Leon Kelly. We will have time for questions at the end of the presentation. Please save questions until that time. El Paso County Commissioner Mark Waller will start us off. Thank you and thank you Governor Polis and Lieutenant Governor Primavera and all the members of the media for being here today. At his press conference earlier today Governor Polis said there were three Coloradans with COVID-19 in critical condition. Sadly one of those people is passed away and that person was a resident of El Paso County and the person who passed away was a woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions. Her family's been notified and we certainly all of us here today want to express our deepest condolences and sympathy to her family. This tragic news highlights the need for citizens to continue with a calm, well informed and deliberate approach to protecting themselves, their families and their communities. We want residents to know that you have a part to play to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 now more than ever. Public health officials emphasize the importance of practicing good hygiene and that good hygiene is thoroughly washing your hands for at least 20 seconds, covering coughs and sneezes with tissue or your inner elbow shirt sleeve, avoiding close contact with anyone with cold or flu-like symptoms.  People over the age of 60 and people with compromised immune systems have the greatest risk of serious complications from COVID-19 and obviously these people should take extra precautions to keep themselves safe, but so too should their families, their caregivers and anyone who might come into contact with them. Dr. Johnson is going to speak in greater detail about that later and speak in greater detail about the efforts in El Paso County as well. Before I turn this over to Governor Polis, I'd like to thank our public health director Susan Whelan, our deputy directors Dianne Ryberg and Dr. Leon Kelly and all of the county staff that have worked so hard to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our communities. I'd also like to express my gratitude and thanks to Governor Polis and his administration for all of the efforts that the state has brought forward. And with while these are difficult times, El Paso County is strong and we will continue to unite as a community to overcome any of the challenges that we see in front of us. I have no doubt, no doubt we will each come together and do our part to serve and help others and make our community the safest place possible. Thank you. Governor Polis. Thank you Commissioner. This is a extremely difficult time for our community, for the state, for the country and for the world. While we were prepared for this day and we knew that it was only a matter of time, it doesn't make it any less difficult to hear and share the news of Colorado's first loss. As a state, we're of course in mourning with the victim and our hearts go out to the family and the loved ones of the Colorado that we lost today. We feel their pain, we grieve for them and we grieve with them as we will for all of the victims of this virus and of course we've got to honor the memory of those who succumb by working as hard as we can to protect as many vulnerable Coloradans as possible from this suffering. Today's sad announcement, which we knew was coming, somewhere, somehow it happens that the first one is right here in El Paso County. What this underscores is our need to protect the most vulnerable Coloradans. Those in their 60s, especially those in their 70s and 80s and those with underlying health conditions, just to put things in perspective with some statistics. In China, the fatality rate for people over 80, 14.8 percent, over 78 percent. South Korea people over 87.2 percent, over 70, 40.3 percent. To further put that in perspective, people under 49, 0.1 to 0.2 percent fatality. This underscores the need to protect our most vulnerable. That's why we prioritize our most vulnerable in our state actions, including requiring the nursing homes and senior care facilities to have additional protocols around visitors and doing our best to ensure that our most vulnerable aren't attending public events or in public spaces. And that's why all of us need to be part of that solution as well. For your elderly neighbors, for your aunts, your uncles, your grandparents, your parents, offer to deliver groceries to their doorstep. See how you can be a part of, yes, consoling them and making sure that they know that they have company, but at the same time making sure that they don't out of necessity have to attend large crowds. That's why we recently allowed on an emergency temporary basis people over age 65 to renew their driver's licenses online. And we also issued guidance around allowing people to pick up two months of their prescription drugs rather than one month to reduce the need for visits to pharmacies. Look, this is the first. There will be more. There will be far more Coloradans who recover successfully and go on with their lives from this virus. And I know at this time Coloradans are feeling frustrated. Coloradans are feeling scared, angry. People often feel like they're not in control, but it's important to realize in these moments that we truly do have control. Each and every one controls how we respond to this virus, to this challenge. Each and every one of us can do our part for our family, for our friends, for our community. And that means things like following proper hygiene, washing your hands with soap for 20 full seconds, refraining from shaking hands and practicing social distancing, avoiding large gatherings. We issued statewide guidance today to prevent gatherings of over 250 people. They can't ensure a distance of at least six feet between people. It also means staying home from work when you're sick, and of course getting tested if you feel symptoms, and of course following the appropriate isolation of 10 to 14 days to make sure that you don't spread this to somebody more vulnerable. Look, this is a test of our character. I can assure you that we are going to get through it. We will have losses, like the very first one that we have here today in El Paso County. And the next few days and weeks and months will be difficult, not just in Colorado, not just in the United States, but across the world. But in that darkness there's also always light. A light that we will see will be the goodness of Coloradans that are looking out for one another. It could mean a young man picking up groceries for an elderly neighbor and leaving them on their doorstep so they don't have to go out. It means a small business owner giving additional sick leave to their employees to keep others safe. It means a doctor or nurse coming out of early retirement and agreeing to put on their suit and mask because their community, our state, and our country needs their help to address the surge. We all need to do everything that we can. We need to show everyone that light. We will find our way through this darkness. We're no stranger to adversity in Colorado. We've had fires and we've had floods. We've been tested before. We'll be tested again. But Coloradans are tough. We're resilient. We're going to get through this together and we're going to come out on the other side for our health, for our economy, and for our way of life. Let's do right by our communities and right by one another to make sure that the trajectory of this crisis in Colorado is one that saves as many lives as is possible in coordination with our county health departments, our cities, our school districts, and so many other great partners across the state. With that, I'd like to turn it over to our great partner on the public health side, Dr. Robin Johnson, the El Paso County Public Health Medical Director. Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Robin Johnson. I'm the El Paso County Medical Public Health Medical Director. So we realize that the continued spread of COVID-19 is frightening and that many people are worried about how to care for themselves and their families in this trying time. Please know that public health is committed to mitigating the potential spread of this disease and providing the treatment and resources needed for those who do become ill. We cannot combat this disease alone. We need the help of every one of you. Above all, it is your proactive actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 that will protect your family, friends, and neighbors who are at risk for severe illness. As a county, we all grieve the loss of life from COVID-19 and we grieve with this family for the loss of their family member. We can each do our part to prevent further death by practicing social distancing where possible. That's staying six feet or farther from others. We help limit the spread of COVID-19, which is primarily transmitted to person to person when a sick person sneezes or coughs. Social distancing is particularly important, as you've already heard, for those over 60, those with certain pre-existing medical conditions like lung disease, heart disease, and diabetes, and those with compromised immune systems.  Rather, it means that we find new ways to connect in the face of this crisis. It might mean that we attend a church or a community meeting over the web rather than attending in person, and it could lead us to call on an elderly or sick neighbor and find out what groceries or supplies they need so that we can deliver those items to their doorstep. Maybe it means we hold a video conference with grandparents rather than bringing the kids over for Sunday dinner. These simple, smart choices will help us turn the tide on the spread of this virus. And once again, you can continue to support all of our public health efforts by remaining calm, practicing good, common-sense respiratory hygiene, and being prepared to stay home if you need to for a couple weeks. You can protect yourself and your loved ones by washing your hands, staying home when you're sick, covering coughs and sneezes with a tissue or coughing and sneezing into your inner elbow. So quoting David Brooks from the New York Times today, in every pandemic there are doctors and nurses who respond with unbelievable heroism and compassion. That is happening in our community and across the globe today, and we would like to extend our sincerest thanks from public health as well as El Paso County to these individuals and to these agencies who are standing in the gap. Please know that your public health professionals are hard at work addressing the situation and taking the steps necessary to fight this virus. We consider each of you to be our public health partners, and we will continue to be transparent with you about how best to combat the spread of COVID-19. Thank you. We'll be happy to take some questions from the press. We don't have information about that particular patient. Again, out of respect for the out of respect for the deceased, additional information will be available if and when the family desires that. What's that? Okay, so again the vast majority of people who contract coronavirus will not need any medical treatment. They need to remain isolated in their home for a period of 10 to 14 days after the symptoms subside, 10 days after the symptoms subside. For those who need medical treatment of any age, they need to call 911 or call the provider if you're having difficulty breathing. And again, given the proper safety protocols at the hospital, you will be admitted and they need care up to and including a ventilator to help help them recover. People who of all ages who've had to be on ventilators have recovered successfully. Others have immune systems that are unable to prevail at the end of the day and they succumb. Again, we had our first victim of coronavirus today here in Colorado. There will be many more. There'll be some that reside in nursing facilities, some that reside at home. There will be victims across all sectors of life. What's important is that this is the first of many to come. And of course, just as we'll be sensitive to all of the families and loved ones of the victims, we want to make sure that we're providing the basic information to the public while respecting the family's desires for what else is known about the victim. The steps that are being taken immediately a couple days ago, we announced our guidance and requirements around additional steps to protect nursing nursing homes. That includes screening of staff and visitors to the nursing home and retirement facilities, limitations on the number of visitors to two. That means if you have a family of four and you want to visit grandma, it means two people can go at once and they will be screened on a mission to make sure that they don't have flu-like symptoms. So this additional guidance is available online. It's been disseminated in calls with the nursing homes across our state and it's now in effect across the state of Colorado. Well, again, I think it's important that there's no reason for people to panic. People are going about their everyday lives, they're going to work. Many Coloradans will come down with coronavirus. And most of those will have a minor illness and be in convenience as they might with a cold and be able to return to work after their period of isolation. But for the most vulnerable and for a small percentage of those of all ages, this will take on a much more threatening form. And for up to 20% of coronavirus victims there will be some form of medical treatment that's required. So there's being testing done across two of the three areas that we hope to have testing done. We have the state lab, there's a drive-through facility that wasn't able to be open in the snow today. The safety equipment and the suits are not rated for for moisture, external moisture. It will be open tomorrow. There are a number of health partners, including UC Health, Centura, Kaiser, and many others that are doing testing through Lab Corps or Quest. UC Health has a driving facility here in Colorado Springs and there are likely other facilities in the area administering testing. The state lab processes results in 24 hours. The Lab Corps and Quest are on the 72-hour timeframe. We hope that in the next week or two, very likely, a couple of our larger networks, the ones working on this include UC Health and Children's, will likely develop the ability to do in-state testing on the turnaround, which means they'll likely be able to have some capacity to 24-hour turnaround. Now let me talk about testing for a moment because there's been a lot of focus on this. There's really three purposes that testing serves in this. One is the epidemiological information that comes out of that to help us, the political leaders, the public health leaders, make informed decisions about where the virus is and isn't, what the threat of public events are in different areas. That can be accomplished through a sampling of data. There's not a epidemiological reason for everybody to be tested, but we don't want to act blind. We need to have a sampling of people across different parts of Colorado. The second reason is the clinical reason for the treatment of the patient. That is not needed clinically for the vast majority of people who contract coronavirus. They can simply treat coronavirus like the flu or cold, remain in their homes, and only seek out medical treatment if they are having difficulty breathing and need medical treatment. The third reason, and probably the most relevant reason that testing needs to be scaled up on a larger scale, is so that anybody exhibiting flu-like symptoms can return to work sooner once coronavirus is ruled out. So if you have, remember that based on our initial epidemiological data out of the Denver drive-through site for the first two days, nine in 10 people tested did not have coronavirus. That means one in 10 did, nine in 10 had a cold or the flu or some other ailment. We want those people to be able to return to work after three or four days just as you normally would. You have a cold, the fever goes away, a day or two later, you're back at work. If everybody was a cold or flu has to stay out of work 14 days, it only worsens our workforce shortage that we have. So scaling up that testing capacity to make sure that people can return to work as soon as they are safe to return to work is absolutely critical. Again, as we continue to scale up testing capacity across the state, with the private partners, with federal help, and with the public labs. So we fully expect, based on the data that we have, that there are far more Coloradans that have coronavirus than are reflected in the testing. Now to be clear, we have better testing than any state in the country. In fact, more than 10 percent of all the tests administered nationally have been administered in Colorado because we scaled this up several days ahead of other states. But that still means that there are likely many undiagnosed cases. That's why people exhibiting cold or flu-like symptoms should remain home from work and should self-isolate pending test results, given the fact that based on our limited sample size, approximately one in 10 might in fact have coronavirus. Nine in 10 do not, would test negative for that. And again, that'll be updated on a regular basis as we develop a more larger data set. Yeah, so that was just today. We're doing two things. We are expecting, based on the experience in other countries, that again, this is sadly not the first critical case here of the several that we have. So we are going to need additional capacity. We've activated the National Guard. They're actually going to be running in conjunction with the civilian leadership, the Denver Drive through test site tomorrow, so that the state CDPHE folks can work to develop an additional site and an additional part of the state without accessibility to private or public testing. We are also asking that those who are qualified, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, who are working in another field or who have left the field, but are willing to re-engage to contact their former employers so that they might be available to return to service in a surge. Finally, we are waiving the normal requirements for people who are credentialed out of state, pharmacists, nurses, doctors, so that they can get reciprocal recognition to be able to practice in Colorado when needed under an emergency basis through Department of Regulatory Affairs. Those just went out this morning. The formal DORA guidance around the licensure will likely go out Monday, and again, the direction to folks who have left the field or are retired is to contact their former employer first, and we're hopeful that that's occurring, and I've heard from several hospitals that people have contacted them. So again, we also support the role of county health across the state to have appropriate localized responses depending on the situation, and I'll just give an example. Pitkin County, which has one of the highest rates that we've identified so far of transmission on occurrence of the coronavirus, went to prevent gatherings of 50 and up two days ago, I believe. We support that. The statewide guidance of 250 is the minimal statewide guidance for areas that have active contagion and become hotspots. We fully are in correspondence with their local health authority and are supportive of the additional steps that they feel are necessary in that community. Again, this is something that brings Coloradans together. We fully expect that all Coloradans want to prevent the transmission of this virus. All Coloradans share in the goal of protecting our most vulnerable and fully confident that Coloradans know that we need to avoid large gatherings, particularly with our most vulnerable population. I would like to add that several agencies and faith-based sectors have taken steps above and beyond that guidance. The archdiocese has canceled their in-person masses this weekend. We had a call with faith leaders from across the state earlier today, and they are all cognizant of the threat, particularly, again, for the most vulnerable and elderly. Those who have congregations of 80 or 100 and 150 that might still be meeting all know that they need to reach out to their parishioners in their 70s and 80s and encourage that they join in fellowship in a different way than the traditional one that involves physical proximity. So I think there was, Mayor Seathers has a response to that here. The details are being worked out, but I think a couple of our YMCA facilities will be available for childcare and some other possibilities, and I think you'll hear a lot more about that as the weekend goes on. And there has been a lot of discussion statewide about making sure the free and reduced lunch students are able to continue to receive breakfast and lunch services across the state. That's been finalized, but that's been front and center in the minds of many of the districts to make sure that those youth that are most at risk are able to continue to receive nutritional meals during this closure. So, yes, we do have a mental health professional to answer that, and I would let me just address the kind of, she'll talk about the general anxiety. I want to address that for people who are in isolation because they may or may not have it, or they do have it, but of minor symptoms. It's important that they honor and comply with that isolation, and I know that can be challenging because spending 14 days at home when you're healthy is not easy away from friends and family, but it is so critical from a public health perspective. So use technology, read a book, watch those movies, but it's absolutely critical that those who are healthy but tested positive or have pending testing results fully honor that period of isolation to prevent the spread to those who are most vulnerable. Hi, I'm Dr. Lacey Edwards. I'm a clinical psychologist at Aspen Point. We are a local behavioral health provider and we're partnering with El Paso County in this. So thank you for the question around anxiety, and I hear that here in the room, and one of the things I think about with that is I also hear how much you care about your community and one another and you want to be doing well. So with the anxiety, it's really normal when we have uncertain and unexpected events like this, all of our anxiety will peak and you may feel it go up and down throughout the day, and we also have choice in that, right? We get to choose where we focus and where we focus our minds, what we choose to do if we do end up in isolation or how we care for loved ones who may also need that, and so I want to encourage you to be proactive in that. How do you start your day? What do you focus your mind on? What do you choose to look at in the media? I know there's been a lot of inflammatory things with good intent of getting the word out there, but we want to really choose to focus on how do I stay grounded in this and what do I have control over in my day to day? So through that, you can practice yoga, you can practice stretching, things that calm you, things that ground you. You can choose to focus on a mantra or deep breathing or maybe there's something new you want to learn. I would encourage you to focus your energy. If you start to notice that you're becoming overwhelmed, how can you use that time to redirect your mind and care for those around you, care for yourself? Maybe start a new hobby that you can, but there are good things that can come from this season as well and we want to encourage you to step into that. So by the way, I have an answer to an earlier question about how this lady lived. She lived on her own, so that is being released that the lady lived in her own home or apartment, so just to be clear. Again, no, this lived independently. So again, there has been additional guidance and we have had several conversations with the ski industry. They've taken immediate steps as of several days ago to ensure that skiing parties are not combined with other skiing parties in closed areas like gondolas, that means if there's four people scheme, they would not be another two or four people in a gondola. I think they're taking additional measures on chairlifts. It's also certainly possible that some are making decisions about whether to remain open both in light of the decreased demand as well as legitimate health concerns. So let me walk this how this works from a worker perspective.  There is a guaranteed four days of sick leave for people in those fields, meaning if they are ill, they should not go to work. They will be paid. They need to get tested. If it comes back negative, then they had the flea work hold. They returned to work in three or four days comes back positive. They will go over to state unemployment for 14 days. For the full period of their isolation, they will be compensated. And there are also discussions now about what additional work might look like federally. That's very much central to the discussions around the second federal piece of legislation that's being considered. The first piece addressed public health. The second piece economic. I had a call with our congressional delegation yesterday. I talked to Senator Gardner and Senator Bennett today about that effort. So, again, we did a couple of things with regard to the cost for those who are insured. There is no copay. You're talking about an uninsured population. I think we have a $1 copay going in for Medicaid. Again, if people are ill, they should self-isolate. If you recover, again, the question is if it tests positive, you need to remain isolated for 14 days. If it's negative, you can return to work quicker. Of course, there's additional concerns about our most vulnerable population. And included with that would be our homeless population, many of whom also have additional health concerns. Thank you all. And again, just to put this in perspective, we are so saddened by today's news and today's loss. I just wanted to add one thing. Okay. We'll add one thing before we close. I'm so sorry. I'll let you close this. As to the homeless, as you all are aware, we had a recent outbreak of hepatitis A in our community. And with that, we have been able to work very closely with all of our homeless agencies as well as our hospital systems and respite care. Just yesterday, we began those conversations to really continue to build upon those collaborations, those relationships that are now strong to begin developing processes that will address some of those concerns around our more vulnerable population of the homeless. And again, once we got the news of the virus in Colorado, we knew that today was inevitable. We didn't know if it would be yesterday or today or next week. We mourn, of course, that that first victim is here in El Paso County. And again, I think the main message is, while this is the first, it won't be the last, but together we're going to get through this. We're going to make sure we protect our most vulnerable population. We're going to make sure that the trajectory of the spread here in Colorado is such that it doesn't overwhelm the capabilities of our health care system, not only to address coronavirus, but to address everything else that saves lives every day in our hospitals. So we're doing everything we can in conjunction with our hospitals, with our county health departments and with our other first responders to make sure that we are preparing Colorado as best we can for the days and weeks ahead. And we encourage all of the citizens of Colorado to do the same in your own personal lives. Thank you. With that, we'll go ahead and close, but we wanted to let our media partners know that we'll have county officials and the mayor available for additional questions after. Thank you.


Oh, hey you guys are a little bit early video hasn't started yet But if you want a quick peek behind the scenes of how we do our designs Stick around and we'll show you what we do We're starting with an 18-inch round Kim's got an idea I'm just gonna lay it down and give her some space to draw Yeah, this is what you tell me I could draw it right here show show show them what I'm looking for So hopefully the other cameras are gonna catch this So for this week's video, we thought we'd step out of the sublimation a little bit do something different because it's been a couple of weeks and I have a new idea for a round each week when we create a new project We typically pin it on a Pinterest and one of the things that gets pinned Multiple times a day so many times are these little houses we did last year And what was it? Welcome to our beautiful chaos stay a while that gets pinned so much So I thought that was my inspiration for this week's videos is those little houses and I actually have two ideas and This week we're gonna do a door round next week. We're gonna do like a home accent standing houses So for this week, I want to show Garrett what I'm thinking I found So as usual I say it all the time I was out there surfing on Pinterest and found some inspiration for what I want to do I was actually looking at tiny houses and I actually found a Post from art calm. That's the inspiration for this for this door round So I'm gonna go ahead and draw this up for you. Okay, good And it's not to scale so just bear with me here. I think we're gonna do a little house here He's gonna have two roofs Double roof but not double sides just two roofs Like this and then the hole and the hole and maybe a little post and Then a taller one But this one the sides can kind of come in like this a little bit You see like a more traditional house. Can we do that and I like the little heart cut out and the post and Then this is a little short guy. He's got a shorty in the middle Yep, and he's gonna be like this and he actually has a double roof too But he actually has the little short house on the inside With a little door and I'm thinking maybe even a door. So this one's a this one's a window maybe this one gets like a Maybe this one gets like a little door somehow Maybe doesn't have a thing right here This is what I do to Garrett all the time is I'm like you see what I'm doing here Now you make it better And then this little guy he's more he's a little more of a wider house But this one's actually got a picket fence.  Now I can't draw So Garrett just has to wing it with whatever I Used to figure it out. I hope that was cute here And I actually liked the little rooftop on this one. Did you see how it was done here? I'm just a little slat across the top there and then this one Back to a tall one and then I like this is like a little shelf or something right here We just put a little piece of a little strip and then I like how there's a star Around the outside of the hole on this one See that and then this will just say a regular welcome Just a welcome and then on a shiplap now that I'm debating so that picture fancy welcome and then That has a that's actually set on a vertical Shiplap background. Okay, and I know we have a shiplap around that's not one of them But should I do it in vertical or just do it in horizontal because these can kind of sit on a line Is this all one thing or are you each of these separate? Um, I don't care that that could go either way whatever ends up being easier for you All right, and then they all have basis Oh, they all have basis. Okay. I think yeah, I think you're gonna need that to kind of ground. Um Yeah, like that. All right cute, right? That's gonna be so cute looks cute. Let me take a picture Now I'm going to bring it into illustrator. I'm going to make this a real sign Like like Gepetto. I'm a modern day Gepetto I'm going to import Kim's drawing and put it on the bottom layer and I'm going to lock that layer I'm just using shapes and the line tool and then I'm going to outline all of my strokes later on But as I build each house I put it on its own layer so that I don't mess that house up when I'm building the next house Line it all up. Make sure it looks good Ungroup everything That way I can give it a drop shadow to give it some depth We'll export it as a gif and let's go show the boss All right, what do you think? Oh my gosh, that is so cute. That's perfect Yep All right, now I'm gonna go make this a cut file Lose the drop shadow copy some shapes to make accents Merge some shapes to make bases separate the accent pieces from the base pieces Drop the fill give them a red cut stroke or a blue score stroke export as an svg Import that svg into the glow forge app and prep it to start making your first test cut We're going to use cardboard first I'm going to use this pizza box for our test cut So that I don't waste any mdf wood is expensive right now crazy expensive can't be tested on real wood The pizza box is 1 eighth inch thick or 0.125 and then my cardboard cut settings are 180 speed 60 power and then my score settings are 500 speed 60 power I really just cranked up the speed. All right, let's do our first test cut During the test cut. I noticed that it cut the fence and one of the bird holes two times So I'm going to need to clean up that file before our final cut Test cut So this is what it looks like on the vertical Yeah I mean unless we can find a way to make it look like reclaimed wood I say regular shiflap and then I can paint it. I can paint it like We could engrave it, but that would take a long time I could paint it. What do you do? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, that would take too long So we'll just go Horizontal Yeah, you're the lineup anyway. Well houses sitting on that line. Yeah All right Test cut All right, so we've done all of our prep work We think we're ready to begin the project. So we have our little cardboard cut out looks so cute We have the basic idea of what it is that we're going to do. I have a basic idea of paints So Now we begin the project We already start filming. Are you ready? Cheers I'm ready Yep What is up a welcome back Do you like to do a bill to make it so do we and we have a new video Each week this week. We gave you a peek behind the scenes Yep, and we're looking for some new designs for the farmers market So we're going to test cut that today. We're going to put it together See what you guys think take it to the farmers market on saturday. See how it dies Ooh showcase two days We're going to gather all of our supplies really just needed some mdf Some glue and our trusty country chic paints That's right and some and some dombers We'll finger dombers makeup sponges. Yeah, yeah things to smear the paint around with And that is it Step two, we're going to make all of our cuts. I'm going to bring this mdf over To the glow forge and cut it out this quarter inch mdf We're going to cut out the design that we already tested on the cardboard. We're going to mask our mdf Throw it in there.  Okay, maybe that's not that's right A fake shiplap just comes naturally to anybody Masking the boards prevents the scorching on the edges then for quarter inch mdf I just use the thick draft board settings and it cuts in scores beautifully If this was not a cursive welcome and we actually did a little piece of weathered wood right there And we're welcome on it Do you want me to go do that? I could do that real quick. Yeah, where you're painting I can go Yeah, let me do that on film and say all right. I've changed my mind Oh Let's do no, let's let's do it for real So am I going to make a plank like that after I start painting? Okay, you're gonna start painting. All right, do step three Step three change your mind halfway through I mean new inspiration Step three Paint all right, so We decided that we're gonna change this welcome him now thinks it's boring It does look boring blase And she wants like a fake plank With wood grain and the word welcome. Isn't that gonna be cute? I'm gonna go back to my inspiration photo. I'm gonna do that and she's gonna paint So I'm gonna go figure out how to make that Then cut it and I'll be back She paints Well, you gotta come and help me paint So hurry up So engraving it would take 50 minutes and scoring it would take 15 So I'm just gonna score and paint it I'm gonna remove the masking where I want the grain to be dark Then I'm gonna paint it black Then I'm gonna remove the rest of the masking I'm gonna paint the whole thing white kind of like a white wash Step four Now we assemble it. We're gonna use this glue this star bond medium. It's a gel It works great. You got like 15 seconds to work with it though so Just go So here's our weathered board. He did a great job You know making those ends look all weathered and What age I guess broken aged like washed up on shore So I'm excited. This is exactly what I wanted Now we have the exits It's really just some ribbon and a bow We're gonna throw it through the slots tie into some knots And then put the bow on Not used to doing it up in the air like that Yeah, let's see a little knots. All right, which side?  Yeah, I mean pretty close, right? Well, and I think that really Brings it together at least it matches my inspiration photo. Anyway, I think it's really cute I was looking for something you're drawing Yeah Brought your drawing to life I was looking for something that would take us from 4th of july To fall. No, I guess this one's kind of beachy still, but there's that gap in like late july august Where there's no like holiday. What are you gonna do?  Well, wait till we do this with a christmas theme So I've already got plans and we don't need the driftwood We could go back to like a red fancy script welcome and then do these as like little gingerbread houses Oh I feel the juices flowing Thanks to our patrons. You guys are awesome. We love you guys. I love chatting with you guys I love it when you interact with us. It's fun. You guys have a lot of great ideas too. Thanks And uh, I hope you guys have enjoyed those svgs last week. I see a lot of you guys cut them out Awesome. Thank you It looks like we're about out of time So if I'm not gonna see you in the patron after show, then I will see you next week Or we'll do it build it and make it again Finally something that's solid Thank goodness you got something to balance and break If I won't break it I'm worried that birds might try to fly in there. It's like a roadrunner situation All right, that was it that that's how we do it So, uh, that was a total behind the scenes and we'll see you next week