Aloha, this is Rob Hack with another edition of Exporting from Hawaii. Today my guest is a good friend and one of the busiest people I know is Jimmy Chan. He is general manager of the Hawaiian chip company here in Honolulu. Welcome Jimmy. Aloha. Thanks for having me. Besides being general manager of the Hawaiian chip company, I know you're also on the board of the Hawaii Pacific Export Council. You're on the board of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and you're president of the Hawaii Food Manufacturers Association. Is that correct? Yep. Anything I don't know, any other organization? Not that I'm aware of yet. So with all of that, how do you have time to make chips? You know, it's a little rough. But you know, I think all those organizations provide great support for the food manufacturing industry and even what I do as the Hawaiian chip company. So for me, I feel like it's making time for those organizations is no problem. Okay, great. Now, tell us about the Hawaiian chip company. When did it start and how did it start? So it started almost 20 years ago. I basically was coming out of college to try and figure out what to do with the rest of my life. I had a speech communications degree, not a very good grade point average. So in the future, more academics was looking unlikely and I just needed something to do. And I saw Emeril Lagasse make some sweet potato chips on his Emeril live show where he used to do bam with the garlic and that whole bit. And I saw these Okinawan sweet potatoes on the counter when I went to go grab another beer and I thought, hey, you know what, let's try and make these. So I sliced them up thin, put them in hot oil on a stove, took them out, passed them out to friends, family. Next thing you know, people started asking, hey, can I buy a bag? So we thought, hey, you know what, let's go ahead and build this chip company and let's sell it off in two years and make millions and retire early and this and that. And you know, it was a lot of fun. I got friends together, we invested a little bit of money, extra beer money. And we were just trying to sell them at the swap meets, at the trade shows, trying to get into stores. But the cool thing was owning our own business and having the freedom to come in late after you go try surfing in the morning, then you leave early to go play soccer and hit the bar and that, lo and behold, that led to some dire financial situations which we had to really clean up and we did so and just kind of refocused and added stuff like taro to the line, which by stroke of luck, Brutaleo was making taro chips out of their Halava plant. And as we were kind of refocusing and retooling the company, they closed up that plant. And when we started making taro chips, we filled that void that they left in the market and that's what kind of helped propel us into more stability. When did you move into the facility, your main facility on Nimitz Highway? So that happened, so we started in 2000 officially, that facility was about 2008. So after the first couple of years we ran into trouble, then it was five years of actually building a real company and then by 2008 the banks were finally ready to take us seriously and said, hey, you know what, we'll loan you the money for this factory because we believe you have a good product and now you have a good company. Well that's great and at the facility on Nimitz, you have and you want customers to visit you there. Is that right? Yes. You know, that was the initial concept of the chip company was to set up and do retail, kind of mimicking what Big Island Candies is doing in Hilo and our other location was just poor for that, but by 2008 when we moved to this bigger facility, we started to explore with export, you know, and trying to export to the, not just export internationally but increasing sales to the mainland. So at that point, we didn't really have a retail store or anything set up, but after about three or four years of trying that and getting experience in the export market, we decided, hey, you know what, we need to get the tourists down to our place and give them an experience that they'll take back with them and then create the demand for our product. So now, yes, you can come down to our factory and actually get the chips, not just pre-packaged but made to order, which is what these bags here are. And they're warm. They're hot out of the fire. Right out of the fire and then you get to put your own seasonings. So you choose from 20 different seasonings and make your own combinations and develop your own personalized experience. Oh, that's perfect for the tourist market. Tell us a little bit, what types of chips do you have? So we got, so like I said, we started with the purple chips. You see those darker chips in there?  We actually just got a shipment from Maui and that's looking pretty viable as far as the source goes. We also use taro. Like I said, we buy everything on the local market that meets spec. If we do need to bring some in, we can to supplement supply. And then we also have these orange sweet potatoes, which really make the bag pop as far as color goes. Oh yeah, definitely. We initially got those from Molokai. We were getting them from Molokai but then the deer that have over on Molokai started interfering with the farm and then eventually we had to shift to a supplier on the big island. Ok, great. And more recently, you were marketing these fantastic sauces, which I've told you about. We use a lot at my house. Tell us about the sauces. When did that start? So the sauces started right about when we were trying to do our initial push to the mainland.  So by the time you get it shipped up there, you're down to two months and it was becoming a tough sell. And I thought, you know what, nobody actually makes a barbecue sauce that's actually spicy. So we had a chip flavor called Kilauea Fire, which is one of my favorites. It was a blend of habanero cayenne smashed into a garlic base and I took that seasoning and added it to an old family barbecue recipe and we came up with this, the Kilauea Fire barbecue sauce. So that's sort of the flagship sauce right now. Yeah, that's the original. And then in trying to get what we found is that it, like you said, it goes with breakfast, it goes with hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries. So to give it more utility, instead of just waiting till people barbecue, we added more heat, more habanero, more cayenne, and started marketing this hot sauce, which is our number one retail seller on the store shelves. The barbecue is our number one seller on food service to restaurants. Oh, interesting. But it's two complimentary products that the sauce can go on the chips, but yet they're very different products, especially in terms of exporting or shipping, because as you said, the chips have a rather short shelf life of three months-ish, but the sauces have a shelf life of a year or so, so it's much easier to ship those for, especially for exporting. So let's talk about that for a second. Tell us what have you done in terms of selling the chips or the sauces to Japan, for example. I'll just say Japan, because I know you have a lot of Japanese clients that love the products. Yeah, so for the chips, we initially wanted to get into all the Hawaiian stores on the store shelves, like there's spa resorts that mimic Hawaii, and they have huge hula shows there, that kind of stuff. And you know, kind of like what we saw with our attempt to penetrate the market on the West Coast, it was difficult because people were still unfamiliar with the brand and the products, but what we started to find success with was actually just selling in bulk to restaurants, so becoming part of a menu item. And then what we found is that actually even with our sauces, we had even more success, because we didn't have the limitations of the short shelf life. So the distributor there could chip up a bunch, cost effectively, and then distribute as needed. Whereas the chips with that short shelf life, a lot of times it's a rush order air freight. The cost just takes it off of most menus. What kind of restaurants are using the chips? Are they Hawaii themed restaurants or Okinawa themed restaurants? You know, the Hawaii, with the chips, it's generally the Hawaii themed, the Hawaii themed restaurants, or executive chefs in really high end hotels, like the new Otani hotel. Their chef was using it for some kind of a dish, and it's generally either really high end or Hawaiian. And then same with the sauces, although with the sauces, we're actually having success according to my Japanese distributor in restaurants that are just more traditional, not just Hawaiian, but traditional Japanese, they've added it to certain menus. And as a component of a menu item, now it's not hitting that same competition as you would as trying to compete as a katsu sauce on a store shelf, right? We're not going dollar for dollar there. It's just maybe our sauce costs a little more as part of the menu item, but it can be hidden into the cost of the menu item itself. Yeah, there's no way you can compete with just standard bulldog katsu sauce there, right? And it's not even worth trying to compete there, but where you are unique in that Maiden Hawaii, very wholesome, has a great opinion, word association Maiden Hawaii in Japan is just fantastic, it's spicy, which Japan doesn't have a lot, right? It really isn't a strong domestic manufacturer of spicy sauces in Japan, and so this is just fantastic product that you're exporting. So you were telling me before the show started that you have a couple of new products that you're going to start sending to Japan, can you tell us about those? Yeah, so basically we've got our base products. We've also got a raging volcano, this is one of the products that's currently sold in Japan, it's a raging volcano, it's the same kill way of our seasoning just on a vinegar base instead of a tomato base. But now what we're doing with these products is we're adding in a little bit more, you mentioned the strength of the Hawaii brand and tropical fruit is a big part of that brand. And what's more synonyms with Hawaii than lily-coi and mango and pineapples, right? So we've started to incorporate those flavors into these sauces and the first one that we're rolling out and that we're going to introduce into the Japan market this year is our lily-coi versions of the raging volcano and also the lily-coi barbecue sauce. Wow, I'm excited to try that because it's two of my favorite flavors mashed together, lily-coi and spicy sort of habanero type sauce. I can't wait to try that. So on that note, we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back with exporting from Hawaii with Jimmy Chan from the Hawaiian chip company. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. When I was growing up, I was among the one in six American kids who struggled with hunger and hungry mornings make tired days, grumpy days, kind of days. But with the power of breakfast, the kids in your neighborhood can think big and be more. 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I'm Rob Hack and our guest today is Jimmy Chan, who is general manager of the Hawaiian ship company, and we're fortunate that he's brought a bunch of his products here to show us before the break we were salivating over the new lily koi hot sauce that will be coming out of the Kilauea Fire brand hot sauce that they're getting ready to ship to Japan. So let's talk about the Japanese market again and stay on that topic for a few minutes. It's no secret that we're fortunate enough in Hawaii to have a lot of Japanese tourists coming here every year, but roughly 2019 should see about 1.8 million. Most of those coming through Oahu, through Honolulu International Airport, a lot of them coming into Waikiki, but certainly in the Honolulu metropolitan area. We have a great opportunity to market to these tourists. So can you share with our audience, how are you marketing to the Japanese tourists and what's the difference between your marketing in Japan to the Japanese market there and is your distributor agent involved in that? And how does that work? So trying to build in a feedback loop between selling in the local market and then driving demand in the homeland market. Well, I think I think a lot of it's just trying to build familiarity. You know, I think in that market, they tend to kind of follow, you know, follow the next guy. And if there's a line, they'll stand in that line to see what's at the end of it. And we're just trying to cultivate an experience that's compelling enough for them to want to stand in a line in front of the Hawaiian chip company. And a lot of that comes from for us. What we're doing is we're trying to mimic basically what we see in Japan. Because, you know, as a speech major, there wasn't a lot I could do with my degree, but one of the things that we learned in that was in interpersonal communication, people tend to project communication the way they want it received.  First thing you come up to the booth and even just their value on freshness and, you know, hot senbei and araday and that kind of stuff. And that's where this, this attempt at, you know, this way of packaging the chips fresh from the friars kind of speaks to that.  And I'm like, well, you know, that's that's great. But I actually stole the idea from McDonald's Japan, you know. And and that's that's kind of what what what we do.  It's about going with my distributor, seeing what works, what actually is well received by their local culture and then trying to mimic certain aspects of that here while maintaining our identity as a Hawaii company. It's you bring up a very interesting point about going to the target market in your case, Japan, keeping your eyes open and learning and trying to adopt some of what you see not entirely because you need your product to be unique. But at least try to adopt some local packaging standards and what have you. Did you did you have to change anything about your packaging to go to Japan? Um, you know, we we do have we do have labels that we for for certain certain products we have labels that will that are translated into Japanese that my distributor would just stick stick on over the bottles. But what we found is the with our by concentrating on the food service market, we're able to just bypass bypass that. And that's that's been a little little little easier for us. What is your distributor do for you in Japan? Distributors can run the gamut of being very involved or not very involved. And it just depends on what your relationship is with the distributor, what you need from them. So explain to the audience in your case, what does the distributor do? Are they involved in the importation of the product and paperwork? Or are they involved in the marketing aspect of the product? How does it work for you? So for for our company, it's it's pretty much full service. You know, like he's he's out there trying to to secure new accounts. So it's hitting hitting the pavement, introducing product, participating at trade shows, taking orders and then placing orders and then figuring out how for for me how to get my products to Japan, helping me with all the export documents on and then even in Japan, it's about trying to figure out the best mechanism to to promote the products. You know, great. Products like this, especially the the sauces that are heavy, dense, liquids, particularly the products that ship in glass bottles, they're heavy. And so it's much more cost efficient to ship by ocean. Is that what you're doing? Generally speaking, shipping pallets at a time? You know, generally speaking, it's that's probably the best way to ship the sauces. But sometimes we run into good problems.  And, you know, they based their projections last summer on the prior summer's performance and halfway through the summer, it was outperforming. And they they need a product right away. So we had to ship it to get it to get it over to the air air cargo and get over there as soon as possible. And, you know, of course, that meant smaller margins for somebody. But, you know, I have a good relationship with my distributors who were able to work it out. Well, that's good. So you're shipping mostly by ocean from Hawaii directly to probably Yokosuka a port near there and then inland transportation to wherever the product is needed. You mentioned off camera that it's been difficult for you to make any headway in the Australian market because there's no shipping directly from Hawaii to Australia by ocean. It would have to go to the mainland first, probably Long Beach and then off to Australia. Yeah, that makes it cost prohibitive. Yeah. So yeah, I mean that that I mean that added on an additional, you know, at least 10 to 15 percent on top of the 10 to 15 percent that would have paid anyways to get it to the West Coast or whatever. And it just took us at prices out of out of market. Are there any inbound duties or tariffs involved in bringing the product into Japan? You know, there there are. It's just again, I kind of rely on a distributor to handle that. And with that, he'll bundle it into his price. And at that point, it's just up to the up to the customer. And that's why, again, being part of a menu ingredient is a lot more viable for at least for my company, because we're not going to be able to scale up and save on costs, you know, immediately. So it's it kind of it kind of works well that we're targeting that food service food service category first as we grow our infrastructure in Hawaii. There's a big trade show every year in March called FoodX in Makuhari in Japan. I assume you're going to that. Yes. And the Hawaiian chip company products are you exhibit there? Are you in a Hawaii booth? Pavilion, I should say. Yep. So generally, we've we've partnered up with our distributor. He takes an active part in helping us set up and we'll we'll we'll take part in in part of the generally the Department of Agriculture of Hawaii Department of Agriculture will set up a pavilion and within that pavilion will either find space as a part of their seal of quality program or even sometimes part of their pavilion will be partitioned off for Hawaii Food Manufacturers Association participation, which was actually how I first got my introduction into Japan. It was taking part as part of Hawaii Food Manufacturers booth within the Department of Ag Pavilion. And that helps offset a lot of costs, too, because otherwise, I mean, if we were to participate on our own, you're looking at six thousand dollars for just the booth. And let alone travel and what have you. No, I absolutely agree with you that these Hawaii pavilions, either through debuts, pavilions or Department of Agriculture pavilions are a great way for the Hawaii companies to get into these markets cost-effectively. And you were saying that you use FoodX or some other trade shows as a way to test products in Japan and see what the market feedback is. Can you talk about that for a second? Yeah, so so we'll go up and we'll we'll actually we'll actually assist our distributor in passing out samples and seeing just seeing just seeing what resonates, just seeing the reaction. I mean, like, you know, there's FoodX show and then another one that we participate in was is the DBET sponsored pavilion at the Tokyo International Gift Show, and that thing gets almost 200,000 people through that thing. So there's really no other opportunity, no better opportunity to get that volume of of people to try your products and give you an honest assessment. And so from there, that's how we've kind of shrunk our product line. Because, you know, if you look at our entire product line, we've probably got, you know, 20 to 25 different items and this and that. But these are really the ones that have resonated at those shows and resulted in orders. So with that, that's what we push into the market. And that's why we're going to test out this lily-coy to see if it is as well-received as it's being received here. Oh, I hope so. I hope it does well. We're going to wrap up soon. Can we bring up a slide on the contact info for the Hawaiian chip company? And while this slide is up, I just put here some shops that I know on Oahu where people can buy your products. But tell us, where can people get these products? You had mentioned sometimes available on Hawaiian Airlines. Are there others? Yeah, so yeah, Hawaiian Airlines has been a tremendous account for us. We actually just got into Sam's Club. OK, great. So you can get the tarot chips in Sam's Club. A lot of people do get our chips at Costco. And then also, let's see. I've seen it at times. Yeah, so at times, longs and of course KTA on the Big Island, you know, they're kind of kind of from the Big Island. So they I don't know if it's just as a favor to me or what, but they're one of the first guys to pick up any of the products that I that I offer. And if people would like to visit the facility, what's the address on Nimitz or behind it's behind Nimitz? Yeah, so it's actually you can see the building on from Nimitz, but you have to enter on Republican Street, which is parallel to Nimitz. One nine two eight Republican Street. Great, and your hours of operation? On nine to five, Monday through Friday and then Saturdays, 10 to three. Well, great, Jimmy Mahalo for being here. We greatly appreciate your time. We're a very busy person and thank you for showing off these fantastic products and telling us about your exporting activities at the Hawaiian chip company. Mahalo, this is Rob Hack from exporting from Hawaii. Thank you. Thank you.


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We have some things to look out in the market because there are some prices from these new cars that are in the game these road to the final items that have gone up in price crazy crazy amounts. Usman Nabele one example almost up to a million coins right now in the market basically the second set of road to the final cards went up or went out of packs and all the fricking prices are going nuts now I mean this is definitely people realizing these cards are super rare I think part of this has to do with just people investing in the cards and also it's just due to the fact that these cards are super duper rare so if anybody wants them in their team they're having to pay the big bucks for them because they know these are live items they know this is going to continue to get upgraded throughout the champions league this year and they know that at least a few of these cards were only in packs for a few days so actually if you go over here and check this one out over on the foot bin situation which is this road to the final set number one son the Balamores Sancho Allen Allen is 439k militao is up over 260,000 coins from when he was at his very lowest Juan Jesus has doubled in price and Danovic is 70k Usman D'Amalia has gone from 800k to a mill I mean all Neres has doubled in price he was even 60k and I was 114 honestly boys these prices are unbelievable crazy I would have never guessed that this would be the type of rise that we would see on these road to the final cards just out of packs on mind you they've only been out of packs for this sets only been out of packs for a mere number of hours at the recording of this video some Gretz was up 100k Marshall's up like 70k Tarea is up a bunch Marquinhos is up a ton I don't understand this one because this card is not that good we already have Tiago Silva I mean are people actually using Tiago Silva and Marquinhos I don't understand that Thomas party has gone from 140 to 200 bail hasn't moved too much the pies up a bunch I mean it's just crazy the amount of movement on these cards that we have seen actually they finally put the pie in the footbin team foot the pie wasn't even in this in this team before on foot which is crazy to think about but we finally got that card into the footbin squad and these cards are literally going insane so if you guys have any of these cards G freaking G's I think I was scared to buy these cards because they were too high so I didn't really buy any and they have gone out of packs they've done an absolute madness at 245k for this Tarea as you can tell a lot of people are selling these cards right now when you see a lot of these second-owner tradable items on the market that means that somebody has bought it and they are listing it up to sell it as an investment basically is what I see for a lot of these second-owner tradable second-owner tradable you know a lot of stuff like that so there's probably a lot of people taking the money on these cards and if you're somebody who has invested in some Tarea's or maybe some Thomas parties and you're looking to take the money I think you want to take the money decently soon I think some of the hype on this price for these cards is built up honestly because of the fact that UCL games are coming next week we do have more champions the games coming in this next week which people are thinking hey maybe if somebody acts because after matchday 5 some people's positions are like literally locked in they're going to be going on to the knockout rounds so some of these games are probably gonna have some roads of the final implications involved with them you know maybe Real Madrid PSG that's gonna be a big game Juventus, Athletica Madrid but some of these games are going to have instances where if you look at some of the standings in the groups it could be big for whether a team moves on or not the PSG around Madrid won't have too much of an impact but Atlanta versus Dynamo that's got a huge game if you did that road to the final SBC for Papo Gomez which I do not think was worth it purely because if he's not gonna get an upgrade in Champions League could go to Europa League but they have to get third in their group to even go to Europa League so we'll see if they can even get up to that point Juvent and Athletico that'll put a clear winner up Bayer Leverkusen kind of interesting with this one they're tied right now with locomotives so people are going to be watching that Wendell card and again when we have these games next week I want to touch on this right away when we have these games this next week watch for some panic selling on some of these cards like road to the final cell one let's say that Wendell and Leverkusen let's say that that team wins or you know even draws and there's a possibility still that that team might not make it out of the group stages you're probably gonna see this cards price drop if they draw or if they lose now they lose obviously we looked at the standings over here if Bayer Leverkusen loses that could be a big problem for their point total but they could still maybe sneak up into third the next match week just depends who are they playing this week again matches Bayer Leverkusen who are they playing so Bayer Leverkusen actually plays locomotive so if Bayer plays locomotive and they draw or if locomotive wins and it goes up to that would be crazy if locomotive wins and they go up six points and Bayer still at three that would make this group crazy crazy interesting but especially for a Wendell left-back card but if they draw that could be a very interesting scenario there so just just watch there's gonna be movements around these cards in this next week because of the fact that they're going to be playing so if you have some of these cards right now and you're up big on them I think I would consider taking the money or at least taking the money really soon because it's honestly incredible how much some of these cards have risen in such a short time period I mean these cards were rare we knew that we knew that they're rare we knew that they were gonna rise out of packs but I don't think we really thought it was gonna be this much and this is just a testament to how rare they are in the market and I'm still not a fan of them boys I'm still gonna be honest I'm not a fan of these cards and how rare they are yes it makes them fun to trade with they're gonna fluctuate a lot when they're rare in price especially for you know maybe somebody who is very desired in this game like Alan this is gonna make these cards very easy to trade with because of fluctuations but it's making their prices very very high and the reason why I'm saying I don't like it's because a lot of you guys want these cards for your teams and I do not feel comfortable saying hey go out and buy this card at this price at the moment to give for your team because I feel like it's very possible that they could re-release these cards into packs at some point or do something with these cards over Black Friday I think that is a possibility or even if during a Champions League week like maybe this next week for Champions League we'll see that premium upgrade SBC come out that'd be a perfect coin suck to take coins off the market before Black Friday so maybe we see that SBC come out this next week and these cards would be packable from that SBC untradable albeit but still a chance to pack one so that's something that we might have to kind of look at as well although we don't have any other UCL cards yet to pack from like a UCL premium SBC we'd only have these wrote to the final items and like UCL blue cards we don't have any man that matches or anything like that yet so not sure if we'll see any of that yet but it's a possibility I suppose speaking of Alan I want to mention something about his card right now there are rumors that this man is going to be or could be transferring to PSG okay that would be unbelievable if he actually transferred to PSG the FIFA ramifications of this card would be unreal perfect link to Neymar can you just imagine a perfect link to Neymar at center mid linking to your Neymar I mean Neymar's price would go nuts this card's price would go nuts and the main question behind that is if Alan transfers to PSG will he retain his road to the final card and it will it get updated to be a PSG card and I want to answer that question for you guys right here give you the stats straight from EA's website on road to the final their question is frequently asked question what if a player transfers if a player transfers to a club not playing in either tournament they will no longer be receiving upgrades PSG however is in the tournament as of now so if Alan does end up transferring in the winter window to PSG this states to me that he would retain this road to the final card and that he would just basically the badge would change the PSG maybe they give him a different dynamic image after he plays for PSG but this card would retain its live upgrade ability it would not go unupgraded if he did transfer to PSG so I wanted to point that out to you guys a lot of people have questions about that that would completely change the game of FIFA if he transferred to PSG it's crazy how one transfer could could change a lot of stuff but that card would retain it would gain a lot more value if he was at PSG I mean right now Napoli great he's Brazilian good links but if he was at PSG that takes his links to a whole nother level so just wanted to mention that to you guys I know some people had a lot of questions about that card and about that possible transfer scenario situation but again if you have any of these road to the final cards my gut is telling me some of them are up so much I think you want to get out of them maybe after Thursday rewards obviously they're not going to be in rewards on Thursday because they will be out of packs which they are right now but that's gonna be when people might have some coins and maybe go splurge and buy one for their team or whatever Militao is 660k and the fact is that these cards are selling man they're not just sitting up here at that price they're actually selling so it's honestly insane but this honestly puts some faith in me as well this gives me faith for how many coins the market actually has because if people are going out and buying this version of this Militao card instead of his what seven or eight thousand coin gold card that shows me that people have coins that they're willing to spend on stuff like this and that gives me hope and that makes me happy because that means this market does have some coins we haven't even had any lightning rounds yet this year to be honest the amount of promo packs that we've had open has been pretty low as well we haven't had really good promo packs for either the promos this year the supply on the screen cards is very dead supply on these road to the final cards was very very low as well so that kind of gives me a little bit of hope somebody mentioned I saw like in a twitch chatter or some sort of comment today do you feel like this these prices going up pushes the rest of the market up to that I'm not really sure about I mean if you look across the market today the market index on foot the index 100 over on foot been it's stuff is really just kind of staying the same like the market is just kind of flatlining I mean last night you had squad about a reward so the market was a little bit low we had a little bit of rebound after that and then still we're kind of in a lower period on the market of course the 83s and the 84s are still inflated at the moment but they are coming down as you can see a lot of supply last night picked it up again today we have another SBC come out today the Juan Matz SBC I'll talk about that in a second but again 83s are high 84s are high even as well because of the SBC and that's kind of you know when that when the SBC fodder cards are inflated like that it makes at least the foot been graphs you kind of have to remember that those 83s and 84s are inflated as kind of changing the way that that market number reads because you have to factor in that those cards are inflated now we got this SBC today Juan Matz 507 lefty four-star skills three-star weak foot looks like a pretty solid card to be honest he's got great acceleration he's gonna feel very good on the ball with the agility and balance great stamina great composure great passing I mean he's a really good center attacking mid kind of card but I do believe right now he does cost somewhere on like a hundred and twenty K if I'm correct 123,000 coins for the flashback Juan Matz a car that's a bit above my liking but you can tell by the way that the market moves again today we looked at the index 83 we can look at the index 84 as well over here on foot been you can tell that a lot of people are doing this SBCs this is like one of the this is like the price range where EA makes I'm gonna say predominantly most of their player SBCs throughout the year EA puts them into this kind of price range you think about the other flashback SBCs we've had this year except for one of them was pretty cheap I think Mascherano was like a 70 K that was kind of cheap but in that hundred to 200 K range is a perfect range for EA because they're taking a decent amount of coins off the market when they do that but also it's not too expensive for a lot of people I talked about this with Konate as well Konate isn't that perfect range where hey you know I can go drop a hundred K on this card or I can do it for 70 K with cards in my club and they get some packs back so it makes people want to do it but EA is still very effectively sucking a lot of coins off the market making people lose coins technically and trade in those coins that give you power and value in this game trading in for a card that you can never sell back onto the market and get coins for so you saw the 84 today rise a decent chunk some of them are still high under the initial hype you saw here for the first couple hours it is back down a little bit but there's definitely people that did this SBC every time we get a Manchester United SBC there's gonna be people that go out and do it I mean I tweeted today there's your link to the the scream Chong I know a lot of people did that scream Chong card because it was 20 K now you have a card to link it to which was kind of a banter tweet but still a lot of people go out and they do those SBCs and there's definitely a population out there that does a lot of the Manchester United SBCs just because they're a man you fan or what not so that is something I wanted to point out today as well actually this rush is getting very cheap 405 if I see an undercut on that I am gonna be a buyer icons are kind of cheap right now as well a lot of them have been trickling down it seems like maybe people are selling icons and going to buying some of these road to the final cards just because I think that the hype with these cards again just like last year and years past is the upgrade possibility but that we have to wait so long for these upgrades that's why I I'm not a huge fan of them I think there's gonna be at some point in the next couple of months another opportunity to snag these cards and honestly if you want to buy them right now they just seem way too overpriced like 70 over 75% of those cards just seem way way way too overpriced for me even when they were in packs just because they were so rare and that's why I feel like EA has something up their sleeve with those cards and maybe like a second somehow a second pack supply of those cards again if you want to invest in the team of the week this week hopefully today on Tuesday we get some sort of content and that like gives us packs we're talking like a league SBC that would be perfect like MLS or champions league or championship league SBC that would be perfect get some supply for some of these informs people have already bought up the tell as Robertson's up even I think this right back from the Kappa is that his name he's up a little bit Ricardo prayer is up a little bit those are the obvious investments from this team the week looks like people have already got in on them as well so people are investing right now people are trying to make coins and I know that this team week is rare so they're trying to take advantage of it I would just be careful again boys my favorite thing right now to do in the market is to get liquid I have a lot of my coins you see I've been trading I sold a couple icons here I did some flipping last night with squad battle rewards if you guys were in the stream I was getting like a Zed got it's like 24k laying lays at 60 and under all these laying lays were at 60k I under sold these Davenson's got these for like 7,000 coins and he's actually up to like 8900 right now so who would have known that a road to the final player would impact your road to the final your Reese maybe making this card rise up a little bit but I just think it's an 83 is getting packed a lot and his prices just continuing to go down but he did rebound a decent amount from the squad battle 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This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN, we've got five days a week, we go seven hours a day, we go 24 hours a day on the internet at TFNN.com, always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever you focus on grows, so if everyone's having a great day, safe day, make it a great night, folks, always do your best, but don't overdo. When you overdo, you deplete your body and you go against yourself and it'll take longer to accomplish your goals. Knock it wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries up 67, NASDAQ up one, S&P's up three and a half, gold, gold contract up $6.60, traded in 2066 an ounce. We have Silver up 16 cents, $25.47 an ounce. Light, sweet crude, about a buck and a half, $77.91 a barrel, notes and bonds. A 10-year note, trading up 12 ticks. At 109.29, the 30 up a full point at 117.12 and Kingdala, Kingdala. Up 49 ticks, trading 102.795, euros at 109, yen's at 147, British pound is trading at 127 to one US dollar. Our phone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>, give us a call folks. I know it's going on in your world and the world and the S&P's, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Bottom line, we still have that ABC structure that is in place with a 462.  So you hit 458.32, bottom line, my take is that we're still going to get it. Now let's go take a look at the futures, because what we did definitely had futures were up 30 points, gave it up in spades, come all the way back down. Let's go take a look at these volumes and see where we're sitting here. Okay, so I got the S&P's up four bucks and what you're going to see. Okay, so let's see. So we just came back down, but you didn't get to the low. Yeah, this still, this, okay, so last 30 minutes ago, that was 34,000 contracts going into 38, going into, going into 54. Okay, we're going higher. So what you had here is this, let me open this up a little bit more. Right there, that was, yeah, 54,000 contracts on the S&P. Now this was right before 10 minutes, 20 minutes before the low. We came back down and tested that, but you tested it with 34. So that's saying that now the top, not the very highs of today, but the last top of this range is game, which is 45 or 45, 67. That'd be 45, 76. That's where that would be set up. NQs, let's do the same thing with the NQs, because they both gave it up. And I'll show you what it was all about, the move and the dollop. So we take a look at the NQs, do the same type of setup. Yeah, so the NQs, we had 70, no, 20, 27,000 versus 13,000. We just tested with 13,000 versus 27, that says that one's higher price also. We go into the note and bond market. We take a look at the note and bond market. We pull up the 10-year first, what you're going to see inside the 10-year. We're up another 12 ticks. Now, we also, we're in the higher range now, okay? We got in the higher range yesterday, you're at the 109, 29. So 114 is game. Now watch this, this is pretty cool here. I'm going to bring up the 10-year yield so that you can see the correlation, okay? So this chart that you're looking at here, this is the exact, you can see at the high. This high was generated when the markets were actually closed, but the bond market was open, 5.01, okay? We're at 4.27. Now the bottom of this range is 3.56. And where we are right now, this is what's so cool. So where we are right now, you can see right there. We're right into, it'll take a little bit to get through here. Because you can see what has happened is that we traded here, let's see, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, we traded here about just less than a month, just less than a month. So we'll see how this gets into this area. But the way this is set up right now is that you get 3.7 on the agenda, 3.5 on the agenda actually, which is pretty, which is really amazing actually. That's basically over the top. Gold, gold contract, this contract wants $2,500, man. And it's gonna be wild watching this whole thing shake out.  Because what we did yesterday is that you broke higher with conviction. I'm gonna put the volumes up on it so you can see how this whole thing shook out. There we go. So what you can see is that you broke a consolidation that's going back four months. And you broke it with volume. And that's how you want to break a consolidation. Wide price spread, accelerated volume, it has all the above, bottom line. You take a look at this, let me put this actually on a weekly now. So look at this, man, yeah, this is pretty cool. So on a weekly, what you can see here is that your next move in the XAU, we're at $123, you're talking about $141. We go to the Gold Bugs Index, we take a look at the Gold Bugs Index. It's gonna be the same type of setup. We had the price and volume movement inside it. Get those volumes up for you. And you're gonna see it's the decisive break of the consolidation in spades too. Now the cool thing here is this, look, watch this folks. See the HUI, that HUI is stronger than the XAU. When the HUI is stronger than the XAU, what that is saying is that the actual gold contract is gonna keep accelerating. We take this back, we put it back three years, and what you're gonna see, bottom line. We did the same break with conviction. And the HUI right now is a 241, and that's saying 294 is on the agenda. That's the next move up there. And then we get into the dollar. So if you get into the dollar and take a look at the dollar, what you're gonna see here is that we started the day, what was intriguing, we started the day with the dollar up. And even that being said, the futures still went up. Bottom line is that it gave it up a bit. As it gave it up, futures came back. Now the real question is, where are we gonna go from this particular point? And this particular point, we'll see how this shakes out. We're right in a spot right now that we'll see whether it can make it. That's the bottom line, meaning if the dollar will stay in a counter-turn bounce. Right now, you're only up 52 ticks, which is nothing, yeah. Stay right there, folks, we're coming right back. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. We have the dial, the industry is up 66, NASDAQ's down four, S&P's up two. Stay right there, come right back, folks.


Okay, so today I want to do something that seems fun. We talk a lot about using all of the stuff just using keyboard shortcuts and Usually if you're like in a window manager, you can do that. But what about desktops? Can you do anything just using the keyboard? So I've written here like six tasks that seem to be like probably feasible somehow But also not too hard and I will try to go through them only using the keyboard The first one of course being super simple. Let's just open. I don't know like Firefox like this and just like that of course waiting for Firefox startup times It opens also and you to close it now and that should be control w and that was easy So second one is actually when things start to get a bit tough We need to add an application to the dock which is the one on the bottom that you see So first of all, we need to I guess Well, we we should open the app and if I remember the GNOME shortcuts correctly, it should be meta app It's not meta control up Meta alt up. Okay. I got it now meta alt up now We can I guess use the I thought we could focus all of the apps using the Arrows, but we actually can't let's go with tap. Hello Something, how do we how do I actually focus the application? Okay, so in this case focus seem to be broken I cannot focus the application grid. Let's try something else. Let's try Searching for the up here. So we have text editor focus now and now I need to open the contacts menu which should be shift F and F10 nice and then we go to add to favorites and that's it done Next one connect to Wi-Fi. So in an ideal world I would just click on the system tree top left if there is a shortcut to open the system tree in GNOME I don't know it. So let's try to use settings Settings also let you connect to Wi-Fi. So that should be feasible. We're by default on the Bluetooth page Close, but no, let's try to go to the to another. Okay, we cannot Keeper shortcuts. Is this any interesting? Okay, control. Okay, we quit with control Q We search with the control s that could be interesting and alt left to go back to the previous panel So let's go with alt left. Okay, control s we search for Wi-Fi Obviously and we select the first result just like that Okay, now we need to connect to Vodafone this and it's done. We managed to do it So it's feasible. It's probably feasible with the system tree as well, but I don't know how Number four move a window to another virtual desktops and I'm lucky because I think I actually know this one I just need to focus really hard to actually remember it It was it is meta alt to actually switch between workspaces like this and it's meta alt shift Tomorrow window then we need to activate do not this which is probably the tough one because that really requires Unless it's in set it gotta be in settings too, right? Do Not the Notifications I guess Okay, do not disturb done. Okay. That was actually much easier than a third Last one. Let's stop OBS. So the video will also end So we move again to here where we have OBS. Hello, it's me. I'm recording We need to stop it. Actually, I need to first switch to the thanks section So let's start tabbing. So this is the things and how do I actually? Okay, like this I would stop the recording which is the goal, but I need to switch to the thanks section first not here What am I focusing right now?  Oh here. Okay, so we can go with thanks So thank you for following the video and as soon as the animation ends I will go back into tabbing madness to actually find again this top Button, but until then I can say thanks to all of the sponsors and Donators and patreons not sponsors actually it's not sponsors, but today people who donate to me I don't have sponsors right now. I refuse to have and By the way, I do this videos every day and tomorrow I will do the same video But on Katie plasma so we can actually compare if Katie plasma was any easier But let's get back into trying to end the video. So tab Okay, we need to tap back into the source list I'll find it it's so annoying that I cannot see where I'm actually tabbing into come on Is there no like stop recording here? There should be a stop recording. There isn't come on. Let me focus Oh, okay. I'm here. Okay. So we got the controls now. We need to actually focus No, come on. It worked before it should work now. Okay, I managed to that was nice Thanks for following and see you tomorrow with the video where I do the same exact thing But on Katie plasma that didn't work


My name is Teddy Ruxton. Can you and I be friends? Welcome to disability data. Hey everybody and welcome to my desk. I hope everyone's having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, a long weekend for many of us, a great weekend to do some hacking. You don't have any news or updates, right? No, we'll have our regular shows during the week and full speed ahead. Yeah, okay. What's on your desk this week? This on my desk is this stuffed animal bear. This is the 2017 version of the Teddy Rockspin, which when I was a kid was like the toy to have, which I didn't have the Teddy Rockspin, but I saw one once in person and I was like, wow, had a cassette tape that you'd put in and the cassette tape, I guess, used like the different tracks to control the mouth, like maybe through it, you know, the reverse tracking, the B track, or like a sub frequency actually never looked into how it worked. And then it would, of course, play audio and it had a little like robotic mouth. So this is the modernized version. So you bought this in 2017 actually. Yeah, for some reason I thought I might need it one day. It turns out I did. Since then the company's got out of business and you can get these, yeah, or something, but you can get these on the cheap and we have a kid now. So we thought, hey, let's see if we can hack it. Yeah. This is by Wicked Cool Toys, yeah, I guess in 2017. I'm not going to show you the overhead because it's like, you know, this is pretty big, but over here you can see there's a micro USB port and then it has the standard off low volume, high volume. Yes, this is off now and then I can put it on low volume and then it turns on. Hi, my name is Teddy Ruxpin. Can you and I be friends? And then, you know, this is the one that I've hacked. So when it's idle, it has a little Adafruit star on the TFT. So it has two TFTs for eyes. Now I'm not going to say that they were inspired by Philby's TFT eyeball code, but I, you know, a lot of stuff that Paint Your Dragon has done here at Adafruit has turned into toys or Halloween props two or three years later. So, you know, it's a really well designed toy. Like, you know, we've covered a lot of toy hacking on this show and other shows because they're just, you know, great as platforms for firmware and electronics hacking. And of course it's like very well made and, you know, the TFTs are just 128 by 120 TFTs, but they've got the nice lens to kind of give it a nice eyeball look and it's cute and fluffy. But yeah, as Phil mentioned, the company that made this, you know, they got purchased or in our business, you know, the website that was there doesn't exist. I think the app still kind of works, but it's like zombie mode app. But the way it was designed is like, you know, we, I said there was this micro USB port on the back. So you can plug it in and it shows it as a disk drive. There's actually, I didn't want to take this apart because, you know, it's still playing with it. But there's a like a one gig or more, like a couple gig SD card that's exposed to the mass storage of the micro USB. And you drag story files over to it. And then the story files contain like the LED animations, the mouth movements, the audio. And then you can sync it with an app on your phone using Bluetooth, which I'll show in a second. And then the app is also used to unlock the stories. So this is like, unfortunately, like kind of a thing with modern toys.  But of course, the company doesn't exist anymore. And their format for making binary files was never released. And they were like going to release 30 stories, but they like did 10. And then their sales weren't good enough or something. The toy market's like a fickle, it's a very fickle thing. So, you know, you got this in 2017, Mr. Lady, and I got this.  I thought it would be cool if we could make our own story files.    I've never seen that before. The Internet Archive has, they're down, but they were up earlier. They do have the Teddy Rocksman files as a downloadable binary, which I already downloaded. And this is what the binary files look like. So, like, story zero through story 14 or 15. And what's interesting is if you drag these over to the bear, they don't play because they're not, like, authenticated through. Now, there's a SPIE prom on there, which, you know, I'm going to get a secondary bear, because I'll gut it and I'll read the SPIE prom. And I bet that's where the, like, authentication bits are stored. It's probably just like a little bit flag to determine whether it's allowed to play those binary files. But these are, this is what you, you don't, this is what the, it looks like. So there's idle, intro, and then story one through 15. These XML and torrent files, it's not from the original document. That's our Internet Archive, whenever you have a zip, it has, you know, this metadata in it. The actual binaries are this. And then if you open them up, they're like, okay, SNX ROM. And then, you know, you can see there are some patterns to the data.  But then after a while, you get this kind of repeating data. And then, you know, it's because it's very patterning, non compressed, obviously, because you see a lot of repeating elements. And it turns out those are the TFT eyeball images. And as you keep going down, there is, at the end, this compressed audio. It's not uncompressed, unlike the graphics, you can see again, very, very uncompressed. And I was kind of like messing around with this. I was like, well, I'm going to Google to see if anyone else was hacked. This device, it turns out. There was, there was a Defcon talk four years ago by Xenofax and a bunch of folks at exploit.ears. And these folks all kind of, they got this bear like when it first came out. And they hacked the heck out of it. So there's actually also a video presentation, which obviously I'm not going to play, but you can go to YouTube and just let Google for the Defcon teddy bear. And they did a lot of, they actually did a lot of work, which is great because it's, it, it, you know, got me going quite far. So this is the motherboard. These are the two TFT screens. So it's funny is it's, you know, this is even like a standard con connector that we use as FBC connector with 22 pins. These are 128 by 128 TFTs again, like restock them in the shop. They're almost certainly, well, it looks like this is a little differential signal action going on here, but it's probably SPI or maybe parallel data inputs.  So who knows, maybe it's SPI probably 28 pins, although I don't know, could be like, I don't, you know, it's probably not going to be mippy. It looks like there's like a cluster of eight here, so it's probably eight bit parallel. That way you can draw to the screen like very, very quickly.  This blob chip here is the SNC 7001A by a company named Sonics. We did find a data sheet for this chip. There's a 16 bits processor. Oh, you know, I thought it was an ARM Cortex, but it's actually not. I don't know why I thought that. I think, I think other chips. So yeah, it's a 16 bit DSP processor. It's a 16 bit chip. It's got, you know, the LCD interface for the TFT displays, SDMMC controller, useful for that. And then USB so it can act as that mass storage device so you can drag files over. You're wondering why doesn't it use Bluetooth to download. I think it was like, they were thinking, oh, maybe people would, first off, the files are huge. So it's like not easy to download over Bluetooth without like disconnection issues. But maybe they had ideas that like you would have like other ways of authenticating the data or something. I don't know. DSP core, you know, all sorts of fun stuff. One thing that's interesting is it's got DMA and it's got a DAC. There's an audio DAC built in with high current output, I believe, like it can drive a speaker. Yeah. So it's got a 16 bit DAC with class AB embedded. So it can, it can drive a speaker on like these toys directly, which is, you know, going to reduce your costs. Although I think there might be a separate speaker driver. I think this is the speaker driver and maybe this is, this is some flash memory. So it's probably either storing the code or the configuration for this chip. Maybe this is another is the speaker driver, a motor driver. This is that SD card I said where the data is actually stored and that's exposed through the micro USB port, which I think is on the other side. And then this is, this I think goes to all the buttons. There's like a lot of buttons because it's like there's actually turns out there's like one behind the logo too, which I didn't realize. And then this is a Bluetooth low energy module, which I thought was interesting. Why did they go with the BLE module? It turns out this is an NRF 51 822, which is of course, I know very well, because we've had firmware and modules and devices that use the NRF 51 for a very long time. So this provides the Bluetooth low energy. And you know, why did they just not, why did they do it this way? You know, I actually have a feeling that they designed this and then later we're like, Oh, we have to add Bluetooth. And they were kind of in a little bit of a rush because it's odd that they're using a module, although I couldn't even make, I mean, this is a double sided PCB. So it's not like they saved a lot of money by going with a separate module. Like if it was a single sided PCB or like the process didn't allow for this chip, I can understand, but like it isn't like it's an FCC certified module. Like they didn't save any certification time by having this. So I'm clear why they went with a module instead of having the chip just directly onto the PCB. Um, mysterious, could be, could be maybe it's paper phenolic and so the PCB material. And so maybe it, it didn't have the, the right substrate impedances for onboard antenna, whatever the case. This is an NRF 51 and they, you know, you can, um, you can dump it because the, the, uh, this, you can even see the pads down here, SDIO and, um, uh, SC, uh, SW clock. These are the two TFTs. Um, there's a Teddy main PCB, even has some components on the back. It was a lot unusual. Um, usually they don't do double sided, uh, design with, um, toys because it's more expensive. Uh, this module NRF 51, a 22 based, and you can, you know, dump the firmware for it. Um, you know, again, we've done development for the NRF 51. It's, uh, it was funny is we actually use it also as like a helper chip. Like we have SPI to Bluetooth software that we've run that like it gives basically AT command over UART or SPI. Um, and that's what's on like the, um, Feather 324 BLE. This is, um, this is an NRF 51 module as well. So yeah, because I'm very familiar with it. And then there's that app and they were sent here in the app. Um, but so the thing I was really interested in is, um, how to, um, how to, uh, create or modify these files. So, um, the files, like I said, intro and idle, uh, the intro is that like, you know, my name is Teddy Rockspan. Can you join me friends with me? Whatever. Can you be my friend? Idle is just like it's sitting there and its eyes just move back and forth. And that's the thing that I modified with the eyeballs. Um, and then they talk about the format for the, um, SNX ROM file, which is really handy. So those non-compressed images, the non-compressed area, like this stuff, those are, um, literally just 128 by 128 by 2 by like RGB 565 data. Like it's uncompressed. It's right there. And then you can extract them very easily. Um, and we've done that. And it turns out like Gimp can read it in. So the Audio 32 is where I'm at now. And so it's like, there's a cliffhanger because I haven't gotten this working yet. The Audio 32, um, format, it's like kind of hard to figure out what's going on here. This is, it's definitely compressed.  I was like, oh, is it compressed or uncompressed audio? And well, you know, obviously we looked at it in like a audacity and there's no pattern to it. And then he actually tried like G zipping it. And he's like, well, it doesn't compress. Um, like if you, if you have binary data and you try to G zip it or zip it and the file doesn't change size, it means it's already compressed. So like, okay, some compressed format. Um, they, they did figure out like the people who wrote this did figure out, the compression format, or at least they figured out a way to create a new file because they did a demo where, you know, they also changed the eyeballs and they had it like talking to the crowd at the presentation, which is kind of a standard thing.  So, which is always a fun time. CCC docs and DEF CON talks are, you know, kind of like that. They're definitely entertaining. So this tool, which was mentioned here, which would allow you to edit the file, was never released or I couldn't find it. But there was enough information here, as well as in some other notes, they also posted up a document here, which kind of has like a C types struct file. And this was great because it actually has like pretty much all the formatting you need to extract the data. So I sort of started taking apart the the binary file by writing my own program. I've done this a billion times where it's like, you open up a file and you start reading and you unpack the data. So, you know, I find the asset tables, you know, just follow it up and then, you know, just re-getting Python, finding the animations, finding the audio and then extracting, you know, what they've got as the sample rate, bit rate, channels and frame count. Each frame is 80 bytes, which you can calculate by it's like the frame count and then the file size you divide it and it's like the frame count. So each frame is 80 bytes per frame. There's the mark table, which I think is actually kind of interesting.  And there's this thing called a mark table. And I ran this earlier. So the mark table looks like this. And what it does is this is the intro. So it's very short, which is kind of, you know, it's like, it's this very short thing. Hello, my name is Teddy Wuxman. Will you be my friend? So it's done by having alternating length in 16 bits and a value of 16 bits. And the length is in milliseconds. And then this tells you whether the mouth is open all the way or closed. And then you can see it goes 0101 with these millisecond delays in between to tell you like, you know, at which mark does it open and close the mouth? And then there's audio data after that. But yeah, so I got this audio data. So I've been kind of messing around with how to get the audio out. And we are one out of times have to get to the great search. But it's kind of been like a little bit of adventure. So one thing I did find is on the internet, I found a audio, you know, it's for some other device by Sonics that has audio32.c, which is like this test program for the audio32 format. And it has like these numbers, which kind of match up what it says in that header file. And of course, it's not open source, like they don't publish the codec. But what they do do is they give you this, whoops, they give you libsnx audio underscore audio32 so, which is the shared linkable library. But that library isn't linkable on an x86 computer. This type is, let's see, this is file lib. Yeah, so this is, so this file is a it's an elf for an arm chip. It is dynamically linked with debug info not stripped, which is like kind of nice. Love that when the developers, for some reason or another, don't strip the file and don't remove the debug info. It's very handy. I don't know if they do it on purpose or whether it's just like coincidence. They also have an archive file, which is you can we can statically link to it. So I tried running, I was like, okay, well, it's armed. So I like load it up into a Raspberry Pi. And I linked, I tried to compile that example code, this snex audio codec, and tried to run it, but then it's like faulted. And then it turns out, I figured out that this shared object is not only arm, but it's uc libc, not glibc. And uc libc is used for like small like open wrt type computers. So then I learned how to use build root, and I created an arm build root that I then installed onto a Raspberry Pi computer. And I don't think I don't I don't know if it's still running, but I can see it's still running. Okay. So so this is like, yeah, okay, so here's the thing build root, it's like really, really, but there's no gcc, no gdb, no blah, blah, blah, no nothing. And I was running this program, and it was not I don't know if it was, let's see. Oh, it also doesn't have any way to like transfer files around. So as you're encoding to get the files back and forth, like just pasting them in snex. It's not here. So I tried running the compiled version. And I got it to run, sorry, I got it to input tests, sorry, intro.au. I don't know if this is the version that I patched. Yeah. So it was failing. And I tried like, okay, what if you form a try every single format, and it would like never launch the decoder. And I was like a little annoyed. And I was like, why isn't it like, it's like the just the call to open, initialize the encoder or decoder wasn't working. And so I was like, well, you know, it's not stripped and it's not debugged. So I was like, okay, let's let's now I was going to run HexRays IDA, which I actually bought the license for back when I was reverse engineering the SAMD 21's capacitive touch. But like I lost the file. And like it's been six years, I kind of want to go through like getting them to resend me this old version, because it was like, you know, the old license and you don't run it.  It's like a really nice reverse engineer tool. And I was like, well, you know, I've never used it before. So like, let's learn it and see like what's in this shared object file that's not stripped. So let's see if I can open. It's got this like amazing interface. So I loaded this up and it actually like, Ghidra is really, really good. It did an excellent job reverse engineering the assembly using like the uns, you know, the unstripped debug info, of course, it helps a lot because you can you get the functions and any like debug data, like it probably helps with a bunch of like details. Actually, I don't know that exactly what it helps with them. In addition to the function calls that are exposed, maybe it does like the static function calls as well. I don't know. But it's like you can even see here, it's like this is the the open. So this is the function that was failing SNX Audio 32 open. And it was failing because and I don't understand why it was doing this. It was opening Dev mem. And then it, it, this just gets the page size. And then it maps a page and then it reads a value from this address LX 9800010. Or like the value at the end of this page, I don't know. And then it compares it to 58,000 hex. Again, why? I don't know. These variables are never used again. None of this data is ever used again. It's just this weird check at the beginning. I really don't understand what it was, but it was failing here because it was like trying to like I'm running on a Raspberry Pi and it was initially designed to maybe run on a particular chipset. Maybe this is the thing to check that it's running on the chipset it's expecting to run on. I don't know. But here's the really cool thing. Originally, sorry, this, yes, this checked if the value was equal to and and if it wasn't, it returns. And what I did is you can actually find this function and you can edit. I mean, I don't, I'm not going to do it right correctly here, but here you can like here, no, here. So like this branch if not equal because you're checking against this comparison. I can just edit this with patch instruction and then load this dragon. And then I can just turn it into a branch if equal. Hold on. Branch if equal. Although I don't know why it's not working now. It totally worked before. Branch if equal. It could be it wasn't. Okay, there you go. Right, you have to select it. It does the assembly for you gives it to you. And it's like, wow, I just like hot patch this file. I tried running it again. And you know, this time at least the encoder worked, but it or the decoder and the encoder and sorry, the decoder worked the encoder still, I didn't work, but the decoder stills and decoding the audio in the format I want. So I'm still in impasse, trying a couple other things. And I tried like finding a decoder for the actual codec who knows. It's kind of a mystery tune in next time. This is I think hopefully more exciting and thrilling than succession, which I've never watched, but apparently the everybody in the world is watching. So that's where I'm at. But here's a good thing I learned build route, which I've always wanted to learn how to use. And I made a working build route system for Raspberry Pi, which is super cool. And I learned Gidra and I learned how to hot patch a binary, which I think is also really cool because I never got to use Gidra. And it's definitely got like the hot patching is amazing. Being able to dynamically change the code is like any like in search the right assembler and everything for you on an ARM Cortex chip is super cool. And I'm going to be very, very handy because there's many times where chip silicon vendors give you stuff and it's like in a linkable binary and you're like, I don't want the linkable binary, I want the source code. And you want to do something with the source code, pop into Gidra and it will probably give you something useful. So anyway, that's my hacking. I went along. But hopefully somebody out there, if you have ever decoded the audio 32 codec standard, which is I guess somehow based on G722.1, but isn't because I tried G7221 decoders, that didn't work either. Let me know. Post up in the comments. Like, share and subscribe. All right, so let's go on to the great search maybe by couple now. Let's take a look at this chip. So here we go. The great search where Lady 8 tries to find that codec thing. Oh no, the great search. Spreaded by Digikey and Adafruit where we look at ways for you to find the thing that you're looking for on digikey.com. Thanks, Digikey. Lady 8, what is this week's great search? Okay, so what I wanted to show was I've been hacking this bear and it was kind of cool to see that inside. Oh, sorry, yes. The bear. And inside there's this Sonic's chip and separately a Bluetooth chip using the NRF 51822, which is a chipset I know and love because we've used it many times to do Bluetooth connectivity. It's not a very powerful chip. It's like I think 16 or 32K of flash. It's very minimal or RAM. It's very minimal. It's good for Bluetooth, but it's like, well, why not just have everything run on this chip? Well, this was designed in 2017 and this chip is actually a pretty powerful DSP. They can do a lot. It's got native USB. It's got SD card interfacing. It's got built-in audio. It's great for toys, which is what it is. It's a toy chipset or apparently also used for IP cameras. So they wanted to add Bluetooth. They added it with a Bluetooth or energy module. Now, these days, the NR51 is like, I mean, it's not discontinued. You can still get it, but it's like very long in the tooth. You'll probably want to go with an NR52 or NR53 series that NR53 is a little newer and the NR52 is definitely the workhorse of the Nordic family. So I thought I'd show that you can get ready-to-go modules at Digikey for doing your either adding Bluetooth or existing design. Like it could be that you really cannot run your entire code on the NR52, although you should try because it's a Cortex-M4 chip and so it's quite powerful. I think the 52840 is a Cortex-M4. The 832 might be a Cortex-M3, but they're very powerful processors, lots of flash, lots of RAM. So you might be able to do a lot of your design completely on that chip, in which case you could use a module. You pluck it in. It's got the antenna, it's got the crystal, it's got the passives, it's got everything ready to go, maybe even certifications. Or you can use it like this with some other chip that you are forced to use. Maybe you need a DSP, you need RISC-5, what have you, and you can add it as an assistant chip. So let's go to Digikey. I'll just close all these things about hacking this codec. Don't forget Digikey no longer has a dash. That's a big new thing and it's a brighter red color. So let's go to Bluetooth modules and there's a whole area for modules and modems. There's also separately transceiver ICs, but I want in particular I want to show you guys modules that are ready to go. They'll speed up your development greatly. They usually come with a variety of different antenna options. They're tinned, they're certified for FCC, CE, TELIC, you know, whatever, which can really speed up your certification process. You'll still need to do it for your finished product, but it's nice if the intentional emitter is already done, so you don't have to worry about like, oh is that going to cause me any issues. Let's go with active and let's go with normally stocking. What a coincidence, 840. That's the NR52 840 is my favorite. And so look at what is available down here. Let me just bear out of the way. Lots of options. So again, the modules, they come in various sizes, but most of them are very small. This one is kind of cool because it's like, it's just micro miniature. It's got, and so you can look over here, it says what chip. This is the NR52 832. Doesn't have native USB, but is otherwise a very powerful chip with a lot of peripherals. The only thing it doesn't have is USB. The 833 did add USB, I guess. I haven't used that particular one, but this is very, very cute. I like that it's like, it's, you know, it's extremely compact. It's a little bit more expensive than the non-compact version. Ublox makes a lot of great modules. I definitely use them. This one is also tiny. You can see the little antenna on there. So tiny, you need like a macro, macro lens to get it. The Nordic chipset though, Ublox makes modules for it, but they're not the only one. Panasonic also makes them as well. But in particular, let's look for, you can actually search for what chip is inside, which is kind of nice, utilized IC part. So let's look for the NR52. And then we'll just select them all. Again, the 52 comes in a couple different configurations. The 811 I think is either fewer pins or less RAM. Like there's, there's versions of this chip that are less RAM or less flash, less pins, you know, and you'll pay a little bit less for them. So depends on whether you want the chip to run your entire program, you might need more flash, more RAM. You know, if you're making something like, you know, those air tags or tiles where it's just running a little bit of program or it makes a Bluetooth beacon, you can get away with very minimal flash chips, flash pins and memory. So you can see here the different memory configurations up to one mega flash and 256 K of RAM. That's the NR52 840. Okay. So looking at pricing, there's a few options. So you can get Nordic, sorry, Nordic chips through the MDBT series from RayTac. I've used RayTac. They're great. These modules are fairly easy to place. They come with PCB antennas or chip antennas. Usually chip antennas will get you a little bit more range, but they're a little more expensive because they have that antenna on there. Nothing's cheaper than just a trace on a PCB. So that's going to be inexpensive. This NR52 810 is also fairly inexpensive. It's about five dollars. This one, 192 K of flash, 24 K of RAM. So it's a little sister to the 840 basically, which has a megabyte of flash and 256 K of RAM. 52, 820, 832. Let's look at, let's now look at marketplace products. We'll just look at what's stocked immediately on the Juki. So if you're actually looking for like the absolute cheapest of all time, the fan snail modules are going to be very inexpensive. They're bare bones, but they work very well. They will come with PCB antennas because again, they're very cost effective. However, they do all have SEC certification. If you open up the data sheet, they have TELEC, Australia CE, I said, and they also have a QDID. By the way, you will want that because if you don't have a QDID, the Bluetooth group will email you and say you have to pay us for a QDID, which I found out after the fact. It's not well documented to explain. You do need to have it have a QDID. So that's great handy. But almost everything that comes from the Nordic family has it, except for the NRF 8001, which is very discontinued. So you're not going to probably be using that chip. But this one's great. I mean, this is Cortex N4 64 megahertz. Again, it's the little sister to the 840 just doesn't have a ton of flash and RAM, only 192K, but that's still a lot. Don't forget, you're going to have to share that with the soft device that needs to be loaded. Don't remember how big the soft device is, but I think it's like about half of that. And if you want to do, you may not have enough space to do over-the-air updates because the soft device is taking up space. And then depending on whether you have a bootloader, whether you have how much over-the-air slots you want to get, if you don't do over-the-air, maybe this is okay. And only 24K of RAM. Again, you're going to have to share that with the soft device. But for very simple Bluetooth devices, this could definitely do the job for you. The 832 is also inexpensive, a little under four bucks. Here, this has also 192K of flash and 24K of RAM. This one definitely doesn't have USB. I don't know if the 805 does. Sounds like it doesn't. But the 832 is a slightly older family, but looks like it's still available. And we have a core for this chip as well. So even though we don't support it, if you want to get started quickly, you can use the Adafruit 832 core to bootstrap your project. Looks like they have it available also with a UFL connector, which is kind of handy if you want to have a nicer antenna. So these are some options. I say like kind of hard to beat 250. This is my pick for the great search. Very inexpensive Bluetooth friend. And that's a great search. And that's our show tonight. We have a big exciting night plan. We're going to try to do some more bear hacking, some baby bathing, and we're going to bed. That's right. We're tired. All right. Have a beautiful weekend everybody. See everybody next week. Thanks for joining us. Bye-bye.


one big thing you need to be looking for more than anything else is change. If you're just now learning body language, you're getting started in it, I would say you need to be a change detection expert before you even learn any of this other stuff. Here's how they look normally and something is different. Get really good at that, then get good at other stuff. And this Christmas, whether you're at a Christmas party or you're watching somebody open a gift, get really good at looking at changes in blink rate.  Just in case. And when you're at the little family or corporate Christmas parties, you start seeing a conversation with somebody, look who's blink rate is faster than the other persons and then interrupt briefly to talk to the person with the higher blink rate and they'll be more relieved that you briefly interrupted the conversation.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that find the solution set of minus 5 less than 2x minus 4 less than equal to 8 minus x where x belongs to the set of integers also graph the solution set we are given minus 5 is less than 2x minus 4 is less than equal to 8 minus x on separating them as two in equations we get minus 5 is less than 2x minus 4 and 2x minus 4 is less than equal to 8 minus x first consider minus 5 is less than 2x minus 4 as adding or subtracting any number to the in equation will not change the in equation therefore we add 4 on both sides and we get minus 5 plus 4 is less than 2x minus 4 plus 4 this implies minus 1 is less than 2x again dividing the in equation by the same number will not change the in equation so we get x is greater than minus 1 by 2 on dividing the in equation by 2 now consider 2x minus 4 is less than equal to 8 minus x as adding or subtracting the same number on both sides of the in equation will not change the in equation so we add x and 4 on both sides of this in equation we get 2x minus 4 plus x plus 4 is less than equal to 8 minus x plus x plus 4 this implies 3x is less than equal to 12 dividing by 3 on both sides we get x is less than equal to 12 by 3 which is equal to 4 so we get x is less than equal to 4 we have got x is greater than minus half and x is less than equal to minus 4 so x is greater than minus half and x is less than equal to 4 combining the two we have minus half is less than x is less than equal to 4 as x belongs to the set of integers therefore we shall take all the integers greater than minus half and less than equal to 4 so the solution set is equal to 0 1 2 3 and 4 now we shall represent the solution set on the number line mark the points 0 1 2 3 4 5 minus 1 minus 2 minus 3 minus 4 and so on on the number line the solution set consists of the integers 0 1 2 3 and 4 so we mark these points 0 1 2 3 and 4 with closed dots on the number line these points are shown as closed dots on the number line as the number line consists of all real numbers and we have x belongs to the set of integers only this completes our session hope you enjoyed the session


Thanks for clicking on the podcast today to learn more about Forces Readiness Command's Intelligence Division. I'm Captain Rob McCrimmon. I'm the Chief of the Pacific Area Intelligence Division and Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center and designated champion for the Forces Command Intelligence Division. Forces Readiness Command Intelligence Division will have four branches. The first will be a security branch that takes care of foreign disclosure of information. It also has a special security office that takes care of specialized compartmented information facilities that will be under force comms control. We'll also do classification work of what classification information should be marked as and then there's an operations division that will be involved in putting together intelligence force packages if there's an incident where force comm needs to flow forces. We'll also take care of the information requirements for the operational for the Forces Commander. Another branch in the Forces Command will be the Readiness and Doctrine Branch which is one of the important parts of Forces Command in terms of converting Coast Guard intelligence policy into doctrine tactics techniques and procedures. With search and rescue or we talk about taking the search out of search and rescue ideally if there's good intelligence then you'll make aircraft and cutters and small boat stations all more effective, more efficient in the performance of their jobs. The types of folks we'll be looking for to join FC2 would be people with a strong intelligence background particularly initially where we're trying to get the program up and started and I think it would be very beneficial to have people with an operational background who also have experienced some intelligence tours so that they can combine their knowledge of intelligence and how people in the field use that intelligence to develop the doctrine and procedures to make intelligence operators more effective. And also if they're doing field visits to check on compliance and standardization they understand what the field's going through and can be reasonable in their expectations. Thanks for joining me today. If you have any more questions about FC2 please contact Al Cunningham, our liaison to the forces implementation team. If you have any questions about force.com you can send an email to askforce.com at uscg.mil.


My name is Yota Poyrazi and I'm a research director at the Foundation for Research and Technology, HALAS, in the beautiful island of Crete in Greece. I work on modeling the brain and what I think would revolutionary my field would be the ability to track and manipulate the activity of neurons in the brain in a non-invasive way in humans. In fact, we have that technology right now in animals but it's very hard to do in humans because of the use of viruses. But if we were able to track the activity of neurons and manipulate it with a new technology without poking any holes in the brain in the scalp of a human, then we would be able to manipulate our thoughts and our actions. We would be able to develop neural implants that train particular neurons or help them heal after an injury and this I think would revolutionize the field of neuroscience.