I'd like to talk about the notion of moral responsibility. It is something that human beings have been reflecting about for quite a long time. And sometimes we hear it said that there's been a lot of progress made in the sciences, for example. And yet very little progress has been made in morality itself. And sometimes this is justified in terms of pointing out that, well, there's still wars and conflicts between human beings up to now. I think far from suggesting that our knowledge of morality has been backward, I think what that really suggests is the difference between scientific thinking on the one hand and moral reflection. In a sense, you could have, well, not just in a sense, but definitely you could have experts in science, but you could properly raise the question of whether there really are experts in moral reflection. So perhaps science and ethics are really two very different areas of human thinking. One is concerned with reflecting the world to our minds. The other one is concerned with a certain type of action. So the possibilities of human action have changed so much in the last 100 years or so in terms of the growth in technology, especially in technologies of communication and biomedicine. And so perhaps these developments are responsible for the shift in the kinds of moral problems that we face. Moral reflection in the last 2,000 years or so has largely or can be characterized as a search for certain concepts that are of the nature of absolutes. And perhaps that is one reason why moral reflection can be said to lag behind our understanding of scientific concepts. And perhaps the very development of technology in our time is responsible for the perceived lag between moral reflection and scientific understanding. What is necessary, perhaps again, is a summing up of the central moral conceptions that we have worked on and a change in our critical perspective on what it is that we are looking for when we reflect about morality. Are we looking for absolutes? Are we looking for constants? And what are the proper sources of moral reflection? Many of our moral concepts, for example, are taken over from areas of human life like religion. Is it time to change this? Is it time to look at morality again and see, once and for all, get really very clear about what the basis of moral reflection is and why we are facing all the challenges that we have right now. Surely, some of it comes from technology, doesn't it, Peter? Technology does many things to different areas of our life. But I think we have to distinguish between moral reflection as such and moral conversation because what we are having, especially online and in many places, are pretty much about moral conversations. And technology does amplify the conversation. And it's not just amplification in terms of volume but also speed. And almost omnipresence in terms of reach, for instance, of technology. So, you see online discussions about what constitutes good behavior of precedent, for instance, what constitutes right action of policemen or ordinary citizens. So, more than ever, you have widespread concern for morality. Yes, but what many of these conversations, I think, often underscore is what to some moral philosophers at least seems like a lack of progress in the way people understand such moral concepts. Another, I think, factor that impinges on our moral conversations is the sheer number of human beings that live today. And it seems that population pressures exert a certain pull on our moral discourses. So, that's my basis for saying that perhaps it is more than ever time to reflect upon morality in a more decisive way. Like defining in a very clear and succinct way the notion of moral responsibility that we are morally responsible to. So far as philosophical reflection goes, it seems that we have reached a certain limit in our reflection. We have explored the idea that morality is all about human well-being, human happiness. We have explored the idea that morality is about duty or it's about the well-being of the self. Perhaps it's time to put an emphasis on morality as something like a concern for a pure and unconditional concern for the other, the neighbor. Perhaps our times are times in which we are in a position finally to clarify the basis of moral responsibility in the unconditional concern for the neighbor. There have been expressions of this in philosophy, in sociology, in the social sciences. As a result, most likely of the fact that the world has become, the boundaries, for example, between countries have become more porous. The nation-state is no longer anything defines human identity once and for all for a complete lifetime. Many human beings find themselves moving from one place of habitation to another in the course of their lives and changing cultures, changing identities. And so, well, there's a lot of emigration taking place, refugees all over the world mixing up of cultures. And so, in my view, one of the most important points to get clear about is the notion of who is the neighbor and what is the nature of our responsibility to the neighbor. Perhaps moral philosophy can bring us to the point where we can engage as many human beings as possible in a conversation, a serious conversation about this. I wonder if the internet can help provide the basis for starting a serious global conversation on these questions. Well, I think there's an argument to be made that overall, for a long time, we have already been mostly responsible to our neighbors. For instance, globally there is a downtrend of violence, for instance. And this is supported by empirical data that despite what we see in Syria these days or killings in our society overall, there is downtrend in violence, for instance. There is universal condemnation of slavery and there are efforts to address these things. So you can say morally we've been responsible. But on the other hand, I see your discomfort over technology, over the possibility or the prospect of technology being a platform for moral reflection. And I would say the internet is a collection of tools where there are serious people thinking about thinking through these concerns, these issues. And they've made some progress. But the internet is a mixed blessing, isn't it? Certainly, certainly. You can argue that it's a mixed blessing but on the other hand you can look for some kind of a net effect. And I would say it's probably net positive. It certainly seems to promote shorter tension spans. That seems to me to be, well, that doesn't count very much in favor of serious moral reflection. But on the other hand, you find very serious discussions of moral issues on YouTube, for example. You find serious blogs where people explore moral issues in a very, very detailed way. So where do we strike a balance between the casual nature of commenting in blogs and the need for serious moral reflection? Can anything be done in the culture or rather in the technology of communication to make this technology more susceptible to being used for serious moral reflection? There's no shortcut. I would say that it's also possible to use internet to have a good conversation about the internet as a moral platform or as a platform for moral reflection. For instance, we can encourage our students to tune in to certain channels because if anything that characterizes internet, it's really just this mirad of channels. And it takes some conscious deliberate effort to really tune in to the right channels. And that one would require a certain level of guidance from adults in the room, so to speak. And perhaps from the educational system as well. Of course, the internet does not function in an isolated way. It's part and parcel of a larger educational system. Perhaps it is the educational system that can make or that can get students to make use of the internet in a more responsible and intelligent way. But it's also a function of media literacy. Australia, for instance, offers media literacy to early age so that what you see online is not just taken at its face value. And I think that's somewhere just some deficit in our local setting on the way we use the internet. Because there's not much conscious effort to delineate between authoritative sources and, for instance, simply opinion without basis and facts, for instance. So I think the distinction has to be made. It's not just internet as such. No such thing as the internet. It's really more like networks of channels, of sources, of people talking to each other. And the conversation can crisscross. And it's really the beautiful thing about internet as a platform for moral conversations. Of course, you wanted really this to be a platform for moral reflection, a simply conversation. But they feed on each other. And the internet certainly has the advantage of presenting events around the world in a very dramatic way. Images of refugees, images of victims of terrorism. That certainly has something going for it. But on the other hand, there can be such a thing as, well, fatigue, compassion fatigue, for example, when you look at these images all the time. So I would say the internet is a powerful tool in the right hands and with the right guidance. So how would you say the prospects of improving the nature of moral reflection in the world stand today with the internet, with the availability of all this technology? I gather you're optimistic about it. I have guarded optimism. There's so much to do in the way we use technology in general. But for philosophers, we ask basic questions just the same regardless of platform. So we go to internet also in part to amplify the conversation and to recruit some more moral thinkers, so to speak, so that the conversation is not just monopolized by professors and students, but you have so-called silent college where you expand the nature of conversation. And it's really something that goes beyond classroom. For instance, there's this course in ethics with thousands, hundreds of thousands of followers. And there are just interlopers, so to speak, many of which of whom are really just participants, rather, are interlopers in the conversation. So there are massive online courses for ethics. And I would say these are great opportunities for moral philosophers to engage the world. And in the very participation in these conversations, human beings learn certain norms, norms of civility and rationality, always assuming, of course, that the people who lead the conversations are serious about the topics they introduce and these are matters of great personal concern to them. And they're not just using the internet to propagate certain views, partisan views. So, well, I'm inclined to agree with you that there is basis for optimism in today's world. Although there are dangers as well, don't you think? Certainly, the dangers, the perception of this is also a function of comfort, the level of comfort of facilitators of conversation. For instance, teachers need retooling to be able to marshal the conversation well because while the internet is a powerful tool for moral reflection and moral responsibility, moral conversation, it is also vulnerable to trolls, for instance, to a lot of noise so that how you skillfully navigate through this otherwise noisy environment is quite a challenge for moral philosophers. So we are confronted again with the paradoxes of choice. Because we have the choice, we can use the internet to trivialize our lives. We can also use it, on the other hand, to ennoble it through moral reflection. And perhaps we in the academy who study these things, who study ethics from a certain point of view, from a theoretical point of view, perhaps we can also perform a certain role in terms of conceptual guidance of where conversations should go, the directions into which conversations about moral issues in politics, in society and in the world generally can be taken. So, yeah, I think there is good reason to be optimistic about morals and the connection between moral reflection, moral conversation and technologies of communication. To go back to the question of what role, if any, academics have to play in this, I feel that they have a very important and pivotal role because academics can view the very nature of communication and the development of human values from a theoretical perspective that no one else can because it's their habit to think about these things from that point of view. And so, I think the role that they can perform, the essential role for them to perform is to remind people of the proper range of conversations that must take place so that the media, the technologies of communication are not used to manipulate human beings into making choices that they would not ordinarily make or into making choices that are really against their better reflections. So, I believe, however, that academics are not pure saviors in this respect. They also have something to do. It's incumbent upon them to become more familiar with technology and how do you suppose, Peter, they can do this? Especially the older generation of academics. We did not grow up with technologies of communication. Certainly, academics have a pivotal role in the moral conversations in the face of technological change but I think there is an added requirement for academics to be able to meaningfully engage people, for instance, online. Part of that requirement is really a retooling of academics to be able to be adept in the use of technologies, for instance. You have to overcome their reticence about using these technologies? Certainly. They have to be natural, so to speak. And the level of media literacy for academics should be higher than ordinary citizens because you have to be sensitive to cues that will enable you to engage in meaningful conversations. They have the capacity for setting the tones of moral conversations. And they can only do that if they are well versed in the media? That's correct. So I would like to end on the point that there's never been a time when mankind needs so much to reflect, to continue to reflect on the nature of his moral self. And we find ourselves having to use for better or for worse the technology that is available to us, the technologies of communication. And it is up to us to see that as nothing but a hindrance or as something that can potentially enhance that conversation. I choose to take the second course. Certainly. That's a good choice for me. But let me just add that the role of the moral philosopher has never been more important than ever, especially so that there is so much need for interdisciplinary commerce. The subject of morality has been participated in by various disciplines, psychology, sociology, anthropology. And to be able to traffic the conversation given what we do as philosophers looking at essential themes and inquiring to these themes via empirical work from psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and even cognitive sciences on the nature of the good, on the nature of what constitutes moral behavior I think there is much to be done in this area being able to facilitate the conversation.


You may have heard the phrase Britcoin lately. So what is it? Well in late July it was reported that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak may be planning to introduce a new digital currency labeled Britcoin. It would be the biggest upheaval to the UK's currency for centuries and it would mean that the Bank of England would establish a digital equivalent to cash and take control of it. The arguments in favour of this seem to come down to the notion that it would save time and money because it would allow the Treasury to transfer Britcoins directly to people's accounts. It could also were told save money for small businesses. We're not the only country floating the idea of a new digital currency. China, seemingly always at the forefront of these things, is testing this at the moment and the EU and USA have also hinted that they could do the same. And none of this should come as any major surprise. Cash has been becoming increasingly obsolete in recent decades and paying by car is now far more common. But what this does is create a record of what is being bought and by home. When you do your weekly shop, everything you buy is recorded, unlike in the 80s, for example, when only the price was registered and not a description of the product. Since we started paying with cards, now not only are the products we buy recorded in detail, but our name is recorded next to them. Rishi Sunak has denied that he intends to fully replace cash with this new digital currency. But anyone can see that it's a step in that direction. The freedom cash afforded us is already pretty much gone. Some companies don't accept cash anymore and coronavirus has given them the reason. Some people are very worried about this and believe that it will be used as a method of controlling what we can buy. This may sound dystopian, but look at the controls placed upon us over the last couple of years. Look at how digitalized we have become in pretty much every area of life. Now dystopian spy societies don't seem so hard to believe and they don't seem very far away either. We need to bring back cash. We need to actively promote its use and, to my mind, disallow companies refusing to accept it. It should be part of our push towards the restoration of our privacy. And if we do want to use digital or online services, they must have privacy built in. It's well known that data is bought and sold so that we may be targeted with advertisements. There's been a dramatic alteration of our privacy and for Britain believes we have to start putting that into reverse. Privacy itself needs to be valued again. We are individuals and as individuals we have a right to determine for ourselves who knows what about us. It's a matter of trust and it's a matter of self-determination. So for Britain is committed to bringing back cash, bringing back privacy, to bringing back Britain. Thank you for watching. If you would like to stay updated with all of our latest videos, please like the video below and subscribe to our channel. As you probably know, for Britain is shadowbound on most social media. So it's really important to like and share our videos in order to get our message out. Thanks again for helping us to fight back. Thanks again for helping us to bring back Britain.


Hey what's up folks, welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noah Ruiz, I'm a designer here at Adafruit and joining me every week is my brother Pedro Ruiz. Good morning everybody, Pedro has creative tech here at Adafruit and every week we're here to share 3D printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. For the show we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello everybody, we are streaming live this episode 404, or 404, this week we have new projects, a little bit of prototyping, community makes, all this and more on, you guessed it, 3D Hangouts. We're hanging out in the Discord chat room. If you guys want to chat with us live, you can do so in any of the channels, you can go into Discord. Pedro, what's the link for the Discord? The link for the Discord is discord.gg slash Adafruit. Come on and join, I forgot how many people, tons of people there. Yeah. We'll also hang out in the YouTube chat on Twitch, Facebook and LinkedIn and Periscope. Yeah, Facebook, YouTube. These are launch, yep, here we go. All right, well, we'll do some shout outs once people start percolating in. Shout out folks real quick. We have Jimmy Hendrickson, Hendrickson, hello, Vince. Good morning. We have Tyeth and Deweyster, hello everybody. Hello. And here everybody, DJ Dewey, Guten Morgen, that might be German, I think. Anyway, yes, good morning, good evening. Everybody hanging out. Yes. I'm going to go ahead and get started with today's coupon code and freebies, adafruit.com slash free, you can get all the details. These are automatically added to your cart. The more money you spend, the more free items you get while supplies last. This week, for orders that are $99 or more, you'll get a half-size permaporto, PCB. If your order is $149 or more, you'll get the half-size permaporto plus KB2040. 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We got squid.JPEG. here for everything okay post all the posts I will entertain everybody schedule confirm did your Devin is here to make sure a bot is okay and has two legs again yeah last week we were talking about eight of us and while I was demo yet a bot slipped out of my hand and his leg broke that was an under extruded part and I had to reprint it so I guess we'll just jump into it yeah let's go ahead and check out I got one too you got one too everybody get their anybots ready mine is sleeping it's in sleep mode I'm not tested the sleep mode yeah it actually the servo actually go into like reset mode I change the animation because these are do so so I have it like pulsing kind of like a like the laptops that pulse their power buttons yeah so I changed that so 3d printed a to bot we did this project many many years ago now with the new feather RP 2040 we're able to give a to bot a life and a lot of different smarts and features so it this is the prop maker feathering it's been out for a little bit they are back in stock right now you can pick one up so this has got the the RP 2040 chip from the Raspberry Pi folks an accelerometer for motion detection shake detection and orientation detection it's got this hefty screw block terminal so you just screw things in and on the back here you can see the pin out so it has a built-in I2S speaker amplifier so you can have a speaker output right on the screw block terminal you can use a button and then you have the three pins for neopixel that's 5 volts ground and signal and the neopixel gets a clean 5 volt signal there's some extra features like you can turn up the game with a little solder jumper here if you don't want to use the the rechargeable lipo battery you can use this here it's got the trace to to enable like alkaline double-a batteries triple-a batteries what have you you get the stem acutee port so you can have sensors OLED TFT displays over I squared C and then you have a servo header pin so servos have three wire connections the signal the voltage and ground and most servos have like a jumper cable already so you literally just plug it in that was the whole thing that Lamar wanted is to have things just plug in instead of having to solder it up which is great so USB-C it's got you can do Arduino but we're doing circuit Python because it acts like a USB thumb drive so you can add all of your mp3s wave files fonts assets all that stuff you code your libraries all get added in here to the 8 megabyte splice fly spy flash that you get so fully featured all-in-one dev board for making it about light sabers ray guns toys that sort of thing yeah so it about is fully 3d printed it's got a servo controlled head and there's the speaker here you got a slide switch and you have a button so the button triggers random audio files and I sampled 18 different clips from the circuit playground puppet show so the neopixel LEDs are in the back of the mouth that's the neopixel stick so that has eight neopixel LEDs and the speaker is the mini oval speaker which has like four ohms or whatever and they're just a really fun you know little toy that really showcases you know circuit Python the prop maker feather RP 2040 and you know it's Adafruit mascot you know Adabot was created like way back when Adafruit was founded it was designed by Philip Turone Mr. Lady Ada and Bruce Yan who's our creative director and I forget the ladies name but the Adabot puppet was manufactured by a lady who actually worked on its from the Sesame Street and the design evolved a little bit and it's a lot more cuter so yeah all the pieces are printed separately there's some back covers here that snap fit the slides which turns it on and off it's got a 500 million lipo battery that's rechargeable the USB drive is accessible right behind Adabot here so that's where the feather is I'll take it apart in just a bit but you have like these poseable legs poseable arms the claw can fully rotate the limbs can fully rotate the ears can fully rotate the antennas or whatever and it's just a super fun little toy it's adorable the kids love it super adorable kids love it all all the people like it and I really like the it's using the accelerometer to detect when it's being laid flat so Adabot was like sleeping you could even like add a snoring sound if there be annoying thought it was gonna happen yeah so you can you can totally add you know features to it it's all done in circuit python Liz Clark helped put together the code for it so she wrote it up and then it's you'd leveraging some of Philby's code for doing like a random servo movement so that's really fun and yeah it just kind of randomly rotates back and forth when it's an idle state and you notice when I press the button the audio triggers and the the Neopixel lights up red so you can completely change that as you like and I hear that but lots of like I said 18 different samples from Adabot yeah I tried to pick the most interesting ones we're working on Adabot super cute great projects to build with with a classroom or kiddos maybe make it as a gift yeah so I'm gonna turn it off now so it's not so the servo isn't like going all crazy we'll jump into the learn guide how's that yes let's check it out let's go comments people like the print quality yes came up pretty good post the links to the proper colors if you want to print out your own theme to Adabot although we do have a gothic version so it doesn't have to be the exact colors yeah yeah I made a special one for PT because he likes the color black idea definitely have Melissa Jepler hook it up to chat GBT and tell oh yeah there's a lot of opportunities to make a Wi-Fi controlled sensor with the stem of QT you can add like a AQI sensor and Adabot can say like ah the the air is more you can start coughing like the words are out of my mouth that's what I was gonna say his hand can actually hold it or I guess you can make a little mount to the back there's yeah we can make this guy to add more stuff both inside the head and inside the body yeah a little bit of room yeah we just want to do like the the base minimum stuff like what would Adabot do is just alright his head's gonna move you're gonna trigger some audio plant things and we just kind of serendipity came up with like oh let's do a sleep mode with accelerometer of course you could shake it but that would be kind of wrong I mean I mean it could figure like the whoa sound effects oh yeah that'd be funny yeah like settle down there yeah cuz we remember the Buzz Lightyear robot like when he tips over he has like a fall detection he'd like help me up here yeah space ranger mm-hmm you do all sorts of fun stuff and it's up to folks that want to add on things to it we had to stop you guys we stop cuz you're gonna get future creep yeah oh audio no for the mailbox when you're print finished when you get a nail so with a different IO zap your if this than that that sort of stuff that'd be really cool really cool excited to see people print this and add some of those additional features yeah alright so if you go to the Adafruit learn system hey real quick we do check the Adafruit learn system my YouTube videos not loading here like it's like broke I'm about to chat with the the the learn dev folks cuz it's not like loading the YouTube video and then whenever it like breaks so it's usually the other way around where it won't load on Safari even the thumbnail you know that one it's always like a bit of a never live show if things are broken you know you get to see it live like when a debots leg broke any hoodle the Adafruit learn guide has all the parts on the home page the overview so the the prop maker feather is in stock right now 20 bucks we got the mini oval speaker the new pixel stick the micro servo is out of stock but maybe you have one on hands you go so get one on Amazon oh the other PID that one we're actually using that one's that one's double the price and I recommend using this one because you really don't need the all-metal gear it's it's kind of overkill for the thing like it's not pushing it's like what is a devos headway like I don't even know like a couple grams you know right but the buttons just a regular button no LED you could add an LED page no it doesn't fit I want oh it doesn't fit it's too big you have to date like it's whole body and it's a lot of it yeah there's a lot of editing the wood yeah the biggest battery you could fit in there though it's the 500 millionth light battery it's one of our favorite batteries good good amount I think the smallest one you'd want to get away with I think I have the 350 in this one actually oh really 350 yeah that's right oh we just have a feather battery but the cable's kind of short so you might might want to try it out first other little things you get to our favorite little slide switch a pico mollusk connector that extends the the battery from the speaker you got your hardware for the m25 some heat shrink silicone ribbon cable which is our favorite to work with and then additional parts those magnets the hands clamp on to the joint and the claw magnets allow you to take it apart you could glue it but we like being able to our yeah we've ran into that where it's like oh well good thing we can take it apart because I have to redo this if you plan to get it apart you know you can glue it it's up to you if you want you can kind of see I'll do it just to demonstrate here let me full screen you look like yeah here that's yep the two halves of the arm wall there's little cavities that allow you know oh you just got to get it right right and they clamped it so just be careful not to pinch your fingers they're pretty strong magnets oh yeah yeah and yeah yeah there you go yeah we'll jump into the learn guide I mean we are in learn I do recommend these steel screws for securing the feather originally we're gonna have it snap fit in there but like it kept breaking so we're like you know what just put some holes in there and then use some metal screws to fully secure the feather into the back cover all right that's the overview page next up CAD page has all the STLs there are a lot of files it's just a lot of parts to build a divide in all the different colors and to make it you know support free there's little mounts like the pupils are separate you know and the lightning ball the lots of little parts oh did you add the actual yeah you're in the 3d printing part page did you do the filament swap option I did not actually yeah that's on layer 14 it's layer 14 all right walking up which part the eyeballs and the mouth so you can print both of those at the same time oh that's cool in white and then on the 14th layer you'll switch it you'll have the g-code setting to swap out so your principal pause it'll move over and I'll let you swap it out for a blue color you have a overhead maybe you can share there you go yeah changes color there on yeah that's really cool yeah because the puppet has like these little stroke outlines that are colored so if you want to go all out and go crazy you can definitely do the color swap you can paint it too but obviously this is gonna be more permanent right yeah and it'll look amazing yeah eyes actually just pop in that's not a layer swap right yeah yeah we're getting to it back to the learn guide you're gonna want to print multiple copies of things like the antenna the legs it's all listed here basically pupil legs leg joint feet ear cup claw you just want to make two copies of those and print them all out but everything else that isn't listed here in the copies list just gets print a single time one time so that's good the biggest part in the in the in the kit is the body so I have some measurements here it's pretty much gonna fit on all the printers even the smallest printer I think is like 100 millimeters it's gonna fit just fine for the mouth I recommend printing it in either translucent clear filament or white filament we use like a natural PLA color that tends to diffuse the LEDs very nicely and then if you want the CAD file for the feather RP 2040 prop maker you can download it from our gig hub repo but the the source file is in the right here so if you want to modify any of the tolerances to any of the various parts you can download the step file and then you can import that into blender free CAD or if it use the Fusion 360 file if you're into that one you can you can modify it there or you can modify the STLs with like tinker cat or something but I like the step file because it has original sketches and you can you know modify those sketches if you want to change if they're like tolerances don't seem to be lining up you can always change it up when it comes to the circuit diagram it's great everything just plugs into the screwblock terminal servo has its own header pin battery has a battery port the only kind of component that you got a solder to the pins on the feather is a slide switch that's the enabled ground pin that allows you to turn the the 3 volt regular on and off this is my favorite circuit diagram to make so so easy that's really nice let's see the circuit python installing circuit python onto your feather is pretty easy we have a whole dedicated page on how to do that you basically hold down the boot button hit reset when you connect your computer and it shows up like a USB drive and then you drag and drop the firmware for circuit python and then your board is ready to go again chas a list Clark for coming up with code right in it all up and making the code page for us you can download all of the wave files libraries and the code using the project bundle button it's this blue button here just click on that and it'll pull everything from github it's all been linted and approved it's all good this is a good look at how to kind of create your own prop maker projects initializes initializes all the things you need like the external power pin so you can do sleep mode deep sleep mode it's got the amplifier the neopixel the servo pins and then it's using the circuit python LED animation library so you can change that up if you want to have different animations and then all the all the values are here for like changing how much the servo is moving and how long it's pausing for and you know what what the animation gets triggered when so you can change all that up here all the files and a little breakdown of how the code is working so shout out to Liz again for coming up with the code and breaking it down for everybody so check that out you can reuse it if you're doing a similar project and then we can get into the meat and potatoes well this is kind of the meat and potatoes more potatoes all the parts assembling all the parts it's broken down this was one of the last minute things when I printed it in this light blue color we got a lot of light leaking into the adabot head so like his whole head would light up and we just want the mouth to light up so I figure let's 3d print a mask that masks out you know only the mouth and I guess the eyes to so we have like this mask that you have to put on the inside or you can use what my pager did is he added to the to the first and last pixel I have it in the folder the picture you're gonna put the face mask you don't need to you don't need to block it so yeah so the head are separate the arms so these magnets they have a pretty tight fit so I'm using vice grips to force fit them in and these this way they're they're like really in there without having to use glue and then they have these like little slots so you can always poke them out if you get the polarity wrong you know getting the polarity is always a little bit difficult so definitely when you line them properly they somehow flip on you so always check and double check your polarity when you're installing the magnets but this gives you an idea of how the arm joint and the claw are press-fitted into the little cavities there and then this last piece just shows you how they get snap-fitted pager did a demo already so that's good so those are the arms then we're going into the body you got the lightning ball you got the legs the legs have these little joints that have threads on them so they screw into the two little dog joints and then they're kind of poseable so you can like rotate them freely and so I'm the arms you want to get the the joint into the body first and then you want to fit the the arm into it and then the claw on the other end and then you just snap the other half on top to clamp them shut and then repeat the process yeah next step is wiring you want to wire up your your slide switch your button so that covers that bit neopixel has its own you got a three wire silicone cable make sure to get the lengths right you don't want to have it too short or too long so I made sure that the lengths are like good enough so you have enough slack to take it apart and put it together and the wires won't what do you call it they won't kink or get caught in the servo yeah the way usually measure stuff is so I'll have it open like that so the the case where it's mounted will be right next to it and that's why I measure how much I'm gonna need so I have I know that I'll have just enough to have it open when I need to work on it that's what the measurement will be for that for any other projects that we're working on yeah that's a really good tip yeah that's that's how I come up with them too for this one for the neopixel I ended up using heat-tubing to kind of color code once it's wired up there and installed you can't tell which wire is what so I have you know the ground is red and the signal is white I did just one I just labeled just the ground because I know right next to the ground oh okay the data in right next to data in is the five volt cool there's a special mount for the neopixel so we're using these m25 standoffs to elevate it so that it doesn't melt if it gets too hot like if you want to have it constantly on at full brightness this is a good way to make it so it doesn't you know melt because I've run into that before where the new things get so hot I don't think it'll melt I think the main thing is so it doesn't illuminate the entire face you know just in case the face mask you know yeah doesn't doesn't do the job a quick comment from Mark is it all PLA yeah it is all PLA nothing special you could use PETG if you want a stronger part I suppose but I think yeah like PLA or PETG will work well just change your slice settings accordingly I think PETG is a printed hotter yeah hotter and slower right then when you want to get the the neopixel installed we kind of need to install the neck first so the neck gets installed with these longer screws and then the new pixel mount fits over that and then it gets secured with this with those hex nuts and then you want to get the cable fitted through the neck because that's then that the wire needs to go through the neck it's a debots vertebrae next up this is the speaker originally like I had to splice some wires with pages like you know we carry these these extension cables that are the right connector for the speaker so these are the Pico blade connectors the two pin wires so you just get one of those and then you don't have to solder it because they're soldered just great I recommend the the speaker with the shorter wire because it'll be like the perfect length oh yeah and I was like oh I hope we have all the here we had all these extra oval with the little wires I think it was for the I was it for the monster mask forget what we were using yeah yeah so these guys these guys have a little bit longer cable but you're saying there's a there's one with a smaller cable let me see if I really short I was like oh cool I can finally use these yeah these guys yeah this is the exact same just the shorter cable mm-hmm same price should be the same price just a perfect length I found with the extent good the socket yeah that is true because I do have a lot of the excess inside the head yeah huh that was just my luck with me my luck of the little ones I thought it was too short little ones that's funny I thought it was too short no all right I'll update the guide they're both in stock so it kind of doesn't matter now any who they has a speak sticky backing so you just want to peel that and stick it to the spot above the eight about head because that's where the speaker holes are right above the head I think that's a good spot for it and then just pass the cable through the neck again onward to the switch the switch has a dedicated little switch holder we you can probably hot glue it in place or bend the I yeah I did just to give you a grain relief yeah give it to me yep and it gets secured to the back cover of the head with the m25 screws and hex nuts and then you want to get the cable threaded to the neck again and then just snap fit it in there now we're going to connect the head to the body to do that we got to get all the cables through the hole in the body where the neck fits and then fit the neck through that hole and then we have this like little neck retainer it just keeps the head from falling off it's got a pretty tight fit so you just want to like slip it on and like press fit it into place until it's flush like that and then the next thing is to get the cables through the neck gear so there's a special gear that gets added to the neck there are these little keys and slots so you want to line that up once you get it installed and there you can see a good look at the the key and slot there so that it doesn't slip so that's that's the method I came up with to keep the gear without being glued everything is a press fit next up is to solder the slide switch you could solder the slide switch and then pass the switch through the neck there's enough clearance in the neck hole to get the switch back in it but I already installed it so you might as well just do it this way and then I'm using the new clips the OmniFixo clips with the magnetic so much it's such a great thing if you're doing a lot of rework or just any soldering like I definitely recommend or the smallest amount of soldering like I ditched my shirt helping hands just positioning this for so great yeah maybe shop talk I'll take a look at them because I have them here so yeah clips all in the trash yeah they're terrible compared to these these are like luxury alright so once you get your slides which it's time to assemble all the things so here we are getting the the feather mounted to the back cover here and then we're getting the the back cover or no sorry we're just securing the feather with these machine screws to the built-in standoffs and then now we can start connecting all the components so here we're gonna do the servo it's just plugged in the speaker followed by the button the new pixel power the ground wires there's two ground wires one from the button and one from the new pixel so you just want to share that yeah enough room for I think like four maybe six yeah the height for that right and then the last bit is the new pixel inside the screwblock terminal good thing we have heat shrink tubing because we know what colors are and I would I would reference the circuit diagram because at this point you really can't look at the back of the feather because it's secured in place so I've I had an extra feather on hand just so I can look at it and be like okay bam this is there okay this is the yeah yeah they're in the back orientation that you're at you know yeah the labels around the back of it but you can't access it yeah I just used another feather so that's funny I did get more feathers yeah it was the lifesaver there that's funny the last bit is to plug in the battery that's super easy so just plug it in final assembly is to get the battery installed inside the body so it's flush up against like the lightning bolt and then just making sure all the cables are you know out of the way so they're not like being pinched with the gear the gears when they mesh the back cover snap fits so we get that fitted and then there's a little hole there that lines up with the USB port that's pretty much it use the slides which turned on and off recharge the battery if you want there's a little charging LED built into the into the feather that you could just about make out when you're looking at the bottom of it and yeah that's pretty much it that's is the learn guide get out but it's not saying kids absolutely loading cool looks like it just it's a weird caching issue yeah sorry wrong one thank you to much done looking at this operation photos yeah there's a lot yes we redo it but yes the kids absolutely love this little robot cool comments I am getting my stop talk time if anybody has any questions just let us know just suggestions from DJ Devin talking about the slip ring it's a good idea to use those I think you are gonna use it on the R2D2 yeah I'll tell you why I didn't use it the servo is just moving 80 degrees there isn't really a point where the the the wires are gonna get mm-hmm like twisted it's always gonna go back you know so there's a very limited range of motion and with the code he's only moving his head like very not even 180 degrees it's always like half that or oh and it's the price of the feather isn't it the slip ring yeah I guess it can be a little pricey I've never used one but I plan to use one here yeah I plan to use one of these for the for the R2D2 because its head will be continuously spinning but these are special cable harnesses that allow like continuous rotation of a thing so that's pretty cool and they come in different diameters different wire amounts so these are pretty cool yeah great for robotics projects so there you go good tip there's a request for I already posted it the printable is linked linked to that and grab it there yeah Devin's saying yeah you'll need one with a continuous servo yeah so if you want it about side to keep me spinning kind of like a poltergeist maybe that would be kind of funny see the 3d model for the prop maker is on the github as well cad's put posted the link to that as well so you can grab that for any other future projects definitely want to use it for the mounts mount is different especially in the area of the terminal yeah for sure like a little pin yeah there yeah I found the right CAD model from the manufacturer to oh the terminal exact yeah so it's the exact model from the manufacturer but yeah everything else is good you got the right angle stem and connector which frees up a lot of space and then of course buttons and stuff so I guess for shop talk we're talking about these fixed OmniFixo clamps so they have this ball socket that's magnetic and then these little bits here they're allowed you to position it in any angle and then you have these silicone heat safe grabby bits it's spring-loaded so you can grab your board and then position it however you like and you can purchase these from the OmniFixo website yeah so you can have your wire right here and it's so good with wires because usually with wires the alligator clips once you start soldering the heat will melt them and then you have like this pinch on your wire yeah yeah these are flat so they're not gonna like leave a bite mark to which is pressure that is applied to them is freaking absolutely perfect yeah it's perfect for the PVC type wires especially like those get those support I have no idea no not like a motor like a NEMA 17 motor right but that point you want to use like a pan of ice yeah this is true that's true yeah so this we do stock this heat rework station thing really metal it's got really nice powder coated metal steel whatever it is and it's got some weight to it and there's these slots here for attaching other bits yeah alligator clips which are in the trash and then it comes with other magnets little magnet things that try to attempt to be like a little holder thing you gotta like screw it on it's like half of a screw it's that good I use it to hold back a few minutes oh yeah here's your fan oh that's good we're holding things but the magnets I use them again like prop things up or hold back the fume extractor fan okay or if you have a metal plate use that whatever there are magnets on it too so I use it in conjunction with okay the clips yeah you see here these slots are being used for for holding their whatever thanks guess you could hold something else there that isn't gonna get melty not wires and wires even a board sometimes you'll hold one thing on in it like flips on you really yeah so I'm a fan I really like these and that's the shop talk I thought I'd recommend them let me go to the website working all this stuff so pleasurable like yeah cuz it's just you don't spend camera work you know I don't know I can't see it I gotta rotate it this one I have to have my hand all freaking crazy no on their website and our gone board and oh there that's funny what fans of Adafruit I think so I'm fix so it's a website their stuff is shipping now it was in a pre-order a couple of weeks ago they have their own metal plate which is nice it has like and clips or where it's at this is actually helpful to have sorry my brain yeah the the ruler cuz then I can measure the wire length without having to bring out so I just thought it's really nice I might buy it I want to help them out I want to buy that one too yeah so they make lovely things uh-huh ships pretty well yeah there's a good gift here yeah I'm sure the weight supporting weight is probably listed on there somewhere maybe yeah I like this example of like here's a connector and here's your wire now you got to do is just focus on holding your soldering wire and your soldering iron I'm usually like yeah I believe it and solder it that's it bam yeah I don't even know awkward you know obstructing the lens and the camera to freaking solder something it's right there yeah the magnetic ball joint is like revolutionary yeah so they got fantastic photos of the thing and yeah I just I just I just really like it like no no bitey in the char are no aggressive alligators yeah these springs are great there man so lovely photos man was a great site yes your life will change no kidding yeah it's designed in Sweden you know it's good yeah that's why yeah so find out if you're in Europe get your own uh you're a distributor I think they ship everywhere since they're shipping from Sweden oh yeah this is an insta buy yeah it is yeah I'm not being sponsored I just I just really used it and we already have your we have ours so we feel comfortable talking about them I wanted to make sure that I could use it for exactly yeah yeah yeah like I said I got four of them and I'm only using two so far but I'm sure they'll be a spot like holding up products for the hero shots sure yeah something yeah so that's our shop talk sponsored right now maybe we'll like we got to bring it up to Lamar and be like hey you gotta stock these oh yeah we've seen those scenes like a while back but again it's always like on pre-order and then Brent mentioned them again I was like yeah yeah he mentioned scroll down like wait a minute you can just get these clips that's all I want I don't want a piece they come in these little uh paper eco-friendly bags that are recyclable so they went the whole extra extra mile so very nice all right let's shop talk we are ready for community makes community makes this week is this pretty cool dragon cup and cup printed in PLA rainbow this came out excellent has a nice amount of storage space for your quick to grab little tools that you always have on hand with an awesome little dragon super cool detail on this guy this was designed by a crew and this was this was used to test the tree supports in the new cura although it kept crashing when I tried so I just used regular supports and it came out freaking really good yeah let's see where the supports were all that was it's using the standard supports I use and all of my prints so any of the settings if you really want to get down dive in it's in any of the printing section pages on any of the projects that we recently posted you can grab those there and yeah whatever new support slicing algorithm that they have inside of cura it flicks almost right off yeah one of the things I did look at what the settings that they're using for the tree supports and they're using like zero percent density so I tried that out worked pretty good so yeah you're using so much less support material for for this because you know the supports are going all between here and you're getting all up in the uh one of these little spines for the dragon and those come out perfect yeah you can see where a lot of supports also happen like on his beard and all that and this came out perfect sweet that's a really cool rainbow color there yeah so um this was posted by the ultimaker cura account and then um the designer is named peru mass so they designed it but cura I guess published it like ultimaker cura and here's some photos of that support material try it tree stuff yeah yeah and uh old tree support new tree support so there's a little example of it so they're really promoting to check out their tree support I tried we'll give it a try when uh they update it or something your profile it'll work I did oh right maybe you know I'll give it a try then um my printer was pretty busy with eight above but now that I'm free I could try this out so yeah it looks good and what's not the standard supports work even better now this is great they got their whole that's what I was looking at yep they copied all that stuff yeah crashed and it crashed oh boy they just would not slice yeah you gotta get a windows machine man but you have a windows machine you could use that I guess I think it's the profile for the printer oh man I'll try it on the uh I'm an ultimaker what ultimakers do they use one of the s's probably oh yeah makes sense that's their latest cool all right well that is uh this week's time lapse check out the video if you want to take that out so I'm using as my tool storage now very nice I'm a dragging cup tool holder yeah and I went ahead and ordered more of the um rainbow PLA yeah is that good is it is it strong yeah this stuff some of the some of the silk PLA is like brittle yeah yeah I threw that spool away immediately I think I was printing the the ultra hand I tried to take one support off and the whole thing broke I'm like okay you're you're a whole this roll is going in the trash oh man yeah hopefully yeah thankfully these days filament is in $50 oh my god yeah it's a 20 bucks next day cool all right well that's the time lapse Tuesday we're gonna roll right into time roll right into community makes first up we have a make of this uh little planter or tool cup holder of uh super mario brothers inspired boo so this is boo this was printed by herald and they printed it in this shiny silky metal I think maybe it's copper it's hard to tell looks kind of copper yeah doesn't say what printer any oh any cubic i3 mega but not sure what the filament is but very cool looks very nice so lots of folks have printed this one out and uh put plants in it which is very fun after that we have a 3d printed unicorn horn printed this lovely silky rainbow filament this is posted up by Michael um they say uh I won't be adding electronics but I think these look great on a hat printing using every one try color silk PLA hey I like everyone they have a really good sparkle PLA did they put it on their horse somebody put on their horse yeah check it out oh that's a different one okay yeah okay yeah I remember that it's a donkey I think look at the braids on the donkey and or maybe it is a horse a horse a horse yeah all sorts of a dog oh I like the dog yeah yeah I like the one when they put it on a real horse that's great uh but yeah Michael P posted it up and uh they printed it in vase mode with 0.6 lined with wow very nice yeah yeah and it fits great on a hat this was a collab project with Becky she sewed it up and like did the video I think yeah that's a cool hat and they go in the dark you can go in the dark you could print it ninja flex too right and then that's what we did these days everybody's using silk PLA that's cool all right and then after that last make of the week is another hot spaceship earth it looks pretty clean yeah this is posted by snake and uh yeah this prints without no supports you can just about see where uh the printer's like starting to you know do the overhang and they got the magnets installed I guess they're waiting on the electronics but yeah I also have an update on uh the W led check this out man so we go to install that W led dot me and uh they have a new beta and new beta supports s3 c3 and all the other things if you go to get hub you go to the release check it out these are the s3 c3 so they they support a bunch of different esp 32 boards now this is on the new matrixes with your matrix maybe what no because they're different leds right yeah supports um you know the wos um yeah and the sk chipset so they have all the documentation on what leds they support so double check that but I have yet to test it on some of our because we have a ton of feather s2 and s3's um so I'll try a feather s2 on my little 16 by 16 new pixel display because right now it's running circuit python but I'd like to try out some of their crazy animations so if folks are wanting to use one of their esp variants and they want to use W led try the new beta that might work for you and there's new 2d effects as well soap octopus and waves waving cell I don't know what those are and a half a year's worth of improvements in fixes wow that's amazing dang yeah shout out air cookie in the community and that is this week's community makes awesome I believe that is it for the show yeah right on time very cool don't forget if 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