Live from New York, it's Ask an Engineer. Everybody, and welcome to engineers. Engineers, welcome everybody to Ask Engineers. It's me, Lady Aida, with me, special guest, Jeff Appler, also known as the Jeffler, a core circuit Python contributor and otherwise good guy. And our first guest of the year. And our first guest of the year, fully vaccinated. Also, Mr. Lady Aida on camera control and looking sad. Very good at it, don't ask him to smile. We've got an exciting show for you tonight. One hour of cool coding, engineering, Python, hardware, products, and more. It's also Star Trek Day. It's also Star Trek Day. So you're just gonna have to deal with it. Good. Anybody have any recommendations for Terry Pratchett books? I haven't read any. Put it in the chat. Just tell me the one to read. Not this one necessarily. Just give me the one, okay? That's all I'm asking. All right, let's kick it off. What's on tonight's show? On tonight's show, the code is Tower Light, 10% off the native restart, all the way up to 11.59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's nice. That's nice, right? I like Tower Lights. You want this, you need this, Tower Light. Get 10% off the native restart for anything in stock, including Tower Light. We'll talk about our Aida Fruit Live series shows. Cling show and tell. We had some guests and more time travel around the world of makers, hackers, artists, engineers, news, stuff like that. Main York City factory footage. Jeff, you got to see the factory here live, but people get to see it. I did, it was real. Yeah, it's real. And people get to see some of the videos. We have a neat one that we made this week. Some 3D printing from Nome Pedro. We have IonMPI, new products. We got some Top Secret, really need Top Secret. We'll answer your questions. We do that over on Discord. AidaFruit.it slash Discord where you can join all 30,000 of us, the 24-7 Hacker Space that you can bring anyone to. I think that's the tagline. It's true. All that and more on, you guessed it. You're welcome. Ask an engineer. Okay, Lady Aida. So we have the discount code, which is TowerLight. TowerLight. Yeah, but we also have... Or two, Worldicht. Yeah, it's German. Yes. We also have free stuff. It's true. When you order from aidafruit.com, you get free stuff. I also order from our distributors, of course, support them, but when you order from us, we can give you free stuff like $99 or more. You get a free pro and proto, half-sized breadboard PCB with this beautiful silk screen. One 49 or more, you get a STEMI QT board. One of many options. You've got about 20 different boards we're giving away. You'll get a random one unless you make an account, in which case we'll make sure that you get an arbitrary one that is not one you already have. $199 or more, you get free UPS ground shipping in the content of the United States. And $299 or more, you get my favorite circuit board of all times I've ever designed. The Circuit Playground Express. SAMD21 board that works with code.org, CS Discoveries. Circuit Python, Arduino, MicroList, MakeCode. I think they're using MicroPython support now. All that stuff with all the sensors and buttons and LEDs and everything already built in. So you don't even have to solder, just plug it in and go. All right. We just did some live shows. Actually, I'm gonna put you on the spot a little bit. Jibbler. Lady Aida has a favorite Adafruit board, which is a Circuit Playground Express. Do you have a board that you like to use a lot? I mean, I think I'm gonna pick the clue because I came on board when we were doing NRF 52840 and there's a lot of fun stuff about that board. It's kind of a rival to Circuit Playground because it's got all the sensors, but I like it as a screen. And I feel like, you know, everything is a battery and a screen at some point. It's adorable that it's a girl. And I love the little repel. It shows up and it's like, hi, I'm alive. I'm a clue. Yeah, for sure. And it's got all the stuff built in. All right. So we did some live shows. We just got finished up with the show and tell. Go watch it. We had Adafruit folks. Synthesizers. Sir Randy Sarrafan showed off his book. Yeah. Kevin talked about the Hackaday contest. Including how to get double your money. Get double your money. And we had Randy, who I've known, sort of forever. We've known him forever. From being, like I said in the beginning, it was like a maker fixture because Instructables is kind of where we all started putting our projects before there was, like there was no Adafruit learning system a long time ago. I know it seems like it's a utility and it's around forever, but. There was a time when it didn't exist. We didn't have it. So check out Randy, the No Start Express, homemade robots and it has all the things, all the junk around your house you can turn it into a robot. And there's the Lincoln Discord. Thank you, Mr. Certainly. Yeah, thank you. On Sundays, we do Desk of Lady Ena. We hung out on Sunday and then right after we hung out, we did this show. What did you show in part one this week, Lady Ena? Okay, so I showed how I stem at QTFI a board because it was something I had to do anyways. We have been taking, I don't know. You're not looped in this one. No, this is cool. You're thinking deeply. No, this is good. Good work, me thinking. You know, we have all these sensor boards that we've designed for like a decade and now we're putting all of our boards into STEM at QT format, which is quick compatible with SparkFun standard. I'm trying to make everything like the same size, this nice 0.7 inch by one inch shape with two connectors on the side for solderless use. People really love that format, but we still have to go through and there's old sensors that I'm trying to like revise into this modern format. And I'm kind of, I did some of the popular ones and I did some of the unpopular ones and I did the MPRL, sorry, MPL3115A2, which is an older barometric pressure sensor altimeter, but one that we still sell a couple hundred of a month. And so I figured it was a good time to kind of refresh it. And it also shows how I use a template file and then I need to modify the file with copying parts over from one EGLE file to another. One of the really nice things at Windows is you can have two copies of EGLE open. Apparently you can't do that on math. That is something that's different than Windows because you can have multiple copies of the same app. I have three copies of Arduino open sometimes, one for each board I'm working on. Like I'll have one with the Uno, one with like the Tinsi, one with RP24, because I'm trying out code in different ones or like I'm working on a project that has multiple chips. I can't imagine not being able to do that. Jeff, you're on Linux, right? Yeah. What are you running on your laptop? I glanced over and I saw that you had something that doesn't work with your sound, right? Yeah. I run Debian. Okay. That's your flavor? That's my flavor. They respect freedom a lot. They value that and yeah. I don't know. I do things in Xterm and VI and things like that. I'm the old, well, neck veered type of computer user. Well, one thing- I still run Xemax on Windows and it's like a total crime but I can't help it. Oh yeah, Xemax. I run Xemax. I'll tell you why. Because I actually was wondering like, why do I run it? And I was like, I'm gonna try add and try BS code. It can open a like 40 megabyte file in 0.1 seconds and scroll and search for the entire thing nearly instantaneously. Yeah, it's amazing. Which is amazing, by the way, to open up a file and it doesn't do that weird like Adam like, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm electron. It doesn't do that. Instant open and I can go immediately to what I need to edit. Instant. That's pretty good too. Hard to, yeah, well, whatever. But hard to argue that. One thing, because a lot of folks probably know Jeff from the circuit Python community but we have an internal slack and like, we're all doing stuff at DataFruit. Jeff's one of the few people that reads a lot of the same stuff I do in the open source community and that's how I know that it was gonna be fun to work with because I'm like, okay, cool, you're reading all the same stuff. You like open source because like, you never know when you start to work with folks. You're definitely one of the people that values and cherishes open source and all those things. But he also recognizes how ridiculous it is, which I think is you have to be able to laugh at yourself and open source a little bit. In a nice way. We're not laughing at you, but you know, we're laughing with you. Yeah, I mean, you also have to see that people, different people get different things from different pieces of software and that's great. Anyways. So then we're doing the great search that we do as well. You'll have to remember this one because it's probably not gonna loop either. Right, so this one, oh, I remember what this was. So we use the AON7401 p-channel power MOSFET 8DFN format for many of our boards as a p-channel, pass through a polarity tester or like load switch or whatever. And it is end of line and we have enough to last us a couple months, but we're gonna have to find another chip. And so since I had to do it anyways, I thought I'd do it on the great search, how to find a compatible MOSFET in the same package, which is like not, you have to be a little sneaky. You have to know how to use the parameters to make sure you get something as good or better. And I talked about a couple of the parameters that I think are the most important. Of course, your parameters may vary and how to parameterize and document your schematics so you don't get screwed over later when you have to find a replacement and you're like, what was the parameter that was important? Is it capacitance? Is it RDS on? Is it threshold voltage? Is it VGS max? Document that stuff. So this was a too far great search. JP's workshop and JP's product pick. Product pick is every Tuesday this week. JP's product pick of the week. Take it away JP. Yeah. The prop maker feather wing. The prop maker is plugged into a feather M4 and then I've got a strip of neopixels running right there. I'm just using this little speaker here, which is nice and compact. I'm powering this by battery right now. I plugged in a switch. I actually used a little mechanical key switch and soldered to one of our little sockets there onto the sort of built in switch output. So when that gets grounded and now turn my laser pointer here on and off. The other thing I'm doing on here is I'm using the tap detection. So every time I tap it, I am playing a sound effect as well as switching my neopixel colors to something random. And you can see here it responds really quickly. That is the product pick of the week. It is the prop maker feather wing. And on Thursdays on GP's workshop, we do circuit Python parsec. Take it away again, JP. For the circuit Python parsec today, what I wanted to talk about is list slices. What are list slices? List slices are a way inside of Python to talk about a subset of a list. And in this case, it's a really convenient way to cast one set of a list to the values of the same list in a different section. I'm doing this to do this neat little rotating neopixel thing you can see here. I have a circuit playground, blue fruit, and I'm diffusing it. And what you can see in my code is that I'm bringing in time board and neopixel. I'm also bringing in my color helper class from my GP colors module, pixels zero, four and seven. I'm setting those to cyan, magenta and amber. Then in my loop here, I grab that color of the first neopixel, that's pixel zero, and I cast that to a variable called first pixel color. Then this is the little list slice section. Pixels zero, colon nine is gonna give me the first eight pixels because it's up to, but not including the last number there. And I'm gonna make that equal to one pixel lower. So it essentially grabs the pixel right in front of it and takes its value. So that's what shifts the colors. And then since we have a gap there between the first and the very last, I grab the initial color there, that first pixel color, and I assign that to pixel number nine. You can actually watch in my serial view here as the colors just kind of wind their way up and they loop around to the bottom thanks to that first and last line there. But it's a pretty neat way to, instead of using a four loop or four inside of a range loop, you can, in a very concise bit of code here, move all of these values from a different section of the list to a new section of the list. And so that's how you can use list slices inside of Circuit Python. And that is your Circuit Python Parsec. All right, and then deep dive with Scott, that's on Friday. You did a deep dive with Scott during the Circuit Python day, right? No, a couple months ago. No, was it the Great Merge? Yeah, yeah. Was it the Great Merge? You're really putting me on the spot here with that one. I forgot. It was just fun and we hung out online and talked to people. We heard about it, though. I tuned in, because usually these happen during our Stay the Fruit meeting, but folks said that was a really good one, like Jeff is really good. So this was when we were doing stuff with MicroPython and integrating. Which we're still doing, and we're gonna do it again very soon, because they came out with a new version. Get it to the 117, right? 117? Right, I think that's the number. Okay. So this Friday, tune in for Scott's deep dive. You never know. All right, time travel. Look around the World Makers Hackers Artist Engineers. We're skipping the jobs board this week. I'll put up the job that we feature, but just a heads up. One just came in. We approved it. It's for Black and Decker. They want people who know IOT and all these chips, which makes a ton of sense, right? Yeah, of course. That's what you'd expect it to be. So check it out at jobs.atorfruit.com. But we'll feature it next week. So today, if you looked at our website, we have a little, the Adafruit flower is now the little Star Trek communicator. It's Star Trek Day. Happy Star Trek Day. Happy Star Trek Day. I'm gonna use a little bit of time, because from what I understand, you partake in the Star Trek. Well, I mean, I grew up with Rewrons of TOS on the TV. And yeah, I always hoped that my ears would turn pointy someday soon. Do you? And my true people would come and find me. Do you have, well, the years. Did you go to conferences and stuff? No. You found us. I did, I don't have. So do you have a favorite series out of all of them? Enterprises account, we all agree on that. The one that I rewatched most of, most recently was DS9. And I feel like a lot of that is much more rewatchable for me personally than TOS or TNG. And I didn't get into Voyager at the time. So I really like Picard.  And how do you deal with that? Like you set the federation up, here's the values, keep going, keep being good to people, then you leave, you retire, and you're like, what's going on there? What's going on in the federation? So we've got to do something and get back to our ideals. And hopefully that's what Picard season two will do a little bit up. Yeah, supposedly Borg, there's going to be Borgs in it, and there's a few other things I'm looking forward to. DS9 is one of the ones that, it's not good news. It was like one of the grittier ones. There is a funny Twitter account, it's Golducot, and today he said Happy Golducot Day, because he's always making fun of the federation. Was there any particular character in DS9 that you liked? I mean, Dax was a great character, Odo was a great character. Yeah, one of them, I can't say. Yeah, there's a few of us here today, well there's a lot of us here today, it's really like Star Trek. And I think we've all settled on, Cisco was the best captain, but not for the reasons you think. Okay, what's the reason? So the reason is, he actually is like, he didn't do a great job in some of these things. He was the most human one.  Like he really, they gave him a job and he did it against the Dominion. So I thought that was a pretty big story arc. These weren't perfect people. Yeah, that's certainly true. But they were people with that core of caring for each other like we were talking about earlier, which is super important. So anyways, I thought that it was good to mention, because this is one of the shows that I think a lot of people watch, you're in our community and everything. Also, Star Trek has such like good moral lessons. And I was telling this story, because I'm going to be reading the book by Ann Sterling, Rod Sterling's daughter. And there was a quote that I saw and I'm just like, oh, that hit home. It's like, if you want to like really teach people about racism and bigotry, just put it on another planet. And I think Star Trek did that for me. Yeah. And we're living through. They didn't always hit a home run. Yeah. But they tried a lot. Okay, anyways, happy Star Trek day. Happy Star Trek day. Eight of Box. So we're going to run out of Eight of Boxes. Subscribe, you only have a couple dozen more slots. It'll be the Halloween box and then we'll have the Christmas box. These tend to sell out. You usually have a couple of extra slots open in the first quarter box, the one in March. But the last two of the year, because of the way people do give subscriptions, they tend to have them through the end of the year. So do sign up. Canada and America are available. And then we're doing a better job of whatever we have in Eight of Box. A couple months later, it's in the shop. So did you miss out? You can always get it, but you won't get it for the holiday or event. All right. Calls live notes every single, unless it's a holiday. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. You can tune in and call them notes. Here is one of them from this week. When you need a quick custom size board for prototyping, some single-sided perforated board can be cut with scissors, which is nice. But it's surprisingly easy to resize thicker and double-sided boards as well. First, measure and mark the desired size. Then score the board with a ruler and utility knife along the perforated holes. It doesn't have to be too deep. Just a couple firm passes should do. If you're removing a substantial piece, you can simply press the board against a table at an angle. And the one piece will become two. For thinner strips, you can place the board in a table vise and bend along the seam. Either way, the process is literally a snap. All right, it's Python on hardware time. Woo-hoo. That's your favorite. Yeah, it is. First up, big news. We are up to 9,000 subscribers on the Python, on microcontrollers newsletter. Yay! Yay! Yay! It's a lot of people. It's a lot of people. And the number keeps going up, which is good.  You can unsubscribe. Yes. Any time you want. Just at the bottom. It's a separate website called AdafruitDaily.com. And the reason we did that is we never wanted anyone to accuse us of using their store account for a newsletter account. That's how crazy we are about privacy and permissions and all that. So anyone can go there. We don't really market the newsletter.  I like hardware. Or they're seeing their projects in there. So we're up to 9,000. This week in the newsletter, Jeff, some of your stuff is in here. So we're up to the CircuitPython 7 Release Candidate 1. You did the QR code stuff in it. Got a lot of camera stuff in there. Camera stuff. That's all new since 6. Okay. So Bluetooth, Will Energy, Scott's doing a bunch of that. The camera support on ESP32 S2. That's you. What is that all about? What can you do with it? So you can record JPEG images to an SD card. You can display images from a camera live on an LCD. You can just decode some QR codes. If you can figure out other things to do with MicroLab to process the images, you can do image effects. We are gonna explore that soon. I think I just haven't done a lot of it myself. Yeah, we're on vacation right now, because you're here. But when we get back, we'll probably get back to it. But it's also not even just ESP32 S2. It's also RP2040. And I think you did get it. And SAMB51 does work to an extent. It works with one of the two camera models we've been looking at, but not the other. Okay. And while Jeff was visiting, we showed this on Desk of Lady Aida. We bought this camera. And I was gonna say bye. And I'm just like, well, I should just give it to you so you can play around with it here. And it's a hardware camera. It doesn't have a view screen. It has a four-way switch. It's a circuit board. You can see it. And it has like some neat filtering things and stuff like that. So we thought- It's got like four filter modes. I took it to the Met and took pictures in the Met with it, so that was kind of fun. It's a different experience to rewind back to when we didn't have a screen on a camera. And you don't check everything. Yeah, you don't have a screen. And later on, when you look at your computer, it's like the film getting developed. Yeah. It was fun. It was fun to have. And so we're getting ideas on what we wanna do for a camera, because you worked on the calculator. We have a ruler. And we have a number pad. We have keyboard stuff. So maybe the next thing- What are other electronic objects we carry with us? And why can't we make them ourselves? Yeah. There's a, thinking about like a mouse, you know, there's a lot of things that we wanna do that circuit by fun can power. We could do, you know, we did the MagTab. We could do an E-Greeter. Yeah. Yeah, well, there's- Well, Joey did a lot of stuff in the area. Yeah, we're, he won the Hackaday Contest. We still have to make at least some of those board. Yeah, we got, we got COVID-ized. So- All right, so that's RC1 is out. Please, please, please test it. A lot of stuff happened in seven. It's actually like, I think our biggest release. So much stuff went in, which is good. We fixed a lot of bugs. We, you know, caught up to MicroPython, all that extra stuff. We updated like GCC. We updated board support, SDKs. A whole lot went in. New MicroPython release. We are continuing on the Great Merge. In fact, that's what this poster is, you can see. This is the two snakes together. So that's going on. Play MP3 is on Raspberry Pi with Pico with CircuitPython. You worked on MP3. I worked on some of the code. Ketney did a great guide, though. So if someone wanted to make a music player with Adafruit hardware and CircuitPython, could they do now? They have one in the learning system with PiGamer. But now you can do it on RP24, which we didn't think that you could do. The reason we didn't work with this guide before is we thought that we wouldn't have enough processor speed to decode MP3s because it doesn't have a DSP.  There are limits. You need a 64 kbit per second or lower MP3 file. But it still sounds, I mean, they sound okay. For audiobooks or like very simple sound effects, it's 10th of the size of a wave file. And a lot of people do have MP3s and it works quite well. Even with PWM out, I just think it's super cool you could just play MP3s. I mean, like, it's just funny how hard that is to do on a microcontroller usually. And this is like literally two commands in the rebel and it just, it plays instantly. Yeah. Super rad. Through I2S or PWM. And I do see a lot of people saying, I wish I could just play MP3s again. Because if you just drag and drop an MP3 on your phone or try to, you can't anymore. Everything's a streaming service, everything's a subscription thing. Just trying to get an MP3 from one thing to another if you have young people and you don't want them going through the YouTube algorithm forever and you want to just like play music. So I think that's a pretty big feature. And I think we have a couple of products that I think would make a music player. We'll talk about that later. So I wanted to add a little time because this is usually the segment we have the standalone video. And this is kind of a rare and unique opportunity. So I wanted to ask our engineers here, so you've been working on Circuit Python for a while. Lady Aida, you've been doing Circuit Python stuff for a while. Jeff, what are some of the things that you would like to see in Circuit Python? We have a few months of the year, but of course, down next year, what are some of the stuff you want to have? Yeah, I don't necessarily have a good answer to that because you need a project idea and then you go find the project is not feasible. And that's when you add something.  Like a camera. Yeah, you couldn't write lines of Python code to interface with a camera. A project I have on my mind, I did a lot of generative text stuff back in the day and to put that on a standalone display instead of... Oh, that'd be cool. On a computer monitor would be fun. So I've got some old code I want to take that's Python 2 code and just see if I can bring it on to Circuit Python. And if not, what do we need? Yeah, that's cool. So that's something I have on my short list. I saw like at exit and get past some modules that we added were like, oh, we need bytes for Hexop, whatever. It's like, somebody's like, I have this code importing and it's like, that's not in there. Okay, let's add it. All right. Got any other things on your wish list? That's all I got off the top of my head. Lady Aida, what do you want to see in Circuit Python coming up soon? Well, we're actually going to delete the whole project and start over with Circuit Perl, where we port Perl to microcontrollers. Oh, no. No, just kidding. Oh. I like Perl 4, but I didn't like Perl 5. So what are you going to do? Oh, you started hitting Perl before it was cool to hate Perl. No, no, I hated Perl exactly when it was cool to hate Perl, which is Perl 5, because everyone loved Perl that it was like you could do anything and then they're like, we're going to do object-oriented and people are like, what are you doing? That's not what I wanted. You know, I wanted macaroni and cheese. I don't want this like fancy meal. I think Circuit Python 8, we're going to support ESP32 S3. So that's coming up. In fact, we've got, you know, maybe before we leave, we'll go downstairs. Expressive just sent me the dev board. Oh yeah? So I'm going to give you one. Oh boy. And then, sorry. It's work. It's work. No, but it's fun work. And then, you know, we're going to get back to the IMX staff which we had to pause because there's a silicon shortage and there's no IMX chips. And then I want to do a little bit with concurrency and let's see what we can figure out with async IO because we've caught up to MicroPython. We do actually have async IO support now, but I don't know if it works. Nobody does. I'd like to find out. And especially as we're doing more BLE workflow, you know, we might have Wi-Fi over the air workflow. I think having async could be useful. I think interrupts maybe, you know, they do not mesh with CircuitPython at all, but I think async could solve a lot of the problems. And if you come from a JavaScript world, you've probably already had to learn async and kind of internalize that model, which I have not. Yeah, I mean like, yeah. I mean, the thing is what I think is interesting about CircuitPython is we have a lot of trained computer scientists on the core team, which means that we're all like, we don't want threading. Like it's kind of like a nightmare to us, which is why we went so far. Like we're all kind of like, eh, we don't want to do this, but I think with a, I think we're kind of getting to the point where we could really start, we've kind of like touched on it and gotten some ideas, but I think we now have enough processor time to really do it. All right. And if CircuitPerl isn't your thing, CircuitCoball. Yeah. Yes. I think CircuitPerl could be kind of cool. But you know, we have regular expressions in CircuitPython, which is, I think is awesome by the way. It's another thing. They're a little limited, but. No, you can do matching and like everything. I mean, could you have an idea how hard it is to do an Arduino? It's totally my thing. Well, it'll be cool to look back on this a year from now. Did we do any of those things? Did we get any of them? That's why this is, it's always good to have guests on the show and talk about stuff. So we'll rewind around next year. CircuitPerl, CircuitPerl. All right. That's Python on Hardware News. Thanks, everybody. Okay. We're an open source hardware company. To prove it, we certified hundreds of boards. Hundreds. And we're currently one of the top certifiers of open source hardware. And we have 2,534 guides. Lady, what are the guides on the big board this week? Okay. Carter updated the Raspberry Pi Zero headless guide to have even more tips and tricks. As people post in our forums with like, stuff that isn't working on the Raspberry Pi, to figure out what it is that isn't working. We add it to our troubleshooting guides that other people can learn from our discoveries. Also, a new guide for our round whack display, the 1.7 inch display that's by Melissa Catney, teamed up to do a starter guide with Arduino and CircuitPython code. And all the way to the left, there is a new guide from Liz, Noah and Pedro. They are taking a feather sense and turning it with CircuitPython into a wireless mouse. Of course, you can do keyboards and other stuff too, but we thought it would be kind of interesting maybe for accessibility or wireless interfacing, using the sensors built in on the feather sense, the proximity sensor and the accelerometer slash IMU to do motion sensing. Actually, that's something we should do. We should add IMU support to CircuitPython. Oh yeah, what's missing? You just have to do it in C in the background. There's the calculating stuff. Well, it has to happen on a regular basis, so you do have to have either separate core, you have to have data streaming in. I bet the keyboard background stuff that Dan did would play some good foundation for that. Yeah, it's a little bit like that. You have to do it every 10 milliseconds or so. Yeah, we could be selling every 10 milliseconds. Yeah, 10 milliseconds forever. Okay, that's what the guides. That's right. All right, let's do some factory footage. And it wouldn't be in New York City factory footage. Unless you could see the building across the street, Jeff, you got to see it close up. I did, yeah. And I take a little bit of interest in it because my old job was with a company that made software for steel building design. So I can look at it and understand a little about what's going on. This is your code. It might be, it might not be. But yeah, let's say that it was. I worked on ATM software that was in the McDonald's down the street for years, and every time I would walk by the ATM machine was broken, so I feel so good about that. Anyways, better than building collapse in that. Yeah. All right, 3D printing. This week we have a speedup, and it's relevant, especially if you're keeping up to date with the what ifs from Marvel. Yes. Because last week was Dr. Strange. Today is the zombies. Zombies. So let's see what last week's what if. Inspired no one is going to do for a speedup. All right, and don't forget 3D hangouts every single Wednesday at 11 a.m. with no Pedro. Check it out. All right, Lady. Before we go over to IonMPI, a little reminder. Tower lights to code. Woo, woo, woo. That's a tower light to code. Let's do. It doesn't have what it sounds like, but close enough. Let's do some IonMPI. Okay. Okay, this week's IonMPI, brought to you by DigiKey, and native speaker, DigiKey, is from OnSemi, Lady. What is the IonMPI this week? Yes. This week's also, I want you to note, the new OnSemi logo chain was a green circle. This is our new logo. It's quite nice. They've also now gone all lowercase. Do you like this one better? I kind of do, I dig it. I like how they're going all lowercase. How can you argue with that? We had an idea for a game, and it was going to be logos and names of electronic companies, and you have to guess if it's real or not. And I also think there's probably an opportunity to look at some of the, all the electronic companies are starting to redo their logos. I think everyone is like, we got this budget now. It's just time. It's budget time, we got this thing. So OnSemi new logo, and what is the product that they're into? So this week we're doing the E-Fuse portfolio from OnSemi. They actually have a couple of different products. I think it's the NS54XX series. We'll show you a screenshot of all the different options because there's quite a few. But E-Fuses are kind of neat. I've actually never used an E-Fuse like this before. So I actually learned a lot while researching this INFPI, and these are kind of cool. So normally when people think about fuses, you picture something like this, glass or ceramic cylinder. With two metal posts on the end, inside is a wire. These are really great for detecting and stopping overcurrents. Like if you have a short circuit or something got damaged, before too much current passes through your electronic device, possibly causing a fire or you're permanently damaging the device. You have this fuse, which the wire inside is kind of calibrated so it will burn out after one amp or two amps or whatever current. The fuse burns out and you can see the wire broken, you know to replace it. A lot of people have, you have your kitchen appliances, your microwave, stereos. They still often have, especially older ones, they'll have glass or ceramic fuses like this. You know, where multimeters have fuses that you know, have had to replace. So you know, they're still used. They do a great job. They're extremely reliable. You can buy them anywhere. They're super cheap. And one thing that is kind of good, although it kind of drives users a little nuts, is when it blows it, it's permanent. It blows open and that's it. So you're like, the thing doesn't turn on. You have to remember to look at the fuse. If you don't want to have that, if you want to have something that it doesn't have to have a physical thing replaced each time. And also these glass fuses, they're kind of large and bulky. A lot of electrical engineers use poly fuses. So these are a conductive thin layer of material that as more current goes through it, it heats up, it heats up. And eventually the resistance increases to a point where basically no current can flow through because it's like a huge amount of resistance. And then as the resistance drops, sorry, as the resistance increases, the current drops, the amount of power dissipated drops. And then it slowly, slowly, slowly comes back to room temperature and the resistance drops and it reopens. So it's the kind of opposite of those glass fuses in that when this trips, it opens the connection, basically disconnects the two pins, but it will self heal. It'll sometime later, five minutes later work, which is why a lot of people are like, oh, did your USB port stop working? Or something in your computer stopped working?  That's what usually fixes it is you're waiting for, you can move whatever the short is, you wait five minutes, it comes back down to temperature, the fuse resets and you're good to go. You'll see, we actually use basically this fuse in a lot of our stuff. Here's the Adafruit Metro, which has a mic controller born, you see there, handy red arrow pointing to the green poly fuse.  This just kind of protects your computer's USB port. The power will go out on the Metro, five minutes later of course it'll come back to life and maybe you'll learn not to connect four servos. And this is the characteristic curve of this poly fuse. You'll see, depending on which product, the amount of current that you're passing through, how long it takes for it to trip. And you'll see it is dependent on, of course ambient temperature and how much current. These are not super fast, they take 10 milliseconds to a second or two to trip. There's fast blow, slow blow, you can always get those details, but these are very analog. It's completely dependent on the thermal properties of that poly material in the center. Okay, so the E fuses like the NIS 5420 and again there's a bunch of these, these are fully electronic fuses and they perform all the functions of the poly fuses or glass ceramic fuses, but they do a lot more. So the thing about glass fuses and those poly fuses is that they're really good for overcurrent protection. So if you're drawing too much current, they'll open up and save your device. But what they don't do is they don't protect against polarity, so if you have the wrong polarity, they don't protect about overvoltage.  So if your current bursts in too fast, they don't know how to slow it down. They're very, very simple. They're also really cheap, they're 10 cents. They spend a little bit more in electronic fuses and these are, you know, they're analog electronics, but they do a lot more. So you can see inside they have overvoltage clamping. Of course they do overcurrent protection. They do undervoltage lockouts. So if the voltage is too low, it won't kind of half connect, you know, brown out your device. There's also current monitoring. There's slew rate setting and, you know, a whole bunch of, so they basically do kind of everything. And what's nice is they sort of like work out of the box. They're very simple to use. So here's an example of the block diagram. VCC is power, source is the, you know, what you want to connect your load to. There's a charge pump even for the P-channel FET so it can turn on, which is nice. It's high switching. I current limit. You can set with an external resistor. DVDT is the slew rate, so how fast you want the voltage to rise. You set that with an external capacitor. There's thermal shutdown, UV. You basically do all this stuff. It kind of does everything. So you don't need, you know, a lot of your protection circuitry is usually made of multiple diodes and maybe ziners and, you know, PFETs and fuses. This kind of does everything at once. So two things I thought were kind of cool. Of course it does everything you'd expect a fuse to, but I liked the V-clamp. So, you know, it won't, it protects up to, I think 18 volts.  Of course, if it clamps too much, it will overheat and the fuse, the E-fuse will blow. It won't be damaged. It'll just like open up the connection, but it'll take care of some, you know, basic over-voltaging. Slew rate control, another thing, you know, I don't usually use it, but I have seen some situations where people like, I really want to slowly ramp up the voltage. I don't want to turn on too fast.  So this will do slew rate control if you add a passive component to the device. They also come in multiple different sort of versions. So one thing is you'll notice there's a 50-50 split between auto retry and sort of like, you know, always off. So you can have a latching disabled. So basically if it overheats or overcurrents, you have to remove power to reset it.   Or there's auto retry, which is more like a poly fuse, right?  There's also different undervoltage lockouts, V-clamps, and whether or not you have a current sensing mirror output. So you can check the voltage. There's a voltage that is a, it's like a volt per amp, whatever, multiplier of the current. And so you can externally monitor with an ADC how much current is being drawn by your system. There's also multiple different voltages. There's three volt, five volt, 12 volt, that's like 24 volts. So, you know, they are hard coded for the voltage, which I think makes sense.  So, you know, you want it to be on the 12 volt line. You don't want any risk of a passive component will change with the voltage limit is or the undervoltage lockout or the style. So there's some things that are controllable, but some things that are basically kind of like ROM set in the chip. So check out all the different varieties. A lot of them are in stocks. You'll just pick up whichever one you need. All right, available on DigiCake. The one we're featuring today is the, it's the very latest one. It's the NIS5420, which is the 12 volt version in stock. And pretty cheap for about a buck. You can have a really nice- Almost 3,000 in stock. That's a lot. Which is more than most things. Yeah. Well, I want to make IMP. I want to make sure it's in stock. But so there you go. I think these are cool. So I might make a breakout for one of these chips because they look very handy. All right, we have a little video about a minute or so. Do you want to play that? Yeah, let's play the video and we'll. Hi, my name is Andrew Niles and I'm an applications engineer at OnSemiConductor. Today, I'll be covering the comparison of an E-fuse to a PTC as well as a short demonstration of the E-fuse features. An E-fuse is an integrated circuit with many features and a PTC is a special type of resistor which has a positive temperature coefficient. Two important E-fuse features are that they provide a fast current limit response time and on-off control with their enable pin. In this demo, I will show the E-fuse responding to short circuits and providing PWM dimming for an LED circuit. The E-fuse shown here today is the NIS5021, a new 12 volt, 12 amp E-fuse. First, I'll demonstrate what happens when there is a short circuit. Setting the switch to E-fuse mode, we will press the output short button. The short circuit being generated is a chattering short generated by a microcontroller. Due to the fast response of the E-fuse, the 12 volt input voltage rail does not go down. It's also important to note the level of current. Right now, the current is 10 amps per division. For comparison, we will also do the short circuit with a PTC. When a short circuit occurs, they heat up and transition from a low resistance state to a high resistance state. Since the PTC must wait for heating, the response time is significantly slower than the E-fuse. There is a larger amount of current, which causes the voltage on the power rail to go down. And that's this week's IONMPI. Thanks, everybody. IONMPI. OK. Lady, before we go over to new products, tower light. Yeah. Tower light. That's the code. All right, you ready? Yeah. Let's do this.  All right. Well, first up, we have these lights. OK. So, yeah, we got a couple of alarm lights. So this one I'm actually going to hold up and demo, because it's really loud and annoying. And so I thought that would be really good to do. Oh, yeah? Well, it's not that loud and annoying, but so OK. So here's how this works. I can't hear anything. Well, I haven't made it loud and annoying yet. It's just flashy and annoying. So inside here, there's like a square piece. There's four pieces of PCB in a square. And so it kind of looks like it's rotating, but it just lights up the LEDs in the order of the square. So it doesn't have any mechanical rotating thing, which I think is good, because it means it's not going to fail on you, although it doesn't have that cool mirror reflective cop car sort of alert thing. That said, this has both the rotating LEDs. So you just power it. There's no speed control. And there's a knob. And when you turn the knob up, it will start making incredibly annoying sounds, very annoying. Thank you. That's what New York sounds like when you're trying to sleep at night. It's pretty much.  You just want all the annoyance of having constant sirens. Go ahead. But it's really good. I like the simplicity of this. It's got three mounting screws on the bottom. They're M4s. It's got the piezo. I like that there's an on-off and volume knob. So you can change however loud you want it. And you just give it three to 12 volts, whatever. It has a little regulator inside. And it just does its thing. So if you want to control this from a microcontroller, you'll need a transistor, an end channel, or whatever transistor to turn this on or off, because there's no control pan. You basically just add or remove power, and you're good to go. That said, we see people's projects where they want to have an alert or alarm. This is the only thing I've seen that has this look and is three or five volt compatible. You can just power it from three or five volts, which is wonderful, because most of our tower lights are 12 volts. This one, very easy to use. All right. Speaking of tower lights. And can be loud and annoying or not. This is a tower light we were talking about. This is another tower light. This tower light is interesting, because it is a tower light with a USB connector. And usually, tower lights come with 12 volts power pins, basically. And you can literally just turn on the LED elements. This is a little bit more expensive, because it's completely plug and play. And there is something to be said about this. If you want to do no wiring, no soldering, no microcontroller work, you plug this into USB, shows up as a serial port, and then you just open it up as a comm or serial port with pie serial or minicom or screen or whatever. You send, there's a couple of different bytes, and the bytes will turn on the red, yellow, or green LED. And it also does have an annoying buzzer, although I don't have it set up yet. Everything should just be a serial port when you plug it in. That's cool. Well, this is nice, because it's ready to go. There is something said for people who they won't have a tower light, they want to be controlled by a computer or a Raspberry Pi, or something with a USB port, and they do not want to deal with a 12-volt power supply. They don't want to deal with P-channel FETs. They don't want to deal with microcontroller. It's good to have with a Raspberry Pi. Super easy kit for the Raspberry Pi, and it's a very solid, well-built tower light. I really like the construction. Do you want to show it? I think I can hold it up real fast. And then if I plug it in, it'll beep. So I think I should try doing that. It can hold quite a nice assistant. It's going to beep. Maybe hold it in there. It's going to beep. Thank you. Yeah. So when you plug it in, it just does that alert beep. That's how you know it works. That's how you know how loud it is. Yeah, probably annoying. Oh, no. Very nice. So it also has a blinking mode, but I added some Python Pysterial code to show it off. You can just loosen the screw, and you can have it tilt up.  Yeah, super. I don't know. It's handy. It's all in one. Again, no coding requiring no microcontroller or nothing. All right, next up. OK. If you like the Macro Pad, and you're like, that's a really nice OLED. I really like that that OLED has a little plug-in thing. You don't have to solder it. We have just the OLED available. So can people crack their OLED screens? Maybe they want a replacement. This OLED is an SH1106G 128 by 64 monochrome pixel OLED display. And the reason I really like this and why we've used this one is it has a plug-in FPC connector. So this made the Adobox possible, because we didn't have to hand solder four or 5,000 OLED screens. We just plugged them in and popped them on. So you do need to. This is just the OLED. You do need to add circuitry to it. It's controlled by SPI only. It does not have iScore T available, because if it was, I wouldn't have used it. Check out the Macro Pad PCB files for the wiring, because you do need a bunch of capacitors, a couple of resistors. And you will need to supply it with 9 to 12 volts DC using a little boost converter for the OLED biasing. It does not have a built-in booster. Next up. OK. So now we have a couple of components of a little bit weird. People are like, why do you put some LSM 9DS0s in the store? We haven't used this chip in actually years, but we were doing some cleaning out here. And we were like, oh, we found a reel, or not a full reel, but some chips on a reel of this 9DS0. And I was like, oh, you know, normally I would toss these out. It's a couple hundred bucks worth of chips, but what are we going to do with them? Because we don't make the breakout anymore. But I was like, with the chip shortage, there could be people who really want this chip and they can't get it. So you get one on a piece of tape in a bag, ready to go. You can't buy these anymore. So if you happen to need this part, we have this part available. Works just fine. Well, supplies last. Yeah. Yes, after it's gone, it's gone. Next up. We also have these SMD navigation switches. They're five-way navigation switches. So it's up, down, left, right, no diagonal, and then button press in. And this is the SMT version. We also have a two-hole version. This is an SMT version. We've used it in multiple bonnets, hats, whatnot. It has a little pointy nubbin that you use your finger with to push it around. It's just a nice way if you want to add a user interface, but you don't want it larger than one button. You don't have to add five buttons. You just have this. All right, more chips. We also found some TLC555 ones. These are very nice versions of the NE555 triple nickel 555 timer chip. What I like about this particular version is, one, it's dip. So you can use it in a breadboard, solder it to it easily. Two, it is using a CMOS process. And so you can run it down to one volt, which means you could run it on a double-a or triple-a battery. You don't need five volts or nine volts or even three volts. So we use this in the drawdio because it'll run off of a single triple-a, which I think is super cool to have such low voltage electronics. And you can also run it up to 2 megahertz. It also has, I think, 100 milliamps sync. I mean, it is really, this is like the Cadillac of 555s. It's a little bit more expensive than the NE555, but it's, like I said, super fancy. And it is a drop-in pin replaceable for any 555 without having to worry about voltages or TTL levels and all that nonsense. More chips. We also found a bunch of FT232 BLs. Boy, these are a little old, but they still work quite well. We used to use these in some of our microcontroller designs. The Zoxbox used this chip as well. There's people who probably have designs that they're making that use this chip, and we figured, again, normally we would toss them. But since there's people who could use them, why not put them in the shop? We're selling them for less than I paid for them. It's hard to toss chips right now because every day is like, what about these chips? Like, all the questions in the chat tonight have been like, tell me about the chip storage. When is it going to end? I don't know. But if your chip storage is for the FT232 BL, you are in luck. You can pick them up at 10 pack in the shop. And they come on. These are loose. They come in a tape strip when you order them. All right. This is not a chip. Not a chip. All right, now I'm moving on to new, new products. So this is a adjustable 24-volt power supply. And I really like these because you don't necessarily need a bench-top supply. You just want something with adjustable voltage so you can power a 5-volt thing, a 12-volt, 9-volt, 24-volt thing. Instead of just getting one brick for every voltage, this one does them all. So if there's an overhead, and I'll show a little demo. I'm not going to focus. OK. So you've got, on the end, your standard 5.5 out of diameter, 2.1 millimeter in a diameter DC positive tip polarity plug. And then here you've got this little knob all the way to the bottom. It's 3.3 volts. And then as you dial it up, the voltage follows until you get all the way to 24 volts. So that's what you get. It's about one-ish amp out. But you can adjust what voltage you want. Oh, I love the little display. That's so nice. I just think these are so cute. We also have a version that does 3 amps, but only goes up to 12 volts. And that one's quite popular, too. So pick and choose if you want more current. Get the 12-volt version. If you want the higher voltage, get this 24-volt version. Next up. OK. Marry the stars of the show, which is the two-parter. Oh, right. These are the two-part stars of the show. Besides Jeff, besides you, Lady Aida, besides our customers, besides the staff, besides the community, besides the tower light. This is the star of the show, which is alert, alert, star of the show. That's the star of the show alert. Yeah. Maybe we should keep this here forever. And then whenever we do star of the show, we can turn this on. OK. So this is part one of star of the show. OK. This is a Zippy A&L rotary encoder, which is like, OK, let's be honest. It's basically a knockoff of the original iPod Classic scroll wheel, like the mechanical scroll wheel, like the capacitive touch one. This is the original luxurious clicky scroll wheel version, which eventually, I think, people, like, they got crumbs in it or something. I don't know. So they stopped making it these capacitive touch now. But at the time, this was amazing. So this is a rotary encoder. You want to go back to it? This way? This way? Yeah. So this rotary encoder, the center part with the little mini divots, I think it's like a 24. Each divot is a little click. You can feel the clicky rotary encoder-ness. It's got your standard two-pin rotary encoder output. And then it's got the center button up, down, left, right. There's actually a little bit like that nav switch we were showing earlier. But this has got a rotary encoder in the center as well. Only thing about it, really annoying. Look at the bottom. The pins are in, like, totally weirdo locations. You can solder wires to them. The pads are quite large. But if you want to make it easier on you, you could grab our breakout board. And when you solder this to the breakout board, it makes it so easy to use, because it gives you a line of headers with 0.1 inch spacing. So I just kind of did that work for you. And you see, it's all around. And you're golden. It's a pairing. It's a pairing. It's a pairing. So it's very luxurious. I'm going to show you on the overhead. This is the- You want to make your own Nomad MP3 player? This is how you do it. Basically, it's a little- You want to make your own zoom? I want to discuss it. Can I click it? Yeah, why don't you click it? And then I see. Ooh, yeah. Got a winner there. Yeah, so, yeah. As I rotate it, you can see the LED moving around. And it does make a little tactile click sound. Up, center, left, right, down. Comes in a classic Adafruit black. In this case, I'm just plugging it right in and onto a feather. The buttons are, of course, just normally open. Buttons that just use them as any GPIO inputs. And the rotary encoder, you'll need to use the rotary encoder for your microcontroller because it uses the two pins in a kind of a gray code-style thingy to know which way they were turned. But it is just a normal rotary encoder beyond that. So another nice navigation switch. All right, and that is new products. All right, everyone likes these, by the way, the little wheel. Oh, you know what? They haven't changed the brightness. Wait, go back to your point. You want to go back? Yeah, I want to go back. Look how bright it is. It's supposed to do auto-light. Yeah, looks so bad. It's so black. Yeah, it's not so, I mean, it's close. Comes in Adafruit black. It's gone, but OK, all right, this is a little better. All right, good, for next week. All right, cool. Final answer. All right, well, if you were watching, you want to buy any of these things, including the tower light, you can buy it. We're going to answer some questions. You can start loading them up over on Discord. It'll be the only place we're going to do a question. There's a couple that I remember from before. Oh, there's one here. But we're going to do some top secret first. All right, open up the vault. And put your questions in while. From the vault. OK, so I'm going to show a video. And then we're going to talk about one of the new products that I teased on Twitter. I'm like, we're going to show this cool stuff. But here's the first one. All right, Lidia, what is this? Hey, I'm testing out a new prototype I just put together. This is a 128 by 128 monochrome OLED display. It's a SH-1107. It's a little bit of flickering, but it's not visible to humans. It's just the camera. And I'm testing it out both iSquared C. So this is with a STEMIQT connector. So that's nice, easy to wire up, no soldering or, you know, breadboarding required. I'm also testing it out with a QT Pi with SPI instead. SPI can be a lot faster. You can see it really zooms through all the demo tests. But you need to do a little bit more wiring because you have to wire up all the SPI pins. So two ways to use this display, I kind of like the iSquared C. But you know, you need a lot of speed. Go with SPI. Coming soon. OK, and then the other top secret we have. This is a still photo. And then we're going to show the tester that we just did. So you're working on LCD glass. You're going to show these live tonight, or are we just going to do the video? We got to get to questions. All right, lady, what is this? Hey, I'm putting my final touches on the LED glasses front panel. This is our circuit Python test code. You're seeing this flicker here because it's kind of writing the ring and the matrix at the same time. And I'm not really doing a proper double buffering yet. But it's just a good demo of showing all the LEDs. And then this is my tester, my tester, which is an Arduino Uno with a little STEMIQT connector on the end, so it's really fast. You can even test these before they get decanalyzed. Let's go. So we're turning out all the LEDs. And then there's actually an internal test mode in this chip that I'm going to end up using. But for now, it's going to be basically do all the LEDs in each color light up, if so, that means the LEDs were placed properly and the multiplexer is working. So soon to be in the shop, these cool soap screens. OK, coming soon to the store. And that is this week's top secret. Don't ask, sound out yet. OK, we're doing questions. A couple lined up. All right, so first up, question, being an engineer, what kind of things would you look for after an electronic item came into contact with liquid? I had an unfortunate accident with a bottle of sanitizer, dripping quite a bit on the electric side of a pipe portal. Any tips? How will I deem it safe to continue to use and supervise any risk? I mean, you can use it on supervise if there's nothing high voltage or high current there. I just let it really thoroughly dry off. Ironically, I just put up calls, totally safe for electronics. It just needs to dry off completely, and then it should be OK. Just make sure it's really even from underneath. So give it a good dry in. All right. Don't put it in your oven now. Next up, questions for Jeff? Any highlights from your trip to New York City so far? The food.  We went out for Indian style breakfast this morning. My wife and I. We went to the mat, did a lot of the regular tourist stuff.  Like, full night of like, we want like Ethiopian, or we want Thai food. It's like eight Thai restaurants.  Soft tea. Yeah, it's like, oh, we can have diffusion. I don't know. Yeah, maybe it's better at home.  I know. I remember when I lived in Minneapolis, and it was just like, well, you get a TGI Friday, so you can go to the, although your lunch options was, whatever was at the mall. All right, next up. Any thoughts on making Rhapsody scroll wheel on a breakout and have iSquared C giving feedback they'd pay extra? I don't know where Rhapsody is. I'll check that out. I was going to make an iSquared C, a STEM IQT board for this scroll wheel thing, but I had to start with the breakout first. This actually took longer to get out than expected, because of the miscommunications. All right. Does the mass controlled by an Arduino mean it doesn't have a microcontroller on board? That's right. It doesn't. It's just an LED. It's basically our LED matrix, but just blown apart, because the idea is that you would use this board with any microcontroller that you want, because some people want Wi-Fi, and some people want to use an Arduino, whatever. Whatever board you want, you use a QT pie, just plug it into STEM IQT, if you'd like. But the idea is to make it flexible, instead of having it all in one. OK. The DST for the scroll wheel shows 24 D10s, but only 12 cycles. Does Rotary IO library handle this half of the cycle? Yeah, works fine. It's all Rotary encoder, plus or minus one. It doesn't actually keep track of where it is in the circle. When you use a library. Next up. Is there, this is one of a few, Jeff, is there any way to protect code in CircuitPython, where someone cannot copy the code from a commercial product that runs CircuitPython? I was thinking of getting rid of USB connector and having some test points to program the board one time, not 100% foolproof, but it is something any other ways thinks. I don't think there's going to be 100% foolproof way. When you put your code in the hands of somebody, they have that code in some form or other. So I think probably you need to figure out how to be at peace with that and find other ways to make your product valuable besides the source code. Then there are things like the support and having an integrated product that works well. Yeah. Someone suggested you could turn off USB. There's a lot of things you can do, even a lockdown commercial product like the iPhone. Like eventually these things get popped. So I wouldn't spend a ton of time on it, but like, yeah, not having USB port. You can disable USB to keep people from accidentally damaging it, but you're never going to protect, I mean, even the expressive chips, which have code protection, there's somebody cracked it with a glitching attack. Yeah. Super fun. Yeah. Next up. The new Ultimate GPS module is the PA16160, but links to the PA01OD guide. I tried following the guide using the PA161, the new one, data sheet for pins. Post in the forms. I think this is a technical support question. Is the guide actually compatible? I couldn't get it to show up as I-squared C device, plus data sheet says I-squared C with custom firmware. I think post in the forms for this, yeah. Any possibility of stocking? Panel mount, YC8-compatible connectors. I don't think there are any. If you know of any, send me a link. I'll take a look. OK, what was shown just a couple minutes ago. OLED backlit buttons and a rotator knob. Oh, that was our macro pad. It's the macro pad. Yeah, I'll show that for a second. That's it. This is a macro pad. It's cool. It's our macro pad. It is not Ziggy from Quantum Leap, but it looks like it. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Next up. Yes, you can still access to Ripple, and you can write some code to dump to me. Code over Sierra, yeah. You can disable Ripple, too. There you go. You can disable everything, and then you're really screwed if you can't get in. It's going to be tough. You can do it. With Python 7, you can disable almost every feature of the USB without taking the USB connector off. Yeah. Yeah, you can do it. And then you can take off the bootloader, and then there's no way to get in. I mean, they can still dump the code, but it's just going to be a challenge. You'll have to use clips or something. If they're that motivated, by the way, they're going to get whatever you do, they're going to get. They're that motivated. Next up. If the other turn off is attached, if an attached lipo hits too low voltage or will it drain the cell to dangerous levels if you don't disconnect it? All of our batteries have undervoltage protection. If you're not using undervoltage protection, eventually it'll hit the brown out, but I really, really do not recommend using batteries without undervoltage protection circuitry on it, because it can blow up on you. Do most of the boards that use USB-C just use USB 2.0? Yes, we're only USB 2.0. I don't think we have any boards that have USB 3.0 yet. It's still very new for my customers. This is the RP2040, is USB 1.1, I don't know if that's... That's good to be... No. No, okay. No? No. That's not. All right. I think we almost got through most of the questions, so I'm going to call it, I'm going to call it. All right. Well, first up, thank you, Jeff, for coming out. So happy to be here. To the show. Thanks for showing me right now. Thank you for showing me. Yeah, in New York City, also, going through all the hoops that we have here in New York, you got your Vax Pass, you got Mass, you've been doing all that, so thanks for... You guided me to get the app, and it was handy. Thanks for coming to New York as a tourist and seeing our cool city. We're recovering. It's a fun place to do this, all right? Yeah, that's all right. I mean, even with a lot of people do come to New York and they want to go to Broadway or they want to see shows, and that's sort of starting out. But I like that you're like, there's a lot of stuff to do when the museums are open, the parks are open, the restaurants are open, cafes are open. Yeah, and when we travel, we walk a lot, so... It's a great walking city. New York City is the... It is a great walking city. I really didn't expect that. No, it is the walking city. I think only Tokyo, I think, is more walky. Yeah, we walk everywhere. Even Boston, I used to walk a lot in Boston. Boston is not, things are a little far in between sometimes. Last week, Wednesday after the show, after I was done stopping some leaks, we walked through the peak rain storm, which was a hurricane, a little hard to walk, but it was still walkable, but the rain was just going sideways and out. I'm so happy I missed that. Yeah, good timing on your part. Okay, well, we're gonna have Jeff out again, probably a certified fan team as things start to recover and traveling can happen. We'll see. Hopefully, everyone will collectively look out for one another and make this pandemic go away. It's kind of up to the individuals, which is scary because I think everyone wants this over, but each one, everybody has a choice on how fast it'll happen. So hopefully it'll be faster. Special thanks to Zay behind the scenes here tonight in our chat, especially thanks to Jephler. Special thanks to all the team members here that are helping out with the chat this week. Thanks to everybody. Thanks to all of our staff and more. Thanks to you all for creating this place. Yeah, not too bad, right? It's real. Not too bad. All right, we'll see everybody next week. Here is your moment of zener. Thanks, everybody. Have a great week.


to the nonprofit show. We are so glad that you're here. We're also so glad that Micah is back with us again. We have with us Micah James from Bloomerang, and she serves as the manager of professional services. You know, perfect timing to have you back here, Micah, to talk about it's not over yet. And what the it's is the year, the year is not over yet. And so she's brought with us today some last minute tips for your nonprofit's year end success. So super excited to nerd out with you on that. If you join us in the green room, you learn Micah is a nerd through and through. There's no stopping her with that nerdiness. But moving on into us, if we haven't met you yet, Julia Patrick is here.  And you know that's a compliment. But Julia's CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy, I'm Jarrett Ransom, her personal nerd, but I can be anyone's personal nonprofit nerd, a CEO of the Raven Group. And I love having these conversations with our guests, and we wouldn't be able to have them if it weren't for our besties, our presenting sponsors. So thank you to the team over at Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Fundraising Academy at National University, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Your Part-Time Controller, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Nerd, as well as Nonprofit Tech Talk. Most of these companies really have been with us on this journey from the very beginning, helped us to produce, ready for this drumroll, a thousand episodes that we passed 900, moving towards a thousand. I know, Micah, it has been phenomenal. And we've had great conversations, which if any of you want to go back and listen to them, you know, you can start now. I do not think you'll be done by the end of the year, but you can try. You can find us on streaming broadcasts, podcasts, and you can also download the app. And later today, our conversation that we're having right here and now with Micah will be uploaded onto all of these channels, and you can find us. So fun fact, ladies and everyone watching and listening, I'm traveling today through Sunday, and I know that I've got the non-profit show in my queue to listen to on podcasts. So again, glad to be back with us, Micah. You've joined us before. I was so glad to see your name on the roster for today. But again, for everyone watching and listening, if you don't know her yet, Micah James, Manager of Professional Services at Bloomerang. Welcome back. Thank you so much. It's always a joy to be here. Love having these conversations. Yeah.  You help us to say, yeah, we can do that. And I think for a lot of us in the non-profit sector, this time of the year, I mean, it's so stressful. We're worried about our goals. We're worried about our pace keeping up our health, our family, our coworkers. I mean, it's a lot. And so to have you on as a calm voice of reason is really good, I think at this point in time. Julia, she did witness to us. She's a parent now of six. Clearly, she can manage chaos and multiple everything. But yeah, let's do dive into, you're going to share with us, Micah, what is your year-end message? And this is really for nonprofits because there's a lot of messages going on out there. So help us identify how we find our nonprofit message. Absolutely. Giving Tuesday, I don't know if you've caught your breath yet from Giving Tuesday. It was just a few moments ago. But I always encourage nonprofits, whether it's for Giving Tuesday or anything you're doing between now and the end of the year, to be your authentic self. There's so much noise. And let's just call it what it is. There's so much noise between Giving Tuesday and the year-end because everybody either took a template and just changed a few words or goodness gracious, we don't have time. We don't have our own marketing departments. We don't have those kind of things. But if you can find a way to be your genuine authentic self in this season, do it. If you're a food pantry, show off food. If your children do something with children, show children's drawings or things that kids are doing and those kind of things. Don't just do cookie cutter things because cookie cutter things get ignored. And so it's really about connecting with not only your community. So where are you located? What's your context? But also what do you do in that community to solve that community's problems? And so I've worked for lots of nonprofits and we've done the generic and we've done the unique. And I will tell you hands down that it's the unique special things that connect with the community. I love that permission. That's what I hear, right? It's permission to really lean into yourself. And I'm right there with you. I feel seen, very validated. Like, oh, yeah, we're just going to change something from the previous year or from another person's campaign of what we've seen. And there is a lot of noise. That's something Julia, we've talked about a lot. Like there is a lot of noise with everything. So standing out within a $1.8 million registered nonprofits, that in and of itself is anxiety written. Yeah. And in a minute, we're going to talk about videos and segmenting and all of those kind of things. But remember, you don't have to send your message the whole world. You don't have to solve the whole world's problems. Like you are uniquely situated for a reason. Like, I'm here in Oklahoma. Like you may have people on your email list that are all over the country, but talk about what's going on where you are. And so whether that's what and talk about what's happening in 2023. And so we all know that there's been headwinds and micro donors, those small donors, talk about it. People need to hear about what's actually happening in your nonprofit. So if you're behind goal, it's okay to talk about, hey, this was our goal. As we head into the end of the year, we're at $800,000 towards a million. We're not there yet. Could you do this X, Y, and Z? And that will feed X, Y, and Z. Like talk about what's happening in your nonprofit. Show what it means in your context, in your place, in your mission. You know, Julia, that really catches me because, you know, we talk a lot about people want to join winning teams. And so, Micah, when you say, when you say like talk about your shortfall of funding, I wonder how many people are really comfortable with that. Well, think about, but we also have those people that want to help you get over that finish line to make you a winning team. Right? I have, I have been in those situations where I've been in a matching campaign. Think about matching campaigns. You tell people, like, I have $5,000 and I need to make $5,000, $10,000. How many people, I've had people call me and say, when you're short, I'll make the next thousand, right? So there are people who want to help you win. But if you don't tell them, they can't.  Your donors have to be allowed to say yes or no on behalf of themselves. And it's not that you're not winning. Tell them why. Like, hey guys, look around. Groceries are more expensive. Gas is more expensive. I mean, it may not be now, but it was for most of the year. But like, tell them why. They're, they have common sense. Like, we don't live in a vacuum.  And there might be somebody out there who wants to help you get over that, that finish line and help you win. You know, I love that you kind of pulled us back in to make sure that we are not answering those questions for our donors, that we are letting our donors say yes or no. And I think that's profound because I think we, we tend to think this ourselves, you know, we tend to make all this drama and create these scenarios in our head without ever reaching back out. And so, the next thing I really want to get your opinion on is how we do communicate to those stakeholders, understanding that we have different folks, you know, that we have the donors, we have the volunteers. We have board members. I'm always amazed in board service how often we are only communicated at, during the board meeting. And, you know, we're not used as a resource in what you just talked about. So, I'm wondering if you can kind of help us understand how we can refine this a little bit, segmenting some groups and what that's going to look like and how that might impact us. Yeah. I mean, we, we all talk differently in different ways in our lives, right? We talk to our children differently than we talk to a room full of professionals. Then we talk to our girlfriends when we're sitting around having, you know, a cup of tea. So, why wouldn't we use that same application when we're talking to different segments of donors? Not everybody's going to hear you the same way. Not everybody's going to be at the same level of giving. And, and not everybody's going to understand your mission in the same way. Your board members are going to have an intimate understanding of what's happening. So, they don't need you to speak in basics to them. They need, they might want very detailed understanding.  Volunteers, these are some of your most passionate involved people. They're, they're, you know, sweat and tears go into, but lots of times we forget to even ask them for money. Yeah. Um, and so they may not have a lot of money to give, or they may even surprise you. And they've never been asked. And so these are the people you really need to talk about. You've been there. You've been in the, the workroom, the, the food pantry. You see how dollars turn into, to this, if you did this, then it becomes that. And when you come on your next shift, the shelves will be full, the, you know, all of those kinds of things and talk about, you know, what's happening before them. And then, you know, when we talk about other segments, think about how it's impacting them and talk about, you know, do you have a front desk crew that comes into thank you letters? Imagine if that thank you letter stack was this tall, like, just talk about different segments in ways that it's going to impact you.  Pick one. If, if the, you know, making a unique voice is the only thing you do this year, fantastic. If you've already worked on that and you're working on refining it and making it better. Great. tweak it a little bit and work on segmenting this year. Like, just add Legos.  Don't try to tackle it all at once. You won't do it with excellence if you spread yourself too thin. So just figure out what you're going to attack one at a time, depending on the size of your, your staff and your volunteers and all the people that are helping you and then see how you can attack it. Makes so much sense, right? And, and I think about this, like, we forget perhaps that it's not a one size fits all. And I love how you demonstrated like, we don't talk to our girlfriends the same way as we show up to speak, you know, at a board meeting, just, you know, like there's so many different ways that we do use our unique voice and unique narrative, like, practice that. And then I also really appreciate how you, you know, if you choose one of these things, that will make a difference. And just keep doing that makes me think of James Clear, the book, you know, Atomic Habits. I don't know if you've read that yet, or, you know, but really looking at how do we continue to stack habits. And then before you know it, like, you have built this masterpiece Lego set of, you know, 5000 pieces or whatever that looks like. Talk to us how we can move that into video because you had mentioned earlier, you know, like utilizing video, we're here to tell us the value of a 90 second video on social platforms as well as email. What does that look like? Yeah, Julia, I think you and I were talking before everything got started today that, you know, in the, in the stack of your giving Tuesday emails, you only saw a couple of videos come through and all of the hundreds of emails you got kind of can exit back to that unique voice. Yeah. When I was doing fundraising, the last nonprofit I worked for was a homeless sustainable housing nonprofit. And one of the things we did is we did just a simple tour of our facility. It was during COVID, nobody could come in. So we were like, Hey, this is the day in the life of our, you know, facility. Let me take you back to the store room and let me take you around. It just connects people to you personally in a way that text can't, you know, going back, I'm a, I'm an old educator, going back to learning styles, you know, tactile, visual, you know, reading, you know, we have to open all the doors of how people engage with us and there's something about video that just says, Hey, I see Julia, I see Jared, I see Micah, like, I know them that brings the text to life off the page. 90 sections or less is like that perfect sauce of not too long, not too short of just letting me say, Hey, how are you? This is us. Come on in. Don't you want to be a part of this? And not, you know, I don't, if you summarize what's in the text, then they don't even know how to do the TLDR didn't read. And they're ready to click on the button and it's ready to go. You know, I think Micah, I love this. When you, the moment you said this, Jared, I was reminded of during COVID, we had that shelter, an animal welfare shelter. I think it was in the Midwest somewhere. And of course, all their volunteers couldn't come in and it was their lifeblood. And yet they still had animals they needed to adopt out and care for and fundraise and all that. And so the CEO just took her phone and said, I'm just going to walk down and show you what's going on. And they had some of the most successful engagement that they had ever had a pandemic aside. And so I think now today with phones being so brilliantly constructed and all of the editing software, even if, even if you don't want to edit, right? This is achievable. You don't have to hire a studio or agency necessarily to produce this, right? It can be a little bit of a style. And I think we worry about like, oh, it's not edited and it's not polished and it's a little rougher on the edges. I think, you know, don't make it too Blair witch, right? But that dates to me. But don't make it too shaky. But I think there's some opportunity to be like, hey, this is me. This is my phone. Like, come, come walk around with me as I do this important work. You know, there are some, some cautionary tales. I'm a real protector of privacy and those kind of things.  So like, don't do a good thing and like show it off and those kinds of things. That's not what it's all about. But showing your donors the mission, you know, without showing faces of patrons and participants and all of that kind of thing. I think you can really communicate some really meaningful things in a kind of authentic rough around the edges kind of way. I'm so glad you mentioned that. And I'm right there with you on Blair witch, right? So for anyone that doesn't know that that reference, I'm not going to recommend that you watch that movie because I thought it was horrible, the cinematography for sure. You know, but there is some, some, I don't know boundaries we do need to be aware of right when it comes to this and there's so many other ways. You know, I love that you're saying that that we can still accomplish a video without, you know, creeping into that privacy space that is not where any of us need to be. That's really important. What about Mike? I'm really curious, curveball question. You know, a lot of staff work remotely, yourself included, myself included, a lot of programming now is done remotely. And so we really don't have a campus or a room or a shelter, like we don't have that brick and mortar to tour. How can we still accomplish this video message when we're all remote and even perhaps are programming? Very good question. You know, that that is a really good question. I think storytelling says a lot.  And we went back to that set like piece about us talking passionately about professional moms. I think a 90 second clip about our conversation could make a huge impact to somebody who feels compelled to support moms and professionals and those kind of things. So I think, you know, whether it's a conversation with board members and participants or staff people who see the everyday work, I think there are still ways that you can capture those stories, even if you don't have a brick and mortar place. Thank you for that. Because, you know, I think about how many organizations have shifted their program delivery and, you know, the staff workforce and what that looks like. And so I just wanted to ask that question because I'm sure we have viewers and listeners that are going, we can't do that. We can't do that. But guess what? Can. Absolutely. Yeah, some great opportunities. Let's talk about that landing page on the website, right? Like I believe at this point of time, absolutely everyone has a website, has a web page. What does that landing page now need to look like, because we're in this, you know, final push of the calendar year? Yeah, you know, in our world at Bloomerang, we have several options that you can make this really feel friendly and frictionless, and all of those kind of things to the donor. You know, that's the main point is you want to make it as easy as possible. Like, oh, I'm inspired, click, donate without a lot of hairy, scary steps in between. The other thing is just really, again, you know, from wherever they're coming, whether it's an email or social media or anything like that, you want to make sure that it continues to look and feel and sound like you. The thing that jars me the most when I go to any, you know, whether it's a website that I'm buying something from or donating to, is I click on that button and all of a sudden it's bare or it doesn't look like the company or nonprofit that I'm working with anymore. And then all of a sudden I feel like, am I in no person's land anymore? Like, is this the, is this, am I about to be spammed a lot? Like, is this, so you want to make sure that they feel safe and secure? And all of those kind of things, by making it colors the same, you know, if you can put a compelling image that's aligned with your branding, you know, all of that is possible with the right software. And so just making sure that the donor is comfortable and, you know, easy peasy all the way through. And that's really, and test it. Like, if you haven't gone through your own donor experience yourself, do it today, like before the end of the day, like donate a dollar and see how it feels all the way through. So you know what your donors are doing. Yeah, absolutely. And I so appreciate you saying this because I think one of the problems is that we internally become fatigued with what we think, we're attracted to something shiny in other words, tend to forget that consistency rules the day. So our colors, our messaging, our vocabulary, our imagery needs to be consistent. And I work with more nonprofits, they're like, yeah, we need to refresh our logo, we need, and it's like, generally you don't, you just need to make sure that everything's on alignment and that you keep moving forward. I mean, Jared and I say this all the time, 1.8 million registered nonprofits, there are a lot more out there that are not registered.  But the reality is that, you know, there's a lot of competition for time and attention. So every time we deviate from that and we send a new message, we're just shooting ourselves in the foot. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm sorry, I had to get in my soapbox. No, no, it's absolutely right. You know, we're all, we're all hit with that. And, you know, I had an experience the other day where I'm just like, the website was green and blue, and then the landing page is like yellow. And I'm like, hold on, is this the same thing? Yeah, did I just get a pop up from, and so you want me like even, even simple things like that can make a donor go, hmm, and every time a donor go stops in the process, I'm a nerd, there's a formula out there that you can Google that talks about incentives and friction and all of the things that make a donor pause along the way. Every time you make a donor do that, that's less likely to donate anything. Right. Micah, I'm curious about the pop up, right? And this might be a curve ball as well. Is that something we should still have right now at year of end? Should we take it off if we have a pop up like on that landing page? What are you seeing is best right now? Right. Good. Very good question. Honestly, I think, you know, we have different ways of doing that. I think, you know, embedded codes and things that naturally pop up again, if it feels and looks like your website, it's less likely to be suspicious than things that are just like those ads of the olden days. Like I have nightmares about, you know, those old windows pop ups of the olden days. It doesn't look like that anymore if you do it right. And so if you do it right and you do it well and it looks like you, it doesn't have the same feel of the, so it's really up to you and what you want your experience to be. Yeah. Great, great question.  We're going to, we're going to let you keep doing that because we love your energy. If you, if you were with us in the green room, Micah is the mother of six. I kind of am assuming these are younger kids too. Well, 10 to 18, all the range. Bless your heart. That's what we say in the South. Bless your heart. Well, it's really always such a joy to have you with us. You know, we love all of our friends at Bloomerang. Every time you come on, you bring something completely different and it's always super cool. And so thank you, thank you, Micah James Manager of Professional Services with our friends over at Bloomerang. One of the things that I'll say about Bloomerang and I know that, that Jared would echo this is that you do a masterful job at communicating a lot of best practices and strategies for free without any connectivity to your product. So if you want to get, you know, good information about what's going on across the sector, you can go to Bloomerang and really get educated on so many, many things that will, you know, weave into the success of your nonprofit journey. And so I want to commend you and your team on that because that's not an easy thing to do. And it's a really an amazing thing. Jared and I are so delighted that you would be here. Again, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. Jared Ransom, nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven Group. Again, we have amazing support starting with Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, your part time controller, nonprofit thought leader, fundraising academy at National University, staffing boutique, nonprofit nerd and nonprofit tech talk. These folks join us day in and day out and it's really an amazing, amazing thing. Miss Jared, you're getting on a plane and heading south. I am. I know it will be here soon. So I'm going to miss tomorrow's Friday. Ask and answer. I'll be back on Monday. Micah, thank you so much. This is again, like a really, you know, timely conversation for many of us. We're all still in this whirlwind with Giving Tuesday, having just taken place, which, you know, still catching our breath and moving toward to, you know, really that end goal because December 31 is coming soon. But, you know, as we wrap up today, I just want to say thank you again to you, Micah, and to the entire Bloomerang team for joining us because every single month we have a representative from each of our sponsors that join us to bring conversations to like like this one. And it's always a pleasure. I'm always learning. Really, I am.   So thank you for that. But yeah, as we wrap up today, we always end with this mantra. And Julie and I have noticed that even though we've said it nearly a thousand times, it always rings a little different, right? It's the same words, but it always has like a little different meaning. But it is to stay well so you can do well. Thanks, Micah. And for all of you that joined us, see you tomorrow.


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Hi YouTube family and welcome into today's video, which is actually going to be about placement of your contour your blush and your highlight if you are Over 40 or if you have mature face or actually even if you have a very full face like I do and So I'm going to be kind of over exaggerating things a little bit But at the same time and when I end up I will be all blended out So I hope that you will enjoy this and please give it a thumbs up if you do Like me to do these little small tutorials for you guys.  So I'm going to actually be using my Sephora contour palette I really like this color in the middle right here. It is a very very Neutral tone almost on the cool tone side for contouring So I much and I'm using a brush that I just got from wet and wild I did my other contour. So it is very dirty this morning, but it is just kind of a flat brush Thin and flat and then very flat on the top.  Because as we age our face kind of droops and pulls down and that's what this is going to do If you got this too far down on your cheek, then absolutely Definitely you would look like you had you know Your face had been pulled down and that you you know the aging process was getting you a little bit faster So on this side again I'm just taking it and I'm going a little bit higher Than what I've previously talked about and Winkos talked about this pretty recently I think but I just wanted to make Sure that my gals that are aging understand that contouring is not a big deal It is very easy to do we can do this It could be very something that is very very helpful in our makeup routine part of that reason that it can be so helpful in our Makeup routine is because it gives us the definition of cheekbones if we're you know if we have a very full face I have a very kind of fat face and we just don't have to find cheekbones like we used to unless we're very very thin Which I'm not so after I lay that down I'm using a small stipple brush from elf That's just one of their $3 ones and then I'm just going to go back and forth motions and I'm not bringing that around Very much. This is just to give this part right here about halfway down your cheek some definition And it is quite high up on the cheek so just going ahead with that and showing you and I'm just blending the crap out of it so that it really really blends well Okay, so the next thing I'm going to use is blusher And I don't know if you guys would like a video on how to match your blusher with your eye look or anything like that It's not really a lot of rocket science to it You just choose one that goes really well with your eye color, but this time I'm using one called heather pop from clinic I love these blushes. It seems like they never go down, but I use them all the time. They are matte blush It's a really beautiful pinky mauve color. I really do like it and it goes with so many of my looks I'm using an it cosmetics brush. That is a large-angle stipple brush I think you can only get this one on QVC and again You can see right where I did that Contour and you just want to make sure and I always start from back by my ear that way if I have too much on It's going to kind of be hidden by my hair as I go through the day So I'm just going to start back by the ear there and this brush lays down exactly how much you want it to if you Don't want a lot of blush. It's not going to put a lot of blush down and you can build up So I love this brush for that now I do not want you to bring your brush any further than Put you know hold it in the middle of people of your eye look directly ahead And I don't want your blush to come in on the apples of the cheeks at all if you're any sort of aging woman at All what we're doing is we're pulling all of that up. We are pulling all of our look up So I'm barely going to be bringing it towards the apple of the cheek And I'm I'm going up the temple and my hair is in the way Going up the temple and I'm just you know patting it This is such a nice brush for this motion of how this works And I can bring it up a little bit above the eyebrow if you want to that's okay Now I'm going to do the other side and same thing again I am starting in the back and I'm kind of working my way around Bringing it up around the eyebrow a little bit just to pull everything together And just make sure that you do not go below your contour You're wanting to blend this in with your contour so that they look really really seamless They don't look like they're two different entities on your face there And one thing is that I don't wear a ton of blush when I'm wearing a pretty heavy eye So I just kind of you know want a natural flush in my cheek. Okay, so that was blusher now Let's switch over to highlighter and today I chose to use this duo chrome highlighter from NYX and the name on it is lavender steel and It does have a little tiny bit of a cast of lavender, but not too much So I'm gonna use a fan brush. You can use any fan brush you want. I like this particular one I think I got a boxy charm months and months ago But I like this particular one because it's so light and it's so airy that I'm not putting too much on at once And actually I'm using very very light hand and I'm going to go way up now I'm not going to bring this down here in this area at all I'm actually almost to my eye if you can see I'm like a half an inch to an inch away from my eye and I'm just tapping that on and then I'm gonna go up and around the eyebrow just a tiny bit and You guys can see that I didn't put a ton of this on at all now if you want to put more on you can This is a really really beautiful color for this I'm looking in a mirror here, and I'm looking in a mirror here so that you guys can see where I'm placing everything And I can see too so you can see how pretty that is and how pretty that highlighter is Just gave me a little bit of a shift of a really nice sheen on there now lots of people go down their nose I don't do the tip of the nose because I feel like it brings too much attention to the tip of my nose Which I think is kind of weird. I always have anyway, so I just go down the bridge of my nose just a tiny bit It's whatever is left on my fan brush. I don't pick up more product So I just do that and that is really it now I'm going to use some setting spray and my face is completely done So that was really simple easy tutorial.  I like to keep it as simple as possible So if you enjoy me giving you these videos Give me a big old thumbs up so that I know that you do enjoy me giving you these tutorials You know recently there's a conversation going around on a Facebook group that I Subscribed to and it talked about why youtubers only do PR Unboxings and hauls and that kind of thing instead of why aren't they getting back to tutorials and I thought you know It's really good to scoot us back towards tutorials But I'll tell you guys something a little secret is that our tutorials on YouTube are our least watched videos and for me I'm always looking for tutorials myself, but they are the least watched videos And so if you're a small youtuber like I am you gravitate towards what people want and a lot of people want reviews or something Like that. So that's why you're not seeing a lot of videos come out from people that are just about tutorials are just about doing makeup I'm happy to do it for you guys because I love doing it And I love showing you guys new things that you know new ways of putting on your makeup That can make you look younger and more youthful. So that's it for my video for today and now I can get off my soapbox I love you guys so very much. Thank you for always being so supportive of me You have no idea how much that means to me and I will talk to you in my very next video. Bye you guys