Welcome back to the breakfast here on plus TV Africa first major conversation this morning We are going to be focusing on the president's refusal to ascend to the electoral act amendment bill And of course the moves to be taken by the National Assembly or the expected Reaction from the National Assembly after their break in a few weeks time It has of course created a lot of conversations across the country since yesterday We're speaking this morning with Barrist Evans who fairly who's going to be joining us. Good morning, Barista O'Ferley Good morning. Thanks for joining us But just before we bring you in would like to share a quick report on this story and the conversation starts off right after stay with us Diary primaries across the eight thousand eight hundred nine words Across the length and breadth of the country will lead to a significant spike in the cost of conducting primary elections by Parties as well as increase in the cost of monitoring such elections by INEC Who has to who has to deploy monitors across these words? Each time a party is to conduct direct primaries for the presidential, the monetary and legislative force The additional of this cost with the already huge cost of conducting general elections will inevitably lead to huge financial burden on Both the political parties INEC and the economy in general at a time of dwindling with revenues Alright, of course, that's from it by Jabba Amila there Sharing the letter from President Mohammed O'Ferley Barista O'Ferley Let's start, you know with the reactions from people a lot of people have said that they don't find this shocking in any way They had expected this seeing the drama that had played out in the build-up to you know yesterday's Well, you know the president's eventual Failure to ascend to it. So are you one of those who? Know isn't shocked by this Yeah, what what what what people are shocked by this is because they have been a consistency in battle in the Electra amendment the you remember that before this one thing I see a lecture President also battle the being Okay, and now people are saying that president is our willful to have the model they are testing of the reason well done for the rejection of People are also up to feel that the president is fighting to show even decisions And that is why they are not in the shop Why they are not in the film? Look at the letter The letter With so many Now I like Okay, which we in thought are not good governance So when you see the president Oh, because I'm very local well a document I feel that it's a product Thanks for the business So, when you begin to wonder why, for the reasons given, I got very surprised. They are not clear to me. So, I would have thought that, because they would have found me. So, he said to me, if they are not looking for me, I'm going to shoot them and we'll find you. So, hopefully, let's give them to walk, but nobody, I don't know, people of law. The national assembly is supposed to meet their willies. But I don't think the United Assembly is an assembly that wants to arrive to the president's position. They should have been able to do that by law. But it's the United Assembly that's termination by the ruling party. I am never surprised how they think about some of the content, especially as it has to do with direct travel and all that. So, I'm never surprised at that. It was indomitable that in the past, one would have thought that we would stay low on all those. But the fact is that they have told their father, the special, now the question has also gone on the past. I think the national assembly is going to go back on that. Okay, let's also look at some concerns that has been raised as regards the president's decision of holding us into that particular bill. Now, a collision of civil society organization is saying that this would have a serious implication on INEC in conducting the forthcoming elections of the FCT council area, the AKT elections and Oshun state, as they would have to fall back to the Electoral Act of 2010 as amended. And it would deny INEC of the opportunity of testing some of high innovations. Do you agree with the civil society organization? Absolutely, absolutely. If you look at that decision, it's one that is very good with too many irregularities. There are too many issues there that are not very good. So, that is why one would have thought that President would have find a solution that can be test-grown. Can be test-grown without a forthcoming by that election that we have. That is how to think about the future of the economy. Let's have this thing right now, let's test-run it. There are many people who are also called for an amendment. Okay, but to just talk with that, we have to begin to throw a lot of questions. Because this is why we are called for election matters. Largely, because of that, we do the same act. Most of the questions are called just because of the conditions and the way that act. So, by the time we have the health special law, to reduce the body of the judiciary, this is who's to lead the people. Let's have an act that will give the power to the parties and ministers. not to warn that it's good that we also need to look at some of the issues that we're talking about, especially what in the form of what is going to happen at the end of the day, what works to happen is that the outcomes are not very important, so I actually think so. That is the organization. There's also the angle of throwing away the baby with the bath water. There's a couple of things that would also be lost here, mostly of course the electronic transfer of votes, which is one of the biggest parts of this bill. So do you think that is heartbreaking that we might just be losing out on that particular step in our electoral process simply because of the direct primary controversy? I think we may have lost Barista O'Felley there. The conversation is mostly on the president's refusal to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. And of course, what steps the National Assembly should be taking moving forward? How much more work needs to be done before the 2023 elections? Barista O'Felley, can you hear us now? Yeah, I can hear you. All right, so I was asking with regards the idea of throwing away the baby with the bath water. There's other angles, other very vital angles and causes in that bill that may be lost simply because of the direct primary controversy that President Mahmoud Bawari pointed out. The electronic transfer of votes and of results, rather, is one of the things that has been mentioned. Is this, should this be worrisome for Nigerians looking forward to 2023? Yeah, I think that when I saw that, when I saw that direct primary, the moment that was being debated, I couldn't say that it was a unit to render, to render this, that is all for me, knowledge, because I don't know why, why is it coming, how, for support to do about a matter of terms of a direct primary? Don't go back to the dialogue that I just mentioned. So when you, when you're down the heat from ours, I would say then that more direct primary, each way you select your political stand-in, so I think the nomination and all that is also a lot of, I don't think there are where my thoughts are, I always try to look at the results into that aspect. Yeah, we'll have to talk about it. I don't think so. So I saw it as, it might be the reason for us to not be aware of anything that the electronic attendee has worked over. And they have, I'm not, everybody has less contributions. You know, we lessen, we lessen that we have to do the electronic, because the electronic act is up to this point, at the level of, it's very certain. And we should not have this provision that we choose the bigger picture, bigger dream of having a particular electronic act that the author is the government for us. So perhaps, perhaps the electronic attendee needs to check that it needs to collect the air on that. Let's not learn. The political party should be allowed to accept that. Yeah, they should be allowed to accept. For now, we grow in such a way that democracy and the world will have to make the new legislation that is fixed. Alright, so apologies, you know, it's not, we're not getting a very clear sound from you, but are you then saying that you agree with those who say that the, you know, direct primary controversy was simply placed there because, and this is, you know, some of the statements that I've heard, it was placed there because, you know, the current administration is not very interested or excited about, you know, allowing for electronic transfer of results. And so, you know, these are some of the things that have been placed there. Oh, it simply exists there to scuttle, you know, the possibility of electronic transfer of results. It's logical. You know, there was a lot of pressure against that electronic transfer, especially from the women party. They made the opposite at the beginning. But when the public eye cry became high, they considered that. So whoever is using that possibility to consider that process, that will justify everything. That person might not be able to do anything wrong, he may be wrong, he may not be wrong. But there's a time when it needs to be tried to think that these people may have, still feel that to make sure that the other issue, together with people, does not see the light of the day. Because that does, that does. Okay. But whichever way, I think that simply will come to the right compromise, will come to the right compromise, because the idea is that the most advanced democracy is for people to work. In Nigeria, I don't know if they are able to be using that to become an act. Okay. When the war has happened. If you look at it, that would be an act. There's a lot of space on this that makes the process full of changes. Because you have to translate manually. You have to do a lot of things. It's going to be an offline. That is where we can take space. That is when you want to win at all costs. Or deploy resources to make sure they serve that purpose. And then render everything. At the end of today, the advanced party wants to report. And then at the end of today, we'll have to look up to the judiciary. Which that means you have won or lost the election. You've got to look up to the people. The people, because for as opposed to the light, we decided that the function of the judiciary is not to decide for the people who look up. It's to interpret laws. It's to interpret laws. But what we have to say by the input of this act is that because of the decision of the current act, it creates a lot of problems that the positions have to go to court to resolve. And when they get to court to resolve that, the outcome is that the court, through the decision of the law, would have indirectly proved to the leader the decision to win with the people. So that is why I say that there's a way with that. Let's have this. And then let's do the move. And that's going to our democracy. All right, Uffali, let's also look at the expectations of the National Assembly at this point in time. I mean, the report has it that they are delaying recess and they have started collecting signatures just to override. So do you think that the National Assembly should be throwing the path of overriding the president's veto or they should consider removing that clause of the direct primaries and send back the bill to the president? Well, in that way, in that way, the bill is up to them. Up to them. I would have suggested that the direct primaries should be looked at. Fortunately, the rules have sent back to the president. But knowing who the president is, he may not sign it also. He might decide to bring another issue as well, hopefully. At the end of the day, I'm assuming I'm not so aware. We will not be talked about by... I know that before... you have to send more of a delay, 90 days before election. Aha, so I make. So if the president is going to delay it for another time, I just want to say that that's what I'm telling you. Continue the process of allowing the president. Because that is the law. I'm not going to contract. They can do that. Except we are sure that if they announce the path of the president to complain about and they will work on it, I'm thinking that the president will sign it within 30 days before. And that is not guaranteed, by the way. So the next month, I'm going to do what we have to do. Okay, you also mentioned... I mean, in the course of this discourse, you mentioned that you don't see the Ninth Assembly going ahead with that process of overriding. And we know that they will require two-thought majority. So why would you say that? This is not an APC consent. Although we know that, yes, APC might be dominating in terms of the numbers now in the House. I said that because... I said that because of the four months they tried to... I will do me dash some of them when they are in office. They said that they were not elected to fight the president. But anything the president... You should remember that. You should remember that. You said they told us, you know, that anything the president... So that... There was a time when someone decided... One time they told us, the president did not vote. And then some of them went to beg the president. So you see, when you have that kind of a problem, it's only wrong to think the way I think it. Yeah, because there are people in that house that are constituted as open funds. Yes, I thought I was right about that. I did the two of them. They voted yes and they were open for the president to act on. There are some of them that may not work to be possible when they are writing to the president, but...  So that is a really nice accent. So at least I understand you. But what I feel like the answer is that we want the right president to be on the issue of questions. Even they are inconsistent. Even the way they have behaved in their past was the people that relate to the president. So that is why I said that. And I think there is a reason why people don't see the reason what I have been saying. All right. Well, since we're talking about the National Assembly now, I want us to go back to the Eighth Assembly, and get you to also respond to those who have said that the Bukalasaraki-led National Assembly also had an opportunity then to veto Gengsperry's Obama Dubuari's refusal to sign the Electoral Act. Do you think that they had an opportunity then, and they probably should have made that move back then? Well, the reason is that it isn't a president at that time. The reason is that it wasn't a president at that time. The reason is that it wasn't a president at that time. So we're going to have to be able to have an opportunity. But then, we want to be in the style of law. All right, then. So let's put the things that we want to do. That would have been an addition. Okay. I have a question. What do you talk about to a cross-border person? Okay. Does there were any concerns of law that the president had finally said he thought it's practically impossible to address that and let them ask? So that is why the reason I've done this is because I have to talk to you. And then, we started not to go ahead and answer that question. It must be to be used less. So I thought it was better to do it. It's more than to use less. Well, this one is possible by which one it's basically possible at all. Direct formaries or indirect formaries are not simply within the level of flexibility of the legislation of that method. You know what I mean? This one is quite different. But I will tell you that the better approach was the better approach. The better approach was the better assembly and the better direction. And the better direction was the right direction. There is, of course, just a little above a year to the next general elections. These conversations are important. And, of course, the sign of this bill is also pretty important to encourage more and more Nigerians to vote. Because if you, of course, have listened to conversations across the country, you must have, you know, heard a lot of people saying that they really have very little interest in voting again in 2023. And so, you know, these things, you know, would determine whether we will be able to increase the number of people who are registered and will participate in the electoral process or not. There's also, of course, those who have criticized the current administration because, you know, President Mahmoud Aboury came in as a reformed democrat. And, Mr. Afeli, does that still stand, seeing the way things have played out with this bill? Well, it depends on how good that is. On advancing legislation that will push the country forward. I mean, what you see is seen as an example of that and all that. That was a theory. But, in fact, it's not anything that shows that the president is passionate about democracy rather he has acted in ways that suggest that democracy cannot talk of. That means what I have been said so far is that it's an inspiration. It's an answer to what you can say. The policy, the economy, the country as a whole. So that is the value of our country. Again, the electoral, at least you know what to do before you look back, please. And last but not least, to carry on with this, I don't think I have much in opposition. But I wanted much more than anything else. I was also not very confident about our future. So, there should be a lot of education, political education on top of political education. So, I think that if I don't see a critical opportunity and then look forward to a better future, a better future, a better future. That is the better future I want to see. And I would like to ask that you review the platform. Okay, so let's also look at, you know, part of the major win for the electoral bill. I mean, if it eventually sees the light of day, which is the transmission of results electronically. Now, do you think that that would actually, you know, go a long way? Paraventure, we have that in our elections come 2023. Will we eliminate all of the irregularities that we experience in our elections? Of course, we will. We will because then, you know, we won the elections. All of the electors will be at the polling unit. Once it is concluded, it's transmitted electronically. Okay, so that, under that, there will be, there will be a record. There will be a record of the number of registered voters, the number that voted and who voted, who, when and how. We will have all of that. We will have all of that transmitted. So that anyone who is contesting the outcome, the court. The court will just rely on the transmission report. And what is it going to be? If people are still in the transmission of electoral matter and electoral petitions with our courts. So that will make it clear that, you know, the court is capable of providing the support of the person who actually won. Not in cases where the court will have to run 200 localities. So that's like even most people in the last election are now done. We need to have a lot of issues because we are not sure what was transmitted and all of that. My practices are one part of the life and the rest of it. And it's not just, it's not just the electoral transmission. There are other initiatives that I would promote in the system a lot. And then there is a bit to tell our people that they can reach for selling and buying votes. Because on a national day there's a huge market. Someone came to sell, came to buy. And that itself should be able to sell too. I want to know. And this one is for education. All right, Burst. Evan Tovairli, thank you very much for your thoughts on this very, very major story across the country this morning. We look forward to speaking with you again. Thank you. All right, stay with us here on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We'll take a short break when we come back. We're moving into talking about, of course, more matters from the National Assembly. This time it is about the 2022 budget, more than 17 trillion nair, which was eventually passed yesterday. That comes up after this break. Stay with us.


All right, let's check out the ball So this was looking all very cool. I think my only comments would be And I sent that in the email in terms of presentation side views you can really look at The arcs and the spacing but also it will make it a lot bigger So you're kind of within that realm of framing if that makes sense versus this tiny Presentation there it makes a bit easier to look at things Other than that I Think this is all cool. My so my biggest comment will be You can probably start to stretch just a bit later. So you definitely have it at the end and it's tiny thing It's just something where I kind of feel This the I see the stretch versus feeling it and I think we can go a bit later to get that snappiness And it's a minor thing again. It's not this is not a shock killer I think the main thing to me that stands out is the poppiness of this. So if you have This is your arc and you got your tail dragging here on this I would still have a moment of your tail being up here And I know it squashes and takes everything down But there's something about having the tail up here and then as it goes up it does this right? So you're here here and you're doing exactly that So that just felt a bit too Poppy where you have straight line a straight line here And watch out the straight line I would still since you know, you have a path like this have the tail go Where I can lines with the path versus straight down because the ball is not going to go fully straight down It's going to be a certain direction and angle to it But this might just be the angle of that camera here too, but that would be my biggest thing just keep Keep the ball not super straight down But at that angle which means also tail will be at that angle and then you have a bigger drag here Not immediately flattened down and then you can do this. So it's a bit of a whipping whipping motion and Then same thing here because as you get to the smaller bounces We still have those massive one frame changes Especially through here that will make this Very very poppy or you go from here to here and you can start reducing the amount of rotations even through here It's good to have all the rotation, but towards the end I would stick to maybe something like that words It does all this but at the ends in terms of rotation, sorry It rotates all up with all of that, but then towards the end it's it's kind of ending with just Translates just bouncing with very minimal rotations. Otherwise, it's just too much going on here like something like this is nice Where you just have kind of that I Do like how you have the end slide but Timing wise I think the couple things I think you can reduce the up-and-down Distance here. It just gets a bit too bit too chattery And then that comes to a stop a bit too quickly so just What is this one or two?  It just feels a bit quick and abrupt Right there it just kind of suddenly comes to a stop and then that's it But the drop is nice You might argue that if it's just a tail without life that This drop is a bit slow If it's just pure physics and it's bouncing and the tail is following the path Then it will go and then it would just kind of drop a bit faster. That is a bit slow Since the character is not yet alive That is about it. Picky-picky-picky stuff overall. It's great I think if I had my first immediate reaction seeing this was that this was just poppy from here to here It's a weird frame change and then it just gets a bit poppy, you know throughout the hits and then towards the end here Which is a lot of little bounces So you just be soft and towards the end like that the poppiness was the first reaction and then you know everything As I said, it's just kind of the extra picky stuff again It's not a shock killer, but if you know if you want to do another revision That's what I would suggest. All right. That is kind of it. Thank you. All right So checking this out here. I got some overall notes and some pickier small detail notes The main thing that I'm seeing here Is this translate at the end? It seems like throughout the shot it would lose momentum and get slower and so on slower Meaning in your in your Maya timeline your curve Really calm to stop. I mean slow would be low But and in your case, it seems like it comes gets lower slower and then suddenly accelerates again before it comes to stop And it's kind of Right there. It feels like after all this time if it would just Slide Until here I will go too crazy with how far it goes Yeah, it seems too much. But the thing is a with this The couple things that come with it a momentum seems a bit off because it's only accelerating It seems to have too much momentum compared to what was happening before You're also stuck in the same pose where ball and tail are just kind of it's moving like a 2d card As opposed to if it's sliding like this It might almost a little bit of a roll so it might have you know tail might be here It might just have a little bit of a rotation forward But then What's also weird is because it's so fast your stop is also too quick It suddenly stops right instead of going Stop it goes forward stops and then Kind of rolls back so Don't go as far I would cut that in half to be honest and then have a slight rotation forward still And then make sure that it really comes so that again your graph editor. It's not just stopping right away It has really a slow ease into that stop And these guys have to me like at the end it has a bit Too much there.   It's just kind of rotating back, but it's rolling back It's not just rotating uh, and then through here, I think you can get away with a little bit of a stretch here Before you go into that full stretch And then also careful you have impact point is here But it feels like you're pointing too straight down again This is in the picky phase, but you want to make sure that the stretch is always pointed towards Where it's going See that's that feels better. The problem with this one is that Uh with its frame is so you're here I kind of buy that If you're landing here and you will do something like that right, but then the problem is that if this is your Landing point here at the center here the ball center is now suddenly here that makes sense So you come from here Land here and then you go backward take that ball will be here so it does that Versus here and then and then that basically your trace This basically there in the ball position Same thing here you can probably Oh, what's up about here? You got a better bit of a sooner stretch here Same thing here your center seems like it's here ish right there So the ball will be right here ish a bit more left here Yeah, so you're kind of coming down and it's starting back here It's also like you're doing this You can probably start having less stretch towards the end. It feels a bit much It's a bit better here then here That's a bit much too like you're going from here to here. That's a big change for The bounces that get smaller and smaller so you can probably go Just put that it's with the difference or just a bit lower but just not so snappy Same thing here from here to here. So some Sun change that's a bit too much same thing here, especially This is definitely too much. Even if you would be that far it would be some drag So probably right now it's You're really slowing it down And then as you go up it would drag Drag Then it can be here here. You're suddenly compressing a bit too much. This would be a bit more extended Then it needs to drag That's okay Are we not to watch you intersecting? It's just a lot of detail stuff here This is okay, but then you go down it would it would Counter it with the tip of drag and so on and so on. So there's some funky things there So just detail work. What's a little picky detail things I'm just gonna make this super sweet. All right. 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Welcome to the show. It's me, JP. It's time for another episode of JP's Product Pick of the Week, and I am so excited to have you here today. If you want to know where the chat is happening, if you happen to be over in the Facebook or Twitch or one of those places and the chat doesn't seem to have anyone, that's because I encourage you to head over to our Discord, which is this right here. This is at adafru.it slash discord and you can jump into the live broadcast chat channel. Got plenty of other channels that you can go and check out any time during the day, during the week, 24-7. However, the live broadcast chat channel is a really good one to check out during live streams. So hello, Sea Grover and Jim Hendrickson, Thin Man, Debo Dog, who didn't think they were going to make it. You made it. Thank you for joining. Also, I am keeping an eye over on our YouTube and I want to say thanks for Tackle the World and Dave Odessa and Gary T for dropping by. Hello, hello. 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So it just is for people who are able to tune in live. We have a lot of coupon codes and things during the week for other shows, but this is the one case where the discount, no coupon code required, we just dropped the price during the show. And thank you very much to the new products team, Angie and everyone else involved for making that all happen. Like magic every week, we really appreciate it. So head on over there before I say anymore about this week's product pick, what I'll do is as I like to do have Lady Ada talk about it during her new, new, new segment from Ask an Engineer. So take it away, Lady Ada. This little gamepad QT, otherwise known as the QT gamepad code. This is something I just really wanted because we were always making little projects or robots where I was like, oh man, I just need like kind of gamepad controller. And I don't want to wire up all the pins. I just want to be plug and play and ready to go. So this is a STEM a QT board that has a two axis joystick, a thumbstick, and it's kind of reminiscent of the Vita, if you've ever used the PS Vita, a portable game system. It's got two little middle buttons and it's got four larger buttons. And there is a little tiny chip that converts the buttons and the two analog inputs into I squared C data. So you can read it over I squared C, which means you can use it with chips that don't have digital converters or you don't want to wire up, you know, the 20 pins necessary, the 10 pins necessary to get all these IOs. So it's got a STEM a QT port. So you can plug it into we have boards that have a STEM a QT on them. But also you'll have boards that go from this connector to jumper headers. It's tiny, it's small. It's like a, you know, one inch by two inches or so. But and it comes with the joystick soldering. So we do the soldering for you. So you've got this like analog thumbstick to select star buttons and then XY AB. So you know, it's kind of in the standard gamepad setup. There's a power LED and an IRQ pin and LED. You can set it up to have the IRQ pin pulse whenever you get button presses if you don't want to spam the I squared C port. And there's two address selects. So if you want to connect up to four of these on one I squared C port, you're good to go. Only thing I didn't do on this is because we didn't have space. There's only one STEM a QT connection. So if you want to chain it, we have a little I squared C hubs that you can use to connect multiple one of these cables to one I squared C port. And as I mentioned, we've got Arduino code and circuit Python code. So easy to use with any blinker microcontroller or computer. Yes, indeed. That's right. That is it right there. Check it out. Oh, my gosh, it's so tiny. And yet it is so so useful. This right here, that's the product pick of the week this week. It is the gamepad QT. It is a seesaw chip based STEM a QT connected gamepad. It has the two axis joysticks. That's analog dual potentiometer right there, as well as the four a b x y buttons and start select you connected over the STEM a QT cable or quick cable to whatever device you're using. You can see here's an example of what is this one? This might be the 400 millimeters that look great 400 millimeter long one. We have a couple of these extra long ones here. And these work great. You can also like Lady Aida said, check out on the back there. There are a couple of jumpers for the I square C address, which means you can get up to four of these on one I square C bus. And in this case, since we only we don't have a pass through, we don't have a pair of those STEM a QT port connectors, you can use a STEM a QT hub if you want to do some sort of DIY multiplayer gaming, which is super, super cool. And in fact, these are useful both for well for lots and lots of things, not just both, but they're really useful for game types of things, especially if you're using little TFT displays or LED walls. They're also great robotics controllers. So I wanted to show you a little demo here that I set up. I'm going to switch back to down shooter here. And let me just adjust that focus a little bit. Okay, so let's let's talk about what we've got here. And I'm gonna move me a little further over to the side and adjust the camera. That should work pretty well. So you can see all the all the stuff I've got inside of there. There we go. So here what I have is one of our cricket boards. This happens to be one that has a feather on I'm using a feather RP 2040. So I'm running circuit Python code. You can see I have a bunch of things plugged into the cricket. It can drive a DC motor in both directions. I've got a servo motor over here. And I've also got a little set of neopixels and there's other stuff plugged in. But that's the stuff I'll demo. And you can see here, I've got the game pad qt plugged in over stomach qt cable to the feather board. And then I can use all the buttons on here to do different stuff. So for example, if I want to move my servo arm there that I happened to have connected a neopixel stick to, I can just move that analog. You can see it's analog. It's not just a button, but I can slowly move that or move it faster. I can set the LEDs to different colors. So I can set those to red or yellow, green.  You can see I can set the speed variable speed on the DC motor there using that little thumb stick. So it's just a ton of IO all in one place on the little game pad qt. Great for robotics projects, as you can tell there. And of course, you can also pair this with microcontroller that does something like Bluetooth or blue fruit, Bluetooth low energy, and have a remote robot really, really useful for that sort of stuff. And let's see what should I talk about? Let me let me check the chat and see if anyone's got any questions there. So yeah, tackle the world. I square C multiplayer. So again, if you have a complex robot, let's say you're doing some puppeteering. Often puppeteering is done with multiple puppeteers.  They're real subtle like for costume types of props. There are so many cases we're having that much joystick or thumbstick and button IO in one place. That's really nice and compact could be super super useful. The product page if we check that out, since I mentioned that before, get that out of the way, you can see right here. So this is product 5743. This is half off right now. So $3.47. It's a great, great deal. You'll notice we also have those nice mounting holes there. I'm looking at 2.5 mounting holes so you can connect that up to things. If you scroll down in here a little bit, you'll get to the link to the primary guide in the learn system by catney. This will give you all the salient details as well as pinouts for this. So you can see I've got it connected over here's a here's a blank one here. I'll plug that into a cable for demo purposes. So here you can see I've got plugged in over the I square C STEM a QT but we also have down at the bottom there that pinout broken out plus a little bit extra. We have the serial clock and data ground power. You also have an IRQ and the UPD I pins. So depending on how you're setting this up on your microcontroller, you can use those. This can be run really easily in both Arduino and Circuit Python thanks to libraries that we have for the seesaw chip. So if you look, let's see if I get a good image of that. I can just click on this one right here. If you look at that chip right there, that is the seesaw chip that's running seesaw on there, which wow, we can get really big. All right, there we go. So that's a 8816, 80, 10, 816 that is doing all of the IO stuff for the input. So it's reading the analog potentiometers in both axes. It's reading all of those buttons.  So it's very effective, very efficient. Like Lady says, this normally just spams, you'll spam I square C to look for changes. If you need to for your particular application, only send messages when there's something that's changed, you can use IRQ interrupt there to let your code know that's time to check out what's happened on the board. You can also by the way check out if you go to this, there's a link on the main product page that says, hey, do you want to add a cable in here? If you just click on one of those, this is actually one of these pages that has lots and lots of cables on it so you can go through there and look for for an appropriate one for your application. But like I said, you may want to use just the the broken out pin headers there if you're building something into an enclosure and you don't need that flexibility, acting like a joystick cable. But you know, just as a as a point of reference for size, we get a lot of the functionality of something like this is a PlayStation 2 controller. In this right here, obviously, we don't have the two sets of thumb sticks on their shoulder buttons, but a lot of the same stuff, same with like this week classic controller happened to have here. And by the way, this is kind of appropriate because we're looking at the yesterday or the day before was the 40th anniversary of the Famicom, which was the Japanese predecessor a couple years later for the Nintendo entertainment system. So these types of little game controllers have been on our minds lately and we always like using those. So I think they're great for lots of different types of projects. If you want to take a look at the code here, so back to this example, you can see here are things like moving this servo motor based on the potentiometer, setting my motor speed and direction based on also the little thumb stick there, pressing the buttons to change things like the LEDs. This type of code you can see is really easy. This is an example I have running using Circuit Python on my Feather board. You can see the key things here. I'm importing Adafruit CSaw. I'm also importing Cricket and I'm importing from CSaw the Neopixel library. I'm setting up my CSaw object so the whole game controller is being called CSaw here. I have some button mask set up here so we can read the different pins there 62510 and 16 being the pins that we're reading for all of those button presses. And then we're using the CSaw pin mode bulk so we get this message, this very short message that tells us which buttons are pressed or not so it's very effective, we don't have any lag. And then I'm also setting up some Cricket servo stuff, Neopixels. Again you'll see the Neopixels, those are running right on the Cricket there so those are set up also using CSaw, bunch of CSaw stuff going on here. Then I'm doing a little bit of range mapping function here to change the zero to 1023 that we get when we move that potentiometer also left and right. And you can see I'm printing those out so X is zero up to 1023, Y is zero up to 1023. And then I'm turning those into a smaller range of servo motion or negative one to positive one for the motors there. And then when I'm running the main loop of the program I'm just saying hey let's say X equals the CSaw.analog read on 14 and 15, those are the two analog pins here, happen to be inverting those with this 1023 minus that value. And then I'm taking those, turning them into some values that I can use for the servo, same with button presses. So if we do this buttons equals CSaw.digital read bulk button mask it'll grab that whole set of every one of those buttons and then we can say okay what happened did any of those change or any of those pressed then we'll do stuff we'll set the throttle to zero and the neopixels to red, we'll turn on the motor in a positive direction multiplied by negative one to positive one. I also happen to set this one going in the opposite. I see you might use that for something like tank, tread, steering type of configuration on a robot. And that is it. So it's really straightforward to use the code is well documented. We have some nice examples in the CSaw library you can go and check out. And it's also very similar inside of Arduino. So let's see. Sniper time x6 says how ergonomically friendly is such a tiny controller though. Yes, it is not ergonomically friendly at all right I mean you can use it but I wouldn't want to try to speed run Super Mario Brothers with it. Yeah it's very small so that's part of that should be one of the things you're looking for in this otherwise you can you can do this you can build your own you can do something bigger. So the idea here is small scale projects. You can also build this into a small enclosure. I'm not sure if the Reeves Brothers have a case for this built yet but you can pop off these thumbstick covers so depending on your your design that may may be helpful to float the the case between those or just make a large enough hole for that to pop up through the top there. See any other questions that I think is going to do it. So there's a nice little photo front and back there you can see and there's your little jumpers that you can cut to to set those those different I square C addresses depending on what you're doing. All right I think that'll do it for us today unless anyone has any other questions we will wrap it up. So let's see that right there is my product pick of the week this week it is the gamepad QT seesaw gamepad with Stem-a-QT connector. Thanks everyone for stopping by for Adafruit Industries. I'm Jeff Park and this has been JP's product pick of the week. Bye bye.


The four common causes are cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetes. This is normal vision. This is with cataracts. This is with glaucoma. This is with macular degeneration. And this is with diabetic retinopathy. And if left untreated, they can all end up looking like this. We know diabetes. The leading cause of new cases of blindness and amputations in kidney failure can be prevented, managed, treated, even cured with a plant-based diet. But what about the other three common causes of blindness? Researchers recently looked at the connection between overall diet quality and age-related macular degeneration, but diet quality based on who's criteria. They based it on the Alternative Healthy Eating Index, developed by Harvard. You basically get scored 1 through 10 based on each food group. If you consume five servings of vegetables a day, for example, your vegetable score is a 10. Four servings of fruits a day gets you a perfect fruit score. If you eat vegetarian, you get a perfect 10 in the meat department. Then more whole foods, less trans fats, etc. And based on these criteria, they concluded that advanced age-related macular degeneration was significantly related to overall diet quality.


Hey, what's up guys, it's Coach Ben from Soccer Entrepreneur. In today's video, I'm gonna be talking about the type of equipment that you need if you're gonna be a soccer coach or if you're gonna have your own private training academy, whatever it is you wanna do, I'm gonna talk about the best ways to save money this way when you get started. You're not in the hole like how I see a lot of people when they first start. So I'm just gonna break this down very easy, very simple and I'm gonna kind of take you back seven, eight years of how it was for me. At the beginning, I thought that I needed to have a bunch of stuff because I saw their trainers out there, they had soccer goals, they had tons of awesome soccer balls, the best cones, training ladders, all these little gadgets and stuff that look cool and when I started looking online or even going to some soccer stores, I started to realize how expensive all that stuff was at the beginning and so what I did was I kind of did the opposite and that's generally what I do when I see anyone doing or a lot of people doing one thing, I always do the opposite and so I started to think of how can I do this as smart as possible way with literally spending either the least amount of money or spending no money at all and the way that I figured it out was very simple and I just went to a local soccer store and I told them that I wanted to create a partnership with them. This way any player who comes through my academy, I can recommend that soccer store for them. This way that store is gonna get free business from me and I can have their soccer store on my newsletter, I can have them on my website, I can promote them whenever I want and in exchange for that I can get free equipment so I could get free cleats, free cones, free soccer balls and those are the three essential things that you need. Maybe you don't have to have cleats if you're coaching a team but I like to have cleats if I'm training players but I wanted to have those three things. I didn't need to have a ton of soccer goals and a wall to set up to do for free kicks. I didn't need any of that and I highly recommend if you want to start a private soccer training business then you want to do everything at the beginning as cheap as possible and when you feel like you need to have a goal or you need to have pennies or you need more equipment. Great, you can either use my method of going and trying to partner with a soccer store or you can just look online and try to find things for cheap. I like going to Amazon or soccer.com especially when they have promotions like during Christmas you can find things cheaper there than anywhere else but at the beginning you don't need to have a bunch of stuff and I made another video about this about how to save money at the beginning when you start your academy but I felt like I needed to make something more specific about the type of equipment you need and in reality I want you to think about kids they don't need to have a bunch of stuff. Stuff is just kind of distractions so the more stuff you have at your session it might make your session look cool but that's not going to really help the player develop and get better. If you're just doing footwork drills and different types of passing drills and even shooting drills you don't have to have a goal, you don't have to have a ton of cones and you don't even have to have soccer balls because you could just require all the players who you train to bring their own soccer balls and this is where you kind of have to think outside of the box when you start. You don't need to do what everyone else is doing because if you're spending between $100 and $500 just right out of the gate when you start then that's not really a great feeling to have when you're starting to train players especially if you don't have anyone yet. So that's what I recommend either partner with the soccer store or go look online and just get the things that you need not the things that you feel like you have to have but you need the things that you need this way you can run proper sessions and the players can get the most out of every session that you do. So if you like today's video make sure to click the thumbs up button and comment below if you have any questions for me shoot me a personal email at StartYourSoccerAcademy.com at gmail.com and the description below this video you're going to see a lot of different resources there I've created a book called the Startup Soccer Academy I have a mastermind now for different coaches who want my personal one-on-one help you can read all about that below this video and once again if you have any questions either shoot me a comment below or send me an email at startersocceracademy at gmail.com I'll catch you next time.


Aani, Hello, Meskwa Visible Quest, Dijinakas, Megazet, Dodeb. We come from Ushkanigaling, Donjupah. My English name is Arden Pelche. I come from the Wukongkong Unceded Indian Reserve, located on the man to an island in Ontario, Canada. I would like to share my thoughts about the importance of water. Our water is very important because it brings me life. We see this in when babies are born. The reason I'm talking about the water is because our water is getting sick. The people of the world are making the water sick. If we as people don't do anything now, the water will make mother earth sick. Imagine a world with that water. Our animals would die, our insects would die, our medicines would die. All life as we know it would die. This makes me very sad. Some countries have very little water. In my own territory, there are first nation families that can't drink the water. I have an auntie, Josephine Nundane. She prays for the water every day. She understands the importance of water. The women of the world must continue to support her. We need to heal the earth. Now is time for the future of humanity following behind us. I would like to offer up a water song to pray for our water and our women of the earth. Give me good children.


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Today we're going to talk about satellite TV technology. This is going to range everything from, let's see, we're going to... louder? Okay. Is this better? Okay. We're going to talk about everything from huge dishes down to small dishes, from satellite internet service to, you know, encryption, decryption, nag revision, dish network, direct TV, just going to try and go through a lot of it very, very quickly. At the end we'll have a little bit of a question and answer and afterwards if you want to ask me some questions, just meet me out by the pool I guess. So, okay, we'll start. This section is where I'm going to sort of describe how a channel from CNN, ESPN, gets from their broadcast location to your home via a home service such as a dish network or direct TV and sort of by explaining this diagram, this model it'll help you understand how the home services work. Okay. So first what CNN does is they have their new station in Atlanta and they send their signal to a satellite Telstar 6 on transponder 22 at 93 degrees west. The location of the satellite is given in degrees away from the Greenwich Meridian and this is because all the satellites are located along the equator so there's no point in having north-south coordinates. The symbol rate is four mega-symbols per second, the forward air correction is set to three-fourths. All this stuff I'm going to go over but I just want to familiarize the terminology. 93 degrees west and this is just what I went over. The Greenwich Meridian so all of the major communication satellites are located on the equator and what happens is they're on geosynchronous orbits so they're basically stationary in the sky and this allows a home user or anybody using one of these services to point it once and never have to deal with it again. And a common misconception is the big dishes are for tracking the satellites as they move while there are some that can do that, the vast majority of them are only for geosynchronous satellites. And here's a video to sort of demonstrate how a dish would move across the arc of satellites and see as it slowly moves, it moves in an arc from one horizon to the other. This particular one will in the span of it moving across the sky will cover about 40 different satellites in this, you know, 50 second clip. The major satellites, there's about 10 home satellites that use that are used between direct TV, dish network. They use a circular polarity which is different than the other satellites and we'll get to that in just a second. Okay, a transponder is actually a combination receiver and frequency converter and then a transmitter package and what happens is a satellite will uplink at a certain frequency that's different than the downlink frequency and this is done to prevent interference on the uplink and the downlink. So when they uplink the signal it's sent as a direct stream up to this satellite at a very, very specific location and then it's sort of beamed back out along a footprint so direct TV, dish network, they all have a footprint that covers the continental United States. The footprint for other satellites may be as big as a city. They can do this by using spot beams and different technology and this is to illustrate the point of the polarity. The polarity is kind of odd. The vertical polarity and the horizontal polarity is the most common used type of polarity method among like broadcast technology because it's very, very easy to implement and it's cheap to make but the DBS services, they use a circular polarity and this is done to prevent interference at the same time it's kind of weird. It's completely non-standard. They're the only basic services that use it and so it's really sort of difficult to deal with but they do it because terrestrial interference happens all the time because the surface waves from the earth when the earth moves, they have a vertical polarity and so they mess up a lot of the satellite communications and whatnot. Not on a regular basis but when they do happen it's bad and another problem they have a circular polarity is the rain fade. The vertical and the horizontal polarity is not as prone to the rain fade which is why they use it for the TV distribution like of channels and stuff because it's just way easier to deal with during rain, sleet, snow. Okay. Symbol rate, this is going to be a little tricky to explain but it's basically the bit rate of the transmission. This is oversimplifying it a bit but basically if any of you know the difference between a bot rate and a bit rate the symbol rate would be the bot rate. You can send so many symbols per second but it corresponds with how you modulate that symbol rate to turn it into a bit rate. So if we're talking about something like Direct TV or Dish Network and they use QPSK modulation for sending out their video then they can put two bits for every symbol which therefore increases their bit rate from whatever they use times two. So if they use four mega symbols per second now it's eight. And the forward error correction. Forward error correction operates on an assumption that errors will happen and errors do happen all the time and it's really, really inefficient. So normal network transmissions you can request for more information to be sent whenever there's a problem. The broadcast mediums have a problem in that the receiver cannot request information so they send out an error correction with every single bit of information. So if there's three bits of streamed data there's going to be one bit of error correction. That's what the three fourths correspond to. If it was five six then it would be five bits of streamed data and one for error correction. So now we're at Dish Network and Direct TV and what they do is they take the stream, they decrypt it, they decode it and they put it back into another stream which is then multiplexed and sent up after it's encrypted. The only difference between these two, between your sort of home services and the services that they get as encryption and the number of channels per transponder, this particular CNN feed which goes to Dish Network or Direct TV operates on one transponder. And then you have the home services which operate on, they have many channels for transponder so the bit rate is going to be lower because they have to smash in more stuff in less space. And after they encrypt it then it's sent up to the satellite. Okay. And then they have a Niagara vision which is very, very common in Europe. EcoStar uses it. EcoStar owns Dish Network and Bell Express View. It's somewhat secure although many people have hacked around it. The actual encryption method is quite secure but it's the smart card and how they authorize the stuff that's actually quite insecure. The transponder 16, that's actually just not even relevant. I'm just doing this to sort of familiarize with the terminology again. The frequency is 12.443 GHz and all of your receivers know this information. They don't have to search out and find it or you don't have to specify it. And this operates within the DBS band. DBS band is just those home services that operate within a specific frequency range which is 12.2 to 12.8 GHz and the symbol rate is 20,000. 20,000 Kilo symbols per second. Now you're thinking, whoa, wow, that's great. It's way higher than what we just had but if you keep in mind we're putting 6 or 7 video streams, 6 or 7 audio streams, satellite internet service, some system information streams. I mean it adds up quick. So you end up with 15 streams within that one symbol rate and so you end up with a much lower bit rate. And keep in mind this is the symbol rate before the error correction. So if we have 20,000 Kilo symbols per second then it's going to be 40,000 megabits per second and then you chop off a fourth of that through down to 30. So effectively you only have 30 megabits per second to work with. The forward error correction is 5.6. Service ID basically corresponds to the channel number. The video packet identifier and the audio packet identifier. This is a very, very hard topic but I'm going to sort of breeze through it. Basically your information streams have a whole bunch of information as to where everything is. Sort of like CNN's video is here and CNN's audio is here and it knows to put those two together and put them into a stream. It receives all this information in various series of other acronyms but we won't get into that through program access tables and stuff like that. I am going to make one specification here that the information from this slide forward is going to be DVB specific which Dish Network and Bell Express View use but Direct TV uses their own called DSS which has a different length of packet and these weird technology that is not compatible with anything. So what happens here is you have your home system. You have the receivers that contain conditional access modules where your smart card goes. The smart card holds the keys for decrypting streams so when a stream comes in it goes to the conditional access module. The conditional access module goes do you have a key for this stream? The stream goes yes I do and here you go and decrypts it. Now whether or not something goes through the conditional access module depends on whether or not it has a certain header within the packet itself. There is something called the transport scrambling flag which is a little two-bit piece of information at the beginning of each packet and it specifies whether or not it should go to the cam and then ask for a key or just go to the cam and then go on to the decoder and the DMUX the multiplexer which separates the audio from the video. The funny thing is that you can get PCI cards that can operate with the same functionality with a hardware cam module. You plug it into the PCI card and then you plug in your smart card and you program it to get your channels. This is done mostly in Europe. It's barely catchy on America. There is software to emulate the conditional access modules. Several different types of cards exist. The main ones are the hardware and the software. That's sort of the main difference between the two. Hardware PCI cards they have a hardware MPEG decoder in them so they can decode the stream just as it comes in and they don't have to use any system resources to decode them. The software ones on the other hand rely on the system's power and capabilities to decode the stream. One of the cooler tools that you can use with this program shown here is the picture of. It's called PROG DVB and it's basically just a software receiver. It operates with PCI DVB cards. One of the plugins that I threw in the CD-ROM packet there was a plugin where if you specify the packet IDs of a satellite internet service provider you can download everything that anybody is receiving through their satellite internet service. It dumps everything onto your hard drive and you can set it up to filter for file names or by file size. The only problem is that a lot of the people that use satellite internet service, they live in rural locations so it's lots of porn. I don't know if it's a problem but it's a problem if you want to get any information off of them. The destination IP and the MAC address are also stored with each file. There's a DEX file that saves it too so you can see whether or not who it was going to.  Free to air stuff. We'll go over that now. Free to air channels are basically done to provide people want weird channels basically and they want them for free. What they do is they send them to satellites like there's some pretty funny ones on here such as this one which is a very brief listing of free to air channels on Telstar 5. We have the Rangarang TV. We have the Jam-E Jam and we have the Jesus Satellite TV which is fun watching. As you can see here the coordinates for it. I'll explain what all these mean. 97 degrees west is how far over it is so you know where to point your satellite dish. The KU band is what it operates in which is 11.7 to 12.2 gigahertz. This means that you can use one of your smaller dishes not like your home dishes but you can get away with maybe a 35 inch dish instead of you know a 10 foot dish. Vertical Pallarity. Pallarity is specified there. Then the name of the channel there. At the end there this is actually the symbol rate of that particular transponder. It's not the symbol rate of each channel but some of the other stuff that people often want to know about is C-band because they often hear lots of rumors like you can get pre-air TV shows before they air in the US and it's true you can. Pre-air Primetime Network TV shows are sent to Canada without logos and without commercials because they have contracts to air them in Canada and so they overlay their own commercials and their own logo so they send them to Canada first and what you can do is tune into these because they're unencrypted, they're part of the airwaves, no one cares because basically they're kind of lazy and the system works now so they don't want to change it. So if you're willing to set up a 7.5 dish or a 10 foot dish you can watch alias or whatever show you like before it airs. If you see here, here's a little guide that I've partially pasted from the URL that I have at the end. 24 which is a popular show. 7.30 am my time because I'm from the mountain standard time or 3.30 am on the east coast on Tuesday morning now it airs Tuesday night so you can get it 15 hours in advance and all of these go through, I mean all of them have ranges that go from 2 hours to 72 hours in advance and it's kind of phenomenal that even such a thing exists because in today's TV technology they're just, they're fanatical about keeping their copyrights and whatnot but then they send this stuff unencrypted before anyone else has access to it. This is often how spoilers for episodes get released. Now tips for getting equipment. KU band equipment which we just talked about the free to air stuff. 60 centimeters, 120 centimeter dish, 18 inch to 45 that's basically the size you'll need. The LMBF and feed horn with the horizontal and vertical polarity which they use is going to require, I don't know, it'll cost you maybe 40 bucks, 30 bucks. Receiver, set top box or DVBS card can cost you about 100 bucks, maybe 200. Total cost about 250 new for basic setup and you can legally set these up even if you live in a homeowner's association area because the laws basically say you can own up to one meter dish legally. Even if their laws say you can't you can because the FCC regulates that. The CVAN equipment on the other hand if you live in a homeowner's association area you probably can't. 7.5 dish to 12 foot dish is normal preferably mesh because wind resistance is a big problem. The wind resistance against the dish often will snap them. Hurricanes in Florida and the southeast will just tear through dishes very very easily. The LMB which converts the downlink frequency these are all just the different parts. The skew motor controls the feed horn's polarity and the actuator moves the dish. So the actuator was that device moving the dish as it went across. The skew motor knows when to switch back and forth so if you have your receiver set up to at this certain location I want it to go to a vertical polarity because that's what the satellite is then when you move the dish and it sends a signal to switch it to that polarity. The analog receiver set top box that's what most of these pre-air feeds are if you're interested in that sort of stuff. A few of them are digital and then even fewer of them are digitally encrypted. None of the analog ones are encrypted which is what most of them are. Total cost is about $1,000 to, it says $2,500 but I mean some of the stuff I've seen maybe $5,000 for a basic set up or you can go on eBay which I did, I got my entire set up for $100 bucks including everything including a receiver that's $900 new because people don't know what they can do. They basically just throw them away. It's like we're going to take it to the dump but we'll sell it on eBay. So you can get them for really really cheap all the time. Same with the KU band stuff although not as cheap because people still use them because they're not quite as obnoxiously big. Here's some other links that we're going to go over. The North American feed air channels, good guide, digital MPEG information, Mr. Video's wild feed list which that was a partial showing of. It has just tons, I'm talking about like 300 shows there that feed, I mean it's not just new shows, it's also dedicated ones so you'll get 10 airings of Jerry Springer in a row in one night which is just really annoying. DVB forums is a good place if you're interested in that file grabber I'd definitely check out those forums. They have a section for it or progdvb.com which is the guy who wrote it. Dr. Dish's satellite espionage, very very interesting link because he basically goes through different stuff that he's done with satellite dishes and how he's picked up spy satellites and all sorts of really really really cool stuff. Some of the stories that include how one would file a fake tax return in another person's place via satellite from Europe and get their check. This is really kind of questionable. Basic broadcast information there at the bottom and of course it greets to the SLC2600 crew and Geek Syndicate and I want to know if anybody has any questions about the question was sort of to go over spot beams because Direct TV's been rolling them out and Dish Network's been rolling them out too and how they work. Basically what happens is the signal sent up to the satellite and the spot beam focuses its power in one particular area so they have a certain type of radio that they can point in a certain area. The one that they have for their nationwide coverage is much more powerful and has much more broad sort of broadcast area I don't know exactly how to say that but the spot beams sort of they're just the same just focused in a certain area they don't operate any differently. Is there anything else? Okay the question was to want to know how far it's been sort of widespread used. Okay the question was how widespread is the spot beam use and who else uses it and what applications sort of apply to that. Is that right? So spot beams are used just for the regional coverage stuff. There isn't a whole lot of nationwide stuff that they would only use in spot beams so it's mostly just local channels and stuff. Some spy satellites use spot beams because they're good at keeping other people away from the information. Some weather satellites use them. Other home services like Direct TV they use them Dish Network uses a few of them on some satellites but there aren't I wouldn't say that a ton of them use it but anything you want unless it's local channels you can get on the other satellites. You have a question there? I'm thinking you want to know how tight the spot beams go. How close of an area. The spot beams can operate within about the one on the east coast that you're sort of wondering about. It operates from basically DC in New York. There's a spot beam for I'm thinking of Dish Network right now. I don't know about Direct TV like their particular spot beam but the Dish Network one operates within that entire area. So is there something more? Okay. Any other question there? Yeah. Okay. His question is about the HD streams and yes there is information about them and the PCI cards that we just went over the hardware mode on the hardware cards or the software cards themselves they can decode them. The HD streams themselves you can find information about them on that forum forums.dvnetwork.com. The Direct TV ones of course they use non-standard stuff so it's much harder to use them unless you buy their equipment. The Dish Network stuff is a little bit more compatible with other technology. So the HDTV stuff there is information about it and most of the stuff is located on satellites on the coast so they're not located on the main ones in the middle of the sky at 110 and 119. In laundry mats? In a laundry mat right? Is that what you said? Alright. So his question was how does a smart card different from the P3 to the P4 on Direct TV which they use and the smart card they use in a laundry mat. The difference between the Direct TV cards and the one used at the laundry mat hypothetically they're basically just different types. They have different ways of storing information in the layers so the Dish Network uses one that has about 50 layers within that tiny little chip and it has that information allocated to be certain areas within each one of those layers and so they made their own conditional access modules to access just that type. And the one used at the laundry mat is probably very, very generic, you know, compatible with a lot more variety of applications. The difference between the P3 and the P4. The P4, I'm going to tell you right now, I don't know tons about it but I don't think anybody does. Some people do but I don't. The P4 basically has built-in routines that if you try and mess around with it or if it thinks that you're trying to mess around with it it'll kill itself. So is that the same as what a GS... He wants to know if that's the same idea as what the SIM cards used in the GSM phones. I don't know, I don't own any GSM phones. So he basically just sort of clarified something there that this fellow had a question about. The ones at the laundry mat, I mean assuming they're very generic type, will just store information on the ones that Direct TV uses, have routines built-in to deter people from messing around with them. That's sort of the major difference. Well, I mean it is and it... Right, right. And some of them don't have routines built-in to destroy themselves. They just have... But there are several that just operate as storage. Right. He basically just said that the laundry mat just has a little database of how much money you have left. And yes, they all do have CPU and RAM. Yeah, smart cards.  Yeah, so basically if you mess around and decrypt someone's signal and they didn't tell you to decrypt it, you have just violated the DCMA. So, Cameless IRDs. Yeah, they're cool. Cameless IRDs basically are receivers that don't have a sort of tagged conditional access module with a certain ID so that you can mess around and change them as Dave's blacklist gets updated. Whatever. I don't know anything about that. Sorry. You want to know if I played much with Starban? The previous guy's question was whether or not I'd SEP? SEPC? Single Carrier Per Channel? Data Services? I don't know a whole lot about them other than the SEPC would be a single carrier per channel. It means that it operates just as one stream on a satellite. And what was your question again? It's Starban. You want to know if I've ever messed around with Starban or any information about it? Starban, I'm assuming you mean the Internet Service? Yeah, the Internet Service Starban. There's lots of information out there about it. I assume you can use the file grabber program in conjunction with Starban. Can you say that again, please? What's the difference? I don't know anything about Starban because I live in a metropolitan area and I don't need satellite Internet Service. I don't know. The Starban stuff is, he was basically just asking what the difference was between different model numbers. Anyone else have any questions? The Direct TV stuff? Direct TV stuff, again, not my 4-tape, so I don't know.  Two-way satellite stuff? Basically the Direct Way and stuff like that. They just have a very, very small, well, low power transmitter and then also just the normal feed horn. And they operate sort of in the same way that a home satellite's TV setup works, but just with also a transmitter package on there. And they're sort of allocated a certain bit of information on a certain stream, so they're allocated just a tiny bit. Is there any sort of limit as the number of dishes that can point to a satellite? No. Because it operates as a broadcast. It's basically like throwing confetti. Anybody can grab it and it's like just unlimited. Well, it's governed by network policy. He was asking if there's any limit to the power and the bit rate that you can operate at. The bit rate, you can't sort of hack and get more upstream. I mean, you can have a stronger signal, but could you overload your neighbors? You could overpower their signal, but you wouldn't end up getting more bandwidth per se. Probably the Hop-Hog Nexus S. They run you about 220 bucks. And they have the hardware M-Pig decoder. And they're compatible with just about every piece of software out there. How aggressive are Dish Network's anti-piracy? Are they going to come after you? Is that what you wanted to know? From what I've sort of seen, Direct TV will kill you and then Dish Network sort of won't. It seems like there's two different sort of policies. Direct TV is to hit everybody over the head that's stealing service and Dish Networks is to just get more subscribers. It seems like Dish Network probably doesn't care as much. I mean, if I had to say so. Preemptive just to scare people. I mean, he wanted to know why Dish Network or Direct TV cares so much about the P4 and their new cards. And I said basically just to scare people. Go in the blue shirt. The fact that they think that they're... I'm literally just saying that the Direct TV has basically a less fail safe and sort of secure. They have a more secure Dish Network is more secure. They feel that they're more secure about their encryption system, which is... I don't agree, but I mean the reps aren't that smart then because the DSS or the video guard which they use is just... it's really... it's a pretty secure encryption system. It's just how they do the authorization at Direct TV that's all messed up. And Dish Network, they use a very... just sort of mainstream Niagara vision. I mean, people in Europe have been messing around with Niagara vision for years. So the... I don't agree that the Direct TV is necessarily less secure than Dish Network. So you want to know why they don't send out the instructions to wipe the cards more often. So why don't they send out the sort of lists to make sure that you can't get service? Why don't they do that more often, the ECMs? Why don't they send them out more often? Probably because it takes a while to update the information. It probably takes a while to get more data on which ones need to be updated before they can send out the streams. Direct TV seems to send them out quite often.  Oh, none. Because it's all sort of in the system information table. You're losing very, very little. So you want to know about sort of larger skill events like sporting events and maybe conferences that are sent via satellite if they're encrypted or, you know, experienced with them. A lot of the video conferences and news feeds and stuff are not encrypted. They just don't deal with it. Sporting events are, typically, with the exception of maybe a few Formula One races or something. But on a whole, like, Sunday NFL games, they're always encrypted. So you want to know if the stations sort of control what's encrypted and not encrypted. So if everything... is everything Fox sends encrypted or is everything... The actual encryption and decryption is controlled by the production studio and not the station. So if it's Warner Brothers studio that's putting out, they'll go through a digital provider called CBC and they will use a digital uplink and they sort of pick and choose which ones Warner Brothers will... that they want encrypted. You know, friends usually is and West Wing will be. But all the other ones, typically, aren't. The other sort of different ones, Fox, ABC, they don't encrypt them. Only stuff that comes through Warner Brothers is encrypted. So you want to know if Direct TV and Dish Network both use the keys on the conditional access module for the decryption. Yeah. No. What it does is it acts as a receiver where you can tune the information on the PCI card. You want to know if there was any... if you can just automatically decrypt Dish Network using one of these PCI cards. No. You can't. It enables... the new thing that came out with Dish Network enables you to not cross reference the key. Yeah. Not... okay. So to put it on another card or device, is that what you're saying? The Camless stuff, it doesn't have anything to really... the Camless, is that what you mean? The Camless stuff doesn't really apply to the PCI cards because you can automatically program the Cam ID within the software. You can say take this Cam ID but you'd have to get your receiver out and hook it up and to get the Cam ID off of it or get it off the card. So hook it up. So he wants to know about sending the movie theaters via satellite. I don't... I think it's kind of a rumor because I've never seen anything about it and they might have done it back in the day but I don't think they do... I haven't heard anything about them do it. About Lucasfilms. If they do it'll be encrypted using PowerView probably because it's pretty secure. So it is coming. There are... Lucasfilms is going to deliver via satellite. All of them? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So he's basically said that the Lucasfilms is going to send their information out to the movie theaters, movie theaters and the digital box that they can control what place where with the digital projection system. I haven't heard anything about it but interesting nonetheless. Anybody else?


So here we have the platform for the arm part, Windows 10 laptop. So hello, so who are you? So my name's Andrew. I work for Marketing for Qualcomm and we're showing the mobile PC demo here. And there's a big event yesterday, the Microsoft keynote, and it was announced that ASUS, HP, Lenovo are making amazing devices with the Snapdragon and Windows 10. That's right. So these are the, and what we're showing here is we have the for the first time Windows 10 running on Snapdragon 835 to give people a real feel for the actual experience they can expect on those devices. So right here, it's just a demonstration of approximately what the difference might be that this would be an Intel device, is nearly double the size compared to a Snapdragon 835. It's just much more optimized, more compact. Well, what we're doing is we're going from discrete components, what you see in the competing platforms, to the SOC that Snapdragon has. So things like the modem and GPS and other components in there, like the Wi-Fi, those are all built into the SOC instead of being discrete components. So it takes up much less space on the PCB, allowing for what we're estimating about 30% reduction in PCB size. The big advantage there is thinner, lighter devices and bigger batteries for longer battery life. So these are under construction right now of being optimized in very, very thin laptops that are gonna consume less power, run longer in a battery. So the design that we're talking about or the designs that we're talking about with our partners are the thin and light, the fanless designs. These would be two-in-ones and convertibles, detachables, that type of device. And you're running Windows 10 right now. This is four Windows and you're running on a development device. This is the Snapdragon 835 development device, right? Right, this is one of our engineering platforms. We use it for demos periodically when we need to connect for the modem demos, but this is just one of our development platforms that we're using for this demo. And so this connection to the LTE, so you can demonstrate that this is gonna be LTE, gigabit LTE. Gigabit LTE, yep. So let's check it out. This looks like Windows, it's real, it's Windows. It looks like Windows because it is Windows. So we'll go through just some of the activities here. We're doing some productivity and we're showing the ecosystem. There's some video streaming to show the connectivity. You have all these apps basically open at the same time. These are open right now. So multitasking, all the UI of Windows 10 is fully speed up, optimized. You're still working. I mean, it's coming by the end of the year, right? Yeah, that's when we're expecting first launches. So this is all, and it's like I say, it's simple. This is Windows on ARM, but this is regular office applications. I have all of my capabilities. There's essentially nothing here that is different from any office application experience. So here you're doing some of the advanced stuff that is possible to do in Excel and this is the x86 version of Excel. It's not an ARM optimized version. Right, yeah, this is Win32 application running through emulation. So as I go through this, you can pay close attention and see that it's very high performance even though we're running on emulation. So this emulator has gotta be pretty amazing and impressive how it's done. There's all kinds of optimizations to not use too much processing power but make things fast. I mean, there's always going to be a little bit of a performance hit when you're running on emulation. If you want a lot of details about exactly how that emulation works, Microsoft released on their Channel 9 video channel, they have a video that shows in significant detail the compile process and they talk a lot about the emulation. So they demonstrate how you can recompile for Windows Universal, right? When it's Universal, then it's fully ARM optimized. Right, when you do Universal it'll run natively on ARM. So you don't even have to worry about that emulation. This is the PowerPoint, you copy from Excel to PowerPoint? Copy from Excel to PowerPoint. We can pull up multiple Windows so I can bring in Word. We can copy from Word into PowerPoint. So I'm just building a presentation here just to show some of the capabilities. With Word and PowerPoint, it's exactly the same as it is with Excel. This is just Office. This is nothing special or different here. It has all the functionality that people already depend on and we're just running it on Snapdragon. So this is full Windows 10. It's not Windows 10 S. Correct. It's not only Universal apps, it's any app. Any application, well any Universal or Win32 applications. Right now the emulation, the current release of the emulation doesn't support the Win64 applications currently, yeah. But I mean most of the apps are Win32, right? Right. On Windows. I mean almost all applications are Win32 or they have 64-bit and 32-bit versions and so then you just do the 32-bit version. And you can just download any .x and just install. And yeah, so actually we'll show in just a second here. So I'm just finishing up that productivity. I just emailed the file to myself. But now let's go out to the internet and we'll go find a file here. And actually we'll just do this 7-Zip. So you just download? So I'm just gonna download the 32-bit x86 application now. 7-Zip and this application was created with no knowledge of Windows on ARM or Snapdragon and Windows collaborating. So we just downloaded and installed. It runs even the security scan like Windows was. Still runs security scan because it is Windows. So it's got all this anti-malware stuff running the background, all the stuff that you usually do. All of the tools and capabilities of Windows are in this because again, it's Windows. So I've installed it. And then it's a real app, you can do everything with it. Yep, it's here. It's gonna be very, very interesting to see how the performance is with all kinds of apps. Hopefully later you will be showing more and more apps. Oh, definitely. Yeah, as we get closer to commercialization with our partners, there's definitely going to be a lot more getting out in the wild about different testing and playing around. Actually several months ago, Microsoft even showed Photoshop. There's a full Photoshop, real Photoshop, and they were in the video saying, look, it's full speed. Yeah, well they were doing, they applied, I think a radial blur to a photo. Now, this is not the type of device that you're going to want to be your production photographer device. This is, if you're out in the field and you're taking some photos and you wanna edit them before you send them somewhere you can do that. But it's really, we're focusing on the web browsing, the productivity, the video streaming.  Those are gonna be amazing experiences. Everything else is going to be entirely possible and usable and doable. Hopefully. Yeah, well definitely. I'm hoping even something like video editing. Yeah, well we'll see. Hopefully. We'll see. I have not tested video editing yet. We'll see. And some basic photo editing. I just do a few things in GIMP. You know, GIMP would be nice. It's gonna be interesting.  Well, I mean, there's no stopping people from running benchmarks. The thing that we want people to focus on though is really the experience. So when you run your applications, does it work well? Does it do exactly what you needed to do? Is the performance good? That's what we want people to focus on. Like you saw, I was running Excel. Everything's working perfectly, regardless of the fact that it's running through emulation. Yeah, you could run a benchmark and say, well, through emulation, it's not working as well. But you don't see that. What you experience is a great running out. So right now there's Edge browser. This is an ARM optimized Edge browser, right? This case, let's actually see here. Is this running Win32? It's a good edge. Edge is actually emulation as well. Ah, it's also emulation, even the browser. So for example, if you would have Chrome and you did install Chrome on this one, right? Then it's X32 is a X86 for now. X86, yeah. But who knows? They could be optimizing this. They could do a universal app, yeah. Because they have ARM Chromebooks. So I guess they already have some software that could just pour over or something. I'm sure. I mean, once these devices start getting out there, the whole ecosystem is starting to start optimizing their own applications for it. I can imagine that maybe you'd have some stats. What's most in demand, what people are doing, and try to encourage the developers to optimize those a little bit to the ARM so you don't have to emulate forever. Maybe some of them eventually come over to Universal. That's what Microsoft wants. Oh, yeah, definitely. They want their ecosystem to be optimized for a perfect experience on every platform. So they're going to be pushing more and more developers or working with more and more developers to get them onto those universal apps. Can we see a YouTube video? Because for example, even if this is the X86 browser and you're running YouTube video without Hitch, that's pretty cool. So it just shows that all the stuff that goes on in there, there's a lot of hardware acceleration in the browser, a huge amount, and still you're able to run it. You can do video. You can do all the HTML5 stuff in the browser. And this is also showing a little bit of that gigabit LTE side of things as well. So this is streaming 1080p. You can see how quickly when I click around in here, we can reload. Now this is actually bottlenecked at 100 megabits per second because of our internet connection here. But if I go into, let's say I want to download the movie instead of streaming it, I can go to our local area network where we'll actually see the full speed of a gigabit LTE connection. This is local. Yeah, this is local server, but I'm through our gigabit LTE connection. Just because right now gigabit LTE is not deployed, so we can get that end-to-end gigabit LTE. 45 megabyte per second. So yeah, so what we're seeing here is high 300 megabits per second. This is a good number for us to be able to show because it's not that theoretical maximum of that 972 megabits per second or something that we get. It's actual numbers that someone might actually see while doing a download on gigabit LTE network. This could be the biggest deal for the whole ISP telecom industry to get on board with this and get a large display productivity on their LTE network. So that's it. Yeah, I mean, getting more devices, doing more content, it depends on each carrier's business model on why exactly they're incentivized to do it. Sometimes it's just adding more devices and more data and that gets them more revenue. Other times it's a loyalty play. The more devices that you get on there, the less likely you are to change to a different carrier or something. So there are many reasons for it, but yes, carriers are quite excited about it. The carriers should basically say, hey, which phone do you want? You pick a 835 high-end phone. Which laptop do you want? You can pick ASUS, HP, Lenovo, sign a contract two years, you get both of them subsidized. That's up to them. I think they'll be a great business model. You'd be selling millions of these. And this built-in LTE is a big, big deal that actually for the consumer, that's the speed.  For the mobile PC though, we think it's a particularly big shift in how you approach these devices. Because it's not just, well, do I have this in local storage or is my computer capable of doing this? Instead, you've got a really fast connection to the cloud. And the cloud can then become what you're capable of. So if it's stored out in the cloud, it doesn't really matter whether I have it here or there, I can get it here as soon as I need it. And it doesn't really matter if I'm capable of doing this here, if there's a capability out in the cloud, I can take full advantage of it from anywhere at incredible data speeds. So it could include a whole bunch of, like terabyte on OneDrive, I think they should do that, like include a whole bunch of cloud storage, have fun on Google Drive as much as you want. It just feels like local. Yeah, that's the idea. And even as we go further over the coming years and get into 5G, it'll be even more like that. That's where they talk about, maybe local storage will become a thing of the past.  Of course, it also has huge Wi-Fi speed, right? It's the fast Wi-Fi. No, it's not AD. 835 actually has AD built in. It could be AD, depending on the design that our customers have. That's gigabit Wi-Fi. That's multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Cause AC can do over a gigabit, but yeah, AD is multi-gigabit. That's where you get in like four gigabits per second. Like many of the ISPs, they actually recommend you, they want you to roam. So they want all their customers to have a second SSID at home so you can easily auto-connect on a million Wi-Fi hotspots in each country. Like they want to promote that. That would be a way to use it easily. You just walk around, you might go Wi-Fi, not be an LTE all the time, and still have a good- No, there's a lot of different approaches to how they manage the networks, whether you're going through an internet backhaul or the cellular backhaul, but ultimately, we want to support everything. Amazon should also, they have unlimited storage with Amazon Drive, which is pretty awesome. And so this is a 10-nm chip. I don't think Intel does any 10-nm yet, right? No, nothing 10-nm, not yet, not yet, yeah. So that gives you an advantage too. And this is 8-core, big, little. Yeah, 8-core, big, little, you can see here. We were showing that. And this is actually something else important because big, little is something new to the Windows side of things. And so this is a new level of efficiency in the processing for a Windows machine. And when you compare this to an X86, I mean you can see I've parked some of my big cores as I've scaled down my activity. This four big and four small? Yeah, these are the four little right here and then the four big right here. And this number right here, we haven't released exactly what our peak CPU speed is going to be, but this is talking about the peak speed of core zero, which is one of our little cores. Isn't that a smartphone? Is it bigger than I? She could be cranking up the gigahertz, but then maybe, without it being an issue. We'll be announcing a speed. There are definitely fewer thermal constraints on these larger devices, so that's a seven possibility. We're going to get everything we can out of it and we'll be announcing a speed at some point in the future as well. Nice, so this is, basically it is the fastest ARM processor in the world, right? You're pretty proud to, maybe, I'm just guessing. But as a 10 year octa core, it's one of the fastest in the world. It's an extremely advanced processor and we expect this to be a big advantage in Windows. It's also not just because of what you're seeing here, but actually when you go into, say, standby, we'll have what you would call connected standby, where you can be syncing your data, you can have Cortana active, and you can be getting, giving voice commands and waking up the device. You get that instant on capability that you have on a phone, but this is all while consuming far less power than what you would see on an x86 processor in regular standby. When all it's doing is maintaining state of apps, we expect to see four to five times less power consumption and ours in standby while doing all of that background processing on these devices. So that's a new thing for Windows as well. I'd like to have all three of the assistants. You can just call each of them, what do you want? You say, hey, okay, Google or Hello Echo and the other high Cortana. And then you just, it wakes up, the screen just, they could be LED light, they could be a second display and they have all these options. You can have a little display on the back with like showing how many emails you've got, like you need to get back to work, you know, something that you've never seen in a lot of before. If they want. Yeah, I'd say we'll see what they do. We're going to enable everything. Nice. And this big little is very interesting to see how it gets super optimized in Windows 10. Because actually, I would guess most people, even when they have a huge Intel device, they rarely use like 10% of the performances there. They just have lots of wasted cycles. If you look at the CPU usage, really you use the most cores at the highest peaks when you're loading an app or when you're booting up. And then when you're actually using it, it's actually quite variable. We say it's like bursty, it's like network traffic. It goes up and then it goes down. But most of the time, you know, see situations like this. I'll say I'm browsing to a web page. I browse to the page, things spike up. And then while I'm reading the page, it goes down. And then it spikes up when I load a different app and then it goes down while I actually use it. That's what you typically see.  I would think even a video editor most of the time does new, but just when you need to render something it goes through a big peak. And hopefully you get to optimize all the peaks people want. Like if they want some specific peaks, maybe the emulator will be perfect on day one. Or maybe you keep optimizing it, keep improving it. Always be continuous improvement and optimization. That's just the nature of the industry. We'll definitely be supporting that.