As you might have guessed by now, I love absolutely everything about retro gaming, arcade halls of yesteryear, the 8 bits, the 16 bits, the programming wizards and engineers, and all the other personalities that help put video games front and centre. The good games, the bad games, and the ugly. It's all the same to me, but this video remembers it all. I'll never forget the first time I played in 1943. I went with my dad to Scotland. We ended up in a motorway service station in Glasgow. Whilst my dad was getting drinks and food, I was playing on this machine. In the reflection of the glass, I noticed a few lads and one of them ran towards the machine. It was like a flying kick off the cover of Target Renegade. I ducked and his foot went right through the glass. Good old 720. And check out the size of that ghetto blaster. 720, promised radical stunts and epic flips, but that's only after a mountain of broken dreams and shattered skateboards.  Risking life and limb on a half pipe was a rite of passage. I feel the need, the need for Afterburner. Alright, strap yourselves in. You see, Afterburner wasn't just a game. It was an experience. You were Maverick from Top Gun. Sadly, Goose was not included. And I remember the cockpit, especially tumbling headfirst into a command centre. For a moment there, I was Maverick. Ah, Alien Syndrome. What a game. I must admit though, the first thing I'd do if I heard there was an alien invasion is run and hide. This guy wants to save everyone. Luckily, there's a two player co-op mode, so he's not alone. It was glorious. It was chaotic. It was from Sega. Hold onto your joysticks. This is Amidar. And you play as a pixelated gorilla, armed with a paint roller. Prepare to be bewildered, frustrated and entertained. It's a game where you need to expand your turf. It's also a highly cloned arcade game, and I had it on the Amstrad CPC in the guise of Omami. So, go bananas. Next up, Arkanoid Revenge of Doe. In a world where sequels often flop, this one soared like an 8-bit Phoenix. It took the classic brick-breaking concept and jazzed it up to maximum. This second game is far from shizzle, and it's a sequel that dared to outdo its predecessor. We've all heard of steroids. Well, blasteroids took that and injected it with copious amounts of caffeine. I wonder if I'll live long enough to one day attend an asteroid-fuelled rave. Pixelated space cowboys will no doubt prefer the original, but like the original, this one shoots for the stars. Only this time, it blasts right through them. Saddle up, partner. This is bank panic. Yee-haw! Trigger-happy, spaghetti-western chaos cowboys will have bags of fun defending the bank from pixelated bad guys. This truly is a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Uh, Barman, I'll have a pixelated cowboy cocktail, please. Yee-haw! I'm no Barman. Stick em' up, fool! Ah, Battlezone, a vector-filled wonderland of yesteryear. I can only imagine at the time this was an 80s kid's virtual reality. It was all out tank warfare. Yes, the graphics were rudimentary, but 80s kids used this thing called imagination. Berserk by Stern. Now, Eugene Jarvis actually modified this game and turned it into a twin stick shooter. That's pretty stinking cool.  It's one man against an army of evil robots. It's a relentless onslaught of bouncing bolts. Next up, Bionic Commander. I had this on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum Plus 3, the 128K version. Both were absolute fantastic arcade conversions. But nothing beats the arcade original. Why walk when you can fly using a cable? Bravo, Capcom, for making us all feel like grappling gods. Here we have Bombjack, another timeless classic. Don't just collect the bombs, collect the bombs in order for a bonus. This way you get extra points as well, and we all know what points make. That's right. Prizes! It's a reminder that gaming's past holds gems worth revisiting. As far as I know, the 8-bit conversions were all good as well, with the Amstrad CPC being a standout title. Next up, Vasconian. I think this is probably one of my favourite games, if not my favourite. And that probably sounds like a daft thing to say. And that's not based on nostalgia. It's probably more a desire for simplicity. And you know, sometimes I think it's because the past pixelates prettier than the present. The home conversions were really good as well. Next we have Bubble Bobble. Now the second I say Vasconian is probably my favourite game of all time. This bugger comes along. The difference here is that I think this is probably my favourite two player game of all time. The 8-bit conversions were also a thing of beauty. Well zap me sideways and tickle my pixels. Another one of my favourites, Buck Rogers. Now this one did have a few flaws. One, it allowed you to continue. But two, more importantly, even when you continued, you kept the same score. So that means that you could get yourself right high up on the score table, as long as you kept pumping in the coins. Despite all that, I still really enjoyed it. Good ol' burger time, eh? Who thought you could have this much fun flipping burgers?  In other words, it's nigh on impossible to make a burger, especially on later stages. Or so I thought, stick with it and you'll be flipping those burgers in no time at all. Centipede. Now I was late to the party with Centipede in the arcade. I experienced a game similar to this on the Commodore 16 called Pod. Now when I finally did experience Centipede, I was absolutely blown away and it makes the list. Chase HQ. After Outrun, Chase HQ from Tato was the turbocharged adrenaline shot we all needed. In fact, there's an argument that still rages on to this day between the arcade conversion to the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC, i.e. which is the best. Of course we all know the answer to that, but this is a fantastic game. Just don't mention the C64. Ah, here it is, Contra. A two player symphony of camaraderie and chaos. It's a game that taught us precision, patience and the beauty of a laser. And despite the difficulty, we loved our punishment. So non-stop action, aliens galore and a big bad bag of testosterone. So lock and load my friends, lock and load. Circus Charlie is another game I didn't discover until late on. You know what, I had this game called Big Top Barney from Player's Software on the Amstrad CPC. It wasn't crap, but it paled in comparison to the excellent Circus Charlie. They say war isn't pretty, but Commando, no question, is a thing of beauty. Graphics are well defined in a cartoonish haze and like a charging Rhino, you blast through waves of enemies with all the grace of John Rambo. The only thing missing is a tank and a rocket launcher. I say that because Commando ain't here to play nice. I think it's really easy for crystal castles to slip under the radar. I don't recall the home conversions being all that, but the arcade game, I remember getting pulpitations playing it. Our protagonist, Bentley Bear, needs to avoid all sorts of wicked creatures and perform several daredevil jumps. Prepare for Defender, a game that throws you right in at the deep end of an interstellar battle. If you're not swearing at the screen, you're most likely doing it wrong. After all these years, I went back in and it took me a while to master the controls. But once you finally nail it, you'll feel like a space ace all over again. Dig Dug is like an English country garden mixed with the shining, but never creepy, although pumping an enemy full of air. That's not a nice way to go. I'd much prefer somebody drop a rock on my head, but victory is so sweet when you finally conquer a level, just as entertaining now as it was back then. Ah, Double Dragon, it was beat'em up brilliance. A pixelated blender of martial arts. This 80s landscape was a street brawler's dream country. Today, Double Dragon is dripping with 80s nostalgia, and these guys knew how to fight dirty. Knee to the gut, check. Elbow to the face, check. Spinning roundhouse kick, you pick A.A. Donkey Kong was nothing short of awesome, and it was the game that set the stage for Mario's illustrious career. Each level was challenging, and there was a memorable villain in Donkey Kong. But what happened to Pauline? How damsel in distress? And also, my eight-year-old still finds joy in its simplicity. What a legacy. Who's bad? Dragon Ninja? Or should I say, bad dudes versus Dragon Ninja? I don't care anymore. That's a lie. I never cared. It's a great game with a shizzle now. What is important is that it's a two-player cooperative game, and it's a beat-em-up. President Ronny has been kidnapped.  My goodness, final fight. And get this, the gameplay has lost not of its charm.   My God, they left nothing out. And it was as good, if not better, than this. Ah, flying shark. Two words. Sheer, playability. And that still doesn't cut it. And the graphics. They almost fly by too quickly. You don't even get a chance to gawk at them. But they were fantastic for the time. Sometimes breathtaking. You get three lives, and trust me, you're an eagle. This one stole all my pocket money. Ah, elevator action. I used to love this game. I had it on the Amstrad CPC. The arcade conversion was so-so. You've basically got to collect a load of secret documents, and you do that by finding and entering all the red doors. Once you've got all the secret documents, then you've got to head back to your car. The enemies can shoot the lights, and it's even more difficult to see them. It is brilliant. Poor Frogger. There's so many ways he can die. You can get run over by a truck, the timer running down, staying on a lily pad too long, missing the home, or being eaten. You can even fall into the river. So it's up to you to keep Poor Little Froggy alive alive. I've probably never said this about any other game, but this is flawless, and the background music is timeless. All this for a Lady Frog. There are people alive today. Kids and adults that have never experienced Gallagher. My goodness, I hope you're watching this video. Put down roadblocks and stop playing Angry Birds just for a wee while. Everybody needs to experience Gallagher. One of the most difficult games of all time, Ghost and Goblins. Apparently it was the sixth best-selling computer game in the UK, and the NES version sold over 1.6 million cards. Here's my thoughts on it. One of the greatest video games ever made. Truly groundbreaking. We had to wait two years, but Goals and Ghost was worth the wait. Best graphics, best sequel, and the coolest bosses. It was also probably the best arcade conversion ever on the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. It was a time in the arcade where every coin spent was a step closer to valiantly saving the princess. Ah, look at this one. Golden axe. The perfect blend of medieval fantasy. Dry your eyes, mate. Wipe away those nostalgic tears. You can still face off against hordes of skeletal minions and ride majestic beasts. Special mention needs to be made to the Sega Mega Drive arcade conversion and the Commodore Amiga. A nostalgic gem. Good ol' Gradius. In this one, failure came fast. And unlike the home conversions, every credit counts. There's some people that say it's really hard. And yes, I agree, but it's not impossible. For me, this is the ultimate fossil to dig up and play. Green Beret. Oh my god, I had this on the Amstrad CPC. And it didn't scroll. It was like a flick screen and it paused.  But get this, I couldn't stop playing it. Seriously, don't ask. On the other hand, it's an absolute dream. The stuff of legends. And it's hard as nails. Kids today wax lyrical about demon souls being difficult. Based on the Cuban Batista regime of the late 1950s, we've got guerrilla war. And get this, the joysticks rotated and innovation over the twin stick shooter. I played it on the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, but naturally as you can imagine, they were rotating joysticks. It made progress almost impossible. I like this almost as much as Ikari Warriors. Designed by the legend that is Yoseki Akamoto. This is Jairus. But listen to this. This is the second and last game that Akamoto designed for Konami. They sapped him over a pay dispute. He soon joined Capcom where he wrote 1942 and produced Street Fighter 2. This was the guy that did time pilot for Christ's sake. It was earlier that Baskonian was my favourite game of all time. But I think it might be this. Ikari Warriors. It changes on different days. It all depends on what side of the bell I get up on. Now the Amstrad CPC conversion was arcade perfect. As in it got as close as humanly possible. And to top it off, it's a fantastic two player game. Get to the job all! Some say one of the weirdest games ever made. Eugene Jarvis back in 1982. I don't think there's any doubt about it. This is considered a cult classic. And it comes into its own with the introduction of a two player mode. If you enjoy a challenge, it's a must. Had to include this one Juno First. One of my all time favourites. Brings back all that nostalgia. Always loved the laser effect on this one. It was a while ago. But I think I first played this one in Wales. A place called Prestatin. Fantastic times and a good game. I think the world knows this one as kicker. But in the UK, it was Yihar Kung Fu 2. Sholings Road. And I absolutely love this. Played it in our local ice rink. I'm no fan of ice skating there. Good old Kung Fu master. Proof the 1980s were awesome. And yet another game that defined the decade. If the enemies grabbed a hold of you just waggle away until it breaks. The best Kung Fu game ever made. And even today it's a true belter of a fighting game. The best there ever was. I absolutely love Ladybug. I've even got this on the Kalika Vision. That arcade home conversion was absolutely flipping phenomenal. It's a dead ringer Pac-Man. But you know what, it carved its own niche. And it's quite tactical. I mean you can't just steam in there. Patience is the key. They don't make him like Mappy anymore. Damn it, I miss the good old days. I also own this on the Kalika Vision. That was another fantastic arcade conversion. These are the games that time forgot. And thanks to Emulation and the Arcade Archive series. They're able to relive all the classics. A game about mice and cats. Completely bonkers but it works. I purchased this for the Amstrad CPC. It was complete Tosh. But the arcade version is absolutely brilliant. So addictive. Like everybody else in the 80s I was obsessed with balls. Say again. The graphics in midnight resistance were absolutely stunning. And the arcade conversion to the ZX Spectrum was beyond herculean. And I know what you're thinking. He's got his rose tinted ZX Spectrum glasses on again. But with Emulation only a click away. Seriously, try it for yourself and get back to me. Let me know your thoughts. Absolutely terrific. What about Millipede? Now originally I thought to keep you going for weeks and like the original hunt this one down and play it with the trap ball it's a superior experience and tough to beat. Missile command. Ah, no question. An all time classic. Yes, the graphics are relatively simplistic and uncomplicated but gameplay is key and this one is terrific.  And get this the successor Missile Command 2 was never released in the arcades which is a shame because it would have been a two player experience. And in the movie Terminator 2, Judgment Day John Connor is shown playing Missile Command at the arcade mall ironically a vision of what was to come. Good old moon crester. I had it on the Amstrad CPC and I really liked it and just like the arcade it was really difficult. But compared to the arcade version there is something missing. I think the arcade version gets the blood racing more. I still remember the title screen message, a trip to space war. Oh, and get this the ZX Spectrum was the first home computer version. Wow moon patrol. Now this one brings back some memories and it's another that featured in 1001 video games. And in a strange turn of events this game was completed but never released on the ZX Spectrum. It even got glowing reviews in Crash magazine and the game is credited with introducing Parallax Scrolling can you believe it? It makes the list for that reason. Alone, I can talk for England you've probably already guessed that I just don't run out of things to say Mr.  And in a reader's vote for Retro Gamer UK magazine it was voted 82nd best game of all time. Marvelous Ah, Pac Woman. I mean Miss Pac-Man. Or is that Mrs. Pac-Man? Well, the same argument raged at midway until 72 hours before they launched the game where they finalised on Miss Pac-Man. Miss Pac-Man has all the thrills and spills of the original and get this it's everything Pac-Man should have been and Miss Pac-Man reckons the ghost are more intelligent in her game. Ah, Ninja Gaiden otherwise known as Shadow Warriors in the UK quite frankly it's one of the best beat em ups to ever appear in the arcade. Your job is to take on an army of crazed psychos running right around the streets of New York. If you like a good plot, forget Ninja Gaiden for the rest of us thumping good fun all round. Operation Wolf.   Yes, we love Outrun and it's super scalar technology. It's hard to believe that this was released way back in 1986 but even today it's still a great game for driving enthusiasts. There can be no doubt Outrun is a timeless classic and a beautiful journey that everyone should experience just don't mention the Amiga arcade conversion. Pakland is one of my favourite arcade games of all time. I was never prepared for navigating those water sections though. I remember I purchased this on the Amstrad CPC the Fairyland level was missing and to make matters worse it didn't scroll I was absolutely gutted they butchered one of my favourite games of all time. Thank goodness for the Commodore 64 conversion and ultimately the arcade in fact the Commodore 64 version included almost every detail of the original including the tunes and jingles it's a simple but highly enjoyable game and it has its moments at times it's truly addictive. Before Sonic before Mario and before my personal favourite Dizzy we had the original Ghost Buster, Patman. Who would have thought eating pellets is still fun? Patmania, Blinky, Pinky Inky and Clyde are all back. Only this time in a 3D fast-paced frenzy. Unlike the original Patman thanks to a bug this one can be completed that's not to say Patmania is easy in fact our hero Pacman, steady on is up against some decent AI and these buggers will keep you on your toes thank god you can jump. I remember the home conversions were also decent as well. Some say on the Amiga the best ever, Paper Boy is a must play classic in a time where Atari were at its best.  Was this a thing across all of America or was it a certain part of America? Still this is one of my favourite games of all time and I loved the Amstrad CPC arcade conversion if you're tired of Pengo you're tired of life. At the time I actually thought it was a really cute game and like Pacman this is simple and quite addictive Ah Phoenix this was actually a really good game on the Atari 2600 naturally it was better in the arcade and for the time the sound is really well done. It was also the first time I saw a gigantic mother ship and while not very original it's one of the better arcade games for it's time. You can't match or beat the speed and thrills and skill needed to finally cross the finish line probably only wet lamans comes close. Even today it's smooth, fast, racing action pole position still looks the absolute business. If you're up for a serious challenge give pole position a go not for the faint hearted I'm Popeye the sailor man I live in a caravan a good balance of violence and thinking a great cartoon that's translated well to a video game and they've absolutely nailed it because it all feels very familiar and the good news is there's never a dull moment so non-stop arcade fun with dangerously addictive depths you can't talk about coin-up classics without mentioning Cuba simply because it's one of the most original games ever made but it's also the most infuriatingly difficult to grasp our protagonist maneuvers with all the agile grace of a hot air balloon but a skilled player will be able to see all Cuba has to offer Ah Rainbow Islands one of the best I love to study all about history but history is all about how terrible the world used to be when it comes to retro gaming it's all about how great games used to be Ah Rampage this was one of the best arcade to home translations especially on the Amstrad CPC and later on the Atari Lynx because that was foreplayer in the arcade it's fantastic though I might say the ultimate monster mash my goodness I love Raston it's a hugely playable slasherman and the visual style is fantastic just look at it I mean this is ultra-violent set in some of the most gorgeous locations ever seen and don't forget rock-solid platform action has the just one more go factor and I couldn't care less that it exercises my trigger finger more than my brain cells ah they don't make them like road blasters anymore ridiculously fast action in fact you'll go faster than your brain can handle it's a frantic nerve-shredding assault on the senses it's a boy-racist dream and a bit like driving through Birmingham on a Friday night there's a fantastic feeling of being amongst it and by breaking the highway code you'll stay alive no spanners required robertron is weird enough to deserve it called status sunbathing is a dumb idea and so is developing robots and AI we've all seen Terminator the human race has been destroyed there's only one family left and it's up to you to kill all the robots and save the day epic blast off and fight the Bido Empire it's fast and furious and in my personal humble opinion the ultimate shoot-em-up of all time it looks great and moves damn quick with brilliantly designed weapons and levels it will last eons and it takes a strange kind of guy to tire of annihilating the empire good old scramble quite possibly the best weapon in any game ever you'll need your wits about you and move like grease lightning there's plenty of variety between stages and this still remains the Ferrari of arcade games and shooting through walls of enemy remains hardcore go head to head with your mate and the game exerts a near demonic pull over your time naturally you can't beat the real thing but it's done so well and two player scraps can be just as fun there's also a great bonus system which all adds up to a great sim you can't beat a bit of slap fight and the game's ideas and weapons were later inherited by both Truxton and Grindstormer there's even an enhanced port for the Sega Mega Drive I had it back in the day on the Amstrad CPC and I absolutely love that version but not everybody agreed as Abel Law Games released Alcon 2020 for the Amstrad CPC Solomon's Key another game I had for the Amstrad back in the day converted by US Gold it played an absolute blinder arcade original featured a clever and intuitive control system the graphics might not wow today but it's still just as much fun as ever and one of the most entertaining games in the arcade still mad for it ah space harrier I've never left the fantasy zone I can't believe this came out in 1985 in the sense that it felt head and shoulders over everything else seriously back in the day this was an absolute crowd stopper but even now the speed blows me away and it's still a sight for sore eyes ah space invaders the daddy of fixed shooters and it still plays a blinder it also helped usher in the golden age of arcade video games and space invaders earned Tato profits over 500 million ah spy hunter an old top down driving arcade game from the 80s and if this was a James Bond game I think it would be called from rush hour with love and just like in real life choppers drop power ups from the sky better still your car sticks to the road like glue whilst travelling at bretnet speeds without question one of the coolest arcade games ever made this is Defender 2 a fabulous upgrade over the original as the gameplay and coding Stargate are more refined who doesn't love Star Wars in fact playing the game is almost as good as watching the movie I mean for me personally this is one of the best licensed games ever and I remember the yoke stick had unbelievable tight controls I'm still desperate to purchase the arcade one up sit down arcade cabinet in all it's vector glory super handgun otherwise known as super Klingon still brilliant and it's really fast easily the best motorbike game I've ever played and the arcade conversion to the ZX Spectrum was phenomenal and then there's the Amiga version which felt arcade perfect until the home conversion for the Mega Drive came along prepare to soil your racing suit super sprint I had this for the Amstrad CPC when compared to the arcade original it didn't compare I think only the Atari ST got close a high level of skill is needed to take the checkered flag and unlock those hidden extras corners need to be taken at a crawl and you won't get a whiff of success unless you kill that acceleration crashing is commonplace good old tapper it's games like this that made the arcade a great place to visit it's one of the most addictive games I think I've ever played and you have to play it in the same way you would a game like Tetris it needs strategy and quick thinking I played it on the Coleco vision and then later on the Amstrad CPC both from memory were absolutely brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles it's a surprisingly deep beat-em-up with enough polish to impress everyone the sprites are beautifully detailed with animated graphics throughout the games are hooting multiplayer as well and adept players will be involved in some titanic battles what we have here is rock solid beat-em-up action cowabunga! I think outside of the Tetris original Game Boy version this is the best I've played it's a fantastic version from Atari they did a conversion to the NES as well but only 100,000 copies were released as Nintendo filed a lawsuit because of licensing some say best game ever Tempest probably the best vector coin-lock machine outside of Star Wars the game's difficulty curve advances smoothly it's not only one of the best games ever released by Atari but one of the best games ever Time Pilot this is all about time travel and if you like Bosconian this is right up your street it looks guff but it flies the pilot's wet dream smooth, simple controls and no brain shooter I can't believe that Track and Field was released in 1983 it feels later anyway there are 6 championship events and you can play up to 4 players using the 4 run buttons arcade athletes will love Track and Field it's still the ultimate game for wrist and finger action I like to think there's a huge same bolt in all of us Truxton is a shoot-em-up where memorization is the key this one was met with a mixed response from the critics I've no idea why because I absolutely love it it's a no frills arcade blast I'll give them that but for me it's a white-knuckle ride packed to the rafters with action I bought Sega's Turbo on the Coleco Vision steering wheel and pedals they did a damn fine conversion but nothing touches the speed, a pace of the arcade origin in 1981 this was king of the video road and the arcade cabinet lifted this one to greatness I loved Turbo Outrun in the arcade the critics at the time will have you believe it was nothing more than a clapped out Robin Reliant I also really rate the core conversion as well and the Sega Mega Drive conversion isn't as bad as everyone makes out I was lucky enough as well to own the 3DS version the Japanese only release for me a racing classic Ah, UN Squadron there's a good choice of aircraft plenty of power-ups the sound is fantastic and the graphics impress it's also without question probably the best side-scroller shooter on the Super Nintendo if you want to gain inside and outside of the arcade with plenty of challenge then this is the one for you yes, better than Super R-Type wetly mans for those of us out there old enough to remember the spin cabinet you already know how amazing this game is it's a fast and realistic arcade racing simulation it has the sophistication great graphics and fantastic speed gentlemen, start your engines yee-ah kung fu what a game in Mandarin it stands for one-two kung fu I also had the Amstrad CPC version and it contained an extra level the temple it was one of the best arcade conversions on the Amstrad and the arcade conversion helped pave the way for future fighting games proud legacy some might say I've saved the best till last and whilst I've thoroughly enjoyed doing this video it's nice to finally reach the end but what about Zaksa May? what a game, a must for all budding space pilots well, I hope you've enjoyed this video congrats for making it this far please don't forget to leave a comment maybe share your experience also please don't forget to subscribe until next time


and welcome to Desolateda. Hey everybody and welcome to my desk, Happy Sunday. It's been a super busy week, a lot of revisions here at The Fruit, but any updates, Mr. Lateda, anything you wanna tell people before we look at something? No, regular week schedules, regularly week schedules. We're gonna have schedules this week, everyone. Regularly the week. We've scheduled the schedules. No, we're just in revision and new product development as fast as we possibly can. Adafruit was in the news, check out Adafruit.com slash press. You can see the feedback from the buying population of folks who want fairness for purchasing high demand things like raspberry pies. So, Evan, the founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Morris said, way to go Adafruit and others really liked it. So people are able to get the raspberry pies. If you want to get ahead of something, make sure you have an account on Adafruit, verify it with email and then put on two factor authentication. Do not wait till you get the notification. Yeah. Then it's gonna take you like a minute or two to set it up. Do it ahead of time and stay logged in because we'll keep you logged in for two weeks if you have cookies allowed. So this has helped out a lot. And the educators have got back to us they're like, finally, a fair way. There's no easy solution to this. There's no thing that'll just work. It's a combination of lots of different things. So that's the latest. So what's going on on your desk, Lady Eda? Okay, well first up, let's go to the compiuter. So we got a bunch of revisions that we got in. People watch me work on these revisions. So the ESP32 S2 Feather with BME and then the one without BME 280 is going to be in the shop soon. Both of these revise the power to the STEMI QT board, they fixed it. So just watch out depending on which version you have. You might have to set a pin higher low to enable the QT port and the pull-ups. The ESP32 S2 QT Pi also got revised with the UFL. This also improved the low power. STEMI QT, vacation of the ADXL 345, a really old sensor board, but finally getting a cleanup revision. It's been, you know, it's one of our first boards that we've had. It's product number 1231, so quite old. The BLE Sniffer also getting revised to use the CP2102N, not the CP2104. Ditto the Pi UART, also USB-C and CP2102N. And the PCF 8523, we showed this off a few weeks ago doing the revision. The board now comes with either SOIC or VSAN version of the chip. The SOIC version, you know, might be a couple months out. So the VSAN version or HVZAN pin compatible, basically, you know, function compatible, just slightly different shape, but we just crammed onto the board and made the crystal smaller and we're good to go. So these sold out, but we'll have more and then a couple new products on the way. But a lot of our visions, we're fighting really hard to keep 90% of the products that we make in stock. You know, that's our goal and we're trying really hard to do it. We did get a couple more chips that we've been desperately trying to, you know, we've been out of stock for a year on and like we slowly dwindled through our supply. So we're getting a restock of those and we'll be able to get, I think, some, I'm used back into the store and some sensors. So that's good. Also, while this is happening, I also checked out there's some nifty new chips that I saw, so VL53L4CX. This is in stock, he did your key and this is yet another time of flight sensor that he making these, but I keep buying them. So this chip, what's nice about it is it's got a six meter range compared to the VL53L51CX, I think, which has a four meter max. So this one has a six meter max range. You know, fairly good price, about three bucks or so in quantity. So it's kind of neat. Also got samples of this, the LPS-28. There's not a lot in stock, but you know, I got enough to put a type with. This is interesting because this is a barometric pressure sensor that can do up to 4,000 hectopascals, HPA. Usually 10, 60 or so is the max. That's kind of like, you know, C-level pressure, a little bit below C-level pressure. So this one can do four times as high pressure. So it could be good for underwater use cases. I think it was designed for underwater watches. It's also waterproof, not the whole body of it, just the gel insert for it. So this interesting sensor, I kind of quickly put together a breakout of a STEMIQT for the sensor. I also got some on the overhead, maybe you don't check it out. So yeah, I got some of these samples. So this is the, it's so tiny, but this is the LPS-28.  It's got a little ferrule on it, but anyways, I got that.  Maybe I think Dana or Vance did and replaced it. And I tried out this chip. So it's actually multi-target and up to a six meter range. So that's good. Any questions, Phil? Nope. Okay. So far so good, keep going. Yeah. Next up, also I got this motor driver chip, which I thought was kind of neat, the DRV-8231. This one is 33 volts and 3.7 amps. We're having trouble getting some H-bridges from TI, so that might be a good alternative. Is there anything else on the list for me to cover? No, we were gonna show this book. I got this book from 1969. This is computers or history and how they work, but this book came out in 1969. So basically the history was like, here's the computer that we have at this time. We have like four of them. So it's a cool book and we're gonna scan it in because I don't think there's any archive.org availability of this or something online. Yeah. But it has a lot of interesting concepts that are still used to this day. Yeah, like they're like, here's binary. And they have old machines and punch tapes and stuff. I'm gonna put a link in the chat. So there's one blog post I found online that someone, no one talked about. Yeah, this talks about checks and how they use magnetic ink to read the check number. So stuff that still happens now. We still, I mean, a lot of people don't use checks anymore, but you know, you still, you know, once in a while you write checks, maybe you'll write as a check. We use cash at the Cracker Barrel. Lady and I, I took Lady A to the Cracker Barrel on Saturday. She's never been to the Cracker Barrel. I took her there and we paid in cash. Yeah, cash. This is a gift flow chart. So it's kind of cool and they're like, here's symbols. This is a punch card symbol. This is a perforated tape, a communications link. I like that. Yeah. It's a cool logo. It's not that many pages either because there isn't that much history. Yeah, so I thought it was cool as they had a whole section on core memory. And so this actually kind of got me interested. I looked up, because it's like quite a bit. Actually, they have quite a few pages on core memory and they have some nice photos. You know, I looked up and there's people who still make core memory from scratch. You can do it with just some wire and some ferrite cores. So we can go back to the computer.  So they used a SN575, oh, pardon me, which is a, I think it's actually a H-bridge. So you need to use quite a powerful driver to drive the two lines for whether you want a zero or one and then the sense wire is much lower power and they just did it with some assembly and some transistors. And this is like, you know, they have like one bit of core memory. So I thought it could be neat to show, you know, and this is, they have some pulse, they showed the pulses look like as well. And then there's a computerhistory.org has a whole section on core memory, including, I guess it's Mr. Wang of Wang Computers, it's cool. And, you know, the core is a core memory sample brochure from FabriTech Computer Systems. So I thought for the, for, you know, I'm an API, I could show, oh wait, there's one more chip. I found this, it's interesting, a environmental gas sensor that I might check out, but I thought it'd be cool to show. Yeah, for great search, we'll- Finding, maybe not, you know, the smallest core memory toroids, but ferrite cores are handy for all sorts of things. So- And then we'll, got a question we'll do right after great search. Okay, great. Let's kick it off the theme song that's in our heads permanently now during this part shortage. The Great Search Roger by Digi Keen Adafruit, lady editor of power of engineering, every single week to find the parts that you need and boy, do we gotta find some parts. There's a lot of parts finding- All right, so if someone wanted to find this, specifically from, they read this book and they're like, oh, you know, what's going on with- Yeah, so this is, I was showing this earlier, but this has a whole section on core memory and how to build it and how it works. And so I start to look online, because you know, I've always heard people make core memory. Let's go to the computer. So, you know, you make it by getting some magnet wire, some thick magnet wire, some thin sense of magnet wire that's woven through and then these little magnetic rings and the way that these rings twist will determine whether the bit stored is zero or one. So, you know, nowadays, we read and write memory by putting charge on a capacitive gate for transistor and then we read that charge later. And that's basically how SRAM and DRAM work and it uses a ton less power and it's a lot faster than magnetic core memory. But I think it's funny that, you know, it's like now we use capacitive storage, but we used to use inductive storage in a sense. So while, you know, people don't make core memory the FabriTech computer probably doesn't have, you know, these ferret cores available anymore, although like these are amazingly tiny, only 14 mil, which means you could cram, you know, so much core memory into like, you know, a square inch. But you know, people need to store data and you know, if you want to store dynamic information, this was how it was done before we came up with a capacitive storage. So let's go to Digikey because, you know, even if you're not making core memory, it is useful to know that you can get ferrite cores at Digikey. I used to wind my own inductors for class or because I was making an amplifier, you know, or something or a filter and I'd wind my own inductors. So let's search for ferrite core. Ferrite core. So they're actually not called cores anymore. They're called toroids. I mean, they are called core, sorry. Sorry, I was searching for magnetic core. They're not called magnetic core. They're called ferrite core. And ferrite cores, actually there's a whole, there's a whole section called, oh, magnetics transformer and inductor components. This is kind of handy. There's three sections, there's the core, there's the magnet wire that spools around and the bobbins, these are holders, things that you can store your beautifully made inductor on. So I'm gonna purchase these, but maybe one day we'll cover these on the great search. Anyways, we're looking for ferrite cores. And there's all sorts of kinds. Like there's pieces and ferrite cores, again, they're used for a couple of different things. One, you're making your own inductor. You're making your own transformer. While in general, you tend to purchase these pre-made, there are times when you really have to DIY it for some reason or you're prototyping and you want to try different inductances instead of soldering in different inductors, you'd actually just change the number of coils in your wire. Of course, they're also really handy for reducing EMI. Having a magnetic core around a wire, you've seen them, like it was a big cable with a big lump in it, that reduces the amount of electromagnetic interference. So used for a couple of things. There's more, all sorts of shieldings. I don't know what this E shape is for, maybe also for the ribbon wire, I don't know. Actually kind of neat, we have the Apple II disc drive. It has a gigantic chunk of ferrite core material on the cable as well, because there's a non-differential, so lots of EMI. So they're all very neat, but what we really want is like this kind, which is called a toroid. It's a donut shape, but they're called a toroid type, so let's look for, also let's also look for only active ones. And then there's a lot of permeability and cross-section, we're not gonna care about that. We're just gonna look for the smallest possible one for again, DIY core memory. So let's find where the shape is. Core type. So we're gonna go for toroid type. Boom, okay, so there's a couple hundred of these, but yeah, now we're talking, these are all the same shape and size. And we want the minimum size available, which would be the diameter. So they do come quite small.  Let's look up to about five millimeters maximum. Again, we're not gonna make the tiniest ferrite memory, but if you're just DIYing at home. Okay, so let's see what's available. So there's a lot of different ones. Some have photos, some don't, but we don't really need the photo. Let's look at them by diameter size. So I just sorted, oops, I went down to the diameter and I sorted up by diameter. So unfortunately, some of the smallest ones are not available. So the smallest available one that is in stock, so if we wanted to filter by in stock, not a lot in stock, but the ones that are available for size three millimeters, the smallest, and it would be this one. So there's no photo, but not too scary because we kind of know what these look like. There is a data sheet and it looks like this. So yeah, it's just a little torrid that we can use. And if you want a photo, because you wanna really, sometimes I'd like to see what I'm buying. Hold on. Uh-oh, my internet is. Do we run out of internet? Oh no, my internet's not internetting. Oh wait, there it goes. Okay. The smallest- The internet storage, internet supply chain. I know. The smallest one that has a photo is this one and there's also a lot in stock. We can look at a 360. But look, if you need a small toroid, you could, four millimeters is, let's see. I always like to compare.  Four millimeters is not that much bigger. So either one would be good. And they're both pretty inexpensive. Let's go zoom in. I'm zooming in. Okay, this is now quite big. But both are pretty expensive. You can get them, they're about 10, 15 cents a piece. So yeah, I don't know how many people out there are interested in making, throughout memory, but, you know, if you are making a very small inductor, like a balan for like ethernet, or, you know, for a small boost converter or filtering for like a classy amplifier, you can still find these quite handy. You know, like put a little bit of magnet wire through them and you know, you've got a very small inductance, high current inductor, for sure, definitely more high current than a chip inductor.  Yeah, I don't know. The internet's been, it was slow. There you go. Oh no. Civilization. Here you go. Okay, so this is the product I picked for the INMPI. So this inductor, I like how it has a little 3D model available, but they also have tons in stock. So you can make up to, you know, basically 10 kilobytes of core memory using what's in stock at the Juki right now. How many is that? And that is a great church. All right, so let's do a couple of questions that came in. Sure. Question, the aid for your TSC 207, I swear to say, resistive touchscreen controller, would it be horrible to use liquid electrical tape over the ribbon to connect the touchscreen for a little support from it coming out? Anything better to use? Well, you shouldn't have any pressure on it, but you could just use some tape. Okay, and then some picks from Cracker Barrel, the Lemon Pepper Grilled Trout, and Mama's Blueberry Pancakes. Okay, next time. Okay, let me see if I've got anything else here. Yeah, someone noted that the core memory was manufactured by hand by women during the 50s. Yes. Yeah. You want to weave your own. Here's a little bit of a tip. Old UPSs are a good place to scavenge high gauge wire and larger turrets. Hmm, that's a good idea. That's a good tip. You're gonna get them there for sure. There's big power supplies, they're gonna have lots of coils. Yeah. And then, I don't quite get this question, but maybe we can try. Hello, lady, I have a question. You program in the Texas Devices Beaglebone and Tiva C Series or other industrial certification and use no Arduino and Raspberry. Don't, I think there is a translation. Yeah, I don't actually do that much Beaglebone. We do Raspberry Pi, but you can use circuit Python with Beaglebone. I would like to refer to Beaglebone as Texas Devices. The Texas Devices, yeah. I think it's a translation issue too, I think. Yeah, I think they cut and paste it in there. I don't know what the question is, but I think we actually are gonna get some Beaglebones in stock also. I think they just recently shipped. Yeah. So, if you can't get Raspberry Pi, you can get a Beaglebone. All right, and I think that is all of the desk of lady at a questions for tonight. Thank you everybody. We'll be doing our shows during the week. We have lots of surprises in the store and more. Thank you so much for being part of this adventure with us every single week. Chicken fried chicken. Yeah, oh, and then one little slide now for our community here who pays close attention. So we were asked, like, hey, what is it if you're doing to maybe solve world peace? There's conflict and Ukraine right now. And so right now we put up a resource, Adafruit.com slash Russia, and that's available for everyone. But also if you go to our website from Russia, it goes directly there. It has mirrors for downloading Wikipedia, tour ways to get around the government censorship. So people in Russia, the population, can get information that they know what's going on. And then also a message from Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Department, they work together and just trying to get some information and news out to them. And I was thinking how, what a remarkable time when Arnold Schwarzenegger is now the only person that can help bring in world peace on a global stage. So check it out. We're still working on more stuff so far so good as far as the feedback from some of the people on the ground there. They need help with things like access. So I don't know how this is gonna end, but I'm hoping it will end with everybody coming together so we can all build and make stuff as one. All right. Thanks everybody, have a great week. Bye.


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So, we are sure that this is a more public participation than the 2010 elections because the public civil society, the civil society are working with the union election commissions on the voting list and on helping to strengthen the election commissions. International organizations, IFAS, IDEA are working with the election commissions. So, the public were expected that the elections as a step stone to moving forward the Myanmar democracy process. USIP also working on the election security things that we working and dialogue with the police and dialogue with the election commissions and then bring the civil society together to working together and creating inclusive decision making.


Hey guys, Tasha here from start of school crochet. Today's stitch explorer tutorial is the alternating spike stitch Which is a really great stitch to learn. It creates a really nice fabric There's lots of different variations you can do by changing colors from row to row which I've shown here in a sample and The backside looks a lot different from the front side or whichever one you decide to be the front But it has a really great alterations to it So I'm using Bernat yarn today, and that's the home deck in the cream color with a 5 millimeter H hook You can use any yarn or hook you'd like It's a very easy stitch pattern and it works in multiples of Even numbers or so I should say multiples of two or even numbers so grab your hook in your yarn and we're going to start off with a Slipknot and chaining an even number of chains Get a little bit closer, so I'm not going to go through all the chains here But just chain as many as you need. I chained about 16 here So you're going to work your first stitch into the second chain from the hook and You're going to do a single crochet stitch and single crochet across the entire chain One single crochet in each chain I'm not going to do the whole thing here, but we're going to come back and once you get your single crochets Come back and we'll do the next row and this will be row two So here I have I counted an even number to start but when you count your stitches you're going to have one short So it's going to be actually 15 stitches instead of 16 So chain one turn then we're going to skip the first stitch and Do one single crochet into the next stitch and Then we're going to do the spike stitch which works below Your main stitch so you follow your single crochet down And you can see there's a little hole underneath it.  That's what you were you keep repeating that until you reach the very end and spike stitches Can be a little confusing sometimes for people But you just kind of have to follow the main stitch down and go straight underneath it And once you do a few you'll get the hang of it It goes pretty quick So keep repeating until you reach the end of the row So we're here at the end of the row We had we just did a single crochet and now we're going to do our last spike stitch into the very last Single crochet, which is a little bit odd, but that's what the pattern calls for and Then we're going to do a single crochet into the chain one Which kind of be maybe a little bit hard I just went through one loop and then row two repeats Over and over and over again until you reach the size you want so skip one and then single crochet in the next and you'll be single crocheting in the top of The spike stitch from the previous row and then doing your new spike stitch underneath The single crochet from the previous row and you just go down find the little hole there And do your single crochet or spike stitch into there the little hole So keep repeating that until you complete your row three You can see the pattern starting to emerge a little bit there So now we're at the end again. We did our last spike stitch and we're going to go through the chain. I Tried to get through two loops here, but didn't really have success. So I'm just doing one loop So we're going to change colors. I'm going to show you how it looks changing colors So you can frog out your last and just complete your last stitch by adding your new yarn Over your hook and then completing the last single crochet with your new color and then nothing changes for the pattern here We just keep working One single crochet and one spike stitch across the row So at the end of the row, you're going to chain one and then turn skip the first stitch and Then work your first single crochet into the spike stitch and then work your spike stitch below the next single crochet and Then repeat that around until you come to the end Okay, so I'm going to speed it up a little bit here to get through this row and Then when we get to the other side You can kind of see what we do you can kind of pull apart your little V's that your spike stitches created So there you can see the pattern coming out and Here you can kind of follow with those if you'd like. I kind of like to separate them. Sometimes they get a little bit twisted All right, so you did it and This is what the finished piece looks like and you can see the different alternating rows One side actually looks a little bit different than the other side too so For this side, I used two rows of white and then I started doing Alternating rows of white and gray and white and gray and you can kind of see the pattern that emerges when you do that So you can create a lot of cool different kind of patterns with this stitch. It's a great stitch I really love it and I can't wait to use it more All right So also I wanted to show you guys that what it looks like when you change your tension a little bit and use a different yarn So this yarn is Red Heart Amore and I used kind of a tight tension on the spikes instead of pulling them up And you can see it creates these neat little holes So when you when you pull up your spike stitch To the level of your working stitch you can see that it creates Different V's when you do it tight makes it really tight Thanks for watching guys. Happy crocheting. Please subscribe the links to the pattern are below


I, I think you are a Renaud hacker.  And you even are taken up by rappers in Japan. So I think that is very rare for people in political words to become text for rappers. I am from the World Federation of Public Health Associations and I'm into public health. You know that we in public health always struggle with protecting the individual's freedom and protecting the population health. Professor, sorry. Yes. I'm so sorry. Sorry, because there was a test. Minister, hello. I'm so sorry for interrupting you. I will leave the session and please, please start again. I'm so sorry because I was there to test. Okay. Okay. So we shouldn't do anything, right? No, it's okay. Okay. I'll just be standing by or sitting by. Yes. Please stay. I'm just, I just thank you very much. Have a great day. So here again. Hello, Audrey.    And as I have learned, you even became the text for a Japanese songwriter or let's say rapper. A very few people have this portfolio. If I may say so on myself, I'm Bettina Boris CEO from the World Federation of Public Health Associations. And I am deeply into public health and to global health. And you know that in public health, we have this balance, this fine balance to protect individuals freedoms, personal freedom and population health on the other side. So I come with a question. You have been praised in Taiwan and you personally for being instrumental in getting through the pandemic crisis. How do you manage this basic public health balance while managing a crisis? Thank you. This is a great question. In Taiwan, we managed to counter the COVID-19 with no lockdown and associated infodemic with no takedown. And indeed in both public health and also in, I guess, public mental health, it is essential that people are guarded against either viral biological virus or viral conspiracy theories as it were. And what we have found that works reliably is what we call humor over rumor. Indeed, wrapping is a really good way to deliver a lot of information in their entertaining form in a short time span. We also work with professional communicators who, for example, work out this very cute Shiba Inu. It's a spoke stock for the central epidemic command center because when the minister tells someone to wear a mask to protect against their own unwashed hands, it's difficult for other people to share this message. But if it's a very cute dog putting their food to their mouth and saying during the pandemic, it's very important to not do what a dog does here because the dog is so cute. People share that in what we call a viral meme. That is to say people understand social distancing like when we're indoor keep three Shiba Inu's away or wear a mask, outdoor keep two Shiba Inu's away from one another or wear a mask again in a very entertaining and engaging form. And when people understand the public health, they become a little bit of an amateur epidemiologist. They can share the correct information in the form that's most amenable for understanding to their friends and families and that beats any top-down program. Thank you very much. That is already mentioning a next word which I would like to pick up. It's infodemic. We are all dealing, I think, around the world with the pandemic and it's infodemic. And the use of messaging and the communication that you nicely described is crucial to getting through a pandemic, I think. There are now also politicians using social media to spread, I would call it wrong messages and at least in the sense of public health, wrong messages. What do you think about this and how would you handle this if you were not in Taiwan? If I'm not in Taiwan, I will start deploying the Taiwan initiative as we introduced to many nearby jurisdictions by building an alliance of fact-checkers. For if you have sufficient amount of time and effort put in into fact-checking by the social sector, not the public sector, by professional journalists, by people who study media competence classes in their primary schools or middle schools or high schools, these are the people that you want to fact-check the presidential candidates as they were deliberating and debating for the January 2020, for example, in Taiwan, our presidential election are fact-checked by thousands of amateurs. But when they participate in the newsroom, when they become the providers of the facts that can fact-check even the three presidential candidates, they undergo this transformation from media literacy, which is about being viewers and consumers, to media competence, which is about producers of media, and they become inoculated against the polarizing messages or the oversimplification that some politicians likes to say on social media. So I think the main way to defend against polarized wrong information by politicians is by engaging in media newsroom work, media competence work starting from basic education. Oh, I see. You want us all to become fact-checkers and message producers. That's right. In our spare time, of course, not full-time. Thank you. I'll pick that up again and hope to get it further. My then next question would be, I told about there are countries outside Taiwan, and in the pandemic I am at Geneva. We are close to UN organizations. We see that multilateralism is under challenge, quite challenged these days, especially as we are now discussing access to vaccines. How do you think that your strategies could help global governance? I think, first of all, we are part of the COVAX arrangement, even though Taiwan is not officially part of the World Health Organization. We are here to help and also contribute our own research capabilities and vaccine production capabilities. We have two vaccines are now in phase two, and if they do well, it could be rolled out under EUA. And so what I'm saying is that Taiwan is all about sharing the model that worked and what didn't work. For in 2003, Taiwan was hit quite badly by SARS. Nowadays we call it SARS 1.0 by SARS. And then we did a lot of things wrong. The municipal government was saying different things from the central government. People were panicking by N95 masks, leaving the frontline health workers having a shortage of masks. There's a lot of uncertainty and doubt when we barricaded the hoping hospital unannounced and so on. But after that, we wrote a playbook, the SARS playbook, the constitutional court of Taiwan charged the legislator saying when SARS 2.0 came, and it will come. We don't know whether a decade or two in the future, but it will come. When SARS comes again, we need to have the public institutions institutionalized when the memory was still fresh in 2004. So we wrote out new legislations. We wrote out the central epidemic command center. We wrote out the IC card for universal health care and so on. And all of which we are happy to share the playbook with the world this time around because we essentially play the SARS 1.0 playbook very early on, like January 1st of 2020. That's at least 10 days before the WHO itself. So we would like to participate in not only the early warning systems so that we can warn other ministerial positions around the world for possible human to human transmission, but also work with the other jurisdictions as maybe more of their citizens are vaccinated and we can take a little bit of breath until, I guess, SARS 3.0 comes. We don't know whether next year or 10 years from now and help them to institutionalize the kind of change that we did in 2004 when it comes to contact tracing, the communication as well as many other parts of legislature. Okay. So in the global setting, we love the hashtag Taiwan Can Help. And you said another word, very importantly, preparedness. It was among the lines. You talked about the first SARS crisis. And I know from interviews that you said, it takes one pandemic to be well prepared. And I think the experience of the first SARS was very important. And you also talked about institutions. What do you think that countries should do first? What should they strengthen in their preparedness for a coming next pandemic? What would you rank as most important? Is it institutions? Is it communication? What is your most important part in preparedness? I think the most important part is the preparation of the administration's capabilities. That is to say, in Taiwan, this time around, we did not need to declare a state of emergency. And so everything that the administration does is pre-approved by the legislature overseen by the legislature. I say this is the most important thing because if someone in the administration is working in a state of emergency almost by default, they will make some arbitrary choices with a very good justification or due process because it's essentially acting in a quite in the moment ad hoc manner, which actually makes communication more difficult because for the everyday person on the street to explain a ad hoc decision, it's very difficult. It's almost impossible because maybe the person making this policy is also just trying something out. But if you do have the preparedness of the Taiwan equivalent of the communication disease act, then the communicable cases responses are all of them very easy to explain individually. Contact tracing, physical distancing, the use of masks to protect one's own face from one's own watchtance, and so on. They are all very reasonable individually speaking. So we can take a lot more time to prepare the message that will then get viral on social media and prepare people for the next epidemic. And so if the virus mutates, and it will mutate, it is already mutating, we can say now we have a longer symptomatic transmission. Now maybe airborne is more worth looking into and so on. And then we can just build on existing messages and inform the public that now we need to change this measure, but this is because we learned something more about the virus. But if we don't have an existing base on top to do this then all of this will feel very arbitrary. This is a point about a legal framework, an existing legal framework. So this definitely leads us to questions of democracy where you're also a strong defender of digital democracies. So in the preparedness you need strong institutions and you need as I understand you, legal frameworks. How are our societies prepared to do that in a democratic way? First of all, we need to make sure that legislators like in Taiwan, there are four major parties in the parliament, all of them need to come to terms and will understand the underlying both science and also technologies that's associated with the science. And so it is a form of public education that start with the legislators and their associates but then spread to the entire society using whichever language, culture, or metaphor that is most fit for that part of the society to understand and to internalize. And also equally important is on the algorithm side because during the contact tracing, for example, we had to collect data in the places of entry in the places of public gathering even in the nightlife district of host and hostess and all of those data collection have their different parameters when it comes to cybersecurity as well as privacy implications. Now in Taiwan, we use a heuristic we only use the data collection methods that are already there before the pandemic so that everyone has a intuition, a good intuition about the privacy and cybersecurity parameters associated and so if we prepare sufficient amount of that sort of information and habits really like using IC card to get refillable prescriptions on pharmacies when the pandemic actually comes we can repurpose the system and say just take your IC card like you would for the chronic prescriptions and then you get 10 masks per two weeks in your nearby friendly pharmacy. That is crucial and that's a way to do it until the strong democratic society participates, knows has frameworks. We see quite a lot of democracies being under pressure these days too. Do you think that these democracies, I mean you are a younger one, they're older ones do they need a new social contract? I think while the societal memory of COVID-19 was still fresh, it's indeed very good time to have a public deliberation for example what's the acceptable parameter for data collection for quarantine purposes. In Taiwan the digital fence is applied to the 14 plus seven quarantine periods it's quite invasive in the privacy framework because the telecoms know exactly where your phones are during the 14 day quarantine. However the telecoms already have that data anyway and it's not like they're sending to other non telecoms to process data and people are already used to receiving those location-based alerts for earthquake warnings, flood warnings, evacuation warnings and so on. So we explain the digital fence in terms of those existing infrastructures but for other maybe non-island countries that do not have earthquake and typhoons all the time maybe you do not have as much experience with location-based systems but that will be a really good time right after the pandemic this time to have a societal conversation about how to enforce the quarantine and contact tracing too. That's the next point everybody says islands are different and you said yes we have to enter a social discussion perhaps to use the open window opportunity of the pandemic to look at how we want to live together. So social innovation is also one of your tools I would say. For us yourself part of a movement of occupying movement do you think that social innovation goes by steps, by revolutions by occupations or how can you move forward societal thinking? Social innovation to me requires the thinking that everyone's business requires everyone's help and of course as you put it the help is sometimes like a trickle sometimes it's a storm depending on most often they're not on how urgent is the disaster how urgent is the pressure. So for example to visualize the mask rationing status the civic technologists in Taiwan develop hundreds of visualizations in chatbots, in maps, in voice assistants and so on. So the three-quarter of Taiwanese population last February can have a visibility into which pharmacy near them still have some masks available and it's done in a very very short time and combining thousands of people our work into it. So that's for the crisis work and the same goes for the occupied movement too. But even on a not so urgent situations even on a day-to-day situation there is still a lot to be done by the social innovators. For example in Taiwan a lot of social innovators see democracy itself as a technology or a set of technologies. They're not only content with for example uploading every person three bits of information every four years which is called voting by the way but they want to communicate more into agenda settings. So they work on for example e-petition, participatory budgeting, sandbox applications, the presidential hackathon the list goes on so that everyone can participate in collective decision-making and agenda setting not just once every two years and that's something that we can all do day-to-day to foster social innovation on collective decision-making. So for you social innovation needs technology and technology is social innovation. That's exactly right and democracy is just another type of applied social technology. Yes I'm in a country with a direct democracy Switzerland very old but we are downloading the three bits of information still but very frequently very frequently. That's right the referendum system I think works like a clockwork so it's definitely not just once every four years it's on all levels. Yes but how could we get it in a better shape than in Switzerland the clockwork? I think the Switzerland really has a model system for what I call a transcultural republic of citizens in the sense that across the major cultures in Switzerland people agree to the democratic process and agree to improve on the democratic process so that's very commendable. One thing I would like to highlight is that in Taiwan now that we have broadband as a human right that is to say anywhere in Taiwan even almost 4,000 meters high on the tip of Taiwan anyone has 10 megabits per second at just 16 euros per month for a limited data connection if they don't it's my fault personally and so once we have that sort of coverage we can actually bring the sort of deliberation that we have in our town halls and city halls to the virtual reality to the virtual deliberation experiences so that the conversation around say the participatory budget or the sandbox application so what involves not only people in the same community they're still very important but people from overseas who care about the community or who have lived in this community or who want to contribute to the community can also participate as digital doubles or digital twins to such discussions but of course on the face-to-face discussion side we don't ask people to come to technology we still bring the technology to the people but people are joined by people from the great beyond okay so you want a political space that is almost everywhere on higher top of mountains and on the seashore so well I know on my to-do list I have to climb your highest mountain still once I can travel again as a mountain fan I always ask every Taiwanese friends about your highest mountain and they say yes it's feasible so I know I will have a strong internet connection up there and we could start the same discussion from my hiking spot that's right I had a conversation art actually a conversation with curator from the new museum in New York and we had that discussion he in New York and me in here wearing virtual reality has said and our co-creation took place on the height of the Matterhorn mountain so that is a Swiss mountain and it was captured through the helicopter 360 imaging and I think it really brings us together in a way that's not achievable by two-dimension video conferencing that's true we'll check that out for the next time so now we are already with this virtuality and the techniques we are using we are definitely the global space and in the global space where we do live we have one I think important problem besides probably climate we do have raising inequities a gap that is growing between those who have and those who have not and we know that this influences all and every bit of our society in health so I would have I would love to have your views on how we can do something about or against growing inequity in countries that are high income in countries that are low income but also in between countries yeah in Taiwan our genie index numbers are pretty good and one of the reasons why is that not only universal healthcare is spelled out in our constitutional amendments but also the right to learn especially on basic education and the right to health in all forms including preventative and public health but also the right to communicate and so these three form the kind of socialist core of our constitution and if any of this in Taiwan doesn't have the access to learn to health or to communicate it's the state's fault but of course on other parts of the economy like semiconductors that's pure market economy and so having this two cores working in conjunction with one another that's to say these profit seeking businesses they do it for profit but with social purpose and the other sectors do it for the purpose but sometimes also with profits and this makes it much more easy for the two sectors to work with one another on aspects like social entrepreneurship for example this jacket that I wear is made out of like 12 recycled plastic bottles and like five cups of coffee being waste and so on and just by demonstrating this trend of how makers as well as fashion designers to work on circular design that is good for the planet but also good for their prosperity and so instead of saying that these two are like the left and the right wing and they balance each other I think it's best if we make them work together on the sustainable goals and then grow up wing that is to say to simultaneously fulfill prosperity on okay this comes to a anti-polarization view on social market and private markets on systems that informer days have been opposed by a lot of people so you think that okay education communication health are the socialistic course for equity and they can go well together with market economy and they can do well also by working on social innovation and entrepreneurship and do you need strong frameworks and regulations to make them work well together I think we need a strong social sector in Taiwan it used to be that if a company abuses the planet or the people then there will be social sanctions against them and many large enterprises were gone because of the social sanction boycotting now for the Taiwanese young people like in their 10s and 20s just doing nothing is a cause for social sanction against them they must actively give an account of how much they are working on decarbonization on preserving the planet and things like that so standing by longer an option and when you have a strong social sector like that the market players will play in a way that is more pro-social and pro-planet oh so if I get you right in Taiwan you get people into the social sector by well by forthing them by asking them by having fun right so in Taiwan for example there's a very strong homemakers union that advocates on environmental policies but the main work of advocacy is just buying together and so it's actually a consumer co-op that encourages people to for example take the plastic bottles and cases back when you're taking another monthly like grab of the collective consumer markets and you go back to the market by the consumer co-op you bring with you the empty bottles that you have already peeled down the labels and they recycle it right there so that it can be remade into say casings for the laundry and like the chemicals used for the laundry and so on the washing liquids and so all this imbues in very young people like it's in their everyday life it's not something that they specifically go out and do but rather just by come back to the consumer co-op and buy some new washing liquids and so on the idea of recycling and upcycling is automatically embedded in their work and I think that is much better than just once a year like a tour or a journey or something or yes make it a habit make it your real life and that is now we move from managing a pandemic to managing a whole society and I know that you also are kind of fond of the SDGs because you sometimes mention your job description as being written in the SDGs and then the people listening ask what you think when you say that definitely so whereas the 17 SDGs some of them are for economic prosperity some of them are for the planetary sustainability some of them are for equitable society I focus specifically on the 16th and the 17th the 16th is about inclusive and responsible governance system and the 17th is about partnership for those common goals so I often write my job description in terms of the 17 goals for example on enhancing reliable data on promoting open innovation and most importantly on fostering effective partnership across sectors but many people also say hey minister we don't have 169 goals targets memorized so I sometimes also translate that to poetry oh I haven't seen the poems on SDGs 17 that's oh you have to send it yeah it's pinned on my twitter it's literally my job description that talks about for example when we see the internet of things yes I I think this one is very beautiful yes this one is very very beautiful and as I don't want to take all your time today I would like to ask you to say this this kind of job description that you have the internet of things turn it into if you could explain it to us or just say it I like it very much okay certainly so my job description goes like this when we see the internet of things let's make it an internet of beings when we see virtual reality let's make it a shared reality when we see machine learning let's make it collaborative learning when we see user experience let's make it about human experience and whenever we hear that a singularity is near let us always remember the plurality is here so beautiful I hope that a lot of people listen I hope that also places with civil unrest with difficult situations can listen to these words and I think that you have to to get your message through to other places in the world if I may thank you very much Audrey for the time you spent with me with our viewers and all the best to Taipei hope to see everyone in person very soon yeah same here have a good local time everyone and live long and prosper thank you Audrey thank you bye bye so I guess we're good I think we're fine I went through all the things you know I think it's as you are a holistic person the fact that everybody asks Taiwan now how did you manage but managing the crisis means managing society and for you you get it always into one managing society is not managing it's the wrong word it's like tending a garden because already managing makes this top down thing and this is not fine I like the humanistic approach that you say we are in it in a society which is using all our competencies all differences we always say plurality and now what I have been talking not talking with you with a lot of people always say they ask about your attitudes to genders I have a very strong focus on gender because I think that the minority the symbolic minority that is women is still under scrutiny and under in a lot of countries so I think that what feminist movements and other movements for so called minorities did is helping, it's pacing the way for this society approach we are all one with different whatever differences but we are all in one I didn't ask you about that but I know it's probably helps also to be more open, more friendly more inclusive to others and you really transmit this a feeling of being extremely inclusive yourself I think your team must have it every day and say I'm part of the team that's right my team whenever we recruit someone we always look for someone with a very distinct perspective not overlap with an existing team member and they must be also as willing to give as they are here to take and when you have all your teammates like this it's a natural sharing and very inclusive atmosphere and I think it's the same really by taking all the sides you can apply it to all the structural issues like inequity, climate change, disinformation and so on that you mentioned and it all requires us to essentially look at it from the plural perspective because it could be fixed by mechanistic way it has been fixed long ago that's interesting how you create teams that you say I pick the differences I really do really try to get the differences into one and that's probably a way of getting best teams to have all the aspects in one well I think we could continue long time but as I said my last visit to Taiwan I went every year twice a year and went to the Global Health Forum and met your colleagues the health minister Dr. Chen Shui and give you my greetings my very friendly we did a declaration of Taipei together on Oral Health and I'm extremely fond of having done already a lot of things in Taipei and with the Taiwanese people so it was for me a double pleasure to speak to you I had seen you on internet and everywhere but having this exchange directly is for sure different maybe next time we can go hiking together if you are someone who goes hiking I'm there the Swiss mountains are there for hiking and the Taiwanese are there for hiking next time then thank you very much and have a nice end of the day you too, bye


The purpose of one's photography is very important. We must understand why and where to photograph. Unlike any other genre of photography, wildlife photography is not an easy task. A wildlife photographer needs to have lots of patience in his or her work and at the same time have love towards the wild things and nature around. As the saying goes, those who protect and save other animals lead the way in protecting and saving humanity and Earth. So without any further delay, let's get into the wildlife safari and get to know about how to become a wildlife photographer. Welcome back to CreativeHut channel, an exclusive platform to know more about photography. In India, we are embraced with various species and unfortunately within that some of them are getting extinct day by day. So the first and foremost step is to protect animals. In order to protect, one need to create awareness and that's exactly where we need professional wildlife photographers. And to become a pro, one need to know these 10 points that are 1. Develop the fundamental photography skills. The basic and the most essential factor is to master your camera. One must be able to skillfully apply the photography and camera techniques at appropriate time. 2. Acquire professional photography education. Become an educated photographer from a reputed college which not only allows you to learn and experience photography but also increase one's inner confidence. 3. Select appropriate camera, lenses and accessories. Proper gears are important for the best results. Hence, choose the best and the comfortable camera, lenses and other equipments. 4. Become a keen observer. You should have the presence of mind. Observe the surroundings sharply and never allow yourself to miss any actionable moment and expression of the wildlife. 5. Edit and rework on your photographs. Learn to edit and rework on your own images by self because it's you who know what and how to display in your images. 6. Practice the qualities such as patience and swiftness. Be quicker and a fast decision maker and patient. Wild creatures never pose to your frame. Hence, compose them with patience and in their comfortable real world. 7. Build your wildlife photography portfolio. Prepare your wildlife photography portfolio with some of your best masterpiece photograph in a form of a printed portfolio and the self-online website will be more worth to display your works and portfolio. 8. Market your wildlife photography works. Marketing your work is as important as your fieldwork. In addition, learn and apply the offline and online digital marketing techniques. 9. Be ready to travel and cope up with any situations. Get ready with all your gears to travel at destination at any time and at the same time must blend with the situations and the surroundings. 10. Don't wait for the opportunities. Rather make every moment as a good opportunity. Best is yet to come but don't wait and waste any of the golden chances. Henceforth, the essential factor for the wildlife photography is the wildlife itself. So let them live, let them become served because earth was made for all living beings and not just for human beings. And if you have any further queries regarding the wildlife photography then comment on the comment section below. Till then stay tuned with us, subscribe our channel, click on the bell button for the notification on latest videos for photography courses, different socializations in photography, visit our website www.creativehuts.org and to know about photography articles, tips, tricks, portfolio and much more visit our official blog www.creativehuts.com Feel free to like and share until we meet next time. Stay safe and healthy, bye bye.