Season's greetings to the people of St. Lucia, including the Wires St. Lucia Diospora. Special Christmas greetings also to the kind people of my constituency of Shorzel Saltibus. It brings me immense gratitude and benevolence to address you during this festive season in my capacity as Parliamentary Representative for Shorzel Saltibus and Minister with Responsibility for Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs, two prestigious portfolios which I continue to function in utmost humility and dedication. Christmas is upon us once again, a cheerful, joyous occasion for celebrating with family and friends. As we rejoice and observe the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I want to encourage each one of you to use this time for reflection, thanksgiving and preparing for new beginnings. I know it may also be a difficult time for many of you who have lost loved ones, but I pray that this Christmas brings you much needed joy and renewed strength. As we celebrate this festive season, let's also remember to give thanks and praise to the good Lord for having spared us from the full brunt of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. While we did experience some damages, we are indeed blessed that we were saved from the extreme impact of the natural disasters we experience. I would like to use this opportunity to commend and applaud all public and private sector agencies and the general public for having provided relief supplies and support to our neighbouring Caribbean countries, especially our OECS brothers and sisters of Barbuda and the Commonwealth of Dominica. They experienced loss of lives and significant damages from hurricanes Omer and Maria. Let us all continue to give them support, even through prayers, that they may fully bounce back and become stronger nations. Keep in mind, Saint Lucia, that as you prepare for the coming year to take the necessary mitigation strategies to safeguard your homes and families from disasters, as we strive to build a more resilient nation, considering our innate vulnerability to disasters and the inevitable effects of climate change. To the people of Shoezal Saltybus, who continue to support me as parliamentary representative, I would like to sincerely wish you the very best for this season and the new year. I assure you that I will continue to serve with perseverance and dedication in undertaking projects to develop the constituency so that we can be more productive and better positioned to contribute to the national GDP. I encourage you to remain optimistic and continue working towards the achievement of your goals and the improvement of your community. We are indeed looking forward to a major development taking place in Shoezal with the construction of the hotel at Sabusha by Femont. I remain confident that this hotel investment will have a multiplier effect across various sectors which will benefit many persons of Shoezal Saltybus. I trust that we will see a revitalized Shoezal with increased economic activity, sustainable employment and in effect the holistic growth and development of Shoezal. As it relates to my portfolio as Minister of Commerce, international trade, investment, enterprise development and consumer affairs, it has certainly been an active year for the Department of Commerce having worked on addressing several trade issues to the Karikam Quoted and WTO Ministerial Conference which our businesses continue to encounter in trying to access regional and international markets to the various trade arrangements we are signatory to. Additionally, having recognized that entrepreneurship is the backbone of our economy, the Department in conjunction with its affiliate agencies hosted the third annual business month in November. Business month and tail-hosting of a series of activities aimed at promoting a strong entrepreneurial culture in St. Lucia with a focus on creating businesses that are more sustainable, innovative and creative. The department also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the St. Lucia Taiwan Partnership Trade Show which was hailed a phenomenal success. In so doing, I would like to commend the staff of the Department of Commerce and affiliate agencies. This includes the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, St. Lucia Manufacturers Association, St. Lucia Coalition of Services, Invest St. Lucia, St. Lucia Brewer of Standards and the Trade Export Promotion Agency for your tremendous support and hard work towards creating and enabling business environment and achieving the medium-term strategic objectives of the government of St. Lucia. Thank you also to all micro, small and medium-sized businesses of St. Lucia for your contribution to our local economy. I hope 2018 and beyond brings you continued success in your various business ventures. At I conclude this Christmas greetings, I call upon the good Lord to guide this nation and its people during this season and safeguard us from harm. To the Honourable Prime Minister, other ST members of Parliament, the business community and the people of St. Lucia, I wish you all a blessed, happy and safe Christmas and a productive and prosperous 2018. God's richest blessings to you all. St. Lucia


Hi, beautiful. Today we're watching people attempt to go pastel, and if you know anything about pastel hair, it is one of the hardest things to accomplish on your own because you have to make your hair so, so bright white in order to then put a pastel semi-permanent color over it if you want it to look amazing and perfect. So let's see if people can pull this extremely difficult task off on their own at home. Probably not. Up first with a video by Felicity Harrell. This is my natural color, like it is dyed, but to match my natural roots. Okay, we're starting off with colored brown hair. I'm assuming box dye. Her trying to go pastel with a brown box dye color on top of her already existing hair color. Be cool. Girl. Ha ha. Good luck. We're going to be dyeing my hair today. Blue. A blue pastel box color. Those are the box colors that make me the most nervous because it's just not that easy.  How in the world do we think that's going to work out? If you saw my video before where I did pink under my hair, we're doing that again, but pastel blue. Oh, she's just doing the perimeter of her hair. That could happen. I think that's a good idea. My hair is really greasy at the moment. If your hair's greasy when you dye it, it holds the color and it takes to my hair a lot better. It is optimal to have clean hair when you're doing a single process color, which means like if you're going darker, right? With permanent color. But if you're bleaching your hair, I would not recommend to wash your hair at least a few days before because it will burn this out of your scalp if you do not have the oils to protect it. But it's not going to affect the result of the color if it's greasy versus clean. So sectioned out, I'm going to start with the middle. Okay, so she has sectioned out the perimeter of her hair. She is starting at the bottom. Start it from the bottom, now we hear. That is the way I like it. That way you can layer the color over itself as you work up the head. Then goes the ends, then goes the roots, but I might do my whole hair first because of the dye, then go over the roots because the roots are going to take a lot easier. You're welcome world for teaching everybody to not start with the roots. It'll always be something that I cherish, that I changed. It was me.  It's probably well-patched you. You got a little bit on the root that you weren't trying to get it on, but it looks fine. Also you didn't let the ends in the mid process before you then went on the roots. That is the issue that I'm seeing right now that everybody does. You got to let the mids and ends process. You got to let that go, and then you can do the roots. Please develop for the 15, 20 minutes. I can tell you right now that's not enough time. Why would they even recommend that? That doesn't even make any sense. Who made that? Who did that? 15 and 20, girl. Drive 30, 45 to an hour. I'm going to leave it for 15. She really just wiped all of that color off of her roots. Can we get a replay at that? Like, girl, don't do that. But like the ends have lifted already, which is what they did last time. The ends are definitely going to lift faster actually in her case because she had blonde underneath of that brown color. So it's just removing the top layer of that color. And underneath it is already blonde. So it's going to lift quick and her roots might be like a little bit more difficult. She might be fine here. It's time to wash it out. It is very patchy. Oh, no. It is so patchy. If you want to work on small sections at a time, which you should, you can actually use like a comb. If you really need to, if you're not going to be precise with your application, you can use a comb when you're bleaching to make sure everything is fully saturated. The brown is still there, but I'm hoping that overall, it's not going to be that bad. Yeah. Yeah, totally. It's very, very, very, very, very patchy. As in I've got stripes of brown, orange, yellow, blonde. I actually got like a, like literally an icy blonde on my ends. So I'm going to, I've got the blue, I thought it was purple shampoo. Here we go with the purple shampoo. Doesn't solve all of our problems, but we are always going to think it does. And that is one thing I cannot change the minds about. I don't know what it is, but I seem to always get a line that just oddly never, I just get a line that goes down here. And I thought it was from before, like where I've dyed my hair before and then my natural roots have grown out. Yeah, girl. Looks, it's, it's definitely a look. I'm going to go over my hair again, but I'm going to go over only like the really bright parts. I'm not going to go over my roots again. I hope she meant to say the really dark parts, not the really light parts, because let's not go over the really light parts again, because we don't need that. Here is like a really icy blonde, like the underneath bits of my hair took really well, which they always do. She definitely needs to color the dark spots, then the middle darkest, then the second darkest and let everything process for a good amount of time, like 30, 45 minutes to get a more even canvas. In this long, we would definitely do foils in this case, but you know, she's not going to do that. So I'm not going to recommend it. I'm not surprised that this didn't work because I have so many different colors, like undertone in my hair at the moment. Still brown is exactly the same. I only left the bleach over 10 minutes. So maybe that's where I went wrong, but also I feel like it's also because I didn't, like I just bleached it. And so it needed time, maybe. Really find the right answer that I want about putting blue hair dye on top of orange hair. It just said that blue cancels out orange and it will turn it more blonde. Nari, it will not turn it more blonde. It'll just neutralize it. That's more of the word. It doesn't make it more blonde. It just makes it more brown. What are we going in with? Don't tell me this is the part where we do the same permanent color because your hair is orange, babes. It needs to be blonde. It says to leave it for two to 15 minutes. I'm going to leave it for maybe 20. Green, it's so patchy. What happens when you put yellow and blue together, guys? You get green. It looks really tragic. I'm sorry, I can't even, I can't even, it's tragic. Part two, we're doing it again. It didn't come out the way that I like. Okay, so she ends up hating it and doing it again, doing more gray on top of the gray because why not, right? Okay, once again, it did not work. You can see it. It is a lot better, but it is still really, really patchy. Actually looks better on camera. What did we think doing the same thing again was gonna do? You need to go darker gray, like slate gray, really dark gray, or you've lightened your hair again. Whip bleach. It's patchy, like here. And then there's like patches where it just didn't take. This is the bit that I saw didn't take, but that part is really annoying. I'm just gonna chuck it in a bun. Like it does look light green, but it's not that bad. I don't know where it looks like from the back. I feel like the back is really vibrant, but yeah, so that's all the colors of the rainbow in my hair at the moment, guys.  Look, oh my days, that is god-awful, my DL. Okay, well, vibes. I think that you should not use gray hair color again. That's my review for you.  Up next, we have a video by I Am Mara. We're going to dye my hair. I've had red hair for quite a while now, and I want to get rid of it. And I was looking into having pastel blue or pastel lilac. As you can see, my hair is really red, not as red as it was before. So we're trying to go from the warmest of warm colors to the coolest of cool colors, that home by ourselves. Okay, yeah, sure, sure, sure. This hair color remover is bleach-based, so you can either use six volume, and you will have one to two levels of lift, or you mix it with 10 volume, and you get two to three levels of lift. Ultimately, I think this is a great idea for her to use a color remover. Trying to go from red to blue or to gray. You're gonna need to start with a clean slate and get rid of those color molecules that are built in there. Okay, so first of all, it is super important that you brush your hair so there are no knots in it or anything. Then I like to section off my hair. I think sectioning off makes it, first of all, a lot more easy. And second, it also makes sure that you apply the color evenly on the hair. She said it, she did it. Because this is bleach-based, and we all know after watching Brad Mundo over and over again that bleach doesn't leather, I really make sure that I work it into my hair and that every hair gets some hair color remover on it.  What I wanna make sure is that I start where I have the most color, where it needs to stay on my hair the longest time. This is what enough color remover on your hair looks like. That is a great amount. Also, obviously, to make sure that the red gets removed from my ends as well. But because there were a lot lighter than the rest of my hair, I didn't apply the hair color remover straight onto my ends. I started where it was the most vibrant if that makes sense. Okay, love the tinfoil look. Vibing with it. Gotta do that incubation, baby. Get that heat in there. I'm a blondie. Okay, listen. It did a good job at lifting the color out. I mean, that's much better when she started with, and now if she lightens it again, she's gonna get even clearer results and clearer results, and I think it was a great idea. It's still orange. This is why I have to bleach my hair now. So I use the Blond Me Shroudskov bleach and I mix it with 25 volume developer. Okay, so powder light earned 25 volume. What do we think? What do we think? I don't know if it's powerful enough. I would have preferred her to use 30 volume. Done it in four quadrants, rinsed it out as they all develop evenly and work from there, but this could work. And I did exactly the same what I've done with a hair color remover. I started on the areas that were the most red or the most orange, and then I actually also didn't apply any bleach to my ends, but I made sure that my hair was coated in bleach. But I'm so happy she's applying enough color. And she let it sit for 45 minutes, wow. So that's the outcome, super duper yellow, but it was actually able to remove all the reds. Like I said, I didn't use any bleach on my ends because I thought they were light enough. She's getting such an even result though, whoa. Dude, you're killing it. Next step was applying a root color. I didn't want to have a blue all over my head. I wanted to have a shadow root, so a darker root on the top. Wait, we have to bleach it again, vibes. We can't apply like a gray or a blue or anything on top of orange. Those turn like green or brown and it's not gonna be great. So I applied the number 6.1 from Calla Stone. What I would definitely recommend if you want a shadow root, after every strand you actually comb your hair. Don't do that, you'll get spotting. I wouldn't recommend applying a shadow root horizontally like that, I would apply it vertically.  So I left on the color for, I think, 20 minutes, 25 minutes approximately. It is quite dark, but it will turn out really, really good in the end. The root looks great! Here is where everything turned out bad. So I used three different colors. I think one is called Slate, one is called Lilac, and the one from Manic Panic is ultraviolet. I mixed all three of them together and diluted them with a hair conditioner as well as a hair mask. I thought, oh, it's a really nice treatment. Well, that was a lot of things you mixed together, girl. Gray is very blue-based and you're putting it over yellow and you're probably gonna see a lot of green. Let's just go in with a semi-permanent hair. I just dyed instead of a proper hair dye and I left the color on for one hour. It doesn't show off as green on camera. No! You were doing so good until that last step.  Getting rid of green hair is probably the most difficult thing to do. It's tough. It's tough. Well, I have multiple options now. The first thing I could do is I could dye over this with just some dark color and just go dark. I also don't wanna bleach my hair again. I don't really wanna do that. So my other thought, what my plan is now is using the hair color remover again. But if I mix it with like 10 volume and I leave it in for 20 minutes, I don't know, it shouldn't be too extreme compared to like proper bleaching it. And I have to apply bleach to my ends because they are proper green-blue. Brett Mondo, what should I do? What should I do? So yeah, in my head, I'm going to use the hair color remover to try to get rid of as much of this green as possible. How did this happen? Everything worked so great until I applied this purple, which then turned my head green. You need to bleach your hair again. You need to get it nice and very pale blonde if you wanna go a gray color. You just need to. You can't do it otherwise. Color remover's not gonna do it for you. I hope your hair is better now. And I'm sorry that it happened to you. Well, up next, we'll be doing my pretty pastel side quest. I'm gonna try out Lightning Conditioner and the bulk of what I'm using is this. This is a Trezame Smooth and Silky Conditioner and I'm hoping that just the one packet of this will be a nice, pastel kind of corally color. That's exactly what you wanna see in your food bowl. If I was a prank channel, I would mix some chicken in with this and try and serve it to a friend. This is still looking very, very, very orange. Oh, whoa, sorry. We just got into this really quickly and I'm very confused. Why are we putting Blondor Lightning Conditioner in with our cyan permanent color?  Like, that's just not how it works.  Very bad idea. You gotta lighten first and then apply the cyan permanent color. The only thing you should mix with the cyan permanent color if you're even going to mix something with it is conditioner to lighten it. I think I might have to add a little bit of pink into this so I'm gonna try and add in Bright Organics Pastel Pink. It's a great idea to add pink to orange. It just gives you a little bit of more of a cooler orange and it's really beautiful. Ooh, it looks pretty. No matter how much conditioner I add to this, it doesn't get any more pastel. How much conditioner do I need to add? Well, I think that's as good as I'm gonna get it. I have literally used the last drop of conditioner that is in this house. Oh, girl. I've definitely gone to these situations before where you just start mixing and you're like, this is not light enough. You start mixing more conditioner and more conditioner. Next time, what you gotta do is take the tiniest bit of your mixture that is too dark and put it in a new bowl and then mix conditioner with that and then leave the darker stuff over here. Because if you just keep adding conditioner, it takes so much to lighten the color. Don't do it like that. You'll waste so much conditioner. Conditioner, conditioner, conditioner, conditioner. I have a single hair clip because that's all I can find. I have a comb and a brush and gloves. May not be the most professional setup, but this is the best it's ever gonna get on this channel. Okay, we are already blonde-ish.  This could be fine because she is going a warmer color and she has a lot of warm already in her hair so things could turn out even. But if I just do this without looking and just hope for the best. Don't do that. No, just put them here down. It's just some permanent color. You can just feel it on your hair. Stop using a brush, you guys. There's a reason I don't sell brushes with my color because you don't need it. It's just annoying. Gloves and that's it. Oh, yep, that got it. This feels like a math equation that doesn't need to be a math equation. Just put it on. Thank you. She's using her hands.  She's like, well, it's, um, what happens when you put orange hair dye over pink hair?  That's the title. She did not end up going with that title but that should have been the title. Atrocities. She applied so much that pastel peachy orange and then I'm so happy about it. That was a good amount to apply. I'm all done. I'm in my 30 minute waiting period now waiting for it all to set in. All right, let's see what we got. All right, well, here it is. I don't think that I would call it peach in some areas. Oh no. It's really orange where this little bit of bleached regrowth is here, but on the ends it's still pink. So I don't know if the orange just didn't take or if because of the pink underneath, maybe the pink pigments were stronger than the orange pigments. The orange was just not orange enough. You diluted it very much too much. You needed it pretty dark because your hair was not that light to begin with. I'm starting to think that perhaps I wonder if I put the same product back over my hair, I wonder what will happen. Why do we think putting the same thing over your hair again is going to make a difference? Cause she's doing it. She's going back in it again. Let's see it do absolutely nothing. Surprise. It's me from three months later. This is what my hair looked like and it washed out very quickly after that. The color just didn't last. It didn't go orange. It just continued to look pink. It didn't work. That's all we need to know. And am I surprised? No. Next time do a much darker orange and do not add any pink in the formula because the pink is going to overpower that orange and it's going to really grab onto that pink and your hair was already pink in the first place. So you just end up seeing more and more pink. Just do copper next time because that way it'll last you a long time. Good luck next time. Well, those results were not ideal. But anyways, if you wanna check out my hair color line or my hair care line, you can do so with the link right down below or go to xmodohair.com. And that is all for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to leave your extra lines. And I'll see you next time. Bye.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical over here since about Friday the 13th Jason four He's in this video here today hasn't been a minute or I haven't talked about this in a minute only because there's there's been nothing But just to jump on into this is coming to us from bloody disgusting an article that was published today based off of some details They came out from seeing in Further going into what we could get potentially from Victor Miller as it pertains to this split We know going on between him and Shaan S. Cunningham and you know the fact that Miller has the has the rights and the ownership of The original screenplay, but it doesn't mean he has authority he or that he does that he owns the character of adult Jason Voorhees as we know him and Miller's ownership of the work only covers domestic rights the franchise will remain Dormant and then it goes on to say but what if anything can Miller do? What if anything can Miller and his team do with with what they currently own so a new report from seeing in this afternoon Got into it some of those details with Miller's legal team talk for the first time about what they can and very much and very well might do or attempt to do so Mark Toboroff a Malibu copyright attorney who represents Victor Miller tells CNN now We can license a remake prequel or even sequel motion pictures Provided such films do not use any additional copy writeable elements in other words Miller can only use elements from the original Friday the 13th movie which of course doesn't include adult Jason Voorhees This means Miller also can't use the iconic copy mass Even if it's worn by a different character and we've learned he doesn't actually own the title Friday the 13th either We can't like we or we can license television series Exploring Crystal Lake and how Jason became who he is think Twin Peaks or Bates Motel Tomer of muses throwing out possible ideas in other words Miller only has young Jason Voorhees at his disposal He could theoretically work with filmmakers on a project involving Jason's early years before the mass presumably He could also use the character of Pamela Voorhees the killer in the original film But the other major problem here is that Miller only has the rights to the screenplay in the United States Which means he can't make a movie with worldwide distribution Miller has to convince a studio to make this thing that can only be distributed in the US and then a Star from Friday the 13th part 3 Shelly Larry Zerner who we know has been kind of being more Detailed on what's going on for us idiots that aren't in the legal world. He told CNN we he told CNN He told CNN that last statement He said that we can have this theoretical argument that you can do a movie that doesn't infringe on the rights of anyone else But is anyone seriously going to do that without worldwide rights? I doubt it as for what Sean Cunningham is able to do without Victor Miller It was seen that he can't use Jason Voorhees without Miller's permission, which ties his hands quite a bit I think for sure it will come back, but I can't tell you it will come back this year or next and Then he said well Jason come back in theaters right now. It's 50-50. So With them clearly still being at odds the idea that these or the potential ideas that were thrown out there a Series where we see young Jason Voorhees see him bullied see Pamela at the camp Just seeing everything Jason went through this could be like a limited series or maybe even a movie I guess you could do where Pamela goes on a murderous grand page Or something that kind of builds into the start of the original Friday the 13th starting all the way back with how Jason was bullied at at the camp and Going from there. Would you even want to see something like that? Would you want to see sequels to the original Friday the 13th where they are somehow able to create a villain that is not the iconic Character of Jason Voorhees the adult Jason with that hockey mask But it's latched on to continuity with that original movie thus, I guess Turning this into what Halloween is a pick your own adventure type of thing you have a movie That's already associated with 8 9 however many Friday 13 movies there are you have that timeline and then you'd have a timeline where you have Victor Miller's original film and then Any future motion pictures associated with that original film, but they don't have adult Jason Voorhees in it I don't know if anyone would actually be interested in seeing that and if I'm remembering correctly Didn't the CW turned down a Jason Voorhees series for Riverdale? I might be remembering this wrong, but I could have sworn at one point We were going to have a TV series for Friday the 13th that was related to the Jason story Camp Crystal Lake Of course, so you know if they were to remake the movie I think I've seen people talk about how they wouldn't mind a remake I'm not saying I would be against the remake, but would you still just go ahead and make Pamela the killer I think that would be the only disappointing aspect of it The movie can still be done very well, but knowing that it's gonna be Pamela Voorhees might just eliminate a lot of the Suspense that people who are familiar with this IP might experience while watching it We know what you're building to ensure the techniques and everything on display and on a technical technical level Will be good in the movie will still get positively reviewed But for people who already know the outcome and that you're just retelling the story but might be or maybe doing it through a darker lens It's just not probably gonna be that fulfilling It could still be a very engaging time, but knowing it knowing it's Pamela once again Maybe you give Pamela a sidekick. Maybe young Jason is actually right there with her Maybe they do something like that remaking the original movie and Revealing that Pamela she knew that Jason was alive kept him hidden in that cabin in the woods for whatever reason and They actually work together to kill these counselors that are that are trying to reopen the camp throughout the years She's convinced this boy to live off in the cabin because of her own This stays towards her own son, but also she wants to punish those who led to him having to run away As she maybe deems herself It could be another interesting thing to explore where you add a young child as an accomplice to his mother and you have young Jason and his mother trying to avenge This supposed death that we know didn't happen because he's been off living in the woods I've seen people say well if Jason died as a kid, how is he a full-fledged adult now? Well because he didn't die.  Uh, I don't know he didn't die. He he didn't die He wasn't a zombie or at zombie status until after part four. So this this boy didn't drown I thought I was the only one who understood that he didn't drown But apparently there's a lot of people who think that this boy died and came back an adult But what do you guys think about what is possible for Victor Miller? Would you want to see a series like that or a movie? That's a sequel to that without all the things you know and love about the Jason person as we already know Let me know down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe turn on Plus the kids you never miss a video in description. I have links in my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course limiters in movies and who's there usually I'd be the cover in the future I'll leave a link to this article as well down in description and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Russia will attack Baltic states if not stopped in Ukraine. Lithuania warns if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine It could continue and then it's the Baltic states who would be next according to a statement by the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabriels Landsbergis ahead of the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels Landsbergis emphasized that Ukraine is currently holding back Russian aggression on its territory adding that he hopes for its success in this war But if the Ukrainians are unsuccessful We have to be ready to answer the question of who will contain Russia then said the Lithuanian Minister according to him The Baltic countries could be the first to fall under danger now. We do feel the war close to us We understand that if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine It could continue and then it's the Baltic states who would be next and hopefully this could send a message to our friends and partners in Europe in NATO that we have to take it seriously Landsbergis stated he added that Ukraine's war is Existential for Europe. This is why we feel the chill of the war on our necks said the Lithuanian foreign minister the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania Also commented on the situation stating that there is currently no threat of a Russian attack on NATO as Moscow is focused on Ukraine


Hey everyone, this is Kenny and today I'm going to talk about the Blackstar Carry On Guitar. So as you can see it's a portable travel size guitar, but don't get fooled by the size and the looks. It's a real solid constructed single piece Okumi body guitar, which is an alternative to Mahogany. It's got nice focused mid-range, really woody classic tone. It's got a mini humbucker in the bridge pickup, but it's also quite a splitable so you can get all sorts of different tones just from one pickup. So before I go through the different sounds on the carry on guitar, I want to show you how I set the amp level with a single pickup guitar with the coil split. So what I would do is I'll split the coil first and then turn up the volume on the guitar all the way up and set the level of the amp the way you want it at the loudest level. So let's say I want to make this the loudest level on my coil split. This will be your rhythm tone per se. Now if I put it on humbucker mode it boosts the level by a lot because I'm using both coils. So here it is coil split. Here it is with full humbucker mode. So that's a lot. So you're getting a lot of boost just from using that extra coil. So by doing so you're getting all sorts of different tones from it. So if I turn down the volume halfway on the humbucker mode you get a warmer tone as if you're playing like a neck humbucker. And if I turn all the way up you get that full volume on the humbucker. And at full volume coil split you kind of get an in-between tone from that. So you can sort of set different levels and different tonal characteristics to get a warmer tone by using the mini humbucker full on and then you get a more spankier single coil twing by splitting it. So that's how I would use it and I would highly recommend using that as well. So I'm going to utilize what I was just showing you and I'm going to go through different sounds using the overdrive and the clean channel on the HT5. So thanks for checking out the carry-on guitar by Blackstar. As you can see it's a very portable travel-sized guitar but with a full-size sound. Great for student guitar, great for traveling, have it in your car all the time when you're doing a long distance drive. Great little guitar to have. Please check that out at blackstaramps.com for more information. Thanks for watching. See ya.


from we the people behind bars to you the people beyond bars so my hope is you'll accept and heed to this message. Welcome. Niyono na intiami tini, nani tokaspini kuli kuhokamecheki makanjo, balakuni pokea, uona nifokea naku niyon dokea. Niyani baka mimi muovwa, baduna niyana mimi badu muovwa. Niki wajelo na nyemdu na nijali, niki tokainjo na jawana masuali. Na julizakama mimi badu nili wahawani, nili kaidi, nili kaidi waza mani. Niyani koseshaa mani aki kibiya vituvi ako vibaman, kukuako kipotea, mindo nani shuku. Nalabda mendo kutagi akojirana. Dukai kivunjoa, mindo mshukiwa kwanza miki mili ako nivunja. Kupatakazi me kwangumu, tu left right and center mani hukumu. Nadi eti, nulishin doksomehu akimu. Kablo nipateki barua, nani disha barua tifu, kozuna shuku bado neza kuatifu. Nani atakazi reisi kama kukondakte, nini kwangumu kupata ju nani ma good conduct. Kozuna shuku neza kuwa badu kondakta. Nasa uni nipalisha kondaktyangu from badu to bestu, nasidae testu. Kuma ripi nini kwangumu jumzea na katakuni ozeisha binti ake. Ju anashukutabi eza mubano zileza kiyoso. Anonantam lipa mahali, isha nimkute mahali, nimnyongi, nimnyangani yo mahali. Nule binti naiai pandengine, bala nite maihani. Yananganakuni ta mbuni, baka inani atatuna huzuni. Munisha asawu jina langu kama blak labo piamimu ma mwapuni labo. Nani ta muizi muwajimu baka jimulagai. Nasa umimi nilendugu, baba, buwana, shemejim, totu wa mutu. Baka daily na patanana alsas micitafta ansas. Mwana iiduni ani suun friendly. Umbe duni e na noma. Ni nini ma mwakoan friendly. Jumimi ni ex-convict na jukia zahidi kuliko ex-wako. Nani stereotype, nani stigmatize, nani bagua. Liania na mwogo japoni api mnam bagua. Long story short. Most people are ill-informed and I'm here to inform that we are reformed. To ma mwaku land from our past and not to run from our past. Tu sehilewa crime si poa na tu nombatu kikamu. Mkainasi si poa. Tu hilewa yatili kwanali siya poa na tu ma mwaku wa tu wa poa. Bala kuni fukia na kumbuni pokia. Bala kuni telekeza. Na kumbuni elekeze. Bala kuni embarrass na kumbuni embrace. Yanyu ni nisha upendo dozi pende kruu di jela. Siwa engali se ma kufanya kosa si kosa. Kruu dia kosa niya kosa. Mwayo ni tu seha mua tuta kruu dia kosa ileba ki kone siya koma. Tendo jumaneno tuha itoshi. Tu nombatu kikamu. Tu peyo na fasia kone siya tu merekebika. Kaziya kuhukumu mua tiye. Mumu na maha kimu. Super. Mwapi na kukui ato joh. Mwapi na kukui ato joh. We see a topfunga rusi kuwa dishi. Na si sayia pondiya mebeba, na sińumon ni mimba. We kudu 3 predia mi shanzaku komi kali kasi mba. Sii inmoshiuki. Ma nemba shanzaku kumixeka pondiya gui deyeni fotanot. See apondiju aniko shatiomapitya angemezakurezuo ugoto akamu wakua boj. Laki ni dip down na havoizku gato kiamuambia apondiyuki zamtojho. Sia dha funga rusi kuwa dishi. Apondi kizam toto, akiwa dem mwiche joy, akiwa boy by a toy, and what what's that's the future financial of our now potential of our mother kome, nasi tu skeze. See, wu apondi, ali jipata ina status like kamae, sindio? Ju abortion ni crime, sindio? Ayacheki skeza. See, apondi ali foni love with this man, comparable to him, is nan ju, bila e sa isi yange kwa maiti. The man has taken away the fears, abem panguza away the tears. See, sivijana daily sisi, ifi nyonga tunna change colors, but binadamu, but God, how is he change colors? See, he sura smooth, but a rinkos na pimples. He fikan na banane wu the time kana batisa. See, he seeks back theater with the time uta nitu kitambi. But love here can never last things, pregnant to every corner it's elastic. Ana tupenda file juko, ju ali tupenda kibara bila peace o mera watches. What if a future happiness is memories of our past, where we burn forever hounded by the devil's laughs? Why? And why do we push them away? Why do we focus on tomorrow and forget about today and smiling everybody's face and trying to act like we're okay? Why do we live this way? Why do we hate? Why do we fight? Why do we act like this time and got more than one life? Why? Why? Why? I'm asking why. I'm older and looking for truth. I'm holding my faith in my hands, but the pain in this world I'll be shaking it loose. I used to have so much to gain. Now I have so much to lose. They say I'm crazy for looking for answers. I say they're crazy for not giving proof. Vision is blurred. I'm over concern. I'm looking at God to see if life with him is something I've earned. The devil's been watching, he's trying to recruit. He's been waiting at every turn. I was driving my life on the highway to hell, but I won't burn. See right now I know the difference. I know what is wrong and I know what is right. But Satan is strong God and most of the people are losing the fight. So what if he failed? What if he can't escape his lies? What if he can't change? What if he still controls our mind? Where do we run? Where do we go? Who do I talk to? I looked around and everyone and so was lost too. What if life was just a test that we all do? What if he was busy when I called him? What if he ends up dying? What if being born is dying and dying is birth? Would that mean life's not God give but the devil's curse?  What if the devil entered a pastor and he led a church? Mackenzie. What if the books they sing with it was never your words? What if he chose to look for the truth but did nowhere to see? And we all ended up being buried in one cemetery in Chakahola? See, I was told life will teach you a lesson. But they never told me that the teacher will end up wearing a crown on his head. So we all knew crowns were worn by the kings and queens. But me I'm surprised the crowns have been worn by the police. See, we call them teachers but out there they've been called a funder. So when you see me standing upright is because these people have reformed me. See when I say these things is not because I'm speaking it bitterly but because I'm being reformed to be a better person in the future. See, you may feature white nika toa tins but I'm still black here because the black man always stands tall. See, they say black is beautiful. See, I'm handsome and I'm proud to be in this uniform because if I wasn't in this uniform maybe I was in the casket six foot under. My best friends are maggots and we all don't want that, right? See, I'm proud to be said and reformed.  See, the past is behind us. See, my future is bright because the past is that was not me, that was the past me. See, the future is this guy you're seeing standing here. I'm not five foot but at least I can say I'm 5.1. See, I'm standing tall, more than God. See, I'm standing on shoulders of all you giants so everyone can see me, right now it's me. So I appreciate this day that God has given me to perform in this stage where I need to tell you people that crime does not pay. Crime ends you up in a place where you never forget. Thank you. Wapi makofiyake, wapi makofiyake, tupe mako bimzuri. Amazing, amazing, amazing.


Welcome to the show. It's me, John Park. It's time for John Park's workshop. And guess what? This is the final one of 2021. This is gonna do it. In fact, this'll be my last live stream of the year. I'll be on vacation for the next couple of weeks and then back after the new year in 2022. So time to recover and recuperate and rest and do other things that begin with R, like crossword puzzles, ignoring the C. Did everyone get their mega, super mega puzzle edition? The New York Times Sunday, last Sunday. You can order just that section on New York Times site, I think it's a big, huge puzzle section that includes a like four times larger than normal life Sunday style crossword. I love it. It's what I do over the next two weeks is all the different puzzles in there. So I'm excited about it. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, I think I posted a picture up on my social media. So go look for that, John Edgar Park on the social media. What else is happening? I wanna say hi to everyone over in Discord. We've got chat happening here. And if you're over in YouTube, that's another spot where you'll spot some chatters. We've got a Santa Claus. I don't think I have a Santa hat in here. We've got a Lars. What's he up to? Just chilling under the band saw. Let's see, what else is going on? I'm excited about our project today. I'm gonna be using this thing on my journeys over the break to make a piece of gear portable that's currently not super portable. So we'll see how that goes.  And hello to Andy Callaway, Z Grover, Todd Botte, who else do we have in here? Gary Z, thanks for stopping by everyone. All right, let me pull that out of there because that Lars is distracting. What else? Hey, Gary T is over in the YouTube as well, hello. So let's see, what's next? Let's do a couple of our standard things, a little bit of housekeeping. First of all, I mentioned our job board. We have a help wanted sign up. It's actually, in this case, not our help wanted, but there are people looking for some help. And so consider helping. If you head to jobs.adafruit.com, these are some of the positions that you'll see that are open right now. There's a Adafruit IO and Arduino programming gig, contract gig from Engineer Ally. And it looks like you can do that one from anywhere. USA. It's also innovation senior software engineer at Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, Arizona. Oh geez, what's AR? I think it's Arizona. No, that's AZ. I'll say Arkansas. Sounds right. Let me know in the chat. I don't know all of my states. I'm not gonna do so good on these crosswords, huh? Another couple of positions there that are open and it's free to use, free to post your positions. So if you're looking to hire someone, you can also look through resumes. You can post just your resume and CV and job info up there. Tirely free to use. That's jobs.adafruit.com. I'll also mention Adabox. We have another one coming up. It's gonna be a winter edition. As you've probably heard, we're calling these based on seasons so that we have the latitude and leeway to deal with fluctuations in supply chain that can wreak havoc on dates. So we're not putting a fixed date on this, but it's gonna be a winter edition box. We're just getting some cool things ramped up for that. So that's gonna be exciting in the new year. So go to adabox.com. You can subscribe. You can also get a subscription for someone else as a gift if you want. It's not usually that many free slots. We make about 4,000 roughly of the boxes and a lot of people up their subscription or subscribe to it for a full year. So it's not always a lot of empty slots, but if you're interested, head over there and check it out. It's usually a good deal. A lot of great stuff and tutorials and entertainment and education value in the Adaboxes. What else have we got? Not that, but no, not that. That's just the Adafruit site. What's going on there? We got some cool holiday stuff going on here. New products to check out. As well, I really want one of these feather pink RP2040 feathers. You can only get them right now with a big order, but hopefully those will come into regular stock at some point and let's see what else. So Tuesdays I have a show that some of you come and watch. I recognize some of you. It's called JP's product pick of the week. It looks like this. This was this week's product pick, which was the Cricut featherwing. And I encourage you to come by on that show because during the live stream and during the live stream only, we always have a big, big, big discount available on the product pick. This week it was 50% off on the feather Cricut wing, so they went like hotcakes.  And then I make a little one minute recap and that is this. And this is that. Check it out. It is the Cricut featherwing. So just like all of our other Cricuts, this is an all-in-one robotics platform. It accepts any feather in the feather ecosystem. What's cool about that is it means that if you wanna use an RP2040 feather, you can do it. If you want an M4, go for it. If you need Wi-Fi for AIO types of connectivity, you can use an ESP32-based chip. If you want to do some Bluetooth things, you can get an NRF52840 feather, for example, and plug it into there. If I take my phone, and I'm using the Bluetooth Connect app right there, if I press the up button, I'm moving a servo motor that's plugged into one of the four servo slots on the Cricut. And the way I'm controlling it is that I have a feather NRF52840 plugged into there, so it's Bluetooth-friendly and easy to control. It is the Cricut feather wing. I said, hey, that was gonna loop, I caught it. And then I forgot to actually turn my audio back on. But now it's on. Let's see, I'm just gonna fix one thing over here. The YouTube wants to play a little preview of the show that is distracting, so I'm gonna hide that over there.  Yes, Cricut Python. Hey, all right, let's get this rolling. This is a neat little tip here that I wanted to share today. For the Cricut Python Parsec, I wanted to show you how you can use pretty much any GPIO pin on your microcontroller as a ground pin. Why would you wanna do this? Well, sometimes you wanna plug things in. Like you can see here, I've got a couple of LEDs with resistors plugged in, and they're on either side of a little cutie pie board. There's only one pin marked as ground on this. Point at it right there. That's the ground pin. Well, you can't share that too easily with a couple of these leads if you're going into a breadboard. Great, but sometimes you just have header pins on your board and you wanna plug things into them. I have some little right angle headers that I've soldered into here. And so what you can do in this case, if you don't wanna kinda crowd things in, is pick another available GPIO pin and set it at a low value, which essentially acts as a ground. Now, this isn't as high a current ground as the ground ground pin. So you only wanna use this for things like LEDs and buttons and switches, nothing higher current. But it works really easily and really well. So watch this. You can see here in my code, I'm setting up by importing library for board and digital IO. Then for this red LED, I'm simply setting the pin that the high side is plugged into, which in this case, I'm plugging into the RX pin. So I set that to be a digital in-out pin with the direction set to output. And I set the value to true. If I set this value to false and resave, it'll turn off that LED. If I set this back to true, it lights it up because it's setting that pin high. So we're getting three volts out of that roughly. On this other side, what I'm gonna do is same sort of thing. I'll set up one of the pins, in this case, the TX pin for the high side of the LED, the positive side. But then to fake a ground, what I'm doing here is I've created a variable called fake ground pin. And here I'm setting up a digital pin. It's a GPIO pin A1 in this case. And I'm setting its direction to output, but then I'm keeping its value low. I'm setting the value to false. This essentially acts as a ground pin. So if I, whoops, let me redo that. So if I hit save now, what you can see is our green LED lights up as well, even though I didn't have to clutter things up by using a single ground pin.  And this has been your circuit Python parsic. Last one of the year, in fact. Well, I hope you found that one useful. I wish I had remembered this a long, long time ago. I knew it many years ago, and I think I did this on Arduino. But it's particularly helpful on boards like, let's say a metro or let me grab an example board here. What have I got? Go through some drawers of boards here. Where are all the metros? Are they inside? They might be. I can demonstrate this, the mechanical side of it, actually with a kind of cool artifact. This is a special Make Magazine Edition Arduino Uno. And you can do this in Arduino as well. This board isn't gonna run circuit Python. But you can see we've usually got just one or two, boy, there's a lot of dust on here. One or two ground pins on the board. In this case, I think there's three. But as you're plugging stuff in, little sets of buttons and switches and LEDs, you kind of want to use other pins there as ground. And so this is a way that you can fake that, which is super helpful, I think. All right. Yeah, I'll dust blink and lights. And of course you could use that for blinking and other things. What else? I think it's time for us to get into our project of the day. So let me jump over to the workbench here and talk a little about what's going on. In fact, I'm gonna stay right here, but turn on that camera. So that right there is a groove box, essentially a type of little drum machine. This one's called the Electron Model Cycles. And it's something I just got. It's my Christmas present to play around with and hopefully make some songs for some of my videos on it. And as you can see there, it's got a couple of things plugged into it. One is that big thick cable with the yellow heat shrink on it that is a audio output that's going into a little amplifier. And you can see that black cable there. That is a wall power that is five volts and it is one of those little skinny 1.3 millimeter barrel connectors. So this thing has no battery in it and it does not power over USB. It has a USB port just for exchanging data and it can be used as a USB audio interface, but it won't power over USB, which means you don't get away with the usual trick of just, hey, I'll bring a power bank, which works for a lot of equipment, a lot of music equipment, you can grab little power banks to power them. So what I wanted to do is come up with a neat way of making a discreet, small, little portable power bank for it. I don't think I'm gonna go inside of it yet. I just got this, so I don't wanna hack it open and try to fit a lipo inside of it. But I want to have a really neat, easy, rechargeable battery solution for this. And part of, let me talk a little bit about what some of the history of this unit and portable power is. In fact, let me jump to this view here for a second. So this is the device, actually a Swedish company called Electron. This is the, it's a frequency modulation groove box that has six tracks of different sound engines that you can be running and doing a bunch of sequencing. If you scroll down here into some of the specifics, you'll see here there's the USB for data, there's the Power 5.1 amp. And under the specifications, it, let me see, does it mention, yeah, so the power inlet, this is the interesting part. If you look here under hardware, power inlet, there are actually a pair of them. There's the power inlet, so center positive 1.35 millimeter barrel jack. And then there's the battery in. That's interesting, you don't actually see that on the back there. So center positive 5.5 by 2.1 millimeter barrel jack, sort of the more normal size that we're used to, same one you plug guitar pedals into, except it's center positive, so don't go plug in guitar pedal power because it's usually center negative. And it's anywhere from four to 10 volts DC that it accepts. So when this thing launched probably two years ago, there were no battery options for it. They probably didn't even talk too much about that, that battery port. But then they started to tease this thing. So this is a power handle, they call it. It's essentially a tube for four AA batteries that hooks to the device and you can see it acts as a handle and it also plugs into the side there. So this is a little, that's where that 2.1 millimeter power jack goes. One side has just sort of a screw hinge and M3 screw hinge. The other side allows the jack to go in and that's where you pop in your batteries. So this thing, they teased it, it took a couple of years for it to come out. And it's kind of interesting because they decided not to do a rechargeable, not to do lipo. That's what a lot of people were kind of assuming is that when the company said they were gonna have a portable solution, they assumed it would be a USB lipo type of thing. They didn't go with that and I can imagine for a lot of reasons, one of which being it is much safer and cheaper to not be sending lipo's around the world and easier for them to get it certified. However, they had a problem. The thing in some very limited cases was overheating so they had to recall them all. So that's actually not on the market right now. This is a site that just has it preserved for posterity but you can't buy it new anymore. They had to pull it off the market. And so what I wanna do is my own lipo plugged into that side port. So I wanted to show you kind of the process of figuring out what I can do with this and what's safe and then try to come up with a little finished solution here. So let me jump over here and I'll give you a little demo just for fun of a couple of things it does. I don't know the machine very well yet. Let's see, what's this on? So this is just a preset set of instruments and preset pattern that's on it, little chain pattern. We can switch out to a different one. Okay, so you get the idea. And what I wanted to do in kind of figuring this thing out, first of all, here's the side situation. So you can see we've got a little protective rubber cover on each side. I've peeled this one off and you can see there is our little sort of standard looking barrel connector there. And that means I should be able to plug in things like little battery packs for either alkaline or nickel metal hydrides. I think I've got some enoloupes in here. So I was gonna try that out. So first thing I did was of course, double check the spec sheet and the center positive to make sure that I'm providing that and I'm not gonna short or ruin anything. Probably has diodes. So next thing I'll do is turn this off, shuts down. I'm gonna unplug my amp from there and I will unplug power. So that's the, that's the wall wart power. And then what I wanted to do was kind of figure out what it was drawing current wise if I fed it from a sort of phone battery type of bank and checked the current. So really short answer to this, if you just wanna power it off of a standard pretty much any power bank is one of these cables that takes a USB-A and converts it to center positive 2.1 millimeter barrel jack. Adafruit sells this, you can buy them all sorts of different places online. You may have one already. I had one, it was hard to find but I've had one for years and this is the first time I've used it. So what I did was I have a little battery or USB tester here that allows me to check out voltage and current and some other things from a device. So if I power on my bank here and this is a pair of or a little lipo pack. I think the 4,000 milliamp hour one that Adafruit has that looks like two blue cylinders. And I made this three printed case a few years ago. This is a power boost 1000C which has charging and charging port there and output. This thing is also nice because it doesn't turn itself off when it doesn't detect much current draw unlike a lot of phone bank ones. And you can see here, I'm gonna zoom in. You can see here that I'm reading out my voltage. Voltage, it's 5.14 roughly and the current draw right now is zero. So I'll plug this in to the little side port here and power it on. You can see it's drawing about 0.3 amps, about 320 milliamps. There are, if I hit play, it's not, let me plug it into audio actually so we know what's doing that. So most it went there was about 0.35 somewhere around there. You can do some adjustment of the brightness of the screen and the brightness of these LEDs which will bring it down just a little bit but we'll call it let's say 0.35. So 350 milliamps is the draw. So I gotta be able to provide that and then we can also do some math to figure out the amount of battery life we'll get out of different arrangements of batteries. So I will power it down. I'm pressing a button on the device to power it down and unplug that. So you could say, okay, that's just solved. You can just use this cable and absolutely, absolutely right. Get any phone power bank, plug that in, you should be good. But I wanna make it a little cooler than that. So couple of things. So first of all, I have, I found in my junk drawer of phone and other Gizmo chargers, I found a wall wart that is, I think it's five volt and one amp. So it's basically the same as what this thing wants. And I think that is that same little plug. Let's see. Yeah, so I could build a little device with a nice little right angle plug, which is pretty cool. Keeps your cords out of the way here. But like I said, one of the interesting things is this is actually a pretty tolerant four to 10 volts, which is nice. I don't wanna use that five volt one if I can use this four to 10 volt one. Why not future proof it? And I found one of these also in a box of junk that I don't know what I cut that off of, but some Gizmo I got rid of or battery pack or something at some point, I got a really nice quality right angle plug here that fits really nicely. And this gave me the idea that I could build my battery pack solution just off to the side here. It means it's not protruding off the back. We could just have something slim and aligned here, perhaps. Or if I needed to, we could put that somewhere else. But I kind of like the idea of making it pretty minimal there off to the side. And then that means I could use something like a right angle connector for headphones and then I won't bump up against the tray table on an airplane or something like that, which is nice. Let's see. So what I wanna do then is start from here. So I've got one of my little power boost 1000 C and this will provide, I think, a little more than an amp normally and you can set it to fast charging if you need to, it has battery charge level indication and a bunch of other good things. And then I've got some choices on batteries. So this one is really, really tiny and it's a 420 milliamp hour one. So we could plug that in like so, maybe connect them together like this. Heat shrink tubing around the board. I'll leave that port free there and then connect our cable here right to the back and that means we could have a little gizmo that just kind of sits on the side there, which is neat. It'll also fit up here pretty well, same with some of these bigger batteries. So here's a 1200 milliamp hour. So it's pretty slim. Again, this could fit pretty nicely inside the box. Off to the side here, it's a little bigger but maybe it goes like that. So we can plug it in and keep it snug. And so what I'll do next is think about the charge time. So we've got, let me see if I can switch cameras here. Hold on, did this track pad die? It did, all right, hold on one second. If you've got a camera switcher, you wanna do some camera switching. I've gotta make this. Yes, that's right, I just saw C Grover mentioned that on one of the TRS connectors, he saw a white dot of paint, which is his signature move. Which one was that? Oh, it's this one. Yeah, these were from C Grover. Let's see it right there. Good eye, C Grover signature. So can I switch cameras now? Yes, I can. All right, so the roughly 350 milliamp draw means that with a, if you had a 350 milliamp hour battery, you'd get about an hour out of it. So this is a 420, so just a little more than an hour. This one is about four times, about three times bigger. So this could be about three, three and a half, maybe even four hours. Here's a 2000. So you can go up and up and up. These are 4,000, but they start to get pretty big. The one I wish I could find, I've used these in projects and I think they're, the ones I had are all inside of projects right now are the single cell round ones. So this is, you can see this is three of them next to each other, but we sell one that is, I think, what is it, 1,800 or 2,000? It's that divided by three probably. And that would be kind of nice because a single tube there would work out pretty well. But I'll work with what I've got. So let's see about proof of concept. Actually, the battery won't matter too much at the beginning because what I'm gonna do is solder this up. And I think I'll do a direct connection from the cable here to the power bank. So the first thing I'll do there is figure out which wire is positive and which wire is negative. So we can just grab a continuity checker. So this should beep when we have continuity. And then I'll just go into center. That's gonna be the positive. And I'll touch the cables, not that one. That one, okay. And I actually did this earlier and I put a little silver paint pen mark on the ground wire. It's just a convention I use. So I know that's ground, which is gonna be the barrel, the outside of that. So if we touch the wire on that silver line, okay. So then with this little power boost, we can, you can see there's silkscreen on the USB port there. Let's see how far I can zoom in. So you can see here, it says plus, here it says minus. Those are the four slots for USB, but then there's also these two in front that are also positive and negative. And if we wanna double check that, fix my focus. What I'll do is put the multimeter into voltage reading, plug a battery in, and then we can just probe what should be the positive and negative. And there we're getting 5.13 volts, which is great. That's what we want. Again, anything from four to 10 will work here. And so let's get that cable soldered onto there.  Just using this little cute pen soldering iron here. Here's another interesting battery choice, by the way, we'll wait for that to heat. This is a 500 milliamp hour, so just a little bigger than that 420. That might be nice. So I'm just gonna tin this up a little. Are you hot yet? Heating. Oh, I convinced it to stop heating. These things heat quick though. Check this out. From cold to about 300 pretty quickly there, maybe 20 seconds or so. Okay, so let's see. I don't think there's any reason to make this particularly long. So we can get that to be a short little run there. So I'm gonna snip these and trim them. I'm gonna leave that little silver mark there for right now just so I get started on the right foot. And then I'm gonna clip only the positive. This is a pretty thick wire for this. I don't know what this was from, something pretty beefy. We'll see if I can successfully strip this without yanking too much of that wire. There we go. Yeah, it's not even gonna fit all into that hole is that we'll see. You know what, I might have left. Let's see if I can still do this. No, that's not big enough to fit the wire. Okay, sometimes you can go through these mounting holes as a little strain relief and wrap the wire through. But I think we'll end up trimming away a little bit of this wire so that it actually fits.  I don't know if I'll even need to worry about heat shrink now. I think I'll put a large piece over all of this and these should stay isolated. They're far enough away that I'm not too worried about it. Okay, so positive, negative, negative also has the white writing on it so we should be good there. Oh, sorry, I have not switched my camera back. That as close as that wants to get, sorry. There we go. Okay, so let's trim off wire there. I'm gonna peel off these strands and get it even smaller because I don't want any strays messing things up here. Like that, stripped a little insulation off there, a little extra, a little more to work with. Okay, still too thick. So half of me is thinking I could just go like that. Oh, you know what though? Yeah, I can still twist this, okay. All right, bear with me. I know this is a little bit exacting but I don't wanna, it's the only right angle connector for this I've got for this side of the right size. And I'm not too worried. I think this is a fairly, again, it's a fairly low current situation so I'm not too worried about reducing the amount of wire that I'm using here. Hopefully that's not too foolish. Okay, so I'll twist these up nice so you can see that. It's not the best. Okay, I'm gonna get rid of some of this insulation on this one so that it is the same depth. And I don't have my better strippers for this job here. I want these twisted up really nice and tight so we don't get strays shorting up the works. Then I may use some Kapton tape between those two. Kapton is kind of useful when you, here we go. Kind of useful when you don't have a good way to add heat shrink. Okay, let's see, this iron is still hot, that's good. Two down, trim up the excess and I'm gonna sort of pull at it a little bit to the tool to find the little strays that are gonna wanna mess me up. There's two little strays there. It doesn't take much. Okay, so I'm gonna put a little Kapton in between those for safety. Has anyone ever tried liquid insulations? I think they make those right.  I can pull that through this, maybe. Just too attached to me. There we go. All right, so that's a nice little safety insurance policy right there. Avoid any shorts. And I can wrap the other extra bit. Okay, so presumably that right there, that little nub will now provide power. And we can do some stuff to clean it up, dress things up a little bit. But I'm gonna test this now out on just my multimeter and then the device. So let's grab one of our little batteries. This little one that I'm kind of partial to. Okay, that's a good sign, right? It's not smoking and I can also test charging it if I have a USB B plug anywhere. I have a lot of C laying around over here now. Oh, hey, here's this old friend. Okay, a coily cable. So I'm just gonna see if I can charge it. We should see either yellow or green show up depending on the state of the battery. Here we go, so it's still charging. I think that goes green when it's fully charged or does it blink when it's charging? I can't remember which it does. That's all good. And now we'll grab the meter and check. We should have center positive, five volts and we do. All right, so I'm feeling brave. Go ahead and plug that into my brand new little groove box here and see if I don't smoke the thing. Hey, ta-da. Let's see if it still makes sound. Cool, let's double stop that. All right, so let's turn that off. Now, I haven't done an update on this that brings it compliance with the battery accessory that they've now pulled from the market. That was just meant, I think, to show a battery status. When power is coming from here, it'll show battery status, but you have to set it to be either nickel metal hydride or, it's my meter beeping, or alkaline. And so I just don't think it's gonna tell me anything honest about my battery's value from this LiPo going through the power boost. So I'm gonna ignore that. And let's see, I think I'm gonna go for one of the bigger batteries and see how that feels to have the, where's the 1200? Let's see what that feels like. I could leave this port open and plug different batteries into it, but I kind of wanna make a, I wanna put some heat shrink around this part here, just leaving an opening for this power port and maybe for the battery port as well. Let's see, so you could get into arrangement like that kind of thing. It's not terrible. Keep it all off to the side here. Kinda cool. So let's start with that. Let's do the heat shrink thing and see where that leaves us. I think this tubing I have, which is three quarter inch is gonna fit pretty well, yeah. I wish I had put some over that too, but we'll just have a little sort of funny pinch there. So let's take a chunk like that and I've got a heat gun over here, I'm gonna turn on. Okay, so I want it to maintain this twist. I may be able to heat set that as well. So that points the battery port up, which is probably a good thing. Actually, that's pretty willing to maintain that position actually. So if I go like this, I can make a little, what you know what I'll probably do is shrink that on there and then cut out the port for the battery to go. It could also do clear, but since I wanna bring this on an airplane, the less electronic-y circuit board-y things look the better. Also, this has a blinding blue LED on it that I'd rather just cover, so like that. And the heat on this, I think around 130 is good. Let's see, about 185 is the temperature now. And you can see it'll kinda conform around the shape of some of the parts on there like that power port. You go a lot hotter, but I don't wanna accidentally rework any of the surface mount stuff on this board here. It's looking pretty good. It's sucked in pretty well. All right, we'll leave it at that. Let that cool a little bit. And now I'll just take a exacto and give you a closer view of this. So this is the battery JST connector right here. There's the buck boost converter there, whichever it is, boost, I guess. So if I put a little kind of rectangular slit in there, we should be able to plug in our different batteries. So let's get a big knife there. Here, a little battery plug door. Now, boop, you can still see a little blue glow. See the LED there from the top, if you need to. Let's see. Maybe something like that. In and it's ready to go. And I wouldn't mind wrapping some other, I don't have any bigger heat shrink or I'd shrink the battery in there, but this one, this is gonna give me like an hour and I want more than an hour. So I think I'll have to live with a bigger battery. Let's do a 12, almost 1200s. Let's see how to tidy this up. Like this, could just lay it there, maybe even with a little Velcro or something like that. See is that still working? Yeah, it is. Some zip ties on there, black gaffers tape. I might do that. I really wanna make it look airplane friendly. Put this on the inside. Oh, that's kinda nice. The battery can, this'll still plug in if the battery's right there. That's kinda neat. Let's go for that. By the way, we still got micro USB there for charging. That's not bad. All right. You know, for expediency here today, even though we could probably come up with some thicker heat shrink, that might be my mission or a little 3D printed case or something else, I'm gonna go with some gaff tape for right now. Let's off again. That lays a little flatter like that, yeah.  So I think this is the way to go. I'm gonna tuck these wires in, not too shabby. I don't love that little piece of tape there. I might cover that. Let's do another round, like so. And then I'm gonna clean that. All right. I don't know, maybe that looks terribly suspicious. I'm not sure. We'll find out at the airport, but now means I can just kachonk a battery right into the side of that thing. Super small, nice and easy. What do you think of that? Let's pick a different pattern. I don't know what this one is. It's called milk crate. Wait, we already heard that one. Yeah, there we go. So super tiny battery pack. Now all I need is my headphones and I'm ready to go. Hope you enjoyed that solution to make in the electron model cycles be portable, functional. I don't call them MacGyver for none. Just checking out the Discord chat. Sorry, I couldn't see the chat while I was over there because my iPad got logged out of it. So Velcro strips for managing cables around the battery board, yeah. Five minute epoxy it, that says. Excellent. Yeah, and this is, yeah, Bergen Gamer says it's gonna make a portable Pi 3B.  This little lovely power boost is your friend because it just solves so many things all in one. The fact that it has charging built on to it, so you don't have to unplug a battery and go plug it into a charger.  So I think it's usually like 5.2 roughly. And it'll not turn itself off when it's plugged into things like iOS devices. Really good little gizmo for this kind of thing. I love these, I've been using them on projects for years. All right, let's see. Anything else? Any other questions or thoughts in the chat? Let me know. Oh yeah, Dale Echols mentioned I should have wired the enable port for the power switch. So yeah, that power boost has a enable pin on it. If you look at this illustration of it or photo of it, you'll see there's EN next to ground, enable next around. If you short that, it turns off the power boost board. So you can put a little slide switch there. You can even kind of fit one right in there if you remove one pin, one leg. I have one actually on this. As you can see it, I did exactly that. In fact, on this one I've got a little slide switch right on the power boost and you can see in this case I've soldered on a USB-A port to the power boost. So let's see, turn it on and off. I don't really need that, I don't think for this project because you can't, it's not safe to just pull power on that groove box because there's a bunch of stuff that gets saved when it shuts down so you actually are supposed to hold its own button for powering it down. So that was my thinking on that, Dale, but maybe there's something about that I'm not thinking of as far as quiescent charge and trickling power loss or something like that. So thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely keep that in mind for the future. All right, Tyeth asks if you know anything in the four amp range similar to that? I do not. I have wanted something more like a three amp to be able to deal with a Raspberry Pi 4 and I think I've seen one or two cases of those available on like Aliexpress. I think Tom Whitwell did a project where he added battery and charging capabilities to the fates board. The fates is a DIY sound machine based on a Raspberry Pi and you can use a three or four in there. So I know that there's at least some out there that'll deal with like a three amp. I'll give you about three amps available. All right, well thank you so much everyone. And also I have to say thank you so much for hanging out and being part of this community for the past year as we get ready to glide right into 2022. Thanks for supporting us both in the community by being good fun friendly people who are sharing the stuff that they're working on and their enthusiasm as well as of course keeping our lights on by purchasing stuff from Adafruit and contributing things to things like CircuitPython and other code. We have a lot of give and take which is really satisfying and makes it a lot of fun. So I think that's gonna do it. Thanks everyone for stopping by. I will wish you a merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy new year and so does Lars, he means it from the bottom of his black and shriveled heart. And we're gonna, I think there'll be some shows happening. You'll have to check, you can go in fact to the Discord chat here, the live broadcast chat as well as to the live broadcast announce to check and see when things go live. I think P.T. and LaMoure are gonna be taking a little bit of time off as well but there should be shows continuing to happen here and there in the next couple of weeks. That's gonna do it. All right, thanks everyone for Adafruit Industries. This has been John Park's Workshop. I'm John Park, bye-bye.


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