It's Wednesday, September the 23rd. It's 11 o'clock. It's time for Trump week. I'm Tim Apatow, your host. Thank you for joining us. You know, the title of the show is COVID, the low COVID death toll. Just take out the blue states. Donald Trump made a reference that things were looking really great for COVID and the death count as he had a graph, as he is at the podium, he had a graph about all the COVID deaths. We're now over 202,000 deaths, by the way. And he was looking at the graph and he basically said, you know, we're looking pretty good. We're looking really great. Just take out the blue state numbers. Once again, when a Donald Trump statements that you just, you look at the TV and you go, did I hear what I thought he just said? Just take out the blue states. Just take out 110 deaths and life looks great. In fact, Donald Trump recently gave himself an A plus, an A plus on how he's handled COVID. So let's look at that statement, but I'm gonna just go down memory lane because you gotta put things in context and you gotta look at his modus operandi. And that is to say the most horrific things at the most horrific times and think that he's so smart and witty and guess what? The 40% that follow him thinks so too. So here we go. Just down a cavalcade of hits, if you will. Remember the comment, very fine people on both sides was a reference to white supremacists and his support for white supremacists in Charlottesville. Remember when we were looking at 156,000 COVID deaths and his obtuse comment to, I think it was Jonathan Swan and Axios was, it is what it is. Let's then compare that to his audio recording with Bob Woodward and saying, I wanted to play it down. I still wanna play it down. I don't wanna cause a panic. Unbelievable. He knew early in January how deadly this disease was. He knew in January how easily it was transmittable through the air, not just droplets and what has he done since then? Well, in his mind, he has an A plus, but what has he done since then? And then when the question came about is, could we be so much better and have far fewer deaths? He was recorded to say nothing more could have been done. Yet at the same time, we have rally after rally after rally and people are packed in, in fact, 4,000 as of yesterday in Pennsylvania where no one is wearing a mask. So no, nothing more could have been done. The bottom line is for the 40% of his low followers, here's a quotation for you and I hope you think about it. And that is a quotation from Olivia Troy who was a senior task force member with, working with Mike Pence. And Donald Trump said to her, and she's not an anonymous source, by the way, she's a direct quote and she came out courageously to say this.  Maybe it's a good thing. I don't have to shake hands with those despicable, or excuse me, with those disgusting people. 40%, think about those words and think about how he thinks about you and think about how you are being used every time you go to a rally, showing your bravery and showing your support for Donald Trump by not wearing a mask, think about how much he values you. With us today is Jay Fidel, Cynthia Leeson-Claire, Winston Welch and Stephanie Dalton. Welcome everybody. Hey, I've had too much coffee and I'm hot to trot. So hang on and let's go. Hey Jay, good morning.   Should make a difference as far as how people perceive it and how people vote. What do you think on that? Well, it's outrageous, 110,000 you mean, don't you? Yeah. It's outrageous, but that's the MO. He's gonna do outrageous things and shiny objects to distract us from what he's got going behind his back. And one of the most outrageous things he's done is he called it herd mentality, but he really meant herd immunity. Rachel Maddow did a really interesting analysis of that. And what she found was that if you needed to have 70% of the people catch coronavirus and the rate of deaths on an average around the country is 2.97, say 3%. What you wound up was with 6 million people dying. Now you could make more optimistic analyses, but that was where it starts. And the more optimistic analysis she made was, I think it was one and a half million people. Bottom line though is that that's a lot of people dying. I don't think he gives a rip about that. He's just trying to make outrageous statements. Furthermore, that if that ever happened, what about the healthcare system? There wouldn't be a healthcare system. It would be completely overwhelmed. And that means not only for coronavirus, but for everything, every ill that you could imagine, every normal cause of death you could find. Bottom line is a terrible idea. And I think he throws these things out like hydroxychloroquine and what, bleach, just to get a reaction. He's always got to entertain us. This is one big reality show, but bottom line is you have to see that as a distraction. You have to see that as his MO. Bottom line is he's doing other things. And I hope we have time to discuss the other things today, Tim. Yeah, we will. And I just want to make one quick observation. He said it now many times. He's comparing to his A plus rating to the fact that we're not now at 250,000 deaths or 2.5 million deaths, where he said certainly we could have gone to. So he's really gave himself a pat on the back and he expects his 40% followers to give him a pat on the back because he's below 250,000 deaths or millions of deaths. Have you noticed that in his rally speeches? Oh, incessantly, every rally speech, it's an attack on anyone who is opposed to him. And it's a pat on the back for how well he's doing. My favorite one is where not only did he not cause the 200,000 deaths, but in fact, he has saved two to 2.5 million people. We may not have noticed that, but he is actually the great savior. And I think the bottom line on that is that he divides us. There's part of the country, call it the base, who believes what he says every time. And there's the other part of the country that has no trust in him at all. And so what you have is just another division. He is trying as hard as he can and Putin is telling him how to do it to divide the country on every single issue. And what he says in general is a divisive point. And I think that's one of the reasons he throws these shiny objects and distraction points at us. Yeah, agreed. Thank you, Jay, for your comment. Stephanie, the death count in World War II for American soldiers was 192,000. We're now 202,000. We've exceeded World War II as far as the number of COVID deaths. Is it, again, I'll ask the question to you, am I being overly sensitive by thinking it's a disgrace to basically say how great your death toll number is by excluding those lives out of a blue state and worse yet to exclude the families that are suffering through the deaths of their loved ones and discounting them completely because they happen to be from democratic blue states. What am I missing here? Or am I missing anything?  And he's had all this enablement which now includes the U.S. Senate. And this is what, there are no explanations other than a power grab. He's managing to move in over everything and everybody's standing around enabling him to do that. So I think this has been adequately argued and presented in the Mary Trump book and in other writings and he is not sympathetic to anything just as Jay cited Rachel Maddow's numbers. He's going for herd immunity which will cost another up to two million or more people to die. That's the cost of herd immunity, that's okay with him. So what, where, compare? He's not thinking of any of that. This is a guy with low brain intelligence, rationale, judgment, higher level skill thing. He's on his Tyrannosaurus Rex approach which is to get him the biggest and the best he can. And so I don't question his motives or ask them. I know what they are.  And why are we enabling him? I call out to the Senate. Why are they enabling him? And that- We'll get to that with a question later on with Jay and we'll go through that as in part why the Senate is mum and completely inept to stand up and speak out. So we'll talk about that in a bit too. All right, thank you very much Stephanie. Hey, Winston, question to you is if you're one of the family members in one of these blue states that's just been dismissed as not counting and the death of their loved ones not counting and Donald Trump passed himself on the back with an A plus on his performance with COVID what's that do for you? What's that do for your family members? What does that do pot potentially one month from now six months from now? You know, again, it's what will his followers believe and if you're already on that side of reality that says everything that this man says is a lie or are twisting of the truth or whatever, it doesn't matter. The reality here isn't mattering. It's just more outrage for folks on the left but we have to, you know, is it when we talk about what we're gonna talk about on the show trying to keep up with the daily issues much more than hourly issues would be a better account. Maybe we need to like that something going on but I'm concerned it's the totality of everything and COVID is distracting at this point it's everything else. If you took away COVID that is which we can't but that's part of it and that's just a part of it. But we've got other things that he said this week I just want to mention a couple of them. He says it's a beautiful site when police injured MSNBC journalists with a rubber bullet were counting on the federal court system to declare a winner on the election night before many ballots are tallyed. He's Ruth, you're probably gonna get to these Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish was a democratic hoax. I mean, who says something like that? Anarchistic jurisdictions for New York, Seattle and Portland. Then CDC pulling their draft, draft coronavirus guidelines, reversing themselves again. The suggestion that he moved Christopher Ray, the FBI director over testimony that was not flattering to him. It's so much that we can't absorb it anymore. I mean, it's just it bounces off at some point. So when you ask what do people think when they say this it's just like throw it on the trash heap over there because I can't buy enough trash bags to throw this stuff all away. I don't know where to... I agree because in the last week I've been overwhelmed by atrocious statements from Donald Trump. And then of course you go down memory lane you start remembering all the hundreds of other ones that are not quite as bad, but rank way up there. So yeah, it's too much for the human psyche to deal with. And I think people just shut it out. They just say, you know what? I'm voting for who I'm gonna vote for and that's all I can do. Or maybe they don't even get to that point. They just say, I mean, they go with it Donald. It is what it is. But, you know, we have a happy note though. He says, if he loses, you'll never see me again. He said, so we have to keep that in mind. I did catch that comment.  Sadly, sadly. Sadly. Okay. Hey, thanks Winston. Cynthia, I always love to hear your perspective when it comes to atrocious statements from Donald Trump. What's your read on this all, this latest A plus award for himself and cutting out the blue states as far as statistics and what a great job he's done. Well, he's the president of the whole United States not the red Republican states. And so he would do well to remember that. The Senate would do well to remind him of that. But, you know, they just want the power. That's all they care about. And the thing that worries me the most is not just him anymore. He has infiltrated all of our organizations to such a high level. And, you know, Jay, you were talking today about the Rachel Maddow show. And I love that she really digs down and finds important things. And one of the things she found the other day is a CDC report for the Tyson meat packing plant. The CDC had all these recommendations. Now, when the inspectors go in, when CDC says, okay, there's an infection, whether it be, you know, SARS or Ebola or anything, right? They send out their little investigators. Their investigators make a report. The report doesn't say if you feel like it, you can do it. The report says, you do this, you do this, you do this, you do this. Well, they found the original report that didn't have any of that verbiage of if you want or if it's possible or if convenient. Well, the report that they received at the Tyson plant had all of that discounting language in it, if possible. If able, all of these things, you know, so must put up plastic barriers between the workers when possible. Every single one of the dictates that the CDC had put out had this little caveat for that if possible. You know, Cynthia, I'm gonna throw out one of Donald Trump's famous statements because nothing more could have been done. And to tag onto what you've just said, because they've retracted, you know, definitive language from the CDC recommendations, nothing more could be done. Well, there was a report that the post office had ready to go, including their distribution memo about sending five NR95 masks to every household in the country to stop the spread of COVID-19. That was pulled, that was retracted. Donald Trump didn't do everything that could be possible. In fact, in some ways it looks like he's doing many things to counteract the spread of COVID-19. Okay, we're gonna change on to something else here. And that's about the replacement of the Supreme Court seat, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Jay, the bottom line is, do the Democrats look ineffectual and weak trying to stop what clearly is a reversal from 2016 about not letting Garland's nomination move forward? Yeah, here we are in a race, in a downhill race to get the replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's position. Your thoughts? Well, this surprised you that Lindsey Graham has changed his position from a couple of years ago where he said, quote me on this, you can hold this tape and use it against me. He said, in connection with Merrick Garland, we're gonna wait till the election to see who should appoint the next Supreme Court judge. And that was the Republican position back in 2016 and they frustrated Obama about that. Now the shoe was on the other foot and they're all switching. It's unbelievable, this just reminds me of the peace in the Bible. Is there one good man or woman in the city of Sodom? We have a couple of people, but that's not enough in the Senate who could stop this rush. But I think it's clear enough that McConnell has control and Trump has control and the Senate has all sold their souls. Yeah, I'll just briefly talk about the response though from the Democrats and it seems to me that the ending- Well, let me address that. You hear a lot of puffing and protests from the Democrats and they say they have a whole war chest of things they're gonna do to stop the rush to appoint someone else. And they don't really tell you what's in the war chest. And then you say, as long as the Senate votes that's pretty much it and that's what's gonna happen. I don't know if anything stands in the way. What might have stood in the way is the shutdown issue. For all the bluff and blunder, the Democrats went along and voted for continuing funding to avoid shutdown which was very noble of them. But that was to me a big lever that they had which they did not apply. So they can make bluff and blunder but I don't think there's anything in the toolkit. Well, the old toolkit used to include activating the constituents of each state and encouraging them to contact their senators in protest. Well, it seems to me the Democrats are spending more time on pointing out the hypocrisy of what was said in 2016 versus today versus the real impacts of having the Affordable Care Act thrown out or the real impacts of having Roe v. Wade reversed. You know, those issues that really affect the lives of Americans for years to come that doesn't seem to be being pressed that hard. It's more of the indignation that how dare they change their voice and their opinions from 2016. I think that's a weak argument. I think they need to just drop that. We all know that the Republicans lie shamelessly at this point and because they follow Donald Trump wholeheartedly. So stop trying to point out to the American public what shameless liars they are. Let's just go to the heart of the matter and that is, hey, you are going to lose your Affordable Care Act very soon. Hey, if you value the freedom of your body you are going to lose on Roe v. Wade very shortly. And I don't think that's being pressed. Well, yeah, you know, but let me respond to say that even if there were people in the streets over this and everybody wrote a letter which isn't going to happen I think the public has sort of lost confidence in that kind of mechanism. Hasn't worked very well over the Trump administration. You know, protests don't work very well and letters don't work very well and so forth. So at the end of the day, the question is how do you get another justice in there? Number one, Trump appoints one. Number two, McConnell has a floor vote immediately even without hearings and the deed is done. So don't make any bets against that because in the next few days that's exactly what we're going to have. That's my prediction. Okay, Jay. Thank you very much. And I think you're going to be correct on that. Stephanie, your thoughts about the rush to fill the vacancy seat before the election? Got to go on the offensive. What is the offensive? You're right, Tim. There not needs to be an offensive. First of all, Bill Maher says, don't use the post office and I think the country ought to respond to that. And the next thing might be let's not pay taxes. Just stop it. Do not pay taxes in the millions and millions and put it if we have to going forward. But so getting on the offensive means we have to put up with whatever they're going to do. I wish they would impeach Trump again. I wish Nancy Pelosi and Chuck would go ahead and do something. I don't care what it is. Just do it to shut down the process of approving this justice. But in lieu of that, then we've got to look to the election and our success and the Democratic nominees success. And then go ahead with bringing DC and Puerto Rico to be states and get four more senators and then add two more to or however many more anybody wants to add to the Supreme Court. And it was wise to telegraph that in advance and really give the Republicans something to bat down and use as argument against this whole process. I think it was a very poor strategy to predict the future of what the Democrats were going to do to retaliate. I thought it was very bad strategy and I think it made them look bad quite frankly. Oh, well, I agree, Tim. I think you're absolutely right. I certainly wouldn't have recommended that. I think that I'm glad to know about them but I could give up knowing about moving in that direction but I'd prefer they would shut up and get on the offensive, work hard to stop, stop, stop it. And then if we still have to swallow a 6-3 then we get and work on these other approaches to it. Now that of course depends on getting the Senate. So that's another thing and that Lindsey Graham is like bouncing around a little bit ahead and how he can go ahead and retract himself. Does he really gonna get away with this? I mean, that is just gonna be a whole disappointment if he's back in there. But no, I agree with you. Democrats need to be on the offensive. We need to follow and do something as a nation, as a nation of people interested in democracy. We gotta do- Okay, thank you. Hey, we're almost, once again, we're running out of time. Winston, I wanna get you on the record and Cynthia, I certainly wanna get you on the record on this point. Go ahead, Winston. Is this about Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Yes, yes. She rested in peace. She did not get much peace for resting. I mean, what if a man says something like that right after she's died, that her last dying wish? We can imagine that's exactly what she would have said that she needed to telegraph that in a video beforehand. Yeah, I wanted to clarify one thing that about this 200,000 number for COVID, I don't know where that comes from of people saying that's more than the battle deaths, but just on the VA's site, which hopefully the VA is still having back here at informationva.gov, it shows 291,000 battle deaths in World War II. So the total battle deaths of all wars through 1991 was about 650,000. Sadly, we will reach that with COVID. So just, I don't know that we should compare those two numbers exactly because they're different. And it's, you know, it's not that people died, but they're apples and oranges. We need to focus on what COVID is and what it is. As far as Ruth Bader Ginsburg goes, it's saying you're gonna increase the court numbers. That never stops, you know, laying your cards on the table like that. At this point, that is probably a lost cause unless there is some person, some Republican candidate, a Senator out there who when it comes time for the vote, scans up and says, I vote no. And that will take an act of enormous courage in this place and time when even Romney rolled over. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Winston. Cynthia, I know election, election security is always paramount in your mind. What about Donald Trump's statement about the fact that this new judge could be used as part of the vote to validate his protest to a rigged election. And when he protests that and they, you know, try to appeal their election results, that this new addition of a judge will become in quite handy as a vote to basically validate and uphold his protest. And it will, that is a true fear that we should all worry about. And the woman that is being put forward, at least the one we hear about the most right now that's being put forward is part of, is it faith freedom? I believe is the name of the organization she's part of. It is a patriarchal, men are in charge and have authority over women kind of a organization. And if that is the case, she goes beyond just being a conservative. She goes to the far, far, far right. Is this a situation where Donald Trump expects loyalty in order to get the nomination? You're gonna have that behind the scenes? Absolutely. And to just a quick finish from before, they found the original order from the CDC that didn't have any of that other language in it. And it was after Trump's man was put in place and it was changed. And that's what's gonna happen everywhere. When Trump puts his people in place, then he has broader power and broader support. And we all should worry. Well, 1933, place called Germany. We saw that all the agencies were dismantled and his loyal couples were put into place. And that was the beginning of the end. Hey, we got, we're out of time, but I want one word from each of you as far as one word on describing what's going on next week. Jay, we'll start with you. Barton Gelman. It's a name. And it's an article that appeared in the Atlantic today. And it lays out what is going, the scenarios that are going to happen in the election. It is not a happy article. And it is very credible, very detailed and very- Okay, say the name one more time. He wrote, Barton Gelman wrote an article in the Atlantic today. Okay, thank you, Jay. Stephanie, one word, next week. Pelosi and Schumer get on the offense and do it and stop following the norms and the directions. Do the max, push the edge. I hope they're, and they're after Nancy, she has nothing to lose because they're after her. All right, Winston. I have a toss up between 1984 and pray. Well, how about both? I know I said one word, but you know what? Let's take both because we need them. They're two separate classes. Don't pray for 1984. Well, we're already there. You don't have to pray for it, we're already there. Watch the movie, read the books, folks. Yeah, you know, Cynthia, you get the last word and it is one word. I shoot, it's more than one word. It's a name. Okay, go ahead. We ought to tell her nobody was charged in her death. Nobody. That's a valid point. All right, thank you one and all for joining us on Trump week. Join us next week, Wednesday at 11 o'clock. I'm Tim Appichell, your host and hang on and let's move forward. Aloha.


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First warranty story is that TG panels break a lot, surprisingly.  So, diisip ko na sobrang rare tung event nato. But when we put up the shop, when we started getting more customers, it's not uncommon. Maybe once every six months, every four months, may makakontak na, ui nasira yung TG side panel ko, nagshatter and how do we go about this. And to be honest, most of the time, the problem is human error. Ah, meanin naman ni customer na, you know, it broke because it slipped or they weren't careful or something else happened to break the integrity of the glass. But how did hardware sugar do? Ito, yung isang P350X na TG side panel, we replaced it free of charge. Matrex 55 side panel, also replaced free of charge. Another 350X panel, ito may small charge because it was out of warranty, but we were still able to get it from our supplier. And then this one, a replacement side panel for a Meshify C case, which also was free of charge. So, actually magandin track record namin of being able to replace side panels. Although, sa totoo lang, nahirapin talaga kami ngayon itong panahon na COVID, a lot of the supplies are not coming in or they're very staggered. So we've had a lot of trouble getting replacement side panels ever since the pandemic started. We did have one interesting case around six months ago. It was a Meshify S2 case and the side panel broke. And we couldn't get our replacement for the side panel. So, yung ginawa ni customer, pumunta siya sa local glass shop malapit sa kanila tas nagpagawa ng side panel. I thought this was very interesting of the customer parang thinking out of the box. And I actually saw the case, he brought it in, taninan ko. The glass looked pretty good if a bit thicker and heavier than what you would normally associate with a TG side panel. Pero yung major downside yung option na yun is yung adhesive. They had to use a lot of adhesive and kitang-kita dun, it smeared on the glass. So yes, the center part of the side panel is clear but on the sides, the top and the bottom, you can see where the adhesive was placed and it really smeared on the glass. As neat and as aesthetic as having a replacement side panel altogether but points for ingenuity. Sa amin, pag malinao na sira, replace ka agad. Leg itong RAM, the lower end of the RGB is obviously faulty, it's not in sync with the rest of the stick. So ito mga 6 hours lang between the customer sending it back as confirming na siranga and ascending the replacement. This case also, another case na medyo stuck yung RAM RGB or hindi siya in sync with the rest. Again, within the same day, napalita namin to. And ito naman, fan noon kraken M22 AIO, fan stop spinning, we replaced it within the day. Ito, may isang customer na bumalin ng buong rig and na nang couple of months later, nag fail yung PSU niya. Binilik niyo yung rig and unfortunately, wala na kaming model na ganun ng PSU. At the same time, yung supplier namin, hindi makakomit kung kailan dadating yung replacement unit. And the customer needed his PC for work. So what we did was, we lent him a power supply unit free of charge for the next four months. Sa states karaniwan to, talog nila loaner unit. But usually yung din na loan coach, hindi PC part. Ito sa states lang yun. I can't think of any PC shop that's lent a customer an item like we did. But we were happy to help our customer out kasi yun nga kailangan niya for work. At the same time, hiniintay namin yung replacement PSU from the supplier. Finally, dumating yung replacement PSU, we installed it in the customer's rig tapos nakakaya pa dyan. Siradan yung replacement unit. So we had to send him back with again, with loaner PSU and actually, hangang-hangang tagaw dito. The loaner unit was a cooler master 500 watt bronze and this was a high-end rig. The original PSU was 750 watts. Pero nakayahanan ni 500 watt CM power supply. Yun, the customer was using it daily for whatever, for gaming, for work. And the loaner unit served him just fine. Until finally, the supplier determined na, hindi na talaga may makakakuhahan itong unit na to, credit memo na lang dito sa shop. And so we told the customer will give you a full refund. We can't replace the PSU. And he's like, ya, no problem. And he used the refund to buy another PSU from us. Paminsan may kulang sa item. Hindi mo maywasan, some PC components come with a lot of different wires, screws, fans, and different anti-vibration pads. Very different minute things that are easy to misplace. Hindi mo rin maywasan yung human error, even the factory workers in China make mistakes. Paminsan, kulang talaga yung laman nung isang item. Like may error-cool case, pinadala namin, kulang pala nung screws. Or itong Coolermaster na fanpack, kulang nung SATA power cable. So these might seem like small items, but they were very important. Hindi gagana yung main item without them. So we got in touch with our suppliers and we were able to get replacements, which we sent free of charge. Yung screws, pinadala namin sa takloban, free of charge. Yung SATA cable na missing, pinadala namin sa bulakan, also free of charge. So even the small things, we really tried to make sure na binileyo ni customer, kompleto yan, para kay customer. Although sometimes, hindi gumagano yung item, kasi hindi lang talaga marunong si customer. Like one experience we had, we had someone in the army nakabaysya sa Fort Bonnie tapos lumilaysyan yung one terabyte na hard drive. No problem, pinadala namin. Problema, when he got it, he contacted us na hindi dang madetek sa windows yung hard drive. Usually our policy is, kailangan muna niya ipadala yung defective item before we issue a replacement. But because he mentioned na pinakitan na rin yung sa tech niya, you know, army guys have a difficult job so I wanted to cut them a break and I thought, sige, padala ko nalang yung replacement. So I sent over a second hard drive and meanwhile got the first one back. Yung problema, when we tested the first hard drive, wala naman problema. In the meantime, nung testing ni army guy yung second hard drive, nag-report ulit siya na hindi ulit madetek. So, login na yung shop, dalawang hard drive na nabuksan, isa lang yung nabile or we've only been paid for one. And as it turned out, there was no problem with either hard drive. Yung problema, the customer did not format the drive kaya hindi siya makita sa windows. And I don't know what kind of tech you are na di mo may isip na, kailangan i-format yung drive bago makita sa windows. But there you are. So I had the drive formatted the first drive. Okay na siya, formatted. I sent it back to the army guy. I got the second drive back. And when I got the second drive back, I had it formatted and tested nung problem. And the army customer also did not report any problems with the first drive nung nakaformat na siya. Basically, wala nang problema sa dalawang drives. Yung problema, hindi lang marunong si customer. And that's a difficulty talaga dito sa shop na, sometimes the customer will think na kaya niya yung parts, kaya niya yung assemble, kaya niya install. And more power, we encourage people to get into the hobby and to try assembling on their own. But they need to also be aware na just because it doesn't work, sira ka-agad yung hardware. There's a big chance na baka may human error or user error involved don't. And for the customer, it's all fun and giggles. Ay, di pala sira. Okay lang, thank you. Pero malaking problema yan sa for the shop kasi if we keep doing that, malalugi talaga kami. We keep sending out replacements na di pala kailangan. Hindi rin namin mabenta yung replacements na yun at the retail price kasi di na fair to the next customer kasi nabuksan na yun. Or at least the army guy, mukhang in good faith naman, hindi lang talagal niya alam panang kamiten yung brilliant hard drive. And also the tech na, di ko alam anong tech na yan. But we do get customers, unfortunately, na ginagamit yung lenient warranty policy namin para ibalik yung item even though hindi naman covered ng warranty. For example, itong MSI monitor binili ni customer. After a few days, bumalik siya, sabi niyo may dead pixels.  Pero yun nga, no BS warranty. We don't like making the customer wait. So we issued a full refund for the monitor. And then we started using it in the shop for our test rig. Day in, day out, takabukas yan, ginagamit yung mga ibang customers, ginagamit yung staff namin. Wala kami makita na dead pixel. Unipat ko kay Rafael, ginamit niya pag gaming, ginamit niya for everyday use. Wala rin siyang makita na dead pixel. Months later, ginamit niya, wala pa rin, binenta namin kay kenscast at a discounted price kasi basically second hand na siya. And kenscast has been using it as its primary monitor for months now. Wala rin siyang makita na dead pixel. So suspect siya ko, wala talagang dead pixel. If you know, at least twenty-twenty eyes have looked at this monitor over that period of time, wala talagang makita na dead pixel. So suspect siya ko, yung customer nag-anap lang nung dahilan, gumawa lang nung dahilan para, ay, for whatever reason, ayon niya yung unit and pinabalik niya. And if there's no defect, that's not covered under our warranty. You know, change of mind is not covered under our warranty. And again, if we keep doing that, malalugi yung shop. So I'm just trying to introduce a little bit the other side of the coin. Of course, as a customer, gusto natin na mabilis na warranty. But at the same time, kung tanggap lang, tanggap yung shop, wala ng shop. And yes, on one hand, medyo tangang kami for accepting the MSI monitor back. Pero kasi yung default state namin is to trust our customers. If you tell us it's not working, we will believe you. Diyon nga, baka dapat may warranty policy yung shop against customers that abuse our warranty policy. Kasi sa totoo lang, because for the customer, a no BS warranty is great. But for the shop, it can be deadly. Our margins are not that great regardless of what you think na sobrang overpriced nung ibang items. And I know some of you are thinking about that. Pero totoo lang, the margins are not that great. One or two items, especially expensive ones like monitors can really make or break the shop. Tapos isipin mo. That's just one item for one customer. But andaming ibang mga items na pwede yung mangyari na ganun. So we have to balance the no BS warranty against also the interest of the shop. And to be fair, hindi nga talaga covered yung change of mind or imagined defect sa warranty policy namin. So all of these stories are not meant to embarrass the brands kasi yung tingin namin dyan, no part works 100% of the time. Regardless gano ka premium yung brand mo, things will break down. And to be honest, as a shop, we're also not embarrassed when we sell something that breaks down. Kasi yung nga, the only inevitable thing in life are death and taxes. Everything else is probability and chances. Walang 100%. May mga items talaga na masisira. But what the brands and the shop should be ashamed about is if something really does break down, tapos hindi ka tinulungan nung shop mo, kung san mo nabilian. And that's where our no BS warranty comes into play. You trusted us with your money, you trusted us to give you a quality part. And when it breaks down, we won't break that trust. Replace, repair, or refund that item. Not to say that we approve all warranty claims. Paminsan, wala talagang problema sa hardware, yung software, yung problema. And this happens a lot with GPUs. Any builder, anyone who's been gaming for any length of time knows na paiba-iba talagay yung drivers. Paminsan, rock steady, sobrang stable, the next month, watak-watak na siya, ayon na magload yung ibang games. Even though two weeks ago, they were working fine. There's nothing wrong with our current hardware. The problem is software. And that's not covered by our warranty. Or sometimes you get customers that just don't want to comply with our warranty terms. For example, makalaga dito is that the customer bears the cost of sending the item back to us. And we've had a lot of customers from Davao, Negros, Cebu, wherever outside of Metro Manila, na sila talagamismo nagpapa LBC, nagpapa Ninjavan, however means they want to send it over back to us because we do need to determine our action on the warranty. And the majority of customers are fine with that. But there is a minority, a very vocal one na sakit sa ulo na sinasabi na dey dey maningwala ka sa akin, sira itong nabenta mo sa akin, magpadala ka no replacement. Tapos, when you tell them they need to send back the original item, dun sila nagagalit. Na, ay bakit ko pa ipapadala nandito ako sa some province outside of Metro Manila? Binantam mo to, dapat use it mo. These are very rare occurrences but they do happen they're an unfortunate minority. We're very clear dun sa warranty terms that you do need to send it back at your own cost. If you don't want to comply with that, then please don't buy from us. Buy from your local store if you're in Baguio, buy from your local store in Baguio, in Cebu, in Negros, in Davao, wherever you are, your local store if you buy from them will be your first point of contact. Na, of course, mas madali naman bumalik sa local store mo kay sa sana, ipadala pa yung item dito sa amin sa Manila. If you don't want to run a risk that you might need to pay for the item to get sent back here, then the best option would be a local store. And yung din yung frustration ko pa minsan na the customer wants everything. You know, I think hardware sugar really gives a lot already to the customer because sinabula namin ang shop na to kasi customers did kami and we were so frustrated with the service of other PC shops and so we put it up to be the exact opposite of other PC shops but that's not to say that walang obligations yung customer. We also ask certain things from the customer, very basic things like send the item back to us so that we can test it. And that's also why we suggest buying from your local stores. If not from us, marami ang PC stores na okay din dito sa Manila and outside of Manila but if you get it from internationally, like yung components magaling Amazon, galing New Egg, magaling selection, pa minsan mas okay pa yung price, pero yun nga yung warranty. You have very difficult time claiming on the warranty for items both abroad. And hindi ako magsisunong ngaleng sa inyo. Pa minsan, bumibili din ako for my own use because there are some items abroad na hindi talaga available sa atin. But I'm aware and I acknowledge and I'm comfortable running that risk that warranty might be a problem. And I wish for the minority of customers na sakit talaga sa ulo, they understand that this is a two-way street, that they also have obligations they need to meet before we can determine the warranty claim. Hindi lang bigay ng bigay yung shop. We sold you something, it doesn't seem to be working. At least give us the chance to examine the item to determine for ourselves that it's really not working. So these are just some of the warranty stories we've accumulated over the almost three years that we've been operating. I'll leave the link to our Facebook Album where we have more of the stories. And if you like hearing these stories or you mag-quento-quento lang to go to shop, let us know in the comments so we can do more of these kind of videos. And actually, marami ako kuna-quento sa livestream ko from the shop. I do a livestream every month from the shop where I talk about new stock, warranty stories, customer stories. And that's something different about hardware sugar. We're very open about the inner workings of the shop. And again, very different from a lot of the other big stores where parang fokusang nila benta. So Facebook posts nila puro benta, YouTube nila puro benta. And for me, that's boring. Yes, of course, as a businessman, as the owner of the shop, I want to make money. But at the same time, I really like PC parts. I think they're super cool. And if you go through some of my other videos, paulit-ulit kung sinasabi na the moto of the shop is cool parts to cool people. If you easily get frustrated, if you have a hard time understanding that you need to send the item back to us, then maybe you can buy from somewhere else. But I really... But we put apart hardware sugar so that we could have quality parts in the Philippines. And that's why this video is a part of that, a part of showing... the customer showing the audience sort of a little bit behind the scenes of what goes on and the many, many headaches in running a PC shop. Thanks for watching. And all the thanks in the world to our top fans, Christian Espinoza, John Ruben Ocha, ITX addict, Richard Ongkinko, Ian Meru, and Lia Magnaie. Your support really goes a long way to helping upgrade the production quality of the channel and we really, really appreciate it. Thanks so much.


various chats. So we have a chat going on over on YouTube. So hello, Johnny Bergdahl, David Odessa. Thank you for stopping by. Nice to see you. And anyone else who joins in over there. And then we also have our Discord, which is this. Oh my goodness. It's got animated gifts and things going on. So that is our, what is that? Discord server. If you want to join that, head on over to adafrew.it slash Discord. You'll get an instant invite. You can jump onto our server and then look for the live broadcast chat channel. That's where the conversation is going on during the shows. And then you can see on the side here, we have a whole bunch of other channels. There's help with a bunch of different topics here. There's a show and tell, there's a 3D printing. There's some software related things, general chat, pet photos and on and on. But yeah, jump on over into the live broadcast chat channel to hang out during the show here. Let's see. Hello, Jeff. Hello, Andy Calloway. Nice to see you. See Grover. Hello. Hey, Johnny is there as well. Thin Man. Hello. Great. The gang's all here. So what do we got going on today? There's a good question for me. For you, I've got a couple of things. What have we got? We have a coupon code that you can use if you want to go shop in the Adafruit store or shop today and get 10% off. I have a recap of the product pick of the week from this week. I have a brand new circuit Python parsec for you, which I think is a really useful, really helpful one. What else? I've got some updates on projects. We'll take a look at the state of the fader wave synthesizer and talk a little bit about how that's working. I have a project that I built based on a guide that Tyiff had created. I'll show you the guide there, but I built one of these summoning horns to give to my friend Corey, Dr. Oh, who had come up with the idea initially of the summoning horn. So we'll talk about that a bit. Then whatever questions and things we've got going on in the chat, let me know. Someone asked about or mentioned they see the Muhammad Ali. Yeah.  This is the packaging for this knockout, the KO sampler, a little sample workstation sequencer, drum machine kind of thing. I'm going to RMA mine so that they'll send me one with a working fader. I decided I didn't really feel like desoldering and fixing the one on a brand new item. So I think I'm going to let teenage engineering take care of that for me. But that's the cool packaging it came in. I say cool, but that packaging may actually be at fault for some of the fader problems. That's the supposition is that it was just too tight in that packaging and thin and actually squished down the wipers on the fader a little bit. What else? Oh, look, I've got some seasonal greenery here. What do you call this? Garland? I guess it's a garland. It's fake, so it won't die there. What else? Sound is kind of low. Oh, thank you for letting me know. Oh, someone says sounds fine to me. Okay, I won't touch it too much. Maybe maybe just a smidge. I have a mic over there for for miking that amplifier. So I'll turn that off so we don't fight with that right now. All right. That's what's going on. All right, let me know. So on to some business here. This is the Adafruit website. If you go there, you'll see some products, new products, featured products, info about shipping for the holidays. Some of that may tempt you to get some stuff or maybe you have some projects in mind and you'd like to save some money. Well, you can do that today. With that coupon code beep beep. That's beep hyphen beep B E E P dash B E E P that will get you 10% off in the store. So head on over, throw some stuff in your cart. And then on the way out, don't forget to type that in as your coupon code. And I will also mention that if you go to a fruit dot com slash free, go there myself. And don't misspell it. You will see we have some freebies.  If you spend $99 or more, you're going to get a free PCB coaster.  And if you have a huge order, you put together $299 or more, you're going to get a free circuit playground express and the UPS ground shipping in the continental United States, you will get the KB 2040 and the coaster. So those are some cool freebies that you can get at. They all stack up and you can still use your coupon code. So if you are interested in saving some money, then that's the code you want to use today. Beep, beep. I say beep, beep, but we're going to be making a big loud noise with one of these. One of these little 12 volt car horns. They're super loud. Beep, beep. So next up, I have a show on Tuesdays, which is my product pick show on it. I like to grab a new product from the store, make some demos with it, show you how it works and give you a big discount during the show only. This one was 50% off this week. It is this Qualia S3 board. And I'll give you a little one minute recap of that show right now. It is the Qualia ESP32 S3. It's an RGB 666 TFT driving board and microcontroller dev board all in one. I've got the Qualia ESP32 S3. It is plugged into a little micro SD card reader and then one of these beautiful little rectangular displays. You can see I have a video playing on there. It's running about 12 frames a second and it's just a few seconds long. I'm just looping it back and forth to make a cool little Dita Rams brawn clock inspired clock. This has Wi-Fi built in. So this is using, I think once an hour it goes to the Adafruit IO to grab the time off of the time server and keep itself pretty accurate. It is the Qualia ESP32 S3 TFT driver board for RGB 666 displays. Yes, indeed. That's what it was. And I just noticed that there's a new guide if you check out over in the learn system that is from Melissa. It's called Simplifying Qualia Circuit Python Projects. So that's going to be really helpful. I'm going to take a look at that because it makes some of the initialization of the screens dead simple. You can just call them by no means. In fact, I used them in one of the projects yesterday. I used one of the features there. So this is a brand new project and if you head over to the learn system, you will see a banner that says new guides. You can do a little scrolling sideways there to see some of the latest guides that have come out or click on this view all button here and bring you the typical gallery display there of new projects. So you can see we've got a few cool Qualia S3 things. There's that guide, the S3 fireplace that the Ruse Brothers just made, this new one, Simplifying Qualia projects. And here's the space clock as well as some 3D printed cases. So those are cool. And yeah, we had a discount on that because it was product pick of the week. Some people said, hey, what about those screens? Well, we didn't have a discount on the screens, but you can use that 10% off with your BB coupon code if you want to pick up a screen or two for testing on those boards. Let's see. Tyeth says kind of regret not getting 10 Qualias. Lots of lots of cool display projects in mind, huh? All right. Next up, let me get set up here for a Circuit Python Parsec. All right, here we go. For the Circuit Python Parsec today, I would like to show you how to use async.io to run concurrent tasks that don't get in each other's way. So what you'll see here in the overhead, I have three LEDs plugged into this Metro RP2040. The green one on top is blinking at this quarter-second rate. The red one is blinking and holding every two seconds. And the little white one down at the bottom there is fading up and down at a different speed as well. So all of these things are happening. They're doing tricky little internal timings, but they don't really bother each other. How does that work? Well, what we do in code is we import async.io. Then I have some typical board and digital.io and PWM stuff to blink the LEDs. Then you can see I'm setting up functions that are a sort of unique kind of function. They're called async functions. So you see async def and then I define how a blink works. In this case, I'm telling it the pin number and the speed or interval that's going to work at. Then I set up any LEDs that I've called.  It says, okay, we're going to turn the LED true. But then instead of using time sleep, we're using await async.io sleep and then whatever that interval is. Same when I turn it off and wait that interval. I have another one here that's similar except this one is increasing and decreasing the duty cycle of that white LED there with PWM so it can fade up and down. And then instead of running our main task as a usually like a while true loop, what we do is we create this async function called main. And in it, we're creating separate tasks that will run on their own without bothering each other. So we have LED one task, which is a blink at this speed on pin 12. We have LED two task, which is the two second one. And that's on pin A1. And then we have a third task, which is running that fade routine on pin A0. And it's running really fast. Then I create this await async.io gather. And then I create this await async.io gather any of the tasks that I want to run. And then the sort of meta run that we have around the whole thing is this async.io.run. And then I'm calling that main function, which is full of those tasks. And so that is how you're able to create multiple things going on at once with different timings inside of CircuitPython using async.io. And that is your CircuitPython Parsec. Audio was off. Sorry about that. I was just saying. I want to thank Dan Halbert, who created the, worked on this code, created the guide for it. And I was able to pull some of his sample code as a starting point for doing this example. And then I just added to it this fade function. Yes, thank you. There's a delay between my broadcast and when you see it.  Thank you. I appreciate the note on that. I caught it early, but usually I need people to tell me. So thank you so much. Alright. So that, like I say, that is a huge help to a lot of projects doing things like running stuff that's on timings. It's really common to want to do things with motors and servos and lights and sound that have very particular timings. And yet you might be trying to do UART stuff and you might be trying to press buttons and turn knobs and to get all that stuff to work together is usually really tricky. A lot of complicated code to try to roll your own. And so I'm really excited to just start dipping my toes into using async.io to help with these sorts of things. Hey, this is a good point. Mark Z says, do you have a summoning horn? Yeah. It's dangerous, but it is an idea. If I set up one of these summoning horns so that people can beep it at me when my audio is out, that would work well. I used to have a system like that many years ago going, but it wasn't anywhere near as loud as this one. Alright. So let's move on. What else have we got going on here? Let's talk about check my notes. Where did my notes go? Alright. So we've got summoning horn. Yeah. Let's dive into the summoning horn a bit, since we've brought it up. And for that, what I'm going to do is start off over here speaking of learn guides. In fact, if you scroll down a bit, maybe it's on the next page, otherwise I'll search it. There it is. No code, whippersnapper summoning horn by Tyeth Gundry. Tyeth's in the chat there and I hope I'm saying your name correctly. Please correct me if I'm not. So this is a really cool guide and the idea for this was originally proposed by Cory Doctorow. He's a friend of mine, a friend of Adafruit's. He's a sci-fi author among many other things. And his editor and his editor's assistant sometimes have critical emails that they're sending to each other and getting no response on. And I hope I'm not spoiling it for them if they're watching, hopefully they're not. But Cory wanted to be able to get them some car horns that they could beep at each other. That was the idea. If you want to be able to yell at someone who's in another room so they hear you, then the summoning horn is for you. So this was the idea. Tyeth put together a really great guide on doing this essentially as a codeless solution using whippersnapper. So if you take a look at the guide here on the first page, you can see there's a nice GIF animation here of a dashboard in Adafruit I.O that has some of the key features here. Let me see if I can zoom that up a bit so it's a little easier for you to see. So you can see this dashboard has a big button. You can click this as Tooth Horn. It also has a reset button which is just in case the horn gets stuck, the solenoid or rather the relay gets stuck or it's gotten in a stuck position. You'll see that a different color so you know to panic a little bit and turn that off. Also in the original project there is a PIR sensor, one of these typical public bathroom kind of light switch PIR sensors occupancy sensor. And these are great for knowing if someone has moved in front of it. It doesn't detect small movements but if you have walked into a room in front of the seeing eye of the PIR sensor it'll know about it.  So the idea is you would look here and say okay there's someone in the room or there's a good chance there is because the graph shows it's within a few minutes and I don't want to blast their ears off so I'll wait until a certain amount of time has gone by or a certain email hasn't been received. I would also recommend on this project put it in a closet put it in a box. You don't actually want it to blast your ears out. It is very loud but you can modify it if you need to. Actually, Tyeth in the chat mentioned putting a sock in it while you're testing it which is I think a good idea. So there is a look at the one that Tyeth built. I'm going to zoom out my camera and place the very similar one that I put together. On this one I don't have the PIR sensor mounted. It's just dangling free but I'll show you what it's looking like anyway. Let's do this view here.  So you can see we've got this little inexpensive car horn available at an auto parts shop or online. I got mine from Amazon. I'm using one of our Swirly grids and I just reamed a hole out using a reamer tool to get it to the quarter inch diameter necessary for this screw. I think it's quarter inch. It comes with a screw and nut. The screw is mounted into the car horn. So I was able to just screw that onto there. Then you can see I have some nylon standoffs that are holding the Metro ESP32S2. So this is a Wi-Fi project. You don't need to be plugged in other than the power. So this is going to be on your local Wi-Fi and this ESP32S2 is a really good one for that. Then you can see I have some wiring. Let's in fact, I'll leave that plugged in so you can see there's some wiring for the stem aboard. This is a relay stem aboard. So we have three wires, power ground and signal. And also the PIR sensor has power ground and signal to read. So those I just wanted to put all on pins down here. You could just plug them in with a typical DuPont connector cable or a solid core wire. I happen to have spares of these little wing shield, screw shield PCBs that are great for this type of mounting. So it's just one plug-in thing which makes it a little easier for the user if it comes detached. I don't have to think about individual wires. I can just plug that in. And this was also basically a no soldering project. I cheated and soldered there a little bit. But the project as Tyeth put it together for the learn guide is all basically plug and play parts. You can see we have plug in for the power that's running to the horn through the relay. We have the DC power connector there. We have a little splitter cable right here. So that is splitting the DC power so that we can run both the metro board which has very tolerant I think 6 to 12 volt power plug there. And that's the 12 volts this is going to use. And that's about it. You can see the power running, ground and power running to the horn there. And then when we, let's see if I can pull up the dashboard that I have. So when you put this together you will, it's a great guide, it takes you all the way through setting up the board which is pretty much flashing it with some firmware and saving a text file. You just want to put in some information about your SSID and password for Wi-Fi and then your Adafruit IO name and key. I think that's it. I think that's all it needs. So you'll save that to the settings, I think it's the settings.toml file. And then the rest is a whipper snapper UF2 that you just drag onto it. And then you can configure it just like this so you can see if I want to add a component I can find a component in here. The ones that I have added already won't show up so you won't see the sensor or the relay. I think the relay is a, yeah that shows up as an individual component. So I've added those there and then you can see these are the added items. I have this summoning horn relay. You can see I have a lot of stuff in my Adafruit IO and I didn't want to keep dragging down to the bottom of the list to find things so I did the old yellow pages trick and put AAA at the beginning of my names for things so that I could see them at the top of my list. So these are the the relay and you can see here it says it's a non-latching relay on pin D2. There are the settings for it so I have some labels on here, some icons on here what it looks like. This is all stuff that I have put into the guide. Then I have a pixel, neopixel if you look here in fact since it's perfectly quiet compared to messing around with the horn I'll show you this so in my interface here I can go ahead and increase and decrease the brightness change the color so you can see there's a red LED there now there's blue, there's purple things are taking over, I think I'm changing the color when the PIR sensor sees something so you might have seen it changing on its own. It's saying in room because it's seen movement and then I'll do did I forget my hearing protection?  So here we go let's see if this works I've got the horn with a shop rag shoved in the end of it and then I'm going to just manually trigger this by hitting on so you can just toggle that on and off it's fine to do it straight from here but then Tyath went a step further and got fancy by creating a dashboard I might have to make my screen a little bigger to get that header to show up there so if I click on dashboards this one's called attention grabber and again I think I'll have to widen that a little bit so that it shows up properly oh I just made it a little too small how's that good okay can you see that yeah it's going off the screen just a little bit so here at the same button there this to horn calls the same thing in the feed for this we have a reset in case it needs to get reset this is showing me person in room and then horn status if it's stuck on and we also have a nice little icon cool features in here that Tyath put to show you ways that you can use Adafruit IO whippersnapper and these dashboards and feeds to make a fairly complex setup so you can see changing of icons there's a whole bunch of like little PNG icons that you can use creating these graphs and on and on that is all in the guide I'll show you how to set that stuff up let's see so questions be helpful for communicating with someone who's hard of hearing for sure Tyath said make me think of a mechanics garage or workshop always noisy maybe link to the phone or something yeah do you remember back in the old landline days there were add-ons to just get like big blink and lights or really loud ringers for getting people's attention so this is a lineage that goes back far for those types of things so that's the summoning horn and I look forward to hearing how that works out for Cory and his editor and the editor's assistant I'll keep you in touch and this one I think is going to go to Cory so I figured we were talking about this last night on show and tell mutually assured destruction is a pretty good deterrent to using this too much so if everyone who can get blasted at with the horn can blast someone back they will probably be used more judiciously so we're going to get one set up over at Cory's place as well the adograph of Dalhagan says I'm enjoying my lattice boards so far yeah these are great this was a great idea Tyath for mounting this because otherwise you have a pile of parts and breadboards and tape and things and who wants that so those are really excellent by the way I will also say the power supply for this needs to be I think I'm using the 12 volt 5 amp supply which we have in the Adafruit shop you want a good quality power supply so this is a switching power supply that actually supplies the current that it claims I had a cheaper one that I was using and it couldn't handle it the car horn it would go and then it would reset itself it would kind of brown out everything including the board so if you have a good power supply it'll work for blasting the horn B it'll successfully power both the metro often you want to separate these types of sort of the high current supply stuff from the logic supply but yeah beefy power supply is a good idea and however you can power your metro in this case from usb-c to completely separate them that's a good idea too Tyath says the horn was continuous 3.6 amp and 2.8 amp with the sock in it yeah so you can really reduce it huh that's wild alright so let me know if anyone has any other questions in the chat about that Uniescu7 has a cute gift so I'm going to move on then and talk about where we're at with the fader wave project so I made a few little adjustments to the PCB I forgot I was going to bring the current blank PCBs I've shown them off before the reason I say that is I now have a case top on it there a panel on top so you can't see the CRT or rather the CRT you can't see the PCB you can tell I like CRTs they're on the brain but what I've got going on this is the reverse hardware oscilloscope inspired project so that was a project that Lamar found on the internet sent to me and said hey it'd be fun to kind of make a remake of this using circuit python and synthio and so I have I built a custom PCB that has 16 of these 75mm throw 10k faders I think they're 10k and I'm using a couple of our little 8 channel ADC boards to receive all that and send the info over to an itsy bitsy M4 on I2C and then I'm also using a little OLED which is on the SPI bus and I have a headphone out so that I'm using the M4's DAC digital audio converter stereo output you can also use if you want if you're using an itsy bitsy RP2040 instead of the M4 you can use the PWM out and then I have a little resistor capacitor circuit to filter it a bit and make it sound a little nicer than the raw PWM which can be a little shrill and I've also got a rotary encoder on there and I have a DAC a little digital audio converter on the top there you see the little screw terminals there that is for if you want screwing in one of these little mono jacks and then plugging it into a synthesizer that takes control voltage I've tested it I know it works but I'm not using it in my project however Liz is planning to do a project that uses this board but for some sort of a CV out maybe it'll be a sequencer adder for voltages I don't know but we'll see when Liz gets her hands on that soon so one thing I wanted to show here today was I've got a little MIDI keyboard going through a host that allows me to plug USB MIDI into USB MIDI but essentially I'm sending MIDI to it which you can do really easily plugging it into your computer but I wanted to demo it over there so I have it on the keyboard the point of the project is that the shape of the 16 faders is the shape of a single cycle waveform so what I wanted to do is show you with some held notes or simple arpeggios where you can really appreciate the changes in the timbre of the sound what that actually means what different waveforms will sound like so let me head on over there and I'm going to turn up the microphone that is in front of one of these little amps little powered amps that I have powered speakers so I'm going to check if you can let me know if that's a good mix I need to a lot of variables change here so I don't ever have a great idea how that mix sounds so let me open up the Discord leave that up there oh god I don't want to know about that it's going to take me on a tour of the mobile discord app okay get me back to cool where is anything now okay we're back up and I'm going to reset this board I'm going to set the number of oscillators to one I'll show you what some of those controls do in a second oh have I broken it I may have let's see hey nice I came over here and immediately broke it what did I do alright let me get an arpeggio playing so we'll at least hear audio out midi end this makes me think maybe I should have a little indicator on here this thing is receiving midi that would be a good little addition you know what I'm going to do I'm going to just because this worked for me earlier and then I'll have to troubleshoot this I'm going to send it midi from the computer just to make sure that that's working so bear with me yeah let me switch I'll switch views here for a second too so so I just plugged this into USB on the computer that's right here and I'm going to move a speaker over so that I can plug that in I wish I had a longer extension on this oh you know what I have another small amp plug this in and I'm going to use Ableton Live just to send some midi it's working okay let's see if it works over here otherwise we'll switch to just in front of the workstation there it's working okay I don't know what that was about let's switch camera views again now we can just hold some notes okay let's just use some octaves tell me how the mix is can adjust up and down but yeah just on that I'm particularly interested if you can hear the differences in that sounds good to me so it's just Joel great okay thank you so let's if I can get these pretty essentially no waveform because it'll be just straight up flat nice I'm going to design some little notches in there so it's a little easier to see these don't have datants if you got faders with datants where they stick in the middle that would be great but you probably don't want that anyway you probably don't want to be without sound but if you think of a wave let's make a sort of a sine wave so this will go the full range right so that's one cycle we can have it bounce a little more so if we have a harsher angle or we can go into a triangle wave roughly like that and then as we get funkier shaped waves we end up with a lot of harmonics a lot of frequencies above the fundamental that we're asking for I want to do one other thing which is what notes held on there hopefully that didn't have a stuck note not again what am I experiencing here I'm not quite sure what's causing it to huh okay so I'm going to reduce the number of oscillators this screen unfortunately it has a frequency of refresh that doesn't play well with the camera that's pointed at it the shutter speed of it so you'll see this kind of rolling display closer up over there there are four parameters that we can change and we pick those four parameters by clicking the rotary encoder we have detune which is if we have multiple oscillators how far out of tune is the second and third and fourth from the first so it gives a richer fatter sound I'll demonstrate that but let's start with number of oscillators one now listen to that I'm going to change the number of oscillators to two start to hear some subtle phasing if I go and change the detune amount you get kind of faster beating between them now they sound like buzzing bees right because they're they're quite far out of tune with each other and we can actually get to where we're playing sort of intervals that's almost a proper interval actually I limited that to not treat it that way so it only goes up to a certain amount of detune if we reduce that a little bit I'm going to increase the number of oscillators now to three so this is two five so you get big cool ominous sounds and this will work in polyphony so we can play a chord right but now we're throwing like ten oscillators at it at once and it's starting to not like that and I don't have any limits in here I'll let you break it and if you like a distorted sound you can have it so let's say three oscillators and a chord that works pretty well three notes it starts to not like it so I think two is the sweet spot and a reminder if we go down to one right it's real simple so if we want to try something like a square wave or a digital sounding and you know I'll set up a little arpeggio on this again you can see just the changing of the shape of that can have a big impact let me hit that a little harder good it's stuck a note but that's okay because I want to show if we make a really sort of jaggy swarmy sawtooth we get this very buzzy kind of sound you can calm down if you want alright I'll reset that so it fixes the stuck note not sure what's going on there so let me bring this over here just so you can see the little interface on it oh you know what while we're still here if I can get it to work reset it again so that's the default it's got two oscillators like that if I go to the second from the bottom what is this the third option we have volume and this is the mixer volume of synthio you can adjust that on the fly and then I have the low pass filter frequency so there's actually a bit of the frequencies are being chopped off right now oh we're stuck note again you know what these right now I'm only updating let me do an arpeggio these are only updating on a new note so you can see we kind of muffle it with this low pass filter or let all the frequencies through basically anything below 20,000 hertz we're hearing and this is just cutting down frequencies so we're hearing only lower and lower frequencies so even if you make a big buzzy thing you can calm it with the filter and let me stop that time okay good so I will hey DJ Devin 3 mentions you should probably have a midi panic reset thing right yeah I think it's a great idea I mean the controllers usually have them or often have them but it wouldn't be a bad idea to put a midi panic option maybe a key combo option or something like that right here kind of reasoning alright so let's just take a look at little menus there I think this screen yeah this refresh rate is fine for this there's sort of in sync so closer there and focus in so this is my default setup I have two oscillators if I want to go change that number every time I click the little rotary encoder push encoder it'll go to the next option and then we can change that value from 1 up to 8 it's pretty ambitious 2 is good and then we can change that detune amount that's what I was changing there to take those further away from in tune and there's a little volume it goes from 0 to 1 and then we have the low pass filter which I'm moving in pretty big increments there to see you can kind of sweep it quickly so yeah people are asking about the guts of this thing so let's take it apart I'm going to unplug it and pull off these fader caps and I've just got four screws that I've got there that's the one screwdriver since part of the design constraint here is that I mounted my slide potentiometers directly to the PCB and they have some nice there are four extra solder points per just connect the case to the board and that's a nice way to secure them since I've got them secured that way there are limits to how far away or close to the board this top can get and then you can see I also have some constraints of that's the screen pretty I've socketed it if you went directly to the board it could be lower but with the screen socketed and the microcontroller socketed this had to be at this height which meant I just cut a whole large enough for the entire rotary encoder knob often you will make the hole for something like this oh my god that's on their type you will make the hole for something like this just the size of the shaft I didn't that's just not want to come off right now so I just am fitting my case top over the entire knob there and you could adjust this I'm going to write the guide up for this I'll include links to download some CAD files if you want to turn this into a 3D printed case or adjust it before laser cutting it or CNC milling it I cut this on the laser cutter this is just some of that LED plastic acrylic that we have in the Adafruit store so there you can see that just pops right off of there I can plug that back in it's up and running now let me focus there we go you can see I put the itsy bitsy this is the itsy bitsy M4 I put that on short itsy bitsy header pins with short itsy bitsy sockets there I mentioned this the last time I showed the board I've also got an extra set of pins there it's just a duplicate of everyone these pins so if you wanted to solder something to let's say to TXRX you could just go directly to the board or you could solder in a second row of pins if you want to experiment and plug in some jumpers or solid core hookup wire that kind of thing so that will work I wrote M4 on there that will work with the RP2040 it's identical same pin out and you can even I've even got the A0 and A1 pins those RPWM pins thankfully on the RP2040 so those also run to the audio output over here so yeah that sockets right there I didn't solder in pins for the weird bottom pins on the board there I'm not using them for anything but if you wanted to you could and then I also added a little reset button there so these I soldered directly in you could socket this stuff also if you wanted to be able to get it out and use it for different projects the only thing you really can't get away with is the idea of these guys right here these slide potentiometers it's not really a nice easy way to work with them without just soldering them to the board unless you wanted to mount them to the face plate there's mounting holes at the top and the bottom that's another way people do this is they'll mount these to a face plate and then you could run wiring to your PCB but I decided this was a sort of neater way to go there's the back I've got a revised version that's gonna be it's out for Fab and once that's back hopefully it works have a couple little improvements to it and then we'll I'll be able to put that into the guide so you can grab your own and do with it as you like right here as I mentioned is the DAC output which I had that little mono 3.5 millimeter pig tail to just plug in there for testing purposes but you don't have to use that terminal block on there you could solder something directly to it if you want so that's it that's the board let's see what did I learn between versions that's a good question I have a little note pad let me let me bring up my my notes where are they PCB notes okay so one of them so I the way I worked on this I created the PCB schematic and PCB layout in KeyCad and I'm very new to KeyCad so I was taking eagle footprints for Adafruit parts even this I think we have a footprint as part of another is that part of I can't remember where I got that footprint but anyway I took Adafruit footprints from Eagle did some conversion stuff to get them to work in KeyCad set up the schematic objects and then linked them to the footprints that I had huge thank you to C Grover who helped me who knows KeyCad really well helped me do all of that I would have been lost without it so thank you and one of the things I didn't do to the footprint for these that I should and it was one of the only thing I didn't do I think in the things I wanted to improve was create some thermal islands some of these the case lugs that you can solder on for mechanical stability they're not used electronically those just huge copper plane and those things take a lot of heat so I just had to crank my iron up I wanted to set up some thermal islands so that it was a little easier to solder to some of those ground points because that's just a giant copper plane there so it takes a while to heat up that change I didn't make so that was one thing I learned and didn't do anything about remove unused pads on the deck oh so when I was converting footprints footprints will have mounting holes I didn't actually want to use them for this one so I originally I ended up with in this first version these holes drill holes and pads for the terminal blocks well that's not I'm not using those those just kind of came along for the ride with the physical footprint and I didn't notice so those are unnecessary so I removed those from that footprint so they don't end up on the PCB so the only thing I get from the footprint is the silkscreen and the pins that I do want to solder in there not those empty ones the I had an error on one of my silks for some reason I have this listed as pin 7 it is actually pin 8 for oh wait is it pin 7 for this one oh good yeah I think that's pin 8 maybe that's pin 8 on the rp20 40 oh I should have left it I think I think I've screwed that up yeah so I guess the rp20 40 versus the m4 it see that's pin 7 or pin 8 is that right something suspicious there maybe that's a change and then re-routing of the I had a goof up in my routing of this resistor capacitor filter set for the PWM output so I fixed that and then I also on Lamar suggestion added a little pair of jumpers little pads there that come with the connection to use the RC circuit or you can cut them and do a solder blob and you'll skip the RC circuit and so if you're using the m4 you might just want to skip that and go directly out because you'll muddying it just a little bit I'm currently using it that way and I don't mind it but it'll be interesting to try both versions so for that I just used like a simple solder pad you can also do like a little physical jumper version of that with pins and a little jumper to put on and if you want to change your mind so those were some of my learnings on that the biggest learning was just how to do the conversions of Eagle footprints get them over build proper schematics and get them linked up to put the board together but I liked it I liked the key cat I've used Eagle a bit in the past I've used Fritzing a little bit but I'm not a PCB pro by any stretch of the imagination so it was fun to build a project like this where most of the work was done already in the footprints that the Adafruit files that you can just download from our GitHub half so when I grab something like this it's then a matter of keeping some stuff like the silk of the outline, silk of the names and then the pins and then blowing the rest of the stuff away that you don't need to make your custom footprint work for you and now I have those in a little library so I can use them anytime alright let's see other questions Todd asks hmm key cat doesn't do thermals for you by default for pads I don't know maybe it does don't blame me I don't know what I'm doing let's see oh Sea Grover answers this usually but it's possible to select an ungrounded mechanical pad without thermal isolation I guess that's what I did it mostly passed design rules checks mostly I think and when I get this in and hopefully it'll work I'll throw I'll show you if you're interested I'll show the PCB design up here in key cat again alright I think that's gonna do it so let me know if you have any thoughts or questions before we check out I will mention again that if you want to go buy some cool stuff maybe some of these things if you want to put one of these together what do you need on there and it's ebitzy those are back in stock by the way it's ebitzy m4 is back in stock we have about 65 of them or so as of last night so yay if you like that board it's a really great board you can buy them again you'll need a couple of our what are these the 80S7830 that's that analog to digital 8 channel so I have two of those and those run over I2C two of those to read all 16 of these I've got our cool new DAC the 805693 I have our 1.3 inch mono OLED this is the 128 by 64 I have a rotary encoder and I have the little TRRS 3.5 millimeter output and that was all really easy those are the 75 millimeter potentiometers so it made it simple to throw this stuff together by using basically off-the-shelf 80 fruit parts pkryan hurry says don't come from my wallet with a discount code sorry I'm doing it is that it? alright I think we'll do it by the way I got a little note on the side from Todd he said I think the held notes and crashes are because you're not catching note offs that don't have a corresponding note on oh alright look right at that and update the code alright I think we'll call it right there thanks everyone for stopping by great to see you all alright thanks for hanging out in the workshop I will be back on Tuesday with a product pick and another workshop show on Thursday we'll have 3D hangouts on Wednesday as well show and tell and ask an engineer and Scott may be doing a deep dive tomorrow if he is he'll probably alert you in the chat that's the plan of now but things can change and I'm gonna get out of here thanks everyone I will see you next time bye bye