Welcome back to my channel. So it's been a while since I've done a shop with me kind of video and today I have my mom with me You know us in shopping. We've done enough other shopping videos So we are sitting in front of the container store and you guys as much as you know how much I love to organize I've never been in the container store Shocking, I know Anyways, so I'm really excited to do this. It's actually only about 25 minutes from our house. It's not very far I just never because I've never been in one and we didn't really have them in Pennsylvania. I didn't yeah Um, I just never really thought about looking to see if there was one close by So the other day I did and I told her that I was gonna go and she's like I want to go with you So um, yeah, that's what we're here and I'm sitting looking at all of these containers really excited to go But before we get started and the thing that I think is kind of funny about this is that I am partnering with shop Tagger today and a shop the last time I did my shop tagger video, which I partnered with them before we were shopping That's right. Was it black Friday? I think it was I think it was too So anyways, but I'm gonna tell you that shop tagger is really cool And in fact since I did my partnership with them last I've actually been using it more and more But it's a browser extension and it's also an app and basically it tells you when stuff goes on sale It's super simple and basically you can get notifications through email or even on your phone when something goes on sale So I think like for bigger items in particular like when you're looking for something that costs more This tool is really really helpful because you know, you can have the same item at multiple stores So if you're keeping an eye on like the same couch at multiple stores Whenever that one goes on the greatest sale ever Then you can find the couch and the other thing that's really cool about it is you can select How much of a percentage off you want to be notified with so like if it goes up to 50 off That's when it will notify you So it's not going to notify you if it's not the biggest deal that you want it to be I think it's really cool because if you're going on a streak of really wanting to budget something Say you're wanting to do a good budgeting for like even six months This is really I would think a good tool to Be able to keep track of and you can still maybe get some things that you normally wouldn't have gotten if you would have Know that you have that percentage off, right? One of the things that I think it's super helpful with is kids closing Because like, you know, you're getting ready. We're getting ready for summertime So I'm like keeping an eye on like shorts and flip flops and sandals and things like that So, you know, whenever old navy is running a sale It will let me know on my shop tagger That I need to go check out to whatever items I've selected top tiger is a chrome extension All you have to do is go on shop tagger com Click download and then add the extension after you add the extension You only have to put in your email or you can sign up with facebook So to use shop tagger just go on the website So I'm on the container stores website and you'll see this little tab on the side once you have the extension downloaded You can select if you want any price change 25 percent off 50 percent off and that is when it will notify you then you can add it to your list This is one way to stay super organized and you can make a list for each category of your shopping Also, you can get notifications through your email or even on your phone with the shop tagger app As you can see these green labels represent that the product is on sale Here are all of my lists and I can select one category and it will only show me that list Another feature that I love about shop tagger. They have this unique little tool that will find coupons for you So when you're ready to check out from your favorite store All you have to do is click on the shop tagger tab and push the button and it will search for codes for you So this is great You don't have to scour the internet looking for codes and it will even enter them in for you right into your cart They also have a coupon tab that you can scroll through and see what coupons are available One other thing I wanted to let you know is that shop tagger is running a thousand dollar giveaway right now All you have to do is hit the link in the description box Download shop tagger create a list and add one thing to one of your lists And you will be entered to win the thousand dollar giveaway I highly recommend using this tool. It's free to use and I know that I've been enjoying it myself All right, if you guys are looking for containers that are like the ones that have in my pantry This is what you're looking for. They're the ones that seal and then they keep all of your cereals and dry goods really fresh Look here. This is really cool A spun firm recipe card. That's really neat. That's really neat Especially if it was like oatmeal or grain and you wanted to know how to make or rice. Yeah, remind remember Just keep your recipe right quinoa. Yeah, that's really cool. What brand is that one? Is that prep works? Oh, that's really cool Oh, and they even have like kits Oh, I see why the brown sugar It actually has Something to keep it soft Yes to keep the brown sugar. That's really cool. And then this one does it have a scoop in it? Yes, it's a scoop, isn't it? It is. It's a scoop for powdered sugar.  That's really cool Oh, and like you can do this for sprinkles. Wow, these are like really thought through containers these you can make the cheese and crackers like yourself and Send them in lunches or this would be such a good snack My girls like these that you buy but you can reuse the container, which is really cool. And I thought these Snack containers were really cool too, especially for $1.99. I think that they're really neat They're like more flat all of them are like A little bit more flat. Yeah So what is this? Decor tall fresh is the brand I think they would be so great these I think would be great for leftover pizza. That's what I keep thinking of Yeah, that's what I store my knives in it's one of those But this thing right here is a knife magnet, which I think is really cool Because it looks like bamboo Here's a hole. Here's a strip point. Oh, and you can just stick them along the wall That's really neat. Oh, look at that cutting board with a strainer on it mom Or a colander. Oh, yeah. Oh goes over the sink. Yeah, isn't that neat? Oh, that is neat Yeah, yeah They're really cool Those are like a bunch of basket type bins We have hit the hampers And these are so cute my girls Would freak out. They are so adorable Oh my goodness. Look at the cactus. They have so many baskets I love these ones that fold down.  They have all of these like Wall organization systems and these my mom's really looking at because they have magnets on them So you could put them on your refrigerator like the side of your refrigerator For papers and they have like cups. So if you had pens You could put them on or you can get these tiles And put them on the wall and then those things are magnetic And stick on them But then you can take them off if you need to or rearrange them if you need to And if it was totally up to me, I will just do this. I would just plant plants Yeah, I know I think they would be neat planters Yeah, I think On the side of the refrigerator and then this system I love the aesthetic of this It's like a pegboard. It's also magnetic so you could hang papers on it with a magnet But it's metal and it has Little shelves and cubies and stuff that can go on it Okay, so we went to the container store. It was quite the Experience I was an experience. I've been there about three times Yeah, and it like honestly was kind of almost overwhelming like my brain feels a little bit fried from thinking of everything I did get a couple things. I'll show you guys whenever we get home But we are out of starbucks right now.  Yeah class loss. Yeah, it does. I do I get I get drip coffee though in the mornings a lot Anyway, so we're gonna go do that and then kind of I think we're gonna look on our phones since this area is very different From the area we live in and see what else is around to shop. We had our starbucks stop and um What did you still have your plain old coffee? I drank all of mine. I sip my I'm a sipper. I'm not I'm a sipper Actually, I can be yeah, it just depends. So if I know I have to hurry up and drink a coffee That's just not even fun. I know right So we are at marshals right now. We're gonna go to marshals and ross yet See if we can get any fines. We really like TJ max marshals ross those kinds of places. There's so much fun to shop at you can find some really great deals I'm looking for some pots. I brought some succulents back from florida and I cannot wait to do something with them Yeah, and um, yeah, all right Those are really cute.  Oh, yeah, that would be really cute for a plant Someday I'm gonna do a DIY on my um channel on my youtube channel We are finding some great finds right mom I know just wait till you guys see the stuff that I'm getting for my spring decor video It's gonna be so fun I'm really excited home is where mom is Oh, yeah, yeah, it's fine, but what do we just do this kind of We'll just point Like and that and that thing I got at TJ max. That's our haul We are home and Today did not go as planned. I did not end up vlogging because we had kind of a little bit of chaos So our water heater stopped working and right now you're probably gonna hear my dad and korey Talking because they're carrying the new one in we're gonna see if we can talk louder than them Yeah, so thank goodness that my dad was here and could help. I mean I think korey could have done it But it was just worked out. It really worked out. Mike has been used to doing this. This is stuff. He does I should be filming that you could barely carry it It's like a yeah, they're heavy there. We ended up going to the container store Which I which I filmed and then we went to Marshall Marshall and then we ran into Ross and I'm glad we did partial break Are you gonna turn it on again? Nope. I'm done. I don't even know why I have my coat on still It was such a bizarre day. I'm really happy with what I did find and I'm definitely going back I was like super impressed with I feel like you could take a space of your home and be able to go find things That look cohesive, which I know not everybody would agree with this concept But I feel like when stuff is the same Kind of containers like all the same brand and stuff. It just visually looks more organized It does that's this because if you guys watched my Bathroom under the sink organization video that came out probably like three months ago something like that I had used a round container from the dollar tree and I said that someday or I think I said this I thought this that maybe when I find the right size Lady Susan for under there with sides for like my hair spray and dry shampoo and you know Just stuff like that um that I would get it. I found that I did get some containers, but they're not very big So um because you guys know that I eat a certain way and stuff There are sometimes that I need to take some things with me So one of them is I use a lot of pink hemele and salt because it's healthier than regular salt So I wanted a little thing like this to put that in so I grabbed this they had a bunch of sizes She'll show you the one she got and then I also grabbed this little container to put my electrolyte powder in So I can just shake it in some water when I'm out and about And then I got this and this is something that I have been kind of on the hunt for but it's for your razor in the Shower so that it doesn't sit On the floor found these awesome shape, which will um, oh, yeah, I had show these when we were in the store Oh, yeah. Well anyway, I got two of those. I also got two of the sizes like this This is the lid and then I also got some of those little glass What are you gonna use those for um these here? I'll probably Probably use for like my electrolytes when I go somewhere. Okay, or even just supplements vitamins that type of a thing These here hang off of a shelf. Yeah, and they're really cool And they have white ones too and when we're done filming this I want to try putting them in one of mine Okay, see if I get how they actually work. Yeah to see if it would work for my cabinet I got a razor thing because I really needed it I got this thing to put my lids in underneath in my counter. Yeah, wait. Wait. We need to talk about this for a second Okay, there was ones that were bigger than this like double this size. Yeah, how much were they 4.99? Yeah, something like that this one was like 350 which is I think really great Especially this would be so awesome for a pantry. It will be so I've got an organizational Video coming up on my youtube Yeah, I will be doing that a lazy susan and it says that it's for back stuff Well, mine's gonna go under my sink for my um um Cleaner stuff then we went to marshals. So I'll show what I got in marshals Um, there is one thing that mom actually bought me that is a pretty big piece Or inspiration for my upcoming decorating video And I'm not gonna show it to you guys because it would kind of give it away That is yet to come. Yeah, it is yet to come. I got this for the decorating video as well I have some plans for this and this was like a really great price. It was like 5.99 And then I also got three of these I'm not gonna show you all three of them because they look exactly the same But there's this kind of like rustic terracotta look I got it marshals because I'm getting ready to do some plant stuff in my house She's doing she's gonna be doing some really cool stuff Um, I got this to hang on the wall and I'm going to be using succulents and I'm just It's like it almost looks like an envelope or something. Yeah, and it's it's cool And I just am on my way back from florida. So anyhow, we went to a place They had just tons and tons of succulents and I'm going to be doing succulent Just pick up the flat and some of this actually two and a half flats Yeah Of these I think absolutely gorgeous and they have all kinds of little babies in there And so I'm so excited about what I'm gonna do with yes everywhere we went today She was looking for like things that she could put those this was like a serious find This was a serious find. This is really seriously cool. And I got this at our big Flash run into um Ross. It was so worth it. Wait. Yeah, wait till you see what I so we ran in and ran out But this I grabbed while I was running around and it was it's kind of it was 9.99 So it's like it's like, um What you want to call it pottery? It was Michael fine along with some um tea towels. I love those. Maybe I can have one We can be towel twins That's an idea That's an idea towel twins and I'll think of adi every time I go to use mine sneak peek Of a hint of something for my spring decor. So I got this Love that it looks really pretty in the light actually Because I've been on the hunt for something to put my pens and like scissors and stuff by my desk in Every now it's just in a mug. But this was two two ninety nine at Ross because I've been looking for something a lot like this because it matches the basket that's in my living room And I got this tray and it was six ninety nine So Ross can be kind of hit and miss But if it was a hit it was a hit. Yeah, if you hit it at the right time It's definitely worth at least checking out if you live near Ross anyways, but we had a really good day together It was like needed We needed to go hang out together. So happy had the girls. He took them to um Chick-fil-A And they played and then he took them to didn't they want to go to target? I think so I want to go to target. He called me and he's like we have one more stop. We have to make we're going to target I was like and we came home and we found out why they went to target because Um, there was well, what the how we knew they went to target was because there was a whole load of snacks Yeah, counter up here. He bought like candy and chips. Oh, but then he bought something. Oh, yeah Then he went and bought them like the juice drinks like this like probably got there.  I think he did that out of sheer guilt He probably did They're working over there. He can't even he's like Anyway, we need to get to bed But we had a really good day and thought it would be fun to show you guys our finds and I also wanted to remind you guys to check out shop tagger. It's free. It's a free thing that you can do Don't forget you guys can find my mom at Little house of friends And on instagram and here on youtube and i'll see you guys in my next video


G'day, mates. What's going on? It's been a while since I just sat here and talked with you guys. There's a ton of stuff happening right now and it felt weird for me not to talk about it. Usually when I start getting my Twitter blown up by people screaming at me, have you seen this? Have you seen that? Probably about time I actually talked about some of it. And there's a ton. The Switch just had a massive update on top of that. Huge eShop sale happening right now and even a sale on the Switch. Well, actually it's even better than that. It looks like the Switch's price is dropping. The console is getting cheaper. Can you believe it? N64 might be coming to the Switch. But the biggest thing, which probably made you click on the video if I went with that for the title, is the Nintendo Direct is on the way. And that's just not me saying that because I wanted you to click on the video. No, more than likely there will be one because there always is. I mean, they're not done. There will be another one. And usually we get one in September. Before we talk about anything, I wanna get a couple of things out of the way. One, if you wanna meet me, you can, you'll have two opportunities this year. I'll be in Philadelphia for too many games and same goes for October. I'll be right here in Texas for Retropeluzza and I'll have a panel there as well. You can come say hi, just do me a favor. We're in like an awkward place right now with the world. If you're gonna come see me, please wear a mask. Usually I'll give you a big old hug, but it's just, it's already dicey as it is. We'll just stand a little far apart awkwardly, even more awkward than these interactions end up being. And we'll just talk and we'll have a good time that way. And Nintendo Direct is most likely on the way. And not just because Arlo has been screaming about it on Twitter. Oh, wait, hold on, before we get to anything, I need to show you guys. Yeah, all right.  I've used that for clickbait a couple of times in the past, but it's real this time. I messed up. But I don't completely blame me. I blame a faulty product, not doing what it was supposed to do. When you see this video get uploaded to YouTube, this is the thumbnail for it. Watch it if you want more context here. I bought some products off Amazon and one of them failed me. We'll just leave it there. And then I went live on Twitch that night with a stream and everyone was screaming at me to take the battery out. Like the console was going to explode or something if I didn't get that battery out of there ASAP. And I said multiple times, I'm not the guy. I'm not the guy to do that. Don't know how, never opened my switch like that before. Actually, before we figure out whether or not this thing still works, I wanna let you know that this video is sponsored by Square Enix. Yeah, that's Square Enix. 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But I mean, I was, I was dying, laughing at myself on stream with how dumb I was for thinking what I was trying to do was going to work. Okay, definitely seems like water got in it. You can tell on my face already. You can see the look on my face. I know I messed up right here. So sadly, I actually haven't been able to test a lot of the new stuff on Switch. On that same stream, we did take a look at the Bluetooth that Nintendo have added. This makes no sense to me. You're telling me that the Switch, your Switch that you have at home right now has had Bluetooth in it this whole time. I thought the Switch didn't have Bluetooth period, but apparently it does have it. And that's how the Joy-Cons connect via like a modified version of Bluetooth or something. And now almost five years into the Switch, Nintendo decided to just turn that on so that you could connect earphones to it. We connected on stream my Raycons to it. And yeah, it works great. I mean, it took two attempts to find the Raycons, but it works great. Also, they added a ton of other features randomly. It was a pretty big update. There's a load on there. Like apparently now when the Switch is in sleep mode, you can keep connected to the internet for updates and stuff.  And then, oh no, sorry, you gotta update for 30 minutes. And then there was another interesting one, an update for the dock. Switch lights don't have this, but the regular Switch, you can force the dock to update. It doesn't work with the old dock. It's specifically for the new OLED one that's coming with the LAN port, which is interesting. Without reading too much into it, it seems like the new dock is going to get updates periodically, and you'll be able to update your dock. I mean, why? By the way, perfect time to utterly destroy my Switch, because I am getting a new one here in a few weeks. There'll be a much bigger update about this broken Switch, by the way. I'm gonna drag this out as much as I can, but while I watch the video, if you wanna see what I did, why is Arlo trying to call me right now? Hey, Arlo, what's up? How much? You wanna be on my, what do you call it, podcast, the thing? Sure, this weekend? Yeah, there's some time. Okay, did you see I broke my Switch? Why? You didn't see that?  My Switch was literally on fire. What?  But yeah, I'll be on your podcast. I'll talk about it on the podcast. All right. Okay. Sounds good. Okay, bye, buddy. Where was I? It doesn't matter, let's move on. Whatever I was talking about, it doesn't matter. Okay, there is a huge eShop sale right now, and I wanna look at the sale with you guys and show you some of these prices. Everything's like 80% off, 90% off, but speaking of Switch being cheap, in Europe right now, you may have heard about this. I'm late to everything. I only heard about it today. Nintendo dropped the price of the Switch by 30 euros, which is $35 US, not the OLED and not the Switch Lite, just the Switch, the normal one, is gonna be 35 US dollars cheaper in Europe. They said it was because of just the way the importing, exporting situation, I don't know, in Europe specifically, they said it just made sense to make it cheaper. Well, also Nintendo just didn't need to do this. Clearly, it seems like they found room in the budget to make the Switch cheaper, and they were like, yeah, let's do it.  It's selling fine. Nintendo didn't need to drop the price. There's no reason. They could have just left it at that price. People wouldn't have said anything. I mean, we all accepted that the OLED was $50 more for almost no reason. I mean, it's just a wit, Nintendo doesn't often do things that's like, well, that's actually pretty nice. Thank you, and this is one. So now the question is, will the US and Australia and other places see a price drop for the Switch? Hopefully, that would be nice for me right now. I have to rebuy the Mario Red One.  Actually, not best sellers, great deals. You should be because there's always insane price drops in here. And right now, like they're all like 50 to 80 to, I've even seen 95% off. Xenoverse 2 is 85% off.  Nino Cooney, 75% off. So Tales of Asperia is 75% off. Dragon Ball FighterZ is 85% off. Some of these Lego games, again, 75% off.  It's only $12 right now for that whole game. This is actually a pretty solid fighting game.   But right now, there's another one going on, so give that a look. And if you need tips for good eShop games, and you wanna see if any good ones are on sale, I have a whole series of videos about that. So the reason why a lot of people are freaking out, thinking the N64 has come into this, there's actually a bunch of reason why they think they're getting N64 Virtual Console. It's kind of a best guess, but it's looking like something is coming to the Virtual Console. It could still be Game Boy or GBA or something, but the reason why now it's looking like it's probably a home console, Virtual Console port thing, is because a new pattern for a Nintendo Switcher controller appears to be on the way. And it's a similar pattern to what we saw when the NES and the SNES came to the Switch Online, and they had the NES and SNES special edition controllers that you could buy to play the games. And the fact that it's a controller makes you naturally think NES, well, 64 has to be next. Which is very exciting if this happens. For me specifically, because I love NES and SNES, but 64 just had some gems, didn't it? Like this could mean, and I don't see why it wouldn't mean, we could finally get Ocarina Time on Switch, even if it's just the old one, not the remastered 3DS version, fine, but we could finally see Ocarina's Majora's Mask, your Banjo games, which, I mean, we have Banjo in Smash now, may as well put the Banjo games on Switch.  I mean, old school Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Stadium, it opens so many options and gives you so many more games to play, either on your own or with friends. And then that all leads into, like everything we just said, leads into the Nintendo Direct, right? Because so much has happened or could be about to happen that it makes sense Nintendo would wanna do a Direct and reveal all of this, as well as no more heroes has come out, Monster Hunter Stories 2 has come out, we're going into the tail end of the year and we're not really sure. I mean, Warrior Wear also just came out. So really now the big games that we had this year that we knew were coming and we were looking forward to have come and gone and now it's just a question of what's next. And usually when you're left wondering what's next, that's when a company needs to come out and tell you what's next. We just had that with the PlayStation event, which I reacted to on Twitch if you care to see that reaction and I guess to sum it up, I really liked it. There was some cool games, Spider-Man and Wolverine, I can't wait. Also, Forspoken looks really good and I've been hearing a lot of good things about Deathloop but I still haven't played it. But yeah, we were needing some PlayStation news and we got some PlayStation news. Right now we're needing Nintendo news on software and the games that are coming and it's September and we usually get a Direct in September. That's kind of been a pattern for a long time now. So the stars are aligning there but look at everything we've talked about. They have the new OLED coming in like three weeks at this point with Metroid Dread, they're gonna wanna hype that up again and talk about the new update and what they've added with the Bluetooth. We're building up to a Direct is what it feels like. When all these things start happening like this, a lot of them that are flying under the radar Nintendo is not really talking about, probably because it's all leading up to an official announcement in a Direct and it's just time that we had one anyway. Okay, that's it for now. I just, I had to talk about all this stuff otherwise I would just be questioned out of existence on Twitter and on my live stream. So I hope this satisfies you. I really do enjoy talking about this stuff though and getting a chance to just speak at a mile a minute because I do get excited about a lot of this stuff. Hit the bell as well please by the way and subscribe if you're new and like the video if stuff like this helps you out. And yeah, see you soon. I don't have a way to end the video so it's just gonna end here.


I'm First Lieutenant Dwayne Bostick, 151 quarter-master detachment, 151 quarter-master detachment commander located here at LED Air Base Qatar. Our mission here at AUAB Qatar is to provide the Sincum AOR with area delivery assets classes 1 through 9. Our mission is important here because we're the only theater area delivery asset for the entire Sincum AOR. So our first class is Michelle Metzger. I'm with 151st quarter-master detachment as the detachment first sergeant on AUAB Qatar. The process of our area delivery operations are filtered through requesting units. Once approved, various classes are properly rigged and coordination of air force assets are conducted to ensure transportation of the commodity are transported safely to the aircraft. And finally, a joint inspection of the CDS's completed prior to delivering the supplies. Our team is the best team because we currently have various MOS's. We communicate well. We work hard and the soldiers are passionate about what they do here. My message to the soldiers is that I'm extremely proud of them and I'm honored to be the detachment commander for such a great company.


Thank you, Arpett, and hello to everyone. Let me share my screen. Okay, next generation mobile networks Alliance. We are an operator-driven organization. We have a bit more than 80 companies at the moment in NGMM. We are growing and we embrace the entire value chain. And as you can see from our partner and membership slide here, starting from research institutes, but also, of course, embracing vendors and mobile network operators, system integrators and alike. We focus mainly on three areas. The first one is mastering the route to disaggregation with a specific focus on the end-to-end operating model of disaggregated networks. The second big topic is the green future networks, so everything around sustainability. And the third big topic of NGMM, as our name suggests, is 16. And in addition, we still support the full implementation of 5G with a number of projects. So I would like to jump quickly into the different focus topics we have in our work program and explain what the scope of this work is and, of course, also how this relates to the topic we have today here and there in the conference. So operating disaggregated networks, we delivered a first publication last year. It's about the context, the current challenges and needs observed by operators. So with the disaggregation of networks, it is clear that the operating model has to be adjusted and operators need to understand also the level of disruption it takes with regards to their processes, with regards to their skills, but also with regards to technical skills, technical tools. So currently, the project works on the industry status and roadmap. It will also work on the target picture delivered by disaggregation. It will consider the relationship with specific industry verticals. It will deliver operating model blueprints, looking at the different options, pros and cons, and main decision points, so helping operators to make their own decisions. Naturally, as an alliance, we work in the pre-competitive environment. And it will also consider the role and impact of disaggregated network testing because it has, of course, also impact on testing integration. And the project will submit requirements to the industry. And one example is the Kamara Alliance. I think we will come to this in more detail a little later in this session. About 6G. So 6G, we delivered the first driver's admission publication last year and just beginning of this year, the first publication on use cases, an analysis. And we started now with the entire partnership in NGMM to work on the enter and system requirements for 6G. Naturally, the standardization will start later via early stage for 6G, but it is very important to start right now considering the technology cycles. Green Future Networks. So in 2021, we delivered several publications. One important one was on network energy efficiency, but also we had a very detailed work on network equipment equity design and also considered how to develop metrics for an enter and services footprint measurement. We delivered also a generic overview on sustainability challenges and initiatives in mobile networks. And last but not least, considerations and requirements about metering for sustainable networks. In 2022 now, we started with four new topics. So one is semi-new because it is the continuation of the network energy efficiency work we have done in 2021. So it's continuing this year and it is also embracing topics like energy efficiency means through artificial intelligence. And it will also look on the network energy efficiency of disaggregated networks. We have a general work group about reduction of environmental impact. This includes the view on critical materials, so the reduction of critical materials usage, any impact on water footprint, but also again the eco design of our products. And the two big topics in addition are supply chain circular economy criteria for procurement leaders. And we work on developing an industry standard for a global green networks benchmark. So this will include methodologies, KPIs and also consider the data sources for such a benchmark. So those are the main topics we have at the moment. It's not the full work program but because we have not too much time today, I stop here and head over to Henry. Thank you Henry. Your introduction please. Thank you very much Anita and everyone. I'm just going to share my screen. Hopefully people can actually see that now. Welcome everyone. I'm Henry Kelvin, I've been head of this. So the GSMA, we're almost like the grandfather of associations. Certainly in the mobile industry we're founded in 1987 and we have over a thousand members. Not only operator, mobile operator network companies, there's about 750, but also ecosystem players and partners like NGMM and the Linux foundation. So we have around about 400 of those sort of things. We sort of focus on a very large organization and lots of activities and we've got four three main focus areas. Connectivity for good, which is really where policy and regulation actually comes from. It also does charitable actions for developing markets through our mobile for development, which is supported by grant funding. But mainly we focus on governments and the education of regulation and the impact of regulation in the industry. Then we have industry services and solutions, which is one of the hearts of the GSMA and that's really our technology angle. That's how do we ensure that everything that is actually produced, innovated by the likes of 3GPP were even led by NGMM who actually came out with the first 5G white paper. You see they're working on the 6G. We sort of look at how do we commercially bring that to the marketplace and make everything hopefully work and fix in the mobile industry. And then we have our outreach, which is the Mobile World Congress is in Barcelona, Shanghai and now Las Vegas. So they're the three major trade association events that we have across the years. Just in the technology area that we actually have.  So I'm just going to focus then on a few things. But in the technology working groups, which is usually the establishments of how things work in the industry, how things are actually interoperable, for example like roaming, how roaming works, how things actually connect together. There are eight key working groups that we focus on. But as the networks are changing and the practices are changing, we've decided to start to create two groups. One focused on IoT and the next focus on cloud networks, which we've been working on for some time. So I just want to give a little bit more detail in that and how we've been working through cloud networks. In the GSMA, we've been looking at how these cloud networks are going to actually support and change industry that we actually have. We more have a stack based software, stack based approach to how we're looking at architectures and defining specifications, but hopefully are going to employ the standardization and the ideas that are coming from other collaborative and STO activities. We have three main activity groups that we've been doing. For the last three, four years, we've actually had the open infrastructure task force that's been working with the Linux foundation on Acneet that actually looks at what is the store and compute models that we need to deploy in operators and operators deploy in enterprises so people can actually provide their software stacks, virtualization, containerization. So it's all profiled correctly and understood by everyone. Then we have the operator platform, which is trying to sort of start to expose and provide interoperability of the network capabilities and how they are integrated east of Westbound through interconnection or federation in what we're doing from exposing capabilities and one way to actually deploy and service the applications. And then lastly, the OPI group is looking at basically how do we then expose that up to the developer communities and enterprise communities. But as an operator association, we realize we cannot do that alone because we can only talk a certain language and as we get into the wider community of IT and T and how the IT industry is also converging very much on the networks, the mobile and fixed telecommunications businesses, it makes sense that we've actually pulled together with the likes of Deutsche Telekom, the Global Telco API Association and with Linux to create Kamera, which is really trying to actually establish where APIs and capabilities can actually be adopted by the wider ecosystem. So everyone's using off the same standard and really drive that market portion adoption of APIs. So thank you very much. So hopefully that sets up the discussion for us as well, Arpit. I'll hand back to you now and stop sharing my screen. Thank you, Henry. And I believe, yeah. Okay. All right. There we go. Awesome. That was a great introduction. Even though we claim that we know NGMM and GSMA forever, there's always something new we learn about the progress. So really exciting time. So let's, and again, for the attendees, please ask questions to the experts here in your Q&A box and we will answer them as they come in. I have a couple of sort of first questions to make sure that we are setting the context here. One of the asks from the community was to speed up open source standards, whether it's standards or specifications. And I think there's a difference between the rigidity and the default kind of let's just do it this way type. How have you seen in the last couple of years the evolution and the speed of how the ecosystem wants to work on these specifications or standards as we want to call it, as we go through the 5G deployment and revolution. And as you know, the context of this is cloud service providers, enterprises, and telecom, they all need to work together in this new era. So Anita, if you want to start off, and I know it starts off with this aggregation, obviously, but how do you see the overall progress in the industry as these ecosystems come together? Yes, and we work on the requirements level. And of course, we consolidate and submit the requirements to the industry and we cooperate with all different type of corporation partners, so including the classical standards development organizations, including GSMA, but also including now the Linux Foundation and the Oran Alliance and alike. And I think the ecosystem is going and this yet alone shows that we need, of course, to also find new ways of work and new corporations here in finding the right channels and submitting requirements. We are not producing a code by ourselves. But for instance, an example would be now the foundation of the Kamara Alliance. Developers, of course, we need to balance between the speed of innovation and at the same time to have a reliable, let's say, de facto standard also when it comes to open source. And I think for developers, it is important to develop funds and use it multiple times. And looking at the example of the Kamara Alliance, so maybe you will explain it a bit more in detail, it will be important for our Operating Disaggregated Networks project. So this regards to requirements. So it will have impact on the way operators monitor, integrate and test and operate the networks. And people provide requirements to the Kamara Alliance. Of course, it is not a mandatory requirement, but it is a requirement submitted by a large number of operators and other ecosystem members. We have an NGMM working on those topics. And I think it's always a matter of the balance between speed and at the same time submit reliability and specific form of still having standards to have certainty for the developers that they don't need to develop a specific code for each of their customers. Awesome. And Henry, you want to walk us through the whole Kamara setup and how quickly it came about and how specifications and code are being handled. Just as an example, because I think Anita is right, this is a perfect example of how foundations and organisations and alliances come together and help the end user, right, in this case operators. Yeah, just check, can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, we can hear you. Yeah, great. My video is just frozen at my end. So if I don't move it all, don't worry about it, I can stand still alive. Yeah, for sure. And just the first thing I want to say is it's been a pleasure working with the Linux Foundation, NGMM, also TM Forum. I think one of the most important things we've got to actually stop is duplication of activities and we need to focus all the attention of what everyone's doing through one vehicle. And Kamara came about, I think, only since October last year, October 2022, where Deutsche Telecom was very keen to actually bring together operators, bring the ecosystem and the players in the ecosystem together, so that the telco APIs can be exposed. They're looking at capabilities that you might not think about at this point in time, like on-demand quality of service APIs, which is very important in things like Edge Compute and also network slicing and being able to provide the resources to the developers. And really, when we actually look at it, it's very difficult for the operator community to actually talk to the developers because we've taught different languages. And that's where the Linux Foundation has been absolutely critical in being able to actually be able to parse almost through what we actually need from our capability in networks because, don't forget, there's 750 networks behind us. You want one way to talk to those networks.  That's irrelevant to you about, do I go with Vodafone? Do I go with Deutsche? Who do I go with? You just want resources in Berlin or you want resources in London or you want resources in particular places to get the improvement. And really, we've put the fundamentals together where we can contribute the code. Software is how everything is going to be built and that gets built at such a pace these days that we have to respect that that code needs to be actually utilised in a particular way. And the most difficult aspect, I'll be honest, was the IPR regime that you actually put around this. Where is that? That actually went to a vote across the whole thing and we've decided on actually two licensing. So it's clear, very transparent for when developers are actually using the APIs and things like that, that they can be comforted and they can be secured by they know the IPR regime and what they're doing and how they actually do it. I think that all speeds up. It moves the hurdles, it moves the barriers. Just speeds up the implementation. Awesome. And I think that's exactly the goal of these kind of activities and collaboration. If a standard or a specification exists, code it. If it does not exist, code it and push it upstream. Or if it doesn't exist, work together so that you have that quick feedback loop. So very good. I know there are questions. I think the first one on the requirements was answered. There's also how there's other questions coming in. I know we're going to sort of quickly run out of time. Wish we had more, but any closing statements on this whole philosophy, I'll start off with you, Henry, this time. I'll just reiterate. If we can stop any duplication out there and we all work together, it's going to be so much quicker. And we want the developers and the enterprises to be happy at the end of the day. Oh, well said. Anita. Nothing more to it. I think collaboration is really key here. Yeah. And I know we didn't get a chance to talk about green networks today, but that has been a hot topic of how the telecommunications industry can enable other verticals. So please download the information on NGMN and green networks and we will have a lot more deeper sessions because that's a big topic coming up in 2022. So with that said, thank you very much, Henry and Anita for joining and really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


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There's CC Aaron mentioned that you had a cortisone shot in your shoulder How long has the shoulder been bothering you and were you surprised the way it did not bounce back the way you wanted it? Yeah, I mean, I guess I was surprised the way it didn't bounce back Yes, it was something that we've been trying to deal with, you know past couple months and thought that we had Pretty good handle on it. You know I threw in that game in Tampa It felt pretty good, but then I woke up a couple days later and It was pretty sore. So we got the shot and then You know I threw in the same game thought it would feel a little better and it just didn't bounce back like I thought it would Dan Aaron said that you're gonna continue to work in hopes of Being active if they advance is that something that that you have your eyes on are you confident that you that it feels At a point now where you might be able to do that. Yeah, I mean I Just every day just trying to get better You know, I do feel like you know the longer We go it's a better chance that I can get back out there. So Yeah, I mean we're gonna keep working, you know keep doing things in the trainer room to Try to get back out there and how tough is it just not to be on the roster? Yes I mean, obviously you guys know me. So it's it's tough Obviously being here and you know, not being able to participate in playoffs. It's rough, but You know, I didn't I don't want to put the team in jeopardy I want, you know The best opportunity for this team to win the championship. I feel like we have a good opportunity.  Just rooting cheering, you know, they'll be there for the guys You know, try to you know be there as much as possible whatever kind of role I can be in Obviously still working to try to get back out there myself Eric CC you've been in the position that James Paxton will be in tomorrow How confident are you with him going out there as your game one starter? Yeah, I'm excited for him to get a chance to start game one really just our whole rotation, you know I think everybody's made a lot about our pitching, but I'm excited to see our guys perform packs You know my son, I'm really excited to see savvy pitch You know, we haven't saw him all year so to get to get a chance to see him in the playoffs is gonna be exciting So looking forward to that Obviously, I mean, you know him running off 10 in a row You know, he's he's got the stuff we knew that and you know getting comfortable here as a Yankee takes you a minute So, you know, I'm excited for him tomorrow. I think he I think he'll be good for us The front right CC right there Paxton mentioned that he relied on some veterans on the team to help him, you know prepare for his first playoff appearance Did you have any advice for him back in clubhouse?  So You know, he has he's has the experience, you know, so he just got to go out and you know perform tomorrow So we need a front CC is there any way to actually describe what the year has been like for you between all the celebrations and all the shots of different kinds What you've been feeling it's been It's been fun, it's been a good year You know, obviously everything I had to do to stay on the field with, you know, court is on shots of different things like that It's tough But you know to be here with these guys being in a position to hopefully win a championship is why I came back I knew what I was in store for coming back, you know, just you know with with my knee and my shoulder and stuff. So Yeah, I mean, but but having a chance to win the division, you know, having chance to plan, you know Being the playoffs and hopefully when the championship is is why I came back You're comfortable physically with the role that you'd be asked to fill once the shoulder is better. Oh, any role? Yeah, oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, that's that's no problem I think when you try to win the championship, you got to check the egos at the door and just go out and and try to get out Okay, Dan We've talked to you so much about your knee. Is it just kind of weird that it's the shoulder that's keeping you out at this Point of the season, you know, with this much on the line. Yeah, it is. It's something that I never dealt with, you know Obviously, you know, never have an arm problems, you know, so just trying to you know work through it Obviously, you know, do things in the training room to try to get back out there and play some catch and see how it feels Anything else for CC We'll take one more from Marley CC we all know that you've announced that this is your last season. Can you not? You know the fact that this could be the end of your career. Do you see it that way? Or are you just looking forward to the ALCS? Oh, yeah, no, I'm just looking forward to, you know, having a chance to it, you know Participate in the playoffs playing the playoffs. Hopefully get healthy enough You know and just be around here for the playoffs.  Thank you, CC. Really appreciate it


Hello, I'm Mike Harrison. I'm sure some of you will be familiar with my YouTube channel where I take stuff apart and find out why it's a really bad idea to take things like fuel cells to pieces. Today what I'm going to be talking about is actually my day job, which is designing custom electronics generally for large scale lighting installations of various sorts, typically involving ludicrous numbers of LEDs, often in same time scales. But this one I thought was interesting because there's some construction techniques I came up with which might be of interest to small scale projects and be usable for other applications. So basically I've been talking to some designers that I've worked with over the years and they sort of pitch various ideas for retail and for various other architectural type things. And for a long time we've been talking about let's try and make something just using printed circuit boards. So we've got structure and electrical connection in one place. It also means we don't have to deal with mechanical manufacturers which can be a real pain, sort of trying to do everything in one. So this is the first idea we come up with which is basically L-shaped PCBs to make like this sort of cube form. And we got sort of part way through figuring out how this was going to work sort of mechanically but this project didn't happen, it was pitched and they decided they didn't have any budget for it. So that was a couple of years ago. So more recently one of these people I worked with has moved to Hong Kong and they started pitching around some of the big shopping malls and they got a succeeded with a pitch to a very high end shopping centre in Hong Kong called Pacific Place. This is all like designer brands everywhere. And this was quite a big space that needed filling with stuff for Christmas lights but not tacky horrible Chinese Christmas lights, stuff that looked interesting. So we thought well what are the themes, Christmas themes, Hong Kong, weather sort of like this but more humid? Well snowflakes obviously, I mean it would be. So we think okay, we got the idea we're going to make something that looks vaguely like a snowflake. So how do we actually, obviously it's too big to make in one piece so how do we join all these pieces together? We like the idea of doing something modular where we could stick things together in different shapes to make different forms. This is the first idea we had. These are a connector made by a company called AVX. If you're interested, if you're ever after interesting ways of connecting boards together, AVX do lots of really cool connectors particularly for the LED lighting industry. This is our first idea. So these are basically back to back edge connectors so you can just plug two PCBs in. And the attractive thing about that is it didn't require any connector on the PCB which is PCB with the edge that plugs straight in. So in principle it reduces the cost of your board because you don't have to fit the connectors to the board. So we sort of started working around out some ideas on this but this didn't really work out because although you got this sort of nice electrical connection we needed to add these additional plates just to get the mechanical stiffness. And because of the size of these connectors it was all starting to get a bit too big, just didn't really quite work out. Also the, purely just the space we needed but also the fact that we were making these triangles and actually trying to, because these are inserted from the end, trying to do that on a triangle would mean it would actually be quite difficult to put together, we'd have to start putting chamfers on the end and it was all a bit better. So had a long think and this was really what we wanted to end up with, something where we just snapped these things together. So this is what we end up using, trying to remember which order things are in here. So we've got these PCBs that snap in using these plastic snap rivets which are super cheap, super quick to install. Now what you can't do is just mount two PCBs flat to flat because you need something to actively push to get and maintain the electrical connection. If you just do two bits of flat PCB the slightest movement means they're going to disconnect, you get creepage over time and it's generally a really bad idea. I mean if we'd had time to do a lot of engineering time into this maybe we could have made that work but this was really, we had like a fairly limited amount of time so we had to go with a solution we just knew would work without risk. So I started looking at various options for spring contact, there's quite a lot of nice little surface mount spring contacts like this which I started looking at. This is one of these things where having a paper catalogue is a lot nicer than just searching for stuff on the website because you quite often find stuff that's on the next page that's related but you'd never find that just on a web search. So what we end up using is these, these are mobile phone SIM connectors. So we've got six contacts in a nice ready-made package that we can just mount in one operation onto the PCB as part of a normal surface mount flow-soldering process. There's quite a few varieties of these, we set them on one particular one by Molex because the thickness was just right so we have our LED strip, we have our star and we then have a spacer which is also made of PCB and the thickness of this connector just matched up nicely with a 1.6mm PCB as a spacer. So these are actually really cheap, they're 13P. You'll notice on here the quantity showed you zero. Basically we cleared out the entire worldwide distributor stock of these things, 28,000 of them. Again because we were on a fairly tight time scale we had to make sure we had the stock before we committed to the design so we just had to go and just buy enough straight away before we pushed the button on anything else so for a while it was quite hard to get hold of these because we had them all. So these are the sort of the final components of the system. We've got this LED strip which is a two-sided assembly, we've got sort of six RGBW LEDs on there. Now the RGBW bit is quite important, there's a small section over there, afterwards you can come up and take a close look at that. But you'll see that actually looks, it's quite a nice sort of pastel-y colours because obviously our theme was snow and snowflakes so we wanted quite a lot of white in there. And RGB by its own makes a horrible white, it just looks horrific because of the colour variations and the colour balancing, it just looks totally nasty. So by adding that white in there it means you've got most of your light which is white is coming out as a fairly pure white and then you can just use the RGB to tint and accent it. The other advantage is white is a ton more power efficient so compared to generating bad white with RGB compared to a standard white LED, it's something the order of eight times more efficient in terms of the light you get out versus the power you put in. So that's another big advantage. So these are the components, we've got the one on your bottom right, that's the star interconnect so that provides the mechanical interconnect and also the electrical interconnect via these pads that touch the SIM card connectors on the strips. So on the strip we've got these six RGB LEDs, RGBW LEDs, they're all wired in series so we've got a 24 volt supply and we're just using current limiting resistors so we don't need to mess about too much with constant current power supplies. That's then driven by a pic, I'll go into a little bit more detail there. They might pick 12F322 from memory, I believe, which is a nice low cost device and I'll go into the details in a second as to why that was a really almost ideal device for this project. Sorry, I like 12F1501. Incidentally, in this presentation there is one mistake. If anyone can shout out when they see that mistake, I'll give them a free one of my prototyping boards so just shout mistake. It's a little bit further on but it is a very obvious mistake to anyone that knows what they are talking about. I just spotted it when I was reading through it a minute ago. So there's a modus, that gives us our star plate, we've got these strips, we can snap them together in almost any hexagonal arrangement we like. Then we've got the drop attachment that these are actually hung from. So we've got this thick PCB, it needed to be a little bit thicker than standard PCB just to get the rigidity. So at the bottom you can see the actual shape. I did quite a lot of iterations, I've got one of these cheap CNC engravers that was really handy for cutting out these test pieces. So that basically just snaps into a slot in the centre piece. We've got this right angle pinheader that just plugs into the socket on the black part you can see on the right. So as long as you're careful and line the pins up so you don't bend, these snap together really easily because of course once this vertical is in it's a rather unwieldy thing to carry. So we've got these things manufactured flat, they're all assembled flat and packed and then when we came on site we snapped these vertical pieces on. Then the other detail on the left is how the hanging cable connects. So we've got this hook on the end so the cable loops through it twice, that gives us our mechanical strain relief and then it plugs in. There's a little notch there so we could actually put a cable tie around there, which is actually fairly unnecessary but it reassured the client a little bit that it wasn't going to fall down. You'll notice there's a couple of holes on that bottom piece. There's a couple of holes, the idea is that we'd snap it in, then we could put a wire through it as an extra safety precaution. Again that's something that we told the client, they're a bit wider. If you actually try, it's almost impossible to pull one of these apart, they're very very strong. In the end we actually forgot to put those wires in and nobody noticed and it hasn't fallen down so I'm not too concerned about that. The only other thing we needed, because these were flat and of course the PCB is a bit flexible, we actually had to put some suspension wires so what we did, we had a couple of holes in the vertical and then we had some custom wire forms made out of, I think it was something like half millimetre stainless steel wire which had hooks preformed in the end. So again something we did on site was we put the things out flat, we plugged the vertical in, we then threaded these wires through and that then kept the whole thing flat so you could suspend it and it holds itself nice and flat. You can see on there right, you can see how that hook, it's like a V-shape hook so you just push it through and it snaps through. So it's really quick to assemble, you go snap snap and it all holds together and these have been pre-made on a machine that gets the length precisely right so obviously the length of that wire is critical to get it totally flat so that adzabi got just right. The other thing we did was we've got an array of these snowflake shapes. Now if you just hang them they're going to twist and rotate relative to each other and of course we wanted to do nice pattern sweeping across it and like co-ordinated shapes across the whole thing. So we needed to stop them rotating so we had these additional pieces which again used the same snap in detail and at the other end of this strip it just passes through a slot, there's no fixing, it just passes through it. So that basically ties pairs together so they can't rotate relative to each other so as long as each pair is linked then they're all going to stay the same way around and again that was a quite neat solution. Again, all entirely made out of PCB, no extra parts. I don't think we actually, the only thing that wasn't a PCB was those mechanical wires. Everything else has done standard electronic PCB process which is something that I'm familiar with and I don't like dealing with subcontractors in areas that I'm not familiar with because it gets too stressful. We tend to speak different languages. So back to the pick that we used, I don't know how technical you are, please go to sleep if this is boring but I won't stay on this too long. It was a really nice fit for this project, it's got four PWM channels which means for RGBW that's perfect, all the dimming is basically done completely in hardware. It's ten bit, now that's important, you might think well for doing dimming all you need is eight bits. That's actually not true, if you just want to do a nice fade from like completely off to completely on. If you use eight bits what you'll find is the bottom few at the dim end you'll get really steppy because the eyes response to light is non-linear. So what you generally do, if you want a nice smooth fade literally all the way from black up to however bright it goes, you need a minimum of about ten bits and you then apply a curve which is the opposite of the eyes response. In practice a very good approximation to that is you simply take the eight bit value, square it and then use the top however many bits your hardware supports and that works really nicely and of course connotationally it's really simple. These picks have only got I think five, twelve words of memory so even a look up table would have been difficult to do but all it's doing is it's taking the eight bit value, multiplying it by itself and slapping it out to the PWM hardware. Some other nice features got self-progambal flash which means that we can upload the firmware over the cable so this entire installation if we needed to we could upload the firmware in every single pick. There's 60px segments per snowflake. The total was about I think 14,000 strips in the entire installation so obviously it's really important that if we needed to we could update the firmware easily. Also it can hold a device ID. It hasn't actually got e-squared prompt but you can self-program the flash to achieve the same thing and I'll go into that in a second. It's got an internal oscillator that's accurate enough to do serial communication so that's one less component we need to deal with. It's a five volt part. It'll run from anything from I think 2.5 up to five volts so we don't need a precision voltage regulator. We just have a resistor and a zener diode to go from our 24 volt supply to our pick. Yes, see me afterwards for the prototype board. Well done. Right, so yes, it's cheap 50 cents and one really really nice thing I like about picks is that microchip will supply them ready programmed with your code for very very little money, far far cheaper than using a third party programming service. So for another six cents our chips already had all our code in it. In fact because we could upload the firmware it actually the thing that you really just have to have a bootloader because there was some changes I made to the firmware after we'd send off the order for the picks. But because they had the bootloader in there already the jig you'll see in a moment part of the programming process we also uploaded a new firmware to it. But the fact that we didn't have to stick these on an in-circuit programming jig of course like 14,000 boards was a real-time saver and also because the assembly was being done by a subcontractor in Hong Kong. It's one less thing for them to screw up. We say here's the chip, it's got the code in, stick it on the board and it works. And the other thing is it's got some built-in test facility so that when you turn it on it'll cycle through all the colours of the LED. So again for the subcontractors to be able to test it all they had to do was power it up and again there's a slide further on about that. Quick detail it doesn't have a UART so we're doing 125k board serial which is quite fast but we can actually do a soft UART if we cut a few corners. Instead of the traditional approach of doing a soft UART is you basically have an interrupt on the start bit and then you generate an interrupt on each bit that you want to sample. Now once you get up to higher board rates that becomes a bit problematic because of the amount of time it takes to get you into and out of the interrupt routine. So what I do, we actually, we still generate an interrupt on the start bit but we stay inside the interrupt code for the entire duration of the byte which means we can sample it. I've used this up to about half a megabit and it works fine. We used an additional stop bit just to give us a bit of extra time to deal with getting in and out of the interrupt routine. So I originally did this using DMX which is actually 250k board with two stop bits and an extra stop bit really is a lifesaver. The disadvantage of this is that your foreground processing doesn't, if you've got this data streaming continuously every byte you get in takes up almost all of the processing time. That's a vaguely representative picture at the bottom but fortunately because we've got this hardware PWM, the only thing the foreground task is doing is waiting until the new packet comes in saying yes I've got the packet, here's my RGBW bytes squaring it, throwing out the PWM hardware and it's got a complete frame time of about 30 milliseconds to do that. So even if on every incoming byte you only get like three or four instructions executed that's fine, that still works which is great and it's cheap. So this is just on the detail of this interconnect star so it's a two layer PCB. We've got plus 24 volts ground and data and say it's data it's 125k TCL level UART data which works fine over. We had up to about 10 meters of cabling. We made sure that we didn't produce nasty spikes, we smoothed it off so it got nice control rise times and that works pretty well. It'll work at twice that bit bit rate but we just didn't need that so we decided let's play safe and keep everything going as slow as possible to minimise the things that can go wrong. Now within this Starflake shape we've got 60 strips obviously we need a consistent way of addressing those strips. They're all sharing the same data bus remember so we've got each strip sees this stream of data but it needs to know well where am I, which of these bytes in this incoming data do I need to respond to. So each strip has a unique ID programmed into it and to do this we made a jig. So our original idea was we'd as well as programming we also needed something to help with the assembly because these are going to be assembled by other people in Hong Kong under our supervision. So the idea was we'd get say a sheet of MDF mill out the shape then you just drop all the strips and stars in. The problem is that you know we're here and that's in Hong Kong and sending out a four foot square sheet of MDF to Hong Kong is really not a very good idea. So I come up with this idea of making a modular jig which again is made out of PCB. So the jig actually follows the same form as the shape that you're trying to create. We've got these strips, we've got the stars, we've got the locating pins so that what you do is you assemble this jig by again snapping it together with the snap rivets.  And also on these jig we've got these little programming pins and that's connected to a programming box which is part of the jig system. So that once you've assembled it all up you push it down, we use like crop clips and bulldog clips just to hold it down to make sure it's making contact. And the jig would then generate data and these pins are actually out like a chip select so remember every board is seeing exactly the same data so how do you know how to program that particular one? So we send a command that says ID number 46 but only if you can see your pin being pulled low. So the jig just pulls each of these pins in turn, sends the ID command and then each strip within the jig is programmed. We then do a test so we can see all lighting out, we can see it's all in the right order, we can see everything's all got the right address and that process takes about 15 seconds I think that entire process. These are a few little details of the jig, unfortunately I forgot to take some decent quality pictures of these. So you can see the various parts of the jig, you can see the strips here, the stars being ready to drop on. That's the complete jig running through its test. So as it goes through its programming thing the various colours on the layers just indicate the progress. When it's finished it flashes some fixed patterns which are designed in such a way that because the eye is very good at recognizing patterns that are out there. The eye can immediately spot in the air so we can verify that all these have been programmed correctly. So that's the actual process of the snowflake itself. In terms of the system as a whole each of these 60 strip snowflakes plugged in to one of these units and what this does, this has got a high speed RS485 bus running between two or three of them. That then takes data at two megaboard and it then splits that out into 12 simultaneous streams at 125 kb for up to 12 snowflakes. The dark squares you can see on the right are polyfuses to provide protection because obviously each snowflake would take up to about two amps at 24 volts at full load. So we've potentially got 24 amps going through this thing. So we have this individual polyfuse protection to avoid sort of if to say a cable short to avoid setting anything on fire. Shopping centres really really hate that so you want to make sure smoke really gets them twitchy so there's safety there. There's also some zenders and resistors so that if for example we had a short between our data line now 24 volt line it wouldn't blow anything up. We'd just sit there and draw a little bit of current but there's some little zener diodes and some resistors and I think we used some PTC polyfuses on the data lines as well.  It wouldn't kill anyone or set anything on fire. This was part of the factory test. Like I said having the firmware in the pick from the factory meant that we could do some tests. The strips were made in panels of I think something like 15 strips on a panel for the whole surface mount process. And we actually put some tracking around the panel so that you could take a complete manufactured panel, plug 24 volt power into it and then all the strips on the thing would cycle through all the colours. So it meant the manufacturer could instantly check that all the LEDs were working, there weren't any shorts very quickly and very easily. And again, that's part of the instruction we give to the manufacturer. So hopefully what we get from them is pre-tested known working strips ready to go on the jig. And also you've got that secondary test procedure once we go through the jig. But it means that any bad soldering or so on in theory that should be taken care of by the factory that's manufacturing the strips themselves. That's the actual architecture. I've just got some video of this. Unfortunately there is some video of the full thing with all the final animations. Unfortunately no one's got round to editing it yet. So this is a mixture of a build video and also some footage I shot on site with some test animation because I left Hong Kong before they'd finished doing all the programming stuff. So this is just a sort of general overview thing. I've edited some of the boring stuff out of here but this is part of the actual process of installing test. That's me going around testing every single drop wire before it got lifted. Make sure all the cabling is working. So there's a custom framework made. That was put on winches and then it was winched up. The snowflakes were put on in sort of height order. It was then just gradually winched up and more snowflakes put on and then winched up and more pulled up and then pulled up to the final height. So this is the big installation in the main foyer. It's like a Christmas tree type shape. And then around the sides there was some long thin installations. It's like a round building with like thin corridors that go all the way around it. So we've got this big feature thing at the front. And then round the sides we've got these tenor parts which I think are here are the side bits. The nice thing because it's this nice open shape it's very transparent. It doesn't look like a huge sort of thing. We're filling a lot of volume but we're not really making it like a big lump in the space because it's very transparent. You can actually see through it quite nicely and when the snowflakes are off you hardly even notice they're there. But obviously when they come on you see the light. You get some really nice reflections from this curved glass.  You can see the reflection from the glass, the curved glass which is quite a nice effect. So the overall aesthetic. The end client was absolutely delighted. We're actually going back in October. We're going to take the strips. We're going to rearrange them into things that look less like snowflakes on different frames. I'm going to put them back up again as a sort of permanent installation. So these are the ones that are down the sides. There are four different clusters which are just sized and shaped to fit basically the shape of the space we had to put them in. So you can see this nice reflection on the lift shaft. This curved glass on the lift shaft on the left is this really nice reflection of this cluster here. Unfortunately there were some quite nice animations that were done but unfortunately I don't have any. I think at the end there's some really grotty video that's actually some guy in Hong Kong. I found it on YouTube so I've been through the shopping centre and actually videoed it. So I've just stolen a few snippets from that video just to show some of the animations. But it's rather poor quality but saying I need to go and kick someone and get them to actually edit all the footage they've got of the final things. That was all shot quite nicely but it's been sat on a hard disk for a long time. So these were just me just wandering around waving a camera just to get something. But you get some quite interesting, because as the angle changes you get different sort of impressions of it from sort of high density to low density and so on. I think this is the footage of the animation to say this is a rather bad YouTube grab. But you can get some idea of the animation. I think on every hour they played a tune through the PA. Remember this was Christmas themes? They played some jolly Christmas tune through the PA system. We had this animation that made them all cool sort of funny animation colour things. Then it went back to a more sort of passive sort of gentle background thing in between that. So you can see some of that. We're generating from shapes with these animations based around that hexagonal shape. I'll leave that playing. We've got five minutes. Quick questions. Someone's going to come to you with a microphone. I've got this spotlight in my face. It's a bit hard to see. Hi. Could you tell us something about the software used to generate these animations? Was that you or someone else? Most of these installations, my responsibility, generally ends at the USP port. So the most I do is some software just to fire it all up, find the addresses and test it. All the creative stuff. I leave to creative people. It's not really my, something I have anything to do with it. It was running on a Mac Mini. That's about all I know. Any more questions? Any more? You showed us the boards which have like a megabit coming in and several lower bordering. What was providing those megabit streams to feed all those? That was coming out of a quad USB to RS485 interface. That's just got an FTDI, FT4232H. They're made by subsidiary of FTDI called EasySync. They do these nice industrial boxes which I use all the time.  Easily, cheaply, easy to debug. It's a lot easier than Ethernet in a lot of respects. How long did it take to put up? Each of the big clusters was one night. I think the big front one was two nights. It's shoppy said we can only work overnight. We made good progress. We had some contingency. It was damn hard work. The thing is we had a really good installation crew. For example, assembling those suspension wires. We showed these guys how to do it once and they just did it beautifully. It was really good. That saves us a ton of time. We knew it would get done right. Any more? Yep, this one. What was the total power draw of one of those clusters? One limitation we had was the only power we had was a number of 13 amp sockets in the proximity of each section. Some of the design constraints actually came from that. Each snowflake was about 57 watts. It was 24 volts at about 2.5 amps. The software did have a metering thing. We could measure from the content how much power it was going to draw. If necessary, we could cap that because obviously we didn't want any fuses to be blowing. In the end, we did have a system where we could, if we wanted, run it up either at 100% or three out of the four colours at 100%. How did you do in manufacturing yield and failures and failures in the installation itself over its run? We didn't have many failures. Obviously, we've got a lot of strips. If one strip went down, it wouldn't be that noticeable. Certainly in terms of dead strips from the factory when we were assembling, there was about half a dozen out of 14,000. Failures during the installation, I don't have the figures, but it wasn't a huge number. It was no more than tens, I don't think. I think this is possibly the last question. Last question. You've got a lot of LEDs in a fairly small space. Was there any consideration for the thermals of it? No, basically because they're all spread out, it just isn't an issue. For things where I'm generating fairly bright lights, where possible I would sooner, for example, use a cluster of six small LEDs than one big power LED because that heat is spread out so you don't need a metal slab PCB. You can run that flat out. It will get a little bit warm, but no more than that. If we're using white, the white LED, the white is so efficient, we can get a really decent amount of brightness. Those LEDs are running at, I think, about 15 milliamps. They're not even running at their full power. OK. This one. Were you waving at the back? No, he's just fanning himself. OK. Can we thank Mike, please?


Hi, I'm James Randy. Let me tell you a short story folks. Recently I was driving on four-lane Broward Boulevard here in Florida, alongside the canal. And I noticed a huge box turtle powerlessly making his way across the road some distance away. The driver ahead of me swerved to avoid the creature but hardly slowed down. While I pulled over, I stopped and lugged a very heavy traveler to the edge of the water. He seemed not to express his thanks to me for his rescue, but he plopped into the canal with what I fancied as a certain degree of relief. It s the kind of thing I often do. I pick up sharp objects I find when walking along the beach, carrying them about with me until I find a suitable place to safely deposit them. For every stranded motorist that I report by telephone to the Highway Police, there are many others who pass that person by, but I m well aware of the reason I feel compelled to make such calls. You see, I had a very good teacher. My paternal grandfather, who long ago left us for what he believed would be a far greater adventure, was very important to me as I grew up. He cared a lot. He looked on lying as a grave infraction of proper social behavior, though I will tell you that on one occasion and only one I deliberately lied to him. I visited him as he was in his last hours, and he asked me if I thought that he was going to meet my grandmother, who had died a few years earlier. I told him that yes, he probably would, though I had no such delusion at all. He just smiled. Whether or not he believed me, I ll never know, but I did this to possibly bring him a bit of comfort in his last moments. I have no regrets about that at all. Gramps was one who would wipe away bits of chewing gum on a park bench because someone may sit in it, he d explain. Quite unnoticed, he d pick up and replace a hat that had fallen from a clothing rack in a restaurant. A piece of wire protruding from the fence at the playground would be bent back out of the way by my granddad. I learned a lot from him, watching him as he performed this part of his life. Now, Grandpa wasn t a caretaker or a watchman of any kind. He worked as an electrician. He wasn t employed to pick up after people or to ensure their safety, but was nonetheless getting enormous satisfaction from his small contributions. Together at the beach one day, we found a very old wallet containing two $1 bills and a faded identity card for some chap named Foster. As I expected, my granddad wrapped that wallet up and mailed it off to the address we d found inside. Two weeks later, it came back with a notification informing us that the owner had moved and had left no forwarding address. Grandpa simply extracted the $2 and stuck them into a book on the bookshelf. We reluctantly discarded the wallet. Well, the next Sunday morning I answered the door to find a lady there asking if we would contribute to a worthy charity. Grandpa lit up and retrieved the $2 from the bookshelf. He handed them to the lady and as she thanked him, he shook his head. No, no, no, that s not mine, he said. It s from Mr. Foster. I m sure he s glad he s been put to such a good use. And when I dropped that turtle at the canal edge last week, I said, Mr. Foster wishes you a long life and my grandpa would have smiled, I know. It s the way to go, folks. The world turns a little more smoothly. You re just a bit richer and someone, some place, may very well notice your good deed and resolve to follow suit. That way we re all better off. Won t you do something for Mr. Foster? Please. And thank you.