Wel yma, y cyfweld final yn y cesenni yw Tracy Weysgerba yw'r hipfer mewn maen nhw'r gwyllwyfydd yma yn y Bwrlen Institwyr Fyglwyr, ac Tracy yw'r cyflwyng yw'r cyflwyng gwyllwyr rydym ymlaen yw'r cyflwyng mewn cyflwyng maen nhw'r cyflwyng mewn cyflwyng maen nhw'r cyflwyng. Tracy. Rhaid i'n gweithio. Ddweud i'r gweithio. Rwy'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'r cyflwyng without shortcuts and not to press the self-destruct button on this little remote thingy in here that they gave me. Okay, so taking shortcuts, how can we use methodological shortcut citations responsibly? So before I begin, I think it's really important to point out that there was a lot of hard work done for this project and that work was not done by me. So I teach a participant guided meta research course every year where students from all different fields across the four Berlin universities learn about meta research by working together to design, conduct and publish a meta research study. This was the first year we did it in Berlin and these students all worked very hard on this project and so this is who you should credit for this work. I'll only go through a bit of our data today but we do have a preprint available on bioarchive if you would like more details. So methods are essential to consider when we're talking about reproducibility because reproducibility really starts with our methods. No one can reproduce your work if they don't understand what you did. No one can build on your work if they don't understand how you did it and if you're someone who cares about open data then you can't reuse data that are shared responsibly unless you know how that data were generated, which is your methods. Yet we also know from both our own experiences as researchers as well as from documented evidence that method sections of scientific papers and research articles are often lacking essential details. So one set of evidence for this comes from the reproducibility project in cancer biology where in their efforts to duplicate well-known cancer biology findings they found that no paper contained sufficient details to replicate experiments and they had to go back to authors and not all of them responded. So how do we document our methods in research papers? There are two ways. The first we might describe the method in the method section and the second we might use a methodological shortcut citation. So we're going to focus on the second today. So what is the methodological shortcut citation? Well this is when instead of describing your methods in detail you replace part of your description with a citation to a previous paper that use similar methods and hopefully but maybe not describes those methods in detail. So some context about this use of shortcut citations, some journals actually require this and some scientists consider it to be best practice and they would argue that we don't need to repeat methods that have been described in detail elsewhere. However others have had problems finding detailed methods when shortcut citations are used and I see people nodding in the audience so that includes some of you and have raised concerns that this practice is not great for reproducibility and these problems often look something like this. So here we see a couple of tweets and in both cases we have authors who are looking for a method and they go back and they go back and they go back and maybe there's a paywall or maybe it just says devices were fabricated with conventional methods or a variety of problems in suit and again I see people nodding so I assume some of you have been there and done that. So we decided to look at this across three different fields, neuroscience and yellow biology in blue and psychiatry in red and this is not the number of shortcut citations just the number of all citations in the method section. We looked at papers published in the top 15 journals that published original research for each field, 20 for neuroscience and psychiatry, 15 journals for biology and the first thing we did is just look at how many papers were cited in the methods and you can see that there are some papers that only cite a few but a lot of papers are actually citing quite a few different resources in their methods. So then we had to think about why authors were using citations in the methods because not all citations in the methods are shortcuts and so we developed this way of thinking about why authors are citing things. The first reason is a how citation that's used to explain how a method was performed and this is almost always a shortcut citation so how citations are shortcuts. The second set is a who or what citation and these citations are used to give credit to someone or to specify what materials or resources were used. The third category is from whom so where did I get these data or these material from? The fourth was a why citation and so this is usually used to provide context or justification so we use this method because others have shown that it works best in our patient population or because others have shown that it gives very reliable data under our experimental conditions and then two other categories were to specify a formula or value used in the experiment or other which simply meant it couldn't be categorized in any of the categories above. Okay so why did authors use citations in the method section? Well we went through all of the citations shown in the previous graph and we did our best to define why the authors might have cited and this is what we came up with. In neuroscience and psychiatry about half the citations were how citations or shortcut citations versus a third in biology. The other most common reasons for citing a paper in the method section were who or what citations to give credit or specify what was used and why citations to provide context or a justification for a procedure that was used and then the remaining three categories we didn't see very much of these so what we learned from this is that shortcut citations are very very common in papers and in fact in all three fields we looked at more than 90% of papers had a shortcut. We also looked at the age of the oldest and the youngest papers cited as a shortcut and here we can see that there are a lot of papers that are you know less than five or ten years old but there's also a very long tail and so there are papers that are being cited that are certainly much older than that. Methods age at different rates in different fields but this certainly suggests that some shortcut citations may no longer reflect methods that are in use in today's research. The next thing we did was a case series where we looked at a small number of studies five per field and we went through and we followed backwards to see if we could find a detailed description of the methods and that meant if there was a chain of citations we followed that chain until we thought we found a description of the methods and so there were many cases where shortcut citations were used appropriately and it was fine however we also encountered some problems. The first problem we encountered was that we couldn't identify the citation it didn't seem to exist it didn't map to any known resource or paper that we could find. The second was that we couldn't access the citation so maybe it was behind a pay wall it was an older article where there was no PDF or other version available or it was a book or resource that simply wasn't available to us. We may have had difficulty finding the cited method within that paper so perhaps the method wasn't mentioned or it was a book chapter with many, many pages and we could not find the method in those pages and lastly we may have had difficulties finding the details of the cited method so there was a description of the method there but it was not sufficient to allow someone to reproduce the experiment and then the final problem was that that paper also used a shortcut citation instead of fully describing the method so then we had to go around the entire cycle again which takes time and makes people impatient. So some limitations here. We did a very small sample size so I can tell you that these things can occur but our sample size is too small to tell you how often these problems occur. So what do we do about this? As scientists, as researchers, as scholars how can we use shortcut citations responsibly? We would like to propose three criteria that resources that are being cited specifically as a shortcut to explain a method should meet. The first criteria is that they need to provide a detailed description so they should describe the method in enough detail to allow others to implement that method. The second criteria is fairly obvious. It needs to describe the method that you actually used because if it doesn't describe the method you used you're saying you could do it this way. We didn't but you could if you wanted to. And the third thing is that the citation needs to be open access because if someone can't access that resource then a section of your methods is effectively missing from the paper. So effectively what we are arguing here is that if you're citing a resource as a shortcut it needs to meet a higher standard than resources that you would cite for any other reason and that's because methods are essential to reproducibility and when we cite a shortcut we're replacing a part of our methods so that information needs to be available and it needs to meet these criteria. So you might be thinking what if I have a resource that I really like to cite as a shortcut but it doesn't meet these criteria. I'm so glad that you asked. We would like to propose that in that case you can still cite the resource but cite it in order to give credit to the authors and not as a shortcut. Now that still needs you need to explain your method. So there are a couple of options here. If your method is very simple and can be described in detail in your paper you could simply do this. However it's important to remember that sharing something on a protocol repository can be more effective even for short protocols, a step by step set of instructions is more useful to someone who's implementing and that the repositories also make it easier to find protocols and to version them and fork them. And if you can't describe it in your methods you always have the option of depositing your protocol on a protocol repository and then citing your protocol as a shortcut. Protocols on open access protocol repositories that can be versioned and forked make great shortcut citations and that's exactly what we would like to see. Okay what else do we need to do when we're citing something as a shortcut? There are two things that are really helpful. One, if you modified the methods in the cited resource you want to describe how you modified them. What did you do differently? And if you happen to be citing a protocol then you could also simply version or fork that protocol to show your exact methods. And then the second thing that's really important is to make sure that people can locate that method within the cited resource. So you might need to in your citation provide the method name or the location within the cited resource. If you're citing a book or a manual or a large resource you might want to provide specific page numbers where people can find the information so they don't lose the will to live as they are paging through every page of the book that you have so kindly cited for them. Okay and the final question because I know this will come up during the question period. Some scientists believe that you should cite the first paper to use a method whereas others believe that it's better to cite a recent paper that used methods more similar to your own who's right. Good news everybody's right and you can do both. So these two beliefs simply reflect different reasons for citing a paper. When we're citing the first paper we're doing it to give credit. We want to give credit to the person who developed the methods. And we're citing the more recent paper that matches our methods or making a shortcut. So you just write your sentence so that readers know what's the shortcut and what's the credit citation. So experiments were performed using an updated version shortcut citation of the protocol originally developed by credit citation. Very simple. Okay so that is all I am happy to talk to anyone about this afterwards or later over drinks coffee etc and thank you all very much. Thank you Tracy very much great very clear and interesting talk.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the match preview for Everton's final pre-season game away to Veda Bremmer, nice little reunion with Davy Classon. Classon Davy? I like Davy. I like that. Good lad, are you okay? A few days. Last one, Norric Godderson. Do you not fancy the coach tomorrow? No, I'm alright. It's not that I don't fancy the coach, it's a great coach, I just... No, I meant for the trip. I just can't be bothered about that. My back's only just recovered. It is the last opportunity to see the Blues in pre-season. It feels like it's come round really, really quickly, really does. This beginning in bloody the first week in August, lach, it's grim, innit? You should always be like the 19th of August, so we felt like it... Well, sorry, you're out here, isn't it? I know, but it seems like breaking the middle as well. Last year there was no Euros, there wasn't, it was airy, wasn't it? This is just the weekend you start. Just the way it is. People can't wait, people have time for it to come back. No, it's just mean for the preparation. I suppose what's annoying is you haven't got like the players in from our position. That's shaking, you want them to always play again, don't you? That's the way it is. Everyone, though, isn't it at the end of the day? A lot of clubs are in the same boat, there's a lot of stuff. That's why it feels like, again, it just feels like, even though it is the last game, I don't think a lot of people are sitting here going, whatever happens in this game you've got to take. I think we've all been a little bit guilty of that in the last few years. We've seen this final game, pre-season game and thinking whatever happens in that game is that's where we are. I think whatever happens we're going to start the season pretty much like we did at the end of the last season, but obviously no humour at the back and no going again in the middle. Which is bad, but it's not good. We know that's not good. We know we definitely have weaknesses there at the moment. So that's why in this game, again, for me I just want to see the levels go up again. Obviously the Charleston has had a full week so he can take part in some part in this game, which is good because he's been a bit... No, it is. He's a big part of the team, I suppose.  Create chance. Yeah, players look a little bit more on it. Players like Guilfee Sigarton looking a bit more... Interested. ...in game modes. Yeah, in a game mode. You know what I mean? I know the Icelandic stats edition is going to be for you. Guilfee's a good player, but you've got to get it. And you like him. I love him. But we need him to get in the game. That basically just means you don't like him because you just... I like him. Do you like Guilfee Sigarton? I just think it's a weird thing. I just think at times... No, you just said that happens in the Premier League as well. Games where just passion back. Yeah, and I think that's what... No, this is their final game before the season starts. I think so. German League, I don't know. It's like the start in October and finishes in March. No, it's that. They've been playing for a month. Yeah, so they'll be up for this. I think what we want to see is just a bit more. Last week was a disappointing weekend with the two games, just in terms of the results and stuff. Yeah, I thought I should be... I don't think you can take anything out of the mind game. No. I don't think you can take anything out of both. No, but I thought in the Seville game, I thought we were all right. I thought we start to put David the better side in the opening so anyone can get the ball off them, really. But then once we got into it, I thought it was okay. But we just looked, and this is, I suppose, where a lot of people's worry comes from. Defensively, I think we were okay. Well, hopefully Michael Keane, but should be available to me. So that's the data where you feel a little bit more secure at the back. I mean, I've had said that 12 months ago. I did say it. I would have slapped myself in the face. I did say it as well. I think in the final third, him and me at the back together, that's a partnership we need to see growth in the meantime, because that could be the partnership for the season. And it is that final third. Dominic Arventlwn, now with a couple of weeks of training under his belt, needs to be a little bit sharper with Charleston, Bernard. He's another one who's disappointed in pre-season. It's been just a little bit... not quite... Trying a lot of things that just haven't come off at times, but that's fine at what pre-seasons for it. It is legs, isn't it, I suppose. Dale Argyw, I suppose, on the manager and the coaching staff will say, well, it doesn't really matter. This is the time to get all that out of your system, because we're doing double sessions. We're trying to build everyone's level up. You write it. This is a 90-minute game. It's different from last week. Are we going to see the sharpness? I mean, last weekend we've seen Seamus Coleman and Luca Deane basically play 90 minutes, didn't we? We played the first game and then half of the second game. So that was good, because I think it's key that those two really are fit, because they carry a lot of our attack and threat, don't they? I think in this as well, you're obviously going to see less, if any, of the under-23s players. Obviously Gibson, probably maybe one of the only ones. You're going to see more of a first team playing 60, 70 minutes. And then obviously you've got the likes of Tom Davis who can come on. And you probably, again, see the less of the Snidlans and the McCarty's and the Kevin Moraleses who...  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So you're going to see players put through the paces with only a week to the... Do you hang out with them, Mike? Seeing the little thing that he might be involved this week? Well, that would be good for the week before the season, if he can... Some minutes. Get some minutes. Even if it's 20 minutes, just get them back into the... because I know we played for Techie in June, but he's had that injury. You need them up and running. But I think you're right. I think last weekend obviously we've seen a team after 23s, of course, we did, but I think this weekend, when you're looking at last week, I think probably only Gibson. Because I know Nathan Broad, that's been involved all the way through. I don't think... I don't know whether he'll be in... Well, I think he's only been involved all the way through is because last pre-season, it's players playing in certain positions. So he's played as a back-up to Theo Wolcott, who is essentially the back-up to Richard Ellison. Now Richard Ellison's back, it'll be probably Theo Wolcott starting the game, and Richard Ellison replacing him. What do you think? What do you think that he'll start and replace? It depends on...  Do you? So it depends what the manager feels. I think he's only had, I think it was three and a half weeks since the Copa America final, and he's battering. Yeah, but I think what I would say is, it's not about how fit someone is, it's how much rest they get, isn't it? Rest is such a... I think he's only going to play half a game, regardless. Rest is such an important part now of pre-season. Pre-season plays a go away and eat and drink and come back a stone of weight, and then the actual pre-season would be trying to get the weight off them and getting them fit. But I think now, if anything, it's about that rest, isn't it? It's about the recovery. And, you know, he's... he didn't play loads in the tournament, but he would have been training most days apart from when he was in the isolation chamber. Yeah. But what I would say is, for me, he's got a place from... Yeah, of course. I mean, Colman needs to strike up just getting used to playing with each other again, because, you know, let's be honest with thousands, probably going to start a palace I would imagine. So, you know, playing in the game will help them get that relationship. And I suppose Delph in the midfield as well, you know, building on that relationship with... Gomez. With Gomez. Do you think, obviously, you know, we could have Jean-Philippe Gabarman in by the weekend, but do you think there's no chance of him starting? I don't know because he's not an effortless player, so I'm honestly not going to say... No, I just went... If Everton got him in, no. No, I don't think... I don't think anyone who... If anyone signs in the next week, whoever they are, I don't think they'll be starting in this game, because I just... And I think that's correct unless they're... for whatever reason. I think the way it is now, I think the first few games in the Premier League, you're going to see the team you had last season. And that's going to be the same for both clubs. Well, he's an established Premier League player, so that's fine. And then those players will be allowed because we've been guilty. And a lot of clubs are guilty of it is introducing a player into the fold who is not up to the pace and then you're willing those players on. Confidence starts to sap. The other thing is a lot of these players, you throw them into the Premier League first day, it's warm, it's physical, it's 100 miles an hour. And these players are just... They're going to pick up injuries as well, especially if they haven't had much training with the club as well. So I think it's better to just start with a bit more establishments next week and then get into it.  There's no question about that. Are you confident Fabian Delf can do that role in the short term? No, I'm not confident he can do the role. I don't think anyone can do the role. We don't have anyone at the club who can do the role. The question is, how much do we need someone to do the role in the first few games? All right, let me rephrase it then. Forget garner. Are you confident in Gomez and Delf for the first couple of games that they've got enough quality about them to be able to help the way we play? I think it might mean that they're going to play slightly differently. Yeah, they're going to ask a couple more players to play a little bit more reserved. I don't think you can necessarily say to Bernard, even though he's not somebody who does it, over at Charleston, right, you can sit high and just stay high. You've got to drop in a little bit more just so there's a little bit more protection because I think that's what garner gives. I mean, you were at Palace at the end of the season and hadn't totally dominated that game, didn't he? Yeah. They won't have won the sacker. He was excellent for them that day. So they're slightly weaker. They may or may not. I mean, we could have Wilson. Who knows, I doubt it. But they may or may not have Wilson to have that day. So they could be a little bit weaker as well. So both teams are probably going to be not as strong as they were on that day. And yet, Everton had enough chances that they keep it. But there's enough in this evidence side to go there confident without the influx of a lot of players, isn't it? At the end of the day, we do all get caught up with the first game of the season and stuff, and that's the deal. No, but it's not that. I don't mean that. It's that idea of this game, looking at this game and going where are we in this game and then reflecting that on the first game of the season and then reflecting the first game of the season like it's the entire season. And that's where we all get caught up in it. I mean, I think this season I don't feel like I've been caught up in pre-season at all. I've just let it wherever. At times I've been disappointed and the creativity is a worry. But it's not better to have an in pre-season while you can make it do some of that. I think the thing certainly from the games we've watched together as well is that we've both sort of said it's not our team. No, we haven't got our front three. You don't know what I mean. It hasn't been like our perceived best 11 and we've had these problems. I think Liverpool have suffered with the same little thing. They had them back yesterday and they won again, didn't they? And it's like, oh, yet they're a different team. Your best players make a massive difference. I think that's why and I think a lot of people, most people have kind of gone it's not really our proper team because a lot of the three's have been involved. It's almost allowed. And we also and this is not a new thing. This has been going on for years and it's almost spread into the cup competitions. We have this horrible knack of just not, it's not just it's honestly ever for years this horrible knack of just not getting up for games and as I say that does feel as filtered into the cup games where you go to next week, which is a Premier League game and suddenly everyone will be on it. But the biggest example of that was Valencia last year. I mean, we walked out of that game last year as a lot of people did going look all over the place here at this, are we going to keep clean? We're going to have to score three goals. Do you think, because this is something that's crossed my mind and no I know you think this was a good pre-season. In reflection I don't think it has been in terms of not the quality of the teams more just like the way we've played them so Monaco was a good team but the setting of it was just like so so laid back that it just meant that there was a laid back game last week playing Seville, but it was only a 60 minute game in a little tournament. I just feel like at times and again this is I've said this loads of times just if you're not, if there's no reason to get up for games pre-season or not players like Sigarton just do walk around the pitch or whoever, they don't that competitive nature where there's other teams in the top six playing these big commercial tournaments where there seems to be something on them and I know there's not because it's pre-season but that just seems to get them going a little bit more I don't know it, I'm just I know the teams we've played have been good just don't Monaco, when we went to see that Monaco game it was the most laid back game I've ever seen it was like a game in the park wasn't it? No, it was for you, you'd had about 14 standards No, it was great because it was the end of a big week so they had they played in a nice Liverpool they've gone out and played in Switzerland against Leon and so it wasn't in the park though No it wasn't, it was in the yeah but that's the way, I mean I remember a few years ago we played thingy 20, 20 Fc 20, we won 3-0 I'm quite sure I'm quite sure if you shot down with the man and see how it went then teams, you know, do you wish it there you go, the results are available what I would say is though the best season we've had ever in the premiering points totals was the season we went to America and we played and now I'm just saying we played it doesn't matter, I'm not I'm not asked about losing the games what I mean is that we played good sides in tough conditions in front of big crowds and they felt like there was something on them but did it really matter but what I'm just great for us I'm not asked about the games the results are not what I'm talking about is did that push, did that stout go on within the players that pushed us into that season because the pre-season there was a little bit more that's what I'm asking I don't know because at the end of the day it's about players isn't it only the players now and that's when we walked out of Goodersons 12 months ago after Valentin just beat us 3-2 and we were like that was a bit of a shit with the back we were all over the plate and yet a week later we went to a new league we were excellent and had a great season and we were really really good I understand that that's one game versus another I get that and that's just weeks apart what I mean is just for the longevity of the season and actually you stock you store I guess we won't be able to answer that I always think back to that one was that just a coincidence and then the one you all talked about with Cooman was that absolutely horrendous the teams we played were shite the games were shite and we ended up being shite because we never used the players properly we never got to see the players properly we never played enough games and then we went into the Europa League and we never handled any of it well because we didn't have a clue how to handle it so I always go back to that Martin is that a coincidence was that just the Devon just come together but did the pre-season play its part we were at Wigan last week and there was a decent crowd there and they were leaving the foot in and leaving elbows in and everything and it was like a cut tight but I came off that game thinking we shouldn't be playing these kind of teams because we've lost the player through injury and we kicked us off tried to kick us off the park in a friendly now you said at the time maybe they liked that club because it means that the players are offering but I don't know I think we will go far more out of Monaco Seville than we will out of Wigan but we won't know until the season this should be it's in the stadium for a start it's against a good game and shite this should be a good game we'll have three or four players in our team that aren't going to be in this team so it won't give me a picture of how it's going to play out but what I would say is this is a big game for Dominic Halver-Lewin potentially we've got a new striker coming in for big money who will be in our team don's got to put a mark on that I don't have any worries about Don in terms of how he tries to get himself in the right place I'm just saying I have no problems that he will rise to it whether it happens or not is a completely different thing because you can't talent is talent if he doesn't cross over at some point then it doesn't make a difference but this team on strategy if he goes with and I think that Jarlasom will start I think he'll go with Seamus Leucadine the two centre backs keen and meaner Delth, Gomez, Guilffy, Bernard Rythialasom and Dominic Halver-Lewin it wouldn't surprise me if a week later at Celle's Park that's the starting line up and I want to see that front three look get and now Rythialasom is going to be a flip of a coin like you say the week's training whatever but we want to see him getting involved I want to see Guilffy on the ball more I want to see Bernard a little bit sharper I want to see our full backs overlapping because then I'll look and go you know what we look like we're at the level now I think just finally you want to win you want to score some goals and you want a little bit of positivity going into this season that's it really, that's all you want you don't want he came out after the game last week and he looked disappointed the manager he looked disappointed of what he'd seen silly goals conceded and come out and said you know we need four or five players it's as simple as that now he'll know in himself how far down the line Satan deals are at this point you know whether this one, two, three or four or whatever's in the often but for us you want just that little bit of positivity thinking right we want to start the season on the right foot we want to get some points on the board and then if you add to that the players that hopefully will come in it all should come together last year we were very disappointed after the Valencia game and then the week kind of picked everyone up the new shine and buoyed everyone I think we were all pleasantly surprised at the way we played at Wolves I was disappointed after the Wolves game even with Tenne thinking we blew three points today because we should have killed them off we didn't then without a shadow but the new players buoyed everyone we went to Southampton Cay we were ready we had new players and I suppose this game could be similar because regardless of the result on how we play the new players coming in are going to pick everyone up again but you're right we want to see a little bit more we want to see some goals and if we can get a positive result and play with a nice fluidity I think everyone then will 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This is the LightMe Neo HDMI 2 sync box. If you're not familiar with this, this is essentially RGB light strips for the back of your TV to sync with whatever you're watching and give you a very immersive light show. I've been waiting for this for quite a while. The previous version of this box didn't have any support for 4K 60Hz HDR HDR 10 plus or Dolby Vision with the 2.0 this now does. So I'm very excited to try this out. I'm going to set this up with my brand new Samsung QLED TV. It's a 55 inch. You can get this for various different size TVs. You'll see on the left hand side of the box you can get it for less than 65 inch ones between 66 to 90 and 91 to 120. There's plenty of things that come in the box that allow you to set it up with your TV. I'm going to unbox that for you now. Showcase you guys how it looks give you a demo of connecting it to the HDMI sync box. My personal review of how it performs and let's just get straight into it. Okay so just opening it up. You've got yourself the user manual. You've got the curved brackets the straight brackets. This is the HDMI sync box itself which actually you can see is very compact very easily fits into the palm of my hand. You'll see there's a few LED indicators once it does get powered on for your Wi-Fi, the color LEDs and the power source itself. Along the back you have a few inputs so you've got the reset button just there on the left. This is the HDMI output for connecting this to your TV. You only have one HDMI input which for most people might be ashamed but if you are going to maybe use this maybe for your PlayStation 5 or your gaming consoles or you just want to connect like an Amazon Firestick or an Apple TV then for most people that will do. There has been some users that have tried HDMI splitters. I don't have a compatibility list if those will actually work with this but this is something just to be aware of it does have one HDMI input for connecting it to your TV sources. Then you also have the LED strip for the side and the bottom and I'll showcase the LED strip in a second then the DC input for the power adapter. You've got two LED strips here which are cuttable with scissors as well if you need but they should do a good enough job and they have USB at the end to connect to the box. Then you have the HDMI cable and a power adapter. Now I'll go over to my TV in a second but essentially the reason why I would recommend buying this one then some of the alternatives are two reasons. Now I have the Philips Hue HDMI sync box which for one is super expensive and you also need to buy a bridge separately to connect your light strips, your lamps, your lighting, whatever it may be and the cost of that is so expensive compared to this. This is probably just a fifth of the price of buying the Philips setup. The second one is if you buy other alternatives which I've also tried like the GoV lights they sometimes utilize a camera that you have to attach to the top of your TV that sticks out to try and view whatever is on the screen and mimic that back to the lights behind the TV which again is probably not the cleanest setup. This one you don't require any of that no bridge no camera nothing just the HDMI sync box connect it and it's pretty much plug and play. This is also complemented with an app as well which I'll showcase some examples with but let's go ahead and connect it to the back of my TV and I'll run through how I set it up what sort of options you have within the app as well and then give you a demo of a video that showcases a lot of colors to showcase you know the beauty of this and then I'll also showcase setting it up with my PlayStation 5 as well because it does have 4k 60Hz compatibility so I will set it up with a game that supports that and I also use my PS5 with HDR plus so let's go ahead and set this up and see how it performs. Okay now I've made space to start connecting the light strips at the back of my 55 inch TV here I'm probably going to use the ones for the corners make it a little bit easier to stretch around the sides and then hook up these two light strips to the two USB ports on the HDMI sync box right here we go the light strips are now connected so I've got the two brackets that are rounded for the corners on the top left and the top right then I've used pretty much all of the straight brackets so I've got two there along the top I've got one along the side and for the bottom strip I've got two at the bottom here as well and just a caveat you need to have both of the light strips connected even if you don't want to connect the bottom one you have to have it connected so that it connects to the HDMI sync box which would allow it to power on and pair to the light meat app so just remember that if you're not maybe mounting your TV onto a wall that it's important to have both of them connected as you can see I've got all of the connections there everything is lit up it's powered on the color is blinking and they also have the flashing Wi-Fi light so it's ready to connect to the app now I'm going to connect this to my ps5 first which I've done with one of the HDMI ports give you a sample demo of playing a game but before I do that let's go ahead and connect to the light meat app once your HDMI sync box has gone into pairing mode like I've just shown by connecting the two light strips for the first time I've opened up the app I've registered my account I've set the Wi-Fi options in there and it's automatically discovered that there's a connected device nearby so all I need to do is select this and it will start automatically connecting and registering the device it will take a couple of minutes and then we should be ready to go took less than a minute you can see it's now connected all I have to do is toggle the living room option on there for my light it's now on and I'm going to be showcasing this with a game on my PlayStation 5 first because I have a hcr on and it's playing a game at 4k 60 hertz refresh rate so let's go ahead and give you guys a demo on seeing how that performs okay guys so you saw that was pretty immersive with that gameplay and for me you know that's probably the most important thing when I am playing my PlayStation with having light strips like this is to feel more immersive into the gaming now on the app as well I just want to showcase a couple of more things that you can use this for on the main screen you can see it's set up to match the screen which is the default option you can choose between weak normal and high as well to see how intense you want the lighting to change with what's on the screen I've left it at normal but if it's a little bit too fast for you then you can set it to weak so it's more fluid and more smooth along the bottom you have a few options taste is where you can see some of the scenes and modes you can set something like fire for example and you can see how it changes to that ambience of that mode there's plenty of different options if you want to just automatically let it run in that mode whilst whatever you're watching on a screen is just playing back then you can do that let me just cycle through a few more examples so this is star you also have flow pure swing you also have fireworks as well which I think is pretty cool and then you've got rainbow which basically cycles through all the different colors of the rainbow if you go back to the main screen you can also select music what that does is that takes the audio coming from the tv or maybe any other speakers in the room and it will automatically flash the lights to the audio that is hearing if I select this you can see right now it's flashing its lights based on my voice so when I'm completely silent nothing happens but when I start speaking you can see it basically will flash different parts of the light strip there's also a brightness slider right there at the bottom if I go back to screen I can dim this down or I can make it 100% bright so plenty of variety of ways of how to control the light strip itself and finally you can also set this up with voice assistant so whether you have google assistant or amazon echo I have amazon echo dot right here so I'm going to use that to turn the light on and off and it's very quick and easy it took a couple of minutes to go through the process to set it up on the app but once you've done that it'll be so convenient to use that rather than using the app to turn this on and off for your hdmi devices Alexa turn off the neo light Alexa turn on the neo light and how quick and easy was that you can see it was very responsive and that's one thing I really like about it so the final thing is I'm going to showcase another demo highlighting some of the colors on the screen through a youtube video and I've now connected my apple tv to the hdmi sync box one thing that this also is very good at when there's a lot of dark areas whether that's at the top the bottom the left the right or even near the middle it will still capture the lights and immerse them accordingly to each of those sides so I'm showcasing a demo video now that utilizes a lot of black areas and you can still see all of the colors spreading around the entire screen so let's take a look right so hopefully you found that showcase very useful and it did give you a good idea of the capabilities of this hdmi sync box I'm super impressed with this and coming in at just under 140 dollars I think this is an absolute bargain for what it can do and for me personally I always install these types of light strips for the back of my TVs it really enhances my viewing experience most likely I will keep this connected to my ps5 you know it does have that one hdmi input only and I will use this for my gaming because it does take my gaming to the next level if there's anything else you guys want to know about the light me neo 2.0 then drop a comment down below if you did like this review make sure to give it a huge thumbs up I do tech reviews every week and I've got plenty of cool gadgets just like this coming out which I know you're going to like so make sure you hit that subscribe button and I will catch you guys next time take care


Okay, very good morning. I hope everyone is doing well. It's Wednesday the 18th of December quick heads up Sam is doing the big fat Christmas market quiz Something we do here at Amplify Trading every year a bit of fun, but these are all market related questions and Unfortunately, I can't take part because I've actually seen and contributed to some of the questions But I won't unveil yet what some of the big prizes are but everyone's invited to take part So three o'clock London time Sam will come on. He'll run a live feed via our YouTube channel So if you want a chance to take part and test your knowledge about everything that's happened in markets over the last 12 months It's going to be a good one So so join us then what we need to do is subscribe to the channel hit the bell icon Then you'll get notified when we begin otherwise just starting with The briefing it's actually not too much for me to comment on so there's not really any new updates on Brexit related headlines There's nothing really going on with us trying to trade wars at the moment They're probably the two hottest themes of the last week or so But there is some significant equity stories whether it's a merger agreement in the automotive sector or One of the key bellwethers in the US FedEx having a profit warning last night There are a couple of stories I can fill you in on But looking at the cross asset class mixed this morning It's very much reflective of abbi as I've just mentioned. It's pretty quiet overall The dollar index and maybe a touch stronger, but only one tenth of a percent pretty sideways for the currency markets at the moment In terms of the British pound Stabilizing I was just going to go back and look at briefly that chart we had yesterday marked up and You can see that from when we delivered the briefing yesterday It was just about when we had the gap fill from the closing of price before the spike up on the election result If we're looking at the sterling futures contract here But we continue to drift south yesterday as markets have to price in this renewed risk of a no deal, of course Otherwise, I'll come back to that in a second equity index futures pretty quiet oil Hugging the pivot will be at down 40 cents a bit of a pop lower in WTI crude last night You can see that that bigger red candle. These are 30 minute candlesticks there the price moving down by around 40 cents or so Yesterday evening, and of course we had the API all of the trees Released and I can get you up to speed as well with those numbers So let's jump straight into the the headlines And this is one of the first things I wanted to mention because it's like to get a lot of airplay It's kind of the main story that people are running given the fairly quiet macro Developments at the moment. So fear Chrysler and Persio agree to merge in giant auto deal So apparently they've struck a merger pat that would create the world's fourth largest car maker by output With combined revenues of approximately 170 billion euros The transaction expected to complete within 12 to 15 months subject to shareholder approval And then of course regulatory clearances, but this doesn't make them in terms of the actual combined size One of the largest car makers in the world. There's they still wouldn't rank near the top in that respect Combined revenues that would be would be decent Opening calls in terms of the cash market just having a quick look Peugeot shares were called up about 5% ahead of the open So some pretty decent gains for the for the French car maker fear Chrysler up about 2% at the open as well One thing I was just looking at and talking about The auto manufacturers was I was just updating a few crib sheets In regards to the equity indices and I was just having a look at the DAX Composition and obviously automakers in Germany have suffered greatly under a kind of a combination of protectionism coming out the US specifically targeting tariffs on the lights of BMW Volkswagen Daimler and so on But also you remember we had China just a few days ago coming out saying they could also retaliate if the German government was to ban Huawei's 5g network and obviously the way to hurt Germany or at least to threaten them in that type of situation is to Target the car makers given as well. There's such an export heavy nation And last time I looked at this sector allocation of the DAX obviously the automobile sector was top Combining those big three automakers although individually not the largest companies Collectively was the largest piece of the pie here that you can see on the left hand side However, what a difference a couple of months makes and given the multiple profit warnings We've had from a lot of these German automotive names including lots of different Regulatory issues that they've had Compliance issues with the emissions side as well over the years and the automobile sector now is just ranking all the way down at fifth spot Below farmer software insurance and chemicals So they're definitely quite interesting to see how quickly the the tie can turn there and the underlying composition of course of these indices Can alter the other company that I thought was worth mentioning is FedEx now for any of those new to markets It's not the FedEx is a particularly large company But it is often seen as a bit of what they call or classifiers of bellwether that meaning that the Frequency of the use of the company services to deliver goods would be reflective then of consumers purchasing of say gifts to then use FedEx to send or consumers buying Goods for themselves. So the weaker their business then the weaker it would reflect on the overall Economic environment and as you can see here from the title. They've slid after their second profit warning So it's a second time in three months in fact that they've cut their annual earnings guidance They've cited as you can see a weak economy higher costs and also lots of delivery deal with Amazon Amazon of course just looking to take everything in the house be the Giant conglomerate that they are not utilizing any more the uses of the likes of FedEx Which is a big blow for them as well. So Aftermarket last night when this news broke their shares were down about six percent So, yeah, if you're looking for other signs as to think about are we nearing a bit of a top for this equity run? Another thing of course that that people talk about at this time of year and let's just let's just have a quick look at the S&P at the moment Perhaps put it on a 240 so we can look at a bit of a longer time frame I mean just looking where we are at the moment I would say it's going to be pretty tough going for us to break the all-time high now having established that above the 3200 level Only within the last week or in fact yesterday Fresh catalysts to really push us higher again Given the proximity of Christmas in year end I think is is limited. So obviously these things are not impossible, but I would say we need something Surprisingly positive to come out The one thing as well that will probably help the consolidation if anything of perhaps the equity move This you know solid gain that we've had more recently through December in the recovery throughout the month Is that obviously Trump will want to deliver a little Christmas present? Not just in terms of for markets But for the consumer to validate that his policies are in fact working by just Connecting that to the height of the stock market That's his kind of political way of just going about his business The other things with Trump as we discussed yesterday the house is looking like they are going to impeach the president But as I said, I don't really see that as a risk to price at this point and I think that's reflected In the fact that everyone knows he's going to get impeached by the house It's not going to pass the Senate and so therefore, you know, if this was going to be a market moving piece of information It already would have done so and it hasn't so and again the likelihood of actual Removal from the White House is Minimal if not non-existent. So I wouldn't get too worried about that So all in all whether or not we consolidate in this 3192 to 3203 until the end of the year Perhaps we see a pullback and if we did then you know You've got good areas now technically where the S&P is likely to to find some decent support But all in all even if we did pull back a percent Also, I don't think that that's anything to get too worried about and I think now we just see out the year And if I was looking a little bit more conservative for a range 5950 up into Wards where we are at the moment will probably be the kind of price area. I'd be looking at Talking of Brexit as I said the pound was Continuing to come down yesterday. So I mean, let's just have a look from a percentage point of view How far we've gone from the actual Peak of the actual election night to the low of yesterday. We've now come off about three and a quarter percent for cable as This becomes a little bit more of a distinct reality now of where are we heading given the shift in The toughness on the Brexit legislation that Boris is going to look to push through in the Wab at the end of the week I'm not going to go through this in in all detail. What I'll do is I'll just pop it in the chat room I did share it on my my Twitter account as well if you wanted to have a look at this graphic But I guess just summarizing a couple of the options and the decisions that need to be made Going forward and their respective time frames as well in order for that to happen Otherwise elsewhere, let's just have a look at WTI crude I did say and show you that the price dropped overnight This comes as you can see here the headline crude figure showed a build of 4.7 million expectations were for a drawdown of 1.5 So after four days of gains, the report shows US stockpiles are swelling once again Cushing was a drawdown of about 300,000 gasoline a bit of 5.6 million distillates a bill of 3.7 so pretty sizable crude and gasoline combo there And then around the 5 million mark just bumping crude oil prices down from where we were trading just shy of a 61 hand or yesterday Back a bit of a pullback of 50 cents or so so that's setting us up for the data we'll get later on today Final thing actually just quickly jumping back to the UK political side of things just wanted to mention this because Literally earlier a day or so ago when I was looking at this Rebecca long Bailey was seen as the outright favorite for the next Labour leader and Keir Starmer who on the night of the election was seen as the outright favorite He had dropped a third and only priced in the booking or in the betting market about 12% Overnight though, there's been a significant shift in the betting market backing Keir Starmer Keir Starmer, of course Was or can Potentially cause a bit of friction with the Northeast because he was very much a backer of a second referendum more definitively than say Corbyn was However, you could say that he's a little bit more towards the centrist side of the left Which would be very different from Rebecca long Bailey who's very much part of the Corbynista crew so She's come off and the more I'd say center left candidates Lisa Nandy's taken a bit of a bit of a pop to the upside But Keir Starmer taking the most biggest Move at the moment. It does come you've probably seen on Twitter Let me just see if I if I go on my Twitter account here You can see on the on the right-hand side things that are trending on Twitter this morning And this this really sums it up actually I didn't plan on on seeing this But you can see Tony Blair is the number one tweeting thing on Twitter at the moment Now he's come out yesterday and of course Tony Blair being of the of new labor Very much more centrist saying that if this isn't the Definitive sign that labor needs to move to the center again than what is but then you've got that and then the second most trending thing On Twitter is hashtag Corbyn was right. I Mean I've not looked at these tweets yet, but Assumed that they're saying that Boris is a liar Because he's now threatening no deal when he said he was gonna pass his deal So sure I get that but the point I was just one going to share here is that I mean look how divided Labor supporters are here. You've got Tony Blair trending and then you've got Corbyn was right trending Just goes to show the state of the opposition party at the moment until they get that act together and really Unite behind one single direction Then they're gonna be what's gonna be a Tory rule for a while. I guess With the way I'd interpret that Quick look at the calendar UK data well before the UK data You got German iPhone coming up at 9 o'clock and perhaps that can be interesting It's not normally massively market moving because I think people are generally Aware of the current economic state of Germany being fairly dire But the forward outlook is important and if we were to get an upside surprise number I do think that the bigger reaction is is from an upside surprise rather than a downside miss If that makes sense just given how negative people currently are in terms of the behavioral view of Germany at the moment and people wanting to see if not is it gonna get worse or are we hitting a bit of a bottom at the moment and so ifo being then the the main kind of survey to a large sample of actual Companies on the ground that could be an interesting figure. So that's coming out at 9 the headline reading expected at 95 point 5 So a slight improvement on the prior month UK CPI data coming out Not looking for anything really from that those numbers I guess here. It's more a case of at the moment The dominant theme is the pricing in of no deal from Boris if we were near a particularly important, let's say technical level of support for instance It could act as a catalyst Just to break a level in itself I don't think it's really that meaningful as a piece of economic data So even though CPI nearly always very important given it really really is key to monetary policy decision-making The fact that the data is expected to be largely No different from the prior month with we're basically tracking just sub 2% in CPI year-in-year in the UK And I wouldn't be really looking for too many shocks either side Otherwise we get the final eurozone CPI but again final reading So I'd say I foe more of a risk for any euro position than the CPI reading into the US afternoon We get Canadian data at 130. So That does inflation data move the loonie if you are looking at that currency You got the oil infantry from the DOE Coming out 330 so recap of the API as we'll go through again and the setup on on crude oil head of the figures And then that's pretty much it speakers Christine Lagarde does speak in a short while actually so keep an eye out for any comments But I don't think she's gonna say anything She's speaking at a welcoming address in honor of ECB's coer organized by the ECB So not looking for too much given the importance of her speech just given last week feds brain art voter Neutral has been slightly on the other side in recent year or so Speaking at 1015 ECB's coer does speak Himself at 1115 and feds Evans are leaning dove speaking Later on late afternoon London time and then finally The Amphi quiz again happening delivered by the one and only Sam north. I'll be at three o'clock. All right guys That's it. I'll pop that Brexit decision tree in the chat, and I wish you a good day. Thanks very much Hi guys yet looking forward to To the quiz to make sure you're getting your your revision in early doors Head of that will we'll get that running around three o'clock Starting off here S&P you can see Just found a bit of support. Let's bring the pivots onto this chart here Bit of support found on yesterday's lows, which were the pivots and What a range bound trade that would have been in sort of late morning a couple of tests of that and we went up to the high and That 32 hundred still not really confirming a big push above that As of yet anyway the level we're trading now. I would say is pretty significant as well Just above here on the pivot. You've got quite a strong level of resistance Which was good support yesterday. You can see all around 31 97. So we're keeping a watch on that Below these levels of support here 31 92 I think we could I mean it's not a massive move but down to the s1 You've also got the high that we had back on the the Friday double top there around that point You can see here this marked up. So we're keeping a watch on that below where we're trading above 31 97 3200 and the double top from yesterday's high and then the high that we had back on Monday as well So horizontal levels those to be the ones that keep an eye on obviously that trend line from the December low still worth having on us. It's getting a bit steeper here. Let's get bring that in from the third Like so Down to low the 10th and we didn't quite make it on the 12th, but I still have it on as a bit of a guide You know, you'd almost be like you're happy to stay overall long and S&P as long as that goes through in terms of drivers throughout the day Sorry The data in the afternoon US wise isn't going to be massively market moving unless the oil numbers are incredibly out of line So again trade developments will be something to focus on here or any other kind of risk As well, but for now it seems to be still a case of Overall looking for places to get long in this market really unless it breaks that trend line Obviously that goes for the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones as well Both actually you can see very similar just above that pivot But have some resistance here on the the Nasdaq to keep an eye on before you get to the double top on their all-time highs The Dow as well perhaps leading the way, but not quite breaking through and again very similar in that double top all-time highs from yesterday and Monday as well having a look over at the pound obviously come down yesterday Is around this sort of time where we filled the gap free and and that was when we were 300 pips below Friday's high and we almost touched 131 in early hours this morning if we go to the high in the futures at 135 and a half Big big move to the downside almost when it's test my maths out here almost 450 pips which is incredible Have we found the bottom that is the question What an area you would have to say to the people to look to get back in again You know if you could offer people 131 which was the the low that we had on the election day an area to get in following an election win for the Conservatives Maybe this is the point of Interest to get in I don't know maybe in terms of being confident on this in terms of a Resistance point maybe where you could look to to get in you obviously the pivot is a long way away and Literally from the low is a hundred pips But you can see we're starting to maybe with these Previous highs just get squeezed in so I would have this on Just as a bit of a guide starting from 4 30 yesterday Afternoon you've got those three tests here one Two three so I think it's the worst idea in the world to perhaps look for a long above that trend I'm targeting towards the the pivot here in the futures which you know that was to happen now from 3166 to you know the 132 hand on a bit above not a bad little place to to get in above there Obviously you can have a lot of the previous support levels to keep an eye on so there would be a lot of resistance In terms of a bigger move to the downside if the the low that we had 131 and the low the 12th goes then you know again a bigger move perhaps down towards some of the highs that we had on the top of the third or Even the high of the 18th of November could be points of interest for this market to go to Yesterday as well see the euro did drift down a touch into the back end of the session and that continued this morning after a decent start To the day we came up to test some interest in resistance And actually broke through and you can be forgiven for thinking maybe the euro is going to extend here But not quite and we were saying yesterday as we put this on the the 240 about having those trend lines on from the lows Just because it's been the same pattern the whole year For the euro in terms of you start developing these trend lines They break and suddenly you're at the low of the year again in terms of what could maybe drive a break of that trend line today you've got Got a bit of European data out of 10 worth keeping an eye on before You know that the US Well, it was not going to move it. So really potential Data points only 10 a.m. Really going to see possible move here, so Watching that trend line Going from the low of December to the 6th, and then of course below that and we could get a bit interesting again in terms of a very strong resisted support point I'd go with the 111 83 the higher the 21st of November and the 4th 5th and 6th of December before the lows that we got in the 12th and 13th So keep a watch on that other levels to be aware of just above where we're trading If we were to drift out where with the sellers want to protect we can seek some nice support from yesterday afternoon 1237 give or take be keeping a watch on that and maybe you would be Happy to get long more of a medium term or a longer Intra-day trade if it can break above this trend line as well starting from yesterday afternoon So you wrote interesting points coming up most notably you can understand why we found support on this s1 low of yesterday low of Monday Morning as well. So keep key level Definitely want that marked up gold Let's have a quick look relatively range band. I mean just having a look at that It's it's been a tricky market. I would say for overall direction in recent weeks with Are the Fed can be hawkish or dovish? What's the trade situation good comments bad comments and it's struggling really for an overall move And look over the last three trading days. It's done nothing quite range-bound So keep a watch on that 1484 to the upside and the downside s1 and those lows coming in around 1478 In terms of a bigger move 1490 would interest me for a long If we can close the day above that and you can see why This all these lows those highs and as you know to the downside if we break that those trend lines Could be a decent opportunity to get short historically The first two months of the year January February actually not too bad for gold So maybe the opportunity and this is something I would be looking for is to get long above 1490 If we can confirm a break above that but in today looking at this Again drivers not going to be too much. There's no real new headlines out So it have to be something maybe it more unscheduled that would really drive price action here So for now the range-bound trade is not a bad one to look at and just prioritizing The highs from yesterday and the low from the week as well Quick look over oil before we finish up on European equities to see what they're doing a decent afternoon for oil Before coming down on the API and and actually the low that we made today is significant 6037 was the high that we had back on the 13th as well So just have that marked up trend lines are choppy. So probably not Really worth having any of those on so Narrow that down to 15 minute small range if we can get above the 60 58 Obviously looking for a bigger move up to towards the previous support before that API did come out As well, but not too much going on and probably best waiting for the afternoon considering just how small that range is And of course as we know oil more likely to move in the afternoon Anyway, let alone because of the the DOE numbers quick. Look over at the back. Just to wrap things up relatively quiet First 30 minutes has to be said you can see yesterday. We had a decent push lower that continued all the way Until around 10 11 o'clock We obviously filled the gap of the week Pretty quick. We did gap overnight to the downside, but we're not far away Put this on the 15 minute form filling that on the future. So certainly have this Marked up as a point of resistance above that Well, you know US equities could well look to be attacking those Resistance points from yesterday and and get a push through But overall relatively quiet out there data Calendar is going to be you know kicking off from in terms of the pound anyway at at 9 30 Then you got some at 10 o'clock from Europe final inflation numbers So I would say relatively quiet morning the afternoon looking quite similar So maybe more unscheduled Comments would be one to to be aware of and with the rate that Donald Trump is tweeting It would be too surprising to have something going on any questions as usual Please do let us know to see an oil here. Just tick down to its lower point of the day But yeah, any questions do please let us know We'll be live free o'clock UK time for the quiz. Everyone can take part. It'll be done by a Kahoot So you'll all have 60 seconds to answer each question. There'll be no advantage from Anyone doing it in the office. So it's an equal playing field I look forward to having you all join me for that But yeah, any questions ahead of that, please do let us know I hope you'll have a good trading day and I'll catch you all later on


Thank you so much. Good morning. It's an honor to be here. Let me go ahead and share my screen. Can everyone see, can everyone see my slides? Looks good. Wonderful. Okay, so I'm happy to be here. And yes, I want to give an overview of the technology workflows for 3D printing. Now this first slide is a very general workflow and my colleagues will go much more in depth, but I want to give you some key terms here. So 3D print usually starts as a 3D model, and it'll likely touch some 3D CAD modeling software at some point. Now, in the 3D modeling software, one may create the model, which is a mathematical representation of a physical object, or they may acquire it through some other means such as 3D scanning or photogrammetry. But it'll go in this 3D CAD modeling software, get prepared, and things like that, and then be exported to a 3D file. Now some common 3D files to 3D printing are known as an STL file, sometimes known as a standard triangle language file, or an OBJ file, an object file. And you'll see in this slide underneath, that file represents the 3D object by describing its vertices. That 3D file once exported goes into something called a slicer software, which I'll talk about a bit more. And the slicer software knows about the specific 3D printer, or a mechanical CNC machine that you're using. And it converts that file into something called G-code, which is also known as geometric code. Now you see this snippet G-code is a series of commands that tells the specific machine that you're outputting for what to do, how to move the motors, how to heat the filament, and things like that, to cause the 3D printer in this case to generate a 3D print. So this is an overview. These are some key terms. Now, let's talk about 3D computer aided design or CAD software. So 3D CAD modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate based representation of any surface of an object and three different mentions via specialized software by manipulating edges, vertices and polygons in a simulated 3D space. So we have a couple flavors of CAD software here. On the upper left is a program called Blender, which is an excellent open source CAD modeling software that's free. You can download that Blender.org. To the upper right we have Maya. Maya is created by the Autodesk Corporation. It's kind of a pioneering 3D software application. This one costs quite a bit of money, but for those in the academic space you can get a free education license. Solidworks is more known as a hard surface modeling software and it's really geared towards design for digital fabrication such as 3D printing and CNC. And down at the bottom we have AutoCAD. There's some other ways to generate 3D models. 3D scanners, which use laser triangulation or photogrammetry, what uses a series of photographs, many, many photographs to, and then an algorithm analyzes those photographs and generates a 3D model in its texture. Those outputs are then typically brought into a 3D CAD software and the models cleaned up and then it can go into the pipeline towards 3D printing or whatever processes one would want to do. Since I mentioned 3D scanning, I want to give a huge shout out to 3D.si.edu. They've done a tremendous effort on scanning their collection and making it available. This is an excellent resource for examining 3D models in their collection. You can also download them as many different formats, OBJ, STL, and an augmented reality format known as USDZ. So if you're looking for models to examine, to study and play around with, this is an excellent, excellent resource, so I'm very happy to give a mention here. Now, once the model is prepared in your CAD software, it needs to go to a 3D file format that represents all the coordinates of the model. And so one of the really common files, and I'm going to get this more in depth in my later session, is an STL file. STL is a file format created by the company 3D systems. It has several background names, such as standard triangle language or standard tessellation language. And the file format is supported by many software packages. And so it's widely used for rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and computer aided manufacturing. Another common file format called OBJ or object file, and that's often used as well. I have a session a little later today where I'm going to go into depth into both of these file formats, open them up in a text editor and show them to you in a CAD program, so you can see the differences and know more about these files. Once the file is outputted as a 3D format, it goes into something called a slicing software. Slicing software, the slicer are also called slicing software is a computer software using the 3D printing process for the conversion of a 3D object model to specific instructions for the printer. Where the conversion from a model and STL format or OBJ to printer commands is in something called the G code format. Slicer software, there's a lot of different ones, but they have features specific to the machine they're outputting for some of those features include infill density. So you can see here on the left, you can set the infill density, you know, printing out a 3D model and 100% density will take a long time. Be quite heavy. And so for most of the reasons, you may set the infill density to maybe 5025% or in some cases, very low, and a slicer will have options to do that. Now you may also need opt to use support materials in this case we have a raft and a lot of 3D printers. It's important to, you know, put a mechanism or an apparatus in the 3D print where it doesn't slide around on the bed where it sticks to the bed. And so a raft is sometimes used for that a raft is not part of the actual 3D model, but some extra layers underneath to keep it securely in place on the print bed. Another mechanism is called a brim. That's a little different than a raft and it's a very thin layer of material that surrounds the actual 3D models that doesn't slide around. And then we also have supports so many slicers can generate support structures. Well, it's a physical object that you're printing. And so if you're printing it floating in space, you know, you have to have something to support it so that you can build up to the actual 3D model. These are some examples of supports that can be generated. And then in post processing you would break them off and clean them off. Slicers also have a number of different options such as layer height, thickness of the walls, top and bottom layer thickness. Again, we have the infill. This one set at 20% and the pattern can change to be cubic triangular many different options. This will be specific to the printing temperature of the material, different filaments substrates are going to have different printing temperatures. And you can adjust those in your slicer, as well as the speed of the printhead. And then we have the traveling options, cooling options based on your substrate. And down here we have options for support. Of note, this is a slicer called Kira. It's free to download and play around with even if you don't have a 3D printer.  So here's just a quick video of visualization and the slicer I've been using that shows the layers of how we printed. Okay, so the slicer, once you've, you know, brought your STL OBJ or 3D file format into the slicer added options, such as support materials, infill, all those options, then you would typically output G code. So G code is also known as RS 274. It's the most widely used computer numerically controlled programming language. It's used mainly in computer aided manufacturing to control automated machine tools and has many variants or flavors. I'm going to talk about that a little more in depth later. G code instructions are provided to a machine controller industrial computer that tells the motors where to move, how fast to move and what path to follow. And in this image, I have a image of the reference index for the Marlin flavor of G code and you can see, you can go through and it's a reference of all the commands that you might find in this particular flavor of G code that tells, you know, that the motors how to move the the filament to retract etc I'll share that link as well. And here is just an image of some commented G code and you can see it's a series of commands. This G code is commented and I'm going to show you how you can generate comments for your own G code in my second session. And so thank you.


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Who's got the better beam? Spoiler alert, it's the boy Krillin, I'm outta here. Krillin gets to live, he deserves it. Sorry, Gotenks. How's he going, everybody? Datu Dui here, back within the round of Dragon Ball Fighters, Rank Matches. This time playing a theme team of the smallest characters in Fighters. So I picked Krillin, Goku GT and Gotenks. There's actually quite a few shorter characters in the game now. I didn't know whether to put Team Gohan or Gotenks or Goku GT. Well, I knew Goku GT was making it on the team. That man is too small. I would even, I think if they make a season three, they gotta nerf his height. I'ma, oh, I actually didn't fake it. Oh, the down heavy landing on the down, landing on Krillin's down heavy is the most satisfying thing that could happen in this game. Oh, I'ma vanish as well then. Oh, I'ma put the donut up, make you hold that. I'ma go up again. I'ma go up again, hit him with the Krillin combo. Nice. Yeah, I gotta remember, if they guard cancel in the corner, hit him with that Krillin Sparky combo. That is an unjust amount of damage. Krillin, you gotta turn around.  But Krillin's time is up. It shouldn't have been up. It shouldn't have been up. I dropped the Gotenks combo right away. You can just put me down and I'd appreciate that. Maybe not as hard as that, but you know. Oh, oh, we dodged it, but barely. I tried to go for the mix, but he wasn't having it. Bean, feed me. All right, let's go. Mouth beam up. I'm doing that too slow. I'm trying to delay it or... Okay, clearly he is not enjoying being faked out by the mouth beam. I faked it two times now, and I think both times he's punched me in the face. I'ma vanish again. Give me a bean. Nice. Bean has been ingested. Oh, get your... Oh, Super Dash counters the rolling Keyblast. Well, there goes the bean, man. I am no longer getting that free health. Why I thought it was a good idea to Super Dash there? I'll never truly know. I'ma vanish again. Man, he's been letting me get away with that. Scott free. I'ma go ahead and do the Krillin combo again. If you land it, you gotta go for it. He actually guard canceled. I can't believe that I didn't get a wh... Wow. Who's got the better beam? Spoiler alert, it's the boy Krillin. I'm out of here. I'm out of here.  Krillin did too much. Krillin gets to live. He deserves it. Sorry, go takes. Man, really threw him to the wolves on that one. I thought I was gonna live. That move does a not nice amount of damage. It's pretty low on the damage meter, but it's time to win neutral. Yep. It's time to win neutral. It's time to win neutral. Oh, I lost neutral. Very quickly. And I also lost three bars. Three hard earned bars. This is actually good for me. No sliding here means I'm just gonna wake up buttons. Which is what I should have done. DP? No DP. Well, no DP, but I still gotta go in. I was actually... I'm actually shocked there was no DP. Keep for the price of one, three for the price of one. All right, you've... There it is. He de-blocked three Kamehameha's and he earned that. Ooh. All right, what do I got here? What do I got in the tank? Neutral. Oh, the back dash, he's got the whereabouts. He knows what he's doing. Finish killed, nice. Whoo, he clicked a button on the ground there. We got very lucky at the end. Team of the shortest. I gotta say, the assists aren't really working too hot together. I can maybe do something with the donut and Goku GT, but Krillin's rock, not good in the back. Please, Arksis, please give him a good assist. I'm begging you. I'm begging you to maybe the missiles. Maybe the missiles come back. Okay. I should have sparked, but I just, I thought I wanted to see how much I could get without wasting it. Oh, he's not giving it up. He's deep being. Yeah, that one, that one felt a little obvious to me. No two bars, which is unfortunate. That donut was sick. Oh, that read was sick. Nice. We're just cooking, dude. Oh, this is not going to kill. Oh, Banda, hey, if you want to decrease the scaling on these, on the whatchamacallit, the, if Krillin could get like a sweet, like if two bars was like totally viable to use and then still go into your assist, maybe that would be wet. Nah, I mean, that wouldn't help. He's already a good point character. That would just help his point a little more, but I mean, calm, odd, dude. Maybe that assist would be that, oh, oh, punch straight in the stomach might go on. I mean, great say amen. Didn't want to expose the identity like that. Don't take buttons. You got to get the slider.  All right, I'm instantly doing mouth beam. Not a good question. Mouth beam, but let it rock that time. Didn't like the fake. Accidentally jumped over his head. Not the move, not the move on that one. Krillin, get the beam ready, bro. Nice. Eat that up, dude. Give me all of the health back. And I'm dead. That was a two, I was a two M right there. He keeps dropping that. That is not the combo. Nice. Block it. Oh, I messed up. The ghosts are still going to get him though. I was so hopeful that that would work. Oh, Goku. Goku to clean it up. That was a great game for us. We did not get hit all too much. All right, let's calm it down. Let's show a little respect to your father's there. Go tanks. We don't need to be that disrespectful. What's the start? I'm going to go with the beam assist again. Understandable. Oh, I didn't even know that was going to hit on the other side. There we go. Open up. Open up. Let the staggers get you. You got to let that fear factor out. All right. Whoa, I faked it. Accidental fake means I am out of a house at home right now. Vanish, please vanish. Oh, God, not by both of them, dude. That sucked to see all that damage. All right, let me go. He actually had the read there. It just didn't work out. Where? Okay, I'll take that. We're getting so impatient. Just jab checked by the Videl. Who's coming out Krillin?  One reflect is all you need there. Got to remember that. Got to remember you only need the one. Again, just going for level one. All right, Videl's different. But that was built differently. Completely forgot about that small fact. Okay, getting to that corner. Getting out of corners so I can let you out, of course. I mean, it's just the polite thing to do. Let's go. Oh, give me that. Give me the low. Now we are zooming.  I'm gonna run up dragon rush. Wow, I regretted that so instantly. It's insane. Every round he's jumped in, or the earlier rounds he's jumped in with. Nice. Wow, look at that hit by. I jumped up into it, but that hit box was insane on the light jab. Level one, he's doing a lot of level ones. I mean, this time it makes sense, because it'll kill. But just in general, he hasn't been going for sliding, more just raw super damage. No spark from me. Maybe the, I mean, we should probably just spark it. We're a little deep in now. Why? Why did I get hit by that? Oh, level three. Will he, is he the type to DP? He won't even be able to kill, so I think it's pretty safe. We can definitely kill here. Because that's smart. I don't know if I had to spend that bar. I definitely did not. Looking back at it. Attack, get him down. Oh, why, we clicking buttons? We clicking big boy buttons out here. All right. Nice. Okay. Oh, get down there. Why'd I vanish? Keep him away with the mouth beam. It's too fast. The angle's too good. I'm too small. Oh, I got carried away.   Pop him up. Vanish out of that. Rock, accidentally throw the bead to let him get that. Oh no, we're going to lose. We're going to lose. We're going to lose. We're going to lose. I'm panicking. I'm panicking. What could have been a 3-0 is going to be, is going to get swept away now. Next hit wins. Next hit wins. He's going to raw heavy. You better be careful. I should have been careful. I'm sorry, dude. Stop, dude. Stop, dude. Stop, dude. Stop, dude. Oh, I win. Wow, he was going sick right there. Man snapped. So happy we were able to walk out of that with a win because it wasn't going to get any prettier. Thank you for the great games to my opponent. And thank you so much for watching the short team. The synergy, I don't know. I wasn't feeling the synergy there, but I mean, it's probably a pretty annoying team to fight considering you better have those small body combos on lock. If you did enjoy it though, make sure to go down below into the comment section and leave a like and subscribe to the channel if you enjoy the stuff we do here. Other than that, if you want to watch more videos right away, there should be some up on your screen. So definitely make sure to go check those out if they catch your eye. I have been Dr. Doya. Thanks again for making it to the end of the video and I will see you in the next one.