Welcome to the show, it's me, John Park, and it is time for John Park's workshop, the Ask an Engineer time slot. So if you're wondering what the heck's going on, if you haven't been here in a couple weeks, here I am. So fill in the more are off and away. So I'm helping out by moving my show from Thursdays to this time slot. That's why I'm here. And when I say here, here is both a physical thing and a virtual construct that also includes our community. And one of the main ways that we stay in touch with our community is through our Discord. So if you're wondering where's the chat? If you are on YouTube, we've got the YouTube chat up and running, and we're keeping an eye on that. But if you're over on something like Twitch, and you're like, hey, there's no chat going on here, check out our Discord. You can head over to Adafruit.it slash Discord, and then look for the live broadcast chat channel inside of our server. That's where we're at. And we have plenty of other channels that are active all different times of the day. This one's mostly particularly active during live streams, but we have a bunch of different channels where you can discuss different things that you're interested in, answer questions, look for help on things, show things off, all that stuff on our Discord. So let's see, what are we going to do here? Let me see. We've got stuff in our store. Maybe you want to buy some of it. Maybe you want to pay less than full price. Well, I've got a coupon code for you. That'll do it right there. Swashbuckle. That's just a cool word. Swashbuckle. That'll get you 10% off in the store.  This coupon code will be good for this evening. I don't know exactly what the cutoff time is going to be. So get some stuff in your cart and check out, put this coupon code right in there. Swashbuckle.  That's good on stuff, physical stuff I mentioned, right? Not software, not gift certificates, not subscriptions, but good on stuff. So head on over there. We have lots of cool stuff. In fact, I'll be talking later about some new products. We also have, I'll mention this right now, I just, since I had an alert set up for it, I never got one of these micro bit v2s. They were in short supply. We just got about 50 of them in the store, I think earlier today. So if you want to go grab one of these, in fact, let me open up my browser. Where'd you go, browser? How about that one maybe in there?  Eat a fruit. Let's see if this is it. Is that it? Yes, it is. If you head over here and do micro bit, you'll see we don't have the bundles or any of that, but the micro bit v2 itself, which has been super hard to get, these are in stock. We have 40 of them in stock. They're $17.95. We'll be able to take 10% off of that. So subtract $1.79.5 off of there. I don't have math works with this coupon code, swashbuckle, and do some micro bidding. I actually haven't paid much attention to it, so I don't even know. What's it got on here? Is it an NRF 52840? I'm not even sure what the processor is. I didn't pay too much attention when they updated it, because I couldn't get one. So I was sore about that, but now I have one, so I'm excited to play with that. We're just with lots and lots of the accessories that we have, so you can reuse a lot of your micro bit things, but this will give you all the new, new myths, so please go check that out. What else? Let me get that coupon code off of there. We had a great show and tell. It just wrapped up. Let me tell you, I was watching that show and tell you some of the things that I saw that looked amazing and awesome. We had Jeppler come on, our own Jeff Epler from the Adifer team, to show a update of a classic guide that Lady Aida wrote about 10 years ago on making a next keyboard, the brand next, Steve Jobs thing when he got fired from Apple. Next keyboard work on a modern USB computer, USB for plugging in your keyboard and using USB HID. Lady Aida had done that one. I don't know what microcontroller she'd used, actually, but it was in Arduino. Jeff updated it to work with, I think it's a QT pie in Circuit Python, so he talked about that, showed that off, really nice looking keyboard. In fact, he's got a Lamorous keyboard, maybe to send that back, but he's got her actual keyboard that he used to make that work. Noe and Pedro showed off a really cool looking noodle snowflake. It uses four of our LED noodles wrapped into looping sort of petally snowflake shapes and it's 3D printed with channels to press down the nudes in there and then light them up with a battery. They also showed a little bit of a sneak peek, little preview of a project Pedro's working on, taking a clamshell case from an old iBook, one of those translucent candy-colored ones, and retrofitting it to show an iPad, to use an iPad instead of the monitor in there and any of the other guts. So he's got some work there that he's working on for his wife who requested this, including some 3D printing of spacers and brackets and things, but the fit looked amazing. Fits really well. Weird. Scott was on to show some work on the ESP32-S2 and S3 co-processor, there's a little sneaky third processor off to the side that is getting some support, almost like PIO-like stuff to have a little side processor doing work for you while your rest of your code is running. Flavio came on, connected Ethernet to an RP2040 microcontroller in order to get on the network and augment a ringer to paying a couple of relays, which was really cool, really nice looking project, used some neat techniques including some liquid electric tape, 3D printed a nice looking case for it. What else? DJ Devon 3 showed the couple things, both LED noodles based project, they have a dragon mask and wanted a bunch of ground points using a cutie pie and a little BFF for the driver and so they made a little proto board, little PCB rather that has a bunch of ground points, one per pin, which makes it really convenient for keeping this dragon mask electronics contained in a small space. It's called parent because it grounds things, which I thought was cute. DJ Devon 3 also showed off the TR cowbell, which is a step sequencer, actually similar to the thing I'm going to show a little later, progress on the thing I'm going to show a little later, and that's getting some updates to accommodate extra ground points on the chips for the matrix. Make It Hackin showed a bot they wrote, which is to send out tweets for the digikey digiwish, which is fantastic, automating that, everyday you can send a tweet about something you want, people can comment in there and some lucky winners will get an item up to $100 in value, so go check that out, also go over to digikey and check out the digiwish that's happening. Mark Gambler showed a beautiful giant LED board, I've shown this before, this one is a bunch of LED strips, I think maybe it's like 300 neopixels, something like that, running some display matrix code that's super fast now, there have been updates that make this super fast, he's now got a snowflake animation on a Christmas tree, really fast, incredibly fast looking text, I mean slowing it down, but it's smooth as heck, saying happy holidays, Merry Christmas, things like that, and also the dripping icicle demo just looking incredible, with some augmentation to that, and that is going in his window, which is great, it's going to be one of the best displays on the block I'm sure, and then finally, Jeff Epler came back, we went all the way around the horn, and Jeff came back with a really interesting demo of ChatGPT from OpenAI, which is this bot you can have conversations with, and he asked it to write an Adafruit Learn Guide, and it did, it created Adafruit Learn Guide for creating a automated bird feeder, bird seed dispenser based on, it decided actually to use a PIR sensor I believe, and a servo motor to let out bird feed, and then Jeff had a conversation with the bot to give it a little bit of a guide review and critique, the bot came back with some improvements, so the bird seed wouldn't just all dump out, but actually could close, and then even asked it to rewrite it in Circuit Python, since it was originally writing it in Arduino, which may have been an example it found on the net, I'm not sure exactly how it works, and that's when it got a little creative, it wrote some fictitious Circuit Python, but if we keep plugging away at it, it'll maybe get to the point where it can do some actual legitimate guide writing for us, and then we're just going to be sitting back drinking martinis, I don't know. So thanks everyone for coming on to show and tell with those great projects, that was a lot of fun. Let's see, next up, I've got a show on Tuesdays, that was just yesterday, it seems like it just happened, like hours ago, and that's JP's product pick of the week, and on this show I like to show you a new product, give you a humongous 50% discount on it, do a little bit of a demo to show you how it works, and this week it was this one right here, this multiplexer, really cool, PCA 9548, 8-channel I-squared C multiplexer, and here's a little demo or a little one minute recap. The PCA 9548, an 8-channel multiplexer, you can use multiples of the same board that have a conflicting address on I-squared C. I have a cutie pie plugged into the PCA 9548, and then I have two of these Vemol 7700 light sensors, there is no jumper for addresses, we just have one address to work with, so I've got two of them plugged in here, this is a little graph that's showing the light sensor reads from the two sensors, I've got one facing down and one facing up here, so now you'll see a big difference between these, and let's say my light comes around to the other side, and now it's pointing up at that bottom one, so now we can detect light in two directions with this really great light sensor, it is the PCA 9548 multiplexer for I-squared C. Yes, in fact that's what it is, and there was actually some interesting discussion in the chat during the show, and we were talking about the creative engineering team we were talking about earlier, about what sort of, as Ann Borella said, what sort of inception could you create by linking enough multiplexers to enough multiplexers, probably you would create different phases of time as it slows down further and further and further, but not sure what the hard limit is on it, theoretically someone suggested you could do something like 2048 sensors on enough multiplex multiplexers, but who knows, so if anyone wants to try it, I would love to see, please write up your findings on that. Right, so let's see, the next thing I want to do is a little circuit Python Parsec, so let me get set up for that and away we go. All right, so for the circuit Python Parsec today, I want to show another way to time things that's even more precise than the last one I showed, and this is with using the ticks inside of the supervisor library, so these are similar to the way that we use time monotonic, but even more accurate, so what you can see here, if you look at my console, right now when I run this code, it tells me that basically zero time is elapsed because all I'm doing is checking the time and then repeating the time or printing out the time, so what I'm going to do now instead is I'm going to make one print statement, so you can see my program imports the supervisor library, it checks what's the current supervisor ticks milliseconds, it then is going to do something, going to have it print the line, and then it's going to stop, create a variable that's the end time, and then I'm going to print out the one subtracted from the other and turn it into a decimal, which is a little easier to see, so if I save this, you can see it now takes .001, I believe milliseconds to do this. Now by contrast, I'm going to import a fairly robust library, I'm going to import Neopixel, watch when I hit save, now you can see that takes 20 something times more time, now you may not always need to time such precise things, but one of the interesting things about using these ticks is that they can give you more accurate time over long periods of time, such as running a thing for days, this tends to stay a little more accurate than some of the other methods, and so that is how you can use ticks to time things in CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython parsec. All right, so yeah, that's part of our continuing series of timing stuff in CircuitPython, let me know if you have other methods that you like or that you'd like to see, and thanks to Todd Bot for this example, the simple example of getting this up and running, and that example is actually available over on Todd's GitHub in the CircuitPython tips and tricks page, so maybe he can throw a link up to that in the chat over on Discord. So let me get that out of the way there, and what's up next? Hey, how about we take a look at, let me go grab another window that I have prepared here. Oh, hey, I'm getting another tip here. This is from Jepler.  It says, use the Adafruit ticks next time. Okay, good. This gives me one more thing to show. And I'd love to know, maybe we can talk offline about the differences between Adafruit ticks and the, I guess, the MicroPython ticks that I was showing there. All right, so let's see, what I wanted to do next is, got to check and see, do I have, I'm going to copy a URL over into the Chrome that I had up here. So let me paste that into here, because as you may know, CircuitPython is code plus community. And one of the best ways we have of celebrating that is with the Python on microcontrollers newsletter. So this is a weekly newsletter. You can subscribe to it by going to AdafruitDaily.com, just put in your email address, request the newsletters you'd like to get in your inbox. And you can also go and check them out here on the webpage itself, right down on the homepage is a link to this. And this is this week's episode or edition of the Python on Hardware newsletter. And I'll just point out a couple things that I thought were notable from this week's edition. First of all, there are now 100 CircuitPython Blinka compatible single board computers. So this is things like raspberry pies and onion pies and rutabaga pies and asparagus pies. I don't know all the all the different ones. But if you're like me and don't know all of them, that's okay. Because this newsletter has you covered, you can go and click on the link here and check out all of the Beagle. There's another one, all of the different boards that are now compatible with Blinka. Let's see. Also, we have let me check my notes over here. This out of the way. Oh, there was an advent of code calendar. This looks interesting. These are some small programming puzzles that you can open up one little nuggety bite sized little delicious puzzle every day as an advent calendar. So there's a link there that'll take you to that. Speaking of holidays, check out this, you guessed it, Hanukkah light lightsaber. So this is great. This is a circuit playground, blue fruit and a strip of 30 Neopixels doing a persistence of vision method where you can use long exposure photography and draw some different Hanukkah based things in the air and take cool long exposure photos of them. There is a menorah and some dreidels and there's a nice little explanation of it in here. And this was found on Instagram. And by the way, if you find things that you think belong in any of our newsletters, there's a link at the bottom that'll tell you how to go and submit those changes or submit those news items. This is also another nice one. This is a three printed Plex server using a Raspberry Pi, but it also uses Circuit Python, I believe for all of the display stuff to give you systems, statistics and and other information IP address, temperature and other readouts there. So really cool looking Plex server or media server. And here's another really nice one. This is our own Todd Bot. Everyone's Todd Bot. He's not just our own. He's the world's Todd Bot. And Todd Bot created a really cool Pico touch synthesizer, another in his ever growing series of small PCB based synthesizer things. This one has an octave keyboard of capacitive touch and also has reverse mount Neopixels pointing up. And he's got some tests up there. This was a link on mastodon. You can go there and check it out or just enjoy this gift of Todd touching it because it's a touch synth. And let's see. Another one actually somewhat related was this one which is Bobricius, if I'm getting that name right, created this Armachat touch computer and it also uses TouchIO to create this full QWERTY keyboard with backlighting and it's a PCB with a under glow type of technique where the solder mask has been told not to go. And it's a really cool looking project. You can go check that out on Instagram and then find other links for more information. And the last one I thought was really cute clippy there. And then the last one that I was going to call out, but of course you can see there's lots and lots of stuff here. I'm skimming over so you should go check it out yourself, was where to go. It was the Pine 64 Pico sized single board computer. I think I blew past it, didn't it? Where'd you go?  Nope, nope. I'll keep going. Keep going. That was a little macro pad. There it is. So this is a, I don't know much about this and I must admit I haven't followed the link yet, but that is a Pi Pico form factor single board computer. So if you want to learn more about that and all of these other interesting things, I'll just tease. There's another little new board right down there, the M zero cents risk-based computer or micro controller. These are all in the Python on microcontrollers newsletter. So go check that out. All right. Jump back here and grab a little water if I have any left. Let's see. What else have we got going on here? Another thing I will mention, I've mentioned it before, but it's the return of Adabox. So Adabox will be coming back next year, as you know, due to the global supply shortage of parts. We didn't do any in 2022, but 2023 is going to be the year of the Adabox. We have a lot of great stuff planned. So come and check out the Adafruit.com slash Adabox site. You can sign up there to subscribe or to be notified when you can subscribe and you can also subscribe other people. Let's see. The next thing I'm going to do is learn guides. So we have some new learn guides in the learn system. You can head on over to learn.adafruit.com and you'll see we've got thousands over 2,000, closing in on 3,000. I think it is guides in the learn system. Here are some new ones since last week. So Liz wrote a guide on the QT, so STEMA QT, 5 volt to 3 volt shifter breakout. It's just a simple level shifter so that you can use things in the quick side of the ecosystem with little breakouts that are using that 4 pin connector that don't necessarily level shift on their own. You've got a 5 volt thing on the other side or a 3 volt thing. So there's a little guide about that. Lady Aida wrote this guide on the SPI F-RAM breakouts, which I didn't know anything about F-RAM, but now I know a little about it. F-RAM is a type of RAM that's really useful when you want to very quickly write data that is persistent such as the save state on a game so that the user can power the thing off. You've got a little bit of data that's been written to it that you can pull back up when you power back on and you don't need a battery. You don't need any batteries to save your state like you would in an old game cartridge. This will write to the F-RAM. There is a guide from Catney on using the Mastodon API with Circuit Python. There's also this, I love the GIF here. You can see this GIF animation of Aaron's new guide on Neopixel Remote IR Control with WLED. This was something entirely new to me. You can check this out. There's a really great video to watch actually that will explain it all, but Aaron builds these beautiful LED pieces of art and costume pieces and in this case is lighting up an aquarium that she does some mermaid swimming in. I believe I think this was that aquarium. This is a guide on taking Neopixel Strips and communicating using a sort of standard off-the-shelf IR remote and this WLED library and web page that allows you to create or use a library of existing animations and get them running on your microcontroller. It's sort of a melding of worlds of commercial Neopixel Strips and the Neopixel so you can build your own microcontroller based projects the way you want to. Go check that out if that's interesting to you. Here is the LED noodle snowflakes that the Ruiz brothers were showing off at show and tell. So you can go look at that. It's beautiful. You can go and check that out and learn how to build your own. It's just a bit of 3D printing and some LED noodles, a little bit of soldering and you've got a really large scale snowflake to check out. The Bluetooth TV Zapper Guide. This was the one I was working on last week and the week before. This is going to show you how to use a circuit playground Bluetooth or bluefruit rather and our IR Stemma breakout board which has a couple of high-power IR LEDs on it and you can communicate to it from your phone in order to have it send some turn-off commands to TVs, turn off and turn on commands to TVs remotely from a safe distance. And last guide in here, this is, we mentioned the next computer keyboard guide that Jepler showed off in the show and tell. Here's the guide on how to build your own in case you find yourself either with a next keyboard and you want to use it in a more modern computer or if you're just curious about the process of creating something like this it might be helpful for you if you're if you're doing other investigations into obscure peripherals and those are our learn guides. All right, let's see I'm just going to check in with the chat and see what's going on over there as well as the YouTube chat. Let's see, back to this view of the world. Oops, here we are, discord a little closer. Let's see, DJ Devon 3 said, Katniss Mastodon API guide is excellent, that's great to hear. Yeah, what's WLED? I should dive into it further so that I can explain that but it is its own thing. It's kind of like fast LED, if you're familiar with fast LED from the Arduino world, it's a easy to use LED library that gives you really fast, beautiful animations and in this case you don't have to code them yourself, you can pick from UI elements or pre-baked animations if you want. I need to look at that guide closer and try it out actually, that's really cool. All right, let's see what's next. I'm going to actually take a moment to do a bit of a gear report thing. This is kind of cool, this is, let me see, let me jump back to this page over here. This is something that I just picked up, actually built it for someone, this is a kit to build this little Eurorack module and the reason I was interested in it is this is based on a pro trinket 5 volt, so if you take a look at this little module's build guide, you can see here it's kind of a nice build, it uses mostly surface mount components which I really like on these kinds of builds so you're not constantly threading resistors and capacitors through and clipping their tail, so it's a reasonably intermediate level build if you're getting a little more comfortable with doing some surface mount components, this is a cool one, so it's got a couple ICs on there, got some passives, a couple through-hole capacitors and then as you can probably tell from that outline on the board there, there's a microcontroller that's going to get plopped into there, there go the three potentiometers, four jacks and switches, really beautiful looking, nicely done aluminum faceplate and then here comes the pro trinket 5 volt, so what does this thing do? It is a module that will generate random melodies for you that are musical in that they are quantized to a musical scale so that they can be anything from diatonic, semitones to certain intervals like only octaves or thirds and fifths or sevenths and ninths and it takes in an impulse, a trigger that says okay generate a new one and every time it gets a trigger it has a bit of a roll of the dice to see what note it gets and if it's going to trigger it or not and then there are some controls for choosing the the length of repeatable looping patterns, how many octaves it should be allowed to use and so on, so I wanted to show you this and give you a little bit of a demo of it, I got the module built, I'm actually sending it off to the guy who asked for me to build it for him tomorrow and here you can see there's a little user guide to it, I'm going to actually hold, maybe I'll keep that open just for myself so I remember what some of the secondary functions on it are but let me go to my down shooter here and I'm going to move a couple things out of the way and show you this and actually this is a, I've got a couple, I've got a few modules to show in here that I think are kind of interesting and if you're wondering what is this and you haven't watched my shows before I often show these Eurorack modular synthesizer thingies and this is that, so I'm going to, oops, I'm going to focus here and then I'll show you the down shooter so I'm not trying to focus while you're looking, okay so here is, move this over to the side here and I'm going to plug in a audio jack and I've got a little amplifier back there behind me that might reach, it'll just reach, all right, so what's going to happen here, I'll just focus on this guy, I'm going to give it a little bit of a regular clock so there's going to be an incoming impulse that says trigger, do something, so you can hear right now I've got this loop going, I think it's eight notes, I can change the step size, so I've got four of them, I can go all the way down to just one, so this is a little loop that it created and then I said capture that so it's just repeating that loop but I can change how much of the loop I'm going to listen to and there's a shift control here that lets you sort of slide through the loop, pick a different part of the loop to go through, I'm going to turn off looping, you'll hear a change now because now it's able to pick from the constraints that it has of a certain range octave-wise as well as a scale, so if I change the scale now you're in different intervals in that scale and sorry I need to, I need to reset this this little trigger which I'll talk about, I'll set it fast, slow it down a little and now I'm going to lower the odds that it actually triggers so now it's got a little bit of uncertainty, is it going to pick a note or not? We can go from zero to a hundred percent so on a hundred percent it just always plays a note every time it gets a trigger and that's pretty much all I want to show about it, the outputs that it has are the the volts per octave that my oscillator is using and the gate that it sends out to say yeah I triggered so we can open and close a little VCA, a little amplifier, one other input it has is it can bring in a volt per octave itself from a keyboard so you can kind of shift the whole thing around, play root notes and this guy, let's talk about this guy now, this is a side thing, this is from Todd, our very good friend Todd Bot, this is, I'll bring up his guy there, this is called the Trinket Trigger so we have old and new Trinkets, we have one in here written in C and this one is in Circuit Python and they're very good friends so if I bring this up for a second here you can see Todd Bot slash Trinket Trigger on GitHub and you can build your own, there's all the open source files that you need to to create that so this one's running Circuit Python and it's got, if I turn it off here you can see it's got just a little Trinket M0 running on there with Circuit Python and then this one here I'm going to take it all apart now because I got to box this up and ship it anyway so I'll show you what this whole little module looks like, pull it's a little ribbon cable for power so there it is, there's a Trinket 5 volt, our good old friend right there and the other thing I'll say in case this is a little confusing to use, this isn't actually creating any sound, this is really playing the piano for you, it's just deciding what notes to tell something else in this case, this this Braids module here was what I was using as the actual sound maker but that wants to know hey what pitch should I play and that's what this one's doing is when is it going to play it and what pitch and that kit you can get that on funk.co.uk I think they're they're back ordered right now but just just check check for the Seb songs odds module and they have a few different modules but I thought this was a really neat module really cool fun to build so if you like to build your modules you can also build things cheaper than you can buy them in many cases this was a nice one to build so there you go that's the odds module I'm going to set that somewhere safe and that's going to go to its owner and I will miss it because it's it's a really cool module. I'll show this one off sometime too this is a neat little kit from Tom Whitwell Music Thing Modular and it is an overloading drive module like on an old amp using an incandescent bulb to to gnarl up your signal like like a gnarly distortion so all right I'll plug this and set that over there and let's let's say yay nerlies these are these cute little knurled screws for being able to move modules quickly without grabbing a driver I like those okay so let's see what is next hey how about new products let's do a new products so uh new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new products let me open up a not that window but this one okay we got three new products this week uh and here they are get ready for it there we go uh so three new products the first one is this pack of the little slide potentiometer knobs or rubber nubbins um and I thought I had one right here I forgot it so these are the nubs that come on some of our potentiometers I think some of our when you buy some of our slide pots they come with these little nubs but maybe you lost one maybe you need extras maybe you've gotten some slide pots that don't have them uh this will uh this will solve that problem for you it's cheap you get a pack of three for 95 cents uh I'm just going to check one place real quick two places real quick hold on I might have I have some little demo projects in a couple bins right here if you've ever wondered what's all that stuff behind me some of these demo projects and any of them have a slide pot oh wait wait wait wait hang on no I don't think they do actually oh wait hold on last one I'll check no all right sadly I don't but you get the idea there they're a little cute knob uh nubbins that allow you to not put a dent in your finger because the uh what the slide pots have is a little metal stabby bit that you don't really want to hurt yourself on uh next up this one I actually do have um this is oh a little little question from the chat DJ Devon 3 so whatever happened to that line on the Alps cap touch nubs uh we haven't found anywhere to buy those yet I bought a few off of like a eBay seller in Germany or something like that but we haven't we haven't found any of the capacitive touch ones in the wild uh from a wholesale distributor uh next we've got this 2.8 inch tft lcd with cap touch uh and this has eye spy on it uh I've got one right here let me show you this beautiful look and display we can do an unboxing of it in fact I don't have any code running on anything that I can actually start it up uh but maybe I'll uh maybe I'll have that next time so let's take out this uh by the way if you're not aware of this usually this pink uh bubble wrap or pink bags are anti-static um so that's why you'll see a lot of Adafruit stuff coming that's a little safer than your average plastic uh this has a little uh peel off on there I'm gonna leave that on uh so this is a gorgeous uh what did what do we say it was a 320 by 240 pixel display I think it is uh just checking here we'll have that listed it is a mystery I think it's 320 240 it's probably in the learn guide we can go check that in a second this is a uh eye spy compatible so you can use this little ribbon cable here a little ribbon connector to plug that in rather than dealing with all this jazz all these pins here it has the sd card slot on it that also goes over the eye spy ribbon cable and this has capacitive touch so you can use this for little interactive projects drawing make a display that you can pick buttons on all those good things so this has previously been I think we had a version of this without the eye spy connector now we've got eye spy connector on it as we eye spy connector all the things and yet kiyoshi in the chat says yes it's 320 240 or 240 by 320 if you go that way or that way um so that is our new display and let me bring this window back up over here last thing whoa what happened to go back to products oh we got new things we got new new things that I'm even aware of okay we'll go back and and play with those those have gone in the store since I uh since I was prepping for this uh this is a cool one this is actually a more info and more coming soon uh but this is a product that's a collaboration between Adafruit and Kelly Heaton which is a I think it's a six oscillator songbird song uh uh generator so it creates bird song uh using uh I think it's 5a stable oscillators and a sixth one that's a different type of oscillator uh this is gorgeous you can see this beautiful uh pcb here and uh this Kelly has done a bunch of projects in the past about bird song and using a deep fake algorithm to analyze the the bird song that our oscillators were creating to find out if it was similar to a bird in the wild which it is it's actually the night jar which is how this got its name um and this one also has some inputs uh that'll allow it to be controlled by outboard gear such as Eurorack so so for example I am guessing that this odds module right here could be a very interesting way to inject some different notes into the bird song sort of fundamental pitches to work from which is pretty cool um and what else that's all I'm going to say about it so so this once we get one of these in to to demo we'll show it to you but go check out Kelly Heaton's work uh if you're interested in more more about these gorgeous bird song generators so that's a that's a coming soon uh if you want to get ones I'm not sure how many we're going to be selling but if you want to get one uh you can click on that notify me link in the uh in the description there and put your email in and then you'll you'll find out as soon as that's available um so new stuff hey these are some new snap action wiring block connectors these look great I know nothing about them because I'm seeing them right now they remind me of the wego connectors um and we have a three to nine wiring block connector we have a two to six uh so this is a way to sort of y splice off one into multiple uh so you can go from one to three with three different inputs or one to three with two different inputs or uh just one to one and uh I'm going to pick some of those up those look great I love these types of types of connectors for uh for wiring up projects uh and then last one on here we have is a mosfet driver for motor solenoids leds etc this is a uh jst three pin I believe this is uh similar to one that we have had in the past for our um bonsai uh which is a a water pump driver for for plants so uh that's another one that's coming soon um and uh I will uh I'll find out more about those because those are pretty cool pretty uh pretty useful for driving powerful stuff without having to construct your own circuit uh and that is all I can say about new products I don't know how she does such great songs every week uh all right so next up this is uh a great time to remind you uh having just looked at new products a great time to remind you 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sorry okay uh let's see next up i wanted to uh dive back into my 16 step drum trigger sequencer oh it's free adford.com slash free thanks jebler so head there to find out or check out our chat um so i'm gonna let me show you my overhead over there uh i'll put my little head here uh so you can see the the beast has grown so i've got uh the keyboard 2040 i have the aw 95 23 is that its name i think it is uh excuse me which is the constant current driver that i'm using to light up 16 leds if you remember last week i had been planning to use pwm and i thought i had 16 pwm i could use i did not there were only 15 i think it was that i could use or 14 uh so i switched over to using gpio i do have enough gpio on the kb20 40 to just do direct i don't need a a breakout for that so i got 16 uh normally open switches there using the um step switches there as as buttons uh and i'll show you the code for what i'm what i'm using right now uh yeah uh question todd about said is that sitting on top of a crt that would be amazing i wish i had dug out a big hole in my workbench and put a crt it's not it's actually an old vga uh lcd very old ibm think something what do they call this think something not think pad but yeah so that's a copy of uh virtual modular software and by the way i always like to mention even though i love showing off this hardware these hardware your orac modules you can get into your orac for no cost at all other than owning a computer as long as you have a computer of some kind which many of us do these days you can download vcv rack for free and there are probably other things out there these days and forks from that but vcv rack is what i have there uh so that that works with the your orac standards and some of the modules think vision thank you think vision uh is the monitor uh so i've got a copy of vcv rack running on an old macbook air ancient like it's nine years old or something uh and i'm using that kb2040 as a midi input device now this is uh the next step in the evolution so you can see i've wired everything up uh on on the breadboards there and so i have the switches and their leds and i just have them each sending their own unique midi notes so it's acting basically just like a midi keyboard right now next step is i'm going to uh work on turning it into a proper sequencer with maybe four channels of drums so i'll be able to have 16 steps of bass drums 16 steps of snares 16 steps of hi-hat snares 16 step steps of open hat or something like that um but just to get the the sort of proof of concept going uh this is what i got so let me let me run over there and i can just uh do do a little bit of brief demo and then we'll look at the code running on there so let me get that view that'll work and i'm also going to re-plug my little amp here into that laptop yeah i'm a fan of having old monitors around uh you can just set stuff on and not really worry about scratching it up or anything like that so here is uh you know what i'm going to open up the chat right here tell me if uh the volume needs to change on this i'm just going to open up discord here we go so these modules essentially all just want to get a trigger impulse um and when they get one they are sort of little self-contained drum voices and each of these has two uh so i've got 16 so top row one two three four five six seven eight bottom row is the second half of these nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen uh i had to get two of that one because it's big uh and the way this is set up is really similar to the project i did that was um the eight by eight grid using the neopixel grid uh to drive using this uh i think it is stower st o e r stower melder which allows you to bring midi in and just trigger stuff with it so it has a nice little setup there's no wires coming out of that one but it's it's what's triggering all of these little trigger push buttons so let me i can hear anything uh oh what i break let me see if this is unplugged if it works okay that's working there we go uh so i can turn that up a bit loose wire okay uh so what you'll be able to see here when i zoom in a little closer just on this top row in fact so when i hit any of these uh you can see first of all i'm lighting up their leds nice and bright so um with this constant current driver it's really nice i i'm telling it a um i think i've got it remapped to values of zero to 255 so this is i think at a value of five uh or maybe two is this sort of dim light and that brighter one is a value of 20 and if i do it to 200 it's super super bright so those will be things i use to show which steps are lit up in the sequencer versus what note we're on or what beat we're on in in a measure so in the way i set these up since these are these pairs i just have kind of tuned the same drum two versions of itself for variety that makes me want to get a bunch of tom drums and do the fill colons thing except i don't have four tom setup um so that's that's pretty much all it's uh doing right now the idea will be to again set this up so that i can uh have that looping just like a uh 808 style drum sequencer i'm going to add uh the using i squared c i'm going to add over stem of qt our little rotary encoder so that i can uh change which track i'm using and probably a little oled display so this would be really similar uh in a lot of ways to todd botts eight step pico sequencer except i'm not doing pitch stuff i'm just doing triggers so just whether a trigger is happening or not on different um instruments different drum instruments uh so let's let me take this here unplug this little guy right there you can see i left a a gap in the program uh just so i can set my device on top of it there let's take a look at what that code looks like over here let's get oh you know what let's use this setup this will work well here we go that's too many of me there uh and i can expand this a bit and second that should work and what i'll do is just open up the code dot pi that's running on oh i broke it is it gonna recover it might recover it might not oh darn that works a little differently than adam it didn't like me uh closing that hold on one second let's see if we can fix this oh no all right maybe i've got sound and picture let's see thank you blitz and kaoshi uh and glenn for letting me know there was no audio lara's gnawing on cables again all right uh so all i want to show you here is the uh way i'm using this uh aw 9523 constant current driver breakout uh to control all 16 of these leds and then um the switches to send out the midi signals that i'm saying so you can see here when i click these they are lighting up a little brighter um so in the code here i've got some little setup here where i'm setting up all my switches and i'm using keypad with those to read those uh and then over i squared c on the board stemma i squared c port i've set up the leds object as this aw 9523 uh and then you set two things the led modes to constant current mode using this little uh bit mask and then the leds directions saying that they are outputs and that's because you can use uh this as a uh as a input uh if you want to use it with buttons uh you can use it as a sort of more simple output or you can use it as the constant current uh mode so i'm telling it i've got 16 leds to go ahead and loop through uh here you can see these are these brightness values that i set so 220 and 200 you can see these are that's at 20 uh so particularly for this camera but even for your eyes when you're working on these things you just don't need it very bright one of the nice things is that you don't need to put resistors in line with these if you're using constant current however and i need to figure out if there's a way around this when this starts up it does light them all up and i uh and it's crazy bright and i am thinking i probably should put some inline resistors just to avoid the scenario where it draws too much current on startup um then i'm doing some midi setup and then here's the main loop of the code so keypad makes it so easy you just say switch is the name of switches.events.get so the just checks through it pulls through all of the uh pins that i told it are switches and said hey did something get get hit if something does it'll return uh yeah there's a thing called switch now and if it's a pressed event then i'm finding out okay switch.key number which one was it then i'm sending out a midi note uh based on whatever my zero one two three four five six up to 15 and then i'm adding to that 35 just to get the the midi note numbers up into the um general midi note range for drums so if you're driving a general midi thing like a sound card or a simple synthesizer web synth uh on channel 10 there are drum sounds one per it's not pitches it's one drum sound per note for i don't know 40 notes or something like that uh so i have this in that range but i'm not i wasn't using that over in vcv rec and then i set the constant current driver to that mid value which was 20 for that id number so my switches and my leds have the same little numbering set zero through 15 and then i'm just for my own debugging right now printing out if something was pressed or released and then when i release something it sets the note to off uh and i'm also setting the velocity to zero which is redundant there uh and then i'm setting the constant current back down to uh to its dim level which was two so that's what's going on with this this was the the sort of the big improvement over last week was deciding to go ahead and use this uh constant current driver for the leds since i had run out of pwm and it's working great so i'll i'll be updating this uh hopefully finishing it up soon by getting it to actually work as a uh a running sequencer uh probably using ticks maybe eight of root ticks we'll find out um and uh i'll be writing up a guide for this and then we'll have a cool little 16 step sequencer that we can use and hopefully the guide is also useful for you if you're doing other types of projects and you want to use maybe a bunch of these switches drive the leds read the inputs and then do something entirely different with it uh all right so let's see let me know if anyone has any questions in the chat um and i can uh i can get to those in a moment before i do that uh let's see do we have any other business that might be it it might be all the business that i had to get to so yeah let's um let's take any questions you might have that i can answer for you i'll wait a second since i know there's a little bit of a lag between broadcast and uh the youtube picking it up and i'll scroll back let me scroll back through my discord now and see if there were any questions that i missed in the course of the show yeah people heard oh no right before my stream died earlier it's uh it's asking a lot of the poor computer uh glenn verbeck says tactile touches nice and cool but all could be done by cap switches or touch panel and lcd you're absolutely right um let's see oh yeah someone was at uh ks she was asking about this think vision monitor i think that's 17 inch that's a 17 inch uh and has a few different vga resolutions on it that was a freebie i got that through uh someone was just donating it which was nice let's see anything going once going twice oh the jeff jeppler posted a nice uh difference between micro bit v1 and micro bit v2 link i'm gonna check that out see does it have any uh oh yeah this looks like a good good uh site let me bring this up so check the chat uh you can ask lars some questions i don't know you can answer them he's mostly just terrifying that whoa that page went weird didn't it yeah i don't think i have a good way to recover okay i'm gonna i'm not gonna tempt fate by going to that but yeah check out in the chat uh there's a link there that actually yeah jeppler posted of uh differences between the different micro bit versions but yeah those are in stock does lars have family yeah lars is a lars is someone's child i think i don't know was lars constructed in a lab we don't have a lot of details honestly but look up fuggler online and you might find out because he misses mom of course he does he's not a monster uh all right yeah dave barris says these step switches are perfect for getting precise performance on drum hits just like the old roland synths hey the roland ones by the way those used a alps tactile switch uh with just a custom switch cover on it and the led was just coming out of the pcb it wasn't a self-contained thing like our our cool little um step switches that we have nowadays these things these things are great and we've got a little breakout board on there if you didn't know i can unplug that so usb cable doesn't want to go uh i've got these on these nice uh breakouts because the the switches and leds the pins are all kind of on top of each other wouldn't work with regular breadboard or pcb spacing so we've got these little um little breakouts in fact let me show those can i oh no i'm gonna i'm gonna break my internet if i try to do that now uh lars is a bit of a cyborg because he's got electronics in him to make him talk now uh all right well hey thanks everyone i don't want to uh take up any more of your time i do want to i forgot last week very important uh end to the show but penultimate end to the show business is this coupon code if you are buying stuff remember you've got uh deadlines coming up on shipping so if you want to order stuff tonight you want to save 10 percent just type swashbuckle in on your way out in the coupon code slot that'll get you 10 percent off uh and i will say thank you so much for stopping by for ate a fruit industries i'm john park this has been john park's workshop not ask lars uh and this is your moment of zoro


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust in the heart of Ohio Silver, the Lone Ranger. Travel was a dangerous business in the early days of the western United States. Not even the railroads were safe from the outlaw gangs that roamed the frontier. And when the masked rider the plane started his great fight for law and order, it was this type of criminal he drove out of the country first. Return with us now to those thrilling days when the West was young. From out of the past come the thundering hoops beats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. It was after dark when Emma Bailey, tight-lipped and pale, let herself in the rear door of her ranch home, closed it softly behind her, then walked into the parlor where her mother and father were sitting. There you are. My, we thought you must have been lost. I didn't mean to be so long. Where have you been, daughter? Just, just to the well. I didn't hear you fetch the bucket. I didn't go for water. Huh? Went to the well but didn't go for water? Now, what in tarnation would you go for then? I just, that is it. Huh? Please, father.  Can't you see she's tired? My state should think she never growled up the way you keep at her. I didn't mean nothing by it. That's all right, father. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Where's that no-count husband of yours? In town, guzzling liquor again? He's back. You ain't seen him? He, he's outside, talking with someone. Oh.  You've been on your feet all day. I declare I don't see how you do it. I'll rest soon, mother. She wouldn't have to work so hard if that poor cat she married was worth the power to take the blow him up. Emmie, why don't you give that fella a good talking tool? I've tried, father. It's just no use. Mm-hmm. And then I will. No, father, please.  But Emmie, I'm not... No. Every time you talk to him, you're getting an argument. I'll argue you get ill. Please don't say anything. No, don't need. When I think of how, 30 years ago, I could have took a whipper snapper like him and broke him up. I don't care. What's the matter?  Why, you low-down... Come on, wait. Is that man gone? Eh? I mean that man you were talking to in front. The man you rode here with. How'd you know he was with me? I saw you. Oh, spying on me again, eh? Well, I'll... Don't quarrel here, Tom. I want to speak to you alone. What about? I'll tell you that later. But I want to know... Come on, Nate. We'll go and leave him be. No.  Tom and I can discuss this in the kitchen. Can't we, Tom? Now, you look here, Emmie. I said, can't we? Come on. We'll be back in a few minutes. Well, while you're about it, tell him what I think of him. Close the door, Tom. What are you getting so high and mighty about? I'd like to know. That was Abe you were with. Out front, you mean? Yes. Well, what if it was? Not any business of yours? I think it's my business when my husband starts associating with Crook. Hey, you better be careful. Of what I call him. Yeah, and what you're hinting at. I don't like it, see? You wouldn't play me, isn't it, Crook? Would you? Let's just talk. You sure? Of course I'm sure. What blazes you take me for, anyway? Well, I know Abe better than anyone else around here. Miss Crook, I'd have found it out a long ago. Or have you got some fool notion that wouldn't have made any difference to me? Tom, let's stop this beating about the bush. I told you months ago that it didn't matter to me any more what you did. Any respect I might have had for you was destroyed when I learned you'd married me just to get your hands on my father's ranch. Why you do? No, I'm not complaining. I've passed and done with. But marriage, it wasn't because no one had warned me. I was told, but I wouldn't listen. I was even sublime to a persuaded father to put the ranch in your name. You took our money and spent it at drinking cards. You let the ranch run down. You haven't done a day's work in months. I have no idea how our affairs stand. I suspect they're pretty bad. Oh, you do, eh? They could be otherwise. As I said, though, I'll accept my share the responsibility for all that, but I won't stand by and see you turn crooked. What do you mean by that? Just what I said. What right have you got to say a thing like that, eh? What right have you got? You were talking to age. Don't prove a thing.  You see... Eh? You see, I did spy on you. I heard what you said. What said? Take your hand away. Oh, you rotten sneak. What did you hear?  I intend to. Out with it. I... I've heard your plan in a train robbery. Oh, are you? I heard Abe tell you that one of his crooked friends was coming to help you with the robbery, and I heard you tell Abe that you'd give his friend a hideout. Oh, yeah, I'd like to take you. But I won't, Tom. And you won't take part in any holdup. I won't let you. Why? You're talking local. Don't lie to me, Tom. Your lies aren't convincing anymore, and I did hear you. There's nothing you can say to get around that. All right, you heard me then. Yes.  Well... Maybe you heard a lot. Maybe you think you can do a lot.  You think you can frighten me by threats, don't you? You can't. No? Well, how much of your pause cashed do you think is left in the bank? None of it probably. Your dog gone right. There ain't none left. But that's just a half of it. How many cows you think we got left? No, you've been selling to pay your gambling debts. You've probably sold half of them. Half?  You sold everything? Everything. Tom, how could you? I had to. Well, I'll finish. I suppose you was figuring it if I didn't promise to go straight. You tell the law what you heard, eh? I will. Then think this over. Tell the law, get me jailed. And what's gonna happen to your folks? Right. Think folks their age could get out and work? But... Think you could find work to support them? Oh, no. Why, the three of you would starve in a month. You'd be throwed off this place inside of a week of my going to jail. I'd give Abe a note with the buildings for security. Yeah. I've got his promise to wait before putting in his claim. But if you talk, gotta turn out time to go ahead and foreclose. You rotten thief. But you kind of see things different now. I wouldn't be afraid of starving. No, most likely not. But you wouldn't want to see your folks die, would you? You... Well, would you? Tom, I... I think you're the most detestable man who ever lived. Yeah. But I won't talk. Three days later in the middle of the afternoon, the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, rode toward the Bailey Ranch. There, place. Looks rather run down, Kimasebi. Well, it'll do no harm to ask, Tonto. They can't sell us supplies. You can always get them in town. That's right. Right around to the back. This way, old fellow. Here we are. Rain up.  Wait here. Raise your hands. What is it? Raise them, I said. The fullest trigger I can't miss. Not so fast. Don't let this mask mislead you. I'm not an outlaw. I don't bother to deny it. You think I don't know my husband's expecting you? You're mistaken. Your husband's expecting me? You know he is. But I just won't... If I had my way, I'd turn the three over to the law. I can't. But I can refuse to let my home be turned into an outlaw's hideout. Hideout, eh? You did plan to stay at the house, didn't you? This sounds interesting. I thought... I'll take that. There. That's better. I wish I'd never waited. I wish I'd shout to the minute you came to this door. One moment. You believe I'm an outlaw. Evidently, you believe I'm someone your husband has expected. You... You mean it? I'm not. Well, then I... Said either too much or too little. But... Too much, perhaps, for your husband's good. But too little for my information. You... You're really not the man Tom said was coming. You'll swear you're not. I'm not. But then... That mask... I was sure you... I were the man you thought me. I'd have no reason to deny it. Oh, then... Then I've spoiled everything. Go inside. But I don't... What trouble here? It's all right, Heather. I'll be out in a moment. This woman and I are going to have a talk. Not long afterwards, the Lone Ranger left the house and rejoined Tonto.  It was not until he and Tonto were sitting beside their campfire that night that he finally told the Indian what had happened. I should have explained earlier, Tonto. I've been trying to make up my mind to something. What that? I'll ask you a question. Allowing for her excitement when she taught me an outlaw, what did you think of that woman back at the ranch? Well... Me like her. Yes? All right. I see. Well, I just about come to that same conclusion myself. What do you mean? I had to make up my mind about her. You see, Tonto, when I spoke to her inside the ranch house, she refused to say anything to explain what she'd said earlier. When I pointed out she'd as much as admitted her husband and two other men were planning something crooked, she kept silent. Not bad. I might have questioned her until she broke down, but I didn't want to. It was plain to see that she was frightened and nervous. She would have suffered too much if I'd kept on, and I decided to wait. Her not say anything? Just one thing. She said it over and over again. That's why I had to make my mind up whether she was honest and terrified or dishonest and frightened, simply because she was afraid of exposure. Ah, me savvy. She said she couldn't talk, but if she did, her parents would suffer for it. Ooh, them. I didn't see them, but I gathered they were well along in years. Oh. Now, no matter whether she's honest or not, if she's in possession of facts that the law should have, she must tell what she knows. Ah, right. If she's dishonest, she must expect to pay for what she's done, though I doubt that the law would be too hard on a woman. Hmm. But on the other hand... What do you think? She's honest. If she doesn't know the truth and her parents will suffer if she talks, then it's up to us to make sure they're not forced to pay because she does a duty. Hmm. What we do? You're riding to town. Ah. And you're going to bring me every scrap of information concerning her husband that you can find. Ah, me go now. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. A day later, that Emma's father hobbled from the window where he had been watching and sat down beside his wife. He shook his head doubtfully. Hetti, I took oath that fell on that white horse was wearing a mask. Ah, mate, I think you just imagined it. Well, my eyes ain't so good no more. Ah, of course you imagined it. Which way did you go? Round back, summers. And that's why Emmy must have left the house. Hmm. And that's why it had me worried if that gent was an outlaw. Oh, sure, Nate. Most likely it's just a cow hand looking for work. Emmy wouldn't go outside and talk to a masked man. Heh, I wonder. Why, Nate, what a thing to say. Well, she's been that mighty funny all late. Well, she's been worried. She's been that ever since she got hit to that skunk. She married. No, I mean this is something more unusual. This is something that's happened just lately. Well, what makes you think so? Because for the last two days she's been as skittish as a horse with a burr under saddle. Can't hardly look at her without she jumps.  But if it's just a usual trouble, why ain't she told us about it? Huh? Ain't you noticed? She ain't even mentioned Tom lately. What? Well, no, I can't say I did notice. Well, it's so. So what's she keeping from us? We know about Tom's drinking and gambling. Wouldn't be no point in her trying to keep that a secret. Well, I don't know what to say. I thought that they were just... I don't see what she's doing. Nate, what on earth? There, there he goes. And he is masked. Doggone it, he's masked just like I told you was. But what? Why? I don't know what and I don't know why. But Amy can tell us and once she comes in I'm going to see that she does. I won't let... Oh, there you are. What is it, Father? Daughter, that was a masked man just rode away. Yes. You admit it? Why not? Quick, quick, quick. Oh, Nate, do stop pestering her. Haven't I told you a thousand times? You keep quiet. Daughter? Yes, Father. You willing to answer a question? What is the question? What business is a masked man with you? He, he wanted information, Father. Huh? And I gave it to him. I, I had to. I just had to. What information?  Daughter. What on earth are you? It's information that, that if he acts on it, it will, it will cost us our home. The Lone Ranger left the ranch house and raced across country until he arrived at camp where Tata was waiting for him.  Oh boy. Oh. Tata. What happened? She talked, Tata. That good call, Scout. We're riding. Here, Scout. She's a brave woman. I didn't have to persuade her to talk. She decided to do that herself. What's more, I told her nothing of our plans. I wanted her to do what was right. Without feeling, she'd be rewarded for it. You see Lawman now? Not yet. Why, wait. There's no hurry on that score yet. Her husband and his fellow aide are waiting for a third man to arrive. She said they spoke of him as if he were a wanted criminal. Oh. So we'll make sure he's caught with his partners. And that good? And they don't plan to strike yet. I have an idea. They're waiting for the train that carries a bullion shipment from the Staten Mill. They are. That gives us over a week. And that plenty time. No more than we need, Kimosubby. They can wait. But between now and then, we have to call on every rancher in the district. Into the saddle, Tata. Let's go. Get him up, Scout. Come on, Silver. Hurry up, Tata. Now, first stop, tunnel.  Jackson? That's me, but hey, you're me. Forget the mask. Listen to what I have to say. Ranger, you say Jackson promised to go in on this? He did. I can check on that, you know. I expect you to. But if you find I've told you the truth. Mister, I'll get in with the rest of the boys 100 percent. Good. We'll do this job right. I can count on you. You don't have to call around, stranger. I've talked to Baylor and Jackson and Clements and a dozen others. I'm for this as strong as air. Call out your men at once. You bet. And, stranger. Yes? Let me tell you, you're doing a mighty fine thing. Ready, Tata? Get him up, boys. Two days later, a great roundup was in progress on the open range. And the lone ranger and Tata watched from a nearby hill. Tata, there hasn't been a roundup like this in years. Maverick. Those ranchers will comb cattle out of the brush and hills. Cattle that never saw a roper felt a branding eye. Wouldn't surprise me if they gathered as many mavericks as there are cattle in any single herd. And them pine plenty, all right. But the best thing of all is something like this. That proves westerners can be the finest neighbors of all. The roundup continued. And although it was out of season, the ranchers refused to offer any explanation. Bailey and Abe were only mildly curious. The plans for the robbery took all their time. And on the day after the roundup was completed, they were sitting in the parlor of the Bailey ranch house. Emma Bailey was with them. And Abe found out what train's going to carry that ghoul. The day after tomorrow, ain't it? Oh, you heard too, eh? Yeah. They think as their dog-gone train ain't never been held up, it's never gonna be. They don't make no more secret of it than they would of the weather. Tom. What do you want? Tom, please, listen to me. Give this up. Tell Abe you won't have anything to do with it. Eh? Bad as I need cash? You crazy? You hear that, Abe? She wants me to say I won't go in on this with you. Yeah, I heard it. Look here, ma'am. Yes?  But I reckon it wouldn't hurt none if I was to add my say to that. One word out of you, just one word. And you and your folks would be out of this house just as fast as it can have you put out. I'm not foolin'. Being in jail wouldn't stop me from foreclosin' on that note of time. Tom, won't you listen? Won't you?  Where's Nate and your ma? Why don't you go look after them? Maybe it'll pay you to see they ain't doin' no snoopin'. They're in the kitchen. Then go join them. I'd rather stay here. You heard me. All I'd rather stay is she ain't doin' no harm. Now, about Dirk. He'll stay here out in that camp you showed him. He'll let's stand for us to go into action. Then he'll... Where? Where'd you say he was? What's it to you? What? I just wondered. Well, I had him hide out over where the creek runs through the breaks, if you have to know.  I got things to figure out. Nate, is the creek your safe? Can't you hear? Yeah, that's what I said. The dog's gonna beat it. Yes, Tom. Hey, you're not that way, not outside. Go back to the kitchen with your folks. Hey, come back here. Come in, Sheriff. Howdy, man. What? The Sheriff? What the... Everywhere, Tom. I wouldn't reach for that iron if I was you. Hey, keep your hand away from that holster. What in thunder's the meaning of this? The way you started with that gun, I'd have sent you had a pretty good idea. You can't come... Now behave yourself. Well, ma'am, did you get out of them where their partner's hiding out? Yes. In the breaks near the creek, they just told me. Tom, I thought you said she wouldn't talk. You went to the law. Yes.    I was sent out here by a mask man. I talked to your wife before you fellas got here. She owned up when I told her what I knew. I've been hiding outside just to see what you two skunks would be scheming. You'll pay for this? I had to do it, Tom. Didn't you realize that even if we had to suffer third, I couldn't stand by while you turned crooked? If I could just get my hands on you... The more you threaten now, the worse it'll be for your later.  I heard a plenty. I'll testify if it's necessary. But I tell you...  I figure when it's told what you're schemed to do, that'll be plenty.  I want her thrown out of this house. And if folks along with her, it's mine. Tom signed it over to me when he borrowed cash. And you get them out. Is that a fact, ma'am? Did this poor cat of her husband he always even get cash on the place you live? He did, sir. But you turned him in in spite of what they could do to you? I had no choice.  I don't know if I'd have been in your boots if I'd had the gumption to go through with it or not. What's that? Well, go on, look out the window there. Look at them critters coming over the hill. They're surrounded. What are they doing here? Gosh, that's a funny thing. Ain't no cattle trail. And I don't suppose that they were... What's that? This is Bailey. Yes? That herd is yours. No, no. No, there must be some mistake. Every one of those steers bears your brand. Huh? How's that? Didn't you wonder about the roundup the ranchers were carrying out? Huh? They knew what Mrs. Bailey was facing because she dared to do her duty to the law. And they saw to it she wouldn't suffer. I don't savvy. That herd didn't cost them a penny beyond the labor to round it up. And yet it's worth thousands of dollars. Whatever may be owed to Abe here can easily be paid from it. There'll still be a herd large enough to give this ranch another start. You mean...you mean that herd's really mine? Every animal in it. But how could all them steers be handed over without it costing nobody nothing? They were mavericks. Oh. Each year hundreds of animals have escaped branding. And cattle have been so plentiful, the ranchers never took the trouble to comb the country thoroughly. And this is the result. Those mavericks belong to anyone who put his brand on them. The ranchers mark them with a brand of this ranch. Well, I'll be... Then I won't lose my home. Ga-Ga, I don't think you will. It ain't right.  Ma'am? Yes? Well, it tells me it wasn't the ranchers that thought of this stunt all by themselves. I'll be willing to bet my bottom dollar that they got some help at it from the mass man. I'm sure you have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Rain...


Good afternoon, it's indeed an honor for me to be here as we celebrate one of our heroes. So I welcome members of FDNY, it's Union President, the President of the Vulcan Society. I am Chaplain Dr. Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin, Chief Advisor to our Mayor Eric Adams, and we are celebrating a hero, Stefan Douglas, without any further ado, it is my distinct honor and pleasure to present to you our 110th Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. Stefan, I should be up here if you could. Let me show you, man.  And I'm sure those who are his colleagues and the Union that represents, you know, this important line of work, and you're never off duty. That's the bottom line. You know, I'm sure Commissioner Kavanaugh would say the same thing that when it comes down to being off duty, it's not even heard of. If you're a firefighter, EMT, EMS, a police officer, is always responded. Here he finishes toward duty on his way home, could have just gone home, but instead he saw flames coming from a building, from a house. He was not dressed in his normal firefighter attire, but he immediately responded. He responded and he picked up a garden hose, started putting out the flames. Entering the house, heard cries of a child, made his way through the smoke and the flames to get to the child that was in a bathroom, and he saved that baby. He saved the baby, allowed her to be rescued. And it just says so much. When you enroll into a profession like this, you actually state to yourself, this is why I enrolled. This is why I became a firefighter, and I'm sure you said that. That's how I felt being a police officer when I took actions like that. And so we just want to say thank you. Thank you for going beyond the call of duty. Thank you for putting yourself at risk. And thank you for saving a child. And that baby would never forget it.  And that child is going to relive this story. We know there's a tragic part of it, but throughout that tragedy, you were there and you showed a level of bravery that we wanted to just pause and say thank you so much. And this is why we tell folks to join the FDNY. And you're a symbol of what it means, a young man to have a promising career and probably one of the most dangerous assignments that we could experience. I would never forget the commissioner and I when we were up in the Bronx after a firefighter took place in the Bronx and walking through the building and seeing a level of smoke in the training that you have to go through. It's a very challenging job. And people don't realize that even after the smoke is gone and the fire's out, the men and women who do this job, you know, just from smoke inhalation, from the stress. We buried firefighters this year that went through some terrible parts of the job. And so it just really means a lot when we can pause for a moment and just say thank you. And we wanted to make sure we did not fail to do so for your heroic actions. And I want to turn it over to the commissioner, Commissioner Kavanoff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I agree with everything you said. It's great to have a happy day. And as you mentioned, in every speech that I've given since I stepped into this job, I talk about how being a firefighter is a role on duty and off duty. That, you know, once you step into the uniform, this is who you are. And you exemplify that for us today. And we couldn't be more proud. It's great to be able to celebrate you, to say thank you. And as I understand it, you also had your gear in your car. So not only were you ready to rescue, but you were also prepared. And your training was ready to go. So you really, I think you're an inspiration for your colleagues who are sitting here. You're an inspiration for me. You're an inspiration for a future generation of firefighters.  So we can't thank you enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. OK, let's go away. I just want to say thank you for everyone that's here. Thank you for, you know, an award. You know, this job, I love it. I took a chance at it. And it became something that, you know, I can't even fathom, you know, some of the experiences I've been through, the opportunities that have arised. And I just want to say thank you to everyone. It's been a blessing. Thank you. It's indeed an honor for Mayor Adams and Commissioner Cabana to present to our hero Staphon Douglas, a proclamation signifying today, February, July 15th, as Firefighter Staphon Douglas Day. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. OK. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations.


Hello everybody. So my name is Mario. I come from a little country called Belgium But I've been living and working in Asia for the past 16 17 years. I currently live in Singapore and There I work as an independent contractor And I specialize in brand experience design Big lucky word. Basically what I do is I connect brands with their people for the benefit of both And that is regardless of a channel regardless of media or touch point I just tackle the whole thing that has allowed me to build quite a divergent set of expertise and skills and I've done that for the past 25 years, but here's something else you need to know about me. I I am a graphic design source. I Graduated before those computer things rule the world. I Learned how to do my craft and these things with my hands In fact, my very first job was spray-gluing paints together for a mail order catalog For the young people in the audience. Yes, that's actually Now we all know what the story is Computer came in best of publishing and so over the years for other designers We've had tremendous new possibilities and with it new requirements has to be inside and It's not just the way that we work that has very rapidly changed our design world is very rapidly changing as well The one's golden rule the one you can break is no longer applicable Form no longer needs to follow a function. Think about it. Your laptop follows function It's disappearing In fact, products are disappearing. They are becoming services Services have now led to that subscription in economy the Internet of Things Software as a service It's a completely different place and we're not done yet We are moving from the computer is everything to everything is we will soon be designing the interface For everything for everyone at any time all the time technology is just going to be It's a wave Glance It's everything So we will be asked to design for that and it's no longer one thing It's going to be an entire ecosystem of things and services and products all in one ball Be it that the ecosystem exists or it doesn't and we have to invent it. That's our job But fear not Design thinking is here and it won't keep us closed. It will rescue us Did you know that design thinking is actually not a design terminology? It didn't come from designers It came from engineers At one point in time, they were faced with what they called wicked problems And that meant that it was more the expertise of other people that they have helped fix So they brought them in and then they figured out So how do we do that? This is your world not ours. I have solved it Where do we need so all you get? Exercise and skill sets and workshops Now I'm going to confront you with this quite recently the door it came out with a study on learning and They prove that your usable skill set is limited to five years And then it's no longer practical and it's no longer of use and I'm I wouldn't cry I'm living proof of that. I studied four years To call myself a graphic designer. I did my job with those skill sets for one And then they asked me to do it on a computer and I couldn't I've never learned it. There was no skill So that is still very prevalent today Welcome to the deep end of art with my friends. That's your reality the skills that you take on board The time you need to master them is longer than the time those skill sets are needed That's how we are So how do you build up your your career? How do you get longevity in this thing that we love in design? I get asked that quite a lot is probably because I'm the graphic designers. I've been around for 25 years I had to learn how to kind of fall In this industry So Let's open the kimono. Let's see how that works design thinking the turn alone It's kind of mysterious And of all the problems, but what what is it really if we look at it as only yet another set of skills We may lose the magic of design thinking because in five years time less It's no longer relevant Well, I applied a bit of design thinking on that problem And I want to share a few tips and pointers for one design is not a skill I'm well aware that I've been being a bit disruptive here in fact, you know on this guy I'm the black sheep in the industry I'm here to tell you design is not a skill as much as it is a mindset Craft will make you a good designer Your mind will make you a great designer You have to learn how to approach your craft In a particular mindset So where do we start? Well, when an army goes out to fight A bit of a depressing topic. I'm sorry, but it gets to me When an army goes out to fight it doesn't just send its troops out there. It goes and scouts And a scout's job is not to fight It's not to look where to go fight. It's just to understand what is out there And that's my message to begin If you want to shift your design focus to a mindset and away from a skill set Try to understand before you try to solve And we have a lot of pressure our boss wants an answer our client needs it tomorrow Well, it calls but try to inform decisions by understanding before you try to solve Get a scouts mindset first You'll have plenty of time to go to battle for your ideas later If you don't you will start based on your own assumptions and your past experience Neither is a good place to start the reason is if you do that you become an island You are limited in your own discipline and your own experience and that's not good enough And understand why that happens our entire industry is build on islands This is your classic agency model Look there see that one there this one strategy island all the strategies live there And you have a visual design island technologies of the day Project management. Yeah, and this is conference room island here And then everyone comes together Once made twice a week two hours of collaboration All right. Well, that doesn't work because Collaboration Please do not collaborate Oh H3 design thinking Collaboration, huh? Well, it depends on how you interpret the collaboration and I hear it I hear go along to get along Please follow me. Don't rock the boat Collaborate Come on. That's what I hear And that's why This image is your average design meeting That's your strategist and your technologist and your usability expert and your client And they're having a lot of work A lot of work. No bite. So what do we do if we're not going to collaborate? Well Compare collaborate with co-create Ask you let's collaborate or I'm asking you let's co-create Who feels involved Co-creation sounds Let's get things done I'm ready. I'm inspired. I feel the energy And that's based on what's below there. None of us is a smart of all The point of discussion is not victory It's process You review each other you critique each other you debate the problem And that's done to move forward. That's not done to be smarter than anyone else You're only smart if everyone else joins in The other pitfall that you may have is that you yourself are in the way of ideas We do some things which is called fluent thinking Basically, what that means is Even if we know a little of something we already think we know So I hear you talk about an idea it's not familiar yet. Don't like it. Don't I didn't even try to understand why you talk to me about that idea that way Fluent thinking it's a trap We do it To be efficient we do it because our brain is just overwhelmed And we have a lot to get through the day for it But it's a trap catch yourself Not falling in that trap Understand one thing is that you are switching into that automatic mode Of you're thinking there's a couple of techniques that One is Overload the problem If you think you have an immediate answer to a problem You're being lazy The risk of your opinion Doing the work is Prevent So overload the problem get new data Find more research Diabetes and pretty soon because of the volume of consumption of information that you're doing There's so much more I need to learn how many of you Have a bicycle All right, I'll scale from one to ten one being I know nothing to ten. I'm an expert or kind of I know pretty much everything there's to know about bicycle All right scale from one to ten. Who thinks he's a Right So If I don't go through these people and I ask So what's the power ratio between the height of your saddle and the force applied to your paddle to go 40 mile an hour The scale goes back to one I just confronted you with fluid thinking I don't know To this fluid thinking I throw data at any goal There's maybe just a little bit more that I need to know about this Do that with every design pretty quickly the second technique to this And and Jeremy here had talked about that yesterday's you reframe it and this is the easiest one If you have no time to overload yourself with data do it this way Share your idea with everyone in the room have everyone do input float on it sketch and draw it Present it differently make people pause and think about it Now we once uncovered that people were taking more Time to understand our notes if we have really bad handwriting You know it took effort like what is this person thinking But your brain is starting to think as well. You don't just go but you have no no like it It works People are wonderfully complicated, right? The whole purpose of design thinking and the whole reason of UX is to design for people Yeah, I see a lot of heads not Question yourselves. How many times do you design for people not for outcomes? We design for outcomes How about the design for behaviors that can influence those outcomes those outcomes are really not ours to dictate they're ours to inspire people Through the behavior of our people the client that takes a bit of effort and trying to understand Who you're designing for but here's what it does it opens the window The garage door if you wish to what the actual problem is A lot of the times our biggest effort is in getting the right problem to design It doesn't happen a lot, but how can you get the problem right if you chose the wrong problem to solve? Work on finding the right problem then get to work on getting the problem right Then the soldier has to come on This is a favorite industry jargon Well, it's a misunderstanding or a misinterpretation For within the industry that complex problems need equally complex solutions. That's not the case you break it down You find what matters and what doesn't quite often in those complexities Some of these problems are not even worth solving. There's no money in it. There's no gain in it There's no brand value in it. So don't solve Solve the ones you can't solve And solve the ones they can keep yourself now we're designers This is our job We are idea people we need to protect the idea We don't need to be in phase one with an amazing idea that gets us all excited We jump out of bed the next day. We want to get going and now we go into our next phase And the idea is still kind of there, but it watered down and it watered down By the end you don't even recognize it anymore Our job is to fight for the idea protect the idea Bring it from start to finish it must feel as exciting at the end as it was at the beginning Because the good news for us is that we're in a profession where the work is just never done You iterate you find short bursts of new ideas new solutions you observe You evaluate you go after it again. There is no end game. There is no finish line That's good news for us Means people like us will be needed for a very long time They'll be needed for a very long time If we get our head around it and if we work on this profession with the right mindset So here's a quick list down of what I was trying to share with you Design the mindset You understand first you define later do not work linear So don't just stay within your own experience try to solve them all by yourself because you can't They're okay, right? The other one I want to leave you with Is just do it You don't need permission Excuse me boss. I know Just do it make it the way you design. This is how you do your profession. You just do it. No permission needed There you are Take a deep breath best is yet to come And it'll be all right Thank you very much It will be all about for outcomes. I mean Can you elaborate on that a bit more? I want us to be the influencers of what we think might be an outcome But we cannot dictate it We cannot dictate it where I believe we're in a world where consumers are smart enough to know When they're being pushed in a direction that we want them to go But they can be talked into it no one's going to be charmed into it So Understanding behaviors. I can give you a really quick example for it. We recently worked for a bank They did a survey the survey said people want an email with information for investment It's boring. I'm sorry, but it gets pointy well So they sent the email out and no one was really following up There were no sales. There was no click through nothing so They've made more effort still there but the survey said 70% want the email What they failed to understand was those 70% were people that got up to five o'clock in the morning Check the markets from overnight We could further Tokyo See how the markets were moving And before they were in the office They had already made all their purchasing decisions and all their investment decisions and then by 11 o'clock The bank came with their email years today too late The behavior was not understood The outcome was provided you wanted an email or give you an email But they didn't understand the behavior They didn't understand the source needed So now they know they have to work a little bit different And a little bit harder to get the information to that customer overnight so that they make up they have the email And now they're informed by their preferred bank And boom The numbers went up That's the that's the immediate example why I came to mind We focused on the behavior not on the desired outcome Good afternoon sir. This is Professor Kamaroff. We began your Institute of Management I'm a professor at the Institute of Management Normally when we teach our students We take example of Bains Wall Bains About 20 years back we used to be shown Cards of Bains when we were to select something But today with very less number of inputs of raw materials You'll be able to have billions of shades that the computer generates And you will be choosing it So is that uh, that is the basic design for the Tests of the people But the outcome is obviously Profits for the company because Asian Bains has actually been the leader in that So in what way what you have told in this particular slide is something new Then what has been already implemented by Asian Bains And I'm sorry Asian Bains Is a painting company Wall paints company it's a world leader And earlier they used to have Design meant for a limited number of paints and you have to choose a local limited Choices available But later on the technology has changed in such a way that with those very few inputs They are able to make billions of choices as the computer mixing Now that has been that means you have made it a mass customization as we call it in marketing So in mass customization It is the same thing that your design is meant towards the people's taste Which is different in billions And the outcome was automated that people's generating profits for the Asian Bains company this particular context of what we are talking of design for the people And not further outcome Is a existent thing already It could be that this company had a case for offering that particular service. They may have done I don't know. I'm not speaking for the company, but I would hope They would have done a design research where their customers were going If only I had my shade of mustard yellow And and here comes along a technology that could offer it If that is the case then you could argue they've done a service for the people If they're only using technology like oh, but what this can do And I'm going to the market for it and kind of go like you need to buy because I can do that I believe they're on the wrong track and I believe that It's a narrow path where they eventually will run out What your story reminds me of is is of the paradox of the choice Where you have an ice cream shop that sells Vanilla chocolate and what banana flavor Ice cream that's it and across the street you have one that goes up at 60 flavors While your choice will be easier in shop one than it is in shop two Because 60 flavors where do we get? But it could be possible that they just serve one particular group of people that want to have 60 choices of ice cream because of their behavior or their attitudes We cannot say one is better than the other What it exposes is it's easier for you and me to make a choice if there's only three options versus We actually experienced that yesterday to give us a drink I must have had 200 pieces And generally just go Give me a Thank you