Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm going to just be trying on some of the newer makeup that I've been wanting to test out. And the star of the show today is going to be the new Melt Cosmetics palette, because I got so many requests to review this. So I'm going to be giving you my first impressions on this and kind of see how this works out for me. So if you're interested in that, then just keep watching. First and foremost, today's video is very kindly sponsored by Ana Luisa. I worked with them many times before because they are one of my go-to places for good quality dainty jewelry. And I'm really excited to be a part of their Mother's Day campaign because I love my mom. And these pieces are a fantastic gift for yourself, for your mom, or for anybody that you love. Now this sale started on April 12th, so it is currently going on. So when you shop through the link in the description box, it will save you 15% off of all of their jewelry pieces. 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I have not had a single piece break. They've really lasted a long time. I shower with them, which is something I'm not very proud to admit, but I haven't noticed any change in the quality. So I just completely stand by the brand. So again, make sure if you are interested in getting 15% off that you shop at the discount link down below without further ado, let's get into the video. By the way, on my eyebrows, I used the Kaja eyebrow pencils. I use the pencil and the clear brow gel and those are definitely like my new favorite brow products are amazing. I just I had a wedding this morning.  I'll just leave them and things do long anyways. So let's start off with primer. This is not new, but it's the primer that I need for the foundation that I'm trying. I want something hydrating and smoothing. So I'm going to use the Gucci silk priming serum because I'm using a powder foundation. I want something that's going to be equally moisturizing, but equally smoothing so that the powder foundation can spread smoothly on the skin. I used to like using a gripping primer for powder foundation. Just because I felt like the powder stuck to it better. You also kind of give up being able to smoothly blend the powder over the skin. So lately, even though I still like a nice gripping primer for a powder foundation, really I've been enjoying something a little bit more silky for the powder to blend over. I really like this primer. I've been liking it even more and more the longer that I've had it. It's just so useful. Okay, powder foundation today. We are using the Kett powder foundation. Now, if you don't know Kett cosmetics, they're actually more so of a professional makeup brand.  There's all these shades right here. They sent me a lot of information on this. And funny enough, I actually use these powders in my makeup kit, but I don't use them as powder foundations. I use them just to shade the face, to set the face, just to add a little bit of color, not actually for coverage. And I've never tried these as powder foundations. So that's what I want to try them out for. I can say they work great. They blend beautifully. They have a nice range of colors to set the face and shade the face, but I'm not sure about powder foundation. So we're going to try that today.  It is an arm and a leg. I know. Hopefully their customer appreciation sale is going on because I love this. It's a short handled kabuki, but it really applies powder foundation like I've never tried before. So my perfect shade for these powder foundations, I feel like as a mixture between N2 and N4, I could use a little bit more of N2 in the center of my face and then blend it out to N4 or I could mix these together and they would work for me. You know, they say, of course, to use a sponge to get full coverage. I'm going to use my kabuki. I like the coverage that this gives. I like the blend that this gives. If you don't know, these are vegan, cruelty-free, gluten and paraben-free. And I'm trying to see if there's anything notable to mention. Just really that you can use these for touch-ups, foundation, bronzer and shading. I've used it for all of the above except for foundation. So that's why I want to try these today, but they are so good, you guys. Okay, so I'm going to mix mostly N2 then a little bit of N4. Let's kind of pat it on the nose. And if you're new to my channel, I'm a big fan of powder foundations. I just really love how lightweight powder foundations feel on the skin. No, don't get me wrong. There's something to be said, certainly about liquid foundation, but for a quick, easy, every day, I love a powder foundation. So when I film, I normally don't do powder foundations, but when I go to work or I'm just running out to do errands and I want a nice, even coverage on my skin, I just think powder foundations are so much easier. You don't need to wet your brush or do anything like that. So look at that. So that gave just enough coverage really to even out the skin. Now, like I said, this is my first time using this as a powder foundation. So what I'm noticing from first application is really make sure that your skin is well prepped and hydrated because it is kind of sticking to some of the drier areas around my nose. And I'm really smart, you guys. I forgot to put concealer down first. If you're using powder foundation, please put your liquid concealer down first. It also allows you to put extra coverage on those areas that need it with your concealer and then go over with a powder that's going to give the most seamless look. That's okay. We can adjust. Oh, by the way, I'm using the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer in Canal. I use the baby size. I love baby makeup. That'll do. I don't need a ton of concealer today. Maybe just like, got this breakout today. Learn from my mistakes to with the concealer first, but that's all right. That was really, really quick to get a nice coverage on the skin. The only problem with doing my eyebrows first is now I can't put this big brush struggling around the eyebrow area. Obviously, I look pretty one-dimensional and sick right now. So let's do some shading. So I picked out the shade N6. N6 looks like this. We're going to use this as our bronzer today. Like I said, this is a great powder to use for shading as well. You can see how nice it blends. So depending on what tool you choose to use this for, we'll determine how much coverage you give. And now that I'm looking, now this is a little bit too yellow to use for bronze, but that's okay. Since these are black packaging, I didn't want to open it anymore. So this will work. This is helping give us a little bit more dimension, but I think probably I'd go with one of the more neutral colors for this step, typically. But to be honest, I was feeling a little lazy today. So I opened the first one and I was like, this will do for bronzer. And here's what it's looking like on the skin. I don't know that this is my favorite powder foundation in the world, but I can certainly recommend these from a makeup artist standpoint. These are beautiful powders to use for correcting, shading, highlighting, and setting. So I think I still prefer these for that purpose. I know I need to do a makeup kit tour. I will one day, I promise. Probably the summer when I don't have a full-time job, I'll get to it. Oh, you know what I'm going to do? Really quickly, I'm going to take some of N2. I'm just going to set my under eyes. I had a wedding this morning and I used one of these powders to set the under eyes. And it just blurred everything. Do you see how pretty that sets the eyes? This is so beautiful. So, yeah, after today I've decided I definitely prefer these for how I've been using them. As a powder foundation, I do think they might be a bit dry on the skin, unless your skin is very, very hydrated. And I think with wear, this will probably look better as well. But this collection of powders, beautiful to set and shade the face. Like, do you see how much nicer my under eyes look just from patting that powder under there? Alright, anyways, let's throw on some blush. If you watched my most recent Sephora haul, I picked up the Laura Mercier blush in Passion Fruits. And look how beautiful this blush is. It's just so light and so natural. It has such a pretty sheen to it. You can't apply it too much, which is nice. This particular color is really great if you're more on the fair side because it's not too intimidating. I do find though that this probably goes better over a liquid foundation as opposed to a powder foundation, but that's okay. We'll just build it up today. Do you see that gorgeous sheen that that added to the skin? So pretty. I love it. This blush, I want to get more colors. It's a beautiful formula. And then for highlight, Maven Beauty sent me a PR package and I've been testing their stuff out and I'm really, really impressed so far. I still need to try their eyeshadows, but their highlights are awesome. So this is a shade draped up and here's what the packaging looks like. I'm just going to put it just a little bit. Look how beautifully that blends into the skin. These are made in Canada, you guys. They're so pretty. Look at that glazed, smoothed, so pretty. All right, let's get into the reason that I know you guys are all here. Let's be honest. So, Melt Cosmetics released this palette and if you watch my haul, you know I feel really silly about talking about this palette. No judgment, of course. I really don't care about the theme, but it's a bit overdone by Melt's and if you guys don't know, like I'm an elementary school PE teacher, PE and health teacher. So I feel rather unprofessional talking about a palette with this theme and I would not have picked this palette up or talked about it if the color story wasn't so dang pretty. So it also was just so highly requested for me to review. So that's what we're going to do. I haven't tried this palette yet. I've swatched it though. And here's what I can say about the swatches. One word, chunky, or chunky. Especially specifically the two shades on the end. I'll show you. I like press hard and this is what I get. Let me do the other one. And this one in particular is chunky.  We're mowing. I'm just going to pretend like that's not happening. But some of the shimmers, they felt so much better than that but they still were all a little bit chunky. So I'm just going to put them on my eyes before I get too judgmental here because that's the main point, right? So we're going to go with this shade right here. This is a refer number 27 brush, by the way. Like this shade, perfect. I cannot say anything bad about this shade. Now we'll go into the deeper matte now. True test here. I'm going to start with this shade right here and then go to this darkest shade. So here's the second to deepest brown. I love these tones of neutrals. Keeping it so neutral, it's just so pretty and like subtly smoky, you know, because of the neutral undertone, you can get a really smoky eye without it actually being black. I'm going to run some of that along the lower lash line and then I'm going to go in with the deepest shade right now. So this is the deepest right here and we're going to pattern. Okay, so straight up the mattes are popping. They're really, really good. I really enjoy the colors. Now are they amazing, unique colors? No, but they blend it really nice. They have a great level of pigmentation and they're pretty easy to work with. But again, like I said, I was pretty concerned about the shimmers. So we'll start off with this one right here. Okay, this one is rather chunky the first time I swatched it. It just requires some pressing in to make sure you don't get a lot of fallout. Like you can see you want to press it in. I can't see this working very well with a brush, but that's okay. That's not abnormal. So I'm going to take some of it. It's just, it's messy. Look at this. It's a messy shade. You see that those loose particles coming?  But I will say this is really pretty but I don't know if you can see but it's not quite settling onto the lid.  So you see I'm really working it out, pressing it in. I think glitter glue would solve the stitch. But why? For this, like you see that right? Okay, it's chunky on the lid dude. I give it the benefit of the doubt because this shade is stunning but I have to like make sure this doesn't get all over my face.  I really want to like this palette. I know you guys asked me. I've had a few comments like if you know you don't like the milk palettes, why you keep buying them? One, because I'm a review channel and you guys ask. Two, because they've come out with good palettes. They're just inconsistent. So that's why I have a review channel to tell you if this one is the good one or the bad one. All right, it's not about me. And three, because this color story was so pretty because I was going to pass on this. You just want to give milk a chance because their color stories are always banging and then you get disappointed because the quality is not okay. So that shade was kind of a mess. It's stunning, but it's a mess. Now we're going to go in with Beau which is that chocolate brown. I'm going to play that to the lower lash line because I want to try one of those shades that I did not like. This shade seems pretty smooth. And when I swatched it, it felt the best of all the shimmers. So like that shade is really nice and it's not chunky like the others. We like that one. Now like I said, I was having problems with these two shades but benefit of the doubt, we're going to go in with the first shade right here.  And you know what? I'm much more impressed with how this works on the eyelid than when I swatched it. So that gives me a little bit of hope. Yeah, that's not really... That's not that bad. It's swatched bad, but it's not a bad color. But I got a pretty look out of this palette which I knew I would no matter how bad or good the quality was. The color stories are just so good that you would definitely be able to get a pretty look. Pretty and grungy with this palette. Unfortunately, I only have two eyeballs and so much lid space. So I have to stop there. I can't test all of the colors today for you. But this palette is kind of messy. Taking a little bit of this shade right here. When you swatch it, it's chunky. Expect fallout on your face. Please do your face makeup afterwards. Some of the shades are smooth. Some of them are not. So the masks in this palette are really good but shimmers are inconsistent. The colors themselves are really gorgeous. But there's at least three of the six shimmers that I tried today are very, very messy. So I don't really recommend this palette based on today's use just because you pay so much. Like, milk palettes are not cheap. You guys, they're almost the same price as Natasha Denona palettes. That's the thing where if this was like $40, I could say, you know what? If you like the color story, go for it. But this is in the $60 price range. Get the Natasha Denona glam instead. It will be so much more user-friendly. This isn't going to be a palette that I return because straight up, you guys, I just love the color story of this. I think it's really, really pretty. But I'm definitely going to have to make some adjustments to make this palette work for me. That's that on this palette. I really wanted to like it. If you are into milk cosmetics palette, the best one that I've tried so far is the Cheez & Parties. The quality on that. Phenomenal. Amazing. Love it. This one is not the worst that I've had. Like, this is better than Millennial Pinks, but it's not a good palette for the price. So, yeah. All right, guys. I'm going to do some milanear and lashes and then we'll be back with some lips. I'll be right back. All right, guys, with lashes, I really like it. Look. I do. Anyways, let's move on to lips. So Wonder Beauty, it came out with some new lip products. They made a collaboration with Catherine Zeta-Jones and they came out with this lip pencil in the shade Primrose that I'm going to try out. So they did send this to me. I've been curious about this line ever since I got it. I've been really excited to try it. So we're just going to have the lip liner almost identical to my natural lip color. I do have relatively pigmented lips though. So if you don't have pigmented lips, this might not be a perfect match for you, but pretty dang close for me. Okay, I know it doesn't really go perfectly with my lips, but I didn't have a brand new lip color that was super cool toned. So this is just what we're doing today. And then I have a Wonder Beauty lipstick also in the shade Needed Nude. And it works perfectly on top. I think I've tried this before on camera. I have a pretty nice lip formula. Pretty. I like it. Make it like a cooler toned gloss though because I think that might make everything fit together well. Don't hate me. This is no longer sold, but this is from Bite Beauty. This is flat white. It's an older gloss, but it's just what this lip look needs. So I'm sorry. Honestly, this is probably expired. It doesn't smell as good as it used to. You should have this really nice, light coffee scent. So that's not actually as old, but... Ugh. Now I'm throwing this away after today. Not nice. But anyways, here is the final look. So of all the products that I used today, the Powder Foundation, I much prefer it, you know, in lighter quantities as far as building it up as Powder Foundation. I definitely think a liquid layer or something down first looks better because it's looking a bit dry on my skin. But if you use it to set, it's very smoothing. We have awesome colors. All of that good stuff. I love the blush. I love the highlight. The eyeshadow palette, while I do really love the look, it's because I just love the color story of this, but it may or may not be a journey to get to the look. That you want. You just need to be patient, work slowly, glitter glue, eyes first, all of that. And you will definitely get this palette to work because the mattes are really nice. It's just a little bit messy. So I don't recommend it. I think you should get the Natasha Denona Glam palette before you get this, honestly. The palette itself is a huge mess now because there's just chunks everywhere. But it does create a pretty look that I'm not going to lie about. And I have never worn a Wonder 2 lip liner before, but I really like this color, this shade Primrose. It's brand new. It's a great everyday neutral lip color and Wonder Beauty has a beautiful powder foundation as well. Their lipsticks are really nice. Those are the products that I enjoy from the brand. So yeah, that's all I have. Thank you guys so much for getting ready with me. Of course, I was most excited to try this out for you guys to give you my thoughts. Now these aren't my final thoughts. Stay tuned until next month when I do my monthly palette rankings videos. I'm going to use this a few times more and then you'll get my final thoughts after using it a few times. Yeah, again, thank you to Ana Luisa's for sponsoring today's video. Remember to click the link in the description box if you would like to get 15% off. 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Qadir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari who was one of the great companions of the Prophet ﷺ. Sometimes he would be given permission to go to the Prophet's house and he narrates to us several hadiths from Lady Fatima ﷺ. He had that honor, he was so trustworthy, so high ranking, so pure. The Prophet allowed him to hear those hadiths directly from Lady Fatima. So he narrates this version of Hadith al-Kisa'a from Lady Fatima ﷺ. There are many beautiful treasures from this hadith, but I would like to share with you a few beautiful points that affect our family life. When you study the text of Hadith al-Kisa'a on Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari, on Fatima ﷺ, she narrates when the Prophet once came, he was feeling fatigued, tired, so he went under the cloak. One beautiful point that we learn from this amazing hadith is that the members of one family must always be positive and loving towards one another, highlighting the attributes and virtues of each other. Look at the text of this hadith and how the Ahlul Bayt would speak. When Imam Hassan and Hussein walked in, how did Lady Fatima ﷺ greet them? Ya Waladi wa ya Qurrat a'ini wa thamarat afu'adi. My beloved son, the flower of my heart, the light of my eyes. When a mother addresses her children that way, can you imagine the positivity this brings to your house? Regardless of what has happened, you may be stressed out, you come to your mother who's the bond and the backbone of the family, and she greets you that way. Automatically, it infuses you with positivity. You feel much better, you feel welcome. Lady Fatima ﷺ is teaching us in this narration how to address our family members. And then look at young Hassan and Hussein, how much love they show to their mother Fatima, to their father Amir al-Mu'mineen, to the Prophet ﷺ. A successful family is one that is based on the expression of your positive emotions. Some of us, we'd like to hold our emotions back, especially when it comes to my parents, right? When it comes to my parents, I hesitate. Hadith al-Qasad teaches you, no, show your emotions to your parents.  Kiss their hands. Hug them. Embrace them. That's how you build a solid, strong family. You know, SubhanAllah, for us these days, especially the youngsters, the teenagers, this generation, we're very reluctant to show those emotions to our parents. But if the teenagers fall in love with someone, mashaAllah, they have an arsenal of emotions ready to share with one another. And sometimes you're wondering, Habibi, where did you save all those emotions? Where did they come from? How come I don't see them with your father, with your mother, with your siblings? Now some stranger shows up who has not really done you any favors in life, who doesn't really have any rights over you, and you are willing to show them extreme love and emotions. Is that fair? And I don't show 1% of that attention of love to my mother, to my father, to my siblings, my parents, who without my own knowledge cry for me. Many times when parents see the challenges their children go through, maybe it's a health crisis, maybe it's a family issue, maybe whatever difficulty they're going through.  Sometimes they'll hide those tears. They don't want you to see them. Parents who care about you, who spent sleepless nights for you. What, this stranger who you now love so much, spent one sleepless night for you? What did this person do for you? The beautiful Hadith Al-Kisa teaches us how to properly dispense our emotions. Keep a big chunk of your positive emotions at home.  But maybe that's not what society teaches us. Always remember Hadith Al-Kisa and the tone in Hadith Al-Kisa. Number two, see how in Hadith Al-Kisa each member of this family highlights the positive virtue in the other one, looks at the positive side. For instance, when Imam Hassan A.S. walked in, he was the first to walk in according to this version by Lady Fatim A.S. What did he say to his mother? اَنْنِ اَشُمْ مُعَنْدَكِ رَائِحَةً طَيْبَ كَأَنْنَهَا رَائِحَةُ جَدْدِ رَسُولَ اللَّهُ My mother, I smell something very good. Next to you, with you. See he came to the house, he noticed something positive, he commented. Hadith Al-Kisa teaches us, when you notice something good, comment. Some of us know we're the exact opposite. We save our comments only when we don't like something. The husband comes back home, he doesn't like something in the house or what his wife has cooked, immediately starts nagging and complaining. Start with the positive. You come back home, you see something nice, comment. Say it, let your spouse hear it, let your children hear it, let your parents hear it. You notice that when they came to the house, they notice something different, something positive, they quickly pointed it out. And that's a lesson for us, my dear brothers and sisters. Point it out when you see something positive at home. This strengthens the family bonds. Number three, the greeting. The type of greeting, be creative with your greeting. When we come back home, many of us don't even greet one another. You're tired, you just want to go and do your thing. When you arrive, when you go to the house, you're back from work, from school, make it a point to choose a beautiful greeting that day. Greet your family members. You see how in Hadith Al-Kisa'a, they were very creative with their greetings. And they would give each other beautiful titles, Ya Jaddah, Ya Rasulallah, Ya Menikhtarahullah. You see these beautiful titles that they share with one another, and they're greeting one another, always greet one another, even if it's with a smile, even if it's with a smile. One psychologist wrote the story in one of his books. He says that there was a marital problem. The husband and wife were not getting along. Maybe they were considering divorce. So the wife, she goes and she sees a very good therapist. After that first counseling session, he realizes what's the problem. He realized that during that entire hour, this lady did not smile even once. So he told her, okay, look, I have a strategy to address your problem. All I want you to do in the upcoming week or so, whenever you see your husband in the morning before he walks out, just greet him with a smile. You don't need to say anything. When he comes back from work, just greet him with a smile. That's all. She's like, that's all? Yeah, that's all. Try it, come back and update me next week. So the next morning, she wakes up before her husband leaves the house.  Now he's looking at that smile. He's not seen her smile in months or possibly years. Now you know how contagious smiles are, right? So he just inadvertently smiled. We know what's going on. Why are you smiling? What's happening? Then she greeted him that afternoon with another smile. She went back a week later. She saw the therapist. She told him, that's it. We don't want divorce. Everything's fixed right now. We learn how to fix things. Sometimes it's just a greeting that will change everything at home. Probably my dear brothers and sisters, amongst the many other lessons that we can draw from hadith al-Qisab, one lesson is to always come together as one family, as one unit, spending time with one another and include your children in your discussions. You see how the Prophet gathers his family? You have three generations here, a grandfather, his daughter, the generation of his children and the generation of his grandchildren. Get together as one family. This strengthens your bonds, your ties. Even the small children include them in your discussions. See the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is gathered there for an important event. Imam Hassan al-Fasayn were young. Maybe Imam Hassan was a toddler. Maybe he was two, three years old when this happened. But the Prophet included him. He gave him significance and importance. Some children see that their parents are giving them respect and significance and importance. That leaves a great impact on them. Today these days we're spending less and less time with one another. Believe me, even during this COVID-19 crisis, maybe initially we started to spend some time with the family. But then I kept hearing from a lot of people. We developed our own schedule and habits and it's pretty much addiction to the screen. Social media websites, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, the new thing amongst the younger generation, right? Spending endless hours. We can barely get together as one family for 20 minutes these days. And I'm talking about quality time. Not everybody sitting on the couch doing their thing and we think we're in the living group together. No. We count as family time. Family time is quality time where everyone's focused on one another, showing care for one another, learning from one another. How much do we do that? The Prophet ﷺ teaches us to have family time, gather the family members and get close to each other. When they got under the cloak, they were very close to each other. Get close in one circle. Don't be spread out in your living room because proximity plays a role in how much you show affection and love and emotions to one another. It brings you closer, literally. So these are some beautiful lessons my dear brothers and sisters from Hadith al-Kisaa.


Hey, what's up everybody welcome back to another 3d hangouts My name is no ever weeks. I'm a designer here at a different join me every week is some brother Pedro Everybody it was creative tech here at your friend every week. We're here to share 3d print project featuring electronics from a inferred That's right. This is the show we combine 3d printing and do electronics to make inspirational projects Hello everybody hanging out in the discord chat room if you'd like to join us throughout the show live You can hit us up on a different discord server. The link to that is discord.gg Slash ater fruit. I'll take a couple moments to welcome everybody and get in We have a fun packed show. We have a new project We have two new prototypes We have a handful of kinemakes and of course a time-lapse Tuesday that we are excited to share Um, yep, yep, and yep, it is what episode are we on? We're on episode 430 and today is February 7th 20-20 or I guess or we're still on 18 for some reason. Oh Like 318 or something or 400. Mm-hmm. Yeah Yeah, 430 Maybe we'll do something special for episode 500 And of course for episode 1,000 we'll be streaming on Vision Pro You'll be able to see us and interact with us. We'll be able to have our hands and our Maybe our avatars will finally look real Yeah, I've been I've been watching so much vision pro stuff. That's all one thing Yeah, I'm really excited. I get it. I get it. I get it. Yeah, there's an app called the jig Jig space. Have you heard of this? No, it's imagine fusion 360 But like you can take apart your 3d components in real space and then like annotate And then the annotation is 3d so you have a really good idea of You know how to put something together so I think for industry where you're like assembling a legit project Here is how you put your thing on and here's how you you put it together So imagine a learn guide where you can like have different notes and different things ready You're you have your schematics here and your wiring diagram there right there is the main part right there because right now when I'm assembling stuff, I always have my phone with the With the fritz diagram always to the side and you know because I'm filming it I have to like move it over and like do it or even like with just painting Yeah, I'm looking at the reference. Okay. What color is this supposed to be? But if it was right there, yeah color match the paint. Yeah, I'm doing imagine like Having a wire length and being like, oh, here's the you know The template gets overlaid on your physical wire so you can get like the wire length, right or something Super cool.  So as not status like a For plants when I walk by I'll be able to okay. This one's been watered This one's been fertilized this one that you know two years old So it's about the bud this one over here the Sun. I'm testing out Sun spots That's one of my like status update Visual like what what is the status of this one?  What is the the phala phala energy of it? What is you know that?  Yes, you can see what pin does what so converting that over would be nice Like say you're in the middle of doing your breadboard and be like it would you know alarm yo? No, that's not the me so pin. It's the it's been 13, you know, whatever Yep Yeah, lots of cool stuff Won't be an early adopter it feels weird not being an early adopter for this one because I've been we've been early adopters for every Apple product And yeah, that's how it's like, you know what? I'm not gonna do this because I can't just Now we immediately started making phone apps. Yeah, yeah, it was funny It was the iPad it just made so much sense. I immediately started working on graphics for them you doing and Forget the name of it. Yeah, yeah Three three three five hundred is just a bit too steep for early adoption. It really is You're already doing Yeah, we're gonna do we can only do asset creation for it Which you don't really need the set for that, you know for doing the the modeling. I don't need a headset for that Yeah Do you remember? I think the the Google glass was the kind not no In the prism overlay was kind of neat But yeah, that's what went outside of Florida and it and the humidity work No, remember I returned what overheat. Yeah Yeah Yeah, you instantly found like what the use case is like I want to take video I'm like it just wasn't ready squid that jpeg brought up an excellent point for us that wear glasses It costs way more than 35. Yeah We need like Yeah, we can't even put it on without mm-hmm. Yeah But it's good to see that it's starting and it's gonna get better hopefully exciting times. Yeah Yeah Okay Let's go ahead and jump in. Oh, yeah, we forgot to welcome everybody. Hello squid that jpeg DJ Devon is hanging out We got Gary Z Vince is also hanging out do Wester Rosen. Hello and welcome Hope you enjoyed that little opener with like since everybody's talking about this thing. I'd rather buy three bamboo's Yeah, I think about three bamboo's. Yeah, three bamboo's three thousand. Yeah, that's the change Should have planned out a better Of discussion about it like segue at the end Yeah, well, I just it was fresh in the mind because I was like, huh imagine doing the show and in a in spatial Whatever they call it special world Pretty cool that one part word I think it was the Disney app where it takes you to like you're watching Star Wars it takes you to you know to Yeah, they're like in the land In I'm in the show All right, let's go ahead and do take a look at eight for comm slash free check out the freebies this week If your order is $99 or more, you're gonna get a free PCB coaster with a golden eight of your logo I like that if your order is a hundred forty nine dollars or more you'll get the free PCB coaster plus a free Adafruit KB 2040 that's a lovely RP 2040 dev board with all of the lovely IO Stem a QT port circuit Python Arduino and more if your order is a hundred and ninety nine dollars or more We get the KB 2040 plus the PCB coaster and free UPS ground shipping for continental US only If your order is two hundred ninety nine dollars you get the free shipping KB 2040 the PCB coaster and a circuit playground express All these get automatic automatically added to your cart. No need for coupons or extra codes Yeah Adafruit comm plus free for the details and We also have a special coupon code for the viewers of this show that are watching live It is I'm gonna click on it. I owe camera gets 10% off your total order Okay, I Think we're ready Last week we talked about the Adafruit IO DIY doorbell camera This is a collab project with Brent Rubel who does Adafruit IO and This was Brent's idea. It uses the Adafruit memento camera board We designed and three-printed this lovely Case that you can secure onto any surface any door It's got a nice LED arcade button and when you press the arcade button Gives you a little chime and it sends the image to Adafruit IO and you can set it up on your dashboard You could also set up email triggers actions so you can get an email notification of the picture So Let's Look at my dashable word. I think I closed it. So let me open it again. I owe Mouse I have it open. I was trying to okay Bring mine up already changed. Dang it. I wanted to see that things happen live Yep, and you can change the resolution in the code by default. It's 240 by 240 It's kind of small, but I switched it up to 800 by 600, but I think you can go up to 2,000 I think thousand pretty nice, so that's That's a quick demo of it. It's pretty quick. It's not too long set it up We'll take a look at the learn guide, but we've kind of showed this before but this is the case It's about one two three four five carts. You got a PCB mount that secures The momentum camera board itself and then that gets secured to this kind of sleeve like design And you have some kind of neat details like this nice Emboss to let you know that the camera is right there You got a nice cut out for the USB see when you need to recharge the battery every program And one of the things I like about this is it shows a good way to panel mount a very Tall or a rather long component like an arcade button You can kind of have it protrude out of your enclosure and then have like the sort of sleeve thing For the button it kind of makes sense to kind of have it protrude out So it kind of sanctuates it and it keeps the overall case slim Other cool features we've talked about before but I'll mention it again the on and off trigger is a 3d printed print-in-place Switch actuator so I put little label for I and O so you know what's on and what's off and You can just slide it to the left and slide it to the right to turn your whole board on or off And because the camera you got to have a tripod screw we stock these Screw thread adapters for tripod screws and that just fits in there nicely This piece here snap fits as well and it kind of snap fits like that so you can kind of see how it's working we're using Js 3-pin JST connectors to to connect the arcade button and then you can see the battery in there And yeah, that's kind of the the design I've got a nice flat backing here so that you can adhere some velcro loop and hook Or just some like 3m strip adhesive But yeah, that is pretty much the project You can change up the circuit python code to uh, You know make a different sound or um Trigger it a different way move with a pir sensor That's something that we uh, we're going to work on in the future, but for now An arcade button is a good way to kind of Make a doorbell because it's nice to press Let's take a look at um the i o you can see here. That's my my My phone, which is the overhead camera. So it's a taking a picture of itself kind of neat. Um Yeah, what else? Anything do you want to note pager that I may have missed out before we jump into the learn guide? I think that's it. You got it all down. Yeah, we just talked about it for the past two weeks Um, we just wanted to make sure that everything was uh thoroughly documented in the learn guide But overall a neat project All right, let's take a look at the learn guide then So, um The memento is currently out of stock. Thank you everybody for purchasing one But if you want to get notified When they're back in stock you can sign up through the product page You'll get an email when they are back in stock Everything else seems to be in stock The arcade button battery These little three-pin connectors cables and the tripod screw kind of additional things really but uh That's all you need. We've got some hardware here. You just need six screws um for this one The getting started with Adafruit IO just kind of gives you an idea if you haven't used it You want to sign you basically use your existing Adafruit account and just kind of enable it But this walks you through uh setting up your Adafruit IO account It's free to do so Creating the feed These steps are required to use the doorbell camera skipping it will result in your code raising errors That's good to know, but it's pretty straightforward great screenshots from brunt. He really made it thorough You're just going to create a new feed called camera And you want to make sure that your feed history is turned off That's the main gist of it Circuit diagram shows you how to Connect the button and the led because it is an led that's built into the arcade button those two get to Two separate connections for each and they get attached to the extension ports on the side Of the memento camera, which is great You just walk through that the CAD files are Available in various formats stls if you want a 3d print them as is if you want to make any modifications You can use a step file the fusion 360 file And just a couple notes here of the build volume. You could print this in resin on a small resin 3d printer It's only 80 by 30 by 66 millimeters Pretty pretty good size. That's the biggest part. I believe of the of the of the five parts And then of course if you want a 3d model of the memento We have that available on Adafruit's github repo for CAD parts Nothing special they print as is they're already oriented to print enough supports and you can pick whatever color Affilament I recommend PLA Um, I haven't really tested them at g but maybe the tomsas will work fine for you Yeah The assembly page walks you through setting up your two cables Soldering them to the pins on the back of the mini led arcade button I think it's kind of like that. Um, because the case is kind of slim um The quick connects if you want to use those don't really fit Um, yeah, but I guess you could modify the case if you'd like to use those I don't see taking it apart that much so And I was too scared to actually use those and then bend the pins, you know, so that they're flat Yeah, like they might break off so I think soldering Probably gonna make it a lot more Compact Yeah, maybe you can make the protrusion come out a little bit more. You know how it kind of comes out Maybe we can make it come out that much more Oh, I don't know. It's up to you. I I figured just leave it as is Um, the pcb mount it gets attached to the I guess the back of the memento where the screen and the buttons are and it's got the shape where it kind of um You know bends around the uh Or the display because like I think some somewhere in there like it it needed to do this kind of curve thing Otherwise you have these two additional standoffs. Um, they get attached to the the sleeve But you attach them with some m3 by six millimeter screws four of them if you'd like Or two And then we're going to work on uh panel mounting the button Um, you just want to install the the button sleeve first And then thread that through The button casing and then you want to make sure that the the hex nut goes on First before you kind of install the button because the clearances can give you a little tight But you can still get your fingers in there to kind of um, you know fasten that uh plastic nut To panel mount the button So that's that assembly at this point. We want to put the battery in the memento has a dedicated spot Very welcoming. Um to see a dedicated battery spot for this uh for this pcb. It's very nice Uh, I like to test out the button first because like I kind of forgot what the led You know wire is and what the button wire is so you can turn on the memento board once the code is already on there And it should light up instantly so you can kind of just kind of hot swap the the connectors and find out Which one is what but if you know what is what a1 is the led and a0 is the button switch Um, and then uh, I disconnected it and then uh, you kind of do this Want to follow the order operations here because I found it difficult to Slide the memento board once the cam once the jst connectors are already plugged in So what you want to do is thread the jst wires first through the sleeve and then connect it to the board And then slide the memento into the casing Yeah, I just found it easier that way And then you want to make sure that you uh get the the protruding standoffs uh through the casing So you just want to make sure that that gets uh that slides into place And then your usb-c port should show up right Uh in that spot for the for the usb-c connector, so it should show up there We'll connect up these two pieces the uh the button case and the camera sleeve They just click together make sure they're oriented right because you can install it backwards And then from there we can install those two screws to secure the the camera casing to the pcb mount with these additional m3 by six millimeter screws And then this is an optional step if you want to install uh the tripod screw It's a three eighths by quarter 20 insert And we like using these because they're never going to wear out and then once you know this is in it should kind of stay in That's just snap fits on the bottom. It's symmetric. It doesn't matter what order it is What orientation it is And then uh for installing the top cover You just want to make sure that the little hole is lined up with uh this the uh the nubbin for the switch and that just kind of fits into place Snaps it nicely And that's yeah, that is the whole assembly All right next up, um when you're doing an uh a wi-fi project an iot project You want to create a settings dot tomo file, which excuse me, which is something that circuit python uses it separates your um Your credentials your wi-fi credentials from your code so that they're separate. It's a little bit more secure that way Um, so you just want to follow through these adding your wi-fi ssid your password your adafruit io and your adafruit io Uh key i meant to say adafruit io username But that's all here listed you can download the file and modify it And all this is uh good to go Here's all the code shout out to brant for putting it together It's all nicely commented You can add additional features here easily um I think right here where is it? to do I'm trying to remember where I added The camera resolution because if you don't by default it'll be 240 by 240 which is small I think I added it Oh boy, where did I added it? I think somewhere around here Yeah, but anywho Uh brant breaks it down so you can figure out how uh how it's all working initializing adafruit io Initialize the camera setting up the push button and then just kind of like walking through the main loop Oh, it's right here. I think we're right under pie dot autofocus. I put pie cam dot resolution Equals and then you have like one through eight And then if you want the documentation you can look at the read the docs for the pie camera um library So there's documentation there you can reference for for uh Picking the the resolution. I think I use like three or something for 800 by 600 And yeah, that worked just fine. I was able to see in the repel you get some nice messages in the repel what it's doing so you know um When the image is taken when it's sent and what resolution it was that was sent All that said You can uh optionally do the email notifications with the actions inside adafruit io It's a reactive type of action And then so if the camera feed receives any data You will want to email me and then you have the choice to modify the subject of the email and the body of the email and then you can use value in uh These curly braces to display the actual image in your email Which is cool And uh, just make sure it's active Nice usage page just tells you how it works here's brant And then a screenshot of his emails Very sensitive information and that's really the whole guide good proof of concept um I think it's a fun use of uh the mental camera I think maybe for like internal office use it makes a lot of sense because then you don't have to worry about um, you know weather outside Mm-hmm. That's some obvious things that folks hopefully Uh, we'll think about Mm-hmm and then expanding upon that like having uh separate The button be broken out to where you just step on something and triggers like an animal camera or something like that Yeah, an animal camera. That's that's one of the next projects we want to do. Mm-hmm is an animal bird feeder Or squirrel feeder Some kind of animal There is Hi me looking at me. So yeah, that's 800 by 600. Let's see how fast it goes Remember to keep it steady Hey, that was pretty good Pretty quick Yeah, yeah yours is 240 by 240 big difference. Oh, you can totally see Yeah, you can totally see the pixels. Well, like I said, it's really easy just one line of code Tell it what resolution you want Um, yeah So, all right, let's check in See if there's anybody with any questions or comments about the doorbell Pages listing some fun products and some uh snap fit tutorials On the socials seems like everybody's quiet. All right We got one question from Steve Barry. How much the camera is let's take a look at the camera parodic page I think it's $30 $35 For the camera. It's got the esp 32 s 3 You got sd card. You got all the expansion ports um Battery charging is built in You got all these fun buttons. You got a display, of course speaker or small buzzer Got a microphone And I believe it has an accelerometer as well. Yes, it does the accelerometer there. So you can do some fun um projects with a triple axis accelerometer detect orientation shaking or movement Definitely check it out It is a super packed Ready to go product I'm really liking all of the um circuit python additions to it you can do um Time-lapse mode, which I haven't tested out but jp has showed it off some really smart stuff going on there where it takes What does it do it it make sure that exposure The exposure is locked so that you get a nice seamless time-lapse I can't wait to test that the the focusing you can now manual focus so being able to do um rack focusing and um Focus stacking That's coming back different focuses images merge them together I think we're gonna have to do a video where all it does is show off all these new additions the Using the camera and yeah, I think uh that might have to hold us up for all we're waiting on some other code for other projects Because that hard work. Yep. So we have some hardware we're waiting on. Oh, it's yeah. Yeah Cool, so and jump into what we're prototyping Yeah, do you want to go first or yeah, I was gonna say it's like the battery on the clock died So I'll go up with this one. Oh, yeah, okay All right for the clock. All right, so what we're prototyping still more Momento projects this one's gonna be like a little Shoulder bot that is attached to a servo. So it'll go back and forth The little led ring will tell you when it spots a face. So Brent's working on some face detection code So as it pans No tilting just the panning I'm gonna have it attached Usually how I do the shoulder bots is just what the magnet so it'll attach to your shoulder As it's panning back and forth It'll spot a face and then with the ring it'll like turn yellow red or green based on the accuracy of finding a face And then let's take a picture So that should be super cool Trying to go after like one of those What was that instagram account you sent me where it looks like a bunch of industrial old beat-up bots And this one kind of looks like a I don't know like a Those old radios Using yeah Yeah, just using like that delitory copper filament for that and the memeto just slides in here So of course gonna be a little difficult to get out. So I'll just open up this top part Yeah, I'll show you the inside of it Just slides in it has the little imprint there for the New pixel ring to go inside of course the updated model is will be finished after the show was done So it's printing right now I've got a couple of vents in there just to give it some characteristics And then even on the side here if you Don't want to put it on your shoulder and just want to use it as a body cam Have the lanyard on there and we'll put a little Attachments on the side you can attach additional Sensors on the side you have access to your sd port and of course a usbc on that side And yeah, that should be a nice cool Way to do face detection on a servo. I just have that painting around on your shoulder Yeah, I think it's a little cool idea I think was brentor lemar who had this idea Have a to utilize the face detection That chip is capable of This should be super cool Yeah, it's a I think it's novel to turn this into a Little companion robot So the legs will have little tripod little three tripod feet Yeah, a little rotate around so you can put it down and it'll already have its little tripod To do your additional stuff like if you wanted to activate the time lapse mode or you can do the onion skinning Either to stop motion you'll have access to your screen on the back I wonder if you can Have some little animations like the one bd one droid has where it's just like a bunch of little Colorful matrix animated Loops on the back there Yeah, you know it has a built-in buzzer and speaker, but we might add an additional speaker Yeah, you kind of pump up the sound effects. Maybe that's something when it sees a face It was the nice and bobs I'm not sure if it's arduino circuit python yet probably arduino because it's an expressive Yeah feature the face detection stuff is built into the idf So, uh, yeah, it'll be cool But so for yeah looking looking really cool. I like the uh the sleeve kind of approach works really well for the camera board Yeah As i'm trying to do all that It's just so much wasted space, you know just because of the shape of the uh board itself Right, but I like the rounded background or the the back of it's kind of round or rather is it round? No, that's the illusion that it that it's beveled kind of like how this thing's got this bevel going on because you can Oh, whoops, I pressed the button Um, but yeah, you can you can probably do some more fun details Uh to it, but for now I didn't grab the um the camera like the old vintage cameras that brandy has all over Uh downstairs one of them has uh this type of shape and it has all these cool little details I'm gonna Copy over onto this. Yeah Yeah, uh all prints no supports prints vertical so all of the Geometry on the inside it's all filleted or drafted or has chamfers so that it all prints without any supports um Like that straight up even the snap fits are all nicely angled So it goes on nice and easy so Yeah, I think the only difficult part it's going to be the way that the wiring works for the led I'm gonna have to do the threading Yeah, that's why the holder on or it'll plug in so it won't be too bad there And unless I can you know gotta figure out a way to Sort of incorporate that probably not them I'd have to thread it then solder Yeah, I'm going with this one. Uh, it's because we don't have access to the led board yet I think that would make it a lot more bigger if we attach to the um, yeah, I would make it bigger for sure Thumbs up And yeah, but yeah, the light would be real cool Yeah, haven't utilized that yet Fun to play with And that's the 12 Yeah, the 12 and the nose come in uh cool and warm white. I believe so you can have like an actual light for doing lighting Yeah, I'll have to switch over to that one And that is or prototyping so far. Hopefully in I don't know two weeks or something like that The mentobot. Yeah still flushing out the kind of features too so All right We're going to camera pal In the works grab a battery For your prototype go ahead and bring that out. Oh, yeah, you have a battery All right, I think we showed it off last week this week we have more details on this circuit python RTC it's a real-time clock. This is a 1.2 inch Uh led seven segment display So it's very big. Uh, we have a very cool, uh, retro inspired case that has this displayed at an angle. Um We have a rotary encoder That you can twist the knob to change the time by pressing it in and holding it down You can adjust the hour Press and hold it down and then you'll you'll save it I didn't demo changing the the minute, but you can change the minute, of course Um, yeah, and it kind of snap fits together. We have a couple of screws here. I added these feet that uh kind of Kind of fun angles And one thing I'll do over the on the overhead If I can get The camera to show up again. There it is. Oh there we're looking at different. Um Last time we we didn't have a uh, what would we call it a diffuser? I suppose For it. Um, it turns out you can use these gels Here here it is without it just looks so You know what I mean? Like it's very hard to distinguish the hour And uh, Pedro you have Uh, some two-way mirror film. I have this gel just from a dj devin Crap or you had some of the a roll of this around The reason i'm showing it on the side here because it looks way better on the side than it does straight on Yeah, it's cool. If you want to I just laid it right on top. So if you look at it straight on you can see that it's Looks like a fun house mirror. Yeah, but it definitely does a really good job of hiding the all those extra Little parts parts from the display the segments from the display And of course the shutter speed on this camera is going to make it look like it's flickering right Of course, I don't look like that in real life. Looks really good Yeah, yeah, and this is a Photography gel or lighting gel. I think I've got it on amazon. They come in different shades of colors, but It's kind of like adding like sunglasses To it. So it kind of just knocks out It looks so much better in real life like here in the camera. You can really see like the individual I know I was already scared like, oh no, how am I going to shoot this straight on? It's gonna get at a side Yeah, and you can cut this stuff with scissors or an exacto it beats having to cut acrylic. I think Yeah, yeah, this this front plate just kind of snaps on and hides the edges there Um, I have here just a usbc thing But you got your usbc port for your uh, your feather rp 2040 and everything's connected with uh, stem a qt Cables so everything is really just plug and play There we go And the rtc at work Yeah, I'm plug it plug it back in and it still knows what time it is. Yeah Yeah, so it's a good it's a good demo for uh using an rtc So this one's been on my desk for a couple days now and my god, it is so Yeah useful To look down nice and big You can because even though you know the computer has a clock on it might have a watch the phone They're always obstructed by some notification. I give no craps about It's like I want to know what time it is when we look at my watch. Oh, it's showing me a calendar It's trying to create a calendar event without me Touching my watch Every time I look at it. It's trying to create a calendar event Do you ever see that movie spy kids? Where uh, which part? Uh, they're they have like this fancy watch and they're like all of the things and he's like Does it tell time? He's like no, there wasn't any room for it That's what I think about with like the apple watch is like every time I think that's telling you time When I was want to play the music. Oh, it somehow crashed Oh Cool, uh squid likes the diffuser. It looks great night and day. Yeah, it really is Um, they come in different colors too. Um, the led seven segment display comes in red and yellow um Maybe we'll stock more but it's nice that they come with uh They come with the um The led Oh, no, what's the pid for it for which one for the segment display? Yeah, this guy you can get this with the uh the led Uh this one here So this comes with the led uh display and the breakout you want to get this new breaker because it has the stem of qt And uh, yeah, it comes in yellow, but here's a good example of like No, no thing and then with the thing That's more for maybe not. Yeah, that's just showing all of them It's more of an orange Yeah, a little bit That has a little bit of an orange pigment to it not super yellow Or maybe it's like the the brightness that's affecting the color, but I like it. It's really nice Yours is yellow is what you're saying Yeah, okay, mine's red. No, it's it's yellow Okay, what doesn't look yellow Yeah, mine's red I guess you could have a different color gel that makes it look a different color Kind of Danny's saying yep nightstand. It is missing the clock element and You know, we just wanted a simple clock What clock element are you missing? Alarm. Oh alarm. Yeah. Yeah, we decided not to do an alarm just simple um For what I've seen it, you know, just being on our desk. I don't need an alarm for that Yeah, I I just want to look over and see what time it is and that's it's so handy for that because again next year we'll add a Maybe next year we'll refine it and add a rp2040 prop maker that way we have a built-in amplifier customized or mp3s or wave files So maybe we'll add a a neokey So it's still stamina qt and they can be the mx compatible buttons switches So that you can change up and stuff like that and of course, it'll be iot um, yeah Here's why we didn't want iot is because we didn't want to work with no wi-fi. It's just a clock Let's make it a really good clock. It does one thing and it does it well And then there's like zero bugs in in this because once you set the time it's good You can change the time with the rotary encoder Yeah We wanted a good project with this one specifically this this this uh updated Uh breakout because the stamina qt and it's it's big. So like what can we do with it? You make a clock. We don't have an alpha one. That's that big yet, right? Uh, no, no, we don't maybe that'll be a little little baby ones like this one You can see this one's the alpha numeric and it's like a baby one um Yeah, oh venza saying that some of the um rtc's have a dedicated alarm function. So Oh, really? I did not know that We are for the for the real-time clock reason the ds 32 31 And that's the updated one with stem qt You know, it's got a cr 1220 coin cell that keeps it powered It's track of time got a great circuit python library for it It's extremely accurate Very nice how accurate extremely And you know works with arduinos and all the other stuff The only other project we used it in uh liz used it in her prop maker Clock where you press the button and adabot tells you what time it is Speaks it to you Which is pretty cool Other than that, we haven't really used this rtc in any other project. It's fairly new Very nice. Yeah, but it's important. I think for us to Make projects for these like more modern revised products like the ds Yeah excellent Donna the days we have to wire up You know i squared c devices like this breakout Which is the original ds 32 31 Very nice Well, yeah, we used it in this mindfulness clock Oh, yeah, you know, oh man. This one could really use that diffuser. I can barely tell what the heck This is 888888 Yeah, this is a really not really old but Old enough Yeah, we didn't have stem acuity yet Or circuit python Oh my god What's that the software is in two parts?  Yep Where's the regular checkups right down there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all my feelings refilled Yeah, high blood pressure this uh nexus this side Yeah, maybe the dentist all year All right, cool. Yep. I'm just looking up on the this More comment. I want to bring up Oh, yeah sneaky maker cat Request for the instead of doing an automatic pick you should ask if it could take your picture Let me get that in I'll ask the brunt Uh to the robot. Yeah, I think the main part of this is you know being out in public where You know you're out in public getting videos recorded everywhere all the time Yeah, so I don't feel bad like taking videos in my glasses. I'm like I'm out in public like Yeah street photography isn't illegal I guess All right Well, that's what we're prototyping Um things are subject to change of course So robots and cars yep bmo could come in or what was the other one the bird house? Yeah, um a wild like bird feeder, you know wildlife animal feeder Um, I got some construction happening upstairs. So if you hear something Okay, good because I hear the ac here to turn on All right. Well if you want to pick up any of the parts that you have seen you can use the 10% of discount code I oh camera All right, go ahead and jump into this week's This week's community makes is Another valentine's inspired print this time Rose on top of this bubble sore which makes it an evisor. Is that correct? IV sore IV poison IV Yeah, I'd ask Gavin. Is this correct? Yeah, I thought it was Bulbasaur for first, but I thought it was Bulbasaur too and he's like, oh, that's evisor He's got the flower and it's flowering. What is it when it's fully open and it has the antennas coming out? This is such an adorable design Yeah, it looks great fantastic paint job on that. Uh, yeah, it's set up for multi material but I only have a dual dual extruder one There you go. I did not glue this on yet. I should have Maybe that's what we're treating it as but it has a nice little cut out so you can align this properly It only goes in one way All right Using that metallic paint on the leaves you can see a little bit of errors I fear but I didn't want to paint the bottom just because it was kind of hard to hold Oh, yeah, right out of time And I'm like, well, a lot of plants actually have you know, a red backing. So that's what I'm going with And oh the mistakes here you can actually go in there with like an exacto and sort of Remove that so if you're ever painting and you have little mistakes like that just leave it on there Don't smear it wait for it to dry and it should come off It's an example right here. You can sort of just scratch it off once it's dry But of course ran out of time. So I just left that on there and because of the angle that I was shooting that at You didn't see it. So Yeah, were there any supports in this? Yes, there are supports all on the bottom here like where's the lift is I was trying to do the tree supports, but Regular supports came in faster. Yeah, I came in For the time lapse, yeah Like for the bottom here it was like way too much I think it was like a almost two hours That we would add if I'm using tree supports with regular supports. It was only like half an hour. I think more So I went with that And what's going to say about it? Oh, yeah I guess it's supposed to be pink the flower, but only had a bunch of red filament And then the teal I forget who I'm using this looks like it was split in half or maybe there's an extrusion. You see that I think it's yeah I think it's a good thing Oh, I was gonna say maybe they split in half to avoid support material No, that one's a multi material once I'm guessing that's where the tool change happened right there Or actually no, it's like right in the middle of where that other The green little patch is so It's just over extrusion. I mean it happens kind of see Wow Toolpaths That's the uh, it's this final form. I think so Wow Go from cute to like I don't want to touch that Let's book him out for you So it's posted up by intro is dimensions figurine You got some uh six color four color version Mm-hmm Um They printed on the bamboo x1c which seems to be like the the popular printer from all material stuff Well, I can foresee us getting one in the future. Maybe this year we'll get one The x1c or maybe they'll come up with a new one. We'll get that one I was gonna say it probably whenever new ones launch, you know how they gotta Get rid of the old ones half off That'd be great. Give me one Uh-huh Yeah, so we're seeing a lot of uh designers Really multi-material stuff because it seems that more and more people have access to them. So that's good to see Yeah, I know I always felt bad when we were doing all those multi-material projects. Yeah, no, yeah That's fine I remember when we didn't have a crealty and like the crealty Printers were just like everybody would have an accrual team. We were like felt like we were the last ones to get one So funny feel that way with the bamboos with the vision pro Oh, I'm sure we'll have one in the office for like doing the app dev stuff Yeah Yeah There you go. Um Valentine's is it next week, right? The 14th is Opening calendar next Wednesday. So we'll be on the show. It'll be a red episode Yeah, I don't we don't really have any valentine's day projects Like dedicated this is the closest year. That's the close. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah the bath bomb molds. Yeah, we did a couple heart.  All right Let's move on to community makes these are some makes that were sent to us via email and whatnot Uh, first up, we have one from henry henry posted up their make of the snow bird It is snow season up north in various places Uh, so this is that bird mold that we released a couple weeks ago It's our iot canary project that has turned into a snow mold or a sand mold prints in place hinges kind of cool After that we have a kind of a update part. Um, or I guess an additional add-on for the heat set insert project this how this kind of holds uh, some of these different inserts the sizes of the um Of the the nuts I guess so it holds the different types of them From m2 all the way to m8. So it's kind of an additional thing that gets added to the project to hold them in place Okay, after that we have another one again from the same person. Um, lnr. They posted up their make of Uh said project looks really nice. I like the base I think it's uh I'm not sure what it is But looks great. They said what an amazing tool works like a charm and it's a lot of fun to assemble 10 out of 10 would recommend That's very nice to hear. I'm glad some there's so many different uh remixes that folks make with it Um, so it's good to see someone just make it as is It's cool like when uh, we want to move over to like a different setup for it Someone's probably already made the whatever setup we have in mind. Yeah, right? Yeah Yep, yep After that, we got the first or maybe second make again from henry um of the uh, the neopixel id fidget game, which was a couple weeks ago nice fun uh neopixel project with that a and o Rotary encoder scroll wheel. So here's a picture of it with that nice blue I think it's blue transparent material. So henry says it works a good job very fun project Someone made nefertiti david, uh, posted up their make of the nefertiti uh planter Got some looks great. Yeah, it looks great. Oh, what was it the plant? phatonia phatonia Yes, fantastic. Pedro knows his plants um very cool 3d scan this this happened what in 2016 or something the nefertiti um 3d model that was released We had these nepenthes kind of first plants On there. We took the model at the time It was such a high Polygon model that if you threw it in your slice, it would crash So we were able to take it and then do a what is it called when you? You reduce the mesh reduce the mesh Even still it's like 39 megabytes Um, but it was like 100 megabytes or something crazy. And anyway, we hollowed it out so we can turn it into a planter But it came out fantastic in this uh, I think it's like a wood No, that was hemp fill. Oh the hemp pla. Yeah What happened to that anybody? I don't know. There used to be like a beer filament a hemp filament Of course wood filled is probably still still good but Yeah, a lot of folks have made it and uh, this is that kind of marble pla that has a kind of speckle in it It's really good, right you can barely see the layer lines.  Yeah for principles. Yeah. Yeah principles. Yeah But yeah Super cool 3d scan After that, we have a make. Oh, we have a remix of the uh, the mario Lou planter that page was designed um, we have been Eight posted up, uh a multicolor remix So you can see they took it and uh It says here that uh Yeah, they created a fan file in bamboo studio Which I guess is an app that lets you do this sort of thing. Let's you colorize Which is cool that really reduces like the having to open infusion and cut out things. Oh my god. Yeah Yeah, I think you can do something like that in prusa slicer as well Um, but you know, they didn't use that they use bamboo studio So here's the 3mf that we could take So that's really nice to do that'll be helpful. I'm excited for you know, yeah Yeah, we'll be able to do a thing right away And then paint where we want the the colors to be because boy, is it hard to it's it's that extra step of infusion 360 for example Uh to make it a dual extruded thing It took me a while with the lightsaber, you know, that was a nice Adabot again the little lego adabot. He's a dual extrude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah add more colors Up to six colors So the future is looking good for plenty of color. It's already here. We're just late again. No, we're Just waiting our time for you know Yeah newer cheaper models. Yep After that. Oh, we have a overwatch Uh lucio blaster. This is a a project from john park john park put this together a couple years ago and uh D palm on thingiverse posted up there make imagine this as a Multimaterial thing. It looks like it's painted But you can imagine that this could definitely be turned into a multi-material print printed on a creality CR 10 mini. Oh, I didn't know that's the mini cr 10 mini Printed off the lucio blaster for a mashup at mega con 24 in orlando Oh Front speaker con was pulled from the six inch speaker and the side cones were made from one millimeter eva foam and craft from spheres No electronics were used in the build electronics holes were filled with rivets. That's cool too. That's really nice to see too I need to follow the orlando convention center. Dang it So everybody posting about us like I had no clue. We could have just waltz down there Right. Yeah a lot of folks. There's the original one that jp put together It's got tons and tons of features and sound effects and you had some updates. Yeah, I did a circuit I remember reprinting all of the parts for him So, um Maybe down the line that will be an update Yeah That's cool. It'll be amazing All right, and that is the last of the list here. Oh, yeah, we have two more. Sorry On discord on the show and tell Chat room We have a fun terraco make posted up by insanity automation It's nice With sound effects Very very cute So they said they made it for the kids modified it with the df player and tilt switch And they said they needed to use the np enters to trigger the dio play pin Uh video with the audio on a timer section to To use debounce tilt switch instead Very cool Yay That's very nice I one thing I want to note about this. They were asking for the step files So we had to do some their fusion had some what was the The oh, they had an update to that we wanted to use Yeah, their data is like they wanted folks to use this called my hubs So we had to like move over all of our designs 400 designs over So Most all these designs are like set to private Like there's no way to Oh, that's what okay. Yeah. Yeah, so we're one by one like making sure that uh All of our things are probably you guys see one uh add us on Somewhere on discord or wherever or email support we get the direct email So we'll uh, we share the update the share. Yeah, we'll generate the shared link and it'll be 400 designs Yeah, it's just too hard for us to go through each and every one. So we're just doing it as it comes Yeah, all right, please let us know when yeah All right. Well, thank you insanity animation for posting that up We got another one from square dot jpeg. They got their uh, their build of the uh, the fidget neopixel project Here's a demo of it in action Very cool. Look at very smooth and that nice white Oh cool Uh, it looks like the jpeg updated the code so that the whole ring lights up when you use the directional buttons That's a nice. That's a nice addition Yeah, wow Yeah, I kind of like that. Yeah more than the original Yeah, that's great. It only it automatically goes into deep sleep when you stop interacting with it for 30 seconds Now that's cool. You use the deep sleep and it wakes up whenever any of the five buttons are pressed excellent Um, it's a white You wanted this to double as a Wi-Fi remote. So use the feather usp32 s2 And the prompt make a feather wing. Oh wow it all fit in there. Okay Oh jpeg That jpeg is saying that they have made even further improvements. I'm trying to find the video In the live broadcast chat Let me show it okay Yes, second that by ty The uh community improvements is I would give everything away for free Yeah, yeah, they're meant as a starting off point so that folks can add all their things So if you want to add an alarm clock to the to the clock, you will definitely Sweet and that is All the community makes this week. Thank you everybody for sharing sharing them with us Um before we close the show out again 10 off your order with coupon code I oh camera Oh That's so cool.  Please. Oh my gosh the kids want it Yeah, i'm asking for gavin It is simon inspired cool. Do you make the gaming game with it? Yeah. Yeah, it's it's ripe for a simon says game and um Yeah, maybe next year. We'll we'll revise it. We'll have a speaker and then it'll be a game and you'll have like You know audible chimes and stuff Maybe with the oh, you can do really cool chimes I was gonna say with the esp at t bitsy. That'll keep score. Maybe that'll be oh, and I'll upload it to a dashboard Yes Sweet. All right. It's good a little work on it and get the code up All right Definitely blog about this and freaking cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'll send it to an She'll make sure it gets exposed. Yeah, maybe you can do a playground pose too. Have fun. I'll be sure All right rainbows aside tonight Back to back shows starting off with Adafruit's show and tell Starts at 7 30 p.m. Eastern time And then at 8 p.m. Eastern time we have ask an engineer with mr. Mrs. Lady Ada We'll talk about open source hardware use Ion mpi and new products more Tomorrow is jpe's workshop Coming in and watch a few clips and stuff on friday it's uh It's either going to be a deep dive with tim for me guy or scott You update that hi Yeah, and that's uh, going to be the show this week And then on sunday is uh, that's Lady Ada Mondays is a circuit python weekly meeting Community meeting Tuesdays are jpe's product pick of the week and we wrap around Back to wednesday mornings with us. We'll be back next week Everything goes well Eight a box on yes, uh, it's hard to say jpe's working on it. Yes Yeah, yeah, we got a round together Ideas and stuff still but yeah at some point there will be an unboxing Yep, he's working on it right now Or is just still rolling out and you'll get an update tonight from mr. Mrs. Lady On the logistics and any kind of notes If this has been an 80 food production We'll be here next week if anything goes well. 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Today we are going to share a very special story about one of our patients who contacted us from Bangladesh. Initial contact was through phone as one of the patient's relatives was operated by me some 7-8 years ago. I was seen once she landed in India. I saw her in the OPD the next day. On examination she was found to have a grade 4 osteoarthritis of the knee joint secondary to the knee joint. Secondary to the inflammatory pathology she was all the medical opinions were taken pre anaesthetic checkups were done and she was planned for a unilateral total knee replacement using gold knee. I was seen once she landed in India. She was a donor. I was treated with a successful operation. I was treated with a successful operation. She was treated with a lot of service. She is a brother, sister, donor. She was treated with a lot of services. anguard of the international business who do the company insurance. exhales heart啊, the team that spray the business is example of the sister who comes to connect with sisterprincess. itatdrona was ready for chant of her family support.  Interviewer, interpreter, Vorora She endurwent this procedure on 27th who was unable to be uphill in the practical Misstorage system in procedure. a goali knee, high flexed total knee replacement was done. Interoperative and based on postoperative period was quite uneven full. she was allowed to walk, and full range of motion was achieved after three or four days of physiotherapy. Piju Strabheer, Ajit Saswit, onar titmen onek bhalo, ona de jodhner kana sesh nahi, onara kup bhalo karo bhanush ke praya karin, jodhna karin, rukhde shabha karin. Post surgery, once the patient is awake, we start a rehabilitation right away, starting with cryotherapy and starting with basic ankle movements just to prevent any other complication right after the surgery. So post, once the patient is more comfortable and more awake, we start mobilizing the patient. That is, may we make the patient walk right on the day zero of the surgery, just couple of hours after the surgery. And it was very nice to see our patient Roshanara post take care that she was very cooperative and she was pain free and we could push her to do most of the activities within third day of the surgery. And patient B has underwent aggressive physiotherapy since the patient was pain free and she was very cooperative. We could make her walk independently in the third day of surgery, also make her climb stairs and use the washroom without any pain or any difficulties. Here I would like to highlight the role of our physiotherapist Mr. Immanuel and Mr. Razi, who took great care of her and who took it upon themselves to achieve all the objectives we set out at the start, at the onset. When we planned this surgery, at present the patient is able to walk full length, in fact she walks from her hotel to the hospital which is good 5 to 600 meters. Manipalashthapatal Chhachapur, her doctor, nurse, brother, sister, many patients, they treat me here. They treat me here, they treat me here. They treat me here, they treat me here. They treat me here. It feels very good. I have been to Bangladesh for a long time. Here I have been to Bangladesh for a long time. I feel very good. I pray for them a lot. May Allah bless them. May Allah peace them out. May Allah bless them. What I would like to say, there are many more like Roshanara Begum who are waiting and who are afraid of this surgery. So kindly use this experience, use this story to inspire yourself because this surgery can change your life over a period of time.


When AIG collapsed, it was like being at ground zero of the global financial crisis, so you'd had this macroeconomics colliding with micro policy from regulators colliding with I guess some competence and short termism at the parent company. And so you woke up in the morning and you have a situation where you didn't know whether the company was going to survive to the end of the day. You didn't know whether the US government was going to bail it out, and it did to the tune of 180 billion US dollars. And here we are, the major overseas subsidiary, AIA, and you're waking up in the morning and there's queues outside every branch going round 10 blocks, city blocks, you're on the front page of every newspaper in the region, and at that stage you realize you have an issue. Well, AIA is this huge Pan-Asian based insurance giant, it had around about 25 million customers. It was also incredibly linked into all the economies. At that stage I think we are owned about 43% of the long end of the Thai bond market. So if AIA had gone down, the repercussions were enormous. We had 300,000 staff and agents. We had many, many billions of dollars of debt with the governments. You had about, I think I'm not saying 24, 25 million customers. If the company had collapsed, all of that went down. So it focuses your mind about what to do. It focuses and you say to yourself, you're not there for yourself, you're not there for the company, you're there for all those people and those millions of customers and the impact on economies, and you say, our job is to fix it. So the stakes we were playing with, it was not a poker game. The stakes that you were playing with was people's lives and families and economies, and that's what we were trying to focus on fixing. When you come into a crisis situation like that, there's no academic book that's ever been written. So there's no book we could turn to and say, well here's the beginner's guide to fixing this global economic crisis and saving the company when your parent just went bankrupt. It's like all of a sudden we'd become a business orphan and we had to look at ourselves. So basically we got my best people together, we took them off their entire jobs and said to them, this is what you need to do. We basically drew up a list of key work streams and then we just got better at defining it day by day. We met three times a day with the crisis team. It was really a war room and my team didn't go home for weeks. In that case, I literally didn't go home for 14 days. I didn't have a day off for eight and a half months and neither did the team and we had this extraordinary bunch of people that worked together to get the outcome. Now history I think is a fairly good judge. What happened? It ended up being at that stage the biggest IPO in global corporate history and that IPO was the single biggest event that saved AIG. It was a remarkable event in that company's history and now it's running as this huge and highly successful independent organization. So what we did, we set up a number of work streams. There was about 12 and they covered all sorts of things. One of them was just a financial and capital position. If we couldn't secure that, then the company could have been a problem. The second biggest one was actually the regulators. How did we get the regulators and the governments around Asia on our side so that they would help us and protect us and support us? We needed rule changes. We needed them to ring fence the companies from outside influences. So that was really important. Communication was a big one. Communication with our policy holders, with our staff, with the media and getting the comms right and that sort of crisis. If you get the comms right, it can take all wrong. It can take all your time. So that was a pretty big problem. The people, what do you do with your people?  What do you do with the people? Remember, there's no books written on it and anything can blow you off course. There's a British politician, Prime Minister Harold McMillan. I think he's back in the 50s. And when someone asked him what could blow him off course, he said, events, dear boy, events. And this is the same thing. Events were happening so fast it could blow you off course. And so any plan that you'd done before the crisis, you could just throw it out the window. I mean, there's that other great intellectual and great global statesman by the name of Mike Tyson. He said once that... He said, everyone has a plan to beat me until I punch them in the mouth.  And the question is, how do you deal with it when there's no plans? Now, there's a few key rule of thumbs here, of course, that I was always consider. When you're in a real crisis situation, consensus and crisis are two words that just don't go together. And it doesn't matter what leadership style you have or what approach you have, you have to be absolutely decisive when everyone around you would otherwise panic. And in crisis, people want that clarity. So they want leaders or a leader that is absolutely certain and confident in their direction. Even if you get it wrong in a crisis, being certain and providing clarity and stability is actually more important. Because if you get it wrong, you'll find out soon enough. Second, it's about separation. Separate the run-the-business stuff away from the crisis and have your best people focused 100% on the crisis and break them up and take them out of their day jobs. Thirdly, put things in boxes. Give yourself deadlines that you must meet at that time. Fourthly, and always be prepared before the crisis. You'll never be able to predict what crisis is going to happen, but build the relationships before. Build the relationships with the government and the regulators and your key people long before. Because if you already have the relationship, then they will help you when you really need it. For example, regulators in Malaysia, a woman I have great respect for, one called Governor Zeti, who was the head of the bank Nagara, I've built a relationship with her over years and she's a woman with a formidable intellect and really a great leader in Malaysia's history. I wrangle up the day after the crisis started and I said, I needed some money out of that business. And she was always very formal and she said, Mr. Wilson, I'm going to do this for one reason. And I said, what reasons that Governor Zeti? She said, only because I trust you. When you're in a crisis situation, and it doesn't matter whether this is a business or a sports body or a governance scenario, the only rules that you judge it by, the value set you've got. And we used to talk regularly in our business and with our people in this crisis and would say, how will history judge us? What were the decisions the shareholders, the staff, the regulators, what will they say in one year or two years and five years about how we handled this? At one stage, we were three weeks away from IPO. Remember, this is this massive IPO of this Pan-Asian giant. We're three weeks away from that. And the AIG board decided they were going to sell it to Prudential, which is another large UK organization. And the Chinese said it was like the snake trying to swallow the elephant. And it was a deal that financing just could not work. There's no way it would have worked. And I think they would have just collapsed under the debt load. So what do you do in that sort of situation? Do you take the personal financial benefits that would have come with that transaction? Or do you make the decision you think is going to last long-term? And my management team and I chose that second option. And we would have all been paying an extraordinary amount of money to complete that deal. But it was the wrong deal and it was the wrong outcome. And it's those sort of decisions and those key moments that you build teams or break teams and get your judge dithers being successful in a turnaround or not. Because at the end of the day, it comes back to your value sense. It's the same with Aviva. Aviva's a 320-year-old organization.  But when you have a look through and as you do a turnaround there and as I do a turnaround there with my team, it all comes back to the value sense. I'm not talking about basic values, like honesty and integrity. You've got to have those anyway. It comes down to how you want to run the business. Do you want to run it short-term or long-term? And one of the most important values we have is actually something I stole from the All Blacks. And that is a value that we call create legacy. We want to be good ancestors. We want to think long-term. I know I'm only a temporary guardian in a 320-year-old organization. That organization was built by people long before me. And you just want to leave in a better place. You want those decisions to be those sort of long-term decisions. And you've just got to do it in a way without chubris and arrogance. And unfortunately, there's way too much of that in the global corporate world at the moment. How do you prepare yourself for a crisis? In fact, there are a number of things you can do. You can never write a plan that's good enough for a crisis. It doesn't exist. It's going to be thrown out. But what you can do is get the depth of people that are used to working under pressure. You can get a value set that you use as the foundation for decisions. So, at Aviva, our value set is create legacy, which just means be a good ancestor. Care more, which basically means just do the right thing. Kill complexity. So, you always want to simplify the organization down. And the last one we call is never rest, which means never be happy with the status quo. Some people think it means you don't get any sleep, and there is a bit of that too. But it's never be happy with the status quo. Always think your very best isn't quite good enough for the customer. And if you put those values in place in strong culture, if you have a strong project management or change management methodology, then you'll cope with crisis much better because you can use that infrastructure you have in place, understanding, of course, that the decisions you'll make will never have been done before. When you're going through a crisis, you're always thinking to yourself, am I making the right decision? Am I good enough? Everyone's following me on this decision. Is it the right one? And every leader in a crisis will doubt themself. But if you show that during the crisis, then you're in trouble.


Autonomous vehicles, AVs, rely on advanced sensor technology, perception systems, and software to operate without human intervention. These vehicles promise to improve the efficiency of our transportation system, reduce collisions and traffic congestion, and increase mobility. To ensure reliable operation, AVs must have accurate positioning and mapping capabilities at a submeter level of accuracy. This paper proposes a new approach to positioning and mapping that leverages existing wireless and perception systems, as well as on-board sensors, to provide a comprehensive solution for AVs. Results demonstrate the ability to maintain submeter level accuracy in various environments, increasing the trustworthiness of AVs and reducing their failure rates and degraded conditions. This article was authored by Anuraldin, Anuraldin, and Emil Habibi.