Hello. It's a bit weird being back, isn't it? First talk in three years, so please be gentle. I shall try to share some good information for you. In this talk, I'm going to start off with a very brief introduction to my own work to provide some context about how I became interested in this field and also the kinds of things that I tend to make. Given that it's a hack account, I will be focusing on a lot of practical tips to help you prototype and experiment, as well as throwing in, sprinkling in some inspiring use cases from artistic and industry. I'm going to give you a whistle-stop tour of a few different parts of soft electronics. I'm going to start off with electronic embroidery, then I'm going to touch on each heck-styles before moving on to flexible circuits, soft robotics, and then the concept of softness in electronics. That's what the next half an hour is going to be full of. I hope you enjoy it. As I say, let's start off with a little introduction to myself. My day job now, I'm head of community at Crowd Supply, which is a curated crowdfunding platform for open source hardware, part of Mauser Electronics, which you may have heard of. Before I moved over to the US to do that job, I spent many years as a writer and a professional maker. I used to write about hardware for Make Magazine and Hackaday and blah, blah, blah. I also wrote a book called The Crafty Kids Guide to DIY Electronics, which is a children's book about electronics taught through craft. This was the first time that I... I'd done so of all electronics before and I'd done electronic embroidery, but this was the first time that I really went deep during the research for this book. It made me notice the switch in my audience. So I'd done, as I say, I'd done personal... Throughout my personal curiosity, I'd experimented with so-able electronics, but teaching the basic concept of electronics through craft really helped me hit a different audience. It suddenly became 90% little girls and 10% boys, and I was like, what is going on here? It's pretty interesting. By putting electronics in the context of craft, it really changed the type of people that were coming to my workshops. This is a talk at a conference, not an education conference. I'm not going to go deep into the pedagogical details, but I will say that my experiences running workshops, teaching basic electronics with a standard through-hole learn-to-solder kit versus a sewing circuit kit was completely different. It taught largely the same skills, simple circuits, parallel circuits, yada, yada, yada, but the medium completely changed the demographics and the vibe. So I thought that was really interesting. After the book was published, I worked on another project here that put technology in the context of craft, and this is the mini-moo. It's my hand on the box, hand model as well as an electronics weirdo. It's a DIY wearable instrument that I designed for Pimaroni and Imogen Heap. Kids sew, wire, code and play this glove. It's really cute. It's based on the mini-moo, which is an expensive two and a half grand midi controller, but this is $40, so it's much cheaper and a really fun thing. Again, it was a very appealing project to teen and tween girls who were experimenting with microcontrollers. Actually, the kids in the workshop who were good at sewing had a confidence boost at the beginning of the lesson, and also they got onto the coding portion and earlier than the people who were not so good at sewing, so it balanced out the classroom a little bit. That's quite fun. Moving on, and the final strand of my personal work that I wanted to introduce you to is instrument making. So when I wasn't making things for other people, I tend to make instruments or sound making devices, and I like to use experimental materials in that work from software electronics, electronic embroidery and so on, and also using architectural materials and kind of sculptural materials. So that's me in a nutshell very quickly, and hopefully that will give you some context for the rest of this talk. I've been using these technologies in my own work for a number of years, so hopefully some of my learning, my painful learning will help you avoid the pain as you start experimenting with any of these techniques. So when most people think about electronics, they think about wires and boxes and stiff, fibre-class printed circuit boards. Now, the wires in those boxes and the traces on the circuit boards are all just paths for electricity to move along, and by choosing a different type of material to make these paths, we can make all sorts of unexpected and exciting electronics. In this example, we're looking at an embroidery sampler with a very simple circuit. You've got the bottom, you've got a 3V coin cell, and then there's an LED at the top, and you can make the same circuit on a breadboard or on a printed circuit board, or just by soldering some wires together. But here, the fibre-glass, bit these over there, I'm pointing up here, here the fibre-glass of the circuit board is replaced by felt and the copper traces are replaced by curvy flowing stitches, in this case, based on, I think, a steel thread. I would say that these kind of embroidery hoops are actually really great for learning to sew conductive stuff because it keeps everything in one place, more on that in a moment. Okay, onwards. So, conductive thread, yes, a whole slide on this. So, it's the starting point for most people who want to experiment with soft electronics.  So, my number one, I've got two favourites, and I've tried pretty much every conductive thread on the market, but there's a few different genres of thread. Let's take a look at some of these. So, these are just my own genres of thread. They're not, like, official technical titles, I will say that. So, there's a type of thread that's quite fluffy, and you might see strands coming off of on it, like something like this, a fluffy type of thread. Now, that kind of thread knots really well, but because it's fluffy, like this, you can see you've got all of these threads coming off of the side, and if you sew things too close together, it's like short circuit city. So, any single one of those threads touches another bit of a thread, and your circuit isn't going to work. So, a practical tip that I use here is, after you've sewn things in place, just spray it with a little bit of hairspray, and that will keep the hair, that will keep the flyaways in place. So, that's that one. And then there's another type of thread that is nowadays more common. It's a waxy type of thread. You will find that, it's sold by Adafruit, and just generally out of there. It doesn't cause short circuits, but the knots really like to come undone. So, again, a little tip here that I've learned in my years of experience is that you've got a little dab of either hot glue or clear nail varnish on your knots after you've made them to keep them from going out and done. So, you've got the fluffy, you've got the waxy, and then you've got the metal ones that are pure metal. So, this is mostly made by a company, a German company called Carl Grimm. Absolutely beautiful threads. You can solder them. All the other types of threads you can't solder. You can solder the Carl Grimm ones, but it's very brittle to work with. Very nice, though. But then, my number one favourite is a thread called Madeira, and they do you fantastic. You can use that in both the top and bottom of a sewing machine, so they're great. You can buy Madeira thread only from one place in the UK, and that's light stitches, but they're a German company, again. You can buy them on the internet as well, but they're quite hard to get hold of, but yeah. The Madeira threads are developed by a professional embroidery company, which I will have a look at later. But yeah, so those are my favourites, and those are the genres and my tips for working with each of the genres of thread. But just make sure you take care of these things, right? There we go. Let's move on. Two more very practical tips to give you, which is the things to watch out for, when you're starting off with sewing your circuits, are loose connections and dangling knots. So loose connections means that you're likely to have an incomplete circuit, so wiggling your component about maybe your circuit lights up sporadically, then you've probably got a loose connection. So you should make your connections really nice and tight and snug, and three tight stitches should do it quite nicely. Once you've got your component stitch on nice and tight, you also need to keep an eye out for knots and loose ends, which can dangle around and make short circuits. That's why you start out on these embroidery hoops, because you can flip them over really nicely and inspect the back. I'd say nine times out of ten when I've run embroidery workshops, it's been loose underneath wires that cause the first errors, so yeah, definitely watch out for those two things. So those basic tips that I just shared should start you out on embroidering electronics, and I wanted to bring this slide up here to take a look at some more advanced techniques. This is an embroidered synthesiser that I made last year, which is actually a riff on a noisemaker called a cracklebox or crackdors, sorry Dutch hackers, I find just mangled your language. But there's a Dutch artist in the 60s that made this called the Michael Weiss Fitz, and this is my version of him. The three techniques on this project that you might find useful are in the centre, you can see that there's a chip on the board, an eight-leg dip chip, and making through-hole, sorry, by adding a chip, you can either solder individual legs, which historically was what most people did, really difficult, and if your chip burns out, you've got to unpick everything as a disaster. So I made a series of flex PCBs with castellated edges that I could solder the dip chip socket into, and then sew the flex PCB onto the embroidery service, and that means you can remove the chips. Those are all on my github, I think. So that's a tip, and I don't see anyone else doing that, so I wanted to say, you should do this. You should totally do this. And then the other thing I wanted to say is pretty much any through-hole component can become a sewable component, and the way that you use it is, the way you do that is with a power of needle-nose pliers, and you just basically twist the component round and round the needle-nose pliers until it forms a loop, smush it down a little bit, and then just sew it on. You can see there, I've done that with so you just make a little loop to sew it onto a thing. That works for LEDs, that works for light sensors. You can do, you can put quite a lot of through-hole components onto a piece of embroidery with very little effort. Just a pair of needle-nose pliers. Okay, and this is a really an amazing example, this is not my work, I am not this good. This is an example of really advanced electronic embroidery from an artist called Irene Posh. This is actually a fully functional, programmable 8-bit computer made with gold embroidery and magnets. So this actually works, it flips over. Look her up on the internet, she's got loads of really interesting pieces of work. Yes, that's Irene Posh and the embroidered computer, a very cool project. Okay, so the field of electronic embroidery is like maturing at a rapid page at the moment. It used to be a bit more of a niche technology mostly practised by DIYers like me, artists, academics and so on, but nowadays there are new materials, new machines and new processes bringing them into industry. I spent two weeks with the folks at Microsoft Research just before the pandemic hit and I was lucky enough to see one of these bad boys in action. This is a ZSK industrial embroidery machine loaded up with Madeira thread which, if you were paying attention earlier is my favourite type of thread. So here you see normally I would play a video for this but it doesn't really work. So basically it's incredibly fast. This is an industrial machine that is picking and placing and creating these threads that are capacitive touch and the microcontroller you can see in the middle there is the Adafruit circuit playground express and yes, the embroidery machine did embroider that in place as well, automatically. It's like this does not convey the speed of this thing it's an industrial machine so when it's up and running it sounds like a machine gun and it's done in seconds it's incredible and it's the first time I've seen a microcontroller being placed on an industrial embroidery machine so it's very exciting still fairly experimental but it's really coming into it. So these are another thing from the industrial. These are pick and place sequence basically in order to create more advanced e-tech styles you need to have a way to industrialise them and that includes a way of mass, you know you've got to have these mass produced so you can't hand so on all of these things so lots of development at the moment is going into creating components that can be used in the embroidery industry's version of pick and place machine. So this is very cool. One more example of industrial electronic embroidery this is really cool so this is not experimental this is actually in use at the moment this is what we call moss embroidery which is a chenille fabric technique that you might see on towels and carpets and so on and tufts of the thread are pushed through a substrate and they create this mossy loop kind of effect and this is used in medicine a lot now as electrodes especially for people with sensitivities to adhesives or babies these are sewn into stretchy garments that are then placed on the body to sense various things instead of having metal electrodes so it's soft it's non-alrogenic and it's actually it's really great for all sorts of things and not only an input it doesn't only sense things this actually is used as an output for electro stimulation therapy of muscles and so on so yeah this is actually in use today so that's really cool moving on briefly to e-textiles it's used very generically it's not super useful anymore the word e-textiles but I'm using it here to refer to conductive materials that have cloth-like properties so there's two different types of fabric there's woven versus knit the difference between that is the yarn and the thread that composes them so a knit fabric is made up of one yarn looped around continuously and a woven fabric is made of intersecting yarns crossing each other at right angles to the grain so knit conductive fabric has different resistance in each direction as a result but the woven fabric is the same on each side because it's the thing and both of these fabrics are available from Adafruit if you want to have a go on them another great material you might want to have an experiment with is Velostat Velostat is pressure sensitive fabric it's much much cheaper to use than pressure sensitive sensors and you can cut it out and you can make flexible sensors with it I made meowing yoga pants with my friend Phoenix once using Velostat definitely if you're interested it's a great material to have on your radar and pretty cheap as well but first I wanted to give a shout out to various types of tapes this is my neighbour when I used to live in Berlin I made her a cape but here this is using copper tapers everywhere and you can use ordinary slog tape from hardware that's fine for putting it on fabric but actually I much prefer a fabric conductive tape which is made of nylon you can get them from Adafruit or it's also called maker tape and you can get that from brand dog gadgets and that's what I've used in this project it's really nice it's really nice to use on fabric and it's very very quick and dirty it's great for prototyping another tape I wanted to give a shout out to is Z axis tape which is what chibi Tronix uses and that's only conductive on the Z axis so it's really fun for sticker type stuff I also have an honourable melting don't do felting but I know people do and you can get conductive felting stuff so if you like stabbing things with needles to make them into shapes there are conductive materials available for you to do that I also wanted to give a shout out to Crochet, a dark art as far as I'm concerned but this is a piece of work done by Dr Anaratu ready and she does lots and lots of crochet and she argues that yarn is harder and she's done lots and lots of really interesting electronics crochet projects she did a talk at the Open Hardware Summit this year called Notty Hardware that I would highly recommend to check out as well one of the most essential things for people to be aware of when they're going into sewable electronics is you must know about the bible of sewable electronics which is the Cobra Count website this is one of their pieces they make extremely high end beautiful this is the morning dress that they made and it's a wailing speaker those are hand sewn speakers that work on that dress it's an exquisite piece of work but the website that you put there that I put there is called How To Get What You Want and it is filled with ideas and workshops and projects that they've done and really well documented so you should really be aware of that ok moving on very briefly to flexible circuit boards so the substrate of a normal circuit board is made of fiberglass which is a very stiff material in a flexible circuit board the material substrate is made out of is called captain and it's laser cut instead of rooted which means you can make some much more interesting shapes now it flex is not new it's been used in industry for a very long time but it's only made its way into the maker DIY world recently because Osh Park this US circuit board service made it available very cheaply and I've been experimenting with it so this photograph I put it up here it's by this guy called Carl Bojega and he just loads of flex experiments on YouTube so if you are interested in flex definitely check out his YouTube channel I can't do all this some of the practical reasons to use flex are obviously it flexes hello it's also very thin and it's also laser cutable and it really intricate shapes and there are a lot of design considerations for flex for example like the minimum bend radiance you've got to use teardrop shapes on your vias and pads but it's actually surprisingly easy to experiment with especially if you go via Osh Park because they've got the design rules up there so it would highly recommend and that's essential watch which is great and that's my project that used vocoder let's move on is so this is if you've been out into into the if you might have seen these people this is the same people that did the tentacles in the reef they make huge emotionally expressive robots robotic creatures in spaces like really really cool stuff and they're here so you should definitely go and check those out while you're here so conventional robots are typically made from rigid parts which makes them vulnerable to harm from bumps and scrapes and so on and these parts also make them fairly immobile they can't squeeze past things they are their shape they do what they do but soft robots are being made out of elastic and rubber and all these things and a lot of the designs are inspired by octopuses and starfish and worms and so on and this is an octopus spot which is a squishy underwater robot with eight limbs that bend in every direction and it's got a pneumatic control core it's very cool so it expands the mantle with water jets out the fluid to shoot forward and then the floppy arms stiffen in turn to crawl over things and then it can squish in between rocks to get places so this kind of technology and soft robotics is a really exciting field full of lots of challenges for different spaces it's very cool if you want to get started out with it there are a few things starting to come into the market that are suitable for DIYers this is programmable air which is an Arduino based pneumatics platform by TinkerMind there on Twitter so if you're interested in experimenting do check that out and then finally we're talking briefly about the concept of softness in electronics so this is my tentacle project I've actually resurrected it I'll take it to the perp afterwards so you can play with it I made this when I was really depressed and I wanted something soft and loving and comforting to wrap around me and do something comforting which was purring and I've just really enjoyed hang on, where have my slides gone oh no we're not watching that I haven't got time for that I haven't got time for that so this softness I wanted something to wrap around me and by putting the electronics inside of something soft it completely changed the feeling of that piece of electronics I think material choice can really change a project so this is a leather glove I've actually got this with me as well it's like an elbow length glove and it's exactly the same code as the children's glove from earlier but the material choice felt for children and then this amazing black leather for me it completely changed the vibe of the material so consider your material choices and consider what they will do to the people who are interacting with your electronics so you can do some really really interesting things okay and then I've got a bonus slide yes I've got three minutes left I've got my bonus slide amazing so I haven't even touched on the cool microcontrollers and single board computers that you might use with these kinds of things but here are my favourites if you're just getting started I would highly recommend either that or the micro bit both of them come with really nice large pin pads so even little kids can sew through them if you're moving on if you're already familiar with microcontrollers and single board computers my two favourites are I'm such a fan girl for Bella and Bella and Beagleboard are a really great combination for really amazing embedded low latency stuff and in fact somebody from Bella is actually here this weekend and I think Becky Stewart is doing a workshop on Sunday which I'm hoping to go to as well really like I love Bella for that kind of stuff another big person that I really like are the solder party boards and they're done by this Swedish guy called Arturo and he's got a lot of really interesting boards that use capitalated edges which are normally used for prototyping and breadboards but for me it's a great hook to secure my stitches in place so you put the stitch through one and then the castleated edge basically hooks it on so it's really nice and secure I love a castleated edge board for sewing and then finally two shout outs to people who are actually doing boards made for these kind of things one is the make fashion people up in Canada and they've actually got some new boards coming out which have got some fascinating stretchy platted cables very exciting about those lots of LEDs for their stuff so if you're interested in integrating LEDs into your work, check those people out and also a big shout out and a big thank you to the original made for sewables range which was Arduino it was an Arduino series of boards by Leah Buckley from MIT and she did the Lily Pad series which is open source hardware as well everything but apart from the micro bit that I've listed here is open source hardware I don't know about make fashion but many of them are open source hardware so if you're interested in actually creating some of your own stuff for this you can just go along and take a look at what they've done so I've got 20, I think that's it I've done half an hour this was like an hour long talk so I've kind of had to compress it a lot but I hope that I've given you a whistle stop tour of some of the fun stuff that can come with soft electronics with some practical tips and yeah that's me I'm very friendly you know I'm on Twitter and I chat to people so please do come and see I'm going to be outside in the robot arms with my tentacle after this if you've got any questions I'm also if anybody's got a 9 volt battery I I forgot mine if anyone's got a 9 volt battery I might resurrect so I did synthesiser this weekend as well so yeah also I'm doing a shift the last shift at the bar this evening so you can find me before or after that's it and that's me, half an hour, I'm done thank you


All right cyber trader is good morning and welcome on back here this Friday end of the week this August 12th Great to see all of us live inside the cybergroup trading room Grant Renzo James Craig Cal great to have Cal back with us Actually, we have Henry. We have Kathleen Leda Egan and all of us inside the live trading room Great to see all of us back on social media Facebook live or YouTube great to be back here in the mornings My name is Josh Leviton for any of our new attendees here. I'm Fausto senior instructor at cyber trading I'm actually tagging Fausto out for today and I believe for all of next week the man's on vacation with his with his family So obviously well deserved and with that. I mean, hey, well, we'll see what's out there going into today And then obviously heading into next week, but you know, hey typically on a summer Friday There shouldn't be a whole lot out there Now with the market that we've had this week and from the end of last even There should still be some volatility But I'm expecting the volume to generally die off within the market a little bit sooner than later Meaning normally around that 10 30 eastern time frame, you know, that's where we have that uh, you know, reversal hour So to say based off the cyber clock Look for that to finish up a little earlier Look for you to finish up these moves around 10 o'clock 10 15 You know better to have lower expectations than higher expectations because last thing you want to have happen is To waste the big profit that you are already up on or worse You think that there's a lot more left to a trade And then you try and be you know a shooter out there and you jump in at the highs and then it comes crashing back So, you know, that's where I say hey when the market opens from 9 30 to 10 o'clock 10 15 Prime time have all the confidence in the world based on you know, at least what we're looking at So I know with that that's when I would expect the volume momentum ultimately to begin to die off Karen says Consumers sentiment numbers at 10 a.m. Today. Well, you know that could actually generate some volatility within the market depending on What comes out? Obviously we just came off the cpi numbers from earlier this week which led to a huge squeeze But from yesterday we had a bit of a pullback and with that we'll see if there's any sort of continuation with that Heading into the opening bell now at that though the ubx trade is on the screen here to begin It's up over 124 Percent So it's not as if there's not opportunities on a summer friday, right? I mean obviously ubx ended up making this big move early on and pre-market Well from there after eight o'clock this ended up giving us a lot more life left to it from there namely Off the 160 level so with that we were calling 160 out right after eight o'clock big level strong level Well, let me ask you for grand and for alex one of our students here in the trading room and for robert And for any of our students perhaps otherwise michael included as well anyone when a stock breaks through a big level Generally speaking at least what are we expecting shortly after? When a stock breaks through a big level, you know, it's one of my famous josh quotes We're expecting a big Move shortly after now does that guarantee up? No, no, no, no, so if it broke above 160 came right back under it I could have seen this thing drop all the way down, you know true reversal So thankfully from there right after eight o'clock once it broke above 160 here. It made that big move Shortly after for a dollar fifty dollar sixty stock, you know, how big is big? Listen 20 cents is a pretty big move for a dollar stock if you go walk away 15 20 cents profit on a Dollar dollar fifties. That's a huge gain. That's like a 10 plus gain So with that it continued to push up just before we started this meeting I wasn't as much of a believer at that point. I wrote that in the trading room just a moment ago before we started You know, it's like kind of lingering here. I'm not a believer dot dot dot yet And it ended up actually making a nice little run shortly afterwards So I should have believed a little bit more there, uh, you know, definitely for right now I'm gonna put this on our main watch list heading into the opening bell heading into the market open For anyone just interested as to why a stock like ubx is up over 123% I'll tell you what I'll read the headline, but it's way above my pay grade So, you know, ubx is a biotech stock looks like ubx shares trading higher f to the company announced 12 and 18 week data from its phase two behold study of ubx 13 25 which showed a statistically significant and clinical meaningful improvement in mean bvca Folks, I don't know about you, but I didn't understand really any word that I just said So it's to say that we're not trading the stock because of whatever bvca, you know Or whatever phase two study came we're trading the stock based off the big icebergs out there the big orders out there and the bid in the ask All right. Well, how about this folks really quick? I don't like to teach as much during these meetings We got to you know, be quick with time Do we see any icebergs out on this stock right now any big iceberg orders that you currently see Look at level three. Look at level four if you have it. Let me know We don't need to be Scientists to make money folks. I don't care about the news, right? It's nice to know that news is out that's generating, you know move up But norman says 180. Absolutely. That's what I was looking at at least from my trade station matrix My level three right here at 180 on the bid 39 000 shares I respect that let's draw a line there heading into the market open plot that level Then brine says two which you know two at up top. There's like a 25 plus thousand share orders sitting there So that's definitely big We would assume two to be a pretty big level in its own right anyway as a whole number So, um, yeah two is resistance You have the view up there at 181 as well and then like like we had said, you know 37 000 shares on the bid sitting at 180 All right, so folks, let's go from top to bottom here We've had a pretty interesting pre-market the ubx trade paid off pretty nicely. There was another trade sp Rc that ended up making a bit of a push after eight o'clock But let's go from top to bottom here. See what we could just quickly put on our watch list before the opening bell Uh, the v stock. I didn't know if this was like a gary veiner chuck stock or not for anyone that knows him like v V e e e it is not. I'm just you know kind of joking with that Looks like this made a big pop just before we started this meeting though So it was really ugly and then flat dead for most of the pre-market Uh, definitely happy to see this move here a little thin on the order books So be careful of that when the market opens up, but I don't mind slipping this on our main list for right now the v trade I'm not gonna recite the news for every stock folks Most news uh, you know most most headlines that come out especially if it's related to biotech or pharma I can't pronounce half the words All right any pt. I was hopeful to see a bounce off of two on this trade I didn't call it out in the chat board I was just generally hopeful for a bounce, you know off of two it was slumping off there But this thing ended up just crashing right under the level as we started this meeting So definitely not looking nearly as good now. I mean you want to follow a stock that has you know a trend up leading into the open This ain't it. So right now, I'll write this down even on the side. I mean, it's it's treatable It's got a great spread. It's you know right within our all of our price ranges here pretty cheap stock But let's see if there's anything looking even better at least namely on the way up AEY looked all right at first, but Obviously not really looking as great here pulled back flattened out back under what appears to be resistance from the chart roughly off 190 looks like actually a beautiful head and shoulders that built So I'll keep that on the side too here. I'll come back to them at the end Maybe they have one more, you know pop before we finish up this meeting LRMR. I mean hey, this is making a bounce here. I like to see it Ended up actually looks like this thing got halted and reopened up in the after hours actually yesterday And then slumped off before as the market were you know heading into the pre market heading into the eight o'clock move but now Nice little push. You definitely want to see the order book filling a lot more here after the market opens That's going to make this stock treatable or not So if this has a very thin book after the open then there's going to be better trades to follow in my opinion You know for a cheap stock you would want to have this filled in a lot more than not so LRMR for right now It'll make the cut just giving this squeeze up here after 8 45 at after 9 o'clock Let me keep it going. All right. We'll kind of skim through now at this point So if there's anything looking really strong or trading a ton of volume I mean I see these cheapies that are like 19 and 20 cents. I'm going to skip over those NLTX dollar stock here trading 240,000 Not a whole lot happening there. Now. I know norman had called out smile direct club earlier, right? So at the time it was good call outers pushing up Obviously flattened out and died off for a bit, but this ended up making a pop in the after hours This has short squeeze ridden all over Does that mean that's going to happen today at the opening bell? No, that's certainly what we hope to see happen at least that that's our hope But given how much this stock dropped off back over the beginning of last year into now It's taken a huge hit and then even from probably beforehand. I'll just jump to a monthly chart here Yeah, I mean this thing off its IPO is like a $20 stock $21 stock No ended up moving up over the pandemic with the whole market at that point as it recovered But it's only dropped off since this could be a very good short squeeze throughout the day Or if not even today, maybe just keep it on your radar for the beginning of next week But sdc i'll put on our list here for right now. It's a stock that we are pretty familiar with inside the live trading room All right, we keep it going Man a bunch of these cheapies and i'm not even talking about dollar or two dollar stocks I'm talking like 50 cent stocks and we're not trading those really So you got hour here three dollar 80 cent stock up over five percent, but the chart you tell me This isn't really looking too great. All right, folks. Let's jump over to the loser side now Maybe there's you know a lot looking better from that side of the field But you know if there's anything moving upward that I may have missed definitely type it in the chat board now That's how we work together as a team and we'll see if there's anything that I'd missed or anything popping as we go through Uh, we got the codex trade speaking of familiar names. Uh, codx We ended up seeing this stock over the you know pandemic with covet And you know one of the first actually at the time that made that huge spike and push up stock Went from basically 350 all the way up to 25 and change over that point Well, I don't know what happened here. It took a huge hit. It could be earnings related It could be you know something to do with the drug or vaccine It's to say that this stock is shortable At least on my platform check to see if it's shortable in your platform If it's hard to borrow and you can't short it then I would move on but I feel like this will be a good short here heading into the market open or at least after the opening bell for that matter So codx, I don't mind slipping on here. Obviously it's flat in pre market, but it's down big. It's shortable reminds me slightly of The sono trade From yesterday we ended up seeing sono down big from the after hours the night before and that got crushed once the market Opened up and only continued to drop that was down to over 20 percent yesterday in pre market Same to be said with uh six flags six flags It was kind of flat in pre market heading into the open But it was down over that 20 percent already and then once the opening bell hit So, you know, maybe the same could happen there on the codx trade. It's definitely worth putting on our list for that reason Olo You know down just as much Don't get me wrong and if anything I mean hey, you know for a short you would want to see this begin to pull back But if this is going to make a dead cat bounce This is down enough for me to potentially consider that if it's not going to break down and drop off more Perhaps there could be a nice squeeze or you know as we call it here a dead cat bounce after the market open So I don't mind slipping this on our list here for right now to the the olo trade Ooh speaking of drop offs here pbr Geez now normally i'll be honest with you normally if you look up level four or put this up on your book map on your level four It's a tougher read. You know, I feel like this pbr is largely algo driven And I just say that based off how hard to read the book map could be for this stock more often than not so You know for right now, I'll definitely put this on our list. It's dropping off quite a bit It's gonna have a good spread when the market opens up or at least I'm led to believe that so with that You know, I would definitely be more so to use like the cvp columns on level four if you have trade station This is actually gonna be really helpful for you looks like a bunch of volume got filled specific To 1255 actually look at that that that's very distinct. So there you go 1255 is a 1255 is a pretty damn big level if you're looking at my time in sales right now I think that you could see why you know, so again, whether it's from level three here level four If you have it i'm not showing my level four or if you're doing a little old fashion tape reading here folks It ain't hard to see 1255 is a monster level for today on this pbr stock All right, we keep it going nice short on that one so far and a beautiful level at that So, you know, whether it squeezes back up there or not that 1255 on pbr will be very strong Or at least you have to imagine for it to be Um Now we're at this point. We're kind of heading into the 5% category We're getting a little close towards the market open now anyway So I want to make sure our students have enough time to prepare chart and get ready before the opening bell But folks if there's anything else that looks good type it in the chat board now Anything else that I may have missed up down left right more than uh, that 5% Just quickly skimming the loser's side right now There's not really a whole lot out there otherwise no real familiar names All right, what do we got norman saying dna trying to pop It's up over 5% and well now it is and it's trying to make that squeeze I'm not going to be as particular about this stock for one key reason And it's a good shout from norman because otherwise if this stock didn't make the particular move that it made yesterday I would slip this right on our list But this stock ended up making such a big pop and drop yesterday I'm certainly led to believe the same will happen At the opening bell today, uh, you know, hey, if pacb was making that squeeze up right now I'd say the same thing look at pacb from yesterday. This is like these I want to check this out Is this like a legit doji? Oh my god stock went from 775 to 1420 it technically opened at 786 and closed at 794 Listen, that's not a technical real doji because the open and the close are not exactly the same price, but Come on that's as close to a doji call that like a Was that like a grave a gravestone doji something like that just you know that that's as close as you can get I wouldn't expect for another big pop at least on this pacb seem to be said on that dna But that was a decent shout at the time norman. I mean it's tradable Definitely tradable AMC so AMC we had on our pre-market list chuck. I appreciate you just shouting this out again AMC ended up making a big move across yesterday afternoon when the markets were actually dropping off It went completely against the grain actually so with that I put this on our pre-market list early this morning I was looking for that move right off of uh, I think at the time I'd said 26 30, right? I had said 26 30 ideally it needs to hold over As support I said that at right at eight o'clock. So obviously it didn't do it there But ended up holding 26 30 beautifully after and alas There's a run gotta trust the levels folks, especially what we're calling out inside the trading room So if you had your eyes on AMC there off 26 30, you're looking really good Norman shouts the bedbath beyond trade bobby j. Yeah, we're gonna put both on our watch list here AMC and the bedbath beyond trade Nice Cool. All right, let's go to youtube right now. So from mitch shouting out the v-trade v e e Yeah, this one looks a lot better now, right? We had this on our watch list already So we did put this on our list And with that it ended up making the higher high so very nice run on this v-trade From raj asking on youtube here. Do you know why ubx is not moving much with over 31 million? Volume traded during pre-market hours. See I want to actually post that on our youtube stream here Just you know for recording purposes too for anyone that joins late So raj with a really good question Do you know why ubx is not moving much with over 31 million shares traded already during pre-market? I'd say it moved. I mean this thing went from a dollar up to two This thing made a hundred percent move in pre-market already Volume doesn't always guarantee continuation. That's the thing, right? So with that it made such a big move already that perhaps it's just more exhausted now prior to the opening bell Perhaps people are either distributing early knowing that it's going to tank right away So they want to control it at least right here and have it stabilized so they could distribute Maybe Maybe as a counterpoint. Maybe market makers are accumulating here knowing that they're going to send this thing to the moon right at the opening bell We don't know For sure what's going to happen. So don't pull your hair out thinking, you know, one or the other please But it's to say for as much as this stock moved it is definitely more often Now than not to see this exhausted to see it flatten out at least now at this point We're not going to hold any position heading into the market open You should be out of the street at this point. You could always get back in Should it make a good move for you afterward? Should it break over to again after the market opens up? Should it pull back and hold support off 150 better or even 130? Uh, you know, so definitely don't look to hold into the open You always have a chance to get back in but at this point now like we were saying Where's support? Where's resistance? That's what you have to follow, right? So you know, we started off with this stock at the top of this meeting and that's what we were covering So that's what we primarily do inside our live trading room I may as well say this now for for raj and for all of us on youtube and facebook live Mitch included if you wanted to be a member inside our live trading room to learn more about what we're exactly doing here Just go right down to the link on the blue banner below right there to just join up as a trial member But otherwise for right now for those of us there right now Jeff rob brant chuck norman We're the ladies of the room right now. I'd laid in here just before earlier Kathleen too But nonetheless for all of us of course all together. There's Karen saying i'm here perfect All right, so it's to say for all of us inside live trading room Let's just make sure that we have enough time to prepare get ready before the market opens Uh for raj for mitch for all of a sudden youtube and facebook live as well I always like to post my email here at the empty streams any questions that you have before joining us here as a member Feel more than free to send over my way josh at ctu trading.com I answered a couple of emails actually yesterday more so relating to crypto I look forward to doing a little crypto talk heading into the afternoon meeting later on today All right folks, but for all of us inside the live trading room I look forward to catching up with you folks coming up at the uh opening bell talk to you all soon Come a cyber group member today Just click the link below and receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge for just nine dollars due


Okay, the title of this video is not really clickbait. Coming this August I will have been on YouTube for 11 years. I have been making stuff for a really, really, really long time. I am 26 years old now. I was 15 when I started this. You guys all know the story. But the channel started with me and my best friend, Andrew, and we wanted to make gaming videos. And so we started recording stuff and when it got to making the actual channel, we sat there for a while and we were just like, huh, what should we call this thing? And at the time, my dad owned a graphic design company called Crank. And so in my bedroom I had a little poster of his logo that just said Crank. I was like, well, what if we just call it Crank Gameplays? And it stuck. And so we started making videos under Crank Gameplays. Eventually it turned to just me and for the last almost 11 years I have been making videos as Crank Gameplays. Throughout the years there has been a lot that's changed, but gaming has always kind of been the foundation and the base of the channel. But over the last few years, I feel like my stuff has started to change a lot and I feel like I've started to change a lot as a person and as a creator. And I've started to want to branch out more outside of gaming and do more stuff that's a bit more creatively fulfilling. Because gaming is fun, but it doesn't really scratch the creative itch that I have. And so I've started sort of transitioning away from gaming and probably most recently you guys have seen that I haven't really been doing any gaming stuff on the channel at all.  I'm doing a big ol' rebrand. I think since the channel was created because it has gameplays in the name, it's always inherently like pigeonholed me a little bit where I've felt like people expect gaming content. Obviously, because it is a gaming channel and it has gaming in the name. But now that I want to transition away from that, I feel like it's a good time for me to also step away from the name Crank Gameplays because I don't think it accurately describes the channel anymore. I think that I've in a way sort of outgrown it a little bit and I feel like it's kind of time for me to graduate and to take the next step in my career if we can call it that. I still like gaming stuff a lot. It's still really fun, but I don't really like recording it as much anymore. I like playing games on Twitch with my friends and stuff like that and that's really fun. And I'm still going to be doing that, but as far as the channel goes, I'm going to be taking kind of a scary little step and not uploading gaming stuff anymore because I think I enjoy non-gaming stuff a lot more. It's a lot more fun. I think you guys also enjoy it. And so because of that, I want to do the name change because I think just going by my name, Ethan Nester, which is what everything is going to be changing to, just Ethan Nester on everything, you know, while it doesn't describe the channel, it doesn't describe it incorrectly where if I keep using Crank Gameplays, I feel like people are going to be like, okay, wait, but why is he called Crank Gameplays? He doesn't do gaming stuff. And I think also for finding channels now, gaming isn't as popular as it used to be. And so going by my name, I think we'll help new people find the channel and get interested in stuff like that. But yeah, I've thought about this for a really long time. And it's a really, really, really scary thing to do because Crank Gameplays is, like it's me. Crank Gameplays is like who I've identified as for a really long time on the internet. And it's what other people obviously know me as. So it's going to be a weird change, I think. And I mean, it won't be that bad because most people know me as Ethan and call me Ethan and stuff like that, but it's very scary doing this change. It's scary doing the rebrand part and like, you know, not going as Crank Gameplays anymore, changing up the icons and the logos and everything like that. But it's also scary changing the content and making a commitment to not doing gaming stuff anymore and doing stuff that is more fulfilling and more challenging and more fun. And there might still be gaming videos every now and again. And again, I'm still going to be streaming on Twitch. That's where basically all of the gaming stuff will live is Twitch and then on the VOD channel. I think that gaming has always been a vehicle for me to create. It's always been a way that I can make stuff and it was a really good entry point because it's fairly accessible. But I don't think that gaming stuff is where I shine. As hard as it is for me to compliment myself, I do think that I'm funny and I think that I have fun ideas and I think I'm really good on camera. And I don't think that doing gaming stuff is a good example of what I can do and the creativity that I have. And I don't think it's a good example of my comedy. I think that I can make really fun, really cool, hilarious stuff sometimes. But 99% of the time that's not in gaming videos. It's in other things. And so that's what my channel is going to be from now on. I'm going to challenge myself to do cool, newer stuff. A lot of the videos that you've been seeing recently, which usually come out on Saturdays, that's kind of what the channel is going to be now.  But as far as the main channel goes, stepping away from gaming. And for those of you who need it to be more clear, this channel isn't going anywhere. I'm just changing the name on everything. So everywhere you can find me at Ethan Nester on Twitch, Instagram, Twitter, except for here on YouTube. It's just at Ethan, which is funny. But I hope you guys are excited. I hope that we can hold the memory of Crank Gameplays near and dear. I hope you guys understand where I'm coming from with this and I hope that you're excited for this new sort of era. I'm really excited to make newer, cooler stuff and I've been really excited about the rebrand. Even though nothing about my day to day or the content that I'm making because I've been not really making gaming stuff for a bit, even though none of that is really changing, finally ripping off the Band-Aid and doing it. It's a really big deal for me. So I hope that you guys are excited. Yeah, thank you guys for being here for over 10 years of Crank Gameplays. I hope that you're excited to see more of Ethan Nester, I guess. But thank you guys for everything. It's been really fun, but it's time for the next step and this is part of that. So I'm not going anywhere, don't worry, obviously. I hope that nobody thinks that I'm quitting. I don't know how people could get that from this, but so long Crank Gameplays. I'm really excited. Anyways, I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye.


Hello, in this presentation we will work short calculation questions, calculation questions that could be found in multiple choice or short answer format. We will be working with accounting concepts and debits and credits, recording transactions and working with debits and credits. First question. The cash account had a normal balance of $5,600. During the month, the account was debited for a total of $12,800 and credited for a total of $12,100. What was the balance in the cash account at the beginning of the month? The traditional way to set up these types of accounts is with a T-account, so I'm going to put a T-account here. We could format these and think about them in different ways, but of course the point is we're looking at debits and credits. T-accounts almost work better when we're calculating things by hand, but I'm going to put the T-account into Excel. If you're going to do this by hand, T-accounts work great. If you put menu Excel, it's still a good format for us to look at, and I'll show you how to do that.