ices. The way that I described this to our last department operational center briefing was that the 428 staff represent about 70% of our total budgeted FTE for the entire agency and the number of hours that we have provided not including the uncompensated overtime is the equivalent of 76 full-time employees working all year long. So I really wanted to both commemorate our staff who have worked so hard to keep our community safe and well but also note that what an impact it has had on their ongoing daily work and what we had to do necessarily to save lives was divert our attention from the core safety net services that we provide. And I will say that it was well worth it and we wouldn't do anything differently. And now looking forward to fiscal year 21, 22 we have a lot to do to recover. So in terms of recovery, we know as a health services agency that we have to move far beyond COVID emergency response recovery or even continued fire response or recovery. Our entire landscape has changed. The health status of the people that we serve has really, really been impacted. We have widening equity gaps and disparities. We've got a wave of regulatory and policy changes that are coming down the pike. And while these are firmly rooted in an attempt by our state to improve MediCal and be innovative in advancing outcomes for a MediCal population, those changes are going to have some service delivery, operational and financial, finance system impacts to us at the local level. So we stand here poised and ready for this recovery but acknowledging that our agency has been hit really, really hard and will continue to be balancing COVID-19 continued emergency response being a supportive partner in the county's fire response and also resetting and re-imagining the services that we provide with a changing delivery system, service delivery system. So next I have our budget proposal for your consideration. Before I go into our budget dashboard, I wanted to talk about the guiding principles that we use. And as part of our strategic plan, we have these five guiding principles for how we operate and these guiding principles also serve as those north stars for our budget. So according to our strategic plan, we will continually be mission driven, guided by the county mission vision and values as well as our own agencies as a guiding light for the work that we do and what we work towards. As Director Morris from Human Services had mentioned, we have mandates that govern our work. It would be wonderful if we could use the dollars and use our time and our energies to provide services and meet some local priorities that maybe are outside of our mandates, but really we have to work first and foremost from the mandates that are given to us as a public health services agency from the federal and state government. Thirdly, we know that especially in times of limited resources, we have got to prioritize the retention of essential health and safety services which are often parallel with the mandates that we have as a public entity. And equity lens, no time, no time more so than the pandemic has taught us how important it is to use that guiding principle of incorporating equity across all of our programmatic and our funding decisions. And finally, because we do house the public health jurisdiction for our county, we strive to always use data to inform our services, our actions and our recommendations. So this is our proposed budget as it appears in the budget book for your board. And I'm going to advance to the next slide that just gives you a more clear dashboard of what this looks like. So our total revenues and expenditures are total financing for the health services agency for fiscal year 21-22 is $203,630,137. And that is a slight increase just over 2% from fiscal year 2021. You'll see that our total staffing has increased. A lot of the staffing was added mid-year in fiscal year 2021. And several limited term positions were added as a result of additional dollars for COVID response. So our total funded staffing for 2021 which includes our supplemental budget requests will be 633 and a half total positions. And moving along to department revenues. So our total revenues are 203 million, just over 203 million. And you'll see that the way our health services agency is organized, we have charges for services. And those charges for services are reimbursements that we bill for the services that we provide primarily in our clinics services are federally qualified health center clinics as well as our behavioral health division. Much in more than half of our budget is intergovernmental funds. And similar to HSD, those intergovernmental funds are federal or state funds that come to us to implement our mandates. And these other services are primarily grants that we receive and nearly every grant that we get is deliverable space. So it's a grant to achieve a certain outcome or provide certain activities. One thing that I wanna note is that our general fund dollars are something that we absolutely rely on because in order to some of our charges for services and our intergovernmental funds rely on a local match. So for example, our drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system met much of our mental health services. Those all require 50% local match and our sources are limited on how we can meet that match. And so we're incredibly grateful for and reliant upon county general fund to assist us in doing that. And really the amount of services that we can provide is limited in a great part by the amount of local match that we can come up with. As far as expenditures go, most of you are pretty familiar with the fact that in typical organizations or corporations, salary and benefits are typically a half to two-third of an organization's expenditures for health services agency. This is a little bit different. And it looks more like a third of our budget for salaries and benefits. And that's because half of our budget is the behavioral health division. And our behavioral health division contracts out a large portion of services, both inpatient services and community-based behavioral health services to contractors both in and out of the county. And so this will always be an anomaly for the health services agency just because of the nature of the work that we do. One of the things that we do provide as a non-general fund department are intra-fund transfers and a good portion of those intra-fund transfers that you see right here, about 9% go to support the cost allocation plan for the county as well as some of our other departmental partners. So this graph right here shows net county cost is the same thing as general fund. And what this shows is really that we have a changing trend in how our organization uses the general fund dollars that we get from the county. And so you can see this first bar in each group of these bars is behavioral health. And over time, our behavioral health division has needed more and more of what we receive in net county costs through the general fund. And that's a result of some pretty dramatic changes in what's happening in behavioral health services. And one of those changes is that we have increasing costs for inpatient and locked care services. We also have, as we have been really, really innovative in trying to expand access to substance use disorder services through drug MediCal ODS, that expansion also requires more of a local match. So this is where that match comes into play. But the other thing that I wanted everyone to note is that our clinics division, which is the next line, the, I guess it's kind of light blue or light grayish blue, is that in 17, 18, our clinics division utilized, probably more than 50% of the net county costs that behavioral health received. But over time, as we expanded the services that we have expanded our space and expanded our services, they are a revenue generating entity. And so you can see that they actually have negative net county cost or because they're earning revenue, they're actually contributing to the rest of our agency. So looking forward to the future, we know that one of the things that we wanna do is continue to capitalize on or maximize revenue generating services that not only help our budget, but actually serve more of our population. One final thing that I'll note about this net county cost is that our behavioral health division does have a federally qualified healthcare clinic within it that provides mental health psychiatry services. And one of our biggest challenges is keeping a full workforce in that area. We've been really, really challenged in attracting and keeping psychiatrists. So while that unit should be as revenue generating as the clinics division, we have experienced a lot of losses that were exacerbated by COVID and some of the changes that were required because of COVID that impacted access to care. So part of how we're going to address some of our shortfalls and our largest division, which is behavioral health, is actually by the report back that I have for your board on the Harbor Vet building. So for the past few years, we have been exploring the capital improvements to the Harbor Veterinary Building that is adjacent to our behavioral health building in SoCal. And one of the reasons is that we are trying to alleviate the cost of the incredibly high and rising costs of inpatient and locked care, primarily to entities outside of our county. And one of the ways that we believe that we can change the model or change that trend is to expand our Harbor Vet building. We had plans to do that this fiscal year and we actually put aside quite a bit of dollars to do that. And with COVID coming, we had no idea what our budget was going to look like, what our financial position would be. You'll recall we started this fiscal year as an entire county in a very dire position. And so we had scrapped any capital plans that we had had. However, in the governor's budget this year, $750 million in the governor's budget is being allocated in competitive grants to construct, acquire and rehabilitate real estate so that we can expand the community continuum of behavioral health and treatment resources. So we have worked really hard. Director of behavioral health, Eric Riera, has really, really what I believe will be putting us in the front of that competitive pack is he's already provided a service proposal for the programming and has already worked with architects. This is the drawing of the rendering that our architectural services has provided. And this is the existing unit right here. And this is the future remodel of the Harbor Vet building. And this preliminary design work and the cost estimates are well underway and we believe that that's going to give us a really, really competitive grant submission for this capital improvement allocation that's in this year's budget, in the governor's budget. The purpose of this expansion is to be able to increase our capacity for crisis care programs. And once we're able to do that, if we were able to get a successful application, it would lead to a major reduction in our costly inpatient and loft care programs. One of the things that I will note, you don't see it in the detail of my presentation is that there is a local match required and we have put aside $2.5 million that's been continuing in our budget for that local match and just wish us luck and thank you for all of your support in the letters that you've written for this project. Next, I wanted to talk about some of the emerging issues that we're looking forward to tackling. And some of you know that I'm a big Dolly Parton fan and my family came here in the 70s and I grew up watching the Mandrell sisters and the Dolly Parton show. But over time, Dolly Parton has not only been just a great entertainer, but she's been a really great philanthropist as well. And she is a champion of public health, not only in COVID, but also in early childhood education and other matters. And one of the things that she has always said is that storms make trees take deeper roots. And right now is the time that we, as a health services agency as part of the county has got to really, really get through this storm by deepening our roots. So what we have coming down before us is something called CalAIM. CalAIM is short for California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal. It's an initiative that was started pre-COVID. It was really meant to transform the Medi-Cal delivery system. It'll have some serious impact on how we deliver and provide behavioral health services, primary care services for our clinics and public health. It's also going to impact housing for health and our relationship with HSD because the goal is really to think outside the box of what is healthcare and address social determinants of health. And while that is an amazing lofty goal and we are all on board the concepts, it doesn't come without a lot of change. And we've been through so much change as an organization, as a healthcare system, that the next year or two of changes through CalAIM which are going to bring about delivery system changes, financing changes and perhaps requirements such as meeting volume requirements are really going to be taxing on us. And it behooves us to really stabilize and sustain our financing structures right now. Make sure that we have the capital infrastructure that we need to get through this massive innovation over the next two years, coming along on the tails of COVID. And one of the main things that we're going to have to focus on as a health services agency is investments in our workforce. So I think some of you as board members are aware that we have high vacancy rates in many of our positions. And now is the time that we really have to be innovative in how do we change that around? Because as you saw with a couple of slides ago with our net county cost, one of the ways that we're going to be able to increase revenues and expand our reach to serve our populations is going to be by expanding the services that we provide that generate revenue and that our services needed by our community. But when we can't be competitive in attracting not only just our licensed providers such as physicians and MAs and nurse practitioners but also a really competent bilingual workforce to local people who live in our community and represent our community. We are going to have not only a service delivery crisis but also a funding crisis. So it's something that we are heavily focused on this next year and actually the next two years. And related to that is the equity lens. We know, we've always known before COVID that who we serve is the safety net. Our populations who are most impacted by the economy most impacted by something like a pandemic and most impacted by everyday health issues across the continuum of health and behavioral health services. And so now is kind of like a call to action that we can't waste any time. And we've got to reset our practices and use that equity lens that we use throughout the pandemic and we've used for a really long time but really reset our policies, our operations, our programs and our funding. So that we, it's kind of like the quote that CEO Carlos Palacios, what's most important in the new normal now is the time for us to think about that. And equity definitely rises to the top of that list. I wanted to provide some examples of the gives and the takes that result in these emerging issues. So for example, we have, while our budget has increased slightly the needs of our community have dramatically changed as a result of COVID in part. So one of the things that we've done is as I mentioned earlier, a big part of our services and supplies budget are contracts to our behavioral health contractors. Throughout the past year and a half, they have had incredible challenges in just keeping people employed because of all of the impacts of COVID. So what we've done this year and going into next year is where we, as you know from a board meeting in your last board meeting, we're increasing our rates and we're increasing our rates so that they can keep their doors open and continue to pay a living wage to their employees. But when we increase our rates, that means that the amount of money that we have to come up with for that 50% local match increases as well. So we're actually having to come up with more money to provide a lower volume of services. And that's okay because we know that that's the reset that we have to do right now. And that's going to carry us into a really tenuous position into the next year. So some of the impacts that this has on us is that we've had to go without some things that are heartbreaking to us. For many years, we have provided funds to those who are medically indigent, meaning you're not eligible for MediCal, probably due to documentation status or other rare reasons why you would be low income and not eligible for MediCal. We used to provide the cost of the full care for these folks. But because we can barely meet our requirements for the drug MediCal population, we've eliminated that in this coming year. I hope that we can restore it mid-year if there are additional dollars either in the governor's budget or the legislature. But those are the types of gives and takes that we've had to do that are really, really difficult for us to swallow. Another example is we have funded shelter operations for a while. And it's not exactly the purpose of HSA to provide the cost of shelter services, but we've done that at the River Street Shelter. And this year, we're using those funds that we used to provide for shelter operations and using those for our core mental health services and coordinating with Housing for Health and our community partners to transfer those services where they belong in health and housing. So just a few examples of how we're trying to clean up our house and strengthen our foundation. So on to recovery. You're all familiar with our save lives roadmap. Save lives stands for slowing the spread of COVID-19, adjusting and adapting as we all have the last year and a half. Vaccinate and treat, which I can't even believe that the most heavy part of vaccination is actually in our rear view mirror, even though we have a lot more work to do. And now we're at the E, which is elevate our readiness for the next public health emergency and also to keep us safe from future emergencies, including the continuation of COVID. So how are we doing that? One of the ways is by how we're using the COVID funding that's coming down from the federal and the state government. And like much of the COVID funds, these are one-time funds. However, they're incredibly needed. So I just wanted to review briefly for your board how we've budgeted these funds. And our funds are typically, all the parts have different timeframes, but what we try to do is consolidate into a 2020, 2022 timeframe because typically it's a two-year timeframe even though they have different stops and starts. So I think the main takeaway from this table and the top of the table is what's budgeted in the budget that you are hearing today. And then the bottom of the table is what's not yet budgeted, but what we will be coming forward to the board for or it's budgeted elsewhere as in the County General Fund and not in the health services agency budget. But I want to draw your attention to the top half of this table. So I think the takeaway is that we have done a lot as a county and as a health services agency to invest in community supports. So for the various pots of funding that came down for COVID, our CARES CRF funding, our various COVID-19 grants to public health and the AAR, American Recovery Plan Act, I believe ARPA revenue that the County is receiving, half of those dollars, half of our total COVID dollars to date have gone to community supports. And when we say HSA salaries in revenue replacement, it really is we have projected revenue deficits for this coming year. And so we're grateful that our budget, county budget manager and our CEO's office has decided to cover our projected revenue losses primarily in the FQs, mental health FQ and the clinic FQs so that our agency doesn't have to bear the total burden of our projected revenue losses. In the future, we have HRSA dollars coming to our clinics. HRSA is the Health Resources Services Administration that oversees all federally qualified health centers in the nation. And our clinics receive 3.4 million dollars for direct COVID response. We have something called epidemiology and lab capacity expansion dollars. Those are 11 million dollars that we have yet to budget because we received so much money in 2021. So we'll be coming back to the board in August with a detailed description of how we'll be using those dollars after we submit our plan to the state. And then we requested as part of the County's ARPA dollars, 1.1 million dollars, $100,000 of that will be budgeted in the County overall budget for suicide prevention. We have been working in the behavioral health division on a suicide prevention plan and there's a suicide prevention task force. And what we're missing is funding, so this $100,000 will go a long way in getting a jumpstart in addressing suicide prevention as well as community information and education. The remaining million dollars is going to go completely to community supports, continuing some of the things that we're already doing, such as economic supports through a program called UndocuFund and other kinds of supports for our families and individuals impacted by COVID. So in essence, the takeaway is that we continue to invest about half of all COVID funding that we get in our community to support our community organizations and our most impacted communities by COVID. So what does this all tell us in terms of recovery? Our save lives has been an incredibly useful framework to help us navigate through this incredibly stormy pandemic and what we realize is that prior to the pandemic and we're going to be doing this well beyond the pandemic, we are mandated as an agency through welfare and institutions code through California code of regulations and health and safety code to prevent, mitigate and contain disease spread. And through save lives as an emergency response framework, we have been able to do exactly that. However, our work has always been about saving lives. We will always be here beyond the pandemic to serve those populations, individuals and communities who really don't have any other way of achieving the best life that they can without the services that we provide. So it's always been about saving lives for the health services agency and the budget that you see before you is a statement of our values that supports that end. I do want to note that I have come before your board with this colorful wheel called the Ten Essential Public Health Services and in the center of that wheel, the CDC just added in 2020 after many, many years of this wheel being out equity at the center of that wheel, which makes me so happy as a public health professional. But what that means is that the central tenant of all publicly funded services at the local level is that in order to serve everybody, we have to serve the most vulnerable and the most impacted first, not the easiest or the earliest to reach. And we will continue doing that beyond the pandemic. And it really is, I've said over and over that equity is at the center of everything that we do. It really is true. When we're facing these population health problems in order to protect everybody, we have to have the data and we have to have the partnerships to address those most impacted communities. So these things of individual risk factors, I know we're all telling you through the pandemic, wear a mask, wash your hands. These are all individualistic actions. There are things beyond these individualistic actions that many of our community members have no control over. Access to nutritious foods, exposure to carcinogens, maybe through your workplace and the kind of work that you do. Adverse childhood experiences, trauma and stressors due to poverty and other things. All of these things are profoundly shaped by cultural, historic and systemic forces and by inequities of race and class. And so as I said before, our mission has always been about saving lives and going forward, we know that we must do it. It is a call to action to do that with equity at the center of everything that we do. So today before you, I have the recommended actions to approve the proposed budget for the health services agency, including any supplemental material as recommended by the county administrative officer. And these are the reference pages as Supervisor McPherson, Chair McPherson mentioned at the beginning of this item. And I respectfully ask for approval of this budget that again is a statement of our values of how we serve this community. And finally, a thank you to everyone. This photo is, it's our appreciation kind of ending. It's noted and the wind down of the mass vaccination clinic at the county fairgrounds, which couldn't have been possible without so many community volunteers. So you can't see their faces because we didn't get their permission, but all of our volunteers gathered to be honored for their work. And that is the end of my presentation. I'm open to questions. Thank you for that very thorough and enlightening presentation. And challenging one is that too. It can't really be over stated how professionally the health services agency staff managed our county's response to COVID. In particular, I want to thank leadership of you, our health services director, Mimi Hall and our health officer, Dr. Dale Newell and our chief of public health, Jen Herrera too. But everybody in the department is to be really congratulated and thanks immensely for what they have done. I've gone the extra mile to protect our community as best to their abilities. Their jobs were particularly difficult in the face of the ever-changing state and federal guidance. I mean, it was one thing, one day a week and then another thing, another or not by the day. And as well as the concerns by the community about the impacts of closures and the economy, yet we fared better than many other counties in California because of the leadership of the people in your department and the partnership with the community health providers and our human services department that we just heard from previous to you. So as I pointed out in the staff report for this item, COVID showed us that as a nation, we really are not as prepared as we should have been for a pandemic and we really must increase our public health investments to better prepare for the existing challenges ahead. And as you said, equity is at the center of everything we do. We wanna make sure or see how we can better serve and inform people throughout the county of what is available and then we can provide that service. So thank you very much for everything that you have done in your department and everybody in your department. Is there any other comments from board members? Sure. Supervisor Koenig? Yes, thank you, Chair. Thank you, Director Hall. I think everyone in the county gained a new awareness of the health services agency over this past year through your tireless efforts. As you mentioned with over 4,500 hours of uncompensated overtime. And it was a harrowing time, but I think we can all look back with some relief now. What an excellent job you did in the art community, making us one of the counties with the lowest rates of COVID within the state and ultimately within the country. And really all I wanted to say was, I'm really excited to see some of these investments that we're making. I know it's not the most, it might not sound like the most exciting thing, but the fact that we'll be completing the HVAC system at the Emeline campus this upcoming year, which is really going to be allow us to expand some of those clinical services, which as you mentioned, can ultimately be a revenue generator for our county. I think that's really smart. And I'm looking forward to seeing that expansion of services at the Emeline campus, which of course such a great location, very centrally located. As well as the investment at the Harbor Vet Building, which is of course in the first district, also centrally located. And as your presentation highlighted, it's really important that we think about behavioral health services differently and how we make some investments in providing those services, given that they represent about 50% of the department's budget. So I was really pleased to be able to write a letter in support of the Harbor Vet Building to Congressman Panetta. Hopefully we'll see some funds from the federal government in support of that project and look forward to collaborating with you and the rest of the department on other ways that we can provide more behavioral health services locally rather than sending those dollars out of the county. Any other comments from board members? I'll be brief, Mr. Chair or Director Hall. I know that you've heard say a lot over the last year and what I appreciated about today's presentation was it should be a reminder back to the community and the board about the breadth of work that you do that's just beyond so much of the, appeared to be focused on COVID, but it's the expanse is so much larger than that. And the challenges of retention and workforce development are very real. I mean, it's hard enough to do this with a full complement of people and it becomes nearly Sisyphusian to do it with the amount of positions that you have as well as just asking people to work so many additional hours in a way that it is. So while I recognize that the board's flexibility on the budget is limited in the sense of how you and the human services department's budgets are structured with state and federal pass-throughs, I do hope that the community at large recognizes that it's one thing to have this workload, it's another thing to have this workload with a difficulty of retention as well as a difficulty of recruitment for a lot of reasons. And so you've taken the world and definitely a community on your shoulders as did Dr. Newell and others, Jen and others. And I feel like you held us up. You held us up for this last year and we appreciate that. We owe you a great debt of gratitude, but it's incumbent upon both us as well as state and federal leaders to ensure that you're not bearing this front continually just on your own shoulders moving forward. And I appreciate the presentation providing additional information on that. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor. Another Supervisor is going to make a comment. Yeah. Oh, Supervisor Caput. That'll be all right. I'll lower the hands. Anyway, thanks a lot, Mamie. I'm sure this has been the last year and a half. It's probably been the toughest and hardest of your career. And it's been, I know it has been for us. We've gone through other crises in the past, but this past year and a half has been unprecedented. So thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. Any other comments from the board? Board member. Any comments from the public? Yes, I have one speaker. Yes, go ahead. Surge Kagnu, your microphone is available. Hi, good morning members of the board. Great thanks to Director Hall for the presentation and for all of your staff who have struggled throughout the last year serving our community as well as struggling to care for themselves as well. My name is Surge Kagnu and I serve proudly on the Mental Health Advisory Board and on the Neighborhood Court's Restorative Justice Program. I speak these comments for myself and do not represent either group. I wish to speak on two topics. As Director Hall mentioned, the proposed budget reflects not offering indigent services. I believe this is referred to on page 161 as the MetaCruz program. Indigent members of our community include those who do not have insurance or do not qualify for MediCal such as the undocumented. Those in the gap between qualifying for MediCal or not being able to afford insurance as well as those who have had MediCal but have used their allotted days for inpatient services. It's unclear whether this will affect equity in residents in South County more than North County. Not offering mental health and substance use disorder services for our indigent community members will have unmeasured but significant community costs. More people on the streets suffering in crisis causing both social and health impacts. More negative interactions with the community leading to even worse community perception of those suffering from mental health and substance use disorder issues. More incidents with law enforcement emergency services and the ER increased misuse of our jail. More likelihood of overdoses and deaths for those denied substance use disorder treatment. The second topic that I wanted to mention was the 16 unfunded positions.  Thank you. The second point that I wanted to point out was the 16 unfunded positions in our budget. Their mental health client specialists for senior mental health client specialists and medical assistant and nurse and manager, social worker, deputy public guardian, a fee clerk, people in billing accounting and analysis and an analyst. There are costs of unfunded direct service and administrative positions. We have higher caseloads, higher workloads for existing staff, higher levels of stress for those remaining, higher job turnover, higher challenges in finding staff which Director Hall referred to on our inability to find psychiatry staff. They have the ones that are left have less time per client. They have less job satisfaction. They have less support for clients. They have less, there's less support and oversight for programs and in all, we'll have less out lower outcomes. I'm not saying that these are easy problems with easy answers. What I'm saying that within this budget or as soon as possible, our County needs to find a way to support our County staff and to serve all in our County who are in need. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other comments from the public? There are no other speakers to this item, Chair. Thank you. Bring it back to close that and bring it back to the board for any actions. I'll move the recommended actions. Second, Director Koenig. Move my friend second by Koenig. Please call the roll. Supervisor Friend. Aye. Koenig. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. Ms. Fiercen. Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, that completes our agenda for today's item of our discussions on the budget. Before I move to close this and that tomorrow we will go to parks, planning, public works and plant acquisition. Mr. Palacios, is there anything that to be brought up that we should address before we adjourn until tomorrow? No, Chair. There's a staff has no further presentations today and we're ready for tomorrow's budget hearings to resume. Okay, so we will open that hearing at nine o'clock tomorrow morning with the parks department. Thank you and we will recess or adjourn until tomorrow's hearings on those departments. Thank you everyone and see you tomorrow. Thank you.


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Thank you, Liz and Erin for hosting that. A little bit of recap of Desk of Lady Aida including my great search. We'll play JP's product pick of the week. Time travel. Got a little cool thing from an Aida Fruit team member that I'm going to post up on our blog and on video. Some advanced manufacturing. Made in New York City factory footage. 3D printing. Eye on MPI. Brought to you by Aida Fruit and DigiKey. Top secret that's the big chunky one. We're going to do some new products. Can I answer your questions? We're going to do all that and more. Don't forget we answer the questions on discord.aidefruit.it slash discord or discord.gg slash Aida Fruit. That is what we call Ask an Engineer show this week. And we'll talk about what these toasters are and more but this is a live feed coming off a microcontroller right now. This second. This second right now. Can I just press the button? Press the button. No signal. There it is. Hold it down. What'll happen if I hold it down? It'll stay in the signal for a while. Oh yeah? Yeah. So we'll talk about this. It's a big deal because you can do stuff like this with a microcontroller. So cool. And we'll talk about the show in a minute. But this is me. We're able to do a lot of cool stuff that seemed impossible just a few months ago.  That's right. Okay. So the code is RPT, kink kink. RP think kink. Irpus kink kink. Yeah. Rumpelstiltskin. RP think kink. You get free stuff. Maybe. Maybe. Oh yeah. Not that micro bit. We're done with the micro bit. Yeah, but it's a cool video. It's on the truck. Yeah. We got a purple pack and stock. They're back. The freebies that people love. $99 or more.  And then $149 or more. You get a pink KB2040. It's our RP2048 dev board with STEMIQT, cast-slided pads, USB Type-C. It's pro micro pinout compatible, so it's a great update to many projects. UPS ground, free shipping when you order $199 or more. And not a micro bit. Circuit Playground Express. We got more in stock. The chip shortage is solely ending. Our favorite microcontroller board is free when you order $299 or more. It's got a SAMD21, two buttons, piezo, lots of capacitive touchpads, neopixels, and more. Yeah. For the chip shortage, it's the beginning of the end, not the end of the beginning. I think that makes sense. Yeah. We do live shows. And this week, Liz and Karen hosted it. Thank you so much. On the show and tell, you know, I'm not supposed to have favorites. However, I'm just going to go over some of the things that wasn't shown on tell. So please watch it. It's on wherever you watch our videos. So we had the Feather RP 2040 DVI showoff demo from Phil B, who worked on a lot of this. Cool. Scott Schitt, some of the DVI work that he's working on with Circuit Python. That means you can do things like go online with it, display text. Really neat. Mark Schitt's a GIF work, so you can just kind of pump out the animated GIFs to display. A portal gun. Kevin was live from an event show, just like really cool digikey tank. Taba showed the thing that we wanted to build. Like it's amazing. It's a video synth, like triangles and everything. And Todd just mentioned this in the chat, but I think it's worth mentioning too is one of the neat things about doing video stuff on a microcontroller like this, it's instant. You just don't wait. Like you turn it on and it's on. Yeah. Like, I think we've all waited forever just watching these. We've watched a bunch of video synths and they're all really cool. They're fine. They use Raspberry Pi. And so like you're waiting like a minute for it to boot and you're like, is it working? And most of the time, you know, you're tweaking stuff and it doesn't.  I really like the idea of like fast iterations with video.  A really neat tank, but it's building to explore the underground sewer system in his Florida home because the houses are built on concrete. And if you get a plumber, they want to charge you a lot. So why not build your own sewer bot? So I thought that was kind of cool. So we do show until every single week, some 30 p.m. Eastern time. We also do a show called Desk of Lady Eda and we do it in two parts this week. Part one, what did you show? Okay, for this lady, I showed off the Think, Inc. Feather, which is, of course, this week's new product. I also showed off a bunch of, sorry, I showed off U2IF, which is a way to, but was it this week? We've got a lot of speaks. Maybe this is this week. U2IF, which lets you program and control feather boards through USB. And so I was actually showing the Think, Inc. Feather warning off of Steve Python. I also showed off a new design, which is a prop maker, a feather wing. This is Dan's idea. So it has an accelerometer and servo and I2S output and neopixel driver. So good for props. And we do a segment called The Great Church, where you help people find the things they need on digikey.com. And then this week, you did what? Oh, I remember. Okay. So I was doing USB-C and power delivery USB-C. And for the board and we have it in the, it's not out yet, top secret section. I needed a regulator that would give you 3.3 volts, even if I had 20 volt power coming out of the micro controller. So sorry, the USB-C port, because USB-C power delivery can go from five volts up to 20. But the chip still needs 3 volts regulated output. So searching for LDOs is like a classic, you know, 5% of the time that's what you're doing on digikey. And I go through a lot of the settings and we found a lot of good options. All right. Then on Tuesdays, we have JP's product pick of the week. Here's this week's highlight. This is it. This is the product pick of the week. This week it is the Itsy Bitsy NRF 52 840 bolted to the side here. I'm just running a ground and one input pin to the switch contacts there. When I am listening to music on my phone and then I suddenly need to pay attention to something, this is programmed to act as consumer control over Bluetooth LE to the phone. Right. So you're rocking out to your tunes and then someone needs your attention. Something needs your attention. Boom! Hit the big button. That just sent Bluetooth radio wave-youles across the ether into the phone. Watch the play button there. It's playing. It's pausing. It's the Itsy Bitsy NRF 52 840. And on Thursday, JP's workshop and Friday, deep dive with Tim. All right, time travel. I got one little news item. I'm going to try to do this more and more and more. So a lot of folks at Adafruit are artists, they're musicians, they're writers. And so I'm always saying like, hey, if you have a book or something, I'll put it up on the blog. A lot of times people ask like, oh, what are the people at Adafruit? What music do they listen to? I'm sure they're like cool, cool weirdoes. Cool weirdoes. Yeah. And so this one is from Olivia and she has a couple of books coming out. And one is called Black Mask, a novel. Back Mask. What, like Back Mask, sorry. A novel. And the other one, and let me go to the Lockdown Laureate. Yeah, I like Lockdown Laureate. So it's a bunch of stories about doing stuff over the lockdown. So let me go to that. So I put all this on the site on our blog. So you can see Back Mask and Lockdown Laureate. And if you want to read about these, one is more of a, well, they're science fiction-y. But if you want to support an independent author, I'm going to buy a copy and just read one of the things that one of our folks make. One of our team members is an album, probably familiar with some of the music. So this is a book. And it's on our website. So let's take it out. Yeah. All right. Next up, lady, let's do some Python on hardware. All right. This week in Python on hardware land, kind of a big deal, I guess, depending on what you think a big deal is in the world of electronics. So Sony, they were making the Raspberry Pis in the UK. And they still do. They still do. And they make some in Japan. Yeah. And so this announcement is Sony backs Raspberry Pi with funding and access to AI chips. So basically, the way I'm reading this is Sony's investing in Raspberry Pi at the valuation of $500 million. That's what Raspberry Pi, not the foundation. This is the commercial trading company. And what it looks like they're doing is saying, hey, like, we're going to, you know, make Raspberry Pis, but we want to make sure there is AI chips on the edge. So a lot of the uses for Raspberry Pi is for commercial uses. Yeah. So people want to use a AI for voice recognition or face recognition without connecting to the internet or without needing internet control. So so many people use Raspberry Pi for digital signage or like entry computers or, you know, whatever. A lot of products use them. So it will be interesting to see Sony investing is really smart because of course, if they're manufacturing, they want to see Raspberry Pi succeed, but they also have a deep insight into the Raspberry Pi manufacturing and distribution. And like I said, they manufacture in Wales. They, I think they manufacture in Japan as well. Yeah. And one little bit that I thought that's interesting. It says in a typical year, roughly 70% of the sales now come from commercial customers, betting it in products and factories or consumer devices. So Raspberry Pi, the commercial company, 70% going to industry. And you know, there is a shortage of Raspberry Pi's. Yeah. I think we're one of the few companies that's figured out a solution that you're not going to please everybody all the time. We can please some of the people some of the time. And we're getting, you can look on like our PI locator on Twitter. People are getting Raspberry Pi's from us. Absolutely. You can always, you know, find people who are buying them, put them on eBay for like $200, but we're not interested. But they are becoming more available. And of course, the compute modules are very popular with industry, I mean, that's they clearly they designed it for industry customers. Yeah. And so CNBC has overview article, they dig into a little bit more of the finances and like what this could mean the specific chip and what they're doing with education and more. So check it out. It's interesting as far as like what's going on in the electronics world in general. So Raspberry Pi and amount of funding. So before they got funding on our evaluation of 500 million, so you figure like 45 million or something, probably this round is probably the same too. So yeah, yeah. So maybe maybe let's be like really conservative. Like let's say it's like $60 million altogether all the funding. Yeah. So it gives them a good runway to beef up production, hire more people, do a lot more stuff. Arduino last late last year, 30 something million in funding. And then they have a pro line. And that looks like the direction they're going. They're going to the enterprise. Commercial. What? Yeah. So like that seems to be their focus as well. And then you have Particle. I think they haven't been in the news for funding recently. I don't know if they're going for it right now. And then there's like other maker maker as companies from the past that that took on funding. There was little bits. That's now part of Sphero. And then there was MakerBot and then eventually went to Stratasys. So I don't have time to do like a big maker business overview or like all these players. Someone else should do it. It's one of those things where like, I think when you're doing the business of hardware, it's really hard to write about it. Plus I'll say this like back in the day or even now anytime. So I have the article about Arduino like over 10 years ago on Make.  And so you can't, it's hard to write about things if you're in the same business. So I always put our disclosures and everything that we do. But it's an interesting time. There's more investment going into hardware. A good example was today with these RP2040 chips were doing video out. Like this is like really intense stuff that you can do. So yay, I'm happy to see Raspberry Pi get a new round of funding because the RP2040 has been something that's really helped us quite a bit, especially during the chip shortage. And hopefully they dump more resources in the stuff like this. Yeah, really, really like that. More Python on hardware. So the other thing, PyCon is coming up next week. Check out our extensive posts. Katnil will be there. Jep Miller will be there. Please go say hi and meet with them. Also, if you're attending, like Katnil know ahead of time on the Discord channel, and they can get you set up for if you want to do the sprints and things like that. So that is this week's hardware news. Don't forget, you can get this newsletter every single week, delivered to your mailbox from Adafürk Daily.  Okay, let's do some open source hardware stuff, lady. We're an open source hardware company because that's what we like to do.  Yes. Thousands. Let's check out the guides. Okay. So Philby updated the Pico Arduino DVI library. Oh, can you click on it, sweetie? You can click on it now. So good examples. I'm clicky. And the screen savers. Yeah. So the new thing is screen saver demos. So we've got slowly. Oh, online. Yeah, you're online, but it's just, it's okay. So we've got a logo bounce, and this is the DVI. And this is actually 640 by 480 because it's actually writing pixels at the time of TV. Flying toasters, which you saw, you know, sprite based toaster animation, and aquarium, another classic after dark one, which is a lot of people's favorites. And then TV host, which does drawing like the person is a sprite, but the background is actually drawn live. So he actually does the math. And that's why, and you can have it like do something different forever, but the person graphics is what you have as a sprite. And thanks to JP for dressing up because I don't have a tie. Yeah, Laura was going to do it. We're like, oh, you know, like to do it right, we have to do a tie and everything. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, someone can make, in the chat, they're like, can I get a start at Starfield? Code it? You can do it. Absolutely. You can do it. There's tutorials and everything. Okay. So let's go back to the guides. Okay. Blinka, Circuit Python, oh yeah, Circuit Python libraries. Dan updated that and wrote some text. The ADT7410 breakout has been revised. It's now STEMIQT compatible. And I don't remember what happened with the Raspberry Pi camera timelapse. And then Ketney wept up the Feather RP2040 with RFM69. The Feather RP2040, RFM9X is coming next. And then Liz did a guide on using the Circuit Python. We classic controller. She wrote a library and is a tutorial on how to use it. All right. And then just a little side note, because we looked at this today, I thought this was, I didn't, you know, I'm not doing the whole segment on the show. But Washington posted an article about where Google is scraping data and make their large language models and AI and all this stuff. And I thought it was interesting because the number one site was Washington Post, well, you know, maybe, but number 15 was Instructables. And that's interesting to us because Instructables, what you know, well, we have history with them too. You know, we've done stuff. It's kind of where you started putting your how-tos and guides on online when we started Adafruit. I won a lot of contests. You won a lot of contests, in fact. And they told me I can't. You can't.  Then they made me a judge. Yeah. If you can't beat them, judge them. So what's neat about that is, I mean, there's a how-to site because some of the times when we see the large language models and what they, what's like, make me some code that runs on a microcontroller, it's all our code. We're totally fine with that. Because it's like Adafruit, it has the variable names that say Adafruit all over the place. You could probably just cut and paste the code. It's probably faster than going through a Shinshan GPT like thing. But it's interesting to see where it's getting this information from. So of course, like right away, like, I'm like, let me try Adafruit. Let me try. It's part of it. Let me try some other things. So there's a little prompt that you can put in the website. Hackaday was like 300. And that's interesting to me. I started to site a long time ago. It's a lot of content on it. And it goes back like it goes back over 15 years. And so there's a lot of technical content there. And that's why some of the times I'm like, well, this is actually pretty good. How did it do that? How did it predict the next word? Because it's essentially what does peanut butter and jelly. So it knows the jelly. And that's just a very, very basic example. And I think Google CEO did the same example. And he's like, does that work? But check out what's in there. Because, you know, obviously they're scraping learn. And obviously they're finding a lot of resources. We're okay with that. I have some opinions about the best way to do it and how they could source that and say where they're getting it from. But it's kind of interesting. That's where we're at now. This will all be solved in the lawsuits later. But for now, check out some of the, see if you can find, if you put something on Instructables, use, ask some of these large language models. It was really popular. It was doggy wheelchairs. How to make your own. Yeah, that was a very popular. Yeah. And there's some projects that are like a little on the line of legality. And like, maybe, maybe it'll say, well, I can't show you how to do that. I thought that was interesting. So that was the news for that. Sorry for it. So the time-off case, that was, some of that I thought was a time-off. This week's 3D Hangouts. Yeah. I totally had a brain bled. We're gonna, we're gonna play the video. Yeah. Okay. Let's do some factory footage. And that's the factory footage. One thing, George just mentioned this, and I have to, because we just had a very similar conversation. George just says, the AIS stuff reminded me of the music samplings of the 90s. So Two Life Crew got an incredible amount of trouble, all sorts of things. But a lot of it was music sampling at the time. And I was just talking to the lady about Two Life Crew. I don't know if you ever heard of them before, but they weren't like, they're just like, they're just like breaking every rule possible. And they were in court all the time. But it does remind me that when music sampling first hit the scene, it's like, is this okay? All of music is music sampling. So we'll figure out what happens next. Anyway, I knew it was gonna come up somehow. Good. Good work there. All right, anyways. The Two Life Crew was mentioned in Act 1. Their music must be played by Act 3. That's right. Let's do 3D printing and we'll see you on the other side of those videos. You can build a time-lapse rig with the new camera module from Raspberry Pi. We were able to capture the stunning time-lapse with dynamic exposure thanks to the new Pi Camera's HDR mode. 3D print our snap-fit case to house a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi Ramoni's 4-inch hyper-pixel display, and the new camera module V3. The new module features autofocus, a 12 megapixel sensor, and an HDR mode offering excellent image quality. High dynamic range means you can capture perfect exposures in your time-lapse videos. Whether you're looking to capture blooming plants or fluffy clouds, you don't have to worry about blown out or underexposed images. Get the parts and accessories to build this project. Links are in the description. Download the free files and 3D print the parts to build the case in your favorite filaments. Start by installing the camera's ribbon cable through the slit in the front cover. Short standoffs secure the camera to the front while the Pi is secured to the back with machine screws. The hyper-pixel display fits onto the Pi's header and the enclosure goes over the whole assembly and snap fits onto the front cover. This mounting bracket holds a quarter 20 tripod screw and gets secured to the side of the case with additional screws. A separate cover snap fits over the camera module's PCB to keep it protected. This tilt ball head makes a nice addition to a mini tripod and allows you to position the camera in different angles. We hope this inspires you to check out the new camera module from Raspberry Pi for making your own time-lapse rig. They design single board computers and they have a new one. It's like if people remember the Beagle Board, original on the Beagle Bone. They have a new one called the Beagle Play. So this is the Beagle Play. It is chop-full. This has like everything in it. It is a ultimate, all possible connections available. New York's hottest club is Beagle Board. It's there. It's all there. This is the back of the board. So this is a base. It features a ton of chips from TI. The main core is, I'm trying to remember, it's 8D Sitarra AM6254. It's a quad core A53 chipset. It's also got a cortex M4 in it and it's got like tons of add-ons. So you might be familiar from this board again. The previously most popular board was the Beagle Bone, which had actually a couple spin-offs. There was the Beagle Bone Green and the Beagle Bone AI. But the Beagle Bone, it was a predecessor to the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi came afterwards and this board was really neat because with single board computer, it had Ethernet. It had DC power in USB and a lot of GPIL. And it was very inexpensive. It was about 60 bucks, which is, at the time, was pretty amazing considering that PC one of four boards easily started adding up and could be a couple hundred bucks a piece. All here because of the chumby. We really are all here because of the chumby and the Beagle. If you like the Raspberry Pi, single board computing, go Bunny. Thanks for bringing this into the world. For makers. For makers, yes. It was like, we all saw it and were like, oh, wow. This is cool. And I remember Beagle Bone came out and was like, this is awesome. Very cool. And we heard it. And the thing is, is that, and there was also, you know, the Beagle Board exam. This is actually the original one. And this was cool. But I think, I think we remember like why this was not as popular. I think it was just really hard to add more hardware connected. You see, there's like two audio, but I think it was tougher to connect to the GPIO. I think the GPIO wasn't easily exposed or is it going to point to or a two millimeter pitch header or something. But this was like the original. And then, you know, this is that's available. And then the Beagle Bone is still available as well. And this has, we have support for it and a lot of people have support for it.   Yeah. Okay. I want rockstar, meatball. I want pineapple. It's okay. So there's a lot. Actually, you know, let's go to the next image first. And then we'll go back because this one is actually a little easier to talk about. Okay, so the main core there is the AM66254. Like I mentioned, it's an A53 cortex. Quad core, I think it runs at 1.3 gigahertz. There's also a cortex M4 sub processor in there. It comes with, there's on chip SRAM, but then there's an additional 2 gigabyte of DDR4 memory and 16 gigabyte of EMMC. So that's where the file system and operating system live. There's a real-time clock, the BQ32002. On the other side, you'll see the battery holder for it, which I think is really useful. It's like a lot of times people have an add-on to their Raspberry Pi where they add a real-time clock, but this is like all built in and ready to go, even with that coin cell battery backup so you can pull power and it will know the time even if the internet doesn't connect. There's the TPS652191 PMIC. That's just the power management because there's a lot of rails on this board. The wireless and connectivity is really interesting. So they, I don't want to say they went overboard, but they kind of went overboard in a good way. So they've got Gigabit Ethernet with the RTL 8211F and they have a separate single-pair Ethernet. That's the RJ11 on the other side and that's with the DP83 chipset. Those aren't like the controllers. I think those were only like the fives. I think the Ethernet support is, of course, built into the SOC itself. For wireless, they've got WL8707. That's a dual band, so 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi, two separate antennas. The antennas come with the board and they have a separate CC1352P7 and that provides VLE and sub gigahertz. Sub gigahertz in this case is ZigBee or Thread and other 2.4 gigahertz. Sorry, yeah, 2.4 gigahertz. I think 900 megahertz. It doesn't have Lora support, by the way, because I looked and it was like, okay, it doesn't do Lora, but it does do like basic packet radio. So there's also two antenna ports for that as well. So let's go back one. So it's the main chips. So there's like 15... There's all the fixings. There's all the fixings. So starting at the top left, you'll go clockwise. So there's the real-time clock battery. So I showed you the real-time clock on the other side. You'll need a CR1220. Just pop it in there to get battery back up. There's user LEDs. They blink when you power it on and all that good stuff. There's a JTAG connector and this uses that like quick JTAG link or something. I can't remember the name of it, but it's like, it has little press fits and you plug it in. So you want a JTAG connect to the AM6254. You can do that. The microbus, so this is for microelectronica and then you have like a thousand different breakout boards for like every single SPI, iSquad C or UR or ADC board and you can just plug them right in. So there's a socket ready to go and there's like the little outlines showing the three different sizes. There's OLEDi, which I was trying to research a little bit and I didn't get very far, but I believe it's like LVDS compatible. There's CSI2. So that connector there is the camera connector and it's pin compatible with the Pi Zero camera connector. So if you want to use it with Raspberry Pi cameras, just get the Pi Zero to camera connector. Then there's Grove expansion and that gives you, you know, UR or iSquad C or there is an analog output groves. I don't think there's an ADC on here and I couldn't find there's an ADC on the chip itself. So I think it might not support the analog input groves. It only does like your iSquad C and GPIO. There's a quick expansion. So this will work with all of our STEMI QT boards as well. So that's a ready to go iSquad C and they have a tutorial I'm actually using. This is like the one thing they had a really good tutorial on. There's a user button that you can use. There's a separate microSD storage. That's not the main operating system storage. Although you can boot from microSD card if you want to configure it. Why not? You could, but you could use the onboard storage EMMC which is going to be nice and fast and then the microSD for data logging or whatever and that's you can mount and unmount it. There's a reset button. Again, there's that JTEC connector, oh sorry, there's a separate JTEC connector for the TC-1352. That's the wireless connectivity. A power button. You hold that down to turn on the connectivity LEDs for like all the different connections and then the single pair ethernet which I found interesting because I've never really seen a single board computer that had single pair ethernet and on one hand it's pretty cool. Could be that a lot of robotics and automation are moving towards single pair ethernet. We covered it in a previous INFPI. If so then you can maybe get power and data over one cable and that could be really good for robotics and stuff because this is a nice small board with four mounting holes. Yeah, this could be robotics board, home automation board. It could be both. Yeah, it's also got gigabit ethernet and HDMI out 1080p, HDMI from the built-in and the Beaglebot had a separate chip that did it. This is actually like natively on the AM 6254 core. USB-A 2.0 host. There's only one USB port so if you're used to Raspberry Pi you'll look at that for four ports. It's because they had a hub built-in. You can just attach an external hub if you need. There's your debug header, so ground RX and TX and USB-C. I'll be honest, I actually didn't use the USB connectivity but probably if you plug in the computer it shows up as a gadget device. It's also used for power so I just plugged into my USB-C power plug and it worked fine. Okay, so that was a lot. Let's get into some of the parts. The main core is the AM 625 series. It comes in one, two, four core. This is the four core version. Max frequency, 1.4 gigahertz, 64 bits has Linux support. You can check out, there is a bunch of hardware support here. It's got CAN, GPIO, SPI, iSquared-C, Wolverine coder, et cetera, et cetera. Tons of great boxes. There is a tutorial on using iSquared-C for the Stemma and Quick. I believe that it might only have iSquared-C support via Grove but a lot of things are iSquared-C so you'll be good for that and then what we're going to do is, I just got this, we're going to get Blinko working on it so you can use all of our Circuit Python library drivers. Just great timing because for the folks who are like, well, I need a single core computer and whatever. I'm just going to get something now instantly because I can't wait for Raspberry Pi. To be honest, it's under a hundred bucks. It is actually cheaper to get this than to get a Raspberry Pi, add the EMMC, add the real-time plug. Yeah, you can't get all of these single pairs easily. If you use Blinko, which we're going to have, if you've done Python things, then it works everywhere. That's the reason we did it because we're like, well, maybe one day people are going to be using all these single core computers and we don't want to rewrite the drivers every single time. A lot of stuff and what's nice is, the only thing is there's no GPIO. The GPIO, if there are any, are on the micro bus. A lot of times, let's see the trade-off, you can't plug in existing hands or bonnets, but it has everything built in already. I think for a lot of situations where people are using Raspberry Pi, but they don't need GPIO, they just want you to connect accessory boards, this is a no solder solution. I actually like that they want a different direction. They're like, we're not going to try to make a Raspberry Pi. It's kind of a waste of time. I feel like there's this, like, what's the Raspberry Pi killer? It's, you know, banana pie. I want to try, like, this is something different. Yes. And I like that. Like that they want a different direction. That's right. Okay, that's this week's IonMPI. Check it out. It's double now. It's 262 in stock. Yeah. Okay, later, before we go off to new product land, the code is RP Think, Inc. It'll all make sense in a few moments. Let's kick it off with some new products. All right. All right. Well, last week, we didn't have these in stock, I think. Yeah, in stock, Coaster. Coaster is what they did for logo. Very rare, because we don't put anything, we don't really put logo anything other than PCBs. So this is our way around that. Yes. And they come with Mumper, which we're not shown in this video, but they have a little buffer. Super cheap. Comfortable. Next up, we've got a panel mount for the Raspberry Pi 3 cameras. These have a slightly bigger, like, camera body. And so I think we already carried the camera V2 version of these. I think these are from Pi Hut.  This is obviously not the big lens cameras. This is like the noir or plain autofocus cameras. Next up, we've got an update to the ADI wing. This was done in a partnership with DigiKey. We had to do a couple of visions for stuff. So we're like, let's go in and revise it. It's the original version. You can see here did not have a STEMI QT port, but now it does. So you can have all the parts from the space in the same location, but now you've got STEMI QT connection. So you can add more sensors. Or you probably could connect directly to this. I mean, you wouldn't get access to the interrupt pins and stuff. We've also got an update for the Metro ESP32-S2 Express. First off, we put a TVUSB logo on there because we wanted to celebrate the work that TAC has done with TVUSB. And second... What's that cool logo, by the way? Cool logo. See the eye is a little ESB drives. Oh, that's fine. Is it for cool? And thanks to Bruce for designing it. The boot button moved. The boot button originally... Oh, can you go like... Yeah. Yeah, because I'll show you the difference. So the boot button, you was in the middle and now it's in the top right on the edge. So it's easy to get to.  It's got the STEMI QT still. It's got the ESP32-S2, four megabytes of flash, two megabytes of RAM. It's got the JTAG connection. Even though, to be honest, all people use JTAG. But if you wanted to, it's SWD is there. USB-C with fuse, DC power with on-off switch, regulator and LiPo battery and charger. Because we figured the ESP32-S2 and Wi-Fi would probably want to take it, make it portable, even though it's not super ultra low power. We also changed the battery monitor. It used to be a resistor divider. It now is a Max 17 048. So it works a lot better because the ADC on the ESP32 is not linear and it uses a lot less power. All right, more revisions. Another revision. This is the original, sorry, go back. So this is the solar DC charger that is our original. We have two of these. And this one is the first one we designed. And it features the MCP73871. The original version had a mini USB connector. We were going to do a revision on this. We had to change the DC jack anyways. And so, hey, why not do the sub-screen over? And now is a USB type-C connector instead of a mini-B connector. All right, number 390. This is deep cut. It says early. Yeah, this is very early. But I will say we have what I consider a better solar charger. But this one is still... There is some benefits to this over the other one. And they're both very good. So for people who need the old version, I'm going to keep it around. Okay. All right. And then these we were just getting to putting these in the store last week. And we wanted to spend more time on it since it was a pretty long show. So we want to dedicate a segment to this. These are the new floppy disk costumes for SD cards. Yes. And this is my Charlotte. And these are so cute. So this is you take a standard SD card and you put these stickers on it.  Yeah. All day long. We're all like, hey, retro, fun, everything. But we're not able to make our SD cards look like the way they should. So now... Now they do. Now you can end. This is okay for the SD card. Now you can write on them. And you can put these out. And then you can tell the youngins this is how we used to save things. Yes. So you get a pack. You get a pack of eight and two of each color. Blue, pink, yellow, and... And start an independent maker for all these ideas and cool stuff that's coming on. Very cute. All right. This star of the show tonight besides you, Lady Aida, our team, our customers, our community, and everybody who makes things go is the Thinkink. Yay. The Thinkink feather, which was originally the Thinkink Trinkie, but people didn't know that. How would they know that? Because I didn't tell anybody. They decided to turn this into one of our feather bones boards. So this is an RP2040 feather. And on the end there, it's got a standard 24 pin EPD connector. And I'll talk about that. It's got USB-C. It's got battery. It's got RP2040. We said food button, battery charging, eight megabytes of flash, 264K of RAM, stem and QT port, lovely silk screen with penguin. And then all the GPIO you can shake a stick at. And the way the bones board work is it has all the standard pinout for GPIO on the feather. And then we usually have about five, six pins left over. And so what I've turned that into is I've connected them. You see on the right there, there is a power supply and manager for a 24 pin EPD. So it's really overhead. And I'll show the EPDs. So the displays almost all have the same connector on them. It's a thankfully kind of a standard. They're these 24 pin connectors. And this is a 2.13 inch. And this is a 2.9 inch. And this is a 5.65 inch seven color version, which I think is neat. It takes a while. We can see it's like it's got gray and orange and yellow. And they all have the same connector. And so you can easily pop out and replace a different e-paper display. And then you'll have to change the code for it. But all the boost circuitry that you need, you need all these components to make it run are pre-connected for you. And the RP2040 is a really great chip to run e-ink displays because they need a lot of RAM. And they need a lot of RAM because you have to draw the entire display at once. That's why we call it thinking. Thinking. Or than just an e-ink display that goes into this. It's a bunch. It's a thinking. But you still get all of the feather pins besides. And so you can connect your e-ink display. We have also extension cables for this connector. And then you can plug feather wings on top if you'd like. So if you want to connect canvas, you can pop on a canvas feather. If you want to add on. So I'm just like, all the e-ink, all the other feathers that we've got. If you want to add joystick or TFT or Ethernet or Wi-Fi, also you can do that by just plugging in a feather. But for a lot of purposes, if you just need to have a board that runs any standard e-ink display, and you don't want to do any soldering, this is plug and play when you go. All right. It is this week's new products. Okay. Don't forget the code is rpcingank. We're going to do questions. You can pop them in the chat. While we do a very long top secret segment. So buckle up. Don't tell anybody because this is a top secret, right? But we'll see you on the other side. We're going to play some videos and then we're going to show some of the renderings from some of the new things that are coming out. So here we go. Early data, where's this? This is an IntelliQey's assistive device, which has a matrix of touches, which is behind it. And then these swappable overlays, and each overlays a little bit different. You see this one has like mouse and keyboard and pretty keyboard. And this has like a bigger kind of alphanumeric keyboard. And it uses a photo cell to determine which overlay you have installed. And this is really useful device, but unfortunately it's no longer supported. And the driver downloads firmware over USB from the computer, like a Windows computer. And so if you're not running Windows 10, but other devices like Chromebooks or tablets with mobile can't use this because they don't have that driver firmware to download into this device. But what we can do is use one of our USB host feathers. And what this does is HID translation. So this chip enumerates the IntelliQey's through the USB connection, downloads the firmware, and then asks it what overlay it's got, and tacked an amazing job reversing during the original driver. And then to connect it to something like an iPad, you would connect using what's called a camera kit. And here I've got like the notes app up. And then you just give it a second because it needs to download that firmware. It'll beep when it's ready. And then you can type on this and it shows up just like keyboard input. So hello. I, space, oops, I, space, am, space. It's tough to type on a telly. All right. Good enough. Good work. Working. How late are you to business? This is me testing out the Feather RP2040 with e-paper support. This is the Think Ink board. So this Feather RP2040, it's great. It's got 264K of RAM, which you need because you have to buffer ink displays. And it's got a standard 24 pin connector. Pretty much every display for ink that's not like a reader display, like the standard static ones, color, you know, monochrome, tricolor, etc. They all have the same pinout on this 24 pin connector, which makes this Feather really great for making all sorts of ink projects. So let me line this up and run the test. We're using a Pico to program the RP2040 through mass storage. This works really fast. And then when it passes, it lets you know by beeping and also changing the display. So coming soon to the Adafruit shop. Really? What is this? Hey, this is an Adafruit RP2040 Feather with DVI. And it's driving this monitor to make some flowing toasters. Philby updated our guide on Pico DVI to add a couple of fun screensavers. So that's one.  Got a couple others here. We've got Aquarium. So I basically said, hey, here's my two favorite after dark screensavers. Hold on, it's loading up. And then give it a second. It's like thinking, thinking. And then Aquarium. I love this because it was just like fish. And it was a pretty chill and peaceful. There's also a very cool Max headroom demo starring JP. TV host. But you can customize it with your own graphics as well. So check out the RP2040 DVI Feather. You can drive monitors really easily in Arduino and the Adafruit shop. All right, Lady, what is this? This is me testing out Scott's latest Circuit Python build with DVI output support. Look, this is out of monitor connected. And you see my monitor connected to the DVI output. And it's running Circuit Python. So I can run codes. For example, I've got this cool port of Turtle, which is, you know, like logo for Circuit Python. It's cool. And then there's also, let me run the Sirpinski triangle demo. That one worked really well too. So copy and paste. So you can now do graphics really easily. So if you like Circuit Python using Display IO, but to an HDMI monitor. It's pretty cool. I love triangles. Okay, and we got some samples of things in and some coming soon. Look at everything right now. It's okay. This is the TMAG.  So this is a 3D magnetometer from TI. And then this is kind of cool. This was actually Anne's idea. This is a, and actually a prototype built of it. So I can show it. Yeah. So we're getting really close. Just we have DVI. So that means we have video. We've got keyboard stuff. We've got mouse stuff. We've got joysticks. So this is a PC joystick to STEMI QT adapter. So this is a AT tiny and it's done doing C-Sauce. We can get the analog inputs and button inputs and convert them over. I suppose you for reading. So this is a couple. I'm going to say it was great when we first started getting Wi-Fi on microcontrollers. Yeah. Super cool. Amazing. Now we finally get like video out. Yeah. Because like video was like, that was like for a microcontroller. Normally you'd like to use a computer. Yeah, it's been around for a while. I was talking about like really low cost, super fast, instant video out on microcontrollers. And then being able to plug in something like a PC controller, like game controller, like phone for Raspberry Pi-esque, but shrunk down and then super low cost. Okay, what else? Okay, this is a redesign of our feathers. This is the one side, that's the other side of the feather wing TFT plus joystick. So this board set got like the worst. Everything had to be redesigned.  Like which board got... This board got at the worst. Is it the same? Sorry, the clue got at the worst. The clue like almost every part is. Is it still the clue if we replace everything? Is it, you know, that phrase like if you replace the plank on the boat, is it the same boat? Yeah. Is it still the clue now? It's well, it's not in stock. So now. And then this is a quick board. I just, I just put together, it's a 18-bit ABC, the MCP 3421. I thought that could be handy. Maybe you need an 18-bit ABC. It's slow, but maybe you don't care. Maybe you're like, I just need something. And then this is kind of neat. Actually have this one as a finished prototype as well. So just give me a second. I'm just digging through.  It's really a lot of cool stuff here. Piles of stuff. Because it's like we wanted to do our top secret, but we're going to see. So this is, yeah, this is the FUSB. So let's go to the overhead. So this is a chip that is I squared C and can do power delivery. Communication with USB type C. So the idea is that you can connect this to a microcontroller and you plug in USB type C here. And it will, it'll default give you five volts and you can request like up to 20 volts. And then you can get that higher V bus out here and you still get the data plus data minus line. So it's kind of like a USB-C hacking board. It could be interesting because definitely there's project sports. Like it would be so cool if you plugged it on my controller board into a power delivery and you could get like 12 volts. And you could one your motor, you don't need two power supplies. You don't need USB and something else that has all in one. So this is going to be kind of neat. So this is the FUSB 302.  No, because we should do some questions. Yeah, we're going to get some questions. Yeah. Okay, that is this week's top secret. Okay, we're going to do some questions. Yes. It was a ship of thesis, but. Ship of thesis. But you can call it the chip of thesis. The chip of thesis. Good. Top five came in this week. That's good. Okay, let's do some questions. And then we'll see what else we got. Yeah. On IMPI, what's the micro bus thing on the board? What's that? That's micro ease, like plug and play. It's kind of feather wing. It's like they have multiple definitely hundreds and hundreds of boards. They all use the same pinout and they don't have like Arduino drivers or Python drivers. It's written in their own like CSDK. But if you just want hardware that's broken out into these plug and play boards, I think they're fully assembled too. Okay, do the 24 pin E paper pinouts very much or are they sort of standard on signal types of power? All of them that have the 24 pins have always had the same pinout and power. Some of them need more power because they're bigger displays, but for the most part they're all pin compatible as well. I think there was one display that Scott found that had the, it was upside down. But in general, if it's a 24 pin connector, it's the same 24 pin connector. How do you flash around our 52 840 boards? Well, we use the SWD pins and there's pads on the bottom and then our Pogo jig next to it. And some of our boards have a SWD connector. Okay. Any plans to make module for the USB PD that breaks it out? Five volts and 3.3 volts. Those are what I use most for module pretty great. Yeah. I think there's something there, right? It's this one gives you 3.3 volts, but it's an LDO just so you can kind of get your microcontroller up and booted. Like you need something to get started and then you can have separate power supply. But I think for most people what they would want is you get that high voltage and that's what drives your motor. And you don't necessarily need that much current at 3 volts. Although you can also request 5 volts, I think up to 5 amps. I think it's possible from power delivery, but you need to have a really good cable. All right. And then last question. Ready? How do you go about troubleshooting complex circuit board that you have no schematics? Sure. What would you do? I would check the power supply. Because that's kind of like there's a couple of things that are the most common. I'd look for capacitors that are blown, time-slump caps, short out, electrolytic caps, fail open, busted traces. I mean you can't. Yeah, new continuity. You can check the power supply, fuses. Usually, I mean like salt states, capacitors break and the power supply dies, but not a lot of other things fail on a solid state. Okay. Okay. Okay. Is it? So, we're going to say thank you so much. Don't forget the code is rpthinking. Which are on sale. They're in stock. They're in stock right now this second. You can get these. You can. They are purchasable. You can get these. And then you don't get the display, but we'll have the displays in the store. Yeah. We're trying to make it super easy. So, if you see anything that says thinking, it means that we can like work with our displays. The pinout is even on the back. The pinout's on the back. How convenient. Yeah. So, that's our show. A special thanks to Jesse May behind the scenes and Nate Fritzlack. Doing stuff. Thanks everyone for keeping this going and coming up with cool projects and making this fun to do that support. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do electronics right now. We have so much stuff coming out. I know. We have so much stuff coming out. And what's cool is a lot of the stuff that we're working on is stuff that when someone gets it, they're going to be doing the fun. Well, the more the other part of it, which is making cool projects with it, like the Feather DVI thing. That's going to make you're going to be able to do cool amazing art. We don't even know what people are going to do with this. That's why some of these are so exciting. I remember when we did Cricket with robotics, it was like people are going to come up with amazing robotics projects we didn't even think of. And that's, I think as a creator of things for people to make things, that's when I think it really hits the feels when you see someone do something that you didn't expect. So thank you everyone for doing that and also sharing it. So we'll see everybody on show until next week. We'll see everybody on Ask an Engineer next week. That is our show. This has been Adaford Production. Here is your moment of Xenar. Bye everybody. Thanks for tuning in.


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