Hey, what's up folks? Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noir O'ez. I'm a designer here at Adafruit and joining me every week is my brother Pedro. Good morning, everyone. I'm Pedro. I'm the creative tech here at Adafruit, and every week we're here to share 3D-printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is where we combine 3D printing and DOI electronics to make inspirational projects. That is right. We are back after... It feels like a month. It feels like a month. Yeah. Welcome back, everybody. We hope you are doing well, staying safe in this very hot summer, if you are in the hemisphere of summers. But yeah, it's good to be here if you'd like to join us during the show. If you're watching on other social channels, you can join us in the live broadcast chat room in our Discord server. The link for that is discord.tg-slash-adafruit. So if anyone has any shout-outs or anything, go ahead and pull them in there, and we'll... Well, you can see it there in the screencast. We'll do our usual thing where we kind of do the housekeeping in the morning, and then we'll jump into this week's fun, exciting project. It combines a couple of different things. So yeah, hello, everyone. Good morning. Give a shout-out to everybody hanging out in all the chat rooms we were hanging out in the YouTube chat. Good morning. Conor, David Smith. We're also in the Discord at discord.tg-g-slash-adafruit. Give a shout-out to everybody hanging out in there. Where is my tie? Good morning. Andy Callaway. Good morning, Jim. Herrickson. Liz is in the house. Hello. Andy Callaway. And Duester. Good morning. 29 C. Where Andy's at right now. Yes, back after... Oh man, the COVID finally got me. So we were down for a little bit as it passed through the whole family. You were out on vacation, so you had to stay a couple extra weeks to make sure we didn't affect you. But here we are. We're still getting some projects out. 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We're posting on the other channels. Check it out. On Twitch. On Twitter, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook. So those are all fair. And we just as a background, we use the ReStream iOS for letting us know. Do Westerns on Twitch? Cool, cool. All right. Okay. A tip from Ali, from Ann Calaway says you can drop the resolution in YouTube and that tends to help a little bit. And there it goes again. Ha ha. Well, you know, it's a part of doing these live streams. All right. Let's go ahead and jump in for a demo project. Yeah. So this week's project was a fun idea from Lady Aida herself. She thought it'd be cool to use analog feedback servos to make a sort of a modern take on a two-way communication system. So for the design, I got inspired by different gauges and somehow I stumbled upon a device called a ship engine telegraph. And I remembered, oh yeah, I remember those scenes in the Titanic movie where the captain would use this thing where he would, it was a handle and he would pull the ship to know how fast they want to go, a dead stop, a full stop, et cetera. And I was like, this is such a cool retro device. Like it'd be neat to kind of add those design elements into this project because it's kind of what it needs to be. So an analog feedback servo is kind of the hero of this thing, a half a circle. And what everything I've known about servos is that you never should really move the servo, the shaft of the servo. But this one, it's like, yeah, go for it. So it has this kind of superpower where it has an extra fourth wire and that fourth wire is a built-in potentiometer. So it's able to know what position it's in. So it's a bit of like a positioning sensor in that sense. So we have two of these. And the idea is that they're both connected over Adafruit IO, Adafruit IO is being used as the broker to send and receive the data, you know, the servo position, basically. And then in order to let the program know when it's being held and touched, we're using a piece of copper tape as a touch input sensor. And that that takes me to the main dev board for this one is the ESP32-S2, that's the QTPI format. And it's running circuit Python. And it has built-in capacitive touch. So there's no extra circuitry needed because it's built into the ESP chip. So here's the back of the build X pin on the QTPI there. So the idea is you have two of these in two different rooms. So you can keep track of your friends' activities. Maybe you want to get together for a taco. So I hold it down, let go. And then it's sending the data, the position of the servo over Adafruit IO as a feed. And then this guy picks it up. So they're pretty much running the same amount of code. There's just the difference between the two is that they have a little bit of difference in the middle of the maximum calibration value. So you do have to calibrate these servos to get them in the right positions. So sometimes it won't be perfect. You just got to kind of adjust the value if you want to make it perfect. All right, let's say you want to go out for a walk. So I can move it to the, you know, two different locations, two different Wi-Fi networks, and they still talk to each other because it's using the same Adafruit IO kind of account. So let's do the next one. So I took 180 degrees and I segmented it off by five. So yeah, there it goes. Give it a minute. I think I gave it a false reading. It'll kick back. It wants to go for a walk now. That's great. Yes, I think the slower you go, you give it a second to kind of go. There it goes. So then if you wanted to move this one, let's say person on the other end wants to go for a coffee. So I'm going to go all the way to coffee and hey, it's working. Yay. So there's a lot of fun designing around this servo. And I quickly found any time I'm designing elements for a servo, it's almost always better to design your custom horn and attach it to the stock horns that it comes with. So thankfully, this servo comes with like three different styles of horns. And the disc one, this disc shaped horn ended up being the best because it kind of matches the design of this, of this horn. One of the things I found is like, it's really kind of, you know, there's a lot of give on that. So if you were to make this project, there was a pulveric on the back and that would give you like super sturdiness. And if you look at real ship engine telegraphs, they kind of have that set up where there's two, there's two points here. And it just gives you no play. So you have a really rigid thing. But as a prototype, it's something that's easy to print in like a couple of hours. This design ended up working really well. So the frame, the plate, all of those snap fit together so they can still kind of come apart. And then there's just this base plate here that kind of stands it up, right? So if you want to adjust this, you can just print this piece again and adjust the angle if you want to do a different viewing angle. And the fun bit was like these these icons here, this is just a piece of sticker paper. And I just printed it out on some project ink or sticker paper. So these are emojis. And it's using the open source emoji font. So you can change these out if you wanted to do some different type of activity or maybe some letters instead. And I just thought it was neat to kind of put this as a label and something. So I figured it's two hands. And you know, it's it's it's lovely. Go for a movie. And I guess for power, I'm just running them off of this little battery bank because it's easier that way. But the the QT Pi powers very well off of you as a theater. But if you wanted to have plugged into the wall outlet, it would work just fine with any of those like battery power supplies. I mean cell phone power supplies, like a five volt dilly. So that's the project in a nutshell. We just published the learn guide earlier this morning. So folks want to check out more about the servo, the analog feedback servos. Andy thinks that the real ones ring a bell when you move them. So you'll know so right there would be like bling. Right. Huh. Very cool. Give it a second to if you go. Yeah. There it goes. Yeah. So this is a lot of fun. Check it out. Very kind of modular design. The way that this frame snaps to the to the to the faceplate is with these like tabs and there's these little circles that kind of bump into them. It's kind of neat. And then I'm just using regular screws and built-in standoffs to the front plate for this. I was able to find a 3D model on GrabCAD of this analog feedback servo. So I was able to get the position of the of the of the shaft of the motor like precise and of course the mounting tabs. So that all worked out really well. I could have spent a little bit more time designing like a thing in the background, but it's a prototype and it's kind of just proving the concept and alignment. But I think it's good for what it is. Very cool. Yeah. These are fun. I haven't seen any other projects with the analog feedback servo. So pretty neat. I've seen there's other. Yeah. We've got them out of sync now. There you go. Yeah. So that's what you can do if it gets out of sync. Just to quit little little nudge. Yeah. It's maybe we could write some logic to avoid spamming, but it's all customizable. You can change the delays from between sending and receiving the data. So you can always do that. Yeah. So it's supposed to be like a telegraph. So it's supposed to be like on Titanic. So like the lower deck or the higher deck would communicate with the lower deck what they want to do in terms of like a household. You know, it's lunchtime. You can tell the kids. That's a good idea.   It's a nice little way to communicate between floors. Yeah. Or offices. I didn't think of that. Yeah. It's a good idea. You know how like in the office right at what is it right at five o'clock the fill rings the bell and so instead of doing that you can have something where it would be like a giant version of that that would ding and then go it's like no I like to stay in the love. Oh yeah. Let him figure out like what's going on. Okay. Cool. So we'll take a quick brief look at the learn guide and we'll take any questions as they come in. Elizabeth saying that the cap touch can sometimes get interference from the servo. That's right. So you want to keep your wire away from the servo. I think that's one thing or you could wrap some cap around it. Yeah. There was a lot of ideas that you guys were talking about like you wanted to mill something or the conductive filament. But it's only one color and it's very limited and it could be abrasive to your nozzle. So we thought copper tape was just the best way. It has the self adhesive. It has adhesive already on the strip and it worked out well for like the copper look of the handle. Yeah. The copper totally matches especially this one right here. Yeah. This is some really nice copper filament. This is more of like a gold filament. I really like the silky gold stuff. And now with that PEI powder coated bed for your printer, you get such a lovely texture that really adds depth to your part. Yeah. Like the it's like a teal. Yeah. You know everything's not fits. There's some screws here and there. But everything prints without any supports, which is always a good thing. And yeah, you can theme it out to whatever if you want to build your own. And all the files are up there. So yeah. Yanni says perfect for food ordering for the food train to deliver. So it's a good way to remember we used to have back in the day their office jobs. We would have the little randomizer to pick like what food physical should tag a geed in it. Like bro, we have a physical one. Maybe it could be like what type of music are you into right now? It's a good idea. I want to hear some metal. I want to hear some lo-fi hip hop. That was really fast that time. Yeah. All right. Let's check. Maybe the it looks like the streams are all good now. Way more high quality. I mean, it goes up and down. Yeah. There's a couple people on Twitch saying doesn't work. I sent them over to YouTube. So I'm like cross sending people. People on Twitch, I would send a YouTube on YouTube. I would send them to Twitch to check out the stream. Someday we'll be on TikTok live. Not today. All right. So head over to the Learn Guide. Take it out. You see all the products that are used in this. That USB 32 S2 is quite a doozy. Check it out. It's in stock right now. Really nice form factor. You got 13 GPIO and Wi-Fi. You got the STEM bus. You can easily plug in a sensor without any soldering. Really, really nice. The analog feedback servos are out of stock, but here's a secret. If you go to the product page, there's a big buy on DigiKey button. Let's see if DigiKey has it in stock. Click on the product and they have about nine in stocks. If you really want to get one, you can get it through DigiKey and they ship very, very fast on all over the world. You know what? There's also different sizes of the analog feedback servo. So if you scroll down, well, definitely check out these videos from Colin. This is a really good overview of just the analog feedback servo. He's using it to record kind of almost like if you were to record an animatronic movement and play it back on the same servo. He does a little breakdown. He takes it apart, shows up. There's a potentiometer in there and that's what the white wire is. Very cool. Back servo. Super just getting started. You want some demo code for CirclePython or do we know this kind of prerequisite guy who covers all the things about the analog feedback servo? For the down, you see that we do have different versions of it. There are micro servos, which I think would have worked fine on this one. But we do have the micro servos and the only difference between these two is one's a metal gear and the other one's a plastic gear. Depending on what you're trying to do, if you want it to have more weight or more torque, you want to go with the metal one. Look at that. That's a nice grease there. But they all are going to work about the same 180 degrees. All good stuff. So we have data sheets on that too. Copper tape. Love this stuff. We have a roll of it. Again, it has the adhesive is conductive, which it definitely matters to have conductivity in that glue. So that's good for all these type of cap touch projects. We got some screws. It's a good point because otherwise it'd be insulated from it. Yeah, you're right. Picker one if you want to do like really big pads and it also has the adhesive and they're in stock right now. So you can get a roll of this stuff and yeah. The only thing, yeah, I was going to say, I don't like that it's oxidized. It looks fine. Some silicone wire for the copper tape and a handful of screws, an A4 size or whatever somewhere else. And that's really the homepage. So circuit diagram just walks you through all the wired connections. All the CAD files are up there. If you want to get the source file, it's set up as a step. So you can check those out. I also have STLs which you want to print it. And the STLs are oriented to print as is, which is a really nice thing. You're going to need a build volume of at least 110 cubed. So kind of a mid range printer. Yeah, 110. And then the label and the graphics. So I was able to get a nice DXF export from the Fusion 360 model. And then I used Illustrator. But you can use Inkscape or any of the other open source tools to kind of rework the graphics. So I'm using a graphics editor. Or maybe you can use an online tool. But just one note, when you're printing it out, just be sure that you're not scaling it when you're printing because printers tend to like to scale to fit to fill up the whole page. So just make sure when you're printing that it's not scaling the graphics. And I have it as a PDF, as the SVG, and as the original DXF. So if any of those formats don't fail, one of the other ones should. And then if you want to get the 3D models of the electronics, we have a dedicated GitHub repo with all of the 3D models of the parts, namely the Qtpy, ESP32S2. And that's pretty much the CAD page. So all the source files are there. And then you can do a double tap reset to get the board in the bootloader mode. And you can install the stable or the latest or the beta version if you want to try out. The code for this project was done by Liz Clark. So shout out to Liz for putting together the code. It's very well documented. You'll want to change out which server was number one and number two. Just be sure to uncomment this and make one true and one false. So you'll want to calibrate one first and then calibrate the second one. So it's kind of neat. And down here you can see the minimum and the maximum values for calibrating it. And then you can change out the Adafruit IO feeds, names if you'd like, but we just kind of generically named it touch one and touch two. And then you can set up the pins right here. It's so lovely. I love certified line. You can just read it. It's really great. If you wanted to lower the time for pinging IO, you can change that. But I think we have it set to five seconds, which is fairly well. And yeah, check it out. You could always use the project bundle as well. If you just want to download motor Adafruit requests and simple IO for doing, I guess the PWM stuff. And then because it's Adafruit IO, you have a secrets file. So you want to generate your own secrets file. And you should be able to do this with the free account for Adafruit IO. Stuff and that's all in the secrets file. So you have to generate that. I don't think that's a part of the bundle. So if you are doing that and with any IoT project, that's the way to do it. You just want to get your secrets file. And then let's do a great job of breaking down all the code here. So, so you know how to do it. You can see here the feeds, you have an out feed in the church state. So it's all there. On to the wiring. This is fun. The headers are those jumper cables. If you're prototyping, I would say keep them. But if you're doing a bill, then you don't want to cross the weight straight straight to it. I want to check it out. Just the yeah, it's the PID just so we could cover it. It's in stock. It's a PID. Come on. Tell me 5514. Yeah, not that one. The other one. This one is 5515. Yeah, but you still got to plug it in to that's why I'm saying this one because it plugs into the oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, this is good. If you would need like females headed, right, attached it like that, like a header. Yeah, I mean, you could do that talking about. So yeah, all of the servers are going to come with, with those those socket headers. But I'm just sorry to do the pens on the Qtify just to kind of keep the low keep it a low profile and whatnot. So we walk through that the copper tape, you can solder to it just be really quick. Yeah, it's awesome. Burn off the the back, but I had to make two of them. And that was easy enough. So you just want to do it like on the edge, because then I like that it wraps back around it and it kind of hides the solder bridge. And then just solder that up to the pins that we set up in the code. And that's kind of it for that. For the assembly, you want to start off with like the handle. So this handle prints upside down, because the tip is flat. And then you want to wrap that around the handle. But being in mind of where the wire is going to be, because I wouldn't want the the wire to be in the front. So you just kind of did, you could always, I guess, move it because there's a screw that ties to the to the to the handle. So there's three parts to the handle you have. And then you're going to use the hardware that came with that servo because it has like these pointy screw threads that kind of tap into the print and the injection molded horn. So once that's set up, we can attach the servo horn or the servo itself to the front plate with some screws. At this point, you want to put the label on and then you'll want to snap fit that into the frame. And the frame snaps into kind of the the bezel here. So those are all these little things aligned with how it's supposed to go. Yep. And then just a note that when you place the the servo horn assembly onto the shaft of the motor, you're going to want to have to refit it a few times to calibrate it. So you want that that way you'll be able to know where's the maximum there's like degree zero where's the 180 degrees. So you'll have to fuss with that a little bit. But that's kind of the name of the game when you're when you're calibrating servos. And then the QT pie has its own little built-in snap fit holder. I always print out these little holders for the for the QT pie because where's my camera? Because a lot of the times like if I were to print this big thing with these tabs built in, you wouldn't be able to flex it. And the idea is that these little 3d printed holders allow you to flex the holder so that you can squeeze the corners into these little tabs and then just press fit the other corners in there. And then you have this opening down here that allows, you know, to flex. So it's always easier to kind of have a separate retainer for your PCB and then have mounting tabs for the bigger thing. So let's say I wanted to print this again, now I don't have to worry about, you know, that's my top reason for why. Yeah. So I try to make everything modular. So this is a good thing for that. And of course, this one had to be custom to the ESP32S too because it has an extra circuitry under the PCB. So if I wanted to pop this out, I have to take these out and then take that out and then kind of flex it open. But it's all apart of the STLs we need downloaded if you want to grab this. You can see there's a little notch or something right here that had to be pulled in so that the component at the bottom would uh, would fit and not get chewed off or whatever. Yep, every time. Every little project has to require a difference in the way that the geometry is laid out just because it is one little resistor. The original one I made for this was for the RP2040 and it doesn't have those extra, you know, ICs on the bottom. But there you go. It's called job security. And then the usage page. Shout out to Liz for putting this one together and just kind of talks about how you would use it. So we're using this for doing some communications between floors and whatnot. Is it taco time yet? Yes. To send this to the office. I'm sure there's something like Garrett or something could use. Oh, no, we have leak. So check out the guide. It is live. This week's project. All right, do we have enough time? I kind of mostly showed it off last week. The last week's project was simply just showing that you can still scan stuff with the photos and stuff. Yeah, for this, it's pretty much a show in the detail of how good the server, serve, not servos, whatever servers that they're using, whatever algorithms, servers that Polycam is using to process all these photos. I'd like to note that Polycam is exclusive to iOS. I didn't know that. It's Android or just the web. Yeah, you can use it on the web. The mobile app is literally just a photo uploader and viewer. It's not doing anything on your phone. You're doing it on their servers. I also follow a lot of the VFX artists and they tend to use the VFX for every shoot they do.  And the one that really got me was this one right here. There was a little kid. This was at Disney where I took all these. Of course, it's crowded with people jumping all over the thing. It got all the detail. I didn't get any photos of the back. There's a pillar back here. How did it know? You can see the tail. You can kind of see where the pillar bumps up against the tail and it got all that. Look at this fear. It's freaking so good. It's really cool that you be able to... Because when you're there, these are ginormous. These are huge. They probably had to have it brought in there in pieces and how big this is. Yeah, so you can really step back and appreciate all the tiny little detail. Oh yeah, there are supports all over this guy. I didn't want to chop them up into different pieces. All these had supports. So the marble filament did a pretty good job on getting all the detail for this. Not real marble, folks. It's marble looking. There's like little speckles and stuff. Yeah, you can kind of see it there. And then these guys, yeah. So super cool to be able to photograph stuff. I think during the show until I said that, yeah, the reason why Phil wanted this is there's always like a higher level of why he wants projects in terms of the... He was at a museum and he was like, they were encouraging him to scan stuff. He's like, wait, what? That's cool. So we went down this kind of route of like, okay, let's show folks how to do that. Let's promote it more. I didn't even talk about it in the show until I don't have one to actually make a glow and you wouldn't even see it with this lighting anyway. But I have cutouts for secret playgrounds to be in there and this does a really good job. Really check out that cool web app that he has. It's on GitHub. You can add to it. And then yeah, did some... Yeah, there's no tops on that. So you can see like the infill in there to have the glowy happen in there. And then there's several ways you can do it too. Like a Buddha statue. Yeah. It's a 0% infill on that one. So you can get some nice glowy in there. And this is a glow in the dark filament. So after it's done glowing, you can still have a little bit of afterglow. So a nice way to... I'm gonna be scanning everything we go, everywhere we go. I'm gonna be scanning stuff now because it's so cool to be able to take home these because they don't sell them, which is kind of a missed opportunity, I think. Because the phone case on people would buy them out.  Right. Here's the two guys. Yeah, Andrew made one on doing the scales for like miniatures and stuff like that. And then mine was on doing the statues. So pretty much the same process. Yeah, using Polycam iOS, Android, web. Drones. And they took 123 photos. So the more photos you have... Detailed, that is. And you have like a little kind of turntable setup. I think you can get way more detail to have the time. Yeah. But it's cool to know that if you don't have the time, you can still get a really good model. Look at how detailed. Yeah, it's super detailed. That is so cool. It also does the texture wrapping. So it takes photos and paste it in there as a map, which is really cool. It's like, if you're doing video game design, if you're doing like we're saying the visual effects, this is so useful. And then if you want to do some low poly stuff, the low poly.xyc website, and it's really easy to use, just kind of play around with the sliders to get a desired low poly look depending on what you want. Very cool. And then your guide, Pedro, walks through using Blender. And some of the tools in Blender, it's a cleanup of a sort of quick scan. So if you quickly scan it, you're going to get something like this. This is actually the lion. You can see you can isolate the lion by just kind of making a block and then like doing a boolean to subtract from that. Just leaving the model that you want to isolate. It's a really good project for getting familiarizing yourself with Blender. You learn some cool things. I mean, that's only because I'm coming from Maya. Like, I know how things work and where the menus are. Use the fill face command to kind of fill in these holes. And then what is that tool that kind of helps you? The elastic tool, which we don't have that in Maya. There it is. The elastic deform tool. It helps you pull faces so that you can reduce the support material. So instead of being 90 degrees, some of the things like on like right here on switch. So it's not like so flat. You're pulling the sound. I'm pulling out like the neck. It's like you're sculpting the polygons. Yeah. And beyond that too, which I did not cover because that would be another rabbit hole that's on the purpose. Doing joints. So you're doing inverse kinematics. So you're making a skeleton. So you can actually go in there and reposition your model. That's cool. That's what I went to school for, for doing 3D animation. So I know how to do all that. But that starts veering off what the whole project was about. So I didn't want to go into that. But that will make a game. No, I mean, it's for like statues. If you don't like the way their position is, you can go ahead and reposition them.  We'll do that. So yeah, we're going to try out using Blender and more projects. So it's a fun thing. And that's last week's project. Yay, some 3D scans and modifying them. All right, cool. Cool, cool. All right, let's go ahead and jump into this week's, what are we? Oh, prototyping? Yeah.  Yeah, I'm thinking like the show's over. No, we have about 20 minutes. Okay. So what are we prototyping? So Lamar wants to do a DIY. Let's go ahead and jump over to the white angle. We purchased our camo studio so we can do things like this now. Switch between the mobile phones lenses. Yeah, so Lamar wanted a DIY Pi 400. Well, it doesn't have to be a Pi. It could be for any of the single board computers that are out there since pies are a little hard to get. So this is what I came up with.  Then you still have access to your controls for your keyboard. What are these called like little ledges so that it doesn't fall all the way through. You have a nice little clearance so that you don't have, you know, any of this metal touching the shields on the Is it real metal? It's plastic. I mean, this right here. Which one? This right here. That might, I think it's like, I don't know. I'm not going to find out. I'm not going to chance it, but yeah, you have like a five millimeter clearance on there. So if you have like a heat sink or something and you should have enough room for that. And if you want to put like a battery in here or as I'm doing here, because I couldn't get the little, the ribbon HDMI to a micro mini? Oh yeah, yeah, your SD card. Don't take it out. Oh, no, no, I'm just popping it in there. Okay. Got pulled out a little bit. So got the HDMI cable. It's running on one of our little DIY three print enclosures for these little displays. Yeah. So this says, yep, there's a power boost backpack in there. So yeah, it's nuts. Yeah, the battery in there. So you have a nice little portable way to, you know, if you need a single board computer desktop, this is great for doing, like what we're showing out here, like video stuff. Those are always great. You can do the octoprint rig, yeah, your CNC, your laser, anything that's always good. So the pie is going to be great for that. Yeah, the pie for man, this thing is beautiful. This is wow. This is so cool. So let me get out of there. You have your whole desktop and everything in there. So So we sell the keyboard, right? We have these in stock. Keyboard, those are in stock. It's just regular, like the wireless little dongle that attaches on there. And yeah, nice little totem pole for the screen that we have as well. And that project, all things that go along with it. That's the one right there. This is a really nice trackpad. You have your touch points on it. So nice for right clicking. I guess it's running off of battery, right? Oh, yeah, there's a battery in there. You can charge the whole keyboard. Charges over USB. Yep, charges over that. It's all nice. I know, you know, pretty close to the, what is it 84 millimeter, like footprint size and the way that the arrangement of the USB. I recommend rubber Yeah, I know. It's still trying. So I still gotta figure out a, yeah, this is still prototype. I gotta figure out a way to maybe add some wedges on here so you don't have any deforming the walls. So maybe just thicken it up, maybe do like four four millimeter thickness on it. I think it's like 1.5. It's pretty thin for that. And then the other thing is this really cool wood filament that you got from Proto Pasta. Look at this. It's like a, it's called this Fresso Bean filament. It's got some gold flakes in it. It's very, very good stuff. It's not really focusing. Well, it's because it's that. Oh, the wide angle. I can switch just to get a good look at this filament. So Proto Pasta, they make fantastic filament. I really like that their spools are eco-friendly. They're just cardboard. Oh, I love that. Really nice. I don't know why maybe everyone doesn't do that. We're trying, there's a good thing going out. Like it, I would think it'd be cheaper maybe. The communities are kind of egging the people to, hey, it's about to start using them. It's so sad when you run out and you have this. Yeah, wait, look at the, you know, the layer lines on it. Yeah, it looks pretty good. So if you're looking for something nice for enclosures, we recommend this stuff. 0.25 layer height because it's just a box. Came out pretty good. Yeah, and then the bottom one is another Proto Pasta. Yeah, it's like wood. We have four different wood. We have three of them. We should get the fourth one to see what it's like. But there it is. Nice little. Proto Pasta making great filament.  We'll be getting a tinker board, an ASUS tinker board, so it has the exact same footprint. We'll see. Let's see. We'll adjust it to that because that's what Lamar wanted to, the very ultimate goal was just to have any. Yeah, I was looking at all those and man, they're all like back. Is it like 300 bucks?  What happened? The part shortage. Well, from Duwester, it's got one on order. Oh, yes, it is. What you did, the red and the white one. Can you print that out? Oh, is this like a Kickstarter or something? Sorry, we're interested. The pipad family is here. Look at this style. Hey. Hey. Battery. Yeah, it's a thing. So a DIY.   Is the part shortage coming into end? That's probably one of the reasons why. Yeah, so it's, and that's not a case scenario. Okay. Sweet. What a CM4 and IoT. Wood and keys. Yeah, I'm sure the CM4 is like way smaller. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's on the CM4. But the point was just kind of take the, your standard Pi format, design and enclosure for the keyboard. Yeah, everything will be editable. So if you need to nudge things around and make it fit. Yeah, this is probably, you know, make your own Pi 100. And then John is in here saying the elastic deform tool. Is it like soft select and Maya? I think it is. Although the behavior. Yeah, the behavior, how it works. I'm sure you could tweak the world like that. I didn't have to do any tweaking. I didn't have to select like the paint brush size. Yeah, I didn't have to do paint my weights in there or anything like that. So just the way it behaved. I mean, I'm sure that it's been updated. Maya has been updated for the behavior on that. I haven't used Maya since 2018, I think is the last version I was able to, that the license that we bought was able to let us download. It doesn't run on the M1s anymore.  I don't know. Blender. I know. It's so funny. Blender is so good. It runs on everything. Yeah. And it's great community. It's fast. Like it doesn't have to check your, your F. It's so giddy. Because it's like, Oh, God, you're remembering all those days. Like, Oh, no, you have to, your license has to, is your license? No, you need to log out. It's like, Oh my God, why are you using all this processing power just to find out if my light, if I spent the $6,000 or not on it, it's like, God, just let me use the freaking program. Come on. Shout out to Blender. Because you've done, John. Well, because we still experience every day with Adobe. It's like infusion. It's like, Oh, another computer. You have to log out. No, I don't know. What are you doing, bro? We're two people, two licenses. God, we're not a VFX house trying to scam you guys out of. And that's the shop talk, I guess, right there. Our frustrations with the license down. Yeah. It's like, dude. All right. Well, let's hose on over a swag way over the community makes where we always have a good time here. Oh, look at this. I'll get a reload. Yeah. That's why I'm loading my notes. People are liking the low profile keyboard. Yes. This feels really good with typing too. And made sure that they had the, what is it, like 15 degree angle. So you have a nice typing. Yeah, that's at an angle, which is good. I can't get the links to go. I'm reading the comments. Yes, I'm going to get some steal some ideas from this Raspberry Pi case. It definitely needs a fan. Definitely want to add a fan in there because while I'm like, while I was setting up all the Raspberry Pi config, I could feel like, Oh, no, is my thing going to melt. Yes. Paul Cutler. Yep. Got to love open source. Absolutely. They focus on not licensing servers. Yep. All right. It loaded. So we're going to take a couple to end the show off with some community makes. So some some stuff that folks have sent us or I need to rephrase it. Here's some projects that people have. I can't do it though. Like we just don't have internet. It's not working. Not weird. We're really choking our stuff. Looks pretty good here. At least the streaming quality looks good. All right, cool. So the first one we have is a community make posted up by Eugene GT.  You can 3D print our little rig here. You just need a couple of ball bearings and a piece of aluminum extrusion. And it uses a little kind of a pulley system and some counterweights to make a really smooth action. And you can modify the parts to fit your soldering iron and then use whatever kind of wood base to kind of secure the assembly to. But this is great. I use this for the upcoming droid project that I'm working on and really any project do it next time. Just grab it and show it real quick. It's so cool. It's fun. It's mostly so people can egg you on and be like, Hey, where's the droid project? Come on, finish it. All right, here's the next one. So shout out to Eugene for posting that up. Oh, shout out to Eugene too for doing. We're just streaming. This is an iPhone case posted up by Smoore Ghana. Very nice. This is always fun. This is a TPU case that's flexible and it's designed for flexibles. Yeah, it's the one we're using right here on this iPhone mini. I guess the Joker is another person who put, I guess a lot of people are doing heat set inserts. So the user posted this up. Super handy. Looks like they're still building it, but it's kind of in progress. Looks like they're using Ninja Flex as the, oh my god, the whatchamal call it. It's great.  Yeah, so there's that bit. And then we have another one here. This is the neon signs. We did 3D printed neon signs and I can't see their username. MvVodka posted up their makes of the neon signs. So if you have a large bed 3D printer, you can print out as big as the sign you want. And it uses the neopixel neon style thing. So these are really nice. So if you want to make a custom shape, it's really cool.  Yeah, so it's a fun, glowy time to make some custom signs. And I think we have two more. This is a kind of a blast from the past. Again, posted on Prusa. Oh, wow. This is the HB3D on printables.com. Posted up their make of this Pokemon inspired potion. It's actually a USB battery bank that's inside there. So if you want to charge your devices, it has a little clip on it. Yeah, it does. It's kind of a fun cosplay, like combined cosplay prop with practicality. It's like, oh, it's an actual battery. Nice little thing. So maybe that inspires folks to kind of... I still see people playing Pokemon. So yeah, it does. So very fun shape, very easy to kind of modify. Oh, I have a light in there too. Wild. Of course it did. Go crazy. Let's see what else. The last one is the Raspberry Pi case, the face case. Posted up on Thingiverse by Thingiverse user. Hey, it's double A. And I guess they made a remix of it. So they added these slots so it can slot into the extrusion of the printer, like the aluminum extrusion. Do you know where our black bone is? Because that's another one that I could probably use in the shot. Let's see if it'll fit in here. I do not know where our big bone is. I know we had at least a good one. We've lost our beagle. And that's this week's community makes shout-out to everybody who's posting up their makes. I know how it can be. It looks really good. Oh, I forgot the time-lapses. We have five minutes to share our flamingo and our headstock. What do you want to do, flamingo? Flamingo, I remember Ann Brella saying that. She liked flamingos, so. I don't have the links to the. Oh, no, just go to the camera. It's fine. It is eight. I mean, it just took a while to time-lapse. One of the comments people were saying, oh, I wanted to see the neck. They think it's connected. No, it's all in different little pieces that snap fit together. Oh, it's not printed in place. Yeah. Dang it. I did time-lapse it, but because of where I positioned it on the bed, every time that the print head went close to it, it snapped. So you're showing the bed going back and forth like, dang it, I can't show this. So that's the reason why I did not show that. Unless you have Alice in Wonderland. Neck. You can kind of see there. Excellent job, the model and get all working. Do not recommend the silk. Horrible. It is horrible. Act in ripping apart. You can see the foot right there. And I printed hot. Or try a different brand. Maybe try a different brand. Yeah, because it's not the best. It looks pretty. Nice and shiny. Nice and shiny. All right. This is some Colts 3D. Check out the YouTube video for this. Check out Rogi Studios on Colts 3D. Got a couple of really nice designs. Cool. And then the little tabs all break off. It's not the designer's fault, it's the filament. It's the filament, yeah. It's funny as you pulled the lifeless Next up is this really cool key holder. Like it mounts to the wall. I got these nice little mounts. And look how it's the Gibson font, but it says guitar. Right. The custom. And the designer has a couple of different models of heads. No, that would be so cool. So this is all together. No, it's like three different. Oh. It's three different. No. Two different. No, three. Yeah. Let me play the video. Three layers. I don't show how you assemble it.  But you can swap out the filament or no. Yes, I swap the filament for the top portion there. You can kind of see there where I swap it out. Yeah, there you go. I slowed it down. Swap it again. And then you swap it back to the description of the thingiverse. Yeah. Real size of a real guitar.  These like snap together. I glued it in just so they wouldn't fall apart. If these come out, so you can like change these. That's a good idea. Yeah. The guitar set up. Excellent. Printing. And where can folks find the sign? Okay. And this one is free. They tell you at what layer to change out the colors. Very nice. For this type of stuff, yeah. The glittery stuff tends to work out. This is silky. This is silky. So there's no joints here. There's nothing that needs to be moving. So it's fine. You could tell that it might be brittle if you like, you know. Well, just hold the weight of a key. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's on there really good. Okay. Yeah. Keys aren't that heavy. Yeah. A couple of grams. Ounces. Yep. I mean, if you have like a, you know, if you're, it might take down. But that's why I have different, you know, up to six different posts. Well, cool. That's this week's video. It's very fun. That's true for cool. It's a couple of tips there for folks. Nice way to do some practical round the house prints and some calibrating. Cool. All right. We have reached the end of the show. Yay. Right at 12 p.m. John is laughing out loud regarding the Maya licensing. Yeah. You know, when they teach you in college how to crack Maya. Oh, they do. You know. Don't give us the name. You'll tell your get to. Tonight we have a very special cell. It's going to be hosted by Liz Clark. Shout out Liz. Liz and Melissa are both sweet. Okay. So it should be really cool. We got some special guests coming over. I don't know if we can say it, but yeah, we have special guests. Last week, Adam Savage and a couple of the maker folks like so far. Oh, yeah. For there. We'll have some digital representation, maybe. Oh, this is so cool. It's back to back. So that's tonight. We'll be on there as well. Yep, show this off. That's 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. So if you want to join, you can hang out in the Discord chat room and Liz will pop in the link a little bit earlier. It's around 720-ish. But then at 8 p.m. is asking engineer with a Markville full hour of open source hardware news, new products, the great search. No, IonMPI, great searches on the Sundays. That's a desk with a data. Cool. Check out JP tomorrow for a workshop live stream every Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern time. Always a fun time. Last week, we had Scott. Scott's back. I think Tim is going to do it this week. But you know, check out the dive on CircuitPython and more. On Sundays, it's from the desk of Lady Aida. Sundays. No, it's earlier. That's a pretty good time. I like it. So check out the great search, Lamar, and some sneak peeks at some samples and things. Always fun. And then if you want to get some crazy, ridiculous deals on the Tuesdays, JP's product pick of the week, you can get up to 50% off on select items. That's Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Eastern or 1 p.m. Pacific. Real quick comment on the YouTube chat. Himatsu is asking, what about the free giveaways? Uh, not with products. Yeah, and not with products shorted, but you do get Adafruit.com slash free. It's a lot of orders. You get freebies. Have these free boards, but you got, there's the pricing tiers on there to check out. Yeah, Adafruit.com slash free. We used to do the stickers, but it's, yeah. Maybe one day. Part shortages, costs of shipping and all that. Yeah. So we do the show every Wednesday. We'll be back next week as well with some more cool projects. 11 a.m. every Wednesday. Quite a bit of built up ones. I think next week is the Circuit Python one, or Circuit Python day. Right? Am I confused? Bup, bup, bup, bup, 19-0. Yeah, next week. Friday. Circuit Python day. Yeah. Circuit Python day. Make sure you tune in for that. It's going to be a whole day of Circuit Python streams and activities. Everybody from the Circuit Python. Some really cool stuff. Yeah, check out the vlog on Adafruit for more. I guess that's it folks. Thank you for joining us as we have took our break to recover, but we're back. I hope everybody's staying safe. Until next time, folks, I guess remember to make a great day. Make a great day. See you later tonight. Bye, folks.


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP Buzz Chat and I'm talking today with Yannick. Hello. Hi. So for folks that don't know you, who are you, where are you and what do you do? My name is Yannick Reinhardt. I am located in Germany. I'm a senior system engineer in the modern device management and in addition to this, I am also a technical lead for an initiative called AIOPS. The goal here is to make end-to-end analytics with help of machine learning, collecting data, analyze this data and find potential for improvement, become more proactive in notice issues in the IT environment and stuff like this. Very cool. So what's covered within the modern devices space? I mean, it's aren't everything that we touch now, modern devices? Modern devices means cloud management of endpoints. Our goal is to shift all devices from a traditional management with on-premise resources into cloud using Intune and I'm working in the special purpose area. The special purpose means everything what is not standard. This means special devices which are located in laboratories to have special requirements, special settings, which are near to productions also everything in this area. It is amazing how much that space has evolved and changed where it used to be, remember the days where you had your company-issued laptop and mobile device if they were even permitted, other specialty devices. I remember having a key fob and having to do kind of a separate to very securely log in on those devices and to where now, I mean, you can have that, the bring your own device. I realize that stuff still exists, a lot of those pieces, but you now can support like I use for my work. I use my home system, yet my company had very strict guidelines on how it should be used and how data should be managed and so they actually do a scan and review on a regular basis, part of the governance policies to make sure that the environments that I'm using to access their systems are secure. And so it's again, we've come a long way in that space. Yeah, this is right. I think with the other power of Cloud, you have really new possibilities how you can guarantee the security of your data and of your environment and this opens a lot of new possibilities and doors to bring more flexibility, but also keep the whole security. So what was your path to becoming an MVP? So I mean, how did you get started in this space and find out about the program and then get involved? Yep, I was new in this area of modern device management and what I did is I learned a lot at the beginning and my goal was to share my path, my learnings, my also discovery of functions what's offered in Intune and this was the reason why I decided to start blocking and I had a lot of fun with this blocking and over time it developed in the direction that I released every week a new blog post and also tried then different formats to also make YouTube join communities, support here, this was more or less my path but my initial goal was not to become MVP. It was only to write down what I learned to have a deeper learning with it and also share this with others. I often tell people that my blog is just an extension of my brain so I can remember the things that I've learned and the conversations that I've had and so I track things very much the same way and I'm sure you've probably said this and believe this and I've said this many, many times is that, you know, hey, even if I stopped being an MVP, I would still be doing exactly the same things. I'd be creating the content, sharing what I've learned, you know, surfacing and amplifying other people's voices out there because it's just part of the way that I work, it's part of the way that I learn and that I share that information out and that's kind of a core to being an MVP but I know a lot of people that are starting out are like asking that question of like how much do I need to do to pursue an MVP? And I don't think that there's a fixed number.  Is that the right number? Do I need to do more than that? And I don't know if you've had questions from people of what they can do. What kind of advice do you give them? I think the most important thing is to have fun with the whole thing. When you have fun by creating content to support people, then it's the best thing what you can do. Regarding the time, normally I spend the whole Saturday in creating content, answer a question from the community, also working on coding projects and stuff like this. But for sure, you also have conversations during the week and then you have to spend some time in this topic. But as already mentioned, when you have fun with this is not a big deal. It needs to be your hobby. Yeah, exactly. Just thinking of, sorry, quoting Mike Meyers thing. I am very much, as my wife reminds me, I'm like the Michael Scott type of humor where I will name drop. I think you can't be a fan of the US version of the office without quoting Michael Scott repeatedly. But don't blog angry. So yeah, it needs to be, you need to develop healthy habits that just become part of your persona. And so if you don't enjoy doing that, then that kind of time commitment is not for you. And there are some people that say it's like, look, I just don't have the time to do that kind of thing. But there's nothing wrong with just participating in the community and not pursuing becoming an MVP. That's fine. Yeah, exactly. I think when you share your experience, your knowledge with someone else, and you know you can help someone, you reach someone with your knowledge, it's the best feeling what you can have. And MVP isn't really nice achievement, but the important thing is really that you can help other people and share your knowledge. So what are your kind of your big topics right now? What are the hot topics that you're writing about? And talking about? Currently, I started a series about the Intune Suite. There was a release at first of March regarding the new features which Intune offers within this Intune Suite. And there are really nice features in. And I want to talk about each of this, yeah, new stuff within this new release. Yeah, there's, well, I'm sure like every other aspect of Microsoft technology that's a full-time job just keeping up with any one of the product lines. Yeah, this is right. I think the development, it's really amazing how fast the whole thing is. And if you think about how big the whole portfolio from Microsoft is, it's unbelievable how they develop the whole product with this speed. It's really cool. Well, that's another, you know, because it is so complex and there are so many different pieces. There's a lot of somebody that is saying, hey, I'm interested in writing about talking about what we're doing within Intune. You can take different perspectives. You can write about, you know, Intune and things that your company is doing with Azure, things that you're doing with Microsoft 365. And so you can definitely, you know, follow kind of the leading voices that are out there and bring your perspective in a differing perspective to the space. There's always room for more content like that. Exactly. I just always argue that it's not about like there is just so much content that's out there. But there are always people that are interested in hearing your perspective and your voice. So you can't be, you can't look and say, well, somebody already wrote an article that covered this feature, share your perspective because somebody may not relate to that other writer that may relate to you. Yep, this is right. I think it's always good when you explain stuff in your own words because your follower, your community, like your style, how you write blocks and if you bring this in your own style, I think you can also help some people. But in addition to this, you can also think out of the box. I think Microsoft has a really good tool stack with Azure. And also if you combine different services from Microsoft in tune with some services in Azure, you can bring out a lot of new potential and also this is something what is maybe is helpful for the community. If you provide such a solution in your posts. Well, that's one of the, my favorite things is with like for the user group is when there's somebody that is from the user group they've never presented before and they're sharing something that they did at work and it doesn't have to be finished or perfect. But saying, and here's our approach and here's what we do because one of the benefits is that other people in the audience will be like, we did something similar. You're probably going to run into this problem. Here's how we solved it. So right there, you're already crowd sourcing the solution that your development is going to help you. And then if it is finished or it is, people might just provide the feedback. That's fantastic. I haven't seen that before. We're going to go and leverage something. So that's how you start is to go and share obviously protect sensitive information when you're sharing work related projects. But if you're able to go in and anonymize that and be able to share out what you're doing at work, that is the best way to get started to write about that or to speak about that. Yeah, absolutely right. Well, very cool. Well, so for, so again, folks that want to reach out to you connect with you. What are the best ways to reach you? I'm really active and LinkedIn and on Twitter, but I'm also active on the discord community of in tune also Facebook. I'm more or less spread it through the whole networks. There's so much going on in discord. There is tons that are out there. That's like the new place for the forums and there are some fantastic Microsoft communities out on discord for people that aren't out there yet on that. Yeah, this is right. And discord provides cool possibilities to structure the different channels and chats. And this is an advantage of this medium. Well, excellent. Well, thanks so much for your time today and hopefully get to see you at an upcoming. I know MVP summit is coming up quickly, but I know not a lot of people are going to be able to make it because it's a short notice, but I will not join the MVP summit in person. I will join virtually, but I'm on vacation in the summer in U.S. Yeah. Well, awesome. Well, enjoy your time and we'll we'll let you know when this goes live and share it out. Many thanks.


It's up to us if we want to reunify, and I think that it happens on an individual level. One person says they want to connect with everything else, they have that opportunity. This episode is proudly sponsored by SIEMPO. Many of you watching have heard of Tristan Harris in the Center for Humane Technology. We've done many episodes on the perverse incentives around screen time and critically thinking about what balance truly maximizes our potential. SIEMPO built a new smartphone interface and browser extensions as the new home screen for humanity. They're out of crossroads looking for a new CEO to come in, or to partner with a larger organization that has the resources to bring this incredible technology to the world. They've built a high integrity foundation and are teed up for something wonderful. If interested, message the founder Andrew Dunn at andrew.co. More info is in the bio. Thanks everyone and enjoy the episode. Are we really all one? Well, I definitely believe that that answer is up to everyone. I personally feel connected to everyone. I'm almost driven by a sense of responsibility for my contribution to everyone. And that level or that path of thinking helps, it helps me. It's helped me understand the past. It helps me experience the present and not worry about the future. I could go on for hours. Whether it's science, whether it's spirituality, whether it's everybody's definition of common sense, people feel connections and you have to go with your feelings. I think ignoring your feelings is like cutting off some of your best resources for living and thriving. Absolutely. I love how you gave these two sides to the same coin, the science and the spirituality. Marrying those two seems like the most important, one of the most paramount things that we can possibly do to ensure an abundant and prosperous world and future. I want to ask you next about your feelings of interconnectedness. Has this been like feelings of the drop rejoining the ocean, unconditional love, deep present moment? Has this been around ego death, all these differences? Take us through some of your... That's a long story, but it started when I broke my back. I was on the treadmill, I was running, I was getting in shape for a half marathon, and I experienced a period of pain that I didn't have a lot of resources to combat with. I was denied surgery and pain meds were making me feel things I didn't enjoy feeling. It was actually like almost enraging me, and I noticed it because my wife was responding to it. So that's what sort of got me on this journey. And it's required a lot of self-reflection about essentially my behavior. And then I had to dig into why I was behaving certain ways, what triggered that. And that helped me understand how our subconscious makes 95% of our decisions, and that's driven by how we were raised and all the experiences we've had. So I've had to look back at each thing that sets me off and figure out what's the best way to combat that. And as I'm learning and understanding myself and understanding what other people have been through and understanding the connections between science and our bodies, it took me all the way back in history to the point where science didn't exist and everything was spiritual. And that's kind of where I saw how science took one route and spirituality took another. And going back to your topic of oneness, what we're at now is completely like, let's just call it specialized. And there's so many schools of thought that all come back to one if we decide that we want to take it all the way back there. So if we've brought all these schools and a few of the speakers are mentioning it, that more of the scientific disciplines need to communicate. And I think that once they start unifying and whoever starts to unify and trans tech is already doing it, but you start unifying that science and that spirituality, we're getting back to the way it was originally. Not that you have to commit to one thing, but that you can understand the whole thing. And then how about, do you think that our most upstream issue for the reason why we have so many of the issues in our world is the illusion of separation that we lack that interconnectedness? Yeah, I think... I mean, we can get into mythology if you want to. Yeah, take us. But there's this sort of... There's stories out there. Humanity has always been driven by stories. And stories are what help us connect to the world around us and to each other. And the stories that resonate the most with me are the ones that talk about how we were all one, like these ancient stories. Atlantis was like this myth that didn't exist. I grew up in South Carolina. It wasn't talked about at all. And then you start hearing these little stories here and there and it starts to add this curiosity. But if you dig deep enough like the information is out there and it will explain how there was this period where we were all one and we knew that we were all one. And then regardless of what religion you look into, there was this separation. And that separation is what's driven us to the direction or the place that we're in now. And it's up to us if we want to reunify. And I think that it happens on an individual level. When one person says they want to connect with everything else, they have that opportunity. So it's the priority of the drop rejoining the ocean that makes it so that the interconnectedness is able to thrive at the grand scale. The drop has to consciously go into the process of rejoining the ocean. Yeah. I guess we're all raintrops. We're all individual drops. And if you want to stay in the clouds and be separate from the ocean, that's up to you. But the journey is the fall from the cloud. And the ocean is that soft landing that says you're now where you were always supposed to be. Yeah. So I like that metaphor. Yeah, we've even went and talked about how the process of birth is when you start dropping as the raindrop and that when you die, that's when you join the ocean. But along the way, you have the ability to kind of add into the water cycle along the way if you can feel into it. If you choose those who feel it, know it, that style of process. I have so many other thoughts around this. But I do want to get into euphoria. I want to ask you about what you're working on now. How can we, and this actually kind of takes us into this process of trying to help people achieve the states of interconnectedness? Sure. Our approach, my approach was sort of what spawned euphoria. It was understanding that this is an emotional thing. Like I was raised to not express too many emotions and I had a lot to express. You can ask my friends that I grew up with, I was an emotional kid and that forced me to figure out how to balance it all. But dealing with all these injuries made me realize that I was suppressing it all. And if you don't mind reiterating your question because I was on a path and I don't want to get off of it. How specifically euphoria helps with interconnectedness? Sure. I wanted to understand that what I was going through was individual. As I'm understanding these things, I came home and I was giving my wife lectures on how everybody was supposed to be. And it was almost through those conversations that I realized that what I'm experiencing isn't what everybody else is experiencing. And so when I was using euphoria in its early stages I realized that I had the flexibility to not only customize this experience for myself but to let other people customize it for themselves. Everybody's had different experiences, everybody has different needs. And the one size fits all scenario doesn't work. It might work for a majority, it might work for a minority but I wanted to create something that was completely flexible. And I'm also understanding that not everybody's ready for infinite options, infinite opportunities. You might need to give them options to choose from. So the stage that we're at with euphoria is it's out there, it's available and people can use it as they want to. What we want to do is help more people have access to it. And when it comes to new forms of technology they might not gravitate to something that says, I can heal my emotions, what sound? Do I even need to worry about my emotions? Is that really a thing? But I am seeing correlations between emotions and behavior and then the health impacts of those choices that people make. So we want to euphoria to give lots of people ways to find their own solutions. And then how do you figure out what is my appropriate personalized binaural meditation solution, mindful solution? Well, I could ask you, what's bothering you? What's your emotional state? So you prompt me to answer questions, give the service about what's bothering me or what's my state? Sure, so when you open the app it'll ask you how do you want to feel? And so if you can answer that question then there's a whole host of emotions that you can choose. Bliss is the most popular one. Interesting. Yeah, and then the next phase is what personal attribute do you want to boost?  These are all parts of yourselves that if you don't know how to get into them euphoria can help you connect with it. And then the more you do this, the more you realize just how in control you are, the less you'll actually need euphoria. So I wanted it to be, you know, a rainbow bridge of sorts. And then so then walk us through like if I do select bliss, like what am I prompted to do? So bliss, the way we see it is more of like a consciousness experience. And so, you know, there's lots of feelings that you get when you feel bliss. And my version of bliss might be different than your version of bliss.  But I think that everybody would have their own explanation of like how it feels. But it's always positive. And we designed you for you to only really include positive experiences. So that way people will recognize, do they feel good? If you feel good, then it's working. If something else makes you feel good, that's also working. But I wanted to make sure there were a lot less side effects. And with sound, you know, we're surrounded by sound and we're not even surrounded by healthy sound. So I really feel positive that this is healthier than a lot of things that are out there. And then walk us through what you do when I do select bliss or when any of the users that you're talking about do select bliss. Like what do I experience through euphoria? What does it take me into? So I'm going to use my mom as an example. So, you know, I watched my mom raise me and I watched her go into companies where she has had to carry the weight of other people's responsibilities. And so I've seen like her deal with stress. And for her, it might be more challenging to find happiness in different situations. But when I created euphoria and gave it to her, she chose bliss and she mixes it with her sleep. And so some people might want bliss in the office. Some people might want bliss while they're relaxing. She wants bliss while she sleeps. And when she wakes up, she actually feels like she just had a great day. She feels like she had a great sleep and she starts her day with this optimistic feeling that everything is fine. And you know, these illusions of why she's not happy, she's recognizing them now as illusions that she just needs to change her perspective on. And so you give me a binaural experience that then catalyzes states of bliss? Right, right. So the frequencies that we use, they're based on the Sulpheggio scale. And what's the scale called? Sulpheggio. That's how I pronounce it. I'm pretty sure it's Italian. Sulpheggio. Sulpheggio. So that scale was developed. And again, these Gregorian monks were singing these tones to reach these sort of emotional states that they preferred. And that particular frequency does trigger those types of emotions. And the binaural part is more about shifting into sleep mode or relaxation mode or meditation mode. That sort of physically gets you in your mind in the direction you want to go. The Sulpheggio tones are what trigger the different emotions. So just hearing a particular note in a song, like if you hear that high note, that might be the reason you love that song. When your favorite musician just hits it hard and you're like, yes, and you feel the connection between them, between you, like it's the right frequencies that seem, it's the right frequencies that our bodies respond to. And that bliss frequencies, it feels like magic. But now that we're understanding the science behind it and how it's triggering parts of your brain and body and releasing hormones, we can understand how we're responding to these tones. I like that example of why we even put on a jam in the first place is that we get to that moment where it's just triggering some sort of emotion or feeling for us that is profound and so important. And so we have different music for different ways we want to feel. And so I like then that you're able to identify what is, for me, a blissful song, maybe like a Sulpheggio scale, might be similar for a majority of people. It might be somewhat different for different people. Maybe some people don't necessarily resonate with this super blissful what you may think is. Maybe they want something that's super blissful that is only birds chirping and watered. Absolutely. Because if you look at, there was a study done where they compared the music that we listen to traditionally and how music is tuned. And the story behind that, you know, it's probably a good place to talk about it. It was established in Germany like in the, I think the 20s or 30s, 1930s. And that, you can fact check that by the way, but we decided to tune music to the scale of A equals 440. Now that was tested against the Sulpheggio scale where they chose a popular frequency of 528 Hertz. And you could see that the Sulpheggio tone had a greater impact on our emotions according to the test that they ran with the people in the trial. So nature has a more positive impact than the music we create because we're tuning to the wrong notes. So if we change the notes that we tend to, we don't need to stop listening to birds, but we're getting what the birds are offering. We're getting what nature is offering because, you know, their notes do resonate with us on a deeper level. And I think that's sort of like the cloud of sound that we live in, whether it's traffic or construction or, you know, poorly tuned music. Like all this stuff has a psychological impact on us, whether we realize it or not. Absolutely. Yeah, we were just talking about that a couple of days ago around this conversation about what aspects of a well-being today are actually lower than they were in the past. And this is very contrary into what so many people have been saying of today is the best time to be alive. It's like this drum that people are beating over and over again. Let's say positive. And yet, like you just described, we all know that our input stream that we constantly take in on a moment-to-moment basis being overly saturated with traffic, construction, all these things when you walk down in a metropolis makes us feel completely different. It makes me feel like I'm inside of the matrix. And then when I'm in nature and I'm deeply immersed in bird sounds, waterfalls, the leaves blowing in the wind.  I feel like I'm interconnected beyond... Yeah, the matrix basically creates an environment of disconnection. And so I do think that that may be an aspect of our well-being that has actually decreased when we find ourselves in the matrix metropolis versus when we used to find ourselves more immersed deeply in nature. Yeah, I agree. And it's even the structure of buildings. There was a TED Talk on how sound can be used or how you can construct things to promote better use of sound. And straight walls are not it. Sound just bounces awkwardly off of it. And so in nature that doesn't happen probably because of its fractal nature. So what we need to consider is how we construct our buildings, our rooms, our cities, the machines that we use. I mean, there's all these studies about the elements that construction workers have because of the vibrations that they're surrounded by. And I don't know if that means changing what hammers are made out of or how gears grind or if we can augment the sound and vibration that these machines are giving off. So that is at least healthier and how they're doing their constructions. And beyond that, if we're creating places that are healthier for us to be in, I think that we're going to feel a lot better. Yeah. Yeah, this is paramount. It's that our built environments that we've chose to design are not conducive towards spiritual wholeness and well-being. They're more oriented towards something that is unnaturally, has a proclivity towards unnaturalness rather than something that's way more or less, like even just take into account basically every single building that we're in just that the idea of natural light is not even the first priority. The idea of having plants and water and animals inside is not even first priority. It's about square footage and about productivity and actually if you were to try and build things around productivity, you would have natural light, animals, plants, all those things as actually first because you would have a more productive. If you could basically walk into a building and have that building be basically like an office in the middle of the woods. Yeah. That was the exact idea that's popping into my head as you were discussing all of that. You just drive down this long driveway into the woods and the offices are under canopies and trees and animals are walking right through. I would love to work in that office. Let's build that office. Wow, that's such a game changer. Yeah, I love that. You're absolutely right. You're spot-on in my opinion. We're definitely on the same wavelength when it comes to the potential is out there and maybe that's why it's the best time to be alive right now because we have the resources to bring our ideas into fruition. It's just the past several thousand years of us thinking that one way is best and maybe that was the way we needed to get to this point. There's a lot of infrastructure built but it's hard for us to fix it because it wasn't the best infrastructure. So how do we augment the current infrastructure we have because it's probably way too expensive to knock everything down and rebuild it and that's why cities seem to bounce from place to place. That city worked for a while and now we need to build new cities and new places and new ways and see if they can last even longer. Yeah, I love it. I love it so much. We're literally talking about cities inside of the Redwoods, cities alongside the coastlines and not cities the way that we currently see beach towns and stuff like that but in the sense of very, very... What would it look like if you were to try and jump into mixing together what immediate return hunter gathering is with the computational modernity of today? That would be what I would love to see some mix between those two things like me being able to live in a very primordial environment but that still heavily has the ability to get interconnected into the internet grid as I please and being able to ebb between those is just... You literally garden during the day between your shifts on the internet and then at night you have a fire and look up at the cosmos without light pollution. These are game changing ways to build the future. Yeah, you're speaking my Shangri-La over here. We are, bro. But it's all possible and I think that giving the systems that we have right now I think that you could have a hackathon and talk about what's a new way to build an office in a remote place and I know my idea would be almost like a log cabin type open office space where it is that throwback cabin in the woods so you feel like it's rustic although I really don't want to cut down too many trees if we can avoid that but so there's new materials out there but it can look like whatever we want because now we know how to do that and we can find ways to do it safely and organically and again, if it's hard for each individual to be one with each other I think that individuals are finding that it's a lot easier to be one with nature and so if we put ourselves in nature and then say how can we make nature how can we optimize this environment for us without doing harm then, you know, we just got to look at what's worked in the past I mean, there's all these questions about 5G and like how safe is that Meanwhile, Tesla is putting electricity through the ground and I think that we should explore like is that safe for the environment like are plants thriving from this or what but we need to take a smart approach to it but you can, I mean, an on-off switch for the internet like in a remote place in the woods because you're passing electricity through the ground like to me that's just why not try it I want to know on the binaural beach side especially for those that aren't familiar walk us through what exactly that feels like what is that, how do you end up creating something that can auditorily stimulate states of consciousness Do you mean what does it feel like for me creating that or what does it feel like for the person listening Yeah, person listening I guess I've got to think about what is it like for me when I listen and what is like the science itself behind like a binaural beach Sure, so when it comes to binaural beats your brain vibrates essentially and it measurably vibrates at different bands of frequency and when you're asleep you're considered during delta stage when you're the next stop for relaxation and meditation that's like the theta range and so it goes up to alpha and gamma essentially the binaural beat part when that comes in is creating a vibration that your brain is going to sync up with so sympathetic vibration is what your brain does and the binaural beats create that energetic environment for your brain to figure out how do you want me to vibrate and so it just puts you there it puts your brain where your brain is used to being and so whether you're dealing with anxiety like yesterday I was all worried about the pitch that I had to give I've been thinking about it for weeks and I was trying to get into that mental place of knowing that everything is going to be fine and so I adjusted my binaural beats to be in relax mode and that relax mode that theta mode has so many benefits you learn better when you're relaxed Bless you Thank you you learn better your blood pressure drops your heart rate like slows and like all these things that are your body naturally does it's hard for you to force your brain to get you in that state unless you have some other tool to get you there now there's other tools out there I mean you could breathe, you can meditate you could just if you do yoga or maybe for other people it's running or exercise so there's this whole spectrum that gets you in that right state of mind but binaural beats allow you to just put on headphones and listen for 10 minutes and then it gets all those processes moving in that direction so it kind of catalyzes from the auditory centers of our nervous system these feelings of calmness, interconnectedness the decreases in blood pressure, heart rate sure it's essentially you're triggering your endocrine system the endocrine system right so when you're faced with something that stresses you out your natural response is going to be for your subconscious to use all your past experiences and decide what's the best approach for you so if you're allowing your subconscious to decide how you want to handle a situation how you want to handle a stress it might automatically just say like alright I'm scared of that let's release hormones that are designed to help us run from our problems and if those problems are always just chasing you you never get rid of that cycle of releasing negative stress related hormones from your sympathetic nervous system now you have a moment and that's sort of where I think that this zero point kind of is where you get to choose fight versus flight like I normally hear people say that it's fight or flight and that's just like one thing that you do like when you're scared but for me it's you know you can choose to run or you can choose to face it head on and when you choose to face something you start to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and that helps you calm down and helps you be in the moment to figure out what do you need to do to deal with the situation and I played basketball and so for me I correlate that to the zone and when you're in the zone you see everything, you feel everything everything feels natural, everything feels easy and there's just no stress now I played under a lot of stress so I didn't experience the zone very much but when you look at superstars they stay in the zone whether it comes naturally or they just know how to get there and so I see it So tech that triggers you into the zone Yeah, that was my... that was sort of a result of everything that I was doing I initially came to binaural beats because I was experiencing pain and didn't know how to deal with it and out of all those suggestions like more sleep, more relaxation and meditation, I needed help with meditation so I used binaural beats to get me into that meditative state of mind so I could experience the benefits and the hormones that get released and all the healing that happens but I was surprised when I found out that the healing was actually breaking down all these subconscious behaviors that were leading me into unhealthy decisions Yeah, that's so good That's my journey That's so good, yeah So as though once you do the tech that triggers us into these deeper interconnected states that this effect also happens where we heal some of the most deepest parts of our psyche through that and it ends up just butterfly affecting into the rest of our lives We don't get triggered as easily we are able to more quickly reach interconnected states on our own away from the tech as well It's profoundly a butterfly effect oriented I love how you put that I love that Use it as often as you want Yeah, this is good This is EuphoriaApp.com EuphoriaApp.com One more time EuphoriaApp.com We're there EuphoriaApp.com Everyone, check that out for sure and that's on both of the major platforms It's only on iOS Yeah, I have navigated the world of entrepreneurship and fundraising and dealing with existing industries and processes to go from my friends and family that understand and support and have been there for me and I wouldn't be here without them and they've allowed me to try to get the investment just to get it on Android and the other platforms and so we've actually had to take more of a business approach to figure out how to introduce this to more people and so we're trying to help corporations because of their motivations to reduce the stress and anxiety of their employees so they perform better and so if we can get corporations to create customized versions of Euphoria then that'll allow us to generate the revenue to build out the app so it's available for everybody on other platforms Yeah, that's another good one We were just talking to George from My Feel and he's doing the process of working with with insurance and medical and just diving right into 10,000 person companies and bringing the tech to them and I think that's a very interesting way to try and get transformative technologies into the world that's through the pitch to corporations on productivity but just in general at the same time while I'm saying that I'm going like no Alan, no like No what? Don't get your app into your transformative technology app I mean it's okay but I also just like Just say what's on your mind if it gets trapped in there you got more problems It's more like taking this to companies that are already doing destructive things just to get the people that are there to become more productive versus trying to just get those old archaic companies to die so we can build the new world but maybe bringing transformative technology and does awaken people more and then they decide that what they're doing is shit anyway so It's funny that corporations typically have this freedom to do things without worrying about consequences just from like a legal standpoint and so it's almost as if like you've got you know whether it's a toddler a baby a giant or whatever like that size corporation has never had to self reflect and it's not going to until the people inside self reflect and I think that you know any business that tries to do any business that's doing harm is setting itself up to sort of experience that corporate karma and so I think that by I think naturally as the people inside the companies start to change then the companies will start to change their motivations and they have so many resources to get things done that I think it's better for them to make those adjustments and provide for a better future or you know other companies are going to thrive and eventually replace because they're doing new things in new ways that are resonating with with the general population this phrase corporate karma that's such an interesting one am I the only somebody else has said that too I don't think I've heard corporate karma yet I like that that was good and the corporate karma is hopefully what gets us to awaken more I see that as well, I like that just couple quick questions on the way out do you think that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence a biological bootloader like Neo like is humanity's purpose to build digital superintelligence like artificial general intelligence oh I think humanity's purpose is experience we can get back into the theory of one or feeling that oneness and the whole point of creation and that's just it the point is creation I think that if you look at spirituality on a dimensional level there are higher dimensions and we're at level 3 and we seem to have created level 2 with digital and virtual reality like sure these are like 40 experiences but we're experiencing through a 3D like body and so yeah I think that it's about creation but it needs to be creation with positive intent so yeah our body is essentially designed to carry like spiritual energy like I completely believe that and I think that that spiritual energy is what drives us to continue to want to create the purpose of creation being creation the becomingness, the becoming more alive yeah expressing itself uniquely yeah cause I have been expressing myself commonly like trying to like fit in, be normal and I didn't have that insight to be original until finally realized that not being original is harmful for you so everybody has to give what they give what they have and hopefully have a good time doing it and so long as intent is positive you know there shouldn't be a limit to what we're capable of yeah and what do you think is the most beautiful thing in creation well love is the easy answer I mean anything that can pull you, push you, drive you motivate you and how it works is incredible how it works is amazing how you feel you feel so much more when love is the awareness that you have um or I could say xbox no it's love I love video games and I think that they create an environment for new experiences and it allows your, for me it allows my mind to create my own what was that movie um Total Recall where you get to just go do something different for a little while you can get away from doing the same old same old and the more experiences you can create and that's what's great some of the real life experiences are like too expensive, too far away to meet people that have never left their city or their state like that's how I saw that there was so much more to the world and that's why I want to keep exploring it but you know in the meantime I can have like a little daily break yeah, yeah, yeah love an xbox I vibe, I vibe though because um this is made of atoms and the world of bits is just we can be gods in that world a little bit more, we are gods here too but it's just so cool to design virtual worlds and immerse ourselves in them and that kind of process I'm a huge, huge fan of but it can also be hard because then how much have you mastered the world of atoms prior to entering just the world of bits and then oh yeah, there's just way more for us to know and to explore and experiment on it's just a it's just a matter of resources and I think that you know the transformative technology community completely gets that and we come together and we provide our individual contributions and that grows into deeper understandings for how atoms work and and what we can do with them and I think that's going to transform how we live and it's going to clearly transform everything we create yeah, yeah um thank you so much for coming on the show Brandon this has been a blast I really appreciate it thank you for having me this has been awesome and uh I can't wait to see more I mean your conversations thanks brother I appreciate that thanks everyone for tuning in we greatly appreciate it we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below on the episode let us know what you're thinking check out the links in the bio below to Brandon's work okay let me see if I can get this you for ea app app.com perfect perfect boom there we go there we go and then you got that in the bio check that out also um check out the links to transformative technology conference as well check out those links in the bio below to the community also um support the artists the entrepreneurs 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