Hello, and let's talk about the 45th anniversary of the emergency. On June 25, 1975, around 11 p.m., President Fakrudin Ali Ahmad signed the Proclamation of Internal Emergency, citing the threat to security of India from internal disturbances. This marked the beginning of a brutal chapter of Indian history, which showed both the fragility of our institutions and the need to fight to strengthen them. The major pillars of our democracy crumbled one by one, with a few exceptions before the authoritarian will of Indira Gandhi. Many fundamental rights were suspended. The Draconian Maintenance of Internal Security Act, or MISA, was used indiscriminately to target any opponent of the government. Opposition state governments were dismissed, and leaders of opposition parties were jailed, as were tens of thousands of common people. The press, which was supposed to be a defender of democracy, was censored. But what was worse was the fact that many media organizations willingly accepted the censorship. The Supreme Court of India forever damaged its reputation when it agreed with the government that during the emergency, fundamental rights were not available to citizens, and habeas corpus pleas were not valid during this period. An important thing to remember is that the majority of the victims were the poor, the working people of the country. These were the people who were forcibly evicted from slums, who were sterilized, who faced a sustained assault from a government of their own. If any of the above seems familiar to you today, it's not surprising. The past few years have seen many commentators drop parallels between the situation then and what is happening now. We don't have an official emergency in place, but what we do see is that the same institutional collapse is happening at an accelerated rate. The same crackdown on critics of the government. The same unquestioning submission to authority. We talked in news clicks, Prabir Purkayastha on this issue. Prabir was one of those detained during this period as a student leader. Here's what he had to say. Prabir, thank you so much for joining us. So like we just mentioned, it's the 45th anniversary of the emergency. There's been a lot of discussion about it, opinion pieces of course. But more importantly, a lot of commentators, both now and over the past few years, have been drawing certain parallels. And one of the key aspects that has been talked about is the collapse of institutions itself. Now there have been misguided and even malicious policies by governments before. But we are probably in a phase where the ability of the pillars of Indian democracy or the willingness of those pillars to resist this kind of attack seems to have come down to an all-time role. So we'll talk a bit about that, especially keeping the emergency in contact. You know, let's take the comparison that is quite often being made. This is a super emergency and that was the emergency. Now if we leave the, shall we say, all these adjectives out, we had one kind of emergency, then we have a different kind of emergency now. I feel a common issue is not so much the collapse of the institutions or the collapse of the media as people are making it out to be. But the fact that it is very difficult to resist during COVID-19 epidemic, with all the laws that have been put in place. And I'm really referring to the Disaster Management Act, which as you know, is a draconian piece of legislation meant for very extreme times when you have an epidemic. This is really after the bubonic plague of the 1920s, 30s when you really had serious case of bubonic plague. We are really seeing again another epidemic of this order. So this obviously is a draconian act because it's meant to control emergencies of certain kinds. So that's a legal instrument which is in place. We also have the Epidemic Acts, which give the state governments a lot of power. But for the central government, that's not the main instrument that is being used right now. And they have used, in fact, the Disaster Management Act to pull up district magistrate who obeyed state orders. So that kind of institutional mechanism is one which is already there. The second collapse is basically because of the end of the epidemic. We are not able to mobilize people on the streets. We don't want to right now. Though if you see what's happened in the United States, the people coming into the streets of protest have not really increased the numbers. And that's one of the reasons is that this epidemic seems to affect people much more in confined spaces. So given that, it's good to know that mass demonstrations on the roads do not lead to immediately spiraling up of numbers. But nevertheless, it is true that this is not the time that we ask people to come out in large numbers due to various reasons, mainly because of the nature of the epidemic itself. So resistance in that sense is now confined more to social media, private discourse rather than public resistance, which is a normal political time resistance.  You get people on the streets. The temper of the people also give a pause to both the institutions and the rulers. So I think the dynamic of the institution being weak is not so much only of the interaction between the rulers and the institutions of democracy as you called it, the court being, of course, a key one in that. But it is really also the pressure of those who are ruled to fight back. And if that fight back is weakened due to whatever reasons, then, of course, there is a problem that the institutions then get into, that they then start succumbing slowly, one by one they seem to fall by the wayside, which is what the Supreme Court at the moment is perhaps most glaringly doing. It says all the right things about law. But then it doesn't provide relief to the people. So given that, you have an institutional failure on the court that even in the famous emergency judgment, which is what's called the ADM Jabalpur judgment, the court said, yes, people, the detainees have the right to life and liberty. Since I was a litigant in that same petition. So you have a right to life and liberty. But you cannot exercise this juridically. That is the court cannot give you a relief that you're seeking for. So the essential part is not recognizing the law. What is right under law? What is right and what is wrong? But being able to provide relief to the petitioners. And that's exactly what we see today, whether it's Kashmir, whether it's other cases. The court says all the right things about law. But what is missing is giving relief. So this is one part of the really the issue. So I will say that the institutional collapse is a consequence of the emergency architecture, which is the disaster management act, and the fact that mass resistance has become more difficult under epidemic times. And the government in that sense has got a window of opportunity where it can do a whole bunch of things, including changes in labor laws by fiat. Not by changing the law, but by fiat and saying, OK, because it is an epidemic, we say unions cannot do ABC. You cannot go on strike. We can sack you whenever we want. The labor courts will not interfere. Now, these are all actually dictates of the government, not backed up by an illegal infrastructure. The court is unwilling to provide relief. People are not able to resist because the factories, half of them not even working. So given all of this, you have a situation. The normal avenues of protest don't exist. And then you have what you are calling off as the institutional collapse technique. It's not the intent of the rulers ever to give you democracy. You retain democracy as a consequence of ability to resist undemocratic measures, authoritarian measures. So that, I think, is the bigger issue for me. And the other key aspect I also wanted to talk about was regarding the role of the political opposition and state governments itself. Now, during that point of time, president's rule was the preferred way of getting rid of inconvenient state governments. But now what we see is that even with restrictions on how president's rule can be used, the idea of political opposition itself is slowly being utilized by financial strangulation of the state governments on the one hand. Then there is a mass defections that are being engineered in almost every state. So we see that there's also very strong, say, assault on the federal structure through these process. Yes, the federal structure has been affected in a number of ways. And as you have pointed out, the finance is the key issue. They're not even getting what is their due on the GST disbursement, which would have taken place much earlier, not for funds which have now been constrained because of the lack of lower tax revenue, but taxes which are collected in an earlier period. Even those disbursements are not being made to the states. The states cannot borrow unlike the central government which can actually print money, what is called helicopter money into this language. The states cannot do that. It is also hamstring by how much it can borrow because that's the central permission it needs to seek because they've been allowed to borrow more, but borrowing more also has consequences for them. So all the fiscal transfers which needs to be made are not being made. The share of the state government's finances which are due to them are not being given to them. And then you have also all the so-called 20 lakh crore plans that you have on which you are now, say, you are doing, most of it is either imaginary, past schemes being sort of refurbished, if you will, or whitewash to present as if they are new. And plus a lot of them are actually just loans. They're promise of loans, not even loans. And most of the transfers there are to be capital, not to the state governments. Whatever the state government is spending even on emergency health measures, only a small proportion of that is going to the states. And the total health transfers are 15,000 crores, about 7,800 crores for this year, the rest for new year. And the total share of the state out of this 20 lakh crore amount is only 3,000 crores. So given all of these states have been really hamstrung and if the protest, the currently, the issue that is still there is if the protest, there is still the issue that the central government holds by fear over rules, whatever it wants to do. And can say, no, no, you have to follow this. And as you said, there is a democracy sort of of course dismissal that can also be used. But you also pointed out that buying and selling of MLAs for both the higher, this upper house, which is Rajasabha, that has been going on. You have buying and selling of MLAs for overturning governments, which was what was exercised in Madhya Pradesh, for example. So you have various other processes that were going on simultaneously, which does not seem to have been constrained by the epidemic. So you have this opposition's ability to resist this curtain, but the buying and selling by the central, the power that holds the central government today, the political party that holds the central government, the BFP, that does not seem to be constrained in terms of buying MLAs and MPs maybe at some point. And trying to therefore up overthrow state governments or save its government again by horse, daily got different kinds. So none of that seems to have stopped. Right. And finally Prabir, so the other aspect which was commented on widely during that period was the role of the media about how client they were, how with some exceptions, of course, how they surrendered to the government way of doing things, the government narrative around it. So how do we see the situation today? Again, like we've discussed, there's no official censorship, but the amount of the volume of content that furthers the government cause seems more than ever before. Yeah, Advani had a very telling phrase. The media crawled when it was asked to bend. And I have to say that the current generation of media hasn't fallen that far. It's still printing stories, it's giving views. There is that part of it. Yes, there are compromise, it clearly is making. Certain stories don't come. Certain comments are very, very muted, shall we say. Certain views are over portrayed in the media. All that is true. But nevertheless, there are critical stories to give some amount of balance and not make it completely as one sided as it was during the emergency, but the media completely caved in. That's one part of it. The second part of it is today the instrument of, shall we say, building up an opinion of a certain kind is not only policing the media, which is what was there earlier, but it is also creating a whole bunch of what I will call troll media or whatever other media you want to call, using the social media platforms, basically attacking anybody who dares to be critical about the Modi government. So this is the voice that is sought to be raised and there are a huge number of television channels as well as certain newspapers and digital platforms which are willing to abet the government on this or basically partner in this venture. So this is the new normal, shall we say, where trolling is considered news and news can be then proceeded against under first information reports by either people who follow the law fair model, attack people legally by filing cases or by the government itself by filing FIRs. So you have a whole range of now instruments like this being used. If you see, for instance, the case against Vinod Dua, a leading journalist at a long-time television anchor or against the Supriya who's in scroll, what's being done in scroll or Siddharth Varadarajan editor of wire, you will see that this is the pattern being followed. There are FIRs being filed by the police. There are then again cases being filed by other people and then it's a case of harassing and hoping therefore that this provides a chilling effect for the rest of the media. And I must say that some of it really works because most people would not like under current conditions to go to jail and with the COVID-19 hanging as a sort of democulus in everybody's hands. And this is true for also those who've been now put in jail in the Bhima-Korega case. That COVID-19 becomes then a further threat apart from the normal threat of jail because as you know, jails are crowded and therefore social distancing is not possible. And if there is an infection in the jails, it's very likely to spread fast. This is what we saw in various other places where infections did take place in the jails. So I think that's the other threat that's being held out both directly and indirectly to the media and particularly to the digital platforms which have mushroomed in the last five, six years and play a very important role today including media platforms like newsclaves. Thank you for talking to us. In our next segment, we continue the conversation that we showed yesterday with Brazilian social leader, Jesse Dayani. In this segment, she talks about the project that President Jair Bolsonaro a right-wing leader is building in Brazil. The sanitary crisis and the coronavirus made this negative stance of the disease by Bolsonaro deepening the political crisis because many governors, most governors in Brazil, in the States, are all positioned in the sense that this stance of the federal government is wrong. Not all of them are in the opposition to the government but most of them are. And all of them have a stance of recognizing that the pandemic is real, that this is not an invention and that it kills. And that it will have a very serious impact on the population. So most governors have a position to respect the measures of the WHO and try to develop measures to counter the epidemic. And this aggravated the political crisis and generated a very strong incision between the power of the public. So many governors have this stance. While the parcellus of the judiciary has been positioned a lot in this sense of this is not fair. This is a crime against the nation. The president is putting the people to die. So one of the hashtags, including here against the Bolsonaro government, is Bolsonaro Genocida because it is a project that actually kills the Brazilian people. So everything began to deepen with the sanitary crisis. So a deep political crisis, this generates a great opposition movement to the government against this stance. It is not only this, the fact that Bolsonaro, in addition to having this stance, the negationist, anti-science, anti-righteous, he has also never hid, never denied, defending authoritarian projects. Since he was a federal deputy, he has already made threats to torturers of military dictatorship here in Brazil. He never hid his authoritarian project. But while the president of the republic he was more or less content, let's say, during a period. And from this deepening of the political crisis, the dreams and his authoritarian project began to appear with more force, several street demonstrations began to happen, asking for military intervention, the closing of the National Congress, the closing of the STF, which are things that only happened in the dictatorship here in Brazil. And the president of Bolsonaro participated in these demonstrations, even without wearing a mask, passing this message that this is a flu and that this disease does not need anything from this thing, to wear a mask, to wear a mask, and to ensure the necessary social distancing to contain the coronavirus. Another important element was the announcement of the video of the Ministry of the Interior, that the Brazilian judiciary authorized it. When this video was broadcast, it was also very evident, as not only Bolsonaro, but also his ministers compacted with this authoritarian project of the closing of the democratic regime in the country with a neo-fascist character. It is very important to remark and leave this very explicit. Bolsonaro is a fascist leader in Brazil. And his ministers compacted with this project. This ministerial meeting revealed the will of Bolsonaro and the existence of a base armed in society willing to do anything, to kill, and even the last consequences to defend Bolsonaro as this leader of this legion, regardless of his contradictions, including an interesting element that when this crisis is ending, the Bolsonaro government, as the president, makes a movement to ally with a center at the National Congress with the aim of avoiding the opening of the more than 30 impediments that exist today at home. And when he makes this movement, he is extremely contradictory with his speech, because Bolsonaro in the elections was not going to negotiate, he ended up killing his mother, he ended up taking it from here, and he always denied this process of forming blocks, alliances and so on, in the Congress, to guarantee the interests of the government. So he makes this movement, but even so, the Bolsonaro base is that the base follows the leader, which is another characteristic of this fascist character of Bolsonaro and his Bolsonaro base. So these elements added a new element of opposition, of the opposition movement. So in addition to negation to the pandemic, there is also this element of the defense of democracy. So several governors in the country, the judiciary, the media, started, in addition to the opposition on the left, which historically, and before all that happened, it was already positioning against this government, so for us, the left is not a novelty, we already knew that this was Bolsonaro, but let's say that other sectors that even supported Bolsonaro arrived where he arrived, today look and do not, this cannot be denied, the pandemic cannot be denied, and attack democratic institutions also cannot be denied. So this began to make a movement of opposition wider than the left, Brazilian, began to defend the impeachment and defend the impediment of the Bolsonaro government for two reasons. Without preventing the Bolsonaro government, our people will die, because he denies the pandemic, he throws the people to death, and for another reason, it will not remain democracy in Brazil if Bolsonaro continues as president, this is already very evident. So, before that, many requests were presented, there are already more than 30 impeachment requests, now, if the impeachment request will be accepted, opened, if this process will indeed unfold in the president's impediment, then there are questions that are still in the game, the game is still being played, a Bolsonaro element grew a lot in society, but it has a stable social base, about 30% of support in society, and none of Brazil's presidents have ever been impeached with this base of support. So this is an element. The second element is that he made this alliance with the central, which, from the point of view of the votes, prevents a process of impeachment from being opened today. But the favorable elements are that they have exploded mobilizations of street in Brazil, against fascism and against racism, and this has increased the pressure against the government. There are sectors, governors, media, judiciary, and the Brazilian left with a lot of force in this movement of the president's impediment, and there is a serious social crisis that will be decisive for this process to progress or not. So, I processed a notion here in Brazil, we have a data now from IBGE, that we are in a brand of 10.9 million unemployed, but this data of unemployed considers the people who are without occupation are looking for jobs. It does not consider the data of the people who are not looking for jobs, be it for social isolation, be it because, in the case of women, for example, with the pandemic, with isolation, it has increased many domestic tasks and women have to stay with the children, take care of the house, etc., and they are not looking for jobs. So, either the other element is the people who are already so confused about the lack of jobs in Brazil that they are not looking for this reason. But if we look at the total number of people who are unemployed in Brazil, it reaches 75 million among the people who are looking and among the people who are not looking. This means that 41% of the population is a lot of unemployed people. And these data can cause a social crisis at such a point that makes this 30% of this relationship of forces that have not yet completely turned deeper into the opposition to the government, to the government, combined with these political forces that are already positioned as the Ministry of Justice, as the governors, the left, and part of the National Congress and the media. Now, another important element that we have to consider is that in addition to this 30% state base and this concentrated control line, Bolsonaro also has the support of the Parcelo das Forças Armadas and the support of the military police in the States. So, it is an extremely complex situation in Brazil. It is not a simple game to be played. It is complex, it is difficult. But we are following the effort of consent and dispute of society so that people understand that it is only to prevent from Bolsonaro, that we will have democracy and life in our country.  So, all of this is in dispute, but what I can say is that from the point of view of the political sectors, many are in favor of impeachment and from the point of view of society, the gap only increases. So, it is possible the impeachment in Brazil and we are pushing the block in this direction to prevent the president. That's all we have time for today. We will be back tomorrow with major news developments from the country. Until then, keep watching NewsClick.


So if you guys welcome back to another one, if you are new to the channel, I am Goldpony on the new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the new 2021 Subaru Crosstrek courtesy of Faulkner Subaru in Mechanicsburg PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. Wanted to hop in the 2021 Crosstrek today because of course it has excellent reliability. According to consumer reports, a great resale value and of course the best all-wheel drive system in existence right now. And there are actually several different changes for the 2021 Crosstrek as well. And of course I will be going over all of them in this video as well as testing everything out. So what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. I said there will be several different trim levels for the 2021 Crosstrek. First one being the base starting at $22,245. Premium for $23,295. Sport, which is a new trim level for the Crosstrek for 2021 starting at $26,495. And lastly, the Limited, which is the one we have today starting at $27,995. And so having said all that to go along with that plethora of different trim levels there's actually two different engine configurations for the 2021 Crosstrek. First one being a two-liter horizontally opposed four-cylinder boxer engine belonging to the base and premium trim levels. This one puts out 152 horsepower at 6,000 RPM. 145 pound-feet of torque available at 4,000 RPM. Power sent to all four wheels to a six-speed manual or CVT.  MPG numbers coming in at 28 city, 33 highway taking regular unleaded fuel. And then there is the new engine configuration for 2021 being a 2.5-liter horizontally opposed four-cylinder boxer engine belonging to the sport and limited trim levels only. And so this one puts out 182 horsepower at 5,800 RPM. 176 pound-feet of torque at 4,400 RPM sent to all four wheels through a CVT only with paddle shifters though which we will be testing out in a little bit here. MPG numbers on this one, 27 city, 34 on the highway. So a little bit better than the less powerful engine setup. Go figure taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of paddle shifter or acceleration test though, I did want to mention there are some drive modes for the 2021 Crosstrek. Some of them are located on the steering wheel S and I that is going to be your SI drive as Subaru calls it. And really that part is just a sport and intelligent drive mode adjusting things like the shift points and the throttle response. But then there is also X mode and X mode is going to be specific to the sport and limited trim levels. And it's going to be optional on the others. And really it's just for the CVT transmission only but X mode essentially increases the all wheel drive system engagement and uses enhanced control of the VDC system to reduce wheel spin and give you a little bit of traction in rough terrain or snowy terrain for that matter. But I did want to also mention on top of that the sport models also are going to give you a deep snow and mud setting in addition to that. So having now mentioned all of that what we are now going to do is put it in that sport driving mode by simply just pressing that S on the steering wheel there. And then I'm going to slide the shifter all the way to the back and to the left and let's test out the paddle shifters now. Just want to see how quickly they're going to react for us. Although it is essentially simulated shifting this is a CVT still nice to have them. So let's go ahead and give that a shot here. All right you guys in three, two, one, how'd I go? All right, actually they react pretty quickly. Again, this is simulated shifting. So it's not really real shifting but they react pretty quickly. And the other cool thing about having paddle shifters even though it's a CVT is you can actually use them for engine braking when it starts to get cold out starts to snow really I should say. So rather than actually hitting the brakes when you're going down a hill when it's snowing perhaps you could just use those paddle shifters to simply downshift. And the cross truck is actually going to slow down because of engine braking rather than the brakes themselves. So it kind of prevents you from sliding off the road. So another benefit to having paddle shifters on vehicles but now let's go ahead and give back full control to the cross track. Let's do a quick little acceleration test and let's see how this new engine configuration feels here on the new 2021 Subaru cross track.  Super nice straight away in five, four, three, two, one. Nice. Good initial punch. Oh, that's CVT man. It's actually not bad. There was a decent amount of acceleration there more than I expected quite honestly but then again I'm used to driving this CVT in previous years with the less powerful engine. So that was actually a pleasantly surprise me I guess you could say. Although it's still not the quickest thing in the world but actually not bad for the cross track. I will say that but to go along with that acceleration as always braking is equally important. So upfront you will find 11.6 inch ventilated front discs in the back 10.8 inch solid rear discs as far as that 60 to zero stopping distance goes that comes in at 120 feet which is very respectable. I will say that. A lot of times with smaller SUVs you'll get upper 120s or even 130. So 120 feet even is definitely quite nice and braking feels been perfectly fine for me today. No issues there.  And as far as the ride quality goes it's perfectly fine. It's pretty much as expected for the cross track so I haven't any issues and PA roads can be pretty rough so no issues there for me. As far as steering feel goes it's actually quite nice. I just got done driving the Subaru Ascent. I will say definitely a weightier steering feel to the cross track when you're comparing those two although you probably aren't comparing those two but still definitely a weightier feel to it and I like that actually. And then when it comes to cabin noise pretty much as expected. I will say the boxer engine can get a little bit loud when you really hit it but other than that as far as exterior noise is coming into the cabin really not all that bad just a little bit of engine noise that's all but touching then on visibility I actually could see perfectly fine out the back and that's really something Subaru always seems to nail when it comes to visibility at least because a lot of their vehicles do tend to be a little bit more on the boxier side and this is really no exception so I can see perfectly fine out the back but that about rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of this brand new 2021 Subaru cross track. All right so here she is you guys the new 2021 Subaru cross track. It did get a slight refresh for 2021 little bit different from bumper little bit different grill design you guys probably already tell that but I did want to mention it. Let's go ahead and start up front of the 2021 cross track here as far as ground clearance goes Subaru always does pretty well with that 8.7 inches up front meaning slightly above average when you're comparing this to all the other vehicles in its class up front you will find multi reflector halogen headlights which come with the base, premium and sport trim levels halogen fog lights coming just below that as well if you were to go with the limited like we have today you will get LED steering responsive headlights meaning when you're going around a bend at night those headlights will swivel based on your steering angle better help illuminating what is around that bends you're less likely to hit anything LED fog lights coming with that particular setup and of course there is an automatic future that comes with the premium trim level and up meaning those headlights will automatically turn on for you when it detects it's starting to get dark and there is actually a unique front grille with black and gun metal finishes if you were to go with that new trim level the sport trim level for 2021 as well but about rounds out the front let's now go ahead and take a look at the side of the cross track here and so then when it comes to the side starting up top here raised roof rails coming across the board standard on all trim levels black windows surrounds also standard body color door handles as well black side mirrors coming with the base trim level only that's going to be that matte black finish that you see on the front bumper body colored side mirrors for the premium and limited and gun metal side mirrors for the sport so therefore it is going to differ slightly depending upon which trim level that you go with there you will actually get integrated turd signals for the sport and limited trim levels as well in those side mirrors did want to also mention with the sport you're going to get sport type wheel arch cladding so you do have the matte black cladding on all trim levels but it's going to be a little more pronounced if you were to go with that new sport trim level I did want to mention that and take a look down at the wheel setup 17 by seven inch alloys for the base premium and sport however you will get 18 by seven inch alloys if you were to go with the limited and of course that is what you guys are looking at right now. Now let's go ahead and make our way to the back of the cross track here and so swinging around back of course you have that body colored shark fin antenna just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light just below that rear window wiper as well and I think it has a pretty nice design around back to it but let's now go ahead and take a look underneath there is actually a single exhaust outlet it of course is completely hidden from eyesight but you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip and so but now since we are around back of the cross track when it comes to opening that rear hatch there is a button to unlock it on the key fob itself there's also a button on the hatch itself but either way it is a manual lift gates to simply just lift up underneath there and go ahead and open it up once opened up though cargo capacity comes in at 20.8 cubic feet behind that second row seat I should say with the rear seats folded down that comes in at 55.3 cubic feet there of course is a 60-40 split that is how you're going to be able to fold that down there are four cargo tie down hooks in that cargo area two grocery bag hooks if you go with the premium trim level enough you will in addition to that get a cargo tray area and a cargo cover as well so I do want to mention that too and make our way to the rear legroom that comes in at 36.5 inches so for reference I'm an even six feet tall this is how much base I had back there also for the sport and limited trim levels in the back they will get dual rear USB charging ports that's definitely important if you have kids back there rear center armrest with dual cupholders coming with the limited trim level only and I did want to also mention there is some LED roof lighting in the back there as well and make our way to the front seats manually adjustable claw seats coming with the base and premium you will find a soft text upholstery with yellow contrast stitching for that new sport trim level and then a leather finish to the seating with orange contrast stitching if you were to go with the limited and that's why we have the orange stitching there today but then if you wanted a power driver seat that is going to be specific to the limited trim level and heated front seats are going to come with the premium trim level and up and those heated seat buttons are located just in front of the cupholders there and overall seats are actually plenty comfy I have had no issues in my short test drive today so perfectly fine there then take a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping it is leather wrapped for the premium trim level and up and again with that stitching contrast you will get the yellow for the sport and the orange for the limited like you're seeing right now then make your way to the startup let me start by showing you guys the key here all of your buttons are located on one side of the key lock unlock and that unlock button by the way is the Subaru logo in the middle in case anybody was curious about that but it is essentially all keyless entry if you were to go with the sport or limited trim levels and that is going to be an optional feature on the premium which means you can keep the key in your pocket walk up to the cross track simply put your foot in the brake and that engine start button then is located just by the driver's right knee there it's a bit then once started up tachometer is all the way to your left speedometer all the way to the right and there is a small digital display front and center which can be controlled by using the steering wheel mounting controls on the left side giving you a couple different things to scroll through like a digital speedometer for example, trip A, trip B how many miles you have left until you hit empty also which driving mode you were in as well that is going to display up there another nice feature I found is it will display the speed limit of any given road as well so overall pretty much everything you could possibly want up on that digital section of the gauges then make your way to overall interior quality a power moonroof is going to be optional for the premium trim level and up we do of course have that option there today automatic climate control comes standard for all trim levels and overall I actually do like the trim in this one there is some plastic around the door handle and around the shifter as well but at least the plastic around the door handle kind of simulates a carbon fiber type look although it's not real carbon fiber of course but it definitely looks pretty nice there just in front of the shifter you have a decent amount of storage along with two USB charging ports an auxiliary port and a 12 volt power outlet actually as well just behind the shifter you have your X mode button of course along with the heated seat buttons and dual cupholders and within that center armrest of course you are going to find a decent amount of storage there are also two more USB charging ports and a 12 volt power outlet in there as well so overall it comes to interior quality it's pretty much as expected some of the extra stuff you get with the limited you get homelink control so up to three different garage doors found on the bottom portion of that rear view mirror and you also get encompassed in the upper right hand corner of that rear view mirror as well but overall interior quality is actually plenty fine for me I've had new issues there taking a look now at the tech display there's actually two of them when it comes to the top one or the smaller one you can actually adjust what is on that top display by simply just pressing the info button on the left side of the steering wheel there but that's going to give you things like what day of the week it is actual date itself there's your outside temperature there's safety information your approach angles which I thought was pretty cool we are kind of in an offered vehicle so I like saying that there's some weather information as well a little bit of navigation information radio settings the list goes on but I did like that that was there but now making our way to the main tech display 6.5 inch color touchscreen display coming with the base premium and sport trim levels however that limited trim that we have today you are now looking at an eight inch color touchscreen display but having said that though the features aren't really going to change really all that much I should say you're still going to get Bluetooth and audio streaming on either setup you're still going to get Android Auto Apple CarPlay on either setup as well that's a big one because therefore if you have a smartphone you simply hook it up to the cross track and therefore you have free navigation displayed up on that screen even for the 6.5 inch display so that's pretty cool factory navigation system if you wanted it although you don't need it is going to be optional on the limited you can check out your climate control settings up there as well and your radio settings and by the way when it comes to the sound system here you will get four speakers for the base six speakers for the premium trim level end up actually and then there is an eight speaker Harman Kardon sound system that is optional just for the limited we do have that option here today I wanted to mention it 432 watts on this one so what do you guys say? let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one actually really really good I liked that there was a good bit of bass clarity was plenty fine but really that's plenty of a sound system for the cross track I will say that but last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that tech display at least is when you do put the cross track in reverse you will find a rear view camera letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start the Subaru cross track is an IIHS top safety pick that's always a good start front side side gear and airbags do come standard drivers knee airbag up front as well in the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats also back there rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system of course you got the symmetrical all-wheel drive system that's really a safety feature in itself as well but here's where it really gets good when it comes to Subaru iSight and Subaru iSight is going to come on the sport and limited it's going to be optional on the base in premium trims but essentially what that includes is a pre-collision breaking system which is excellent on the Subaru I will say that pre-collision throttle management lane departure and sway warning adaptive cruise control with lane centering as well then if you go with the sport trim level and up you get high beam assist in addition to that and then the limited is going to add to that a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert which by the way is optional on the premium and sport trim levels limited is also going to add reverse automatic braking as well but overall when it comes to my final thoughts of the Subaru cross track great reliability ratings you guys can check out consumer reports for that that will back that up best all wheel drive system in existence that's partly due because Subaru of course was legendary and still is legendary when it comes to rally racing and the snow and dirt so therefore you got that going for you great safety in this one and Subaru really takes pride in its safety I'm constantly reading and watching things about how Subaru loves driving for the very best safety ratings on everything love the new engine for 2021 that we had today it's definitely more powerful than the other one it is a night and day difference although it's still not the quickest thing in the world that's what you got the WRX for anyways and by the way the base engine hits 60 in around nine seconds flat so that's what I'm saying it really is a night and day difference when it comes to the engine configurations very practical cabin here I like the layout I love the orange stitching I'm sure I would have loved the yellow stitching in the sport as well but overall an extremely solid pick here when you put all that together but let me know what you guys think of the cross track in the comments section below that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching for free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there if you like be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in a new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


Opus 88's annual Zodiac fountain pen releases finally here. It's the Zodiac Rabbit, of course, for 2023. The black pin box has the magnetic closure and the outer cardboard sleeve. You have instructions there on the inside so you can know how to take care of your pen and use it. And here's your first look at this beautiful pen. This is really a unique design. We were so excited when they sent the information over and it really lived up to the hype in person. This is a close-up look at that center band design. It's a beautiful silver floral rabbit motif spotlighted by that gorgeous blue-green background. It's a threaded cap with a stainless steel number six nib. Your section matches the barrel. And the materials in this pen include ebonite, brass, and shell. And you'll see the shell in the circular embellishments there underneath the center design of the rabbit floral motif. And it is cartridge converter fountain pen and you access that by removing the barrel. And you can kind of get a glance there inside the pen. That hollow circular midsection is designed to house the pen's converter as you saw, but it's also treated with a really a lot of detail with the exterior brushed, plated with silver and then coated with that translucent blue-green paint because it forms the background. The Japanese Bakelite is inlaid with 28 Natural Mother Pearl jewels. Subscribe at Pinchley for more pen reveals and shop at pinchley.com.


can you just kind of describe the excitement today getting a two three actually soon before new players for this team kind of revamping the roster a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the past couple of days have been exciting just around baseball. This was an active trade. You know showing up today no one that Gallo and Rizzo both wanted to be in the lineup. They got here. And that speaks volumes to them to pack up their lives and be here in Miami and you know ready to contribute to our team. Julie was hot out in the bullpen also. So you know it was exciting to meet a couple of guys. Plug them in there right away and get some contributions too. I know Gallo didn't get his first hit.  Rizzo obviously with a big homer that put us ahead and the knock. I mean I've been seeing that from the other side for a while and I'll central so it's exciting to have them. How much better do you think the additions make this team potentially. It definitely makes our lineup deeper. That's a couple of these. It adds power to guys who get on base to guys who aren't afraid to walk. So I mean yeah there's that there's no question they like our lineup. You've had a lot of success on the mound lately. What's been a common thread for you. Oh like tonight I really didn't feel that good. I didn't feel like I had my best stuff. But we made it work. I don't know baseball is weird. I think something to it when you just have a little more confidence and you've grown your pitches with conviction and confidence. The reactions from the hitters get a little better. They don't hit your mistakes as often. It's hard to explain. But I think just in general like the past month or so the pitch mix has been a lot better. I'm laying in the curve all more moving the fastball around more. I'm not just pitching up in the zone. So I feel like I'm giving up some different looks.


The public hearing of the proposed amendment to section 28 of the Iowa State Chief's Law was greeted with mixed reactions from participants. The public hearing held at the House of Chief's Parliamentary Complex, Iowa State Secretaryate's Abandoned. Section 28 of the Chief's Law of Iowa State, which is being proposed to be amended by the State Assembly, sought to empower the Executive Governor of the State to grant approval for wearing a beaded crown without consulting the Council of Chiefs. It is at the discretion of the Governor, so it cannot be said to present officially and to present unofficially. The Commission of the Local Government and Chief Tensity Matters Barista Olasukomi Olaleye, the Chairman House Committee on Local Government and Chief Tensity Matters Honourable Akin Tude Olajide, explained the significance of the bill. Through the sections of the Chief's Law, in all years, we have been given mass consults, as stated clearly. This past section has always been discretion to go back to either a proposal or not a proposal. If you look at section 26 and 27, in all years, we have been given mass consults and mandated that it comes to removal and dispossession. But this one is prone to wear a beaded crown, not always discretionary. So it would fall now, it's either a QD or a proposal. Executive have done the needful and the Committee and the House have done the lawful. And that is why we are having public hearing on the particular view of Chief's Law and the State. We are treating the particular section with the House of Assembly rules. So I'm happy. Today is a very good day than a historical day. It's yet to be a law interview and pending the outcome and we know what's next.


And we're back. Hey, Lady Aida, what's this? Hey, everybody, and welcome to Show and Tell, a new special edition. We're trying on some new broadcasting. Well, we have a different location. We're not the Aida Food Factory because we have to take care of a kid now. So we're in our tiny New York City apartment, but you can't tell. Well, it's not that much bigger than the screen, by the way. Like our bed is behind the double gear, and this is my closet at the end. But it's me, Lady Aida, with me, Mr. Lady Aida, and in the background somewhere is Baby Aida. But right now, it's time for Show and Tell. Well, first of all, I want to say thank you to all the Aida Fruit team members who are co-hosting and hosting the Show and Tell. We're still going to rotate some of the team members. Make-up Melissa is going to help us on this one. We're going to bring Melissa on in a second because we might have to bounce really fast, we'll say. And for everyone who's been just keeping an eye on Aida Fruit, helping us out, doing things over the last couple of weeks, we very much appreciate it. We're looking forward to a fantastic New Year. This Lady Aida has been making tons of hardware. I get to see it all, and I'm like in the room now, looking at this pile of prototypes. So a lot of things. We'll show some of them. Yeah. So let me first up bring Melissa by. Hey, Melissa, thanks for being a co-host and everything. I'm no problem. We might have to run out fast. So if we hand you the keys to the Show and Tell car, gas it up when you're done. So before we bring some folks on, what are you working on right now? I'm actually working on the sickofpython.org site and adding the ability to just kind of go through a little install wizard and install sickofpython on your board directly on there for like the ESP32 boards. So using like a web tool that you pick, you navigate to your board and then you say install and it goes? Yeah, like I'm taking the code that I done from the web serial ESP tool and kind of integrating that in so that somebody can easily just install it without having to go through a process. Because for like the ESP32, it's a little bit more involved since you have to kind of go through the ripple to generate like a Wi-Fi settings. That's cool. The ability to put the right firmware on a board has been hard. It's kind of like remember back in the day when you get like a laptop or something and you'd go to like the Dell support site and you'd have this like thing and you can never get the drivers for your printer. You can never. Reminds me of that. Oh, you wanted the ethernet driver for the FL38621, but you downloaded the FL38624 and now your motherboard IRQ is screwed up and like, yeah, just erase everything and start over. That's what it's like with mega controllers. And we look around. We were like, how hard is it for people to get the right firmware on their devices? It's really hard, especially if you have like more than one board. Even that's hard. OK, that's cool. Looking forward to it. Where will folks see the first glimpse of this? I had kind of come up with an iteration today, but based on some feedback, I'm working on redesigning it a little bit here. So hopefully sometime in like the next week, they can start seeing something. OK, and I'll probably put in a newsletter for folks to try out and we'll probably be a blog post and more. All right, thanks so much. OK, Jeff, let's stick around. Jeff, what you got going on? Well, this is something that is really easy, really simple, but you have to actually do it. So I just wanted to share how excited I am that I finally got around to doing this. So I've got a KB2040 and a time of flight sensor here. So it's an I2C bus going over STEMAQT. And this isn't actually the one that I'm debugging. It's a different microcontroller. But I wanted to look at kind of the low level of the I2C bus in my logic analyzer. And I realized there's this connector here. Normally, I would get this out and I'd stick it on a breadboard and run some wires to hook it up to the logic analyzer. But I realized I can just use these. I can just make a custom plug-in 4 by 2 header using these guys from the store. And then this is a non-standard. It's the STEMAQT size, wrong colors, that came out to female headers. And so you just pop them out. And then you have an end that looks like this guy here. And then you stick them in the housing in the right way. You just need three out of the four wires because you're not sending power from here to here. And then it's super easy just to debug whichever I2C device and host that you want because it's just one more connection on your STEMAQT bus. And they always have two. And they always have two. So you can daisy chain them, although, yeah. You could get that one with five if you needed it that JP was showing. But yeah, I just feel like this is going to be a tool that I'm going to get out a lot and plug it in whenever I'm working with this stuff. And the next thing I want to do is I lost one of my probes. This is what the original manufacturer connection looked like I've misplaced one of them. And I'm like, wait, I can just make my replacement. The colors won't match what the user interface shows. But the housings and the wires are just really handy to build something up that is a little more self-contained. And the other thing was if you've got a hot air station, use it on your shrink tubing. Works real good. No dealing with gliders. Like I did, like somebody who didn't even think about it. No, that's just, that's like the old school hardcore way. But the right way to do it is to impact use a hot air station. So anyway, that's all I got. But I mean, for me, it's life changing. Hey. Just like the tired wire. The tired liar is wired, not it. Well, I didn't love that. That came out like really handy. It's true. Like every time I do that, I just go and see like, I yank out the probe things. And I'm like, and the clippy things, like they don't quite grab on this stuff. No, those things, I don't know. They don't like me either. Yeah. They're great for like, if you happen to have an SOIC chip, but anything else, they're like, or like male headers, or anything else is a little iffy. So I will be making a cable like that too. That is a good idea. Also, constantly debugging iSquared2 stuff. All right. All right, walk on. That's what I got. Great idea, yeah. Maybe like an iSpy one would be cool too. Yeah, how many pins does that mean? iSpy has like 17 pins. But the display itself doesn't have that many. Yeah. Right. You don't need to use all of them to interface with the spy. You could just use a few off the break-in. Yeah. You could use the, well, you'd want the eight channel. Yeah. I mean, this does have eight channels. You'd need to use both of the headers. Well, you know what else you could do, maybe, when you look at this Pico? I hope to be showing that off sometime soon. So yeah, you know, Scorpio has the power. All right. Well, this is, I feel like we're building up to it. All right. Yes, Scorpio. Y'all have a good night. OK, thanks. All right, thanks so much. Thank you. And happy new year. And that was your edition of Jet Packs. All right. Next up, we're going to go to Pedro. Pedro, happy new year. What's going on? Happy new year.  We're supposed to be off too, but you know what are you going to do? Yeah, there it goes. Just wanted to do a quick sneak peek of next week's project. It is the Pico W running Whippersnapper. And it's just a nice little simple case that Brent requested. It is a wall-mounted case. So instead of doing like drilling into the wall, it just uses command hooks. So it's cool. You have access to the prototype area in the back. And you have space for two sensors. And then the little reset button on the side there. And a big old fillet for that. And then access to the SEMA and how to power it. A nice little case for that. And then no project this week, but we did upload the year-end review. So all of our favorite projects from last year and of course, we're going to show that on Ask an Engineer. Yeah, yeah. So my favorite one from last year, besides the iBook, because my wife doesn't want to give it up. She's using it right now. I think we posted it like two weeks ago. I think you guys saw it. So we printed the iBook thing with our case that we have in the shop. And then the other one is, of course, what just finally released. This isn't it. This is the one that we three printed.  Yeah, and they just released it. So definitely like, oh, cool. Good thing I made my own.  Well, it's a real droid. You can actually program it. Where's the one from? No. Can we program it? I don't think you can. Someone asked me what Whippersnapper was, and I tried to give an analogy instead of like, because it's a no-code way to do IoT projects, which is like, even that sounds complicated. I know. But what I've said is, you know how you've always wanted to have something just like email you when there's a leak somewhere? Well, you can do that without any code. And you could just kind of put these two things together and it just does that. Because there's all these like little tiny things that there's not something that does it. And this does. And you could just do it kind of like Circuit Python when you plug in a board. It just shows up as USB. It's like, oh, like, it's that easy. We still want to make things easier. So I'm hoping the Whippersnapper with Pico gets a lot of folks making the IoT projects. Yeah, definitely. So yeah, that'll come out next week. Thank you so much and happy new year. Happy new year. All right, JP. Thanks for doing not only the show and tells, but ask a JP engineer or something. Sure, it was loads of fun. Thanks for letting me do weird stuff on a different night. It was entertaining. That's why you're here. All right, let's do some weird stuff. All right, so weird stuff. First of all, I showed this on my product of the week yesterday, but I just have to show it again because I'm so happy with the little hub for a little passive hub for hooking up your StemAQT quick stuff. And I made a funny little sort of standoff airplane of four sensors to plug into a QT pie here. And I kind of want to make a whole fleet of these things, a little armada of pluggable stuff. But this is, we've seen a few iterations of people doing, how do we get away from big bulky breadboards and or soldering and with these little quick and StemAQT connectors and the fairly standard form factors of these. We do have a pretty LEGO-y type of setup here that I'm excited about. And then the other thing I wanted to show you is this. So I built one of these. I don't know if you've seen these in your Instagram feed. I built one of these models. Wait, which screen do you want me to go to you or your overhead? The big screen share there would be good. This one? No. That's that one. Yeah, sorry, we were like, you're looking at it. Okay. So this is a model I built for my wife for Christmas.  And we glue them together for about, they claim six to eight hours, but I think it was more like 40 hours. You make everything. Yeah, that was not a 16 hour project. Little books in here and everything. And they're really neat. They use some neat tricks to give them depth. There's like a little mirror in there. And it came out great, but it's meant to go on your bookshelf among books. So it's like a little secret place. That would be a secret, yeah. I think Jen Schachter kind of invented this idea with some laser cut models she did a while ago and posted on Instructables and some other places. But these are commercially available kits. They're not that expensive. It just is expensive in terms of your time. But it's got a little battery pack back here. And there's about three or four little LED lights. You can see one in the roof there. And I kind of want to improve the lighting in there and maybe allow it to be controlled on a timer, not have AA batteries that'll just die after a while and maybe do some little flickering and stuff. So that may be something I just do sort of as a fun, cool side project is fix the lighting. I wouldn't change anything else about it. It's a lovely little kit, but... That might actually be a good project. You know, we have those little Oh, six or three LEDs on wires, which could be good. Yeah. And that's kind of what this is designed for models or you could, if you wanted to have, I mean, it's kind of, it looks like a Victorianie house. So I don't think the nude lights would be good because that would be more of like... Only if there's like a steam pump experiment going on. Yeah, like Sherlock here joins the... Yeah. Hey, Sherlock, how'd it go? You do whatever you want. Yeah. Uh-oh. So anyway, that was... I'd been curious, I'd been seeing these things in my feed and I was like, you know what? That might be a fun thing to... I was really high from the paper glue for a long time there in November though, man. You ever get paper glue that's meant for paper projects because I guess it doesn't like seep through like Elmer's and man, that stuff was noxious. I really had to... I had to ventilate that stuff at my... And... Well, that's part of the fun. That's part of the Christmas magic. Do not let this tiny room take you out, JP. Hey, that's why it took so long. I was like moving at half glue speed. I don't know. Anyway. Dollhouse miniatures are same. Well, you know, we saw a lot of like Christmas displays that were like dollhouse miniature things, right? Miniatures are so fun. And I've never built a little pre-made kit like this before. I've... You have to love someone a lot to build it for them though because it's a lot. Yeah, this is... Those books.  Oh, God. It's like a bazillion of those little books. But this is extremely cool.  Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Okay. Maybe let's put a cutie pie in there and we'll make it like the lights turn on and off. What's neat is when you see this, you know, there's someone in Disney watching our show and telling them to like, oh, we can make a haunted mansion version of this. Oh, please do. Yeah. Right? Like, this is... Yeah, so whatever it is you're doing in the weekends. Don't say that because Cory, the doctor's gonna watch the show and they're gonna make JP build him one. You can eat little peppers, miniature peppers, ghost. Oh, that'll be cool. Oh, see? This is great. I would love to make some miniatures of some of those effects if they... There you go. There you go. Have your own little pocket of imagine here. All right. Now I know what I'm doing for 2023.  Hello. Projection mapping stuff. Yeah. All right. Tiny, tiny stuff. It just took away 40 hours of your life. Now we know. Now we know where I'll be and what I'll be doing. All right. Come on soon.  All right. Well, thanks, JP. Happy New Year and thanks again for helping us out. You bet. Happy New Year, you guys. Yay. Congratulations again. Yay. Happy New Year. All right. All right. Is two, two, three puppy. Hello. How are you doing? How are you doing? So I have been hard at work on this, the eFidget. The LEDs are on. Let me fix that so it doesn't go crazy. It is the haptic feedback fidget spinner that I've been working on for, I don't know, since like September, August. And like I said, it's a fidget spinner, has vibration motors on the back. And... You want us to show your face more than the computer? Yeah, I think right now, yeah. So it's basically just a cool device to help you kind of let out your like distraction. I don't know, you know what I mean? And... What's the chip that's on there? Is there a chip? RP2040. Okay. And it actually just got an immersion to CircuitPython today. Oh. It's gonna be a CircuitPython board? Yes. Oh. Sorry, I can't talk. Yeah, I just added it to CircuitPython. Or I mean just merged in to CircuitPython. Right, yeah, that was awesome. We'll just ask you a question. So it looks like there's a battery in the center and then how do you spin it? There's three little six millimeter push buttons and you just press one of those and it wouldn't be very easy to see, but I mean, I'll do it anyways. And then you just, like the motors make it vibrate around?  That's really nice and tactile. Yeah. Is this the first electronic fidget spinner? I... Yeah, this is the first one that uses tactile feedback which I really like. Yeah, right? Yeah. And I mean, somewhere around my room is version one and that the MOSFETs couldn't handle the current of the motors. I just picked the MOSFETs based on rated current and not rated power dissipation. Oh, yeah. Well, you've learned a lot as an engineer. That's a big lesson. So the code is in Circuit Python of course. So can you share my code screen? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no problem. And one who merges these things in so I think you're talking to the source. Yes. So I've got some things that... So I've got an... Oh, I didn't show the Neopixels right. There are three little reverse-muched Neopixels. Sorry, I'm all out of source today. Cool. Oh, there they go. Ooh. So you have the motors defined here. They're PWOM-able buttons and some button initialization code. The rainbow wheel code I totally copied from the Uber guide. Sorry. No, you should. That's what it's there for. Yeah. We have a copy button. Yeah. There's a copy button, it's true. And then I have the function for spinning it. And the idea is it kind of feels like a click. So it's like a very short pulse of the motor. And it does work. It's very hard to demonstrate because it's a fidget, but it does work. But people can make their own. And there's also the... Yeah. And that's the other cool thing. It's completely open-source hardware. So it has a breathe mode so you can try to breathe to it and it helps guide breathing, main loop. And yeah, that's pretty much it. And it's kind of my ideal fidget. And I'm hopeful that other people like it too. But I mean, I've shared it with a few friends and they all seem to think it would help them. Remix it and build it around. If you remember, drop me a note, ptdatafruit.com. I'll make sure we get it in the newsletter and get the word out on it. All right, thank you. All right, thank you so much. It was great. Thank you. Nice work with your project. Yeah, that was cool. Someone finally made a electronic fidget spinner. All right, so what I think I'm gonna do is what I mentioned before. Melissa, we're gonna bounce to set up for Ask an Engineer. Okay. And how about you take care of the next three folks and we'll just watch to make sure that you're out and then we'll start Ask an Engineer. For the folks that just tuning in, we're doing a slightly different set up each set of kids. So we're like kind of like mushing all the shows into our bedroom and multitasking at the same time. So we just need a couple of minutes to set up. So thank you so much, everybody. Have a good new year, Melissa. And thank you, Melissa, for taking it from me. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. Have a happy new year. Yay, whoops, wrong button. Hello. Happy new year. What sort of project do you have to show today? Hey, Melissa. Ready. I've got a little BFF five by five. Oh, okay. I've got a little, it's a micro switch. It's a limit switch and a piezo. It's all kind of attached to the back. And it works as a little, I call it the one-armed bandit, it's a mini slot machine. Oh, that's really cool. Oh, and yeah, it even has sound, I love it. Yeah, so I got the sound, light and sound goes so well together. It's the addiction. And so I'm using the Python set property just to check that final line. I'm recording that and then on, there is a winning kind of animation. If I do get, at this point, it's just, if there's two or less colors, so there it is. Oh, nice. Cool. Yeah, so it's all kind of wired up. I'm using the original cutie pie. So it's kind of limited as to memory. There's no extra flash or anything. Yeah, I think the original one, you could put a little memory chip on it to expand the flash. I think so. I took the challenge and I just did this as kind of a double loop, doing all the matrix math, figured out how to do the columns. There's only one single reel, so the color gets basically offset by each one. And that's kind of what the animation is. It's offsetting each of these reels by one. It looks really good, yeah. It's super fun. And one of the other things is I did the, did use the debounce library. So like a one-armed bandit, it's actually the return. So I'm looking for the rise on the limit switch. Just a little thing that makes it a little more casino-like. I don't know if this is something that J.P. wants to put in his little apartment there in the bookshelf, the D-class. Oh, that would be kind of cool, yeah. The last egg is set up, but yeah, that's my project. It's a lot of fun. I was tinkering with the matrix math and the double loop. So, real fun. Yeah, I just want to say thank you. And to eat a fruit, all the folks who documented it, welcome back, Lamora P.T. Thank you. Thank you for stopping by and sharing. Happy New Year. You too. Hi, how are you? Hello, Melissa, how's it going? Good, could you turn? I think your volume's a little bit on the lower side. I can just talk louder, is that? Yeah, I can hear you a little bit better. I don't know, maybe it's coming from a different microphone than you expect. But I have my Space Mouse hot keypad for Fusion 360. It is a ton of, it's six by six keys. Use the Neo key for the top ones up here. Oh! It's wired because I originally had a couple pieces and I just had originally a flat piece on this side. And then once I kind of got the feel of it, I built this part with the hot keys. And I had a broken Space Mouse so I kind of gave it a second life and added hot keys. I'm using a KMK for the firmware on it and a KB2040 microcontroller. That's really good. Looks like something you'd buy at a consumer level. The actual that I was able to Fusion 360 and kind of added a ton of stuff, especially with the Space Mouse and the bottom grip. And it's really handy for when I'm doing my little Fusion 360 models.  And it works out really good. And the Space Mouse I plumbed into the KB2040. So it just uses one power station instead of running power to both parts. Cool, that's really good. Yeah, thank you for stopping by and sharing that. And happy new year. Hi, hey, you are the last one here, so. Yeah, I finally got in here to do this. So another keyboard project. Oh yeah? This one's a little older. This is the keyboard off of the Osborne One. Oh wow, okay. But the keyboard interface on the Osborne is just raw access to the keyboard matrix underneath. So I've got a Feather 32 and a custom PCB just to map the pins around. Oh, okay. And now I have a Bluetooth keyboard from 1981. Is that running, what is it running for, the software? QMK, is the floor got in there? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, they did all the hard work. I just mapped some pins and it works. Cool, yeah, I know Jeff has been doing a bunch of those kind of keyboards as well. Huge and chunky and there's actually enough room in this case to hide the entire cable and microcontroller if I wanted. Are you using that with your computer? Yeah, I've got it paired to my laptop here. Oh nice. I lent it to a student worker. I think he had it paired to a Mac. Oh, nice. I had it paired to an M1 iMac to play with. And yeah, it's an old noisy keyboard. No worries. Oh wow. Thank you for stopping by and sharing that. And have a happy new year. Happy new year. And I think that is it for show and tell. Stick around for Ask an Engineer that starts in a few minutes. And I'll be with Lady Aida and PT and that starts at eight o'clock Eastern time. And thanks for watching.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can implement nested structure in C programming. Before starting, you can note how you can search my YouTube channel. You can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube search bar. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos there. You can also download my programming app, Takamis, which is available on Google Play.  So first statement is header file inclusion that is STDI cottage. Then I have declared a structure whose name is student. The student structure is having two members, roll number and marks. First one is of integer type and second one is of float type. Now I have to declare some date variables so that I can read date of birth, date of admission and date of examination. So instead of writing various day, month and year variables, I have implemented nested structure inside student structure. So this date structure will be known as nested structure and it is containing three variables dm and y. After its complete declaration, I have created three variables of date structure that is dob, do, admit, admission and date of examination. So these three variables are now a member of student structure. So student structure is now having five variables, roll number, marks, date of birth, date of admission and date of examination. So roll number and marks is of primitive data types that are int and float and date of birth, date of admission and date of examination belongs to date structure that is user defined data type. So this way I have implemented the declaration of student structure. Now inside main function, you can see I have declared a variable that is s which is which which belongs to student structure. Now I have to read all the information from user through this s variable and through this s variable I can print all the received information again on output screen. So here you can see this printf scanner will read roll number from user and that will be stored inside s dot roll number. Then marks will be stored inside s dot marks. Then you have to notice this printf scanner which is reading date of birth. So printf will print enter date of birth, then scanner will read three entities day month and year. So for that purpose I have written s dot dob dot d. So s is variable of student structure. It is having a member date of birth which is which belongs to date structure and date structure is containing a member d. So that's why s dot dob dot d, then s dot dob dot m and s dot dob dot y. So day month and year will be stored this way and accordingly date of admission will be stored and then date of examination will be stored. So this way through these printf scanner statements roll number, marks, date of birth, admission and date of examination will be stored in s variable collectively. Now to print all these information on output screen I have used these printf statements. So first student details will be displayed, then roll number through s dot roll number, then marks through s dot marks, then date of birth will be displayed in this format that is percenty hyphen, percenty hyphen, percenty. So day, then hyphen, then month, then hyphen, then year and to print s dot dob dot d is used here. So s is student structure variable. It is having dob variable of date class, sorry date structure and d is the member of date structure. So this way day month year will be displayed, then date of admission will be displayed and then date of examination will be displayed. So you can see all the variables are managed with the help of s variable that belongs to student structure. So this is the complete implementation of the program. Now I can execute this code so that output can be generated. So it is asking for roll number. I have entered one. Now it is asking for marks. I am entering 100. Now date of birth in dmy format. So day, then month and then year. So this way I have entered my date of birth. Now date of admission and date of examination. So this way I have entered three different dates. Now you can see the output. It is showing roll number, marks, date of birth, date of admission and date of examination. So friends, I hope you have understood how I have managed all the entities with the help of a single variable and I have declared a structure into another structure. So this program is demonstrating you how you can implement the concept of nested structure in C programming. I hope you have understood of whatever I have explained in this video. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos there. Don't forget to subscribe my channel. Thank you for watching this video.