with some folks. Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noel Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Enjoying me every week is my brother Pedro. Good morning everyone. I'm Pedro Ruiz, credit tech here at Adafruit. And every week we're here to try our 3D printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That is right. This is where we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello everybody. Welcome back. We are back from our small Thanksgiving holiday break. Hope everybody is doing well. Staying safe out there and healthy. Let's check in on the community. Hello everybody. Thank you for joining us live. Given shoutouts to everyone hanging out in the discord at discord.gg slash Adafruit. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Good night to everybody hanging out all over the world. Morning, Liz, let's see DIY. Do I stir? And you Callaway. Benz. DJ Devin. Thank you, Devin. Hello and welcome. Koshi, Paul Cutler hanging out as well. Sweet. 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It has nothing to do with the newsletter, but that's what I see. Check out the newsletter at adafruit.com slash a newsletter. Product focus one and all the products get added on the weekly. It did a shout out to adafruitdaily, but you can go to adafruitdaily and subscribe to the many other categories that are out there. I want to give a shout out to Paul Cutler for hosting the Circuit Python Show podcast this week. We've got Mark Gamblore. I know him as Mark Gamblore on the Discord. Check him out. He had a really fun interview. You can find out how he got started with Circuit Python and some tips on how to contribute to the core. Must listen. And the last one I'll talk about here is the jobs board at jobs.adafruit.com if you are in the market for a gig and you want to help out and get some monies, check out the jobs board and see if there's something that might interest your fancy. You can also post up a job listing if you are looking for some folks to help you out on a project. You've got some latest ones here, so check out the jobs board at jobs.adafruit.com. A quick programming note. Tonight is John Park's workshop. Every Wednesday now at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. And tonight we are hosting the show Intel. So we invite you to come on and share your projects. It'll be a fun time. Last week was hosted by Melissa, so shout out to Melissa for hosting that one. And the week before that was Liz. And we'll be rotating the folks out, the hosts out so we can keep it nice and diverse. So, that is this week's housekeeping. I wish I had a banner for housekeeping. That'd be fun. Alright, let's go ahead and jump into this week's project. It is a very simple but useful to be able to case four these awesome micro-lipo chargers. V2! What's the newest thing about the micro-lipo charger? Grab the older one. Yeah. So, case, nice protective. Of course it snap fits together. So, nice little enclosure. So when you are charging these, like on your desk or whatnot, nice to have protection so none of the circuitry is actually touching anything else. Or if you're like any maker, you probably have multiple ones of these charging all of your batteries because of course you gotta have backups. So this is a nice little way to protect that. You have a nice little opening of the JST port on the back and then the new addition focus in on here is the little current switch. Yeah, so the original micro-lipo charger had a jumper on the back of the PCB that allowed you to change the charging rate. So if you have a battery, a lipo battery that's over 500 mA, you're actually going to want to use the higher charging rate. For a battery that's lower than 500 mA, you want to use the lower charging rate. So the two charging rates is 0.25 amps and 0.5 amps. That's just a little background there. It tells you on the back. And it tells you on the back there as well. So we got the new silkscreen on the back there using Penguin. And then the latest update really is that switch in the front. So you have full control over changing the charging rate. So you can swap between these. This is a 2200 mA lipo battery. It has two of the 2200s making it 4400. And all of these the blue ones and the soft silver pouch batteries all supported with this lipo charger. And again, if you were using this one, you would want to use the higher charging rate, the 0.5 mA charging rate. What else do you want to say? PCB plugs right into your USB either the port or extension. It is in A. We do have adapters if you want to have the type A go into a USB-C. So we do have those adapters but this is simple way to have the entire PCB to plug in. So the PCB is thicker than your normal 1.6mm PCB. This is I believe 2mm PCB or maybe 3. And it's designed to work on a type A. Your LEDs your status LEDs are still there you get the green for saying it's charged or done and you have the red one for saying it's charging. The case has room for of course the USB to plug in so it doesn't go in all the way. And then the little snap fits on the sides for the case. So no screws or anything like that. Nice little nubs on the side that hold everything together. And of course to be printed these in the translucent material it has a very nice translucent effect you can see the text in the back. Yeah. It makes it feel like a Charger for Game Boy or something. Yeah. And the translucency also helps kind of give you a little bit more diffusion on these lights so they kind of show off with these little streaks of light which looks nice with the airlines. Good point to bring up doing it in translucent means I didn't have to try it out for the LEDs so you can see that right through the case. Cool. Now are these in stock? They should be. Take a look at the Learn Guide you can find the files onto 3D print your own you also have the source files up so you can modify it. Yes. Again it's going to work with all of the 804 LiPo batteries the lithium ions the morning that says only use the ones from Adafruit because we know what Yeah it could be different on other different batteries like the ones from AliExpress or something we don't know what the chemistry is on them all the ones that we have in the shop are all tested so we know those work with them and you can see the full battery details for that there it is a guide from Lamar to talk all about the Chargers so different types of them if you need so if you want to embed one you can have it as a backpack on back of a trinket or anything like that we do have different breakout designed layouts for those some battery types here do all that stuff there charging rates here pinouts and then there is one paid specifically for the V2 so it will go over all of the status of these the JSC connector, the switch, the rates all that good stuff and then there is a dedicated guide on just batteries as well which is in the main guide link there I think John actually added this check it out, check out this guide all batteries it's the same one I thought I put the other one in there too where it's just all about battery I guess this is it I think it's called like lipo battery like a guide for lipo batteries okay well glancing really quick over at the discord chats the comment that caught my eye real quick DJ Devin saying that he got the V1 and yeah, the switch is definitely easy or must have that when you're switching out batteries I mean it's pretty easy to unsodder it but if you want to switch between that was a great update in the chat to Lamar for revising it so as part of some accessories, extension cables it's a nice usb cable with a switch I love using this thing because it just makes it easy to tackle, to turn something on and off with the usb and then of course I have a slew of batteries any reason why you picked these two? we got so many it's just the ones that I use all the time so the big ones and the kind of smaller one for the other projects and those are just showcasing why you need the switch alright let's jump into 3d printing oh look at that first required I did add a brim brims are great the way the top part of the case it just prints vertically so I just added on there just to share but you should be able to print without because it can be a little bit annoying if you don't have a de-brimmer tool to get rid of those edges although I did notice that with the glitter filament let me go into the overhead all of the brims came off so good so nice I didn't have to use a de-burr tool with the translucent ones that did stick on a little bit more everyone yeah this is the blue glitter from everyone it's on amazon they're shipped like next day I think it's like 20 bucks or something and this is the red I don't know if they make a green version I can foresee lots of folks doing remixes maybe adding keychain rings I forgot to add that all sorts of fun stuff cause then it could have been like for the ornament I think I saw a comment somebody was using these ornaments or something those are great yeah and you just have different colors to showcase since we're on the 3 printing page show how the nubs work these tiny little guys are there grab onto the inside here I should have showed this in the video and then you can see these walls that stop it from sliding in and out this wall on the back it encapsulates the nub on both sides so this is the end stop for the sky here oh the PCB itself it also doesn't go past it and then the the tiniest of features really make oh my god yeah and then this draft right here stops the gets onto the JST port there so it can't go forward and then it can't go back because of the bottom wall and it can't even strain again one of those things where there's so much geometry in such an itty bitty tiny space that you have to figure out for tolerances and getting the opening so your finger can actually get in there so making it big enough not too small so you can actually exactly yeah wanted to completely cover this up and have an extra slidey bit on there but that's just one more little finicky thing that will immediately pop out of the case or take this out or what not can be time consuming too nail the tolerances for that exactly yeah so this goes in at one angle gets inserted like show and then on the other side snaps in very satisfying click and there's a little bit of wiggle room just in case there are any tolerance differences should be within 0.2 or 0.35 tolerance everything's locked in place there, very nice if you can't get it open again here you can use one of our spudger tools to get that open alright good demo there good it should be, it should come in like that that's how I exported those out no supports and then assemble so does the assembly but just in case you guys have photos to showcase so there you go I put it in and cover the thing that's it blam blam and then just your switch depending on what battery you're using that's pretty much it a nice simple but useful way to recharge all of your battery hungry projects alright well good be sure to check this out they're in stock right now tonight you can get a discount for 10% off if you check out the coupon code so check it out cool in love with these tiny little guys so itty bitty alright and that is this week's project we're ready to roll on to the next one if anyone has any comments about it you can drop them down jump in too what's the next project I'm noodleing over here with the noodles LED noodles from Adafruit are the best I figured I'd do something festive so I got these these four LED noodles wired up in series and I got the coin so better I made a shape I designed this little snowflake shape I even added a little hook there I want to hang it up from the ceiling hang it from the window or put it on the tree it's a prototype so I'm still trying to figure out a good method of hiding the secrets which is the noodle pins and the wires you can see here I kind of tried to kind of share power and ground and then I needed to kind of do a cross section here so I think I'm going to do is 3D print a cover that snap fits over this hexagon that way it kind of hides that and then maybe I'll have a bit of room for this coin cell battery holder to kind of hide in the back there like that that might be a good idea what do you folks think these are two different colors this is the warm white and the yellow they're both 300mm approximately 300mm in length but they just press fit in and then the the hexagon has these little hole openings that allow the noodle pins to pass through and that kind of keeps them locked in place had a little bit of an issue with with the bed adhesion where it started to curl up a little bit and I can't really see it here almost but it worked fine I was able to still press fit it in there it's always hard to get some of the bend radiuses to get going as you can see I got some sharp sharp angles there but the noodle itself just conforms and I kind of like the dots here and this the battery is actually kind of low but you know that's what it is all have to end up adding a choke resistor at some points I have one right now but one of the things I like to do is to wire in line these JST connectors because then I can swap this out for this big big battery that Pedro is just sharing so let's see what that looks like I'm so sorry I just blinded Pedro but there you can see quite the difference there it's a quite radiating my face is just chatting that what you were saying earlier you want to print it in translucent or saying blue would be really cool white or blue but I don't think you'll see any of those colors when you get it that bright the power of noodles compels me noodle around go into the discord.gg lots of great banter going on there try not to laugh out loud there you go normal don't eat the yellow snow Toms are life yes JST connectors are life they are life yep that resistor they are bright I was thinking some other ideas I've been seeing some cool Christmas trees maybe cool to do a 3D printed spiral and then you would press fit it into the spiral so you can make like a noodle Xmas tree ornament or just go with snowflake snowflake is quite easy to go around with the whole spiral thing and cat I can do it but I don't know if I want if I should or whatever kiyoshi is recommending the name Glowflake that's a great idea alright I'm going to stick with the snowflake I was trying originally to do a single noodle snowflake but I ran out of shape dimension I just couldn't get a good snowflake shape with just one noodle that was kind of hard I don't know pick that as something so that's what I'm trying to do kind of a simple one and need a simple break project while we work on a bigger project like this thing in the background that we'll talk about at some point can I plug it in? yeah plug it in alright sneak peak everybody sneak peak you don't know anything about this one I'll just say neopixel strips neopixel strips cool that's all we'll say about it and jeff epler and paint your dragon so you just want to leave it on I guess just leave it on until the battery dies the cobbles they do nothing one of my favorite simpsons memes and that's what we're prototyping we're ready to move on to chap attack Liz is recommending that be the new jingle intro I'll just do like a Lamar and just kind of waiting every single time coin cell holder could be a larger hexagon to double as the design element that's a great idea let me do that that would be cool this would be a great brass jewelry thing like if it was like brass somehow I've been seeing a lot of where the coin cell is a part of the design element you know the coin cell and it gets like sandwiched in between these two bars of brass a little bit of dope but pretty printing that's what we're going to do so good ideas though hexagon shape for the coin cell holder good idea we're going to move on and talk about cad stuff so let's do it head on over to the github cad parts repo and you'll see all the latest cad parts that have been added let's take a look at the commits there's a lot of them over the couple weeks we got the neopixel driver bff the neopixel grid 5x5 grid bff the micro charger v2 Pedro look at that we got a 3d model of this there she is got a switch there got all the capacitors and whatever that is SOD or whatever SOD all of the silkscreen is there as well as the traces it's a good one to one representation of the model so check that out if you want it comes in STL, fusion and a step so that's one of the ones I'm liking great comment on what was it? great first that they want to use for snap fit parts check out the fusion 360 file it's just like a triangular sketch it's one sketch that I use to make everything sweet back over here we got the IR LED emitter the SHT C3 sensor the SHT31D the SHT40 the XDL343 the 3 the radio feather wing was also added and I think these are from last month but those are all there, I've been adding parts as I get them and the latest one I guess is the micro-lipet charger check out, oh and the Neopixel BFF let's check those out the grid one is here that definitely needs to be a ornament cool so that's the CAD parts that's what I'm talking about do we have any other tools I thought there was something I can't recall when it was did you write anything not in the notes no CAD parts shop talk I guess community makes it's a quick one alright we have two time lapses to catch up on let's check out not this week but last week's turkey leg this is a very fun design by CM Design we got this one on what Colts 3D as a purchase STX it's so freaking cool printed plates, articulated, turkey legs I think it was free it's super cool to go along with the Thanksgiving holiday it's one of those super cute useless prants it reminds me of like Sheldon or something what is that from it's an egg that hasn't quite, is a chicken that hasn't quite hatched yet Sheldon what was that from Garfield I thought you were talking about what's that dude's name the egg guy no the kudosama oh that egg the one that wants you to slap his butt anyway this is just too funny anyway, yeah look at the printed plates legs they're hinges it sits well two pieces this little bone can be printed in another color this PLA, we love this PLA brown things it's a coffee, a sparkly glitter from the lovely folks at proto pasta they make some great filaments artisanal filaments so check this one out, it's made out of coffee sparkles that's really it, much it turkey leg legs so there is the first one and you can check that out lazy turkey leg Sheldon is from Garfield thank you kudosama the other guy, the yoke he's got yokes the next one is this one here let's run the time lapse real quick this is the Flexi Yeti this thing is awesome we saw Joel, 3D printing nerd make a giant one we gotta make one too so this one's from Flexi Studio Flexi Factory this is the folks who designed a lot of these characters the toes that's a little rough oh that's where the time lapse stops takes a picture and then goes back over little bit of horns and the the mange the way the body is constructed everything moves around and then the filament that we're using here is the that gradient filament so you can see that there's like silver and blue wait is it quantum or gradient gradient quantum one of those they're very distinctly different one gradually changes over the length and the other one has just spliced into it's spliced into it is like a quantum not from matter of fact as soon as somebody does a thing they'll copy it is it from everyone it's some no name brand no name it's on Amazon same day people might want to link from here yes and it stands up by itself get the angle right look at the feet I like the way that it's silver and then blue yeah it's fantastic silver I like how there's some of that bleeds through I guess the filament twisted while printing you can kind of see it right here it twists 90 degrees around and yeah this is a really cool print yeah this is a yeah this is a print yeah prints down like you saw like that oh yeah I had to print two of these and next little facial expressions cool little horn and of course yeti being themed with the holidays yeah so check that one out prints without any supports I believe on the table on the bed yeah it is surprising how all the filaments have gone down in price they're all the same price whether it be ABS, nylon, PLA TPUs we have some very nice gifts from folks wake up say people want a link to and then Garfield and friends that's the one I remember watching yeah I used to watch that as a kid yeah there it is what about the pig in the the duck it was like the side the side oh the pig yeah an odi I remember the chicken it was like two separate series I get my characters like confused like remember plucky duck from uh the tiny toons yeah let me find that Baxter Babs alright we're bringing it back to the 90s yeah people want a link to that for the month it is from he's pulling up a link I-E-M-A-I I get this link I-E-M-A-I that's the company name they call it color change magic filament silver blue cool and now time for a kangaroo shredding a guitar brought to you by youngie school yes so it was each episode of Garfield odi story and then in the middle was the barnyard characters that's right they had like a good structure of like who else did that someone else did that it's almost like two shows in one was it uh maybe I am thinking of the one with the fuzzier cat was that the junkyard are the barnyard animals no what am I thinking of I don't know Heathcliff yeah that's what I'm thinking of it was like the orange cat stripes and then it was that's what the soul man PT said the dude who was always rollerblading around or the cat always rollerblading around with the headphones well Pedro you are four years older than I am I don't remember though so many dogs got named odi Garfield yeah I think we had a Garfield odi alright I added the link to that blue filament with the weird company get those filly ments get those silly filly ments make those flexible things hey there he is Pedro look there it is well thanks for the chat thanks chat so yeah this week's time lapse Tuesdays let's jump into this week's uh community makes that were sent to us we had to separate them because we have too many so we'll catch up on next week's but in the meantime let's go ahead and jump into some of the handpicked ones from today so this is a make of oh I really like this one this is uh posted up by Alex um posted up there make of the Gemma Flaming torch I think that's what I called the Neopixel LED torch this looks fantastic um they took some very really nice photos it's a 5 volt DC fan uh in a Gemma in a Neopixel ring and uh it the fan um blows air up and there is a piece of mesh fabric acting in as a simulated flame so this dances around from the air flowing you know through it and it's all uh kind of a snap fit design no glue couple screws the handle houses the 2200 mAh battery which is a twisted cap that you can take out and recharge the Gemma M0 is the main board used here and uh they did a fantastic weathering job on this thing looks fantastic I love the details on this I worked really hard on this and I love the comment because look at this the comment says here Alex says thank you so much for sharing this great design the whole project was a ton of work but also very fun it looks and works great now if you can get someone to do a ton of work and it becomes fun that is very impactful and that's what we do I think that's what we try to strive for how do we make something really hard flip and fun it's a freaking fake fire you can like blow cool yourself off with this fire and just like this is too cool oh man I would say posted how they got that textured look on the cylinder it could be just like spray paint I guess right because they can't see any layer lines tiny bit but not really looks really good maybe they put what's that? brush on this coating XT something like that anyway looks fantastic check it out does the first make ever of this project which is super awesome it's always great to see a make of something that hasn't been made before kind of sorrows we've highlighted it before maybe it was on thing reverse or something but this is Prusa printers alright next up we have another make this is super cool this is posted up by Fettis here on Thingiverse and look it's the ghost from Halloween but here's what's really cool they split the design so they could fit on the bed of their 3D printers if you ever see something that's too big definitely try splitting it in pieces we'll be doing it later that's what these persons did and it looks great when it's all put together you can't tell that it's all separate you can't see the seams and I think the neon strip kind of helps keep it together if you're not using glue but let's read what they said because the ghost is bigger than my print bed I had to split it into four and print two at the same time I used glue for the plastic to put it together I remixed the ghost in up with STLs if anybody wants it's a 3D version but I had some other neon lights hanging around and this was printed on the Creelty Ender 3 nice I like when people figure out makers will find a way alright next up is another one on oh this is great check this out it's their first make of the IoT Telegraph this was a collab project with Liz Clark and no comments from Andy L but Andy L posted a fantastic photo I like the color scheme and look at that knob that is a fantastic knob we 3D printed ours and used some Capton but this might be capacitive like the knob itself is capacitive I think it is yeah it's just really nice to see something like this put together really nice touch is to add you know the graphic thing that's printed on an inkjet printer on some sticker paper an exact one eye for whatever and there you go very very cool to see someone make that and good rating thank you alright moving on we have another one here these are some emeralds that we were inspired by that Sonic the Hedgehog movie it's posted up by Getzberg it says built without issue and snapped together nicely and they made the small LED version which is very nice like ornaments we have 3 different sizes of these so if anyone ever needs a glowing bluetooth controlled emerald that glows for your sonic cosplay you can use the circuit playground express or circuit playground blue fruit or anything else and it snap fits together so shout out to Getzberg for posting their make it reminds us that Vaderfruit shop has some adonized knobs just like that and they could be capacitive oh crap I'll have to search for those I don't know which ones there's like thousands of products I know we always miss it alright one of the last ones here is from Kevin Wong they posted their make of the heat set insert press heat set insert press rig this thing uses a soldering iron and a piece of 2020 and some ball bearings to help you make really precise heat set inserts for your 3D prints yeah so it's always nice to see I've been seeing a lot of folks make this one this is becoming our most made project on principles which is great to see lots of remixes as well and the last one for this week is the foot switch on principles this one's posted up by billiam and billiam made the usb midi foot pedal with circuit python this was also a collab project with lis and I'm just super happy to see it all put together there it's inspired by Getz Zul Quatl which is a serpent god from the I believe it's either Mayan or Aztec folks completely different I just saw the video on it really? is it Mayan? does anybody know? I'm making my ancestors very upset with me but hey I was inspired to make it look like that so billiam has a really long kind of comment basically had some input on design changes or design improvements notably like countersink in the screws things like that like thickening up the plate I think for a remix definitely good ideas but it's open to folks to edit and modify how they like but yeah it's always a little bit hard to get screws in certain places but that's just kind of the name of the game in some places like it's easier to design it this way or there's more time consuming to add those features yeah good good notes though if I were to remake it again I'd definitely do a lot of these improvements so shout out to billiam for posting up their make of the midi foot pedal very fun one and that's this week's community makes shout out to everybody for posting up their makes let's check in in the chat room as we start to close down the show yeah yeah it's because those are great for accessibility projects yes they are whoops what about the ink is oh I see the link there too for the animi's aluminum mechanical knobs let me see pid 55 31 I remember when these came out I don't know why no we did not oh yeah yeah well these look great for the like a passive maybe we'll have to find out oh yeah they're fully machine I think they are out to try that out folks maybe the painted you know oh they come in different colors yeah it's got a gold one a blue one I feel like this is John Park's problem or problem as a fault the request yeah request to get these knobs really good knobs we will trurize them out to about already put an order in alright well maybe we'll make another order well that's cool they kind of blacked it yeah I wonder if the paint like messes with the to find out with the capacitance I'm just clicking on tabs now alright well um I think that's it that's it for the show we got 20 minutes to spare it was a light project but we got more on the way as we end the year yeah there's a couple others being worked on the background we should be here for the next two or three weeks I believe I think we're gonna be out I'm out the supposed to be this week but you know when you have kids they puke right before going on a cruise so you gotta reschedule everything double your affection well our friends went took their kid who was sick and they did not have a good time couldn't even get off the boat so don't do that glad you did it 16th right yeah 16th yeah we're off the week of the 16th no I think we're good then you're right because I'm not leaving until the weekend yeah we think the uh we'll post it we think the last week of the year will be out which is the 25th through the 31st we'll probably be out that week so but we got more time to spend with y'all and we appreciate you guys hanging out with us live or on the archive let's catch up on some comments huh Yoshi is saying that oh my god too much that's the end mission I'm thermally insulating don't think the electro-pundit TV will be impacted Devin used him a couple times these knobs all metal the set screws extremely high quality knobs let's say the blue is very pretty blue is my favorite color got one of those we'll test these out oh those look great that's a sneak peek of his step sequencer he's working on let's see that tonight speaking of later on tonight we'll be hosting the bros back in a good way and then right after that we'll be jumpbox workshop we might have some secrets that we don't know about some special guests so sort of moon themed guests that's all I'll say alright well thank you for tuning in live in the show we hope your vision has returned from all the brightness that we're just illuminating my right eye is still twitching well we hope everybody has a good the rest of the day we'll see you tonight don't forget 730 Eastern time with all that said never get to make a great day see you later night yay no mic issues alright here's the song


Alright, we're here with Ralph Einstein, the voice of Sidolphus Telemann for Final Fantasy XVI, and I'd just like to ask you a few questions about your experience, what it's like to voice the character in the game. I'd love to ask what attracted you to this role, would you like to speak on that? Things are very couched in secrecy and codes and everything, so you don't really kind of know what you're getting involved in at the start. So I was asked to get involved in this video game and play this character and I read some of the lines and the writing was great, the world seemed wonderful and as an actor what you want is good writing, so yeah it was great writing, so I agreed to do it and then later on I found out exactly what it was and how big it is, but yeah it wasn't, I think if you approach any project with the whole weight of the project you're not going to do your best work as an actor, so I think it's kind of good to not kind of know the size of what you're doing because all you're doing is looking at the character, looking at the lines and doing your job in a very pure way, rather than going, oh my god I'm doing bones and bones and stuff, you know what I mean? What is it like to get into the mind of Sid? How did you prepare to voice this character whenever it was your time to record? It was kind of quite an easy one in the sense that I didn't, I speak with a Yorkshire accent which is quite a no-nonsense accent as far as British accents go, if you hear a Yorkshire accent it's kind of like a steady no-nonsense honest kind of accent, so I decided not to particularly change my accent for Sid because I thought that's kind of what Sid is, he's a rough soldier, he's a very very loyal man and I just thought that it suited that kind of rhythm of speech so I didn't change a lot to be honest when it came into the sessions, I just concentrated on making him as real and as vibrant as I could. What is your favorite thing about Sid? I love the way that as a lot of men do sometimes, sometimes toxically, but they take the piss out of each other and they push each other on and encourage each other by insulting each other and doing each other down and that's a very specifically male thing which can be very toxic but can also be something very beautiful. You alright? Never better. Sounds like it.  For you what was the hardest part about your performance as Sid? I think the hardest part of it is the practicality of doing it over four years because as an actor I usually work in film and sometimes television and so you go and do a job for two or three months, you may go back a month later to do some ADR on it but that's it, that's your involvement with the project and you're on to the next project whereas video games take four years you kind of keep coming back to this thing and it's a completely different way of working to what I'm used to and it has many many positives to it. Was there at any point where you were able to kind of improvise your script to kind of give Sid's performance a more you feel? To a point and it's more to do with the rhythm of the lines rather than because the writing is great it doesn't need messing around with the writing it's great but sometimes the you know the back and forth between two characters we got the chance to work together me and Ben towards the start of the process to build that relationship and so to do that with another actor in the booth is unusual as well so we got the chance to really do some acting before we actually started putting the lines down you know some rehearsal and getting to know how we worked off each other and that was really helpful because I don't think it would have had the warmth if we hadn't had that bit of rehearsal working together before we actually got going and that's not that's not usual for video game work. So you mentioned the fact that you have a background in film and television can you speak about what it was like to make that transition from film and TV to voice acting for video games? It's very different but very similar in a sense because all acting comes down to the the same kernel of truth is that it's finding some truth whereby you look at this character and you believe that whatever is coming out of their mouth it's just coming to their brain for the first time so that's the same whether it's film television theatre or whatever you have to bring these characters to life it's just the way you do it in a video game situation is you're doing a three or four hour session which is incredibly intense just you or two actors microphones engineer and director and so it moves really quickly you get a lot done it's very intense so you are in character and intensely working for every minute of every hour that you're in the booth whereas in film and television there's a lot of sitting around a lot waiting for people to sort of lights out to do this people to check your costume or all this which which interrupts your rhythm as an actor so what is really nice about voice acting in video games is that you just go for it and you splurge so much stuff in three hours it was much acting in three hours as you would do in a week on a film essentially what does Final Fantasy mean to you Final Fantasy to me not actually being a gamer is it's just coming into a whole new world that I knew kind of nothing about yeah so yeah it's it's just meeting all these new people and this whole new world that I didn't know existed how excited are you for launch I am very excited yeah it's this publicity tour kind of thing it's not something that I normally get involved in so yeah it just builds up the excitement to it and lastly what do you hope fans will feel when they play the game I hope they'll from my point of view from Sid's point of view I'm hoping that they'll wish they had a big brother like Sid or a friend like Sid to guide them through their lives thank you so much for letting me take your brain today good luck out there I hope you enjoy the rest of your tour I'm sure well thank you