Good evening, folks. Welcome to the Adafruit Show and Tell. My name is Melissa and tonight I'll be hosting We're gonna go ahead and start off with Anne here. Hi Anne. Tell us about your thing that you want to show off Yeah, I got I got two or three things. I'll do real quick. First of all Hopefully knows I've been kicking the The tires on old computers like this old IBM PCAT the thing that I've been working on Most recently our web browsers now web browsers and the AT Kind of they were about five to ten years in between each other that the computer came first The original web was on like a next cube which had a lot more power than a machine like this So I've been trying to find various web browsers and there's one called micro web which runs on PCs and I Loaded it and it works really well. So it didn't this has graphics. This is a browser called frog find. I'm sorry a search engine called frog find just for browsers that don't use HTTPS because Because the encryption is more than These old machines can handle. So I just typed in Adafruit here and and now it's pulling up sites with Adafruit as the search and I think this particular No Yeah, I'm able to kind of see Adafruit site, but again Adafruit's very graphics and Cascading style sheet heavy So obviously it doesn't work so well with that but browsing is kind of fun It's I'd like more using the internet on these machines for things like Pinging time servers and transferring files between different machines. So it's just fun Using some of the networking with them and I got in the mail from a Person on Twitter this little gem. It's it's an IBM micro drive. It's in a compact flash form factor It's a real Move it. It's a real mechanical Hard drive not not flash memory and it's a gigabyte in size So I've got a reader coming. I want to Format it and see if I can put it into the use as a hard drive for this machine and this would be a lot Higher capacity and not smaller than the original hard drive that Came standard with this. These were actually Something similar were in the original iPods the the ones that held a lot of files Finally, I wanted to show off this lovely little thing. It's it's a Chip tester pro and it's something I've been wanting for a while something to do something like this I had some RAM chips blow up or go bad in my IBM PCXT right behind here and Just swapping a few didn't Determine that I found like one or two bad chips. So I needed to test them all so I put one of them in here and So all I have to do is press test and It goes through several tests and lets me know if it's good or not. So for that. I was able to find out I had eight of nine chips in one bank Fry some words some more chips off eBay and the machine's now booting with all its memory and I have bags if anybody Want seventy four? Fifty No, seventy four seventy five latch chips. I've got like nearly 300. I'm testing them all Don't ask me how I got them, but new old stock It's just it's really nice being able to test the old chips to make sure they still work rather than try to maybe put them in and design and Find out they're faulty. So that's what I want to That's pretty cool. Um, so does it automatically detect the type of chip that's in it? Or do you have to select it? It has a has a rotary encoder that you can Select different modes and which chips It can test quite a wide variety of seventy four hundred series. Obviously 4000 series a lot of Chips that you know 6502 and support chips I was testing 68 He has a 6809 maybe 6821 so Yeah, it's got it it can handle up to think 40 plus Pin chip so I can't put a 68000 in there there It's the chip tester pro from back bit their online retailer. It's it's Less than some of the chip testers out there. So if anybody's interested, you know, it's not native fruit product I'm just a user. I'm Affiliated, but I'm really happy that I was able to find something not at the five hundred dollar level that does all this Okay, well, cool. Thank you for stopping by and Jonas. Mm-hmm. Thanks See next up. I'm going Hello, can you hear me, okay? Yeah. All right, let's share my screen because I forgot to do that Let's see if this is going to work. Oh I don't think it's working. Oh One second. All right, we're gonna have to use a cam So this is a Neopixel project it's a collab project with Liz Clark and it is a 24 Neopixel ring and an ANO rotary encoder and It's sort of like a fidget device so you can move a Neopixel along the ring using the scroll wheel This is the ANO The ANO rotary encoder And it's got a Feather RP2040 in there and the inside the 3D printer case And it's it's got kind of a fun feature where you can you can change the color of the LEDs We're pressing either of the directional buttons and you can hold down. Whoa my diffuser popped out there So you can load you can hold the center button down and and load a LED chase game So the idea of the game is to kind of catch the target pixel. That's lit up here Using the center button. It's kind of hard to play it this way and as you advance through the game The LED changes color and it gets faster and then if you beat the game, which is kind of hard to do a Rainbow kind of shows up nice little rainbow animation. So it's kind of an interesting way to kind of Use the the ANO rotary encoder to kind of fidget with this new pixel ring It's got a battery in there. So it's portable little slides at the bottom and I think I said this the Feather RP2040 and Yeah, it's kind of a fun project This is a piece of black LED acrylic that we stock But you could also of course 3D print like a regular diffuser and just kind of put it in there But yeah, that's kind of the project. It was last week's learn guide that we published So folks want to build their own It's a pretty good kind of intermediate being getting our friendly project So that's pretty much it Yeah Fidget Yay, cool Thanks for hosting. Yeah, thank you for coming by and showing. Yeah, no problem. Have a good night. Thanks Let's see. I'm gonna go ahead and have Aaron come For this week's project I am doing another fun little Disney inspired thing I have a wig here and it's a long Rapunzel wig I have a baby niece who wanted one of these for Christmas. So of course, I'm a little behind but I Wanted to make it light up and made it sound reactive So in the tangled movie Rapunzel's hair lights up when she sings a specific song about a flower So I have a circuit playground blue fruit in here That's sound reactive and it's as you can see reacting to my voice And it lights up in very much the same way that her hair lights up in the movie, which I think it turned out really well I'm using these little neopixel LED resin dots. You can kind of see them right here these guys But the hair is makes just this great diffusion. So it almost looks like the whole entire thing is lighting up Years ago when the tangled movie came out I used to own a princess party company and I made a Rapunzel wig that lit up with eel wire That was controllable, but it was not this cool and it didn't look this this amazing It also didn't do the the crawling down the braid thing like it does in the movie So I'm really happy with this and I'm delighted. I got a chance to revisit this project The other cool thing about it is I wrote the code in circuit Python using chat GPT entirely So I talked about that in the tutorial as well But chat GPT wrote all the code for me and it came out just perfect So I'm really happy with this and this weekend. I'm gonna get to go give it to my baby niece and and see if she likes it That's pretty cool Yeah, I bet you will like it. I think she will too Thanks for stopping by And next I'm going to have Scott come here Hello Hi Melissa. Thank you for hosting. I just wanted to do a Hmm. I said you welcome Awesome. I just wanted to do a quick plug for a circuit Python 2024 I've been like sick with daycare plague So I haven't been around a whole lot, but I'm trying to get it going the next week or so Circuit Python 24 is our Kind of annual planning where we take a broader look at how things are going and what we want to do for a circuit Python in the coming year So I just did my post here and I'll drop a link in the discord It's pretty similar to last year's post, but I think that's always a good sign that we're going the right direction I'd encourage other folks to post put hashtag circuit Python 2024 and also email circuit Python 2024 a to fruit calm with a link to your post and then I'll reblog it and we'll get those The blog juice is going Also, I'm hoping to do deep dive this week. I was planning on doing it last week and like I said, I got daycare daycare sick Unfortunately, so I had to bail and thanks to foamy guy for filling in but looking forward to talking more about circuit Python on Friday as well at 2 p.m. Pacific aren't here on the a fruit the a fruit streams So yeah, that's a little preview of what I've been working on Well, thank you for stopping by and sharing that Thanks, Melissa And next I'm going to bring in Jeff Good evening. I'm here to show you the newest thing. I'm working on in circuit Python There's a USB protocol called UVC and it's what webcams use and I'm starting to add support for it in circuit Python. So this Macro pad with RB 2040 is running my experimental firmware and it's generating this Signal this frame buffer that then is talking to my computer as though it were a USB camera and I also have it loading JPEG of Blinca. So there is an open pull request that has kind of the very experimental version of this You've the way that you interact with it is a little bit hacky I'm going to continue improving this so that it becomes a display IO display and Some of the things we think are going to be useful about that Are you could you know have your? Application running on circuit Python and then you could switch it to this mode and make screenshots of it for documentation And I just have a feeling that other folks than me are going to figure out other ways that it's useful Also, if you don't want to appear in a meeting you can just hook this up instead and use this as your as your Blinca face So yeah, that's what I'm working on This is possible because of tiny USB which recently added support for it and we were looking at it We're like let's see if we can do this in circuit Python And I've learned a lot and I hope y'all will be able to use this code soon. So check out the pull request Also, it's it's fun to fidget and make See you around Melissa Hello All right, so the project that I've been working on for the last week or so is this game that I'm calling 1d Chomper, which is kind of like a version of Pac-Man That's based on a web version that was called paku paku I think that's how it's pronounced, but it's this Pac-Man where you're kind of in a single hallway like this And you can just run back and forth. So it fits really nicely on one of these super long 960 pixel wide displays And I have the whole thing just mounted in a cardboard box So I'll pop it over and you can see inside. It's super simple just the qualia Display driver. There's a slat in there for it to pass the ribbon cable through and then it's just one of the surface or the Panel mount arcade buttons and one of these super easy JST plugs with the alligator clip So very very easy to put together the screen and the microcontroller are mounted with Velcro So those are easy to put on and easy to take off whenever you want to reuse them in another project or anything like that And then the only other thing I had pulled up, which I don't have my camera set up very well to show is I printed up all these kind of nice like decals just on some home printer sticker sheets and Covered the box with those to kind of fancy it up and make it look a little bit like Kind of inspired by the old arcade the arcade Pac-Man's So that's the project the guide is in the works that should be out that should be done here in the next couple of days So check in Check out for that and for anybody that's interested in More about the this particular project You can also catch a couple of the videos from last week's deep dive and last week on my stream I was working on this. So if you want to see some of the code behind it Even before the guide is out you can check out those videos So is that done using secret Python? It is yep all the code circuit Python It's just based on display.io and tile grid For the animations So the guide will cover kind of like the most basics of how to use tile grid for animations and then show How the little entity helper classes are kind of built on top to make the game code easier with the ghost and the Pac-Man player Cool Thanks for stopping by and showing that off. Yeah, for sure. Thanks. Have a good night. You take and last step We have Sun and Moon Couture Hey, how's it going? Good. Thank you, Melissa. Let me see if I can share my screen I have two monitors. I want entire screen this one share. All right, let me know if you can see that Yeah, all right, so what I'm demoing today is a Implementation it's a variation on this POV LED staff. I can post this link in the discord Essentially, this was created by Alexander You can see his email there if you want to reach out to him The source code is actually based off of the original Adafruit Genesis poi This is using Adafruit's dot star LEDs that have a very fast refresh rate And then I think that was by Philip and then there was another version by Aaron So it implements I think both of those and then this is the newest version What I like about this one is they added the ability to upload images to the poi from your computer over Wi-Fi so the original version if you remember you had to Kind of get the controller out of the poi You there unscrew it and disassemble it and plug it into a USB cable into your computer You'd have to copy the images into the Arduino IDE Compile everything upload it Now this hosts a web UI and I can show you what that looks like so you connect Over your phone or computer To the Wi-Fi network and then you see a list of the files that are there, right? And it's just drag and drop so I can grab like this file Drag it over here in the file drop zone and it'll upload to the it's a cutie pie ESP 32 s3. I want to say And then there's an image list here that drives like kind of what order they go in so you can click edit there and You can see all of the images that you want and what order so I could rearrange these if I wanted to and I think there's like a You can set how long you want each one to display so I could do this one for 30 seconds and this one for 15 or something like that So that's really awesome And then this version it was originally made for a staff I kind of chopped it in half to make a poi, but you can see when first turns on it shows you the battery level If you hold it horizontally when you first turn it on that puts it in Wi-Fi mode So try not to do that and then it blinks for a little bit and then it should go into POV mode give me a second Think we got it like spin it here. I Tried demoing this earlier and my web camera. It does not show like the poi effect very well But give me a second. Okay, so it's in POV mode. You can see as I'm moving it if I stop moving it Let me back up a little bit. There we go as I'm moving it. It's updating frames, right? If I move it faster it up faster So there's an IMU here in the board that is sensing how fast it's flinging around and it'll actually Change the refresh rate on the poi based on how fast it's moving so you can see it's gonna go very slow When I'm moving it very slow I don't know kind of hard to film. I don't think you can see this is showing like I see a smiley face You might not see anything Yeah, I think a lot of the POV is filmed with where they have the shutter open for a long time Yeah, I'm gonna work on that You'll see you can see in the the screen share kind of the picture that Alex got with his camera So I'm gonna have to go and set up a camera with a long exposure And get some kind of trigger like a remote control trigger that I can do to get some of those pictures Yeah, should I put this in the discord? Yeah, and stop sharing that screen. There you go. So you guys have the link Cool. Well, cool. Thank you. Thank you, and I'll see you guys next week Okay, thanks for stopping by and that is it thank you for stopping by and either showing off your projects or coming by to watch this and We'll have asked an engineer coming shortly in about nine minutes and wonderful day


Hi there, it's Sandy All Knock and it's my MFT day. Last month you guys liked when I did the masking over here and the coloring over there so much that I thought I'd do it again because I had a crazy idea for my masking using the Tweet Memories stamp set that has birds in it. And there's a few things I wanted to do. This birdhouse, I wanted it closer in from the edge. I wanted to extend that branch. I wasn't sure how far I was going to need it but my paper is cut larger than the card front so I just wanted to give it some extra breathing room. So I did a real simple masking just using a post-it note to block off that edge because there's a vertical line at the end of the branch and I wanted that to disappear so I could use a pen to extend it. This other stamp has a couple of birds in it sitting on a swing and they were sitting really close to the branch and I wanted to move them down and extend the branch. So I put some sticky notes down across the places where I could like kind of block off that branch portion and double check to make sure it was going to work and then stamped it so I just have these two little sticks coming up for the swing and then I'm left with what do I want to do with the branch above. And what I decided was rather than replicate the branch that's there for the tree, I wanted to use the branch that the birds have but I want to turn upside down so that the leaves kind of tick up at the end on the right-hand side. So in order to place it and make sure that I didn't get anything kittywampus I used a piece of plastic which is actually the plastic from the stamp set, taped it down in place so I could turn the stamp upside down and then stamp this section and then use that to figure out where to put my sticky notes for my masking. So you do make sure that you've taped it down because magnets are generally not enough to hold this in place when you're trying to do delicate placement of your sticky notes but I can stick these underneath of the plastic and just kind of line them up to block off the portions that I don't want to have. So there's swing and birds up above this time and I want to get them gone so then all I have to do is ink it up and be ready to go. Now you can use like a baby wipe like I'm doing here to make sure you don't have any excess above there so I just want to make sure those little strings didn't stick out at the top of the branch but if they did it's easy enough to go in with a pen and fix because I will have some pen work to do on this in any case because it was just gonna be an issue. Now one of the things that happened is my magnet let the paper move a little bit so I wasn't able to re-stamp this to get this last leaf re-stamped but I had my micron pen out. This is a Micron 005 so it's got really thin lines that are going to match the width of these lines and Microns are also waterproof. I'm going to be using watercolor pencil over on the MFT channel so I wanted to be sure that I could kind of match that line and do it with something that won't bleed when I start doing my watercolor pencil work. I did decide to add a couple extra leaves and I followed one of the flowers just made a little U shape with a squiggle on top and a line across it. Very easy to draw so that I could bring just one more of those flowers out onto the branch. My tree branch here got way thicker than I expected it to but I knew some of that was going to be cut off and besides which branches should get thicker as they get toward the base of the tree so that'll be fine. And then I have a little plastic T square and I'm using that alongside my MISTI so that I can actually make sure my lines are nice and straight get them all lined up well and any final touch-ups and I'm ready to go to make the card. So this is what I'll be making on the MFT channel. It's in the Caron Dash Supercolor pencils. I'm also going to be using my Supercolor pencils in Facebook live tonight so I hope you'll be able to join me and if you're watching this later you can always go get the replay. I will try to put the link in the doobly-doo. Message me if I haven't done that yet but you can download this image for free for a time period over at MFT and color along with me. You can print it on Nina because I'm going to be talking about using your watercolor pencils on other papers. Alright thank you so much. I hope to see you on Facebook. If not I'll see you back here next week. Take care.


So good afternoon word camp people. How are you doing today? Are you tired yet? Are you you're getting some wind now? Are you tired? So my name is Carla Campos. I am best known as a mom entrepreneur I was featured on entrepreneur comm for my Business ideas and all kinds of stuff that I do online. So I'm a lover of ed tech So I'm always in the community just teaching and talking about all things social social media Digital marketing and just having a good time doing it. So we're gonna do something fun today I don't know if you guys saw me with the scoop we do earlier or my son was walking around with it But it had an accident this morning. So it's a little milked. So but I'm still gonna pass it around You touch it if you feel like you want to So before work camp the conference We were having this chat on Twitter with David and a bunch of people speaking and we were making this joke that I think it was Jim Gilbert one of the speakers that were we're gonna come here and do pet camp. So this is this is pet camp guys So it's just a little fun photo contest So you can just take Scooby-Doo or if you don't want to touch him because he's a little milky You can just take a picture of me with it. Don't touch can we all pass him? But you know or you can take a picture with him later, but or here very old And if you take a picture and tweet it to the hashtag WMI a and at social media sass Which is me on Twitter you can win two tickets to? What was known as Florida social con but will be now the social tech live conference, which is happening here in July and Tickets are worth 150 so you could win two and If you don't win the tickets I have other stuff I have lots of stuff some Stylus laser pointers you guys can blind other speakers not me and I have a five USB charger for the car from our friends at superior automotive So just stuff You could win We're playing with the dirty Scooby-Doo if you if you're brave if not just you know here he is again and then I have USB bracelets Some USB bracelet, okay So just some fun stuff if anyone wondered what the what the Scooby-Doo was about and there's Jim actually that's who started the pet camp Okay So this is one of my favorite quotes.  I know you probably hear this term just being thrown around everywhere, right? And what what is it different than a regular business? so a startup is a company in the early stages of operation and it's designed to grow fast and If you've never heard the term before it's called scalability. So the ability to grow fast They have a product or service they can sell it to a large market So I always talk about uber which is a very popular app as you know and they service a large market They service people who need rides who don't have rides or maybe they do have rides But they're going somewhere where there's a lot of traffic congestion and there's no parking and I'm sure everybody here Who has used uber here? Okay, so everybody knows where I don't have to explain it And I'm here gonna share some startup terminology because today We're gonna be talking about the minimum viable product and that is just the product that you need To show something that works and this is what we're talking about today's using wordpress to show a minimum viable product A product which has just enough features to gather validated learning about the product and here we have again scalability And I'll have this presentation available to you through the word Camp Miami website and you can click on the link to learn some more terms of startups if you're already not familiar with them Because I'm not I don't know you so I don't know how far you're into the startup scene So I'm gonna tell you about my startup story so back in about 2005 or so I was working regular job, right and I Wanted to grow but I was pretty much I was an entry level But I was in the middle and there was just no space to grow right so I'm like oh man I was in college as well, and I was just learning about business ideas, etc So I saw Craig Newman Craig Newmark who is the founder of Craigslist and I'm like I want to be like that guy Right, I'm gonna build my own Craigslist, but how the heck do I do that? I don't know how to code I don't know how to do anything. How do I build the website? So I went online and I looked up How do I build the website right and when you do that? They don't tell you like Specifics about it. They just tell you how to build maybe like a five regular page website where it's just you know information It's not something that functions out of the box and does like you know amazing things so So there so I wanted to be like Craig Newmark and You guys we should tweet at him Say hi Craig. We're talking about you See if he answers sometimes they do So I found something called Joomla, okay, and we're here talking about word for us But when I went searching for something to build this new idea. I found Joomla, okay, so That's what happened So as time progressed right Joomla was cool But every time I went online and I spoke to bloggers and I was learning about SEO I was learning about blogging. I was learning of all things web and social media They were all just talking about WordPress WordPress WordPress, right? I was like the not cool kid because I'm on Joomla. So I'm like, let me see what what this WordPress is about So I went on WordPress and I'm talking to them and they're all talking about SEO and gets blogging So if you see a need you feel a need right and that should be the startup culture manifesto If it's not already So I saw a need right all these bloggers needed a place to guest blog so I took gig logo from a classified ad wannabe and On Joomla and I turned it into a guest blogging platform on WordPress And we're back to the startup terminology pivot time So pivot means taking a business idea and just going a different direction with it changing it If you see a need if you have this business idea, but it's not working We take it somewhere else where you see a need So that's what I did I'm sure who who here has a website on WordPress already I'm sure I knew a lot of you would So these are some businesses that are on WordPress. We have the Tribune Media Group Sony music and we have something called Bata, which is a footwear accessory manufacturing So that's e-commerce websites So I'm showing you this Because just to show you some of the kind of things that you can do with WordPress That is just not blog related because a lot of people think WordPress equals blog WordPress equals blog They don't know about the functionality. I'm not saying you guys They don't know about the functionalities of WordPress to create other things that are not blogs So WordPress features We have user management registration menus search seo Custom objects blog customer themes Etc. All right. Okay, so I wanted to talk to you about User-generated content of like multi site and guest posts and you can check this later But these features are things that if you have a business idea You can build into your WordPress website to create this startup that does something more than a blog Okay, um for the multi site if you go to the um sun sentinel website They're using WordPress multi site as a blog For their sun sentinel Newspaper website and that people are creating content on their website and they're I'm sure they're selling ad space or selling Whatever services they're selling using WordPress and user-generated content WooCommerce online shops Right buddy press online community social network You can create other things just not social network And I spoke to the guys at live ninja, which is my case study today And they started using um body press and they told me that you can actually build an uber like Sort of website with body press and who didn't know that here about body press. Okay So why WordPress for startups? So I was walking around Town all the way in the windwood. I was all over the co-working spaces talking to all kinds of developers And I was like why would you use WordPress to start your startup rather than develop it right? Native code it yourself Like why would you just use WordPress? So the answer is that it's easy right to use out of the box. It's quick to launch And they use it for marketing Right because if you even um, who knows who here knows what buffer is buffer app So buffer app has a blog on tumblr actually not WordPress But that's how they get the word out of what they're doing using a marketing Blog that's separate from their actual software that they create And marketing is the key To a successful startup. I have been to so many startup weekends and to to so many startup type of events And They have amazing great ideas, but they never launched they never pick up why because those people don't know marketing So the idea is there, but guess what's going to happen somebody who knows marketing is going to go to the event I said, oh, what a great idea, right? Let me let me plug it in.  But the marketer never gets that respect Just an FYI Did you guys know that group on started on wordpress? Okay, so group on started on wordpress and actually the founder said that it was ghetto Right, I don't like to use that word, but it started as a ghetto blog You know, they just did what you know, they wanted to show what their idea was they wanted to have a product When you have investors looking at a product and you're competing with thousands of people with ideas Guess where they're going to go and invest their money with someone who has something that works Or they can show an idea and look at group on now, right? Who doesn't know about group on here So live ninja is a local startup And they started on wordpress. They're still on wordpress for their marketing But their software is video chat and they have I think that they bring Like these stations to conferences like this where you can actually video shot them chat And you don't have to own the software yourself Like they can have a station like this and you can video chat with people all over the world remotely wherever they have these stations but they started as a Let's see like a community where you can actually Sell your service. So say I'm a professor, right and I want to teach people wordpress I would have gone on live ninja the original version And I would have signed up as a professor or instructor And then other people who want to learn would sign up on the other end and this was all done on wordpress except for the The video chat part which was a different software which was able to connect with wordpress. So, you know, there's always that You can use wordpress, but um use outside scripts to connect together to make something else So they've moved now. So they're no longer just Like a communications platform and they were using bodypress To power their website So when I interviewed Emilio who is one of the founders of live ninja, he told me these are some of the wordpress plugins that they're using So I don't know if you guys are familiar with them Advanced custom fields gravity forms and body press So this is how they got started. They have They're extremely successful on you can actually go and meet with them if you want just to talk to them about How they got started their idea, etc They're in windwood and they have waffle wednesday every wednesday You could just go there like a great networking event for people who just want to connect with people in the startup community If you haven't been there, he's like I I've been there So and always a concern with starting a wordpress Startup is what about security, right? Everybody's always talking about security But the 60 million people on wordpress are fine, right? They're they're doing okay. They're dealing with it They're doing the best they can And Amelia from live ninja says they have not had a problem that they couldn't solve by by going to mark daquis And I pronounce names terribly. So please I'm gonna have to talk to him later and be like, how do you pronounce your name? But Okay, well, I'm still gonna probably say it terribly, but you say it lovely so All he did was go to his website and read some of the security articles and they were fine They are a little bit more advanced developers I don't know what you guys are here if you're developers marketeers or where you're at in your wordpress But nothing he couldn't solve just going by Mark's um articles and I guess I am avoiding saying his last name I'm not gonna say so this is just live ninjas contact information So if you want to talk to them about How they got started these will be a really good mentors To really get you launched in a startup Because it takes more time than a 30 minute presentation. You know, I'm just trying to give you The ideas of what you can do with wordpress But if you talk to them, they're open on wednesdays and they'll tell you all about their journey as a startup So that's just me and pata your favorite word camp pirate having fun at waffle wednesday So it's a fun place to be just emphasizing So a lot of people also ask if a startup should be an app Most people think that it should be an app And that's just not true It can be a website as long as you're working on an idea that's You know helping a cause it doesn't have to be an app So and if your company is not an app an app can be useful in marketing and customer acquisition So what happens sometimes is people think that oh, I have an app right and it shows my company information I'm sit. I'm going to be a millionaire But what people don't understand is that people don't download apps on their phone to find out about your your company information You know, if you think about why you download apps, it's one they serve a purpose for you or there's something fun about it And there's these um app creators or for non coders that you see all over the web But they just pretty much take what's on your website and put it Who's going to download that, you know, and they try to sell you this But that's not how it works, you know people download apps because it's going to be a service to themselves So You can also impress the investors with a working app if you've ever been to a hackathon or any of these places where Your app can be discovered like live ninja. They told me they went they found an event a hackathon type event or an investor pitch On twitter and then um, they just talked to them They went to pitch and boom somebody invested in their company because they had a working application They had a working something compared to everyone else. We just showed up with an idea Some people shop and say, oh, we have an app, right? They put up Um a landing page they get people to sign up. Well, yeah, look, we have this software nothing is built But they're not going to tell you that right So what is an investor going to go after something that works? And this is why we suggest wordpress to have something to show and live ninja is one of those companies That shows it works and they're successful on wordpress. So Some people don't even have landing pages Some people just have social media networks and they're trying to sell you software But they're such good sales people. So, you know, again those marketing skills are so important in that launch That they will sell you software that does not exist Okay, so who isn't on mobile these days? I don't know. That's like I think that's a hard question. Everyone's on mobile Maybe people overseas Anyway, so we have wordpress, right and we want to create something and make it into an app Apppressor because who has heard of apppressor? So apppressor will take your wordpress website and turn it into an app So like we talked about before if your wordpress website has functionality that can be valuable to a user So that they can actually download the app Then please use apppressor But if you're you're just pulling in your website information into an app You're not going to get as many downloads because it's not useful to the customer really I mean if I want to see your events. I don't need to take up space on my phone That's for my pictures and my kids and my family right like why am I going to download your app? So but if your app does something That um is amazing and I want to actually download with wordpress functionality then apppressor is one of these Function software you can use to take your wordpress website into a app So Why is apppressor different? well, it can actually take Wordpress functionality that is not available in these other app creators and put it into an app So like I said live ninjas said that they can if take a Wordpress website use apppressor and turn it into an uber type app Okay, that they wouldn't see it being difficult But again, that's a little bit more experience and you have to kind of look into it more But it's not difficult to do so And the contact that apppressor is brian meslin her nerve or i'm bad at these web dev studios I'm terrible at the names tell yeah really bad anyway so Um, did you guys know that facebook was first a hybrid app that they were not a native app in the beginning So when you get this presentation, you can click on the facebook app And you can learn more about How you know what they did and what went wrong so So hybrid apps apps that are created using more than one software method So it's not just created in the native Mobile app platform like the ios or android system. It's created with something like apppressor So i'm just giving you this information so that You know, it's giving you an idea that you can use it It's not like a bad idea or it's perfect for launching an m m bp You know a product that you can show investors a product that you can show people And something that works which is what most people look at all these hackathons are all these investor pitches something that works So why are you people still here? Shouldn't you be working on your startup ideas? so Let's see. Maybe I have here a hundred free responsive WordPress business themes So you guys could just click on them Um, if you already have like premium WordPress themes that you're using you can use that But I just share that link with you just in case you need Something to get you started or if you know someone who needs to get started There's a hundred responsive WordPress business themes and responsive, of course is the way to go So you don't have to worry about mobile development or anything And you probably already knew that. Oh, is that my family? Am I using my family to get you guys to take pictures of me and Scooby-Doo? Yes, I am. Yes. I am. Okay So anyway, um, that's just for fun. I'm not going to force you to take pictures with me But if you want to you can stop by later and you know take a photo with me and we can tweet that and So if you really need to consult with someone to lead you from start to the end of a development Uh starting a startup. You can talk to David Bissett. That's his specialty He can actually give you great consulting on startup work Startups at WordPress And this is Jackie. He managed. I don't know if you guys know her or not. She um So, um, she is no longer with us. So every time I do a presentation at word camp, I just put a photo so And that is it. You guys have questions. I think I did it really fast, but No Any questions Any suggestions for other people here? Um, she died Yeah, yeah That's how I got involved with the word press groups too. They're dragging so Anyone else any questions any suggestions for other people people would start up Experience I'm going to give it to David. He's going to put it on the word camp website And if not, I'll have it on a slideshare as well I will tweet it. Yes. Okay I'm a social media sass. So if you want, I'm going to tweet it. You just look for social media sass Anyone else Does anyone here have startup ideas or don't tell me them don't tell anyone else but Only the people you trust but Some questions you can stop by later and just kind of talk to me No, well that is all for today then Thank you


Right, we're in a Taylor Wimpe show home here. We've come to North Stone on the occasion of the first people moving into affordable housing. The first residents came in a year ago. These are the first affordable homes that have become available. There are going to be 120 shared ownership homes altogether on phase one and 180 for affordable rent of which these are the first and which are actually behind me. first which are actually behind me over that way. On phases one and two there will be a total of over 2,000 affordable homes.


This is Guillermo Salatia, your host here at Perspectives on Energy, here at Things at Kauai. And today we'll be discussing the challenges, like navigating NERC compliance challenges when it comes to integrating battery storage systems into existing generating facilities. So thank you again, welcome. And I am the Director of International Services at HSI. And earlier this week, we had the opportunity to actually have a webinar on this particular topic and definitely looking forward to actually having more discussions on this. And one of the things that there's a lot of concerns and anxiety regarding how NERC compliance is going to impact these different utilities or even the generator owners. So hopefully here we'll be able to describe what those challenges are and how to hopefully address them as we move forward. All right. So next slide please. Okay. So the integration of battery energy storage systems with BESSes. All right. In this case, one of the biggest issues of course now is the fact that up until now they had a threshold of 75 MBA or McWatt in that case. And there was a certain, I think it was 100 KB or above. Now they've lowered that threshold. NERC is making it 25 MBA. And it's of course, so now your overall facility aggregate output, if it's 25 MBA or above that you're definitely subject to these new standards, right? At the same time, you're also, if you're connecting to a transmission facility that is 60 KV and above, so used to be 100, now it's 60 kilovolts, then you're definitely now within the scope of NERC compliance requirements. So what does this all mean, right? So a lot of different entities have been considering whether they want to get into this business. Others have been thinking whether they want to divest and get out of this business. The truth is, it's really not that hard to be a NERC compliant. It just requires a little bit of planning, understanding the NERC standards, understanding what the requirements are, and just getting the right documentation. So hopefully we'll be able to outline some of the issues that are typically encountered in these particular challenges. Next slide, please. All right, so there's two different ways to actually incorporate into this, right? So one of the challenges is the, of course, a modified startup approach. When you're looking at either incorporating the BSSS or the, it should be treated as a modified startup process, or you can look at it as existing facility procedures, we need to be adjusted to account for the unit characteristics, right? So either it's, you're looking at starting from scratch when it comes to installing a holy facility, that will be probably the ideal case. But if you already have something existing that's already running, it's already gone commercial, that in this case you may need to revisit those procedures, those documentation, that evidence, and be able to account for that particular characteristic in those assets. What does that even mean, right? So let's go to the next slide. So looking at the existing procedure update, right? One of the things that we're looking at here is understanding, right? There's different standards that are impacted. So SIP, COM communications or TOP3. So let's go through each of these, right? So when it comes to SIP, of course, critical infrastructure protection, you're looking at cybersecurity, who has access to these sites. Now mind you, any of these facilities that's connected to the bulk electric system, which is these transmission elements have tied to the general important to the general grid, right? Potentially you could actually impact the reliability and performance of the grid in general by affecting these assets. So that's why SIP standards become important, whether it's who gets training, access, firewalls, and pretty much everything that impacts the general facilities for a typical generation will impact this.  If you're somewhere pretty remotely far off, chances are you may be a lower impact facility in this case, right? The other interesting thing here as well is that you also access. If you have, for example, physical access to the facility versus cyber access facilities, those are things that are going to have to be examined that understood. In most cases, you're already doing that. A lot of it is basically good housekeeping when it comes to IT and cybersecurity. You're doing the same thing when it comes to physical security. But if some of these places right now you may require, for example, electronic badge access, logging in, logging out, and then, which most places already have, just the old day of basically just putting a simple lock in the fence and then leaving the actual control house unlocked. It's no longer the case, but in most cases, most of us have a monitored alarm system, monitored electronic access system. Most places already have that in place. So that will be an example of cybersecurity, right? Expansion of physical and electronic access, right? When it comes to com communication standards, there's two of them. Com 001, Com 002. Here, for example, you have the initial training. If you have an operator that is going to be receiving instructions from a control center somewhere else, from the balancing authority or from the reliability coordinator, you're usually a balancing authority or transmission operator while they need to be trained on how to receive and respond to operating instructions or how to communicate with these different entities. And usually it's a protocol they follow on three-part communication. The other thing that Com 001 may have the need to actually have testing or have a primary and backup training or primary or bike communications capabilities so they can actually have a phone call or be able to be accessed at any given time. In some cases, actually just having simple emails usually suffices, right? The idea is to actually have a defined primary communications and then maybe participate in the whole backup. Most everybody has a backup communication capability. Here, they don't even require to test them. You just require to have one. For the Com 001, usually all they need is initial training. Basically, you get training one time for the operators before they're put on the job and ready to receive operating instructions. So something is not that onerous. A lot of cases, if you already have personnel on site, just adding one of these BE SSS to your facility just may not even change anything because they already have all that training. So really all that is is training new operators. The TOP3 scope, in this case, is usually a data spec. What sort of data you're going to provide to your local entities, your host entity, the transmission provider, or even the reliability coordinator. So that information is usually the same thing that everybody else offers. And it's already telemetry that you're going to have provided on your panels in your system anyway. So the information you're going to be providing is information you want to see anyway. So that's usually already in that whole package and module that you're doing when you buy one of these new facilities. It was an existing facility. Chances are you pretty much already have that. You're just really not providing it to these local entities. So getting that up to speech shouldn't be too difficult. The other one is next slide, please. So EOP4, usually that means event reporting. That's a lot of cases, right? Part of that, we've got reporting plan. All you have to do is make sure that this new facility is included in the entity's event reporting procedure, whether it's the TOP or the BA. In some cases, if you're reporting, for example, say you had an incident or somebody broke the fence and came in to steal stuff, or you have, for example, a problem in the facility, meaning that it's no longer available because of damage that you would be reporting to the BA or the TOP anyway. So in this case, it's something you're probably already doing. But again, when it comes to the EOP4, that's something that you're going to be working with when you're your local transmission provider or your balancing authority. So make sure you have that ready. EOP11 is another really, really interesting, very timely challenge in this case. Because most facilities, for example, have had issues with winterization. We just had a recent freeze in the mainland over the last couple of weeks. Now, in Hawaii, that's not really a problem. In fact, most facilities in Hawaii aren't even subject to this whole presentation because of the fact that you don't have any nerve standards out there. However, you do have some IEEE, FERC, and Department of Energy requirements that are usually parallels or analogies to these particular requirements.  And one of the questions is, when it comes to these particular batteries, really is, what's the threshold and temperature that these devices will just cease to function adequately, or they're going to have issues operating? So that's the things you need to understand. Other cases, you have problems with cooling. So some of these battery facilities have issues with cooling. Others actually have assault and water, for example, that presents another problem in these extreme weather events. So the whole point is to make sure that you have all these parameters clearly defined, understanding what these temperature thresholds are, and to make sure that those are reported to your host, balancing authorities, or your host transmission operators. FAC1 and FAC02, this is how you interconnect to your host entities. So you may be subject, you will be subject to these new, well, these old standards that have been around for a while, but all that is really is how you interconnect. Now, the fact of the matter is that, if you're already in an existing facility, chances are you already have all of that done, and you have paperwork to prove it. It's important that you have paperwork to prove it. Otherwise, you may need to get for yourself some updates with your local transmission operators, and transmission owner, right? Same thing with the balancing authorities, right? You're understanding how they were notified of your output when it comes to megawatt MVA, and the real reactive power capabilities to your different host entities. Next slide, please. Okay, the next one, vegetation management, right? So if you're already hooked up to a transmission facility, chances are that's already being managed for you, but if you own the transmission assets, if you own the transmission line that connects your facility to another transmission area, then you will be subject to that particular standard of the requirements they're in. So transmission management, vegetation management, really is just a matter of making sure you follow the guidance when it comes to maintaining vegetation away from the transmission right away. So in this case, it becomes a problem. Now, when it comes to substations that you may have, you of course have to maintain the perimeter or that substations prevent vegetation of getting into your energized assets in that station. IRO 10 and ITO P3, again, from the previous slide, it's just what it is, is the data exchange spec with the RC, the TOP and the VA. So it's the reliability coordinator, you're gonna share data with the transmission operator and of course the balancing authority. So IRO pertains to the RC, TOP pertains to the TOP and VA. And there's even a BAL standard and there's somewhere to talk about how you share data with your balancing authorities. MLD standards in this case, right? What it is really is to understand all the testing that goes on with these particular facilities, usually when you go commercial, right? It's not when you're testing or connecting to the web, it's just a net for the first time and putting on megawatts, but rather when you go commercial, when you're actually selling those megawatts and megawatts is what everybody matters. So at that point, you need to make sure all of your testing has been completed and you are now entering your whole, they call maintenance cycle where it can be five, 10 years when you do all the other testing. So again, all of that needs to make sure you are completed and then of course verification of these tests need to be completed within a year of going commercial.  A lot of cases, the contractors installing some of these like battery storage facilities are just contractors and they're once we're done with you, they wanna rush and work on the next project after that. So it's important to make sure you put it in the contract and part of the commissioning requirements that they provide you with the adequate documentation, adequate testing records and all that information before they get their final payment. So that's something that could be incorporated into a contract to make sure you get everything you need. But NERC is still pretty lenient when it comes to the whole 365 days, right? Within going commercial, but in reality, it's something I don't always advise and I make sure I give everybody enough time to make sure that they have all their documentation and evidence ready at this point. Existing procedure update, right? So the relay, the PRC is protection and control and relay standards. Here, for example, you gotta make sure that you have all of your, whether the loadability, you have the performance. So one of the things that they always wanna know about of course is your ability to ride through a disturbance, whether it's a voltage or a frequency disturbance. And these battery storage facilities, usually now they come with the settings that are made according to the standard, but it's important to get those tested and make sure that they are the latest spec, right? And then of course, the other thing of course is that they have that right documentation showing that they were tested indeed. VAR 032, of course, that is your voltage schedule. Make sure that if your facility is going to be able to support the voltage, whether you're putting out VARs or you're absorbing VARs, there's a procedure in place to be able to report that. The last one for, as I was talking about that earlier, right? One of the issues you have there of course is the contours and vendors are available after commissioning day, commercial day to respond to questions. One thing I always ask for here is to make sure you have everything you need right before they get the final payment because it gets to the point where it's really difficult to track everybody down if there's a missing piece of evidence that you don't have that you need for an audit. The other important thing is that I've been in a few projects where I've noticed that the contractor, all they did was they got all the test evidence, all the prints, all of the, what they call station checks where they basically get a copy of the print and they're basically with a color highlighter or a color pen or pencil, they're checking out for all different parts of the circuit, which is important in order to do it. That's the way I used to do it when I was in the field. Problem is that all of that gets rolled into one long PDF because it got scanned together and then they end up giving you a huge file that would know we're just not searchable. So that becomes a problem. So my advice always is to, if they have these prints that are all written on sort of thing, that would be a whole separate file or set of files and then the actual test records are like a nice clean PDF that's searchable and most of the test equipment out there, test software, produce very nicely searchable documentation to prove that your tests were successful. The other issue that we've seen is that sometimes they'll get lazy or cute with some of the station names and locations and it's important to have the station clearly identified, to have the actual asset clearly identified if it's a certain breaker or a certain switch that you're testing or certain panel to make sure that panel will nominate, that panel information is clearly indicated in that test record because then eventually it's an auditor could go ahead and doubt your test results that they don't match the panel you're actually being audited on. So it's important to remember that. Next slide, please. So a little bit more of a PRC file compliance and this is all I was saying earlier, this is one of the bigger challenges, right? When it comes to having, but NERC has already provided you with the actual template, the actual spreadsheet to populate all of these like facilities. So in this case, it's just a matter of having all the correct test evidence done for all of your relay equipment, all of your panels and in a nice and clean searchable fashion. And then of course, all of the associated diagrams, right? That when they did their station checks, whether it's DC elementary or AC elementary, so AC is gonna be all your different current transformer circuits versus the DC elementary is all your relaying, oftentimes, right? Those like I said earlier have a lot of check marks on them where they were done by hand. And so that's the case and they're scanning that as evidence for make sure you have that in a file that's not been intermingled with the other PDFs that need to be searchable. So very important things. Next slide, please. Slide nine. Okay. So one of the things that are interesting here is like if you're going to have these assets, right? And into your existing, for example, say you have a generating facility that has a combined cycle plans or something else and then you're gonna add this and then you're gonna connect it to this one of the same bosses and then become integrated system. Maybe it's gonna be standalone. You're looking at your own substation and your own transmission line. That's an interesting thing and your approach will be different in most respects, but similar in others, right? So remember, these batteries have their own protection system components. They have their own panels, they have their own breakers, they have their own devices, right? So one of the important things to understand, right, is whether you're going to be tying into the same switch chart. In this case now, this is for new construction. If you already have somebody that's existing, that's already a move point and that ship has sailed. Now it's a matter of making sure you have the correct evidence to show that you adequately tested all these devices and you have an adequate test cycle, which is periodic, right? And your procedure's baked in, right? Now if you're building something new, in this case, then your decision you're making will impact how you operate this system. Nothing wrong with either one, right? You can install one of the things I've seen. They've installed a battery set to a power plant. That thing, I think it was like a 20 megawatt capacity and I'm sorry, a 10 megawatt capacity. And this battery set was really used for Blackstart and was really innovative and helpful. And this allowed to do grid forming operations. Now once the combustion turbines that were attached to that same bus were up and running, that battery set then became a load to balance those combustion turbines output. And then they had the little island at that point and then they were able to build their grid from there. Next slide please. Okay, so commissioning dates very important. In this case, when you go commercial, when you're out there producing, setting power officially, that's when you have your commercial operations date or your COD date, right? And it's very important to actually have those dates and clearly identified because at that point, right? You have your whole, your testing period of the city coming to a fact, whether it could be every year, every five years, every six years, every 10 years, right? It is very important to actually have that very well coordinated in this case, right? The other thing is whether you commissioned the whole site, you commissioned parts of the site as another thing that will also affect when you're able to carry out testing and when you will carry out testing. So very important thing to understand these are commercial dates. So when you go commercial, that's your official commissioning date in this case. Next slide please, 11. Okay, the rating scope in this case, right? One of the things that's very interesting in this case is like you gotta remember it went from 75 megawatts to like 25 and in this case, now you're pushing out the megawatts that if you have been commercial for a while and now all of a sudden this threshold move beneath you, now you're suddenly, of course, it also needs to be connected to a 60 KV or above. Now all of a sudden you are subject to these standards, right? In this case, one of the things to consider right now, if you're deciding to build facilities that are going to be limited to under the threshold, that's up to you, but remember in the future, NERC and FERC may decide to actually change this threshold once again, so you can be operating four or five years from now and everybody decided to just build facilities that are right beneath this threshold and then NERC decided to go ahead and move the goalpost once again, now you're back into the situation you are now. So again, things to understand when you install your facilities to your existing facility, you may need to reevaluate how this impacts your output whether it's bars or how you support the voltage in this case. Okay, the other thing here, the last one that we're talking about is PER-066 and this is important regarding generating facilities and the personnel that operate those facilities. So in this case, for example, if you already have a generating facility and then you're adding this BESS, you may need to update your training and let them know how the facility will impact the bulk electric system. If you already have a generating cyber personnel, you should have already had this training done, so just a matter of updating it and to let them know what adding this new battery storage system will do and what impact that will have in the system. If it's a brand new site, then of course, you need to train and educate your operators on how the operation of this battery so that the services can have an impact on the bulk electric system. So in this case requires, for example, a lot of coordination and planning and to understand how they will have an impact on the grid that they're connecting to. So this is pretty much it, last slide. And then if you have any questions, if you want to leave some comments below on the video or if you're free to look us up on HSI or email me directly or send me a message, we'll be happy to answer them. So again, a little short one, we had a similar video a few months ago on what was looming and here it is, as we grow closer, we're already looking at the particular standard. So thank you again for joining us and go ahead and like and subscribe. And I encourage you to ask questions and add comments so you can follow up anything you have questions with. Right, thank you so much and have a wonderful afternoon.