 Hey, what's up folks, welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noelle Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit, and joining me every week is my brother Pedro. Hello. Good morning, everybody. I'm Pedro S. Creative Tech here at Adafruit, and every week we're here to share a 3D-printed project featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is a show where we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody hanging out. We are in the Discord chat room. If you'd like to join us throughout the show, you can drop us a lovely comment on live broadcast chat room with the Adafruit Discord server, and the invite URL for that is adafruit.it-discord, or discord.gg-adafruit. Either one will work. We'll take a few moments to welcome everybody in the Discord chat room, and then we'll do a little bit of housekeeping. Good morning, everybody hanging out. We're also in the YouTube chat, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitch. And the periscope. 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All right, and that is the housekeeping I got. We're gonna jump right into all the other stuff if I can manage to go back to Discord. Here we go. All right, cool. Yes, this week is the launch of TronDisk. LED disk, motion activated LED disk. Featuring the prop maker feather wing and the NRF 52840 for doing Bluetooth connectivity. So you can change your team colors since right on the day that we were filming this, we went on the light cycle run at Disney World. They announced that they now have team green. So we were able to add that in there right before going on and I think I got the hue right with the color doing that they're using. And here it is, green. Got two of these guys. Oh no, I think you have frozen, Pedro. We'll give you a couple of seconds, maybe a minute to reboot as you have been de-rezzed. There you go, you're back. Motion activated sound effects. I know I paused until the stupid internet connection went back on. So that's a goal, they are nice build. You can go ahead and battle with them. They are nice and sturdy. And one of the things we were looking up and we were like, oh, where can we get, does Disney still have these? And what was it, it was like 10 years, nine years ago or something that they actually made these. 12, yeah. 12 years. So now they're considered relics and I think they cost 200 bucks by one. On eBay, yeah. Yeah, that is not gonna work. That's surprising, yeah. So if you were one of the lucky few, I mean you could probably retrofit it if there's enough clearance for like a feather and a prop maker, but you can 3D print the whole body. The main pieces will fit on the majority of 3D printers. And you're using a really cool filament swap technique to get the two tone colors where you get translucent PLA on the first layer and you switch it to that galaxy black PLA in the next layer. So you get this really nice dual tone color going on. It's really good for projects that need light diffusion. So you don't need any glue to attach these pieces. They just get fused together when you swap the filament. That's right, we have access to our USB connection so we can reprogram it or charge the battery. And then we have our on and off button on the side here. Yeah. On and off. And we are using two different LED strips. So one is side lit. So it's on its side and it's pointing upwards and that's what's illuminating the top. And then a regular LED that's just pointing outwards to create the side action there. And because it is printed in dual tones, you do get that extra illumination down here at the bottom. So I didn't have to model anything for that. Everything is held together with these M2 screws which sort of make it feel like they're like pins that poke in. I should have did like something like a twisty or something or like a press fit. But this seemed to be a pretty good construction. So I take these pins out. You can see the inside here, grab here and you can see the inside with the NRF 2840 in here. The prop maker right on top. You can see how we spaced out everything for the speakers. So that is over here on its own. And then we have a breakout USB board. So we can route the USB connection to the outside. We'll slide switch here. It's mounted on the side. We have these clips that hold on the 2200 milliamp hour LiPo battery. And then the magnets are all mounted along the cavities here. And these magnets press fit with this little cap on top because in ever to be any time that we're using a project with magnets, we're always gonna mount them wrong. It just happens. It usually use glue or something this way. We can just take the cap right off, reposition it. I think I had to reposition it three times because for some reason, I don't know the polarity that sometimes gets flipped on you when you're not looking. So you can easily match that up to the vest that has the plate where this actually attaches to your back. One of the requests that Lamar had for this was to have it attached to your back because in the movies and everywhere, that's what you see the action happening. So let me go ahead and do that real quick. The vest here. So we're using a, this is a running vest. And this is a really great idea for mounting any sort of a cosplay props to your back comes in different sizes and it has this nice mesh construction on the back. So for tying these on, I didn't have to use a needle and for thread, we're just using nylon fishing string. It just goes to the loops there and attaches the plate. And this guy on here, just align these. You get all fancy and have like, having like a negative and a positive one so that it attaches exactly how you want. And this guy has, you can hear the nice satisfying click of it clicking on there. And it is powerful enough to attach through several layers of like thick clothes. So I was able to have like a hoodie on and underneath like a thin shirt to have this still attached. You'll have plenty of strength on there. And it just attaches like that. The only thing though, with attaching this to the back, you do kind of break your wrist trying to reach back there. Oh, that's fun. That's the only thing. It's kind of like, but yep, like we were saying, it comes in different sizes so you can size this up. Unfortunately, it's too big for any of my kids to actually wear. So I can get any like Kiro shots with them on it and angle this down here. What you want to do when you're wearing this is don't have it all the way up. Let it slightly go down so you can actually reach it. You sort of have to like break your wrist with this. Should I have the dexterity? There it is. There you go. Nice. Yeah, there it is. It's nice and sturdy. I was able to have this while I was waiting in line getting Kiro shots. And yeah, the attach is pretty nice. And like we were saying before, the nice little running vest has the mesh all throughout. If you just want to wear this just by itself, you have like access to all these pockets. So I don't know if like you had a battery or something that you want to have external. You can actually attach that to the center here. So nice big pocket for like a 6,600 milliamp hour batteries. If you want to have extra charge and then there's even pockets on the shoulders here. Very tactical. Yeah, yeah. So it's supposed to be for running. So I'm guessing your phone would fit in one, your ear pods would fit on another one. And this one has like a little pocket that goes through right here. That's great. So a bunch of adjustable things here making it tighter because this is kind of loose on me. And this is an extra small. And it's elastic bands on the sides here to like readjust it so it's tighter. Yeah, yeah. These are elastic. Okay. Nice. Yeah, it's meant for running so it's going to be ergonomic. Yeah, yeah. So it's nice and air, like it's good for the air or whatever. Sure, yeah. Airy. Breatheable. It's very breathable when you're running. Yeah. So what I'm talking about when you're like breaking your wrist to try to reach it. Yeah. Can you scratch your own back? Well, you know, I didn't have to scratch it over here. You always got the one trick you got to remember when attaching it. If you're attaching it with your left hand, your thumb being close to where the slide switch is and that's what you're going to align to the bag. Yeah, that's a handy thing. Yeah, so if you're printing it exactly like that, that's what it should be like. Oh, man, my wrist hurts from doing all this. You already hurt your wrist, that's fine. But yeah, super cool effect that you're able to do that. One of the top requests from Lamar that you wanted because everything else, you know, with Circuit Python makes it super easy in terms of, you know, filling all the, having all the sound effects and LEDs, wiring or all that. So the cool thing that made it was having it mount to your back. I like when it mounts to your back, it jolts the accelerometer so it like gets brighter and it makes that crashing sound effect. So it almost works out really good where it's also the magnet triggering it. No, it's just the force of the thing shaking, which is. I thought it was me being lucky on the animation loop, but no, you're right, it's exactly what's happening. What it does, yeah, that's what the code does. It's up on it, yeah. It walks through the code. It's super loud when you're there. Or like on the convention floor, whatever. But it is there. I think you might be able to fit that, the bigger speaker that we have, but the tiny little oval one is just nice slim and already comes with the Pico blade connector so it plugs right into the feather wing prop maker. What else? It mentioned it charges right through the micro USB. What else can we mention about it? I mean, we'll go through the learn guide and then we'll pull out some interesting things. Yeah, let's go ahead and jump to the guide, I guess. Spent, I think, about a month talking about the construction for this. So let's go ahead and see how we actually built it. Nice bit of construction on here. Am I driving this learn guide here? Oh yeah, it's your learn guide. Let's see, present my screen. And let's do, I think it's this guy here. Okay, all right. Yay. Let's see if I can get these GIFs to load. Dang it. No, it's such a cool shot. Yeah, that's fine. I think it's a nice little shot here. Yeah, so this is a couple of the shots that we got when we were waiting in line to ride. And yeah, this is how it looks like with the hoodie. Pretty easy hoodie to find. They're on Amazon, I think it ships next day. Comes in a couple of different sizes. I'm just wearing a small here. And as you can see, it lines up pretty good with your harness. You just gotta wear it like I was showing, like have it slag down just the tiny bit. And then for the hoodie, depending on your size, of course, should be able to align perfectly with the circle. Let's see. You, they let you in. You can go inside Disney with this thing on. I just had it in my backpack. Like with my battery and everything and walked by it right by. Girl right next to me got pulled out by security because of her ear pods. So that lets you know what their priorities are on. Ear pods. Guy walking in with a Tron disc. You're good, man. Don't worry, don't worry. Lady with ear pods. Well, maybe just don't want them to fly out of your ears when you're on this very exhilarating fast ride. I figured that the magnets that are in there, because there's eight of them, would trigger the scanners, but we walked in twice with the discs and we went right through. It didn't set off the alarm. The magnet. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, so you're good to just walk into the parks with this cool prop. And this isn't the first time we walked in there with props. No, I feel a little lobot. They let us walk in with that and I just wear that on. I think that's the trick, just having it on you so they know that. Yeah, I'm being very open about it. Just like, hey, is that the prop? Cool. There's some limits. You can't have a full helmet and a whole costume because you'll get confused. Yeah, so there's some things like that, but you didn't have a helmet. You just had your hoodie. Yeah, so within some limitations, you can go into a Disney park. Yeah, cool. Let's see, nice little hero shot of the boards that we're using, the NRF 2840, specifically because of the Bluetooth code. We wanted to make sure that, luckily, because of what happens with an adding a green color like on the day of, so you change your team colors in the code you can edit when what color it starts up on. Or you can use your watch and your phone to change those colors afterwards. We don't have any LED animations on there, but there is a control pad where you can add those to it. Forget what project we did have some animations or we just click on the different numbers to switch the animation. That can be put in there later. Most of the parts that we're using are in stock, which is always good. Rare event to happen when we use a project and everything's in stock, almost everything, I think the, what isn't in stock, I think the, one of the strips are not in stock, the regular side. Yeah, there's so many strips though. But they do have, folks can choose. Yeah, it's, you have folks can choose whichever one you want. And specifically the one that isn't in stock is just the meter long one, but I would just go ahead and pick up the four meter long LED, the regular mini skinny strip. So now you gotta do is cut it down, which you have to do anyway to size it to fit the case. The magnets, we have all those magnets in stock. I link to the running vest that I got, which is, it loads up, it's just this guy here. As you can see we're saying it's just for running off this puck. Oh, that's what it's for, it's for a snack. An energy bar or key. Yeah. What is or key or keys or something? Oh, and there's one in the back. Oh no, wait. Yeah, it's in the back. So they're all these leading compartments. This is such a great little vest that I bought a separate one. For cosplay, like imagine the animatronic wings and like the potentiometer could be here, a speaker could be here, a display, all sorts of different things. You have all these attachment points. You don't have to sew it from scratch. This is really nice. I think we'll be using this more for like wearable props going forward. That's why I bought another one. Cause it's like, dude, this is so handy like. Totally. Yeah, this is a one, the golden nugget that I get out of this project is this, this wearable vest that we can attach electronics to so easily, like it's just fishing wire. Yeah. Very cool. Magnets, we have all the magnets in stock and they're quite powerful. I guess, I guess I gotta just remind people to be super careful with this. I already got pinched. I was trying to align the polarities for these. JST cables to make plugging everything in nice and simple. And of course, the silicone ribbon wires for connecting your USB breakout, battery extension, JST, M2 screws that are gonna act as essentially pins to hold the cases together. And I think that's it. Moving on to coding. This is essentially a copy of the dark saber code. I'll let it just change the startup colors and the amount of LEDs. This will show you how to get your bootloader and their latest version of CircuitPython installed. And then you did this page here on. Yeah, I'll say a couple of things. Getting new library models. It's CircuitPython. So when you load the feather onto your computer, it's a USB flash drive. So you have instant access to the WAV files. So if you wanted to rip some actual audio from Tron the movie, you can have it spew all those different sound effects from the movie, which there's a lot to play with. We didn't wanna publish those because there's some copyright issues, but if you're doing it for your own project, totally free. You can figure out how to rip the audio from a DVD or a YouTube video. It's all there. It's all there. Yeah, so you can have like some, like welcome to the game board or something when you power it on, it'd be really cool. And there's all sorts of different sound effects you can find that are rural free. And if you're doing it for personal use and you're not selling it, you can pick whatever kind of sound effect from whatever movie you want. We love this piece of code and this combination of a feather, blue fruit and the prop maker. Last week I saw Kumi Cosplay make an LED katana with the exact same code. And she just tweaked it a little bit here and there for the colors and the sound effect. And it's a completely different project. Like it's a really good baseline I think for all sorts of different props that just need a little bit of like, you know, a little bit of movement and you get like a different animation or a different sound effect. I'm glad you brought that up. This is exactly who it was for. A cosplayer who was good at making things and doesn't have to worry about setting up the code, like getting an IDE to, you know, connect to the board at all, like getting these weirdo Arduino files that are probably out of date. Like this is all being worked on. There's a whole, we have a whole team that is working on just getting new features and fixing bugs, getting this all up to standard to specifically work as a prop tool. Yeah, it's, certify that it's awesome for props. So I hope more cosplayers will check it out because I feel like there's still a lot of folks that want to use their Arduino and they always think Arduino is like, a trinket or Arduino is like, nah, nah, nah. You want this thing to last. This is specifically to work with waves and MP3s and lights and doing motion. Like this is what it's made for, not for some weird industrial application that you're trying to shoehorn things into. So. Trying to get as cheap as possible, right? Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Cool, yeah. The circuit diagram is pretty straightforward too. We're looking at it. Very easy. The only difficult part in this one was building the JST connection that's connecting both of these LED strips because these are essentially just being shared into one pin so that both of them are acting as one. I don't want to have two separate pins where we're managing two different objects and like having to, you know, like if it's just one behind the other one, it's gonna, like how the animation starts, it starts, you know, going around the circle or go around the entire thing. I like how both of the sides go up. And I think with the green one, I think I wired it funny because it starts off with two different, one starts here and the other one starts at the other. Oh. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's a. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, that's a cool effect, so. It is, so you can, even just the way you wire it can be kind of a strategic thing for your effect. That's neat. All right, well. The prop maker is supposed to make it pretty easy. It's got all the built-in goods. Yep. Yeah, yeah. If you need to look at any of these at a more finer detail, these are shot in 5K, so you can see a little close-ups here of how the wires are arranged, how I like tuck these underneath so the wires aren't, you know, up and messing with the diffusion on the top here. So you have that. Yeah, it's a very clean build. Like with the wiring and everything, like you did a good job like making it just clear and like the prop itself. Otherwise you'll see shadows. Yeah, a lightsaber is hard because you got to stuff the thing in and all your wires can get kinked. This one's like nicely neat laid out and that's thanks to just the shape of the prop, so. Yeah. Good stuff. The three-year printing, you already confirmed this should fit on an ender. Yeah, an ender printer. And the two. Creelty ender printer. That's one. Materials for this, we're just using any white diffused PLA. There are like white opaque ones. I wouldn't avoid that one because the, you know, it is gonna block the diffusion from working. Okay. Standard settings, you know, 220. And then the main thing here is the filament change. I showed you how to, in Cura, set up your modified G code. I'll show you where that is under extensions, post-processing, the modified G code and then how to add the filament change command where you tell it from, you know, from zero to 12 you're gonna print in white and then from 12 to 123 you're gonna print in black and then from 123 and on to the last layers you're gonna switch it back to white. So you have that nice changing effect. So it is gonna change three times. Just gotta be aware of when your printer is ready for that color change. Mm-hmm. For the bottom layer or bottom cover, we're gonna switch it out once. So after it prints three layers in black, we'll switch to white and that's what's gonna let you illuminate the side, side part of this. Very clever. Move on to assembly. Nice little short explanation of how to set up your short header pins. So we have the sockets and the pins. The sockets will go on the, in our 52840 pointing up and then the pins will go on the prop maker feather weighing and those will be pointing down so you can press those two together. And like you were saying before we're using the short header and the socket and the pins just so we can save that much space. Though the NRF 52840 has a standoff set mount right on the bottom cover. And oh, I forgot to put that down. You need M2.5 by five millimeter long machine screws just in four of those two connected together. You can dry fit your LED strips. You can measure and then cut right where the pads meet so you can have a nice clean cut for those. I'm just gonna measure both of those. And then once they're measured you're gonna wanna carefully remove them from the sheath should be in. And this is to make space. I didn't wanna increase like the wall away from the on its side. So it wouldn't be so big. So you do need to remove the sheath. Otherwise it's not gonna close on you. If that much thickness a little bit too thick to close the case. Oh yeah. The three pin JST connector that we have is what's gonna be used to plug directly into the prop maker feathering. Like we were saying before we are using some ribbon cables to connect those together. Once those are all nice and soldered up you will place those inside the bottom case. Next up we are going to use a little USB extension breakout so we can position that on the outside or inside outside of the case. So you have easy access to connecting the USB cable. I think actually this is the hardest part because of all of the teeny tiny little connections for the USB port. I should have put the diagram of what pin is for the USB micro connector since it is a little difficult with how teeny tiny all the pads are. I think it's probably gonna be challenging. Yeah, it's challenging. It can be, yeah. But in the video I show that I'm just using a regular soldering tip, like a big old fat one that you're, if once you get to that scale we are able to just, you know, connect that. Speaker plugs in to the Pico blade connector on the side of the prop maker feathering and then press fits into the little wall, oval wall shape right next to the board. The slide switch is on the other side of that and we can use the mount there to press fit, press fit that into place. Now you wanna use any two of the pins that are on the slide switch and those connect to the enable and ground connections on the feather wing. Let's see, next up one more extension cable, a two pin JST wire that will extend the battery extension. So you can plug that into the NRF 52 840. And then we do shorten this down. So the first version you are able to like have a nice little coil, but if you're gonna play around with it, like spin it around and stuff, you do definitely want to shorten those wires just so there's less of a chance of the coiling coming off or getting close to the top here and creating a shadow. Oh yeah, yeah, it's good. So definitely shorten that. After that, it's pretty much it. You place the cover on top. You are going to align the little cut out to where the slide switch mounts or align the USB holes together. And then the pins, pin mounting holes should line up. I don't know why my photo did not load there. Oh wow. See. Yeah. It's basically just a photo of the pin going in. Yeah, it's odd. The harness assembly, super easy. You just place it, the logo, their little arrow thing is good for aligning. You can see the two little loops there. I just align it to where these two little gap between the bottom little arrow is. You can just align it that way to mount or to thread your nylon string through. It's funny, you didn't even need a needle because it's such a big gap. I know I busted up a needle. I'm going to need the biggest needle. I'm going to need the needle. Just poke it through. Yeah, the mesh is so wide. That's great. You added a usage page here using the BLE Blue Fruit Connect app available in the app store for free. We also have an Android version. And as soon as you turn the feather on, it does send out a, it acts as a beacon so you can connect to it. And it's usually named, I think circuit pi, something. Just click that. If you have iOS, your watch, it automatically downloads the watch version of that. You have a simplified UI, so you can pick like RGB colors. You can individually get the hex code for that, or we have a palette you can just choose from. Yeah, it's really nice. That's it. Yeah, it's definitely customizable on all fronts. The step file and Fusion 360 file are up on printable, so if folks want to modify the design, we have 3D models of the PropMaker Featherwing and the Feather Blue Fruit PCB with all the components prepopulated, so you have like a one-to-one exact measurements of the boards themselves. So yeah, have at it. Folks can modify it. We have a couple of comments here on the different socials. Pixel on YouTube is saying with a little modification, this could be a Tron-type turn and bike signal for a safety bike. That's a good one. I wanted to mention that. Yes, yes, that's a really good idea. And then another one here from TJ is saying, awesome project, can't wait to build a copy. For sure, let us know. Post it up on, post a make on any of the socials, and we'd love to see folks make it. Yeah, so just showing footage from our preview that we had over the weekend. It was so freaking cool. Yeah, this really inspired it. The whole land, the whole, the queue, like check out this laser cannon. Right. They do have a legacy. So funny the way the kids are seeing this, especially Declan, because his first exposure to Tron was me making the disc and then he sees the movie and then he goes to the freaking ride. The world, yeah. So it's like, yeah, that, yeah, it's so cool. Wow. This cool little effect here where the, if you've been to the ice cream shop salons, it's like, you know, where they have foggy glass door like on fogs when you open it. To review that, you're right there where the launch area is. This was so freaking cool. Like the whole setup, the whole, the LEDs, the way that they were used. Yeah, man. They're just really good at cars. Yeah, it's so cool. A lot of the locker, the way the locker works, it just scans your magic band or your card. Just remember your number. I texted it to myself, I can remember. And then on the other side of that wall is where you pick up your stuff. So they did a really good job on doing the locker, the way the lockers work. We got the second row here. And then the way that the little doors open up, so cool, the way you sit on there. You're like leaning forward. Like that, your face off, you're on your stomach. Brandy said it wasn't comfortable for the way that the cuffs like grab onto your legs. I don't recall. The leg restraints. Leg restraints, yeah. I don't remember feeling any uncomfortableness on it. Maybe just cause I was like freaking out or new, like, oh my God, here we go. Does a little countdown. Yeah, there is a, you're off. There's like a more comfortable seat that you have to, you know, for folks that are maybe have wheelchair accessibility, like they have those seats. So it is an accessible ride. Yeah, then the whole ride is like about a minute long, but it's, that's about all you need. It doesn't go like in a loop or anything, but it does do something. No, no, there's no inversions. I do not go on real roller coasters where you're doing an inversion, you're like doing like crazy high speed or where you're like locked into like something where you're dangling. I would freak out on those, but these are, this is nice and calm. It's not like guardians of the galaxy where you're going to some steep freaking drops while you're spinning. Yeah. So it's definitely. Yeah, that one made me motion sick. Oh yeah. I was like, oh, but it's still fun. I would do it again. Like, you know, I, Tron, I would do again, like, you know, right away guardians. I'm going to be like, oh, make sure I didn't eat anything. Or, you know. The last ride you do before you go home. Yes. Yeah. So like you like LEDs. This is like, like cyberpunk land. Like this is so cool to see. I've never seen so many LEDs. Again, like I haven't gone yet. Pedro resides in Florida. Annual pass holders only right now. It'll open up later, maybe in April or something. Dude, we got so lucky to go though. When the email sent out, we didn't get our email. So we had to like dig through some of the groups where they posted the link to actually get your reservation and we were able to get it that way. So yeah, this was all freaking luck here and being able to get on. Like, if you walk through Tomorrowland, like the line to get on is going to stay that crazy long, even with the virtual queues when they start this up. When it actually opens up. Yeah. Here's the exit for this. It's super cool. You're saying before the lockers are on the opposite side and just pull your stuff right through and. If folks want to see a better version of this video. Try to do it like that. Follow Pedro on Twitter or Instagram. Cause you're on Starlink internet right now and it is at least on my end. It looks potato. So definitely follow Pedro on the social. He's video pixel. This is handle. So he'll be posting up tons of, you know, BTS video of actually being on the land. Again, it's pretty exclusive right now. It'll open up in March. I think only in Disney world right now in Florida. This ride opened up in like 2014 in Shanghai, China. And it's been out there for a minute, but it took quite a bit. I think it was like five to six year development here in Florida. So it took a while and the pandemic kind of positive as well. So they just got to get pushed and pushed. So it's been a long time coming to the magic kingdom and it's super cool to see it now open. And literally like you made a prop like so fast to get it and done. And it's pretty cool. Yeah, the timing worked out perfect. Like when we were, we were supposed to go earlier but then the kids got sick. And then when Jordana went like crap, we can't go because both of the kids were sick and then we got sick. So when we got the days, it's perfect. Would you say it's the best roller coaster magic kingdom? I mean, it's, I would still think Thunder Mountain is probably just because of, you know, like three minutes long, this one's like a minute long. And yeah, but you get how exclusive it is right now. Like it's going to be jam packed. Like I don't know when the next time we'll be able to wait in line and actually go even with a dash pass. Like it'll, because it's not going to be, it's going to be, you know, virtual queue probably for a while. Well, way to crush my dreams. I mean, if you're down, it'll be worth it to pay for it. It'll definitely be worth the 90 minute wait, you know? That's fine. Very cool. Again, that's not every day we could launch a project that goes along with the launch of a land and ride. So it's cool to be able to get the timing on all this correct. Yeah, definitely post your builds. Can't wait to see if you get a opportunity to go on. You can take it with you. I didn't see the picture, pass holder picture dude. They do have like a prop where you are able to get like some pictures taken, but I didn't see the guy there. Everybody was taking photos in front of like the signage and stuff like that. Yeah. With our own phones, I guess it would have to be. The whole point of the Disney world to open this just for annual password is to kind of like figure out the crowd flow and the kinks out of like what the queue was like. So go on them for like releasing it, but keeping it to a capacity. Yeah, definitely check out the seats before you get on. Cause Brandy was getting on and a big guy was like in, they wouldn't close on him, but you can write it back. So in the queue, you can chest ride the seat to see if you fit and all that sort of things. Wow. All these good tips on how to get on the ride. That's fun. Try to go at like around seven so that, cause you're going to be waiting for a while anyway, so that you time it as close as you can to when the fireworks go off at 18. So you're going on with the fireworks. I kind of showed some footage there. It's kind of hard to tell cause when you see the fireworks, you know, facing the castle, it looks like that's where it's coming from. But when you look at it from the side, no, the fireworks are actually very, very far away. They're being shot up from completely different locations. Cool. All right. Tron is cool again. It's not that it never wasn't cool. It's just, it's in the zeitgeist right now, like it's back. All right. Well, very cool. It's all public files are out. Code is up. Everything's published real quick to coupon code. If you want to pick up a feather, some neopixel strips, whatever you need to build your prop, definitely use Tron disk and check out and get 10% off your order. We're going to move on to prototyping. Let me share my screen. Or really, let me just show my face cause I got this thing. Let me see here. So we're prototyping a new prop from another video game. It's actually from two different video games. It's called the Star Fragment. And it's going to be an IoT lamp. I have it, you have one too. I sent you the files to print it out. This is a Star Fragment from Zelda, Breath of the Wild, but also Animal Crossing. These are little, yeah, right? Animal Crossing has these too, like you can farm them. Yeah. Animal Crossing, are they in the same box? No, it's just the thing. You can use these elements in the game to kind of create new objects. So it only appears at night, which kind of had Lamar inspired to like, hey, let's make this an IoT lamp so that this lights up when it knows that it's, the sun is setting. This will actually light up. And when the sun rises, this actually turns off. So it's running off a QT pie, ESP32S2. And it's using Adafruit IO as the broker. And Metro, one of the kind of metrology APIs to know when the sun is rising and setting. So that's what it's using. This is a collab project with Liz Clark. She's doing the code for it. And this is the prototype basically pretty much done. So it'll be next week's project. It looks really nice. It's basically a dodecahedron that's printed as a frame. So I have several pieces here. So you print this thing out. This is able to print without any support material. And then you print 11 of these hollow spikes and they kind of press fit into the various channels like that. And you can print it in yellow if you don't want any electronics. They all just snap fit. So, and then I have a special 3D printed mount for the NeoPixels. I'm using NeoPixel stick, two of them side by side. And then this is the holder there. And it's all printed in translucent PLA for the core so that the light shines through nicely. And yeah, you can either snap fit it together or glue it together if you want. And then I have a little wire hole coming out of one of the spikes. So I have like a dedicated bottom spike. And then you can kind of see the NeoPixels in there. Let me see if I can show it on the bottom here. There you can see the two. There's two back-to-back NeoPixel sticks and they're just secured with some nylon screws. And then, yeah, you just have a long ribbon cable come out here. I'm using the, what do you call it? The NeoPixel BFF driver board so that it has a built-in JST connector. I'm trying to line this up and I'm like getting confused here, it's like, okay, I'm out. There you go, I did it. So the NeoPixel BFF driver board makes NeoPixel projects really easy. So here you can see there's the QDPI and then right underneath it is this dedicated board for driving NeoPixels. So it handles all of the circuitry for like powering NeoPixels over five volts properly and this disconnects easily. So this makes it really modular so now I can have this board and do something else with it. I have it really low profile so I have the solder pins directly sandwiched in so there's a little bit of clearance there. It's a little awkward because the JST is exactly where the USB is so you really can't mount it flush. So I have a little kind of rearrangement here so that the USB, this is like the little snap fit case I made for it. It just kind of loosely fits in there but you have two holes, one for the USB C port and maybe you can hot glue it or something like that but again, like this is in the way so I don't know, a better solution to make it so that you can get the USB port out there. So if anyone has any ideas, I don't know, let me know but for now I'm just having to do that. I do have a separate piece I'm working on. This is a kind of a stand for it so that it just kind of fits over here. This is hollow so you can have the USB or rather the three pin JST come down through here and then I have here a panel mounted USB C extension cable so that the QDPI can just be, you know basically what you did in the prop is to reroute your USB port for power. So that's what I'm gonna end up with doing but Lamar had the idea is like, oh, could you make it so that it doesn't sit on the stand because she likes to kind of just sitting on the desk like that so that's why I have it inside this like little case here a little smaller than this big beefy one. I mean, if it's gonna be a lamp you kind of want the base to be big so it's in the shape of a Pentagon and then this is just secured with some screws to the snap fit case here but these are really nice. These panel mounted USB C cables are great because you just need a hole and then you just mount it with a screw nut but that's the project, it'll be next week. I'm gonna start documenting and stuff now because it's pretty much done. I like that people can choose whether or not they want the electronics. I learned that lesson from like the LED emerald like a lot of people just printed the emerald and put any LEDs in it. It's totally fine. And yeah, it's nice little snap fit case there. So a star lamp. Yeah, kids like little stars. I imagine you could print it in TPU so that it's like bouncy and stuff and squishy. That'd be really cool. You might want to glue it or something but you can totally glue it. I glued this one because it just eliminates better. Yeah, and do like a filament change right at the top here where you have the snap fit parts. Oh yeah, you can do that too. Yeah, you can filament change. You can have like a dual material kind of thing. Oh, it'll work. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll have the files and everything released next week, next Wednesday. I'll have a video as well. We'll probably film outside like in a forest. I'll like pick it up like you're in the forest because we've got a lot of forest here in Massachusetts. Do you have one of the wooden swords or any of the- Any of the- Oh, that's funny. I didn't take any no. Aw man. It's fine. It's more about- I know. I think we're just going to show the hands. I'm just imagining the shot. Like you do a slide. It's right there and it's like in the background. You know, it's just a background. We'll let real cosplayers do that. Like we're just there in the props. Yeah. I wish I could post the comments here from Discord. Charlene is saying thank you so much for doing all the hard work on modeling the fragments. She's been dreaming of making one. Yay. Yeah, it's a super fun model. That's- So the reason why we don't tend to go the route of- She's suggesting just desoldering the JST cable and replacing it with the top one. I'd love to do that. Lamar would not approve that. Yeah. We try to make it so that it's the least amount of like oops, something could go wrong and like- Cause then it's like, oh no, we told you to do that. And then there are people are going to be like, I want to refund because you told me to do this. Right. Yeah, so we have to play, you have to walk that line of like being safe enough. But like, how do we make it so that it's accessible to and non-destructive to the electronics? So that's- We're at fault for- Right. Look who's going to be making the projects. Yeah, it's students and stunts and stuff. Students. Yeah, we can't tell them to do that. But yeah, very, very cute. Easy to print too. No supports required for any of the parts. And you can choose to glue it or snap fit it if you want. So I was impressed that you found that, you printed it across three different printers and all the tolerances worked out. That's impressive. Yep. Ultimaker, the smart pro, the creative pro two V2. Two of those. Yeah. I think in the animal crossing game, you can have different colors, not just yellow and Zelda Breath of the Wild. It's only yellow. I thought it was like purple or something. When I looked it up, No, really? It was like the pixelated one. Oh, you know what? It's in the other Zelda games, the non-Breath of the Wild games. Like this is just like, you know, one of those things, one of those items that like, proceeds, you know, all of the different Zelda games. There's so many Zelda games. The smart fragment, you know, lives on. And the release date too. When is the release date? Soon, right? March, right? Oh, is it March or May? For Breath of the Wild, too. I forget. Look it up. It's all over the place. Yeah. It's so good. Gotta make another. So good. I know it's always so cool because we know we're gonna have to make something for it. And then, I know it's not on the list for the Super Mario world, but maybe they'll make a Zelda world next. Cool to film there. Wow, the Zelda world. All right, well, that's our prototype bank. And stay tuned for next week where we release the guide and the files. There was one comment on the YouTube. It looks like two Mario stars hugging. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. People are excited. Yay. Hello. Cool, cool. All right. I think we're ready to do Community Makes if you want to share the video, Pedro. The time-lapse Tuesday. Every Tuesday, we find a thing to print. And we do a time-lapse. It's a design from the community. Oh, no. Audio. So this week is at, was ran out of time for finishing the project. I was like, oh, what's the most popular thing on Thingiverse right now? It was this giant shoe organizer, which works perfectly. We built this whole mudroom area for the shoes. And guess where all the shoes are? Not in the drawers, not in the cabinets. They're all in the walkway entry. So I thought this would have been a cool way to have some sort of organization for the shoes. Bear with me to display your new shoe design. It looks great. Did you need any supports? I didn't look like you need supports. No, no supports. That's why I'm like, ah, this is freaking cool. It's this whole grid type structure. So it's this giant freaking piece too. It's printing in, it's translucent on it. It's nice and strong. Shoes fit on there. I forget what shoe size Gavin's shoes are. But I think mine would fit too. Let's see. Live shoe. Crock shoes. Yeah, all right. Which I have to mention, the new formula that they're using on the whatever rubber thing is so good. It's nice and squishy. It doesn't pull your hairs. And. It doesn't pull your hairs. There's a freaking new piece on it. Whoa. Oh, that's cute. So I definitely gotta get another pair for outdoors. Yeah, you're indoor pair and you're outdoor pair. Yeah, but wow. So comfortable and squishy and non-hair pulling. Okay. And then whatever new material that they're using to build them. Okay. It's squishy and nice. And yeah, 20 hours to print. So not a short print. Looks like there's different versions of it on Thingiverse. There's like a full and one with the kind of mesh. Oh, they snapped together too. One of them, yeah. You can like snap the tops and bottom together. Oh, like here's another piece here. Cool. Oh, look, Google's following me. I just bought these shoes. Uh, Thingiverse. They gotta make their money from ads. So, you know, that's why they got ads. Cool. Well, it's a free design either way. You can get the STLs from the Thingiverse page. And this is designed by Jordy on Thingiverse. I just like that thingiverse. The giant thing worked. Right. Yeah, on the first try, right? So. Yeah, on the first try. All right. Yep. Yep, let's go to the next community it makes. These are a couple of posts that were sent to us. Here is a post make of the heat set rig. So if you want to make a little rig to do heat set inserts, you can use a soldering iron, a piece of 2020 and some hardware to make this. This was posted by Elothin. And they said they made a few changes to fit their Squire A110 soldering iron. And a new holder and bigger counterweight works fantastic. Very cool. Look at that color scheme. Looks really nice. Fantastic. And the roller bearings look different too. They look really nice. So yeah, check that out if you want to build your own. You can check out the Learn Guide and it's on all of the social, or all of the repo sites. And then we have another one also posted last month. This was from Holger of Aries. Posted up their make, just a photo of it. And they printed it in this kind of brown filament and they have like a black coated aluminum extrusion. It looks really nice. Looks like they have a wooden base too. And judging from the plug, feels European. So very nice to see this design and this rig getting made internationally. So yeah, I like the brown too, that's great. Yeah, look at all the different colors we got here. That makes a whole total of 18 makes in total. Yeah, really nice. Next up, yeah, every week we get a new heat set rig. Check this out, another prop. This is the Zelda Guardian Sword from Breath of the Wild video game. This is posted up by Siri17 on Thinkiverse. And they posted up these lovely photos. Looks like they designed and printed their own kind of holders. I need to print that. To hold it up, right? I know, right? You gotta represent your own props. And here's like elongated. You can see the screws there and the printed texture on it. Looks really nice. I can share the kids haven't broken this one. Is it battery? And they say here it printed on the Ender S1 Pro. No, battery is not charged. That's the smart pro. Yeah, that's always the thing, huh? Well, at least you can charge it. Okay, next up we got a comb badge, the Star Trek comb badge using the circuit playground. This was posted up by Cartel Chef, I think. And they printed on a RENK Force RF100 B2 printer. Very nice. We originally CNC milled this out of aluminum and brass, but you can really print the parts for sure. Yeah, looks good. We got a B20 posted up by Ryan Mack. It says they printed at 50% scale and a couple of other things. They're using organic supports to print out. And this is a good example of a lot of the props and projects we make. You don't need to put electronics in it. You can just print the shell and use it as an actual piece for your game. Very nice. On the utilitary spectrum, we have a post of our mini USB fume extractor. This is a tiny little fan and just USB connector. And I added little googly eyes to it to make it look kind of fun. So this was posted up by Grin Inventor. Posted up their make. Says it looks cool, easy to build and small enough to take with me on the go, especially since it's USB powered. I just need to find some funny eyes now. Yeah, you can print the eyes too, if you'd like. I think I had like googly eyes that I got from Joanns or something, but yeah. It's always fun to add eyes to your useful project. Make it fun. And then lastly, we have a dodecahedron. How funny, because this is basically what the star frame is, minus the kind of chamfered edges here. So this was posted up by T. Michael. Says I'll keep this model in my calibration folder, printed with Gantrum P at Pat G. Very nice. And that prints also without any supports. Ah, brim is a good idea always. Yeah, very fun. And that is this week's community makes. Thank you everybody for posting up your makes. We really enjoy seeing everybody posting up their stuff. And lastly, we got a comment here on YouTube. I was just about to post that. Okay. What's your go-to brand of PLA? Amazon. Basic. You like Amazon? Yeah. I like Matterhackers PLA series. They ship quick and they tend to have good quality stuff. So there's another alternative. I like stuff from everyone is good. I was going to say protopasta, if you want some like really artisanal filaments, but the go-to stuff. Did I see they have their coffee filament back? Yeah, they do. They do. I want to get some really good kind of wood tones with a little bit of like speckle in there to give it texture. But as far as a go-to brand, Hatchbox, Amazon, Matterhackers, a combination of those three, whatever's available in your color. And they're all cheap too. I saw someone post the thing like, this thing costs more than something. It's like, what are you talking about? It was like $12 roll of filament that shipped next day. I don't know what I think filament costs nowadays, dude. I mean, if you're getting like Ninja Flex, it's still like $50. This isn't Ninja Flex. No, PLA is pretty decent. These days, $20, $30 for a pretty decent spool. Yeah, the rainbow one, I can't remember. It's like, I don't even think it has a name. Rainbow people. Yeah, the rainbow stuff's good for, you know, like statues and stuff to look at. But when you need like something that kind of is utilitarian or functional, yeah, maybe stay away from the rainbow stuff because it can be brittle. BB life. BB life. BB life, silk. Or shiny, silk shiny. Huh. Yeah, no, it's like these weird brand name ones. Amazon Choice, though. Ships next day. Okay. Or how much is this? 29 bucks. Okay. We are on overtime now. We gotta get ready to eat some lunch. And so it's lunchtime over here in the East Coast. Cool. So today is gonna be show and tell, which will be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Lady Aida. So we hope to see folks there. Pedro, you're gonna come on and share your drawn prop again. I'll come on next week with the star, the glowy, glowy star fragment. And yeah, hope to see folks. I'm always watching on the couch. So I'll have to see more folks there. Last week we had Devin on, which would be really fun to see Devin. The only community member on, so we hope to see more community members come on and share what they are working on. Any last comments and stuff on Discord? Let us know. We'll hang out for a little bit. Oh, the shoe rack remind, is reminiscent of the Falcon 9 grid fins. Ah, yeah. There's some resemblance there. Yeah, it does have that grid. Cool. All right. Well, everybody, thank you for coming on. Don't forget, we got a coupon code, Trondisk, if you want to get some stuff. Support the show, support the lovely team and makers that are making this whole thing run. We'll also have another discount code today and tomorrow with the Jump Parks Workshop. So make sure to tune in and hang out in the Discord server. Hello, kids. The kids are watching, apparently. Hello, kids. Yeah, Devin and now. Hi, Devin. Whoa, oh no, I just broke your, it's okay, it's Snapfits. I had the cats, they tipped it over and like all the spikes fell off, but it all Snapfitted again, which is kind of funny. Kind of like a Mr. Potato Head, you know? The Mr. Potato Head, you have to like, he's designed to snap, yeah, there you go. He's designed to fall apart. Where'd the other part go? Luckily, I printed more parts. Oh, cool. Devin says he'll have the mailbox remixed up for us this week. Very cool, give me to see that one. Yes, kids, you can finally have the discs I'm done with the pictures and the show. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Just don't throw it away. I know, hopefully it won't be in pieces. Yeah. That's funny. And they're laughing at us by Gavin, Declan. And everybody too. Thanks for everybody tuning in. We'll see you later tonight on Show & Tell. Until then, remember to make a great day. See you later tonight.