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This is a really good way to edit code and send project files along with all the libraries and dependencies over to Bluetooth enabled devices using Circuit Python, specifically 7.0. Super cool way to navigate the directory of your CircuitPy drive. And the most important thing is you're able to edit code. You can transfer files over. And with PyLeap, you're able to select from a gallery of a bunch of the Bundlefly enabled guides on the learning system to quickly get everything over to your device without having to need a desktop computer. Perfect for educational environments. And if you're on the go, so you're like a cosplan, a con, and you want to update the variables of your sensors or your lights, you want to increase the brightness or something like that. Very cool way to do that. So one of the cool examples that we're showing in the video is how you can grab an audio file off of whatever directory we're using dropbox and then we're just copying and pasting it into your device here. So the other cool examples would be, especially with the holidays coming up, there is this ornament you can get that allows you to record, say, grandpa's voice and have it saved as legacy. And you can quickly transfer that over. A couple of weeks ago, we made this Spider-Man ornament. Yeah, the Green Goblins, Pumpkin Goblin, Green Goblins, Pumpkin Bomb ornament. So a really cool way to have audio in that, change colors around and all that. And what you're seeing here is all the code that is living on this sort of pie drive. So you have access to your directory. And one of the things we've got to post in the video, one of the first world quests from after posting is, where is the pie glider? Link for that. Let me go ahead and post that in there. Yeah, sure. You guys have not seen it. I'd like to say some words too. All right. So there's two apps, right? Pie glider. That's going to let you edit and modify move files. The Pie Leap is a way to just quickly test out demo code on your circuit playground device. We're going to support other boards. But for now, it's particularly for the circuit playground blue fruit as noted by, you know, the thumbnails and things in each of those little things. Glider does have the ability to access and transfer them over to them. We just needed a way to kind of feather demos over Bluetooth. How do you send a project bundle over Bluetooth? That was really like the core thing of why we needed Pie Leap to be a thing. Is that, okay, we can upload these premade file or these premade project files to the circuit playground blue fruit. There's a slew of them. I think there's like a dozen. And each one of those actually has a learn guide. So if you look, each one of these demos is a learn guide. And that's kind of the way the back end is working. It's pulling all that data from these individual learn guides. So as you click on one of these, this is Pie Leap. Remember Pie Leap is the one that has the code that's premade for you, just to kind of, and these little purple titles just kind of give you an idea of what the project is doing. There's so many sensors on the circuit playground. It just makes sense to have variable different ones. You can see here even the eye lights. So the eye lights is like the second hardware that is supported. But which one do you want to do? Or should we, if you tap on one, you can kind of get an idea of what it is. There's a button there that says send bundle. This is really important too. I'm just noticing that the serial terminal lets you know what hardware it sees right now. It is connected to the circuit playground blue fruit. And it tells you exactly what version of circuit Python you're running here through the serial terminal. So this connection is already established. Here are some things that it will download to your device, right? Dependencies and library. So you get a really good list of what you're actually pushing over to the device. Very, very cool. But if you didn't want to send this premade code and you have your own code, that is where the Glider app is necessary. So this is the peripheral, the board, the circuit py drive shows up as a unique identifier up there. And then these are all the files that are on board the thing right now. So you have an MP3 file, you have your code.py file. So let's say you have multiple code.py files and you want to rename them and stuff. This is the latest thing. You can do this and rename the code if you wanted to swap out your demo code. So that's really helpful. And then if you wanted to edit it, what do you click on? Just tap right on it. Just tap on it. The other option is to move it to a different directory. This is bare bones like tax editor. It's just an input box. But I think at some point it'll make sense to have color coding and all that sort of stuff. But right now just be aware that this is just your rudimentary text editor, you know, from iOS. So you hit the save button and it would update the code. But let's see if it works in this orientation. Maybe you get even less room. But that's just the way, you know, it's it it hopefully will get some some better text editing. But just be aware that is how you would edit it. Right. So there's a lot of situations where folks in educational settings have a Chromebook and USB just it just isn't a thing. It doesn't work or it's locked down. So being able to edit and send code via Bluetooth is is the workflow that we're we're trying to tackle here. So that is just a quick little demo. I mean, Peter's going to do some actual modifying and editing. I just wanted to get out my version of awards. Yeah. So one of the simplest things I think is probably the sound meter, I think is a nice fun one since you're able to edit the sensitivity and the colors on that. And it's a good demo. It's in terms of being able to quickly see the change for it. So here we go. You can see that it starts off with a pretty default sensitivity of it's pretty high. So you'd have to like scream into it or tap onto it really loud. Not following the whole tenant LEDs. So you can see here, I'm just going to click onto the code.py file, scroll down to where the color values are for this. And it's nicely commented. So you can see the way that the RGB colors are all set up. So if I do like zero for that one, and because it's so bright, do like just a 10 right there. So it's going to be green. And what about the sensitivity? And you can see just how fast that updates everything. And then we'll go down to the sensitivity and we'll drop that down from 1500 to just 500. And that should be able to fill up the entire Neopixel little ring there. You get a notificator and it's updating. And there you go. It's going to white, but it's green here. One, two, three. One, two, three. It's not as bright as I'd like it to be. Make it brighter. Make it 255. It'll look white now. No, I think it'll be fine with green. Let me see. I think when I was testing it out, 100 is where it... 100 is a good number, huh? Yeah. But let's go ahead and blow it out to see. Yeah, perfect. I like the illumination coming out of your fingers there. Nice and green. Green is good. And you can take a look at what the code looks like and all that. And one of the cool things is that if you are transferring between different projects, some of the files like the waves will stay on there. It's just overwriting the code.py file and the stuff that's inside the library. So one of the other things you could do is save out your code. If you get it to where you like, you can actually use the built-in files app for iOS to save your favorite code. So one of the things I have on here is the touch one that we're just using, because the thing that we're geared towards is getting the kids comfortable to be able to read what the code is and apply new things to it. So for example, with the Wave playback, it's just set up to do buttons, but you can also have it set up to do the touch pads. So what we were showing out earlier, and that's a really cool way to get them comfortable with what the code is to that and then add to it. So it's a super cool way to quickly modify code on your devices and back up, save any of those codes if you want to have those duplicated into other boards as well. It's a nice really simple way to do that. All right. If anybody had any comments, questions, suggestions, let's see. Let's know. Yes, lovely. A72 is asking, is that blue fruit? Yes. So any of the Bluetooth boards, we're hopefully going to start supporting. For starters, this is the Circuit Playground blue fruit. The NRF52840 is the chipset that we really adore for all BLE devices. So another one would be the clue board. That one has the NRF52840. Hopefully that will get supported soon. It has a screen. It's got temperature sensors all over it, touch pads as well in that micro bit format. What's another NRF? The other one that we were testing this one was the Feather NRF52840. Yes. So the Feather NRF52840 doesn't have any onboard sensors. So you'll have to have some things connected to it. Just be aware of that. That's why we're really focusing on this one. Because Neopixels, buzzer, temperature sensor, touch pad, it's got everything. It's really what it's for. It's like a playground of sensors. The other thing that works as well is the eyeglice, the LED glasses. The LED glasses was another one. That'll work with that as well. Yeah. Just a little lipo battery right there. So if you want to know how it's being powered, you just got a little lipo battery. So if you want to have this as a pendant or something, you can do so many different things with the circuit playground. So we have a little magnetic backing that just attaches there. It's a simple way to make a little wearable. Right. Right, I did. Of course, Iron Man. First thing that comes to mind is to have it right in the center and change that around. Yeah. That's really cool. That's really cool that you don't need to worry about USB cables and all this stuff. You're just going to worry about Bluetooth. Hopefully. Yes, they are questions or just comments in the Discord. Do I still say that? Yep. A lot of people waiting on the Android version. They're getting all the foundations of getting CircuitPython to be able to read the types of connections that are required for Bluetooth and the mobile devices. So as soon as they get all of that down, they will start working on the Android version. Yeah. Shout out to Trevor, who's lead developer on the iOS side for the PyLeap app. We got a learn guide as well. If you want some more documentation on PyLeap, this kind of walks you through it. Yeah. So you just want to make sure you have the latest version of CircuitPython. That's what's so cool about this. You just drive and drop. Nothing special. Like, there's not a, like a special. A special you have too. Yeah. It's just baked into the core of CircuitPython. Yes. So that's what we really wanted to make it an easy transition for folks. Whether you want Bluetooth, or you just wanted to get through it USB, you can both refine in Dandy. And now this one just walks you through a little bit of like setting up, hitting the reset button, and just some LED notifications to let you know when the app is searching to pair. So the app kind of does a good job of on-screen instructions on how to pair. It's pretty straightforward. Yeah. And each CircuitPython device has a unique identifier. So that's how you can tell if it's the right, if it's the right border or not. The modules are the projects themselves, right? Yes. Modules are the projects themselves. So you can take a look at each individual one and see how these are structured up. Yeah. So if you wanted the wave playback one, click on that, and it'll take you to that individual learn guide that walks you through the code. So that's kind of how the structure is set up for these demo codes in PyLeap. Here's your project card. Yeah. So definitely check it out. If you have yourself an iOS device and a blue fruit, start your playground. Definitely check it out. Let us know what you think and get your feet wet. Other ways to let us know what you think. Lovely, A72 is asking, is it open source? Yes, this is available on GitHub. Yeah, you should be able to see all of the latest pushes that were sent out, I think, this morning. So check those out. Just search on GitHub's Adafruit and then just search for PyLeap. You should be able to find it there. Yes. Please file any issues on the GitHub as well. If you see any bugs, we are ready to fix. That's not bad. That's the gist of it. This is public beta, right? Public beta was submitted to the App Store, so it is in processing as we speak. So it should be live any day now. Yeah, we'll let you folks know when it comes up live. Oh yeah, we'll be posting all about it. But for now, I did post links if you want to get the test flight betas for that. It's super easy. I think it just sends an email and you immediately get the link to download the latest. Let's try to remember if there's anything else we wanted to cover. I think that's pretty much it. It's nice compact. Program wirelessly, so fangirls. It's needed to happen and it's happening. Very cool. All right, there'll be more chatter about this as it gets released to wider audience. All right, let's go ahead and jump into this week's what are we prototyping? All right, this week we are prototyping 3D printing and CNC milling. We have a little bit of a fun festive lamp project. So we cut up some pieces of acrylic and 3D printed a little holder for a strip of neopixels. So there's a little neopixel strip and the little 3D printed butt here has these slots for these pieces of acrylic. We thought it'd be fun to kind of make each piece of an acrylic kind of a different engraving. So it kind of makes this animation. Using the LED animation library for Circuit Python, you can do some fun LED chase animations. That way you get this cool kind of step by step frame by frame animation that's happening here. These pieces of acrylic are the edgelit style and they are really thick pieces of acrylic, quarter inch thick or six millimeters thick. And I cut them out on our little Banton tools CNC. But you could laser cut it if you got yourself a glow forge or something. You could cut these out no problem and do all sorts of fun different designs. But the 3D printed case here houses this little gray piece that has those slots. These are swappable. So if you want to pull this out you can see they're just little pieces and you can do different shapes or whatever. But inside there that's where the strip is. The design just takes a 60 meter neopixel strip and then just spaces them out and holds the strip in place with this little kind of a little groove that just kind of slides in there and locks it in place. For the microcontroller itself it's the QT Pi RP2040. It's my favorite little Circuit Python board right now. It's inside here. I have a pretty nice snap fit going on here. So that's why I don't want to take it apart because it's got a nice snap fit. But the idea is to be parametric. So if you want more LEDs, if you want this to be a long you know thing of acrylic you could make it as long as you want. And infusion I set it up so that the user parameters you could just give it a pixel count and it'll grow the design and scale everything to it. But I thought eight so there's eight of these. I thought eight was a good number. You could you could do as little as like three or four just to get that you know. There's a lot of designs to acrylic things that have like just two frames and it makes kind of like a fun animation. And it kind of reminds me of like those Las Vegas neon signs that kind of have like two frames. So that's kind of the idea of going for. But it was really easy to set up the code using the LED animation library. The LED chase animation works really well here because you can specify how many LEDs you want. And then the speed of which and I had to kind of slow down the speed a little bit so that you can kind of appreciate each frame. And sometimes it skips a little bit because of the way the the timing is set up. But that's kind of how I have it. So this will be next week's project. Hopefully we can get out a learn guide and a video. This will be the last this will be the last project of the year from us. I think I might make another sign that says like happy 2020 or something. Happy holidays and then 2020 at the end or something. But that's kind of what I got going on. So new pixel strip 2D pi circuit Python some acrylic and 3D printing. Right. So that is the thing that I've been working on. Okay. We're quest from DAO 20 asking if you can hold it with the camera pointing directly at the end. So it cycles through one piece. Yeah. It's kind of hard to to see it. Yeah. The effect is a lot better. The effect is a little bit weird when you look straight on because of the way they overlap. So there's one of those things. It's not like this thing's too big. So it's kind of like and the focus is odd as well because of just the better in the video and we're not constrained to the right where the cameras are here. Yeah. I don't know how else to. Yeah. And because this room is so lit it's not the effect is way better at night. I'm sure you had a demo video or the darker. Yeah. And it looks really cool when you when you're it's in the dark. It looks really really stellar. Yeah. So you can see I have some snowflakes coming in there. I engrave some snowflakes. But some folks had some fun ideas on Instagram. They're saying like you can do like a scene like from Super Mario from your favorite game. You can do like a nice scene. Yeah. I've seen a lot of lithopains that are multi layered lithopains. Think about that in this way or some geometric animations like some seamless loop gifts. Like imagine those etched out in here and yeah. If you wanted to bring them tighter together you would use a different neopixel strip. This is just the 60 meter one which is like a medium density. You can see it right in there inside that little groove there. And then here's like a I've been working on the CAD animation because I'm working on the learn guide. So here gives you an idea of all the pieces. The green piece is what actually holds the acrylic. The black piece is what holds the neopixel strip. The brown cover is what allows them to be housed in place. And then the bottom cover snap fits into the into the case. And the new and the cutie pie snaps into the built-in holder on the end of the bottom cover. So that's a bit of what the what the pieces all look like when they're sandwiched together. Well I can say about it. People want us to turn off our lights so they can see it. Like we can if you want to hit that one. See how good we can get it. Let's see if the uh. Oh snap. Yeah it's pretty damn bright now. There you go. Happy holidays. Yeah so I'm going to syncing it to music would be pretty cool too. Yeah. I wish this was a blue two thing so then I can edit the code because I keep getting some glitchy. Like I need to update the timing so it goes through the whole thing right now because sometimes it skips it you see that. It's just the way the animation sequence is set up. If I just had one animation sequence I could time it better. But you can see that I'm getting a little bit of a skip here so. But man those are really coming out nice and clear. Another thing just as a tip I always forget to do this but when you're engraving acrylic always flip and mirror your stuff because on the other side it always looks better. It just looks more clear and clean as opposed to like the actual etched side. At least for milling that's what I found. Maybe laser cutting is a bit different but for me I always forget to flip my artwork mirror the artwork so that it actually looks better on the opposite side. Yeah and I really like the ed you know the shape could be growing or changing its shape as it's animating back so if you want to play around with the different shapes like I think folks can make some cool I don't know like a walking cycle or something of a ball animating. I tried to do a little bit of a wave thing but I think this festive version is works okay. Another thing is like because of the way these are all stacked in front of each other layering them on top of each other kind of kills the effect a little bit so be wary of that like. Um yeah so that's that's it right there. Should we hit the lights? All right quite the difference. Yeah it really really changes it up there. Cool and that is what we're prototyping. Yeah if they were closer together so the the spacing is defined literally by the the spacing in the neopixel if you wanted to do something really really close change out the um you know change out the neopixel strip for a neopixel stick but even then like they might be too close up together and because we're 3D printing we kind of wanted this gap here because otherwise you would just have you wouldn't have any way to separate them but the little black piece actually isolates the light from leaking into each other so you have to think about that when like the light has to it's very much like one of these neopixel grids you need to set you need a divider in order to stop the light from leaking into the next frame so and yeah so that's why I picked the 60 neopixel strip it's like 20 bucks for a strip of a of a one meter and that's 60 pixels and this is only eight so you could do a custom one where you like wire each individual neopixel I didn't want to do that because I kind of did that with the menorah and it's a lot of work so just leveraging an already existing strip was kind of my jam was like okay that that'd be a good idea that way don't have to worry about wiring each individual neopixel there was the compromise of the buildability yep yep the way that the existing parts are uh ujia is asking can you control the speed of the lights absolutely can um so this is pretty much the sweet spot so you can actually get an appreciation for each frame without it going by too fast you know I do not have usba yeah this is where we wish we had a bluetooth cutie pie because I if I plug it into my to this machine it will definitely break it because I it's very fragile right now with the usb drives um but yeah page is going to go get an adapter so we can change up the code you know right at the point where everything is going to switch over to usb c yeah so we need more of those little two hikis all right fire up uh mu and then um we'll uh change up the whoops the speed oh hey look at that new computer I don't have mu on here really you've never used new nope because I've been programming everything through bluetooth that's cool how funny huh yeah all right let me uh we have a little bit of time so let me we're just gonna we're just gonna try it I'm gonna try it I hope I don't break the uh the wire cast set up here but I'm opening up mu now I'm downloading mu okay this is a live show we gotta do it huh how hilarious all right let me switch cameras to the uh the full side effect here did I get rid of it yeah oh nope I got it here all right so here's mu um I'm just gonna change up these speeds to one and it'll just run through it real quick but you can see here you have a couple of of things to parameters to play around with with the uh the chase uh animation module you can reverse it you can change the spacing and the size right now the size is set to one that's telling me that I'm gonna light up one pixel uh per animation cycle so I've updated the speed to just point one of a second let's see what that looks like in the overhead and there you just have another speedier look and you can see why now I just slowed it down um just so you have some time to process to process what it's saying so that's why I kind of slowed it down but if you had a walk if you had a per you know a walking and if you want that speed to go there the walking animation or if you just had um like these little uh wing wing bats or whatever then that would look cool but when it comes to words and messages you kind of want to slow it down a little bit um but yeah and what is the thinnest that the acrylic acrylic can be at and get something yeah ooh whatever I guess I guess an eighth of an inch so an h an eighth inch that was three millimeters that's half the thickness of this but again this is a quarter inch which is about six millimeters thick I really like the six millimeter stuff because you have you just have this really nice thickness of it and because these pieces are kind of relatively small um it makes them look a little bit more thicker than they really are I think yeah but that is the speed update there all preference yeah and you can orient it in different ways if you wanted to have it on the wall and just be a bunch of different shapes you don't have to do engraving you can kind of get this kind of neat effect if it was like hanging on the wall or something um yeah or if it was like curved or something you would have to wire them individually but lots of fun different ideas depending on how how do you want to wire it up and lay out your acrylics but yeah it's like a cool let me see if I can um if I turn the size let's do like four by four and then four of them will light up at the same time see what happens here there you go so you have more of like more trails there oh yeah they're a little bit more blended but maybe depending on the artwork it'll look a little bit better and of course you have like the rainbow chase that you could do as well if you wanted to do rainbow chase let me see what that looks like uh let's do rainbow chase the uh switch over so you can see what I'm coding here just instead of using the animation sequence I'm just going to tell it to do one and there's sort of this nice rainbow cycle that's going on there they are stacked yes I believe they would leak into the next yeah like I said like the behind the strip is that little black bar and that has you really can't see it but that just isolates them so that's why those little slots are like that to really keep the light isolated and that's how that is the very principle of how uh this guy over here is working oh that one's frozen holy crap hold on wow it's been it's been like months dude this is a nrf too sort of python crashed down for two months but there's the principle for this thing here is that the grid is what's isolating each one of those pixels so they don't leak into each other yeesh but yeah all cool effects it's so fun to play with circuit pythons led animations because you just mess around with the the spacing and the in the speed and you just get a completely different effect colors and all that fun but yeah that's a cool one cool any other fun suggestions uh let's see just some comments yeah definitely lots of potential for different design options yeah what if it was a wave file and it was like saying like a word or something like I love you or happy holiday you know that'd be really cool some sort of uh yeah it'd be cool like do like a heart thing like if it's growing every frame it's like be really cool so this is up to the artist your creative brain how create like I I wish I spent more time on the creative idea aspect of it I getting the getting the pieces and then like what am I gonna cut like I had to commit to something so hopefully someone else or more artistic can do just some stellar animation or like hand hand drawl something you know like maybe Sophie does something fun um sorry let's see what I want cool tweet yeah yeah definitely yay people it thanks though 20 all right good idea all right well we are that was what we're prototyping we're gonna try to come out with this next week um so yay all right let's go ahead and jump into this week's community makes yeah community makes this week is something fun it's fun and doubles the storage if you got yourself a Nintendo switch and you got all these little game cartridges and you're looking for a better place to store them all I know I was this is a really nice one so this little design here held 16 of them and the little slots are nice and tolerant loose so they don't they just kind of fit in there with a little bit of a loose fitting which I like I don't want them to be too tight because the last one I had was too tight but let's take a look at the time lapse um this was printed in some real cool marble filament PLA filament you can get this stuff off amazon relatively small print probably takes a few hours what like four hours or so 11 hours no no no if you're not time lapsing yeah it'll take two days but if you're not time lapsing like just half of that five hours five hours or so yeah there's some support you need because of the shape of thwomp but thwomp I didn't even mention is this not even really the character it's a bit of an obstacle yeah in this Mario franchise yeah he's just the angry looking stone that wants to murder Mario but it looks really great in this marble PLA so if you're looking for something to do with marble PLA and you got some Nintendo switch stuff check this one out has it looped yet and this is from Jeremy default default perfect uh Christmas it's a remix actually like stock stock stocking stuff for to go along with any games or Nintendo switch that you are gifting at this holiday season you you show that off while I pull up the thing over his page yeah so the only thing that you do have to remember to do is enable the supports I did print one before and all of the overhang unfortunately just because of the weight design you could have added like some drafts or something like all around the lips and the eyelid areas but yeah you're definitely going to need the support material enabled for that I just use the whatever cure decided to generate at I think 70 for the degrees and that should do a pretty good job of being able to pull everything up is it completely flat or does it not nice and flat that's cool has a 45 degree angle so you get that nice texture yeah they did it there but you can do it to having like a draft like right underneath there would have helped immensely in terms of having that lifted up with no supports but other than that yeah double-sided um like you were saying nice loose yeah that's on there now let's give let's give credit to the original designer as well because this is a remix oh the remix added more cartridges uh so uh jet duff on thing over says um I just made it instead of six it now has 16 so it's just bigger but the original design is from is right here that's why I like Thingiverse they have really nice weighted so handy dance 3d prints is who who pushed this up there um the original has six oh wow what are these locks looks like it's sd cards oh sd okay so that's cool so if you wanted to remix it and put compact lash cards you could very cool you could kind of remix the design as well is this a remix of a remix of a remix no looks like it's all right and we got oh and there's other designs of the thwomp so very cool yeah it's a great idea um yeah i feel like i've printed this before that was uh something else different yeah maybe sd cards i think so yeah well yeah i like it very very cool so if you want to get your own you can use the link in the description of the time lapse print it out and it's a little bit of supports so this week's we need to make yeah i think we have a couple more but real quick uh question from mike p new question about the acrylic where can i get some acrylic yeah i get mine from um the amazon i get mine from no i get mine from the ventables i'll just show you where i get it shop they got some real nice acrylic i think that's some tools too didn't they they might um yeah so they have done a bunch of different colors uh i click on the half inch and then this right here light guide acrylic sheet they come in this thickness and they have different sheets so eight by 12 or 12 by 24 i tend to pick this one i got a small cnc so i have to cut these up and into pieces um that are like 100 by 100 millimeters but this stuff is great this is what i use um they're always nice and flat and uh there's some examples of look at this martini you should have done a martini huh oh that's cool a google home indicator yeah there's so many fun things you can do acrylic once you're done with the project is when all the ideas come because it took so much time to get the base and everything else working so the other idea too was like having ate a bot like say stuff like his ears this this project really makes me want to get a freaking glow forge because like i do not like milling um unless you had like a dust collection system like i'm cleaning more than i am milling and that's just the thing i broke tools i've i've damaged acrylic pieces yeah so it's just the thing it's that that's the that's the name of the game with the cnc get away so we can clean out our garage yeah get a glow forge and then and it's easier to in my opinion i think it's easier to uh to laser cut graphics because like you can just give it an svg yes the the software i'm using doesn't play each path yeah you can have to program each path which is time consuming but hey this is a good place to get acrylic is invincible they also sell um and mills if you are doing the the engraving the cnc engraving now now so that's a nice new year's resolution right there laser yeah all i want for christmas is five sheets of acrylic that's fun all right any other cool comments um oh your local hardware store says acrylic now be careful of that because i did that way long ago in the acrylic i got had uv protection and it messed up my tool bit oh so uh just be aware that there are some acrylics after that has like special coating that might not fare well with your end mill laser cutting might be different but with my end mill i remember messing one up because i got like this this smoky black acrylic and it had built in you know uv protection so i guess that's what messed up my tool bit or maybe i didn't maybe i was stepping down it was the early days of milling so i don't know just a random thought i remembered the local hardware store but yeah we got a couple more community makes there was that from last week um we got time so i guess we went through them there were from last week but we didn't share them because like we were always running out of time all right so let's take a look at some other community makes i don't know what this is oh this is a watch band apple watch band ninja flex it doesn't have to be an apple watch because that's not an apple watch yeah the um whatever the connector is pretty standard ender five prints out ninja flex really good my first print with the dove adiva ninja flex like it nice very cool yeah definitely print your own watch band and ninja flex i think it's really cool really good test of getting your settings down and you get a nice little wearable out of it for sure and you can change out the colors you put your own designs very very fun this one is specifically designed so you can swap out the filament and have the top be a different color shout out to uh w cells chop for posting that up all right here's another one this is a make of our 16 by 16 new pixel square display that we have here in the back super cool mario design a little clock action modified it to work on something else this is a whole blown pie or something very very cool i'm i'm glad people can uh you know take the frame because that is really what i'm contributing here and then just make it work with whatever um you've got a linux board you have a microcontroller and arduino uno use whatever yeah this is great so this is by uh salin who posted this up with a bit of a remix and the last bit one here is one of the old ibergoody the talking d20 a collab project we did back in the day 2015 with uh phil b painter dragon this is a uh a d20 that's three printed two halves that fit together with magnets and has an accelerometer um so it knows uh what face it's on and it'll actually say it'll play back wave files it's a really intense build um totally worth it totally yeah it's it's an it's it's just one of the still to this day it's an amazing project that it knows and tells you what side it's on yeah um printed on the ender three with a point four nozzle point one eight layer height notice some filament sagging recess the numbers printed with tree supports it helps a little but they're still not as clean as i'd like makes me wonder if it's time to upgrade from my stock cooling fan using a krill t ender three nice very very nice it looks really really good there definitely add that extra cooling it will all these are magnet posts and thing boards you needed three or four boards you need a lipo charger the trinket the accelerometer i think that's a lipo board oh and the sound effects take a look at it oh crap we should probably do this with any of the overhead okay so here's what it looks like if i can get the really strong man it's just gonna fall apart let me go oh there's wires yeah oh there's a speaker daughter it's a circuit sandwich for sure i think it's a sound effects board this is all done in arduino by the way remember this is 2015 where you plug in the battery's dead okay then you do that's phil b paint your dragon how amazing uh 10 you even have a dot there to tell you what's the orientation of nine i can't believe it's five three sad three that's a monday python all right we're gonna play with this for the rest of the day now i think i remember charging it one good day sir it has jokes so shoot shout out to build it just for all the puns that phil b has in there r 22 thanks for posting that up i hope you build it i haven't seen too many builds of this one the ultimate uh gift for you know the 20 games and all that i like a really big one that would be a lot easier for some of that's funny andy callaway's got some jokes where's the lawnmowers not today not today oh man our grass is gonna grow out of control all right boy well that was super fun blast from the past what happens when you roll uh 20 it knows you're cheating it knows a good show excellent all right well with that we're gonna close the show i guess any last comments and questions let us know um but we're gonna uh start closing up the show i guess get ready for uh i hope everybody has a wonderful time off for the holidays uh the last one go we're crashing circuit python long term buffer overflow or spike electricity also shouldn't know what day we're gonna catch that yeah i don't know what when do we crash circuit python oh for the for them oh but there yeah yeah i don't know what happened over there i just hit the reset button it seems to be working now maybe i'll reset the button again and on cool thank you as well duester we're gonna close up the show don't forget later tonight we invite you to come on show and tell that's gonna start at 7 30 p.m with special host j.p himself john park hitting it up and then asking engineer has returned to the wednesdays that's going to be at eight p.m use your time coupon codes um new products new products sneak peak staff uh ion mpi every time you go to that segment uh i want t-shirts makes me want to see what is in interfered.com slash new t-shirts looks like that's an accelerometers some buda speaker boxes to buda and she goes and pick up this rework station with the uh magnets on it that thing is so cool hold on let me pull that out here oh i'm gonna stop though yeah here's 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