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I think the most powerful Metro shaped micro controller board All right, we do a bunch of live shows Thanks, Melissa who just did the show until so every single Wednesday at 7 30 p.m Easter time we have the longest running show until stop on bite We're gonna watch the show until right after this because we're finishing up to show it's been some epic weeks here trying to do some Hardware is it ship shortage kind of resided or what is it rescinded? What's the word? Is there a word? Receited yeah, this is what happens when you've When you've been through some shit, they start combining words or using the wrong words So We're gonna watch the show until right after this tonight on Sunday as we do from the desk of lady at its two parts What was the first part this week? This part we showed off. We got our final quality s3 boards in the shop last week for people who remember They watched the video and so wanted to show off that yes, we have circuit Python working Jepler is on a much deserved holiday trip Before he left he did a PR and they merged in support for these dock clock displays in circuit Python And there's also support nerd. We know so there's gonna be much much more cool weirdo displays and also As of last week the pi 5 was released. I don't think it was out last week because I think we're like I think it's Thursday. It's a bit of a blur Yeah, I think maybe it was after our show. We'll talk about some Raspberry Pi stuff But that's sweet. Yeah, so we also talked about the Raspberry Pi 5 pre-release announcement and some of the things to watch out for and to Enjoy we had the great search. This is where lady Oh, they did hope to find all the parts that you need on the cheeky calm What was the search this week? So one of the new things on the Raspberry Pi 5 which we'll chat about later in more detail is there's an FPC connector for PC IE and now it's a good time for me to be like what is PCI exactly? And is it the same as M2 and like why are they compatible or they wonder the other and how many lanes and what are lanes? Even so you do a little bit of a dive into PCIe as a mechanical and electrical standard And we go on the hunt for a PCIe SMT connector that you could use if you wanted to convert the Raspberry Pi PCIe Flex cable slot into something you can actually plug a PCIe card into. Yeah Oh, there's a question. I'll answer this real-time. So there's a little graphic that's behind us when we do some like web stuff here We have the green. Yeah. So this is just one graphic and I've been and it's an animation that I did and I Then I tweaked it and I think I started off with like a little animation Then I kept Making it repeat more and then I'm just using a color tweak. So it's the same animation It's just green for when it's Descalady Mode and then of course, it's red when we're talking about the great search. Yeah, it's fun graphics Is graphics your passion? um JP's product pick of the week Let's Let's show this week's highlight. We do a product pick of the week every week. This is I think One of the only places where you can watch a live stream on a product page and the discounts automatically Applied on checkout. So this is the latest The feather m4 express one of my favorites one of the original High power high octane heavy duty feather boards. This one uses the at samd 51 It is a powerhouse of a chip. You can run arduino on it really well You can run uh circuit python on it incredibly well, especially with floating point math It has this lovely little prototyping area You can use this little proto area here. There are a set of ground And three volt pins at the edges and then you have this little grid here of pins that you can use I've just added a potentiometer right there. I'm using my little knob to adjust some Uh brightness values there. I can hit the different buttons here to change some colors I can even adjust some of these color values with my joystick here We're so excited. This one is back in stock. Like I said, it's been a while the return of the feather m4 express Oh, you know, you don't forget thursday is JP's workshop and then this friday scott's gonna be doing deep dive And then next week it will be at scott or tim maybe um all this month. It is electronic halloween season season um Spooky circuit season. Yes, it's all it's halloween all the time um One of the things that uh, we do are these gift guides So if you go to aterfruit.com and you check out gift guides, you can see some of the things that we have and um You know, it's been really hard to get a lot of halloween related stuff inside. I think monster mask Monster mask is in stock and the halloween m4s are in stock. I don't have a lot, but I did put some in stock Yeah And the feather m4s which are used in a lot of proper projects that we did. Yeah so, um I mean, I'll tell you a spooky story. It's spooky. So, you know This I'll just blend the different segments of our show together So I've been talking to our team because we're we're starting to get momentum crawling out of like Between covet and then just like how everything kind of melted down in the world still kind of melt down You know friday, we had like a flood in new york. You saw me. You saw the news. That's here. That was brooklyn Yeah, that's here, you know, and so, you know, everyone's kind of been through a thing But we're crawling out of it, you know, aterfruit's okay People ask once in a while. It's like, you know, I see a lot of electronic companies or like startups or, you know Other companies and they're just like not making it We're making it. Thank you everybody for buying stuff um So what we're gonna do because every you know just to get ahead of stuff So we announced earlier in the year. We're like, we think we can get aida box back going We were thinking that people were going to just like cancel their subscription because during the chip shortage We're like, there's no way we can get 4 000 or something Turns out we have thousands of thousands of signups for when anyone leaves and no one's leaving aida box Um, so we get emails like once in a while someone's like, hey, like are you ever going to ship aida box and we have, um Updates we have I think, you know for the super fans, you know, there's folks who watch our show But our plan right now just for the folks that are kind of like knee-deep in the community and watch all of our shows the plan is We're obviously even now not able to get out 4 000 at once but we're going to start to get an aida box out, you know towards the end of the year And just keep shipping all of them until we're caught up to the latest aida box And then next year get more momentum Because I'm I'm seeing companies blaming, you know, they're like, oh like I'm open source clone Cloners out in china is why we're not shipping stuff or this that and the other thing and the reality is you just have to like You know bomb bomb and weave Um, so like I said, I'm going to blend these together a little bit. Um, we have this graphic So lemurs already passed 420 redesigns, but we started this graphics. I want to shut so we're like, yay it's like 420 man. Yeah, so um You know, we got through the worst. What's the phrase, you know, if you're going through hell Just keep going so we got through the worst and we're going to be able to ship an aida box but one of the things that's going to be a little hard is like Um, folks are going to be like I have aida box, but I I haven't got mine yet. It's like, yeah, we're going to Restart this machine that's been offered two years um And we'll probably have to do it at batches at a time Um, we'll have to contact some customers. We'll do this stuff So anyways, we'll give you some real-time progress One of the things that we might do is is take a break from some of the other things Like maybe we won't have like five new products in the store this week in the new product section But it's like, hey, like we're wrapping up the the rest of aida box and we think we'll be able to do this so I don't know I'll ask the community's help with this because um You know, the online world is a little terrible at times like Damn if you do damn defeat out. It's never fast up. It's never gonna Um But it's really hard to do this. It's been a rough couple years. Anyways, that's our plan Um, but I want to give everyone an update and show this graphic Um, so the other thing And you know, we adapt fast is during all this time. We're like, well, let's have the best ways to do things with Your hardware. Let's continue to make no code or low code solutions for stuff Let's make the best iot experience and let's make it so easy that people tell us you're making it too easy So those are things, you know What sometimes you can't get all the parts you need But when you can or you can build software around the stuff and then when the parts come in You're set. So we're calling this whipper sapper wednesday Um, brand and lauren and team are doing a really good job on this and we have some updates Um, lady aida you could probably talk about a couple of these but the big ones is we have auto configuration Yes, and then new uh, you are components and then There's a cute bus. Oh, yeah, you are bus. Yeah today. I read that pretty soon in gmail You'll just be able to reply to an email with an emoji like a message. That's probably the best and worst thing I heard today um, so There's so much going on. Okay. Look how many types has added so many sensors. So, you know, you can see like you know Kind of I like y'all I I hope that you can see that like we really grinded through the last couple years. We have a lot of good stuff going on um, we had a good September like we're like we're really crawling out of the the muck of Uh waiting for hardware and just like kind of unending everything Um, we just eat glass we make a point eat glass. Um But whipper snapper is kind of like one of the jewels that popped out of this like all this pressure Happens and it's like bing, you know a diamond. Um, so that's what how diamonds are made bank. That's what they sound like Um deep in in the center of a star. Yeah, so um, you know, you You've been kind of like help pushing this along. Um, so what are the what are the big highlights? So you're excited about with this one for stuff. Okay, so the you can read the blog post below Yeah, I need in detail but basically the idea behind auto configuration is if you have a board like a fun house or um Like a pipeline that has built-in sensors and displays When you connect to whipper snapper to allowed to do even more stuff all the built-in displays like on the fun houses You know a um or whatever there's an accelerometer. Maybe or there's a humidity sensor temperature sensor light sensor Whipper snapper should be like, hey, I already know what sensors are built into this board I'm going to pre-populate it for you And also if you have a setup that you've made you should be able to export and save your setup So for example, a teacher might be like, okay, you know, all the students are going to make a temperature humidity sensor With a qt pie board and an ht20 They would do it once export the configuration and then all the students wouldn't have to like go through it without being like Click all the buttons. You'd import this file that would be in an open like jason or um, actually, I don't know if it's jason I say jason, but I mean like yaml whatever Uh tom all format um to be pre-configuration the second thing If you can scroll up just a little bit is you art So we've supported, you know analog inputs pwm outputs digital ins digital outs um Neopixels and now we're getting to cut a little bit more and displays now we're getting into more esoteric stuff like ur components Um, especially used a lot in air quality sensors a lot of people don't do air quality projects So, you know pms the family of pms sensors Um, we'll now be supported with ur and so another nice thing about this is if you have one of those like ica sensors That's not internet connected. You can now reuse the sensor part and plug in, you know your esp 8266 And have an auto configure and connect to whipper sampler So check it out brand has a blog post, but this is tons of sensors Yeah, but this is like a good example like every time something's happened over the last few years We're like, okay. Well, we'll get chips to talk eventually Let's make the best iot experience so people have this oh sensors Those are completely out of stock when covet started now like you can get air quality sensors and more So it's like we're gonna keep, you know over under throwing Um, but check it out. This is our whipper step for wednesday We try to do this at least each month and check out the easiest way to get something connected online Login and chatting and more it's free guys. It's free um Python hardware time so This week's python on hardware a little special Um, because well go through a couple things and then i'm gonna bounce over to um, probably What a lot of folks who like python on hardware you're about you're gonna ask Yeah, i'm gonna surprise her with some questions. What yeah, so of course pi 5 we'll get to that in a second Um, but um, if you're interested in python, there's a developer survey result You can start to see like what are people really doing with python across the world What things should you consider? Uh, how are they using it? What's interesting is uh more and more people are using it for embedded development that was never on there Tonight it's growing up. I mean it's not a big number, but it's going up. Yeah Um, yeah and the people that are using are using a lot. That's that's the other thing of course Um, you know half is for work. There's there's 28 percent. It's personal use Um, a lot of it uses on linux So just it just gives you like here's here's the landscape of python Especially if you're thinking like oh, what are what are people using it for us? So it's useful We put a newsletter. Um, it's open hardware month. We'll talk about uh that in a bit And you can catch up on some of the open hardware news We have a bunch of certifications again. I'll talk about that once we get to the open hardware section of our show October first is going There's dissipating. Yeah, there's there's a bunch of opportunities. You can do just about anything around the circuit python world So Check it out in this letter and go to you for daily it's the latest or you can just search for october And then there's librae pcb. This is another free tool more free tools the better. Yeah, interesting I'm like I'm like I'm into it. You know, like I will admit I currently do not Use um other tools. I'm still using eagle. I'm I'm still kind of slowly Playing yeah, we're eventually gonna get I I'm definitely gonna, you know, eventually get to it, but um, you know, um I'd love to see more tools like there can never be too many options for people that are not Or can or out. Oh And uh, well, uh, this is great. The question is actually one of the things that I was gonna ask, uh This is good. Uh, it's about the pi five And uh, of course good go check out all the projects There's a lot going on but what I wanted to do because a lot of a lot of I'll just kind of break it down. We did good news bad news It's cool that there's a new raspberry pi out I think the challenge is People need to know because before it was like, oh, it's going to be an educational computer Now, obviously, it's kind of like they're adding all these things and it's a lot faster And yes, it could be used for education, but there's a lot more and then there's our world Which is like, what can you do python stuff on it? Um, so the question that just popped up in the chat was the same thing I was going to ask you is Wow. So yeah, so in context of um One the python and hardware newsletter, but just generally speaking What are the elements of the pi five that you know, um You're interested in or excited about and then what does this mean for people who do python on hardware Like we have blink of me can talk about that a little bit But what what do you think is like lady to engineer is uh, interesting about the pi five There's a couple interesting things at first off I will I will say I do not I'm not a beta user So I do not have a pi five and I'm not I'm basing this only on like the photos and information that's out there I also have not watched. I know there's like hour long Interviews I haven't had time to listen to this either But from just reading the specs and looking at the photo the stuff that is most interesting to me is We now have four lane mipi and csi so big displays big cameras. Um, you know very fast data transfer Um, secondarily, um The pcie slot. I think it's also very neat. I think people were using the cm4 modules. We're like, hey, you know, there's pcie Connecting cellular modules Is not going to be very easy before you kind of go through the usb and like it's not as easy and fast And maybe you can't take advantage of there's a lot of stuff in the laptop market that would be able to plug into m2 format and use the pcie bus and so um, I think that There's definitely this kind of collision of like the raspberry pi five in a laptop Computation capability, but they didn't keep the gpil which I think is great I think the thing that's going to be very interesting Is the rp1 and I think that's a little bit of like Like a silent strike, I don't know what the word is but it's like there's it's like what is this chip? Oh, it's a southbridge. Okay, but knowing what they did with the rp20 40 and knowing that obviously they must have Taken everything over the rp20 40 and integrated into the southbridge chip. I think That it's going to it They're they're very smart and they know the kinds of projects people want to do with raspberry pi they know the constraints that they've had in the past because GPio on single board computers is and the right reply. It's fairly fast, but in general it's very slow and it's very clunky It'll be very neat to see If they add analog inputs if they add pwm outputs, maybe pulse inputs, maybe They have you know neopixels on the pio you can control like multiple, you know neopixels through the gpio Having a really tightly coupled rp20 40 for that the pio speed You know motor control neopixels pwm's analog inputs, you know pwm outputs all that good stuff With the horsepower of the pi five main processor and ram I think it could be You know, it's a really big step up and it reminds me a little bit of The interesting stuff that the beagle bone block did where the beagle bone had this built They filled the void because they were you know, they're they're part of ti So they're already like let's make something that's not just like a raspberry pi Thing let's like kind of go to the next level Yeah, this is the built-in pru and I think that that was like this ethernet communications But I think the raspberry pi folks they know they know this stuff like they have now full control And You know, it's it's funny. It's like You can tell that the silicon shortage they were like, you know what no We're just gonna make our own chip like we are tired of negotiating and fighting and to get the Millions of quantities that we need at the price we have to hit and I think they they and I don't know this I'm just guessing right so like don't I'm not speaking on behalf of raspberry pi But if I were them Having gone for the last few years I would be like infuriated that I think never again never again You're so dependent on on a third party vendor because you're like, okay. I've designed in your chip And you know, they're making millions and billions of millions of raspberry pies a year and it's like if They're designed in and then now they're they feel like they're they're I don't say held hostage, but they're reliant on another company. I think that one thing that From what I know about Um, the raspberry pi folks is they don't like they really like to chart their own path and they don't like to be reliant So I think this was a really it's gonna be very interesting But like they're gonna break the bolt of what a single board computer can do with hardware interfacing Okay, and as a grant but like no, this is you know, here's the thing Yeah, and so I'm about to say something. This is not a ding on all the coverage out there There's a lot of good coverage But there's also a lot of coverage which is just like here's a raspberry pi 5 and they just read off a spec sheet Like that's not kind of our style. So like yeah, the processing speed to me. I'm like, okay, cool. Yeah That's not interesting. I thought it'd be good for like, you know, lady. I had to like talk about like This is a good question. Like what's interesting to you and then as we get these Um, whether it be the end of october, however, these are gonna get uh shipped out to the resellers Um, we'll have this type of in depth stuff because what we don't want to do is just like quick get a video up So we can show that we Have specs on it. Like I feel like the the community that's out there that's that really does electronics They can always read the spec sheet, but I think there's there's other pieces of this that You know, you're like, here's how you can actually use it and here's the things in some context Yeah, it's a little bit like, you know, you play a video game like, you know, like you play a video game and you're like There's just like weird tool that you pick up and you're like, I don't you know What is this but like somehow you're like, I know I'm gonna need this for the boss battle Right, it's always like like the glass sword and you're like, wow, this is this is so weird I know that this is going to be something that I use Like it's the most powerful tool in in the entire game if I just like Learn the magic spell to unlock it and I think that's where the rp1 is for me Okay, um, so stay tuned to the newsletter because we're going to be putting a lot of the stuff in especially as the the pie ships Um, it's part of it for daily shows up at your mailbox every single week If you're daily.com Let's talk about some of the first hard words So, uh, as I mentioned before and with this cool graphic we're past 420 redesigns. That means that dress. Yeah, that means 420 products Didn't have the available chip So we had to redesign it and now we're locked in To being able to make it or be flexible or like whatever. So this can't happen again. It's open hardware month We're up to 697. Yes, we're gonna cross 700. We'll be the first company that's gotten to 700 Um, open hardware designs published through the first to get to 500 first to get 600 We're gonna be first to get a 70 we submitted over so yeah, they just have to approve that You know, it's not a competition or anything. However, it's a competition for ourselves like When it when when some entities are saying we're not doing open source anymore Because oh, there's no reason to do it. We're showing that this is a signal to the community Like not only is there a good reason to do it. It's a good, uh, it's good for marketing It's good for the world. It's good for the customers. It's good for the community But it's good to be a good 20 word good good. Yeah, it's it's it's it's it's possible to be a good cause and a good business And we could say it Or we could do it I'm gonna do a little bit both today So anyways, I'll watch that number. It's watch that number gonna hit. We're gonna hit 700 soon. Yeah, and uh, Don't hassle them though. They're they're getting through it Sorry Um, I mean we hassle them, but you should or viewers shouldn't ask. Yeah, we're really happy about it. So anyways, um We have guides tons and tons of guides and that's yeah, that's part of our Charter as well, which is let's publish and share and teach the world Yes, add free this week we've got two guides, um from lis clark So this actually wasn't she wrote this a week ago, but it took me a while to review It's a massive guide Everyone who sees the rgb matrix portal like the matrices and the matrix portal are like hey We want a scoreboard for like sports ball But and we actually tried to do this with the original matrix portal and four a couple years ago But it turns out that the espn feed, which is like the fee you want to use is so big It will not fit in the ram of a sam b51 But now that we have the s3 matrix portal We got plenty of ps ram in there. Um, I think you like whatever two megabytes or more We can easily fit the entire espn feed. And so no matter what sports ball Sports puck game you want to show off Um, you can set up a scoreboard. This is actually using four 64 by 32 so yeah 64 32 by four 64 by 32 matrices to make a 128 by 64 like big screen I think Liz is gonna get some photos if she hasn't yet of her on her wall and um, yeah, I have a quick little video Oh great. Yeah, let's just play real fast. Okay Um You can build a large rgb led matrix display to keep track of your favorite sports teams A matrix portal s3 running circuit python fed his data from the espn api Four 64 by 32 matrices are tiled together to form a 128 by 64 pixel display That is approximately 20 inches wide by 10 and a half inches high You'll run a python script to gather and prep the team logos for the project The script downloads the logos resizes them and applies gamma correction So that they'll look crisp and bright on the matrices When the matrix portal s3 boots up, you'll see all five of your team logos displayed If a game is scheduled for your team the date and time are shown alongside your team and the opposing teams logos During gameplay the current score and game details are shown. This updates as new data is available from the api When a game finishes the final score is shown See how you can build your own scoreboard by checking out the learn guide at learn.adafruit.com gopats and Yes, and speaking of because we have the s3 matrix portal Trevor also did a guide trevor is our ios dev and he really wanted to have a display that showed the new york times latest breaking news headlines and your times also has a feed that we can now fit into the matrix portal s3 So some great projects for You know, if you have one of the new matrix portal s3's It's less expensive than the original m4. It's in stock. It's easy to use And you can do many more projects with it. Okay Um check out learn.adafruit.com. You'll see lots more and also If you want to publish a guide you can use our playground section now That is right. Oops. I just like What are you doing here? You go there. Yeah. Anyways, you got a playground. Um, we're calling these playgrounds so these are all um guides that uh people want access to our editor tool and Here you go. It's like, you know, you get great stuff from adafruit folks Uh, and we love making detailed guides that are like for more products that really show off the capabilities But sometimes we do little projects that are like, hey, they're not um Yeah, it's not a product guide or anything. Yeah, it's whatever you want. Fun It's not a full guide. Maybe you don't want to go into like the huge editing process that we do Um, some adafruit folks and people from the community You can make your own notes and they're not public. These are the featured ones Yeah, if you want to feature them, there's a little thing at the top that says show and tell get this featured And um, once that happens, we'll just quickly check over make sure Yeah, we're doing a soft launch um for folks just to like see how this goes and people are using it already so Yeah, check it out and it's like cool because it's like it's live instantly. They're what you like It's basically like other sites, but our promise is we will never put Tons of banners and ads and interstitials and pop up like you're not going to get that whole Log in to read the rest of this guide. Yeah It's not yeah, not a ding on other sites because they have a different they have a different model than we do we sell hardware and We just don't want we don't mind your data To put ads on it to to run a business whether you're an ad block or not the site's exactly the same So we also don't like the You have to sign up and you get spammed. So we'll see this is how we're running a business So far it's been working out. Um, we think there's enough people out there that appreciate the style of like well I'll just buy hardware once in a while because I like electronics and open source and want to support it And that's how we fund doing all this stuff. Okay. Uh, let's do speak enough. Let's uh, show you some factory footage A little glimpse into our pick and place who wanted to be the star This week. So we gave the pick and place a little bit more air time Going through all the motions and more 3d printing Okay, so this week what we're going to do is we're going to show some 2023 Halloween projects To consider get inspired by and then we're going to do Helen Roundup. Yeah, Helen Roundup And then we're going to do a speed up. See you on the upside spooky Here are top five 3d printed projects you can make for Halloween 2023 With the return of the at samd 51 the Halloween m4 is the best dev board for your spooky themed projects A desktop-sized tombstone makes a great home to display your admiration for animated eyes and diffuse neopixel leds Keep yourself cool and light up your way while trick or treating with this portable led flame This medieval themed torch houses a mini fan and neopixel jewel powered by a gemma m0 Energize your cosplay with the power of neopixels with this 3d printed emerald With the circuit playground blue fruit you can remotely change the color and brightness of this gem to fit just about any costume Showcase iconic symbols of all hollows eve with these animated neon led signs Each sign features a specialized animation embodying the symbol it represents Powered by a cutie pie rp2040 this small yet capable dev board is housed in a fashionable case in the shape of a coffin Upgrade this small flying ghost prop with a remote controlled candy dispenser With a circuit playground blue fruit and a servo you can deploy a bag of treats or tricks from your mobile device We think it's great for those who want to keep a safe distance while still interacting with their unexpected guests Whether you want a light up prop or something more involved the aida for learn system has tons of projects to inspire Get the code is vc and l. Let's do some myna pie. I brought you boy. Did you key? Don't forget It's ready Don't want to performance me first matter as much ready. Um That's this week's new product introduction. She liked your logo. It's kind of a cool logo, right? Yeah What is this new interesting product this week? Okay, so this week's um, I MPI is Is a labeler and you're probably like, yeah, okay So I can get a labeler at like my local stationary store Why don't you talk about a labeler? And at first I was kind of like, you know, I was like, oh, it's a yellow and rugged, you know So what but the more I actually start no, I mean I like I want to be a little self deprecating. It's actually A really cool product. I love it. So sometimes, you know, I purchase one of the ion and pi's to review it And I kind of tend to give him a way to people like, oh, hey, look, it's like a toolbox bag Maybe you know, are you like this tool or this screwdriver kit? This one I'm keeping and this is a really nice product and the price is of course really good as well So there's two versions. There's the m210 and the m210 lab I'm only talking about the m210, but that the lab version Is for people who are like working in a like a chemistry or biology lab and it handles vials Printing a little bit better. I think there's a couple other Changes with what symbols are available or whatever but I'm gonna talk about the m210, which is good for general purpose So I have a labeler already that I have used for just like labeling boxes and you know, sometimes PCBs or samples or whatever And it's you know, it's it's a crafting style like home labeler So it has like cute icons and like you can do like a couple different fonts This is a labeler specifically for engineers and makers and scientists and you know chemists and electricians and people who are working with technology and You'll see like there's a lot of specific things that it does that you will not get in other labelers But you're basically paying for the same price So, uh, first of all, yes, it is organized. Um, it comes with uh, if you go back one it comes with a really nice, uh rubber grip outside Everything is like nicely protected like it's not going to crack in half and break if you drop it not that you should drop it Um, and okay, so I can go back back one. Um It can take either DC power or batteries or there's actually a rechargeable battery pack you can use Um, it's really fast to change up the cartridges. I'll do a demo uh, you know languages, um You know nice keypad. That's really easy and nice to use. Everything's nicely labeled. Um, nice and hefty But it's a lot of the other little details that um, like the qr codes and modes that make this so cool So, uh, first up, you know, um, maybe you can go to me like really fast and just hold it Really quickly. I'll just hold it up and show like here's how how big it is So it's a little bit big and there's a little edit screen and you know, you type on the keypad It does not connect to a computer. You have to use it like standalone. There's a version that's connected to a computer Maybe I'll cover in the future. IMP. Um, okay, so go back to the edit screen so you have an edit screen and um, you know that you can have multiple lines Which is another thing a lot of laborers don't let you have multiple lines You can also do single line if you want and just pick a font that's bigger and it will stretch to be the full size But you have multiple lines of text Um, you can select different sized fonts by pixels. You can do bold or not bold Um, there's a lot of like extra capabilities. Um, there's lowercase uppercase, you know battery life So that's kind of like only the number of text lines is a little unusual. Um, just have supported What do you need is it has languages like my hobby labeler doesn't have multiple languages or uh fonts. So Um, this one they're all you know, I will admit they're all like romantic fonts and in that they use like you're not going to get farce You're not going to get um, hebrew, you know, there's a russian version you can get surreal like But at least you can get like, you know, swedish and french and spanish and german and and dutch and a lot of very popular european languages, so There are multiple language support. You can select that And in addition, there's also Greek fonts So even though they don't have like the interface in greek you can type in greek Which is useful because you're going to want pi and mu and omega and you know signal and theta and all these symbols and delta That when you're entering in um, you know mathematical or scientific symbols You'll want to use the um the greek symbol, especially, you know electronics use mu and Omega a time Okay, and and uh sigma sometimes all right next up lots of fun symbols. So, you know, my hobby thermal hobby labeler has like A cloud and like a happy face This one has symbols of like how you're going to die. So lfqtion radiation and ground faults, but also a lot of electrical symbols as well. So You know grounds and batteries and tenets Speakers diode, etc Um, home electrical. This is definitely, you know, if you're electrician or you do Um, to sillies maintenance type staff or telecom maintenance They have all the icons you'll need to quickly label stuff without having to type out washing machine There's a symbol for washing machine Or, you know, like cold water this direction. They have the arrow ready for you Um, another nice thing that you're going to get and I just thought was super cool is q r and data matrix support I can show now or maybe at the end we'll show the overhead. I printed out a couple qr codes and yeah, they print out perfectly Just uh, yeah So, um, yeah So this is like a qr code I printed So, uh, you know, all you do is is enter you enter the qr code mode And then just type in what you want the qr code to be and it prints it and you can interleave Um, you know, this is like data matrix Plus text plus symbols Um, and it's also just adafruit, but this is a this is a true qr code and it scanned on my phone So I know it works and here's some other symbols Uh, you know print it out. So like yeah, it's exploding. Um, yeah, it's a very nice nice quality printer. Um, okay, so, um Okay, so there's codes, uh, so, you know data matrix bar codes code 39 code 128 It'll even print out the text underneath it And you can see how that there's like over there's an outline on the text That's how you know what's going to go inside You know, you you use the arrow keys to get inside that box and you type in what you want To appear within the data matrix of qr code Serialization, um, this is very neat if you want to Serialize, you know, you want to start with a number 1000 and you end at 1000. Oh, this is cool 2000 It will automatically print out as you press print each one will increment and you can change the increment value as well And it does alpha numerics Yeah, so it's like I have been there where I was like, oh man, I have this is good If you have a maker company and you even want to have like some type of uh number Stereo numbers or yeah, you could do like if you're labeling, you know, like I was labeling, um I did this burning man project and we had like what was it 250 different led boards And I they had to be uniquely numbered and I had to survive like wet plyo mud dirt typhoon And I would have absolutely used this to just like quickly label each one on the back instead I had to like sit there with a sharpie and like try to I I sharpied and then I put tape over it to protect it I could have just used this label or just didn't exist at the time. Okay serialization very cool I've never seen this on a label before um Time stamping and date coding. So there is a built in rtc. You can set the date and time And I didn't show there's a different screen where you set the current date and time Once you've set it you can then insert time stamps So that when you print out the label it will print out with the exact time it was printed So like you know at the time and different formats and they have like every iso format for For time and date so really neat and you can of course save you like I didn't show this but there's a way to save the label We can call it later. So if you have to like timestamp multiple things Somebody said does it support iso dates? It supports every date format. Believe me Interesting panel residential if you do electrical work and you're constantly Printing out labels for electrical panels. These are all built in if you can tell it Like you can just check off which ones you want. I will preach like made by someone who did stuff I am never typing a bedroom for again. Yeah, and it can pre print Length wise, you know, you don't have to print like length. It can print like width wise And so you see that label It prints out each one in order with the correct spacing specifically for breaker panels and there's a breaker panel mode and it like it knows it's like Oh, you tell me how wide each breaker is all it'll just like do it all for you So the thing I thought was so neat Like all that stuff is very cool, but the water management is like amazing So first off it can do flags automatically and it does The right you tell it the cable diameter and it will do the right distance between the text So you can flag the text. So this is a flag. That's what it looks like But you're like, man, I don't want the flag because like, you know, any whatever it's like, I don't want it to like flip around They also have wrap around self-laminating style where you can you print it and then you wrap it around the cable to like secure it There's also a version that can like rotate, but um, I didn't want to show that because I didn't find it interesting The most interesting you can print on heat shrink with this device So if you go to the overhead this um Hold on. I gotta eject this cartridge because I was actually using it So this is heat shrink that comes on Um, a reel and then you can print out and like, you know, I just focus by oh, yeah You can um I don't it's like of course it's gonna like not show in a second. No, you could tell when you bent it that that was heat shrink, but yeah, it's it's uh I'm sorry. It's like I'm not able to show it very well because it's like Yes, but it's it's heat shrink So and when you shrink it onto the cable, you could have like these beautiful labels Uh, it comes with a couple different thicknesses. This is just the one that It's clever. So, you know, like permanent wire marking Um, that's very beautiful and easy to read each time. So I was like, okay You have you know, your logic and logic like I'm absolutely doing this to my salae because like I can't tell Like which is pin one. It's like you have to remember the number of the colors. It's like no black is zero one I'd rather just have it labeled this way. So this is just like their their Demo shot of it. Okay. So very cool. You can buy these. There's at least 50 in stock There's uh, yeah, there's a bunch of stock. Um, the price is really good There's also a kit that comes with a lot more like comes with the battery pack and the dc supply This is just you know, it doesn't even come with batteries. You have to include the batteries It does come with one Thing of of of tape. I don't know how long it is. It's three quarters and thick Wide and it's nylon cloth And this is fine to get started with but, you know, did you keep stocks like 4,000 different? tapes, yeah So I was expecting it to be like 500 bucks. It's not 129 dollars. Like this is a pretty good Yeah, that's a very nice one. So I'm gonna say like I didn't see this iNPI before the show Yeah, because we were like racing to get the uh the shed. This is really neat. This is like one of the best So I think I've had so many Crappy label printers. This is really cool. No, I'm keeping it. I was like, I'll give it to Garrett and I'm like, you know what it is I'll tell you, you know, we make no money on if you buy this or not. There's no commission Um, so the thing I like about this is like clearly Someone had a terrible life and they were surrounded by by label printers And they're like I am going to fix this one problem because there's like I've had label printers I'm like, man, I wish I didn't in criminal things. I wish it is. I wish I could store these things I wish I could do this and now I'm like there's QR codes that I want to do like this is really this is really good Yeah, I will say that anyways Yeah, this is what the one thing is is that you know, you do have to buy the consumables You have to you know buy the I assume so yeah the the cartridges Yeah, so you work that into your cost. I think for the labor it saves you It's well worth it. Um, and again, it comes in every do your math and everything but like yeah So just from my point of view, especially because this has a full keyboard The next time instead of like reaching for I have like, you know, the product beat touch or whatever That breaks and just get another one. Yeah, I think I've even did a video about how broken I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna switch to this. Yeah, and then we'll report back later, but this looks good Okay. Yeah, anyways, that's the napi. So that's pretty pretty Okay, don't forget to code is vcnl. We're gonna go right into rocks Nudu, nudu. Nudu, nudu, nudu. Okay coming sins. Pie stuff Yes, the raspberry pi five Was announced it is not shipping yet some people have them because they are beta testers. However, uh, you know, we do Not have any of these and stuff, but we did want to put stuff in the shop You could sign up and when we get some promise we will have you know one personal limit and we will Notify people as soon as we can so we're asking five five computer available on a gig and four gig memory There's a case that goes with it, that has a small fan. There's a more intense heating unit, sorry, cooling unit if you're using high computation, a real-time clock battery that you can use if you wanna use the built-in RTC capability. A five amp, five volt power supply. You don't need five volt, five amp. You can get away with three amp to start. But if you're gonna add like screens and cameras and hard drives and cellular modules, you'll get up to five amps. And so, especially if you wanna use a USB ports for a bunch of stuff. So these are all coming soon, and we're gonna stick to, if you order it from Adafruit, that means we have it and we ship it. We're not doing back orders. They've been rebranded as pre-orders. That's a back order. My suggestion, read the Raspberry Pi blog post carefully. They say the best way to get it is to be a subscriber to Hack Space and MagPi. That's who will get them first. Let's get an email first and then you buy them from Pi Hut first. Everybody else, you gotta wait until Raspberry Pi ships to the resellers, including us. So we're gonna do first come, first serve once we have them in stock, of course, and you have to be two factor authenticated and we're not gonna let people buy them and put the money back. But if you don't care about that, subscribe to Hack Space, get in line that way. That is definitely the first and best way as per Raspberry Pi. That's right. Okay, next up. Okay, we also have some more screens. And these screens are actually starting to come into stock. So this may or may not be in stock by the time, because we just got them in today. We have, this is a 3.4 inch diagonal capacitive touch 40 by 40 display and a bar display. This one is a slim, I think, 240 by 960 bar display. Very cool shape. Squares. Squares and bars. So you're gonna see us kind of putting these in the shop just to get the photos taken and then we'll probably do one big show where we can have every display. Yeah, we have the cool sushi conveyor thing. We got videos, Star Trek videos that we're putting on these things. This is a whole new product line for us. It's under the Kuala umbrella. We do check it out. And to start this show, besides you, Alidiot, our community, our customers, our entire team, everything that makes Adafruit Go is... The VCNL 4020. This is a next generation VCNL sensor. We've stocked the VCNL 4000 and the 4010. And I think the 4040. Well, the 4020 has a really wide lux range. I think it goes up to like 16,000 lux. It also does proximity up to 200 millimeters. So it's a very inexpensive proximity and lux sensor. Easy use. It's I squared C. We have Arduino code. We'll have a circuit python library coming soon, but we want to get this into the shop. I just thought I'd show you a quick demo. I'm going to reset from my previous demo. Okay, so you've got... This is just it over I squared C. And this, it can go much, much faster. It can go 250 frames. So 250 samples per second, but I sold it down so that the display wasn't too nutty. And as it's measuring IR bounce, so as my finger gets closer, the number goes up. So it's good for like close measurements. It's not like the time of flight sensors that are designed for one to two or four meter distances. This is for close distances. You can see the IR LED bounce there. And for lux, it's good for like I said, up to 16,000 lux. But yeah, this is just a prototype. It's not gonna be green. I just happened to have a green one, but the black one is in stock right now. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a nice little low-level proximity and lux sensor, and it's a lot less expensive than time of flight for sure. And that's our new products. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, and don't forget the code is VCNL. We're gonna answer some questions. Yes. Discord, we're gonna get there in just a minute. We have a top secret we're gonna do. Live in the vault. Ready? Yep. Okay, what's the top secret? Okay, it's super top secret. You don't even know what this is. This is actually an old design that I again, during the chip shortage, I had to put away. This is a USB host shield. We have, you know, for the RP2040, a USB host feather that uses all the PIO to make USB host work. And it like kind of basically sort of works, but you have to use a lot of capabilities in the RP2040 and also maybe you don't want, you maybe want ESP32 instead. So this is a Max, oh my goodness, what's the number again? It's at the Max 3421E, which has been used a lot of like USB host shield type things. We want to make a feather for it. That's a good nice USB host socket and a five volt boost converter. And it works great in Arduino. We're gonna try to add support as well for CircuitPython so that pretty much any board can connect to keyboards and mice, disc drives, you know, so your USB key you can plug it in. And other accessories that come with USB without having to use an RP2040 or having to upgrade to like, you know, a really beefy Cortex M7 processor with dual USB support. So this will be really neat, I think, especially in featherwing format. Just a secret. Okay, let's get some questions out and then we will see. Yep. Next week, but we got time for questions. Okay, first one is the iPhone 15 introduced USB-C. Any plans to make a microcontroller with USB mail plug for easy connecting to smartphone? Maybe for accessibility project. So I've looked at it and I'll say there's, the one thing is that when you have something that has a plug, like a USB-C particular plug, there's a lot of like, if you bump it, that's a huge lever that you need a massive amount of strain relief to do. And a lot of maker projects don't have a ton of strain relief. And so even though it would be super cool to do that, instead, if you look in the shop, I have this little like USB, like it's the shortest cable in the world. It's like little like, it just has two ports back to back. And I think people could use that instead if they really, really wanted to not use a cable, but honestly for like your devices, life, safety, I would just use a cable. Yeah. Deweyster got the Magpie code last week and won on order. So by the way, that's, so ding, ding, ding, ding, you won. So again, if you look on the Raspberry Pi, so, you know, they're very smart about the way they're doing stuff. They've said, hey, you could pre-order from our resellers because before, you know, it turned into back order. So saying pre-order is a, it's true. It's a pre-order, but there's some back orders for a while. So it's unknown how many are going to go out. So they do have a media property or properties, which is Magpie and Hackspace. And those are from Raspberry Pi. So they want to have people subscribe to the magazine. So that makes a lot of sense. And then they have a partnership with Pi Hut. So if you're a subscriber of the magazine, even if you were to start right now, you'll get an email that gives you a code to place a pre-order. And those get allocated, those are where the pies are gonna go first, the Pi Fives. So if you really need one, that's the way I would do it. And you're, you know, you're supporting a magazine for people like you who want to see magazines like that. I think it's hard to find magazines for makers. There's not, you know, tons out there and that's one of them. So that is the way to do it. Smart, good job. We're, you know, we're just like, hey, we want to make sure that if you place an order on Adafruit, you're not waiting forever because we don't know how many Raspberry Pies we'll ultimately get. There's lots of different distributors. If you place an order on our site for Raspberry Pi when we have them and stuff. It's because we have them. It's because we physically have it. I have it. You, I, we can lick it. Yeah. Then we don't, but we could. And I guess, you know, there is, there is the thing like, well, or you know, you're leaving money on the table because you could take pre-orders. You could, but if there's something that we learned over the last few years is if once you take the money and charge someone's card, you should ship. And it should ship, you know, not months or longer. It should ship within hours. So that's what we're doing. Any update on Native Factory moving? Yeah. The update is it's a very compelling time to find factory space in New York City. The retail real estate apocalypse happened. No one is taking on large amounts of space. So we're able to save what we want and we're starting to talk different places. And they're coming back with fantastic offerings for us, which just means we might have bigger spaces, more overhead, we could pay our team more, we can add more benefits, all that good stuff. So yeah. But we haven't signed anything and we're still playing some parties against each other. So we don't want to, we don't want to show our cards because you know, they all watch this show. Well, yeah. I would. Yeah, and you know, well, here's the other thing. And we've said this before. So when we have a different style negotiation, I guess, if we're negotiating with a party, we're honest and we'll say, here's what the other party has offered us. If you can match this or beat it, we'll go with you if the offers are the same. We don't just lie and say, well, you know, low ball you and like do stuff because I feel like unless you're willing to walk away from a position or a deal, you're not really negotiating. You're just lying and trying to bluff. So, you know, a good example is when we had FedEx and UPS at the same time during the potential strike, we told UPS like we're going to stick with FedEx unless you can match or beat it. And they're like, no problem. But before that they couldn't and they wouldn't. So, you know, they knew that just like we, that's a customer that is perfectly fine and FedEx right now. And when we negotiate, if we say we're willing to walk, we really are, we don't bluff on it. Yeah, we just won't. Yeah, there's no, because I feel like that's like, that's so silly. It's like, okay, you know, here's our, you get at your best offer, well, and then you're, and they're like, no. And you're like, okay, fine. It's not really a negotiation. You just kind of get caught in the line. So anyways, that's kind of like- Actually, it's a win-win. I think it's like when we negotiate, we're not trying to like screw over the party. We're like, hey, here's what we think is fair. Here's what the, what the market is. Yeah, we're always- What can you do to make it work out? We're not, we don't go to the lowest cost things often. We want to go for the best value because you do get what you pay for with this stuff. So anyways, that's the update and we'll have more as soon as we can share more. We just have to make sure that it's okay for us to start talking about it more. But yeah, absolutely. This is a really good time to find large amounts of space if you're a manufacturing company in New York because those spaces are empty and they need to fill them and we want to. So, okay. Good questions tonight. That's our show, everybody. Hi, everybody. This has been Adafruit Production. Thank you so much, everybody. We'll see everybody next week. Here is your moment of zener.