 All right lady. What is this? Hey everybody? Welcome back. Well, we're back. We had a couple people running show and tell for a few weeks Thank you to Liz JP knowing Pedro who are amazing hosts. I'm sure I'm gonna shift over here a little bit It's me Lady Aida with me. Mr. Lady Aida were broadcasting live from the Eight of Foot headquarters in downtown Manhattan And for the next 25 minutes or so we're gonna check in with people from around the community Eight of Foot folks people building stuff 3d printing sewing crafting hacking. What have you it's too hot outdoors Just stay inside and maybe make something cool. Cool you off. We're gonna kick it off with Jeff from Jepler from Sorry, who's Jeff Jepler? Remember me I used to work with you guys like back in April. Yeah, I'm back now Yeah, so I've been playing with QMK Because recently they merged support for whoops for the RP2040 and they have a poor quest to add the macro pad So when you load this code on you get a LCD volume knob Like a 10 key keypad. So that's really cool. And we're keeping kind of an eye on that to See what else we can do with RP2040 and QMK. Thanks to the efforts of that cool community Yes, it's awesome QMK is like the premier way that people make keyboards It uses like I think embed or like free our toss or something. It's like a very powerful Yeah, and they've got a lot of great documentation But I think what we can do is stuff focused on the new RP2040 and KB2040 That's gonna really show how to use our stuff Okay, which is gonna be cool. Jeff, could you drop a link in the discord chat for folks to Find where that is if they want to try it out because a lot of the macro pads Yeah, I will drop a couple links in the discord and say a little bit more. Okay, cool Next up is gonna be JP because he has to bounce early not to be confused with Jay Epler. Hey, thank you for the quick I just ask that I could go soon appointment, all right, so What is this what's going on? So I've been doing a bunch of tape projects real tape projects previously now digital tape projects This one was inspired by a couple things one of them being my super awesome Sony field recorder this thing is a brick. This is what reporters and Documentarians and filmmakers used before digital a lot of the time. So this is non-working I have I have work to do ahead of me to get this thing working But it's a gorgeous piece of design and built like a tank So I wanted to sort of make a nod to that design and create this funky Virtual tape drone, so I'm gonna actually turn off my noise in the background here I want you to hear this well what I have right now are just two of these are working But these allow me to turn on a droning loop and then I can flip the other one on oh Yeah, since they're out of phase or out of tune slightly we get some really nice little beating Oscillations and things so right now these will just crash it if I try to try to use these other ones Loaded up for those You're so ready to apply to like a masters and fine arts program exactly. Yes Just wants to hear funky waves beating off each other, right? I'll get a whole park gallery for it So this will eventually have some visualizations with tape and other information about levels This right now sets the level of the first drone level rotary encoder here I can't open it up fully, but this is something I put together pretty quickly today the design And the thing I think I'm most excited about is I've been hanging on to this piece of mesh since I replaced the seat of an air-on chair a while ago And I finally found a good So I wanted to put a piece of fabric in front of the speaker and that was the perfect one I probably sit on that if I really see yeah, cool That's a good idea You know there's probably lots of little odds and ends of fabric or weird things That you can use and as long as it's mesh it can make a good speaker cover Right, just that's not just boring And it's why you should never clean your workshop and just always hoard stuff because I was they don't grab that I knew exactly where it was. I know I Agree, I don't I think never throw anything in the rest stuff because I needed that piece of needed it a fabric Yeah, so that's what I'm working on and then I've got a Slightly different project that's gonna be related coming up and this one's actually gonna get Reimagined for some other hardware. This is using some hardware. That's either unavailable anymore or we have some cooler stuff coming out So keep an eye on this one I might show it a little bit more tomorrow my show But this one will be coming back around in a few weeks when we get some exciting new hardware. Oh, there we go I made it reboot. Let's see cute little reboot and tomorrow is JP's workshop. So folks can tune in Come on by yeah four o'clock Eastern time one o'clock Pacific time Okay, all right. Thank you so much of you. Thanks everyone. All right next up is Scott Scott. What do you get going on? Hello So I've been working on the what I call the web workflow and the idea is that Circuit Python if it auto connects to Wi-Fi will also present a web server Which allows you to do file stuff, which I think I showed a couple weeks ago But the other main piece of a workflow for circuit Python is the serial side So being able to see like your debug output and interact with it. So what I've got here is a page that was a test page I have some refining to do but a test page for The serial connection that was served by the device that's here on my desk and I should be able to type hello in here and hit send and now I get the prompts back So I got the regular header So what it was waiting kind of like before the repel and so the H got Snagged to do to get into the repel so you can see here that the hope the LO is here And then this bit here is the status bar title stuff that we do So I'm gonna have to go into a bunch of clients of ours for the serial thing and make them ignore this but I Think for this client I may actually have it set the page title So you'll you'll be able to get the status In the in the tab bar Yeah, so this is serial over web sockets from Firefox Both directions Just got I I only got the sending the text working just now. So all right Where and when since this is circuit Python 8 alpha Where and when could folks maybe poke at this one day in the future so the file system stuff is already on The main branch so absolute newest builds will have it You have to set use the dot env file to auto connect your Wi-Fi and also set a password It's all password protected so that People who think it's fun to mess with other people will have a little bit of a hard time It's not like super secure or anything But it is just like you know security is all about like raising the bar high enough that the people that you're worried about Don't do it. Yeah, and so this is like raising the bar just one notch for for the The people that like the Greeks like a suitcase lock Not to poke a hole in your your firewall to expose us to the world a hundred percent Yeah, I mean this is like it's it's a Password they get sent over, you know and encrypted that sort of thing But yeah, so that's the file system stuff is an app in absolute newest And then this is coming the serial stuff will be coming once I get it kind of where I'm where I want it Which would hopefully be by the end of the week Maybe right on and folks have been testing it. There are bugs So after I get this out for pull requests, I'll be squashing some bugs Alright, thanks so much Scott. Thank you Scott Brent Brent what you get going on? Hi So this past week, this is not my work It's the work of Lauren who's on the whipper snapper and Adafruit IO team so Adafruit IO right is our service for making IOT really easy and Whipper snappers are service for making it so easy that you don't even know it's a program But people were having two issues one. They couldn't find the web page for whipper snapper Someone I was talking to today said that and then to it wasn't really obvious how to get your board loaded with the firmware so There's a blog post on Everything that we've done. There's a whole design refresh on Adafruit IO but specifically you've changed a header around and There's a new workflow so you can add a new device by clicking this button and then we list all of the boards And there's 18 different boards supported with whipper snapper Um, and you can other people add board support for their own boards or could you have to use Adafruit? You don't have to use Adafruit. Um, what what's that are not Adafruit? Not made by Adafruit are compatible just like circuit Python so But everything here right now is Adafruit because that's what I can work on for now but more than welcome we have a guide and everything and We have this new workflow and you can click your board and those show pictures of each step The download whipper snapper the gift to get into the bootloader Dragging and drop generating a secrets file Uploading into your board and connecting to our service So it's the easiest way to put your device on the internet and send data from your device I have one here. It's on my desk. It's been sending data to Adafruit IO And we even changed a lot of buttons around the LED button is totally changed It we made it easier to add components To your board and we also changed up a lot of other things available For better review in the blog post actions have been changed. You can start and stop them There's a new page. It makes it super easy and simple to create actions Flyouts have been removed the site feels much faster and it's good and we're just going to keep improving the surface Okay, looks awesome. I love a new treatment and it should be easier than ever We're still in beta, but we're getting these candidates getting there All right. Thanks so much Brent. Okay, Liz What you got going on this week? Hello, so I'm working on what's gonna be a food scale Eventually this container is gonna be on top. I'm gonna put cat food in it So the stand you can see I was like little spots for the little nubs around the bottom of it But it's using an NAU 72 98 I'm really bad remembering numbers But it's one of the stem of boredom shop and so on here. I've got some buttons They use the panel mount buttons so you can choose if you want to show ounces or in grams There's also gonna be you can zero it on the fly or do the full calibration because you want to use like a known weight On top so that you can get an offset value so that you're actually getting the ounces and grams when you're measuring with it and yeah, so this will be coming up and Then eventually it'll also be an IOT project. So folks can like log How fast your pet's food goes down over time? Okay, excellent. All right. Well, thank you so much Liz and Fun guides and more that you had this week will be shown some of them cool. Thanks. Yeah, okay. Okay next up knowing Pedro What you got going on? Hey, so we got this super cute companion robot that was shown in Obi-Wan Kenobi. So this is like a young princess Leia's little companion robot So we've got two little servos in here to get the wings going up and down. It's powered by the it's a bit Rp2040 and we got a two little LED's and then we have a jewel and a single pick single PCB a button Neopixels inside there and everything's contained inside the bottom body So there's three little mounts and then on the bottom because I don't know why they didn't has brought it and think of this having it Attached to your like your shoulder since like everybody at Disney has like these little shoulder mounts on there When I head and took this guy over there to get some hero shots and oh my god I didn't think people would recognize who it is the security guard all the cast members everybody was crying around. Oh my god So it was definitely cool and inspiring right to tell like the kids who are saying oh, where do you get that? It's like dude you have to print your own You got to build it exactly so I think the one that Disney's releasing comes out like in August so we definitely pick them to the punch for that and Have a build a droid thing instead of build a bear at this point, right? Do but you do yeah. Yeah, they have like a whole it's for the R2-D2 style. It's R2-D2 the BB And can you build a droid can you actually yeah, you can yeah, they have all these cool like screws Okay, never mind Yeah, I saw you on that but all right. Yeah, it was really cool Everybody who came up to me, you know asking was of course they were cosplayers or we're into this sort of scenes We're able to you know force hockey to fruit tell them where to go and get all the files along that But you don't have to use all of her parts It definitely helps because that's what it's all designed for but you can definitely update this have like a co2 sensor in there like log Like you know temperature data or something like that and like we were shown in the video because of the mounts You can just figure out what's magnetic and just let it chill there and act like a real life You know just recon and sensor robot. Yeah, so I have some like little play features like the The tail goes up and down you have it in stow mode so you can you know travel with it And one of the other things I had trouble doing was like figuring out how to get the wings to go And I was gonna like attach it to these little Little tabs on there, but it works better just having gravity take care of it And it's easier when you have kids because you can go over there grabbing He's not gonna break it so lots of cool features like that and of course it's all snapped together So it's super easy to add whatever components you want in there So guides live now. I can get all the files. It's all step files You can edit it to your heart's content and scale it up Operated on whatever you want. All right. Good work, and we'll be playing this video and the one from last week too So people have a two for two speed-ups and two 3d printing videos this week All right next up we're gonna go to John and then Mark and then Nair doc. Hey John. How's it going? Hey, what'd you get going on? so a while back I was showing off my Keychain holder backup idea that I had Passing yeah, it's just had a little Wi-Fi chip back here And you when you hang up the keys you can hang them up and plug in your USB driving backup of Wi-Fi So I talked about that a while ago And I was showing it off on Twitter and somebody's like well, how do you you know safely remove it? Because there's no safety US move USB button or anything on it. Yeah So I'm like that's a great question. I mean it uses extended for file system on there So there's some protection, but I should really make sure that you know when you're pulling your USB drive out It's not corrupting your file system and entering your backups because that'd be a Really really horrible thing to do So because I didn't want to just sit and unplug and plug this in like 500 times to make sure that I never corrupt the file system Because that's not a really really exciting and boring I actually hacked apart a just a USB extension cable and Stick a relay on yeah on the power lines. That's a good idea on the voltage lines, right? So and then a little Wi-Fi chip on here and Wrote a script so I can power cycle this this this relay On and off interrupt my file transfer on the USB device and see what happens so so I ran that probably around 500 times and Every time it remounted that that that USB drive and No positive errors. So so that was a project right I didn't have to do that all manually That's a really good solution to a problem that you invented yourself A lot of fun. Yeah, that's good. Excellent. You made the cure and the disease and disease in the air. So good work on that Okay, thanks so much. All right, we're gonna go to mark and then we'll go to nerda. Okay mark. How's it going? Pretty good Really done much with electronics last week. Just got new glasses that I thought I'd show off. That's right Wait, but yeah These things have been a ton of fun to play with I just managed to modify the 3d printed glasses that you guys have To support this hardware as opposed to the LED matrix that I love so much and yeah There's a dozen blanks it just looks like you're really away There's a few different things that this looks like it could be a Simpsons character. It could be I think the Villain in who frame Roger Rabbit. There's a lot of things that this starts to look like Yeah, I had a lot of people say it looked like the minions Theaters I think this week yeah, yeah, maybe you're sponsored by them. If not, you should be yeah They think they're technically sponsoring everything right now. Um, well, this is fantastic and how could folks? remake this or build this if they wanted to so Right now on Twitter. There's a link To my github which has all the code that's used in this. I haven't uploaded the glasses I literally finished printing and soldering this 15 minutes before the show So I do plan to write up something and post it online and I'll Make sure that everyone if they want to copy it and do what they want Yeah, get it over to us. This is really cool Excellent work. This this will delight many zoom meetings for many people very soon. Yeah I realize that today that I need to wear this for work All right, okay, all right, thanks so much Mark. Thanks. All right There dog. How's it going? Hello, what you got me? Well, yes, we can hear you. Okay, so so I've been Doing some stuff related to installing libraries with the web workflow So this is This is my friend house. It's not very happy. There's a module missing So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna load this on here You're you're on the bleeding edges. They say you're gonna load the web workflow Yeah, and we're gonna click auto install and This don't know it's good that pie this finds all the modules all the dependencies You know, it lists them it gives you the versions that are on the board and you can install them So let's install bitmap font and so it uploads With Wi-Fi to the board and now the bootree starts and There's another error There's another what you're missing. So, you know what let's install them all. Yeah, yeah, just do it. This is like my iPhone It's like This is like my this is like my Chrome browser that's just like hit update now and while we're waiting for this I'm special. Thanks in your doc who is in the Adafruit forms helping out lots of folks So we do hug reports in our Adafruit notes, but I just want to say thank you for Helping so many people on the forums Okay, look at this. It's working and there you go. You have all the all the libraries have been installed You can also do like circuit update, you know, it will find the modules that are in your lib directory and Offer to update them If it's not oh, yeah when the code is running the web workflow doesn't work as well, yeah They've build and in addition to that, I think I'm gonna work also on Having an interface where you can select libraries directly and install them So you know, yeah, you want my tag This version currently downloads them as a zip So that's not what we want for the web workflow, but to start. Yeah That's was a version that I made before the web workflow So, yeah, let's all right That's circuit for the web workflow. This is really cool. And how amazing are microcontrollers now that you can do stuff like this? Very cool. All right, Naraduk. Well, thank you so much and thank you once again for all the help in the forums with The folks getting their projects going Okay, all right, thank you everybody we got to everybody that's our show until it's good to be back Thank you everyone special. Thanks to the team who was doing show-and-tell while we were doing other stuff Including getting ready for ask an engineer, but this week we did show until next week We'll be doing show-and-tell as well Thank you so much everybody for making this the best happen hour of our week every single week Whether we're watching it or chatting with you. We'll see everybody in just a few minutes Ask an engineer starts in about five minutes or so. Bye buddy. Bye