 alright first up okay first up we've got the game do we know dazzler and this is pretty nifty so this is a two-parter basically on the right is a feather wing breakout and on the middle is this gd3x dazzler which has an only get this part number correct this is a Spartan six XC six SLX nine Xilinx FPGA and it's also got the this FTDI you know HDMI driver chip it's got a bunch of RAM and HDMI output basically it says a scripting system that lets lets you very quickly make stuff that connects to HDMI and you can play videos and animations and it's like pretty nifty if you want to have HDMI coming out of your feather and for this is designed specifically for the feather and for it's kind of an all-in-one like video system so I haven't checked this out this is hooked up to an HDMI monitor and this is like the first demo you run so it's got you can load in this bitmap and then you tell it you want it to rotate it so this isn't a gift this is a composite image where it's like it tells it to draw the background and then it tells it to draw all these blinkers and have them animate so it's like you can do quite advanced motion graphics and animations even though the feather and fork can't do it you you have basically this graphics co-processor it's quite powerful there's also an Arduino shield version and I think there's a Pico version of course you can wire it up to a Pico you have to do wiring and stuff but I thought this was so cool there's like video game demos and like animation demos and like I think it can play MP4s or movies just a glimpse of where we're going with like circuit Python like there'll be HDMI output yeah and stuff is what's you know the the the person who James Bowman who did this and what the code he realized if you have a co-processor that's doing all the hard stuff right all the graphic stuff it doesn't matter if the programming language that you're programming that co-processor with is slow because all the high-speed stuff is handled on the FPGA anyways like you don't need to control an FPGA with C control the FPGA with circuit Python it's easier and faster you've got a file system to look you know this is this bitmap is it on the file system of the circuit Python device that parts really easy and then you offload all the graphic stuff to the co-processor very cool so you want to do games on to HDMI output game doing a dazzler next up from M5 stack this is kind of neat somebody requested we got this and we know we'll always carry stuff on request we think it's cool this is an M5 timer camera it's an ESP32 with eight megabytes of PS RAM a camera module and it's nice little clip and what's neat about it is an ultra low-power RTC with a timer so it's really designed to do like ultra low power go to sleep and then wake up take a photo and then send it over Wi-Fi so if you want to make like an outdoor you know or powered you know low power Wi-Fi wake up take a photo send it project this is kind of all-in-one it even has a mounting bracket kind of handy except next up and neopixels our favorite neopixels either 3.5 millimeter or 3.5 millimeter we love these we use them on all sorts of our products such as the neotrinky you see four of them here you see them on many feathers and you're probably like man I wish I had a hundred of them and I wish I had a hundred of them on like a piece of cut tape way we gotcha this is we've stopped these impacts of 10 but if case you ever want to like use these in a small pick-and-place it's less expensive we'll just send you a reel of 100 LEDs you can use them you can kind of hand solder them if you're careful you can use them in reflow just be careful about moisture they're very moisture sensitive okay next up next up we've got usb-c we've been carrying a bunch of connectors these are very low-cost usb-c connectors why are they so low-cost as you look on the bottom you can see they are have fewer pins than normal they only have six pins why because they're power only these do not have data lines we repeat that again they do not have the data lines we have all over the product page a million places these are specifically for power only projects where you want to power something over usb-c and again only over usb-c I think five volts put a five kilo ohm resistor from cc one that's one of the pins to ground another 5k from the other cc two pin to ground and then there's two bus pins two ground pins you got five volts out no data lines but they're really cheap and they're pretty easy to solder because the pads are really big so there are projects that I think could use this other than that they're great connectors just you know I don't know if I mentioned it already but no data lines just power all right next up next up this is a cool long piezo sensor this is kind of interesting so usually piezo sensors come in a square or round you know vibration sensor shape this is these are originally designed to be sleep sensors like they go in a pillow or underneath the mattress and when people move it can detect it so piezo sensors when they're moved they see this fine hand model as this fine model you know gently tweaks or pushes or twists the piezo it generates a very small current between the two metal pins you put a one mega omer system between the pins tie one to ground tie the other to an analog input you can read the analog input and detect touches twists etc and then you can act on it you know in this case it was designed for a sleep sensor data logger that said it's so unusual to find a piezo that comes in this shape it's very long thin flexible shape this can be used for all sorts of sensor applications like wearables I thought or like sports or you know anytime you have a touch sensor it has to go around something or through a thin slot it's just a very unusual shape it makes a little bit more expensive but you know I've never seen anything like before so I think these are quite cool you can cut it down of course but once you've cut it you cannot reattach it because the film is this you can't solder to the film so you've got like the one end and then it kind of goes on for you know 600 millimeters cut it just be where once you cut it you can't uncut it all right next up okay next up we've got a the neopixel with this is a one meter long 60 led neopixel strip and it's got this very beautiful diffused silicone covering which will also show on the overhead in a moment as I get my my demo going these are basically like your everyday normal neopixels power them with five volts give them data on you know one of the pins using any new pixel library but what's cool about them is they've got this very durable and weatherproof soft silicone covering so let me turn it off so I can show you so it looks you can barely see the LED strip through it I mean it's almost more visible on the camera and on the back it's got a nice it's a firm stiff like you can't really bend it this way but it you know it does bend back and forth this way and what's nice about it is a as I mentioned it's it's it's a very nice diffuse effect more so than it's not as much as our neon which is you know really a thick plastic and very hard to bend and it's definitely not as clear as the clear translucent normal neopixel it's diffused and it makes it look kind of pastelly it kind of is a beautiful look so we have really good photos check out the animations because they're they're shot quite nicely but I think if you want something that's durable and weatherproof and and has a little bit of diffusion but still is flexible this is a nice intermediary between the totally clear and of course this the totally diffused neon yeah it's hard to explain but it's like I like the look of it yeah it's really nice it's a very elegant look yeah I mean it's I've known and seen projects that like this is this is the main thing they just wanted to be diffused but they're using yeah it just has a nice clean look to it so I think you know for wearable projects or architectural projects where you you want to be thinner than the neon but it's cool not as not as harsh as the clear neopixels so I like it next up the star of the show tonight besides you lady at our team our community all the customers the books and chat is it's a bit RP 2040 that's right we're gonna put some into the shop a little bit later night after the show because we ran out but I stashed them so put some more in this is the RP 2040 based itzy bitzy so people like the itzy bitzy inspired by teensy boards but I wanted to have them with different chips so it's kind of the same sort of size it's I think 0.7 inch by 1.2 inches bite size but has a lot of GPIO pins the GPIO pins go all the way around I want to show and compare so this is the M0 yeah we're getting there okay so you got the M0 express the M4 the blue fruit and now new friend is made RP 2040 so it's for it's worth it's actually two more the 32 you four ones which I didn't even bring down because these are nice and popular but what I tried to do is I try to make them sort of similar I try to have like the neopixels over here and you know these have the buttons on the end this of course has the antenna here so the buttons have to move up to the itzy bitzy if you want to have a lipo battery of a lipo backpack that you can use with it there's a single-sided board it has an 8 megabyte q-spy flash it has the reset button it has the boot button I did the cute primary hack where the boot button is also a user button after booting so when you're running code you can use this as a single button input it's got a neopixel here I wonder if I still have the neopixel program yeah I do it's got a one red LED for blinking it's got the crystal power supply lots of little capacitors I had to use a 402 components to make everything fit but it did all fit in the end and then on the bottom we have the GPIO pinout so this is if you're using it with pico SDK with your micro python or something where you need to do the raw pin numbers these are labeled on the bottom and then there's one pin d5 that's special purpose and that pin is level shifted up to about five volts so if you want to drive neopixels if you want to five old up but there's some there's some times where people are like I need to to control something that's a five volt input it really wants five volts particularly neopixels that pin is level shifted out to zero to five volts you've got one pin over here it's five it's got the exclamation point to remind you that it's the output pin but otherwise it's what it's nice about the RP2040 is you know it's it's the dual core Cortex M0 it's running at 130 megahertz it's got circuit Python and now Arduino supports coming out micro python support you can do pico SDK and you've got a lot of pins and I made sure that you know you've got not only a lot of pins but get all the analog pins there are eight pins in a row if you want to do like camera projects where you use the PIO to drive eight GPIO at once they're not all in a row because I wanted to match like the SDA and SPI pen and UR and analog pins match the other itsy-bitsies but they are available you can get to all those pins if you want they're just if you look on the bottom I think it's 26 27 28 29 and then 24 25 18 19 20 you know whatever basically you got lots of pins are in a row so if you want to use PIOs to drive many pins in parallel you got it and you know it's nice is that you can swap these between the two you got a project with an M0 and M4 you want Bluetooth swap between it you want RP2040 swap between that as well so you know one of the original RP2040 boards that we said we would design and so we we fulfilled it we got the cutie pie itsy-bitsy and the feather so this is a great tiny board with lots of GPIO pins and if you want you can add a lipo charger onto it by soldering on one of our lipo backpacks and that's your products