 Welcome to the show it's me John Park and we are here for another episode of JP's product pick of the week. Thank you everyone for stopping by. If you're in one of our streaming platforms and wondering where's all the chat going on you might want to check out right over here on Discord. If you go to adafru.it slash discord and then hop on over into the live broadcast chat channel that's where everyone is. Also some people over on the YouTube chat I don't want to forget them. Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. So let's see before I go any further I want to let you know where to go to find this week's product pick. If you head to that QR code or this URL right down here it's product ID 3417 head on over there and you will find our product pick. Now not only do you see it there you can throw it in your cart at a huge discount and there's no need for a coupon code just put it in the cart and buy it during the show. You'll get it for half price after the show goes back to regular price so don't dally don't daily dally if you are thinking of getting it and like I said there's no coupon code it's just priced to sell. So let's see before I tell you about this week's product pick I'm going to jump back in time a little bit and have Lady Aida tell us all about it so please take it away Lady Aida. This feather wing tripler. It's a tripler. Wow. Okay it's not the most exciting thing but it's pretty handy. Are we going to have a quadrupler? We probably will when I get off my butt and just go on. Yeah you've been really slacking off. I know. Well you know complacency. So this is a tripler so you've already had a doubler and a proto wing so this is you know you have we have enough feathers and feather wings now it makes sense to have a tripler. You can now connect a feather and two feather wings and what's nice is you know maybe they both have displays on them or you know you want to have both of them available. You don't need stacking for some reason this is just a very easy way to plug in all your feathers. Again you can always stack them but maybe you already soldered headers on this tripler will make it so you don't need to. So you plug it into this breakout board and you're good to go. So I have like a little mini sort of example over here. Give me a phone. Yeah so you could you know use the phone and the phone of feather and you know feather calling OLED for display and then maybe make a little button grid. So this has a haza and I haven't but powered off of the lipo battery I have an OLED and I have you know a Laura feather wing now this is a fake demo I'll admit like it wouldn't work if I sat down and wrote code for it but just a demonstration of like okay maybe you'd want to have you know packet data going from the radio here and then you know to Wi-Fi and then you would have information on the OLED telling you you know what the latest packet you've received is and the signal strength maybe the battery level. So I think like definitely having you know your feather and then maybe the OLED for information like debug display and then sensing or radio or as someone said in the chat this is a breakout bird oh and that fan was a breeze. Chats on fire tonight. Okay. Boards of a feather flock together. Yeah. So it's a tripler it's simple it comes a little mini kit you get a big prototyping area as well if you want to stick some other stuff in there but all the pins are connected through so you know whatever this pin up here is connected through to these two so just plug and play. That's right it is just plug and play. Also my broadcast software disappeared as I was trying to switch over there. So thanks lady Aida for telling us about this. I am really excited about this one. So let me jump down here to my down shooter. You can see it right there in all of its shiny glory as well as all of the accessory headers you get with it. So this is my product pick of the week this week it is the feather wing tripler. Now this is great for tacking together a few different feathers and feather or rather a feather and a few different feather wings. It's also great for adding a little bit of an extra circuit some input and things like that and having a really convenient place to solder it because one of the things you'll find as you're putting together displays with inputs with your microcontroller is that that's a lot of wiring to contend with or a lot of interconnects. So as you can see actually let me let me jump over to this learn guide here. So this is actually a learn guide that we have for the proto feather wing as well as the doubler and the tripler and actually the diagram for the doubler is really nice here. If we jump over to the doubler pin out you'll see this is a nice clear indication of how things are wired. So all of the feather pins are not only doubled so you can put a header and stick your feather your feather wing into one side but you also get an inner row that you can solder to so that means that if you have a little circuit in the center in the proto area just reach out to any of the pins that are available there as well as all of these power rails. So there's a three volt line that runs all the way through and there's a ground line that runs all the way through and this is true of the tripler as well it's just well one more bigger. So if you take a look here in my down shooter view let me clear that stuff out of the way and I'll show you how we can put one together so here I've got feather tripler I've soldered in all of these socket headers and then what I'll do is I'm going to take a feather and place that right in the middle there and then I'm going to put a display on the top here and then finally I'm going to use this joy feather wing on the bottom so I've got these two feather wings OLED feather wing joy feather wing get a bunch of extra buttons here and the joystick and I have the feather in the middle so if I go ahead and power this up you can see it's as if we stacked those things except you wouldn't really want to stack the joystick on top of the display or the display on top of the joystick you can see here no fake demo actual demo I'm just printing out some of my info from the feather wing so I've got the joystick coordinates there or if I'm pressing buttons I can see those light up there so you also could add some prototype circuits in here maybe add a little I squared C header for some Stem aqt stuff and and other sensors so it's a really great way to go and add things to your project without needing much extra wiring one thing this also does is it means that you can pretty much keep all of your header pins consistent so most of the time when I get a new feather I solder on feather header pins pointing down that means even if I want to add something like let's say this joy feather wing to it I don't have to worry about oh no I wish I had soldered sockets on the top instead I can just head on over to a feather wing and put those together the tripler in this case let's see if you jump back over to product page there and I'm gonna go ahead and refresh that you should see we're getting this now for half price four dollars twenty five cents will buy one for you it comes with the PCB as well as all six of those individual socket headers that you need right there what else the other demo that I wanted to show you so this is I think that that demo shows you kind of a nice simple prototyping sort of setup but you can actually use this in your finished projects as well if you'll remember this guy this is my pip boy 2040 so that's a feather and I'm actually putting a feather m4 a joy feather wing and then I have a large display which is kind of offset but again I'm using the capabilities of the prototyping area to connect things up and so you can see there this will strap nicely to your wrist if I put this into our down shooter here and take a look see it's booting up there if I go ahead and let's pull this apart a bit might take me a second because I've got threaded inserts there so I'll need to oh you know what actually I've got this all yeah you know what forget me taking that all apart there but I think you can see it in there left a little space for you to see there you can see there there's the tripler and I'm using some of that little proto area at the bottom there to add this little on off switch that I have there's some space in this case for a battery to set there the feather is under there so here's a case where I'm actually stacking a feather wing on top of Heather and using the tripler so I get a lot of really nice neat prototyping area to put together a more finished project so let's see let me see if there's any questions over in the chats jump over to our discord where'd you go discord let's see it is like a flock of feathers you're right Scottie beam me up says rich sad says they've got roughly 32 feathers and wings all right a lot of permutations possible there yeah the tfts fit really nicely on there as well the sky's the limit you know our feather ecosystem is huge there are just tons and tons of possible add-ons that you can put and after a while stacking them becomes a little bit unwieldy so I actually really like this form factor in fact if you take a look at it it gives you a footprint that is still smaller than something like a raspberry pie it's probably roughly Arduino sized in fact grab a metro here so this is your typical Arduino Uno sized board here's your feather wing tripler it's about the same size they're not compatible in any particular way but that gives you an idea of all the extra horsepower you can pack in using feathers and the tripler into pretty much the same form factor without getting any taller without growing the thing too big so let's see have I missed anything let me know if you've got any questions in the chat otherwise I'll remind you head on over to that URL right there that's PID 3417 you go to adafru.it slash 3417 that'll take you right there and you're going to get this for half off today I don't have any code examples or anything to show with this one because it's just really a physical pairing together of things but that is going to do it for today let me hook a little cable on to here for hanging and let's see Rich said so they have a RP2040 airlift feathering and one of the music makers on one of these that's kind of a cool cool one there here's also a nice let me show this from the discord here's a nice image from C Grover on doing a little tripler at the base of this project here yeah so so you guys get it you people get it I should say really helpful for putting together your projects and prototypes so that's going to do it for today that is my product pick of the week it is the featherwing tripler hang that over here on the board and I'll encourage you I know there's a bit of a short one so you'll want to hop on this quick because you've got to purchase this during the show otherwise the discount disappears head back on over to the site and pick one or up to 10 of them up no resellers please and get your feather wings going all right thanks everyone for stopping by for 80 fruit industries I'm john park and this has been JP's product pick of the week bye