 Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome back to another 3d hangouts episode 400 400 we made it. It's been 400 episodes. Thank you everybody for tuning in live. We are hanging out in the discord chat room Yeah, thank you everybody for tuning in It is episode 400. Yeah Yeah, we started this show Few years ago Many years ago Yeah, so we have a fun show Scheduled for you folks. We have this very nice Light up neopixel project not much has changed 400 episodes. We're still doing 3d printed projects that combine DIY electronics and 3d printing I kind of skipped the show intro because 400 right so I'm no ever we's designer here at your food and join me every week is a brother Pedro Good morning everybody and Pedro has creative tech here at your fruit and every week for 400 episodes Here to share a project featuring electronics From hater fruit. That's right. 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If you get head on over to learn to 85.com We have released the spaceship Earth Epcot replica with W LED and Qt Pi ESP 32 Pico We've been working on this one for a little bit We took a break on it because we needed to catch up on some other projects, but this is very fun Neopixel project. This is my first project using the W LED firmware. That is Some software that allows you to trigger different LED animations and effects Using an ESP 32 based web server you get all sorts of fun animations and a user interface that's really easy to use So, let me see if I can Pull it up here So this is the ball. It's 3d printed. It has a total of 156 Neopixel LEDs. They're all hot glued in place. It's all powered by a USB C cable And a USB power supply that I have down here Again the Qt Pi ESP 32 Pico makes it Wi-Fi so I can control this With mobile device. Let me see if I can pull up the This guy over here Maybe do this one. Yeah, that looks pretty good So you get this really nice interface you can quickly change colors using the color picker and then you have a fax mode which has dozens and dozens of preset animations That have individual parameters down here that you can like change and then you can save these as Presets over here on the sidebar. You can see I have a playlist and Your playlist is an assortment of those presets and then each one can have its own settings and Then you can apply a duration to each preset and a transition So each animation will blend into the next one And you just have this really nice mobile friendly interface right now I'm on the desktop, but it transfers over onto a mobile device very well This project is open source. It is on get hub The creator is named air cookie. So shout out to air cookie for creating the software We've been seeing a lot of folks use the W led firmware in their Neopixel projects and We wanted to get a something that would that would translate really well on this geodesic sphere on this Epcot spaceship Earth replica So it's been a lot of fun Using it. It's super easy to install It's all done through the web interface using a web serial protocol and it supports a couple different ESP 32 base dev boards Yeah, so that's the gist of it. So we have a learn guide that walks you through The the builds assembly installing W led onto your Pico ESP 32 and various things like that, but Yeah, this is a lot of fun to put together Just some context to What is the Epcot spaceship Earth? It is an attraction at the Epcot park in Walt Disney world In 2021 it got a big update where they added over I think 11,000 or something a couple thousand LEDs That that go in between these isosceles triangles in the real build I got the opportunity to see the Epcot upgrade In 2022 or 2021 I can remember but it was amazing to see it in person It is this massive Structure the geodesic dome. I think it's a v8 style each geodesic dome has the different frequencies This one is a 4v frequency Which has not as many LEDs, but we wanted to make this so that folks Can build it so hot gluing and you know Over a hundred of anything can be challenging, but we wanted this to still look like the Epcot spaceship Earth attraction And it features all of the things that the real physical architecture has like these three legs and the center pillar And amazingly this all is 3d printed with no support material It's got a snap fit cover that makes it modular and let me see if I can open this up Yes, I can open it up This is put together with neodymium magnets, so that's what the inside looks like The Neopixel LED strips feature these flexible wires that are coated with enamel Coating so that they are they won't short out. They they're Insulated which is nice and the bear LED is already diffused and the hot glue creates this nice diffuser and Just with like kind of gravity. They kind of create these little these little bubbles that look really nice and then On the bottom here, you can see the structure for the center Allows the cable and the new pixel I mean the cutie pie board to just kind of hang off of this usb-c extension cable and then with the Adafruit Neopixel driver BFF board it has an onboard connector So you can just plug and play everything's detachable everything's modular So if you have a different dev board, maybe you have a Pico Raspberry Pi Pico or Like one of the other variants you can you know that you can kind of just have it fit in the center there There's little slots in there And there's mounting tabs if you want to add extra sensors a microphone would be a cool upgrade to and then these Neopixel strips come with these these three-pin JST connectors that you can use and Yeah, a lot of hot glue, but it's really cool to To have it be able to be this project that is modular It's got the magnets and then you can kind of DIY your own thing if you want so There you go I think one of my wires is pinching but That's fine. I'll fix it later. So that's kind of the gist of the project It will fit on a bed size. That's around 200 millimeters by 200 millimeters I myself 3d printed it on in Ender Crealti v2 Maybe it's a v3 But yeah I'm trying to pull you in here Peter. There you are Yeah, that was that the good breakdown of the project explainer Cool, let's take a look at the learn guide. I still have it in the background. It's still running So what the parts you need you can kind of fashion your own Neopixels, but I really recommend using these These flexible they're called soft flexible wire LED Neopixels You'll have to get at least four of them. There are in stock right now, which is great. Nice This is what they look like you can daisy chain them you can cut them And then you can like scrape off the insulation the enamel coating so that you can So you can solder You know multiple strips together because they only come with 50 LEDs per strand and then we have a wiring diagram That shows you how many How many individual Neopixels you need per dome because there's two halves of the dome, of course So we ended up with four of them. You'll you'll have some excess because it's a hundred and fifty six total But with four of them you'll have two hundred Neopixels So, you know, you can you can reuse those for you know future projects for the dev boards We're using the Pico ESP 32 It is at a stock, but you could always substitute it for maybe a feather ESP 32 But for right now the W leds firmware only runs on certain ESP 32 chips So the ESP 32 s 2 s 3 c 3 those currently aren't supported But maybe in the future they will be and then this of course the Neopixel driver BFF add-on Just gives you that five-volt level shifter so you can properly power all of those Neopixels And then you have the benefit of being able to disconnect your strip with that JST connector Just to kind of make it easier. I use this USB-C breakout board that allows you to kind of reposition the USB port for programming and power So that's really cool. And then you kind of fashion your own USB-C cable, so you kind of cut this cable and then just solder up the wires to those various pins on the USB-C breakout We also have things like the USB-C cable that's two meters long It's a nice pink woven high quality USB-C cable that provide you with all the amperage Some header pins JST cable and then the neodymium magnets The CAD file is open source and available in step format fusion 360 format STL So if you want to use different magnets or something you can totally redesign it and Then you're gonna need some hot glue for attaching the Neopixels. They're fortunately they don't snap fit. You do need hot glue but that makes them more diffused anyway and I've had to take out the Neopixels like pop them off and it's easy to do that because of the Just the coating that these things have don't actually ruin They don't get ruined because they're like epoxy and they they break off of the hot glue Nicely just a little bit of force I thought they were hot glued themselves so that we would like permanently fuse But it doesn't which is really nice because I did have to redo One of the domes when I was first prototyping this project, but that's the overview page just going over all the parts The circuit diagram is fairly straightforward the BFF Neopixel driver makes it easy to connect, but you're still gonna want to solder together Your Neopixel strips They are labeled There's like a little triangle label on these things if we go back to the product page You can see this little green triangle and that just gives you an indicator of where the data is flowing data in data out So if you've done Neopixel products before you're very familiar with a daisy chaining these Neopixel strips And then when it comes to the actual topology of the Neopixels, I have these two Wiring diagrams that I came up with that show you how how I Saw attached the Neopixels to the dome so the bottom sphere starts with the first LED and then Consectionally goes in a spiral direction all the way up to the 80 the 85th Neopixel which gets hot glued on the side there, but That's kind of I think the best way that I could show a visual representation of my Neopixel kind of positioning and Then the top sphere starts off with the Neopixel number 86 and goes all the way up to 156 so these are just kind of visual representations of how I have it laid out But you could solder it in any way you want or attach them in any way you want but I found this spiral direction seems to translate well with these effects on using the WLED and Then the CAD file pages has those CAD files and the STL files You can use whatever filament you'd like I used PLA just a silver PLA for matter hackers But you could use a glittery style PLA if you'd like It's only three parts you got the top the bottom and the bottom cover that snap fits It has two mounting holes for the USB C breakout So there's only two screws in the whole builds everything else is magnets and hot glue, right? And then build volume The bottom part is probably the biggest part so I have it labeled here. It's 228 millimeters by 202 millimeters by 118 millimeters Again, the CAD files are available. So if you want to scale it down or make it bigger you can totally do that All the original sketches are included With the step and the fusion 360 file Installing the WLED software is pretty straightforward Just a big note if you have a Qt Pi ESP 32 s2 or s3 I have tried to run the WLED software. It unfortunately is not supported So that's not gonna work. So you do want to use the right Qt Pi ESP 32 board They also the website is is here. It's accessible. They have They have their own Website where you can see what firm what hardware is supported so you can look that up if you want to use a different board But this just walks you through installing the firmware. It's using web serial So you literally just plug it in you hit the install button and it just shows up and starts Installing the firmware through their website with web serial, which is amazing and easy Then you want to set up your Wi-Fi So you add your Wi-Fi credentials and then you can even add a local host name Which is super cool. So I have mine called fcop ball that local so you can access it on your web browser your mobile device For example, you just go to that host name and that's pretty easy Setting up your new pixel strips There's a led preferences section in the web interface You just want to give it the total length of your strip What GPIO it's connected to Since we're using the Neo pixel BFF driver board It's it's very particular to GPIO pin 15 So we have that set up, but you can change it if you're using a different dev board You'll want to update these values depending on your your dev board and your setup And then the rest of the pages walks you through wiring up all the pixels setting up your usb c breakout I'll kind of browse through these pretty quick, but you can reuse The strips connectors from so you can connect the top half to the bottom half easily You don't have to but I found it useful to do that so that I can have them separate And then the assembly walks you through hot glowing the magnets and then setting up the the the the the spiraled Neo pixels and Then just installing The the usbc break a barred with two m 2.5 screws and then snap fitting it And that's pretty much the gist of it I really really liked using W led in this project Erin st. Blaine has been a big proponent to it to using W led. She's used it in several of her products Yeah, she has quite a few so if you just search for W led you can see all the various projects That use that special firmware for the ESP 32 boards But that's pretty much that it's a pretty fun one. It was really fun to design again infusion Yeah, I think a lot of folks are digging it I already published the files on printables calm and folks want to already Start printing it and and making it their own Very cool. I have to glue mine together. I have all the pieces just need the Some time away to get it all done. Yeah, you definitely want to block out like a weekend What I was going to do this weekend Yeah, some tips I would have is just to You know hot glue the the the the from the inside you hot you apply a one dab of hot glue I was gonna give it a couple seconds to start solidifying and then you then you use your finger to kind of press the thing in Wait, maybe 10 seconds for the hot glue to dry and they just gotta be careful not to touch The the hot glue on the other end of the dome because if you do, you know, you'll deform the Little dad a little the little circles because with gravity, you know, it starts seeping through Let me see if I can get it on the overhead It's kind of hard to Think the glue it from the outside first and then glue it on. No, that'll probably leave a fingerprint Smashing. Yeah, I would look gross. Definitely. Don't do that. Let me change my lens here Let's do wide angle Ultra wide Here we go. So yeah, this is the cleanest way I was able to get these The the hot glue is to glue it from the inside allow The hot glue to just barely Seep out of the hole from the inside so it creates a nice diffused Round circle, but even when you do if you do manage to touch the hot glue It can you know, you can kind of cut it away I think this is one here that shows me I Accidentally touched it with my finger while I was gluing and holding it in place And then I just used some flush diagonal snips to clean it up a bit But when it's lit, you know, it looks great. It still looks very nice and diffused Some other tips is this the sides here are going to be a bit of a challenge. So what I ended up doing was Kind of applying hot glue to the edge and Then letting it kind of dry a little bit and then adding the the neopixel just barely above the half mark here And you'll see each one is kind of positioned different differently But I would say this is the most challenging part of the build is hot gluing each pixel At least you don't have to solder each pixel because these strands have a lot of Extra wire here and they're very flexible very bendable and they're already Coated with enamel so they're not going to short when you do this But if you do when you do combined strips, just make sure you apply some heat shrink tubing. Here's an example here of Soldering two strips together. So there's the heat shrink tubing try to find the the smallest version of the heat shrink tubing And you'll want to of course solder up and count each pixel before Hot gluing it in place here, but hot glue a dab of hot glue goes a long way. So try not to use too much And if you if you have one of those craft, you know Hot glue guns that are cheap. I would recommend investing in a nice battery-powered hot glue gun Whether it's from Ryobi or black and Decker all of those are fine Hot glue guns, but that's what I use. I use the Ryobi hot glue gun and that really made the The experience much easier. I actually have two batteries I recommend getting an extra battery as well because I was swapping batteries out because this takes the most amount of time I mean, of course the printing takes time but hot gluing surprisingly Takes a lot of time because you're kind of doing each one I'm glad I didn't do more than 156 pixels There's some extra slots. I think I said earlier for the first Neopixel Connector to pass through so that you can connect that to your Qt Pi BFF board or if you solder it directly to your Pico or whatever that's fine, too and then this right here is what the pixels come with The strands themselves come with these so you're going to end up cutting them off and resplicing them because they're very specific numbers here pixel count So but they're easy to work with These are whatever gauge wire I think like a 28 or 26 gauge wire and they're easy to solder to And just remember to use heat shrink tubing. Here's those heat shrink tubing on that end But of course you want to have the Neopixel. I mean the neodymium magnets You know a superglue it in place before Kind of putting the Neopixels in But that's a gist of it. Are there any questions? Let me see if there's any questions on On the discord about the hot glue or any tips like that How does that go? Sorry said again Automatically, how does the W LED is automatically just the current for the strip length versus forward of voltage of each LED? Yeah Excuse me. Yeah, so let's take a look here in the W LED firmware. You go to config Go to LED preferences by defaults that has this checkbox here. It says enable automatic brightness limiter maximum current 250 so you can change that and depending on your length. It'll adjust the maximum How cool? It's very cool And then here you have different LED voltages. So you have their 5 volt 5 volt efficient 12 volts So on and so forth. So it really handles all of the holy things for you It tries to keep it under an amp So here's is keeping it at less than one amp of powering LEDs directly from the 5 volt pin Luckily, we have the BFF driver board which has that 5 volt logic board or logic shifter So it'll make sure it doesn't go exceeds the the voltage So you have all those options there and then you have the ability to change the style of LED So you can use the WS 21 281 or the SK and then all of these other ones, right? It even supports dot stars, which is the APA 102s So much stuff in here in the W LED firmware. You can change the color order if you have RGB or GRB And there's just a lot of stuff memory usage here. There's all that may handled for you there's built-in buttons if you want to Use a PIR sensor or a touch sensor switches And I think in Aaron st. Blaine's project. She's using an IR remote. So she you can customize all that here Here's your IR remote GP GP I open So on and so forth you can have default settings if you want the LEDs to turn on at a certain brightness you can do that Brightness factors transitions white management, and then some more advanced stuff And then here's the config template if you want to apply this to a different build They've thought of everything like Offward so so robust Wow There's other things you can do like setting up segments. So if you wanted to map various layers To a segment then you could do different Sets of Animations for each segment So I think at that point you could start trying to come up with like a Way to map the pixels so that you can do images Maybe or text or something like that lots of different things you can do that I was really easy with it and just like kind of use the default effects So I didn't mess around with the segments, but it is a lot of a lot of depth to the W LED firmware and a managing voltage is just one of those things that you take for granted and say I just figures it out for you I don't know But yeah, hopefully that answers your question and definitely check out the W LED firmware It's free and they have a whole list of USB boards that work with it. So Check those out Very very awesome. Yeah, it's very cool I wasn't sure about this the stuff until I got it running and I was just like, oh my god This is a game changer LED projects like it's pretty cool. Of course, you could do all this and circuit Python I Think you're a little limited on some of the effects But LED W LED just has a plethora of different animations Like this one right here is a really cool one that kind of gives this illusion of like This wave that's going across the sphere and I think the sphere itself is a good Visual way to showcase these animations because they look amazing. This is the firework Which goes really well with the nighttime show Aesthetic of the attraction It really does look like a firework going up and then exploding and then dazzling Sparkles go across and I haven't even played with all of the LED Animations because there's just too many to play with and I had to focus on You know the next project and documenting it and I haven't had the the chance to play with all the effects yet There's one upgrade that I thought about doing and that is the the implementation of an analog microphone They do have support for audio reactive effects. Oh cool in the You'll notice each effect has a little music tone so for example this one has The ability and you can filter them. I guess these are all the audio reactive ones So these are all the audio reactive effects They still run But if you if you have your microphone, I guess you could clap and it'll go with music and all that sort of stuff So that's really cool. I haven't played with that yet, but there's plenty of room in the in the 3d print to add a microphone We stock that little mx Analog microphone that works with WLD firmware. That's what I was gonna ask is analog or I scored C Yeah, it's the analog mic not the PDM mic So if you just search for I think it's like Mike Mike let or something I grew a lot Let me just try max. I know which one is gonna pop up. Yeah, we've used it in the drum project. I think Sometimes it's hard to search Yeah, I think it's like max 44 There it is the Electra like like electric microphone. Yeah, so this one here is supported For the audio reactive effects and W LED So it's only seven bucks I think there's other Variants of this that use the same max 44 66 chipset But yeah, I have yet to play with that one with W LED But it is supported and there's some YouTube videos on how to set that up I think you literally just install the the audio reactive version of Of W LED and you just tell it what GPIO pin. So you just solder it to whatever pin Probably an analog pin and there you go Yeah, so lots of stuff here so much. Yeah, there's stuff with timers as well So you can you can do custom timers. I believe You can synchronize different things like people are using W LED for like their home lighting holiday decor Um, lots of different things It's got a pretty robust community um on get hub And uh Yeah, it's pretty cool stuff Check it out. So cool Comments questions, uh, it says frequencies as built-in fft Oh, maybe I guess so. Yeah Yeah, it's like arduino's fast led ported to a local g y. Yeah Demo uh fredi f he's asking are there any demos of the effects? What do you mean like, uh See, is there any demo of the of the effects that w led firmware provides? I'm guessing they probably have gifs of what all of the effects look like. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah Um I don't know. I guess there's like a maybe on youtube somebody's created a video that goes through all of the effects But man, there's too many for me to look through Yeah, I know that there's something kind of cool if you click on peak. There's this button here peak It gives you a little strip that gives you an idea of what the animation looks like So let's say your lighting is literally outside your house You can use that as a preview to see what the animation is so right here. You can see that this This is the firework that's playing right now and and if it was a regular Strip of leds you would you would see it just like that So I think it's a pretty cool way to demo What it looks like so it's called the peak Section icon here. It's like a preview. Yeah, it's like a preview. What what what the animation is doing Without it. So let's say you don't have your neopix was plugged in or like I said, they're outside your house This gives you an idea of what the thing looks like So that's pretty cool All right. Oh, yeah, you got your global brightness setting here. So you always change your brightness there Yeah, lots of stuff Yeah And again, all this runs on your mobile device Because it's just the what's the web browser Yeah Pretty cool, huh? Awesome That he says he will try it out. Everybody's getting in there and Checking all the effects better hop on and start gluing because I know the kids are going to start asking for it Right. Yeah, so their website here knowledge No dot W led dot g e this gives you all the breakdown of the features and the supported hardware Um, so this is a good documentation like they definitely document their stuff really good Um, here's all the different ways you can interact with it. You use mqtt json. There's an api using json I guess it supports the phillips hue Um, oh They have their own web socket things and Yeah, let me go back to, uh Where is like the supported hardware? That's somewhere around here home automation And there's again tons of tutorials on on the websites. Oh, there's a nice little breakdown of what the Oh, yeah, all the effects. Yeah Here's what they all look like bd1 Oh, yeah, this should be good for your uh, your bb1 builds Yeah, especially when you have a matrix. This is what it looks like. Oh, this is great. I didn't even know that they had it Oh, look at the fire ones Yeah, that's a dope one Slash it I didn't want to have a The epcot ball on fire that they might give us the wrong You know, oh look at this one Oh ripple effect. So you can't kind of do some sort of imagery Wow, that's super cool Wow, I wonder if it like remaps based on how you have it laid out. I think so Horizontal the vertical or if that yeah, there's a way to rotate Now that you've got the 3d prints y'all can figure out like how to map the pixels These amazing effects. That's great. That is crazy Oh, wow that one's everyone Oh, they do have scrolling text Oh, nice, you would have to Since my pixels aren't exactly mapped like a grid It's not gonna be the same. So just be aware of that like if you really want text or one of these effects You have to be very familiar Yeah, the way the The geometry the typology is laid out. It's not one to one grid. It really isn't you once you see it You'll you'll get oh, I see. Yeah, it's like every other it's like uh, right It's staggered So you're not going to get these exact Because these are exact grids So it'll be a little difficult. Wow, look at that one the the 16 by 16 graphic EQ But hey, maybe you have yourself, you know a 32 by 32 matrix Array, so you could do this. So, you know, WLED is not limited to the Epcot ball. I'm just saying Um, so, yeah, what what how does help for There's 186 leds and this is like an led Wearing headphones with like Looks like he's holding the It's their mascot. Yeah. Yeah, they're holding the waveforms in their in their palms. That's so cool So that's dope if you're doing oh my god, look at the dna. Yeah, that is I'm looking at that swirl. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's too many. I know there's too many I didn't want to exceed 30 minutes on this build, but it's fine, man. Check out their website If you haven't tried WLED It is a game changer for, um, neopixel projects Art installations like I think this is what the the community is like shifting towards is WLED for all the things I'm gonna be surprised if the actual Epcot ball uses WLED I've been seeing a bunch of those, uh Breakdown videos where it's like showing the windows this the Like error screen Right on the screen. It's like, holy crap. You guys are just running windows behind there. That's funny or like display management apps Let's run on all windows I think you could Take this project and make it like a disco ball like a really cool Just in time for the New Year's Eve, you know, you can make yourself a really cool disco ball Um, have it hanging from the ceiling somehow. Oh, there you go. You can scale this up make it more less pixels but yeah, I really like these strips especially since they're uh They're kind of low profile and easy to hot glue Um, but yeah, that is Yeah, Yanni's saying that uh, I should make a star destroyer with both globes Oh, yeah Yeah, definitely you can make some Star Wars props It's really cool. That is this week's project a plethora of animations Squid jpeg is saying that that's exactly what he used on your star fragment Oh, yeah, that's great. The star fragment is a great example of using, um the WLED disco infinity ball Oh, man, that'd be crazy. Yeah The um the infinity mirror effect. Yeah, it's a good way to use this All right, cool. I think we got some prototyping stuff or Yeah, it means yeah, let's see what I got here Let me see. Oh, so let me put the ball away. Let me uh Make sure I have it Nice and put away Here we go Putting the ball in the background Cool Uh, I have a wire that's hanging out here There we go That looks better. I had a wire hanging out and I just it was driving me nuts. So I wanted I wanted to fix that Thankfully it didn't break because those those are some pretty tough wires All right, so back over to my overhead here Um, so next week we have this uh collab project with catney rambore on the earfruit team She wanted to create an iot canary. So we modeled up a Canary bird For this new pixel project, uh, we have here the five by five new pixel bff And it's soldered to an esp 32 s3 And I just have this bottom here um I figured I'd print it out in this translucent material because catney had the uh The idea is like, oh, what what does it look? What are the differences between like an opaque white filament versus like a completely translucent filament? So I figured I I print this out and just let folks know what it looks like. Um, so this is running um Some some circuit python code It uses a to fright a to food i o to get the internet the current time and then depending on whether it's uh Nighttime or the morning it'll turn the new pixels on or off But here's what it looks like with that translucent Uh filament you see here. It's got a very different effect. It's got like these harsh hot spots and that's just kind of the That's just kind of the the properties of using transparent clear filament Like you just kind of get that effect. So if you like that, that's kind of neat, but if you're looking for something, that's more um Diffused I definitely recommend getting this white Uh opaque filament that tends to give a better softer diffusion So that's kind of all I wanted to share And make sure it's translucent not just white because if it has that white pigment it can block it True, this is true and it's thin. It's a two layers thin so, uh That's as thin as I can get it before it like starts having problems But yeah, that'll be next week's project an iot canary using the cutie pie is keyboard with a A five by five. That's a total 25 new pixels And uh, you can set it up in the skinny configuration Oh Where it's pretty much soldered in place forever That ain't never coming off. So it's kind of a permanent setup But you know it works for this project so and then the cover here is translucent just to kind of get a different variation of it And it just kind of snap fits in there and it has this notch here for like some of the bigger Things, uh, the idea is to use one of these things These usb c to usb type a connectors So the idea is you set this up And then using one of these These are the usa plugs. This is like a iphone kind of charger The idea is that it'll connect directly into the outlet like this So that's what we have set up there. So you plugs in and there's your nightlight. It's like directly on the outlet switch Um, so that's the idea iot canary coming next week That is this week's prototype Uh, I do have a shop talk Um, let me Show that next People are asking about the brand of the white filament we use. It's philly cube. I posted the link Yeah, philly cube. Um, this one particularly is from prusa. So this is prusa mint This is that free Quote-unquote free school. I had to pay like 20 dollars for shipping But hey, it was free. Otherwise it would have been like 60 dollars or something, but this is prusa's uh White filament It's pretty nice. I like it, but you could use whatever white filament, you know, it doesn't Probably the same ingredients. Yeah These days the cheaper filament is is just as good as the expensive stuff in my opinion But uh over to the shop What are we shop talking? Yeah. Yeah For that. So I I got inspired by this, uh, dental floss case. It is the snap fit case and over the years, uh, this particular brand oral glide They have They inspired me to do snap fit enclosures You know way back in like 2014 is when I got inspired by literally, you know a Dental floss case to do snap fit geometry. So here you can see that there's a little snap fit nub And on this side is another snap fit nub and it got me thinking like how can I apply that to my My gain girl enclosure and that's what's kind of started my whole snap fit journey And I was looking at this today or the other day and I was looking at I was going like This has three This has two live hinges, right? There's their live hinge a live hinge is the thing that allows you to hinge with just a thin piece of plastic And this snap fits like that and then this has a cover that snap fits like that So what I was thinking is like, what if I could print this out? Just like this flat like that like flat on the bed So I started designing a little thing here and this is what I came up with It's a very similar construction I have three pieces, right? You have these two Enclosure bits and then a kind of a top here that has snap fit nubs here And then on this side has one there on these edges And then I've been experiencing with some different Styles of live hinges. So here you can see it like prints in the air And it's not exactly catching like you can see the strands there, but it does bend which is nice So I have these little lips here that kind of go into it And then this thing has its own live hinge So that can bend this way And then this just comes in like that Click there click there And you have this kind of cool pouch, right? It's kind of a little pouch setup And then I added this little this little latch here so I can use that to open it up So it's not going to be the most secure enclosure could be useful for some like pocket change or Dental plus Or something maybe like a little belt pouch or something um, I haven't tested it out in terms of like how many Hint how many How long is this hinge going to last because you can start seeing that it's like Starting to bend. I don't know how long it's going to last It's only two layers thin So that's two layers same thing here. So I might extend this out so that it's like covering the whole thing um, but that's uh, what I thought would be an interesting thing. I literally just finished printing this this morning And it was a fun exercise in fusion 360. Look, I already broke it This already broke off. So I definitely need to increase the, uh You know, the either the layer thickness or extend this whole thing out So there's just more material to catch on to So there you go because this one is all the way across and it looks like it'll It'll fair better, but maybe this is a good use for like a pet G filament Or you know, it's a pu filament probably way stronger because it's already flexible Although the snapping might not work But that's right. Maybe a cheetah it would Oh, maybe I was gonna know that's the the hinges on the side add fillets. So there's more of a base To it. Yeah Yeah, it's too thin. I'm gonna add another layer to it. So it'll be like three layers thick or three layers thin And then make it go across the whole thing Um, but that's uh, that's kind of a neat thing. I don't think I've seen anyone else do that You might remember my live hinge um Kind of penny coin holder This one. Yes seems to be a lot stronger. Oh, yeah, because it has the yeah the base Yeah, the base is a little bit But it's still only two layers thin Maybe the material is stronger. Yeah, that's something I don't know. Yeah It's funny how different fillet colors can be different strengths. This is true Yeah, I've seen a video from cnc kitchen that shows that All the figment all the figments all the pigments are created differently So and it's very very thin. It's like a millimeter thin for all of the walls and everything Um, so yeah, that's what I got going on there. Just does a little experiment In my snap fit journey See connor suggesting on youtube comments. Maybe multi material t pl a tpu Yeah What where you don't it's not multi material. It's you literally Like attach on or snap on the um the tpu Little hingey thing. Oh, yeah slots so you can like stick it in Multi material, but it is multi material. It's not printed at the same time. Yeah, speak of multi material This one does have like a a little window You know that allows you to see through and see how much uh How much things you have it's a good idea. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I like this design again Yeah, this is um inspiration come from such simple household everyday Use absolutely things like that Yeah, I got what I was looking at that made me can't remember the last time Right the same thing with the little little tiny thing that we're using everyday inspires There we go. Yep. They've done all the hard work and figuring out Yeah We got a cool Diffuse you yeah the the mailbox from dj devon's very cool. It uses that translucent material. I believe Yeah, and then uh, yeah, you can make it thicker so that it It diffuses more softly. Yeah There you go Yeah, the info lines do make it look stringy a finger thinner white filament might have been better idea for better diffusion Very cool. All right We are About four minutes out. Yeah. Yeah, we're almost out of time. So Why don't we Let's just do the one community make them this week. It's fine. That's tuesday All right. This week's time lapse tuesday is this super cute and adorable little flexible yoshi for maria movie Finally solid this weekend Yay, normally is a little flexible Uh, this is a paid model. So It's only a couple bucks. It was like two dollars, but definitely yeah two dollars is 16 cents designed by Yacht or jacked on uh cults 3d Very very fun a couple of really Cute all designs like this Yeah, everything except the boot prints all in one piece and then you have your arm Attachment here. It's just a little axle that attaches it. I don't move both of them same thing with the legs You can like sit down And all of the painting that's the only hard part about this is all the painting like trying to get his little cheeks in Without like going out of the line And his little belly and then the tail part. I think was the hardest Because there's no like no indication of like no indentation of where You can paint it in like the eyes. You can see a little bit here where to Try to catch your paintbrush So this is all acrylic paint So I'd had to do like five different coats to get it not to smear As you're doing the brush strokes on it I supposed to be like a yellow on the bottom of the sole but i'm gonna get that done Other than that. Yeah, it's a very cute print for uh Teaming out little mario movie Which I didn't even notice you can now buy online. So yeah, they came out monday. I was looking you can You can now stream it saturday. Yeah, so uh, yeah a very fun model it prints Like that like yoshi's flat on the bed Which looks really cute. So you do have those flat edges here But as far as the rest of the detail goes really well, this is what it looks like without being painted I didn't paint mine, but I did print the boots in a different material and uh, yeah, everything prints, uh Without any supports Print in place of course stinges I got this like kind of neon light green Lime green color for matter. Oh, yeah, this was the very last of this green. I need to get more Oh, that's funny. I like the forest green All right, but yeah, very cute the kids are huge fans like uh declin over there. He wants to Ask me like let me finish the show then you can have it But very cute that you can have these posable positions and uh Very cute model and uh, again, that's on colt 3d. I have it loaded here Here's what it looks like, uh kind of painted Very very nice paint job It's uh, two dollars to sixteen cents. We're fans of you know paying for folks is designed It's always a good thing And uh, yeah print the place model with no supports Print to all the colored Yoshis. Oh, yeah, there's we should do the main one Yeah, pink one You still can you got the final you can You can print it and I'm sure they're gonna fight over this little guy. Maybe print it in that quantum materials. Oh, yeah. Yeah Amelian style on like Yoshi. It's kind of cool It's a good job on the paint job. It looks really good. All right, spring that up. It's time. Yeah Tongue or something. Yeah Sure folks with the mmu's Like the prusa color Oh, yeah, you just gotta set it up for the bamboo printers You know Yoshis Now we got to find a baby mariotta. I had to put on the back there so you can write it Very cute. I hope and that's the sweets Time-ups Tuesday really Yeah, oh Devon thought it was all separate parts. No, that's great. It's all Most of it's one part. I do like the boots are separate so you can change the color out It's very cute. I hot glue my boots in place. Yeah, it's a little bit tighter. Yeah Yeah, and I thank you. That is it for this 400th episode 400 episodes Here's the 400 more It is too early to start drinking but Maybe later. Well, I had like a cake and I lost it not a cake, but like a cake pop It's like today throw away You lost your cake pop. Oh, yeah, I had two of the falcon cake pops Oh Oh, that's right from the ganache at disney springs. That looks so delicious. That's great For me the fourth. Yeah me the fourth. All right. Well Thank you everybody for coming in live with us on this Achievement Unachievement unlocked 400. Thank you everybody so much for joining us Um, I invite you to come on show and tell I won't be there personally because I got a thing tonight but You know, we'll be here next week and I always watch the show and tells On the replays. Yep. We're always rooting for y'all We always appreciate folks from the community coming in and sharing their progress It's always fun It's going to be hosted tonight by uh, mr. Mrs. Lady Ada And then I think next week they might shift it around for one of the other folks on the team To host but we'll see you'll have more opportunities for coupon codes Top secrets all that stuff If you do want to check out stuff right now, we have that coupon code epcot To celebrate the epcot projects I think that's gonna do it. That's all the things I have. I need to get some water my thurs dry I've been talking a lot But uh, thank you everybody so much For tuning in and for all of you's all of you that have been watching since the since 2013 It's it's been a huge pleasure for us to come on every week just about every week and uh And do this do the show so, uh Feel like an old man now. You're doing this eight plus year. Thank you all for joining us for 400 episodes I think we're gonna celebrate 400 guides soon. So we'll do that again Yeah, by the end of the year, hopefully we'll have 400 guides Um, yeah, that's it everybody. Thanks again for tuning in live and if you are watching on the archive Thank you We'll see you next week, but until then remember to make a great great Bye everybody