 Go ahead and check out this week's project. Alright, this week's project, if you head on over to the Adafruit Learning System, you'll see that the guide is there. This week we have a project, it's a prop maker featherwing based project. This is a prop from the Disney Plus series Loki and it is, it's called the Time Stick. If you actually look at the Wikipedia and the Marvel comics, it's called the Time Stick and it is a prop that, that does things when you poke people with it. It's very fun. So we have a really nice assembly tutorial with some code and all the parts lists are there so you can check that out. Yeah, there we go, Peter's posting all the links. So all the catcalls and stuff are up there and uploaded, ready to download. There's a circuit diagram. We'll walk through the learn guide real quick and kind of show you what's going on. Here is the prop. It's a Time Stick. So the main thing about this is that it has the prop maker featherwing and the prop maker M4. It's got motion, with the prop maker you get an accelerometer so you can do some fun things like motion activated sound effects. It's using random choice so the sound effects will be randomized every time you move it. There's two different thresholds. There's a swing and a hit so when you do a light swing it does these sound effects and then when you give it a nice hit it lights up at full brightness and it has different sound effects. The speaker is hidden inside this little area here. This is what I'm calling the collar and the main feather is hidden inside the handle, which is a great place to put your stuff. For the light it is actually a 3 watt RGB LED and the prop maker featherwing has the proper circuitry for powering these very voltage hungry 3 watt LEDs. Everything is 3D printed. Everything kind of screws and snap fits together so it's got a really easy assembly. One of my favorite parts about that is that you can take off the diffuser with just screwing it out so all of this assembly here is just snap fitted so you have all these little tubes that are printed in some translucent filament and when you throw some light on the back there they light up there. You could play around with different materials to get a better diffusion, maybe open them up or so but yeah all of this just snap fits together which is really sweet. There's the 3 watt RGB LED. The things about this is it gets very very hot so the PCB is actually a piece of aluminum and that piece of aluminum kind of doubles as a heat sink so you got to be careful when doing this. The way I was able to mount this without melting the PLA plastic is to use some standoffs and some hardware nuts to kind of elevate that from away and let the heat dissipate but yeah this right here is only about 10% brightness and that is about 100% brightness. It's as bright as the sun. You actually get some optical flares going on there which is pretty cool but yeah so it's mounted to that piece in there. This pipe here is actually two pieces that are screwed together. Everything right here is all screwed together so you have coils down here is where the speaker is hidden. It's got its own speaker holder that gets nestled in here so that's still removable. Wires pass through there. They come down in here and this is actually where the slide switch, the power switch is nestled into this little built-in holder and then yeah because everything is hollow the speaker has plenty of area to, sorry Pedro, has plenty of area for the sound to escape. So down here another one of my favorite parts is the pommel right? Every anatomy of a sword at the bottom piece here is called the pommel and this one has some holes there to allow us the sound to come through and then this little guy's little purple tab if you pull this out there's the secret sauce there. That is the heart of the project that is the prop maker feathering nestled in with the M4 feather and you can see the battery is right there. You got a connector for speakers. You have access to the reset button if you want to update circuit python and then of course you have access to the USB port so if you want to update the code throw on some new sound effects or all and you know nestled there inside the the feathers on board flash very very quick to pull this all out. You notice that there's a little bit of a groove here this is actually sort of a rail and inside the handle there is an accompanying kind of nubby part that allows this to it doesn't it doesn't rotate freely in there so that's a kind of a neat thing if you're making a prop with a handle and you want to have a relatively sturdy arrangement for your circuit this is a kind of cool way to do that and that just kind of fits and hopefully the sound effects isn't blinded everybody but there you go there's some overhead so that's a quick demo of the prop it's a pretty sturdy prop it's got the relatively good thickness so you can kind of whack it as hard as you want you'll probably want to be careful here you don't want to hit somebody with it or anything but you can definitely swing it around I've been doing that a lot so it's about 22 inches this way and I like it it's kind of fun I really like the sound effects too the sound effects are a part of the motion poll sound pack from video co-pilot which I'm a huge fan of really co-pilot alright so this is indeed a time stick so it has broken the time it has broken the time I really like random choice as a way to randomize your your sound effects because it's just like do that all day you play around with the thresholds as well if you want to make it less sensitive or more sensitive you can just update those values in the code which is really easy to do so there's no post-processing done on any of these pieces they're all just straight out of the printer so this is some philamentum repuzzle Rapunzel silver this is some philamentum dark chocolate whatever they call it and this is some philamentum galaxy black but you could probably find some alternatives on Amazon or wherever else you'd like to get your filament but yeah no post-processing was done I just used the filament colors yeah pretty cool so that is one of the fun things I wanted to do is because this is you know modular and you can easily take out the diffuser I had an idea okay an idea so okay and I have this fun thread here so now I can adapt this and put this on other different things so one of my favorite little kind of diffusers is this Lego head hello so this Lego head is something of a bit of a circuit playground project we did a couple years ago and I really thought it'd be cool to adapt the bottom here so that it would fit into this so let's see what that looks like it's a super ridiculous I'm very aware of that that's why I did it so you got this guy here and then you got this guy a bit of a skull face there completely transformed the look and feel of the prop by putting on a diffuser real quick interesting note about this little face here this is actually just vinyl decals so vinyl with a vinyl cutter you can cut out some vinyl and use some transfer tape to stick this over your 3d print and now you don't have to worry about dual extruding this side here however is dual extruded not to worry about that though you can just use some vinyl cutter really good technique to do some some masking stuff there but yeah that's that's that's super ridiculous and it's really bright there that is a creepy Lego head yeah go ahead and check out guide look at some assembly okay so keep it like this there's a bit of an idle sound effect as well so we really wanted to have this atmospheric thing going on here so if you hear this kind of idle sound it's a part of the sound pack hopefully this fall don't blow on it all right so let's double check the learn guide homepage just kind of has a list of all the parts that you need so you need the prop maker the feather wing sorry the feather and for the 3 1 led the mini over a speaker it's a really nice speaker 2200 million lipo battery which is rechargeable little slide switches and headers and some cables and plugs and things that make the assembly easier down into the circuit diagram this one just shows you how to wire up the the do-do-do the 3 watt RGB LED in the slide switch everything else just kind of plugs in you got ports here for the for the speaker it plugs directly in you also get a plug for the battery here on the feather and for so pretty straightforward just a note again the RGB LED gets super hot so be careful when handling in fact don't handle it well it's turned on because it gets really hot 3d printing page a list of all the parts there's quite a few of them but you know they print without any support material which is really nice and you can just pick whatever filament you'd like to choose I got a little technical drawing here for the for the guard like the screw threading for that the light holder so you can play around with that if you want to make an adapter for it but the files themselves are STLs and 3MF you can also download the CAD source which is in a step file format or a the actual Fusion 360 file is available to which has all of the parts and stuff like that so if you want to get your own you want to model up some things particular to the the feather M4 and the prop maker feathering we actually have these 3d models available to download on your GitHub repo picture will post a link to that if you're already did actually so you can get you can get these 3d models in various formats STLs and steps and all the original file formats they're one-to-one accurate they're all prepopulated with the components and connectors so you can have a really good one-to-one accurate model when designing props using the feather and prop maker feather wean yeah and there's a link to that here too as well and the learn guide excellent all right onto the code page this page here just walks through installing the latest version of circuit python onto your feather M4 pretty straightforward the feather all feathers have this really nice bootloader where you can switch between Arduino and circuit python and whatever else by using the reset button so that's really cool huge shout out to cat me Rambo for putting this code together for us this is actually some code from a couple years ago for a lighter prop that we did it was a bit of a lightsaber project so this one just kind of updates it so that it it has different colors and different thresholds and different sound effects but the majority of it is still modifiable you can change up the colors and the thresholds everything is commented so you just kind of read through it and change up whatever values that that will fit your project you can add more or take away sounds by modifying the swing sounds array and the the hit sounds list you can change this out yeah and it's pretty straightforward so check it out we also have the sound effects available so if you just want to download all the things to the project use this little button here it's called the download project bundle that actually download the way files and the library so you won't have to hunt them down which I'm really a fan of so check that out when you want to play around with this one as a double check sanity check you want to make sure that your circuit pie drive has all the folders and assets in your drive that's how circuit python works as you plug it into a USB capable computer all the libraries and sounds and code is accessible and here's a little screenshot of all the things you get a nice chunky stack of sound effects so and they're kind of they could be probably used for other projects not just this this thing here these actually I don't know I was gonna say like and there's a link here to the motion pulse sound packed from video copilot if you want to check that out but we checked with our lawyers and it's okay to distribute them freely so that's why we did that thanks lawyers and then here's a quick little thing about the naming of the sound effects matter so if you want to change those you want to change those in the code but they're pretty kind of self-explanatory is read them the power on it's called on idle is idle swings or swings hits or hits so that's pretty straightforward yeah trying to make it as simple and easy as possible folks that are just getting started alright the rest of the pages are all about the assembly so making sure that your feather headers are installed in the right orientation and some tips on installing female headers onto your feather m4 that's always a little bit of a thing but yeah we walk through that the wiring is all segmented as well per component so wiring everything up there to connectors various connectors is always a good thing for assembly just makes it easier to disconnect things right and then this page here just walks you through setting everything up how to install the hardware to get your 3Y LED mounted to the LED holder and then you really want to follow this chronologically because the order of this the order of these operations really do matter you don't want to do it backwards because yeah it really depends on the right order but yeah it's just a quick look I'm just scrolling through all the various photos of connecting and installing this in the right order so why yeah here's a nice look at the feather you're gonna need some some some hardware nuts and screws to attach to feather but that's probably the only thing that uses screws everything else snap fits like I said there's really no glue that I use in any of the parts so that's kind of cool it's all disassembly disassembable so that's really really nice I'm proud of that but yeah connectors for the win everything's JST or molex so there you go and then the the diffuser itself has its own little kind of sub-assembly again no glue everything just gonna snap fits and I made sure the dodge is a little bit loose so that folks that have tight tolerances will will hopefully print it out relatively easily there you go that's the final build very awesome thank you comments over on YouTube people are saying just in time for Halloween you know who they're dressing up as yeah what is he me dressing up as Loki or Sylvie Loki's like a bunch of variants you can be any any free color whatever gender I need is everyone I need are the little help the horns I need to go I don't know what to say people are saying that the stream is like playing back it's working just fine for me so I don't know in which which place they said twitch and Facebook or no twitch and YouTube but here's a Facebook link if that helps it's fine fine for me I don't know real quick last night I like I close the heat rins I cost a huge is how do you say it so I made a little post-ahegian top here it's kind of geometric makes look like a was it sims like when you have a little jam on top of your eyes funny haha it was really cool that you can use the same sort of threading actually have like a standardized threading that'll print very easy to be able to swap around right imagine that's what I love about this thing so if you want to increase the length of this pipe make it a staff you could do that as well yeah I really like the designing threads for your parts that connect and because it's all cylindrical you don't really have to worry about like the alignment of anything so everything can just tighten up as you need no blue if you are traveling if you're a cosplayer you need to travel it's so important to be able to just like oh let me just take this off and then like put it in a briefcase or something so my time to stick here but yes that is this week's projects hope everybody enjoys it or at least get inspired to design something modular I was gonna say it completely modular so you can edit that to your heart's content I would have loved to sample some of the sound effects from the show but it really wasn't I really don't remember any of the sound effects from the show so it's pretty much that I know it's pretty much gonna sound something is when they do the pruning where it actually happens right doesn't really make sounds outside of being pruned but cool I will turn it off now yeah any questions about the assembly or the proper the code anything like that feel free to hit us up throughout the show that is this week's project just couple days before Halloween so hurry up and start printing this I think that takes about probably a whole day oh another thing about that about the prop is that it will fit on even the smallest printers our smallest printer is 140 by 150 by 150 millimeters and every one of those pieces fit because you can size to yeah I size it to be like the max is 139 millimeters tall and that's the handle everything else like the pipe those are two pieces it's about a hundred 200 millimeters or no I'm sorry it's like 130 millimeters tall so but what I think is the smallest printer you should be able to print them on most printers now if you got a SLA printer I don't know these are all done on on FDM fused FFF we should work on these days they should work on I think it'd be really cool to print the diffusers in resin like that would be so cool they probably diffuse way better don't have access to one so I don't know for sure so if you got an FDM printer good SLA it's on figure it out yeah apologies people are saying Facebook is also buffering it's playing fine for me it's our restream and I don't know what that's sorry again I'm watching oh you're watching what's restream is streaming so I don't know it looks I'm seeing a glitches right restream it's actually we're frozen on restream I mean it's playing back full speed like right don't say no let's keep going alright let's go ahead and jump into this week's what are we prototyping are you protoge so there's new Spider-Man movie coming out and they are teasing the green goblin or no they tease the octave octo doctor octo and then you see a on-screen you see one of the pumpkin prop bombs rolling down on the road and Lamar was like I need to jump on that so we're using a circuit play ground blue fruit with some three printed shells that go on top of our very lovely ornament that is size for the circuit play ground so this is just a shell that attaches on the there and these little two-piece ornament that will fit that we also have one that'll fit the micro bit and what I did was a print out the shell made like a little design for that and then a little holder that will attach turn this off so you can see a bit more better yeah circuit play ground blue fruit and a 16 Neopixel ring so that fits on there oh yeah you got the battery on there with us it's on this one is the 420 I think a 500 should fit well battery yes yes so all snap fit together you got these little snaps on there that attach the CPB on there and that the on the backside here we do it of this one since there's no wires on it we'll have the 16 at the pixel ring that also just snaps in like that and you have enough room for your wires and your battery and I'm printed out one where the tolerances fit very nice on there so it has because you have a little bit of room on there so if you don't have like some way to press fit it in there it'll like sort of move around like that so that's what I'm doing right now just getting it to fit on there perfectly so you can press fit it in and it won't move around like it is right now and then beyond that yeah the testing out different colors for the shells so these will just snap fit together I tried an orange one and a red one the translucent on there I think the red's gonna go with that and because this is an ornament that we're actually attaching this to what a great ornament it's perfect for Christmas you don't want to theme it out I mean this doesn't even remind me of Spider-Man but it looks so cool yeah if you look up near the Green Goblin pumpkin bomb props it's that's what I thought that's what I copied I'm calling it a ornament yeah yeah what is it called the pattern design that's right wrap that from and you have a nice little bit of little holes in here we're gonna add some diffusion on here so if you look for like prop images of it there's like a little bit of fusion in there so you can have a little bit of opaqueness you don't see completely what the circuitry is in there I love the diffusion on that looks so great so good and it's so much like this is like the heart of this project I really do like this snap fit because what you get is you get neopixels on this side and neopixels on this side so that is awesome you get double sided neopixels and what I really like about this project is circuit Python has some really awesome group animations so you can see here both sides are animating independently so you can have two neopixel objects this is a part of the circuit playground this is an external neopixel so you can have them animate different things using the LED animation library so it's really really cool I could quickly show you where because I have never actually had to make a project where you have two independent neopixel objects and we have some demo code that you can literally just copy and paste it's ready to go I'm gonna say we're gonna go ahead and yeah yeah I'll pull it up here and the learn guide gotta wait because we're streaming to find different places so maybe it'll load maybe it won't you have to bear with us but I'll tell you how to get to it you can type in LED animation inside the learn guide search and then circuit Python LED animations is the is the guide we are really bad with the internet right now like I can't even load JPEGs and you want to go to the animation group page on the sidebar there just click on animation group internet's not working so I'm gonna have to like figure out something all the way down here it's this full example code you can download the project bundle it'll download all of the necessary libraries please do that because there are some dependencies for the circuit playground library and if you don't do it you're gonna be manually hunting all the independent libraries for all the sensors and things but hey this is all ready to go for you you can change up the number of pixels in your strip or your ring and you can change up the board pin by just changing that right there brightness is all right there it's in plain English so you can just read it and there you go but it's very very nicely documented shout-out to to Katnie Rambo for putting this together you can see even some gifts here I'm showing the circuit playground with an external strip so this is really really awesome project if you're doing anything for the holidays with a circuit playground you attach an external strip definitely check this guide out and that is the LED animation library for circuit Python I think the only thing missing is maybe some sound effects oh gosh sure there's a built-in speaker it has a built-in accelerometer temperature sensor light sensor I'm out of breath sensor it's just the best thing and thousands of folks have the circuit playground so definitely use it for something if you just have it laying around please I beg you use it to make something awesome when he does very very fun project mom just come in here she's like that is so cool it's just looking at the lights glow and stuff you don't have to put any effort into the parts really really cool there was a bunch effort at one I know I know just look at the trash can I know I'm just saying like if you don't have three printing skills you can still make something awesome with circuit Python and the hardware I can't remember what else I was gonna say but yeah I think next week or two can I just say that I brought down a Christmas tree and put it all up even though it's not even Halloween yet no we got a shot but you feel that we've I feel like we're behind I think Disney started putting up all their Christmas stuff two weeks ago I know it's not Halloween yet but we've been in Halloween mode since September so yeah we've been celebrating it every single day it's time I love this one of that effect where it's doing the the chase chase is one of my favorite animations and you can customize and make the intervals it's so fun to play around with LED animation library very cool so get your circuit playground you might got one for free if you spent enough money with us we used to give it out for free but you know you ran out we ran out of them all right any comments drop them down any no suggestions on the filament to use we're using the translucent red from Ultimachine and it looks very nice great fused in this PLA just regular PLA yep if you're gonna play with PETG make sure you print it hotter yeah that's all I can say about that one but we like to stick with PLA the prop here is all PLA to there's no one oh yeah you broke it would agree the PET one yeah I didn't have it on my hands look how flexible it is and it just snapped all the bits off but this is this is nice and thick here and you get that nice rigidity with the PLA but you gotta print PETG at the right temperature in order for it to be a needle all right go ahead and jump into this week's community makes all right every Tuesday we find a fun inspiring project to 3d Prince and do a time lapse up this week bit of a wearable this is called the skull necklace by Dave makes stuff so this is definitely if you don't want to dress up but you still want to be themed for the holidays there's a nice little jewelry accessory that you can print out and be nice and ghoulish for Halloween this is a skull necklace oh it's pretty good oh yeah it's a print a place I didn't even notice that and print a place it has all these little joints that you can move the skulls around and it's not just a necklace the post actually has a bunch of different ones like bracelets and earrings and everything the skull related that jewelry you can find on that post and this is so crazy it's so crazy rings you got like all these different sizes you got like these different the like the it's stacked for like the earrings this is freaking awesome such a good job and getting all of the joints to print without any supports and they're nice and not too loose not too tight tolerances are nice oh yeah yeah I would have to take the jewelry thing yeah so all this printed place it's excellent so a bunch of little skulls that make up a nice little choker I think is what this one is for but you can print a really big one to make a whole necklace or like we're shown earlier a ring or the earrings great choice so pretty good shiny gray is that the this is Rapunzel silver from filamentum and take a look at the detail focusing on there excellent job in terms of being able to get all the detail on there on a small print this isn't like a nozzle thing it's just point to you can tell here with the overhang layer height I think this is a support yeah there were supports on all the backs here but they come up pretty easy if you use the sort settings that we like using but there you go very awesome way to have a nice little ghoulish theme for your Halloween you don't have to wear it you put it on the prop as well very this is true yeah very cool cool shot outs to Dave make style make stuff excellent excellent just time for the holidays there's all the thing files there's a bunch of them yeah very cool you know print them in whatever color typical all right we have some other things here in the community makes some things are brought to us so let me let me pull up some fun stuff here from super cool yeah it's super cool a couple years ago we we did a IOT smart planner and George Enrique Combala Fuentes put together a nice blog post of of their build so very very cool to see other folks build it and have a whole build log of how they put together and their experiences with it it works it confirms that our models work it totally works and I'm glad that everybody who built one is just happy with it and it's very modular snap fit yada yada who cares very very cool thanks George for putting up a blog post not many folks put together a blog post of their builds and like make these phenomenal little gifts and stuff of the of them flowering and stop too much water oh especially for a succulent no that's gonna die all right well that's one of them so shout out to George put that together and sharing it with everybody here's another one what is this one I guess the LED gas mask LED gas mask this is really cool this was posted up by our drave z on Thingiverse they got their build together of this 3d printed gas mask with neopixels a laser pointer I think yellow wire as well and the neopixel ring and some conduits you can make some cool gas mask light light up stuff so very very cool okay another one over here this is the the iPhone case posted up by J this is for the 12 so in the oh okay it says that it works for the so the description J says I printed this up for my iPhone 13 max taking a chance that they were going to be the same dimensions you can modify your description now that you know it works I use pet G because it's all I had I'm gonna this works with pet G so they got their I don't know I don't know how this works since I was pretty sure that the volume and the the power button maybe in the switch we're calling you for they went around date their dimension I don't know I didn't get the max this year so yeah I'm glad it works maybe they don't know it says pro max and mini flex case because it's pro 12 oh but it works on the 13 so I'm saying your older one from the non me no you made a pro no no I know I know that's what I'm like I was pretty sure that all the buttons moved around at least they did for the the non max and the mini because I had up the update the case for the many and your team shout out to Jay strength for putting this off but I'm glad folks are getting their cases printed it's a really cool use case of 3D printing all righty and then the last one we have here which is this one this is a laser cut window for the pico midi fighter project I did not know that you can do variable depth cuts with a laser cutter it's news to me they were able to figure out how and they even posted some of their speed and power settings that is very useful so if you are building the the pico midi fighter and you're looking for how to you can't mail this out you can laser cut it to you don't yeah you can laser cut it or 3d printed it's cool so that's really cool I haven't seen that before see you later night folks bye