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Lots of people in the world showing sharing something they make turns out everyone makes something and there's a place to share it every single week. We'll go over what we did on Descalade Aida including Great Search. We got a clip from JP's product pick of the week. We have some excellent amazing interviews and footage from Maker Faire or Mare Island from Erin. We'll show those. Some New York City factory footage some great 3d projects and more including one with PropMaker. We have Ion and PI brought to you by Digiti. This week it's from Ryan Banz. We got Top Secret. We got some new products. We'll answer your questions. We do that on discord atidafruit.it slash discord or discord.gd or slash Adafruit. That's what we do. Questions you can ask them throughout the show but you can also hang out anytime 24-7. All that and more on you guessed it. Let's get an engineer. Okay so don't forget code site power. We get a bunch of free stuff. What are the data? Okay yes when you order from adafruit.com you get free free free free things. $99 or more. You'll get this beautiful PCB coaster with gold inlay logo and comes with like four little bumpers. Put your drink on it. Protect your desk. $49 or more. You'll get a KB2040 and pro micro pinout compatible RP2040 dev board with USB-C, NeoPixels, a powerful RP2040 chip, flash memory, STEMIQT port and more great beginner micro. $199 or more. We still got that free UPS ground shipping. It's trackable. It's reliable. It's brown. It's UPS. It's cool. And $299 or more. We're still doing our collaborative free giveaway thanks to DigiKey and NXP for sponsoring this giveaway. $299 or more. You'll get a free Metro M7. It's the fastest. I think it's the fastest Arduino shaped board like we make or anyone makes. $500 megahertz Cortex M7 processor. One circuit python like a breeze. It has Arduino shaped so you can use shields with it. STEMIQT port, micro SD, USB-C, SWD bug. It's also a great IMX RT-1011 development board if you don't even if you're not using circuit python you want to use NXP Espresso. This chip is pretty sweet. Okay. We do much live shows every single week. We were back this week with show and tell. If you haven't please check out show and tell. It goes live 7 30 p.m eastern time every single Wednesday. If you're a time traveler you know exactly where we are. You can stop by if you want any time because you're a time traveler. On the show until we had Melissa. Melissa showed off some neat stuff with screens that we're doing at circuit python. All sorts of different permutations of screens. Scott talked about some of the SILab stuff he's working on. Circuit python has been ported to another chip which is good. J.P. should kind of the future of lego I think. Let's talk a little bit about that. If you want to see what lego is probably going to do in the future check out some of J.P.'s project. Yeah LED sensors. Yeah color synth we're going to show a little bit of that later on in the show and some really neat like tiny lighting to make your own little imaginary world. Well there's like little kits for holidays so it's like perfect timing. Yeah. Pedro showed the prop maker. There's a cool Five Nights with Freddy. Get a video. Yeah that's that you can check out. No you should have really neat how 9000 project. We converted that over to circuit python so it's really easy to do and use and make. Seth came by which I think I think show until is like it's definitely like the best way to predict the future is to build it. If you want to see what's going to happen in the future you can just probably tune into some of these maker shows. Seth built a cool little game player that a kid can use something like MS Paint make graphics drag them on and now you've got something that can play a video game featured in the newsletter this week. Zach debuted I think this is do people debut algorithms live on video? They do now. They do on show and tell. This is really neat this was for a fast LED for dot stars so. Using the extra 5 bits of brightness because we don't use but he's worked to add basically built in low to high gamma correction so like especially for very low brightness LEDs you're going to get better dynamic range. So really neat to see some things debuted on our show and tell because then this will probably get merged in then people make projects with it and then we'll see the projects on show and tell and then feature them and then and then yeah that's how we find a lot of people that we work with too. They use the projects the code and then we're like hey you should maybe do some projects with us too and then Joey stopped by and showed off this really neat art project that is subways the a-line that are going through a subway serpent and it uses a bunch of Adafurge stuff so that was kind of cool to be able to check that out. Every week some 30 p.m. come on by show and share some stuff. We just did that. We also do from this Gladiator we do that every Sunday it's in two parts Gladiator what did you show off part one okay week part one we got a Raspberry Pi 5 we're not in the beta program but we did get one take photos to verify our stuff works so I tried it out I actually it turns out like after I did the video because I you know I don't know that much about Python environments Scott from the circuit Python theme was okay or maybe it was less I don't remember who was but somebody was like oh by the way there's an easier way of doing what you did so it was a little bit like oh no you have to like change your path but turns out you can have the environment automatically the Python environment automatically update your path but yeah the biggest thing is this is well there's a new rp1 southbridge chip so we have to add support for that in Blinka and for doing hardware projects it's definitely faster physically it changed the poa character change I can't do like a an overview of yeah I think a lot of people did like oh it's faster I talk about all the hardware interfaces and and what people who are making hardware to interface with Raspberry Pi's might want to keep in mind so check out that video okay and then the other thing we do is I'm just of Gladiator where Gladiator is a powered engineer to help you yes you find things on digikey.com what was digikey.com do you search for this week okay so this week because I had that Pi 5 I wanted to find the connector that would allow me to interface with the hardware you are port on the Pi 5 because I think like that could be very useful debugging and even though I kind of had a good hint of like what the connector was it was probably going to be the same as the pico probe connector which is a jstsh I thought I'd show literally how you would go about because the common question there's a connector how do I find out what the connector is so I can find the matching cable I go through step by step how using just a pair of calipers and the digikey search you can figure out what a connector is and then how to find a connector a cable that plugs into it okay and you can join us Sunday nights um it's hacker o'clock so it can be as early as eight and as late as 11 but we do desk of Gladiator and it's whatever's on Gladiator's desk a snapshot of what's going on at Adafruit from the engineer's desk and then we'll also do a little bit of a detour over to digikey.com to help you find things it's a lot easier now that stuff is in stock used to be like and let's find something yeah before it was all substitution now it's like here's something that's maybe new or just how to find how to sort through all the abundance that's out there on Tuesdays we do JP product pick of the week here is this week's highlight the Metro RP 2040 you can run this in Arduino or in circuit python i'm reading an analog pin to uh read this potentiometer here i'm actually using PWM to adjust the brightness of this led here this was the uh zakoken danger shield you can see this is just a sort of smorgasbord shield that has a bunch of different fun input and output to play around with and learn and switch this over to circuit python plug in my Metro RP 2040 and you can see now i've got uh some faders here they've got leds in the in the fader stems adjusting a little buzzer pitch with these little faders that are on here it is the Metro RP 2040 okay you can tune in JP's workshop tomorrow and then Friday deep dive with scott scott students this week to p.m. pacific 5 p.m. eastern we have a special treat for everybody uh makerfair is in two parts it was previous weekend 1315th and 20th 22nd and we sent erin real-life mermaid to make a reporter yeah mermaid reporter um yeah it turns out that's the journalism needs one more made a mermaid you can trust so um we're going to play a few of these interviews we have three of them lined up we'll play them one after the other and uh check out our blog website and more for some more stuff this is just whatever erin thought was interesting going on a makerfair take a taste yeah take it away erin all right hi what's your name Patrick ball Patrick and tell me about your art piece here so we wanted to build a piece that that showed motion with audio and light and we wanted people to be in the middle of it so we decided to build a field of flowers we have we originally built 160 there's 135 out here tonight uh and waves of sound right now we're playing a rainstorm uh and the rainstorm and the wind and the frogs and the bird sounds we'll all move through the fields you get a sense of dynamic sound as the raindrops fall on top of the flowers so that's the idea they are just beautiful anything you can tell us about the tech that's driving them sure each flower has an esp 32 uh along with a board that i designed to do a level shifting because you should never drive leds with 3.3 volts no you shouldn't um and there's a little bit of audio processing on the board too so that we can do a digital analog converter uh the flowers each have an sd card with about 150 little tiny wave files that we can send out for audio effects we're driving 111 ws 28 12s at about 270 frames per second one of the cores of the esp 32 is totally dedicated to running the fast led library to drive the led effects really as smoothly as we possibly can that's fantastic and i noticed you're controlling it from an ipad and yes so they're all speaking wi-fi to a server uh that's running some python code to give us field level effects so we can move stuff across the server knows where every flower is in space and then we can use a little uh a little dashboard that we built for an ipad uh to control them uh so that we can make waves of sound and like move across from like a as a dj all right can you give us an example can you make a some some lights and sounds of red oh so we'll just pulse them all with red now oh my gosh and i can pulse them all with but we're in the middle of the rainstorm so i don't want to do anything more intrusive than that sounds good we wouldn't want to interrupt the rainstorm nope although the birds are singing so the birds sing at the end of the storm all right and do you have a url where people can find out more about this camp joby.com c-a-m-p-j-o-b-i.com wonderful thank you so much and this is the most amazing thing you guys have got to do and i am here with sarai cohen and she is a fantastic led couture fashion designer uh she just managed a most amazing led fashion show with a whole bunch of models uh we're all kind of backstage here look at it all the uh fantastic costumes what's your favorite piece oh my favorite piece is probably the first one i made it's called reflections and it has um an arduino running some lights in a really fun pattern and also a blue tooth feather from eater fruit that i can send um words to so it can scroll words across the front of the dress that is very very cool so i wrote a book called make it wear it and it uses the circuit playground express for some of the programming in it um i think it's a really easy system for folks to learn and fun to play around with so i really like clothes that don't just light up but they're really interactive and i made a piece last year called conductive melody that uses machine learning and a raspberry pi and it has a whole sleeve of conductive fabric and you can play it like a piano wow so i really like to kind of mel the like fun elegant fashion with kind of cool sensors and lots of inputs that's kind of a thing i like to do that sounds like so much fun um and if we want to find out more about all your stuff where do we go oh you can find me online at amp atelier that's a m p e d a t e l i e r and uh we're a little bit on youtube but mostly on instagram all right yay well thank you so much and uh thank you so much for forwarding the uh the field of led fashion which we are all in every thank you so much i'm not blaming lotus girls and check this out oh my gosh they're interactive you guys can you tell me anything about this piece this is pieces called serenity and um she has three large fireflies on a jar that were changed by an explosion a radioactive explosion and they're all they were inside a bug and the bug they inside a jar and the jar exploded and they sit on top then they also look after these little tiny bugs so many bugs the slender girls were a cheating organization so we get people to come and build metalwork we introduce them to different skills and different techniques in the shop so we start people off with the smallest firefly so they get used to using the metal and then they graduate on to making the biggest culture they are absolutely fabulous i've seen some of your pieces at other events and you guys are just killing it right it's some of the best art out there at least in the west coast thank you yay thank you so much and where can we find out more uh www.flaming lotus.com awesome thank you ah look at these things you guys amazing right it's python on bird wear time this week lady adai you're gonna talk about big change that happened with the raspberry pi five bookworm yes um this is kind of important for people to know it's not as bad as we thought because there's something happened what happened what happened is um either it's like this warm do this warm there's always like the joke of like no matter how many python installs you have like there's you need like one more yeah um so you know we finally got over like the default debbie and python being two seven for like decades and they finally moved to three and i think part of when they when they updated from two to three on the system python um there was a side effect that people could install packages into like you know the root system install of python and it could mess stuff up especially if the operating system is depending on that you know the certain packaging versions to match what the distribution things are there um and so basically as a bookworm you can no longer pseudo pip install um they took that away so you can't uh pip install or pseudo pip install into like the distribution python um library and site packages folder instead you must use a python environment it's not a huge deal like most people will be able to set up a python environment in like the home slash pi folder um that's like the default user and then all the packages will be installed in their home directory not in you know the the root file system um but you know there are thousands of tutorials and like a decade worth of raspberry pi um python projects that people are printed books and books that i mean once you set up the environment it's not a big deal but you know people need to know that they have to do that so it's going to be you know the reason i bring this up is i'm you know we're going to write documentation on the ate a fruit site and we're going to try to update as many guys as we can but you know what everyone in the community can do is help beginners because a lot of people are going to bump into they're going to try running um any existing project and they'll do a pip install and they're going to get hit with this error message the error message does tell you what to do but i think it's it's going to be a bit of a good reason for this yeah i mean it's it's it's it's a good idea but like awesome was there a good reason for this 10 years ago well i think that you know it is an issue when the operating system uses a tool python that has packages and versions and people are using it and they can they can they can mess up their operating system by installing or uninstalling packages of the operating system itself is depending on operating system is using python you don't want people mucking around with like oh let me just pip install any anything uninstall or you like you know it's it's it's really easy to mess things up and so they're like look you know we're not going to let people we're basically not going to let people do that anymore i mean you could force it but like i wouldn't i really wouldn't is this related to any security things across all linux that you're trying to like lock down on it it's a security thing i think it's a like please don't destroy your operating system but don't use your tools to destroy your tools and now you have no tools okay sort of situation all right so that's your we can refer to this if people ask and there's also you know blog posts on on a raspberry i mean the fact the matter is like you know like arduino for example like the ide uses python inside they just install their own version of python and i kind of you know here's a question since we've been doing some stuff with chat gbt could chat gbt help rework any of the updates like wherever there is yeah that's not the issue it's it's like the text to paste is the same which is like before you start make sure you have environment you know like there's going to be this boilerplate the problem is we have like thousands of guides and so there is no easy it's it's not the writing of the text it's the actual going in and you have to put it into the editor and like i said it's not just as it's like there's there's a decade i wonder if we do these updates we'll we'll pull out that little piece and have that have that as like we have you know components inside of a guide so in case it's changed again yeah we did talk about that we didn't it's a little yeah like we had discussed like oh we can have like some components but i was like you know this is i have a little bit of a policy of like i try to keep projects and becoming touring complete reading email or becoming web browsers in and of themselves and so this was getting closer to oh no this is now a computationally complete editor for tutorials since then we have pages that are mirrored and so you know we we might be able to do some with that it it's it's not the actual code it's just the instructions it's just the instructions the code itself is the same but how you actually install the packages basically just can't do the pseudo pip and pseudo python which unfortunately we've been using uh with a blog feeling every form of package management and apps is going to change on planet earth because from app stores to um malicious packages like that's a threat vector now yeah probably everything's a little different something like they really don't want you to pseudo install or pseudo python and so and also you know as a side effect not side effect as a separate effect of the pi five because there's now the southbridge um gpio zero needs to be updated or sorry our pie dot gpio library has to be updated and maybe even gpio zero so there's gonna be there's gonna be a little bit of like a mushiness as the pi five and bookworm sort of uh gets out there and um affects how we do python hardware but you know again it's uh it's all possible it's just a matter of documentation okay um good problems to have just more people using that yeah um so check out the rest of the newsletter there's a lot of stuff going on there's a handheld circuit python computer there is a neat guide about how not to build customer p20 for you board it's also a lot of fun um raspberry pi pico with circuit python here's a primer this is from the adjourn but workshop you can check out some of the reviews and more about the raspberry pi five we'll be talking about that later this week and you can see all the projects we also talked about um some of these neat little designs and projects this is the key boy this is what i was going to tell so stop on by get the newsletter it is available every single week delivered to your mailbox it's on adafurdaily.com we do not spam you we don't even have analytics we're take we're we're in a process of removing a lot of the google goo on our websites because we don't do anything with your information at all so why even track it in any way at all so if you want a newsletter that's never going to bother you that's adafurdaily.com it's a completely separate site okay we have some open source hardware that we publish and we have open source code and we have guides thousands of guides this week on the big board lady we have an update to the quality guide as we talked about in show and tell melissa has added touch support we'll also be updating this guide a whole bunch as more displays coming out tyeth who is helping a whipper snapper also wrote a guide this is a whipper snapper project that lets you make an air horn that can be remotely controlled over the internet is very loud it's just by request by a friend of ours who writes books and has an editor and you won't see it as editor's attention across the country to check his email and respond to his email i can use this for some of our lawyers as well that could be kind of nice you better be like hey reply to that email i said to your colleagues to get out questions about stuff yeah uh and did the uh another circuit board project she's been slowly building up skills uh this one uses capacitive touch chips no microcontroller but capacitive touch chips to make an outcar panel a like that you can touch you see that the leds light up very futuristic this is cool very cyber uh let's see what else do we got you got uh jp did the brick tunes this is a inspired by jsilver's media lab project which um would play songs based on a color census we'll shoot a video then a couple seconds and then i'll can you school up and then uh we got a project from knowing peter this week the faz wrench uh pato's kiddo is a real big fan of five nights at freddy's there's a movie coming out and he wanted a prop and it actually like works you know what i mean like the the buttons and the leds and the display show stuff and then liz also did a guide on the eighty fifty six ninety three six bit decks and use it in our doing our circuit python um and then we had also a bunch of updated guides for eight of fruit ios so that's something prince been going through and we we scrubbing them redoing them to support uh new layout the new look and feel and whippersnapper here's a leg of colors and video and don't forget the code inside power you get all these free things in addition to saving 10% off free free free let's do some factory footage that was absolutely not factory footage where is my factory footage where did it go is it is it the two minute over there where did the factory footage go oh i found it never mind we edit these later so ready team here we go it's factory footage time and that really was factory footage okay let's do some 3d printing this time here's a project we talked about before and a speed-up right after please expect back you can build a prop replica of the faz wrench from five nights of freddy's security breach ruined we designed and 3d printed this prop to use the rp2040 prop maker feather and circuit python it's got a working lcd with buttons leds rotary encoder and a speaker for sound effects the code is written in circuit python to emulate the faz wrenches features from the game you can press the red button to display deactivated nodes on screen the green button displays unlock doors and random characters fill the screen while the rotary encoder adjusts the volume you can tilt the device to trigger different sound effects as if charging conduits in the game a special sound effect plays whenever the door is unlocked we think these features give it a bit more depth than your typical prop project the rp2040 prop maker feather is packed with features for making advanced props in circuit python or arduino the aida fruit lcd backpack features stem of qt making it easy to plug and play with any compatible feather armed with the faz wrench you can help find gregrie and escape the ruins of freddy fazbear's mega peak suplex circuit python makes writing code for props with buttons leds and sound effects easy for folks who are just getting started you can use the repl in the mu editor to debug your code making development much faster the demo code can be adapted and customized to fit any number of props with similar features you can get the parts to build this project links are in the description the enclosure and mounts are designed to be 3d printed without any supports 3d printed diffusers and decals snap fit onto the top cover a separate plate isolates the neopixel leds so they shine through the diffusers the lcd backpack is set up with socket headers for a modular pcb setup jst cables are wired up to the led buttons and get panel mounted to the top cover the stem of qt road encoder is mounted on its side along with a 3d printed thumb wheel for easy scrolling the various components are fitted in separate mounts that are secured to the enclosure machine screws secure the top cover to the main enclosure with a few changes we think this could be adaptive for solving escape rooms or other functional devices we had a lot of fun building this and hope it inspires you to check out the prop maker feather and circuit python a fast rich it's just like my dad is now time for iron guy an mpi brought to by digikey thank you digikey this week it's orion fans yes although it's not a fan i mean i'm a fan of this yeah and you can see i've got my mit shirt on because this is an mit themed iron mpi all right let's kick it so this is the ml 2010 and this is a mini lab kit um available from orion labs and it's kind of great because they do make fans and then like all of a sudden they made this like lab suitcase what is this thing up what is that for this thing okay so this is kind of an all-in-one like prototyping power supply it's particularly good at analog circuitry prototyping and development it's basically got like a full test lab inside of it plus a gigantic breadboard um prototyping area and more and it comes in like a suitcase that you can pick up move around plug in whatever you want to work on your project and then you can close it up to safely put stuff away um so the reason i was like when i saw this i was like oh this is so cool is because it reminded me of mit when you do the digital or analog lab classes you have a thing called a nerd kit and that's what the nerd kit looks like it's also a suitcase although it's more breadboardy stuff and you see like there's some power supply stuff at the top you have a built-in power supply i don't think they had built-in um uh sweep generator or like you know function analyzer any of that stuff the way the ml 2010 does but it was something that you would use to design your analog or digital circuits so for example here's a 611 digital lab you'd see that the the kits would become very very complicated very quickly with lots of wires but the really nice thing was that you know when you came to lab you'd work on your project you'd open up the suitcase you'd plug in all the um wires and chips and get all that working and use the oscilloscope on the bench and then when you were done you would close it up and put it back into your uh locker that you'd have and then you know the locker would have a combo lock on it so you know there was this joke after everyone would finish their lab classes that they're like oh man i wish i could keep the nerd kit and you couldn't buy them they were only available while you took the class and nobody even came up with the idea of like maybe not returning it like we didn't even want to know what would befall us if we didn't return the kit like you had to give it back and you know there's been other similar like trainer kits like Heath kit has this trainer kit that has i think a built-in a function generator built-in power supply and little breadboarding area but of course these are not made anymore either these are from Heath kit although there's some really cool documentation about this and also these mini labs are kind of similar to also to the you know radio shack you 150 in one where you have you know this workspace and then in this case it doesn't use a breadboard using these little spring contacts that you would connect wires to and it would let you sort of prototype your basic project so think of this the ml 2010 is sort of a combo it has way more capabilities than the original nerd kit has not just a power supply also function and sweep generators and also like switches and buttons and speakers stuff that the nerd kit didn't have but is kind of borrowed from this 150 in one style electronic kit from Tandy so this is what the ml 2010 looks like from above so massive prototyping area and you can see all the knobs and little mini breadboarding areas so the idea is that you can actually with just wires connect to the little the different interface elements in this kit and you know you can always solder to the prototyping area on the right if you like but you can get going very quickly with just a solid list breadboarding prototyping style so this is all the labeled components we'll go through them you see there's inputs outputs like i said power supply function generator and also some like d sub connectors perf board area and a fused on off switch on the top right so on the top left sweep ramp generator so this is really good for analyzing analog circuits and filters you can have different waveforms it looks like triangle square sign i don't have on top of my head the frequencies but you know you can tell it's like from one hertz up to one mega hertz at least and then two pots for changing sorry three pots for changing the dc offset the amplitude and frequency within the decade counter range like one to ten ten to one hundred one k to ten k um there's also uh the clock out from the function generator that you can go into your oscilloscope if you want to synchronize to that pulse generator also good for analog circuitry analysis um you also have the led indicators you can just connect those up to your digital circuits two power supplies i really like this both positive and negative 18 volt adjustable as well as fixed negative and positive 12 and fixed negative and positive five and i think you get an amp out of each uh speaker and two generic analog pots you could use that for um input and output the speaker is actually on the right hand side bottom left you've got uh some d subs i think 25 pin and looks like nine pin as well as well as a b and c that you can use for your signal generator input or outputs um and on the right a bunch of switches some of them are the bottom set the eight are digital logic switches so those are going to be like from zero to five volt like logic high and low and then there's also um momentary and toggle switches that you can connect different voltages so you can like turn on or off or switch analog voltages and then on the right there is that's a perf board so that's solderable perf board you can of course get it's removable um so you can solder on circuitry that needs uh higher frequency you don't want to use a subtlest breadboard or has like a weird shape doesn't plug into a breadboard very nicely and then uh on the bottom some more switches and then you know the other side of the d subs so if you connect cables for passing data or you want to use serial input or output and then some more b and c jacks as well um all the specs you know you can uh check specifications in the app node datasheet but basically you know you could use this with ttl logic but it's going to be really good for people doing analog circuits maybe um some lower frequency rf audio especially would be a good use case here um filter design um i don't think what else like you know transistor level logic i mean it's a little retro but there's still people doing this kind of work so the power supplies and the function generator i think are are a pretty sweet deal um like i said you know one amp from a variety of sources and it's all fused and goes through one power supply so you don't need a separate power supply um the pulse generator and sweep amp generator as well um looks like you know they go up to like 3.3 volts and the ttl logic um can go up to like one megahertz or so and then speaker potentiometers indicators switches leds it's just kind of nice you know it's you have maybe your chips and your op amps and your resistors and capacitors on the working breadboard area and then you know you don't have to worry about having a potentiometer dangling off with some wires uh you just connect to um the little breadboard on the mini kit and um you got your multiple potentiometers multiple switches and leds and speaker bill bill did you get it is in stock yes not inexpensive but i think this would be really good for schools labs companies especially when you have somebody who's working on a project they want to be able to put it away safely bring it back out it's meant to last for a very long time so you know maybe not individual makers would you know want to throw down to get one of these nice lab kits but i could definitely see if you have a prototyping lab in your school or office or company um having one of these will be really handy that's a yeah pie pie pie pie pie pie on ice okay doki um we're gonna do some new products work don't forget side power that's code let's do new new new new new new new new new new new electronic friendship bracelet this is this is for like the cybertaylor swift concert now this is a 300 millimeter long about one foot long swd cable handy for if you say want to debug your metro m7 with a j-link or any other swd debugger this is a 0.05 pitch not 0.1 inch pitch connector like i said very common for arm cortex chips this is a very standardized connector that you would then use to do step debugging or programming so our metro boards tend to have them some more feathers have them you'll see this on almost every kind of dev board okay next up next up we have the corvo 2 dev board from expressive we try to carry all their dev kits i will say that this is the a minimal version of a dev board it is meant to support lcd and camera but it doesn't actually come with the lcd and camera so just be aware of that like it comes as is it has an esp32 s3 on there and it's designed to make it easy to interface with cameras displays it has two microphones on there it has a input and output i2s amplifier and and microphone input so good for like av camera projects with the s3 it sort of replaces an earlier corvo one board which we actually like we did a lot of our initial esp32 s3 development on it that got discontinued so there's this one has battery in speaker out couple buttons um you know some capabilities extra debug port with um it's sorry usb serial port with a usb serial converters or that's why there's two usb ports on there on off switch i think you know good for developers with the s3 you want to especially use the camera and i2s portable support all right the story that showed and i've said to you lady our team our customers our community everybody who makes this thing go called a fruit is the ina 228 power measurement breakout uh does land is actually in mid 2020 and was unable to get chips until like last week so now it's in stock uh this is a really really nice power monitor um we've had the ina 219 the ina 260 it's kind of like the best of them all it's a little more expensive but it can do up to 85 volts common voltage um which is great the other ones i think max out at like maybe 24 volts this can do up to 85 volts and it has a 15 milli ohm 1 percent um current measurement resistor that's a big resistor in the middle there which means it can do up to 10 amps um in one motor up to 2.7 amps in like a different gain mode there's a sub there's an internal gain of four um positive or negative direction and low or high side measurement and it's got a um astonishing 20 bit adc inside of there so even if you're measuring up to 10 amps you can still get sub milli amp um precision and accuracy it's very nice uh you know 20 bit current and voltage measurement device um we've got arduino library for it secret python library coming shortly but basically like you want to have high dynamic range of measurements this is a chip that's going to do it because the other measurements chips like the ina 260 and 219 i think they max out at like 12 or 16 bit resolution and that that extra four bits does help so i do have a live demo put my live demo still works yes let's go let's go ahead okay so i've got here we'll remove this it's a little confusing um i've got here two two feathers one's being measured and one's the measure so this is this is just the feather that's uh connecting to the sensor itself and then this is the sensor so this is the ina 228 and the ina 228 is wired so it's between this battery this battery and this feather board so i'm trying to get everything here so this is a esp 32 feather being powered from this battery and the battery is going through the current measurement hold on live demo um and then this is measuring it so what this what this feather is doing is it's going through three different modes it's going through not sleep mode where the leds on light sleep and deep sleep so i want to show that it does you know just because it's got that 20 bit adc it can measure i mean go up to 10 amps but easily measures the 40 milliamps that is how much it does uh use when it's in running mode and then when it goes into light sleep mode it goes down to like you know one or two milliamps and then when it um goes into deep sleep i will say it's not as precise because the deep sleep mode is about 15 micro amps so that's kind of when you know you might want to do some more averaging um to verify the uh the current draw um or you might want to i i'm honest i didn't reduce the gain by four like i could but it can go down to the microamp range uh it won't be as precise as something designed specifically for micro amp measurements but given that you can go up to 10 amps on this it's a very wide range of you know three decades of current measurement and the voltage measurement is also really great um you can also get temperature from here and we'll also do power measurement for you and we'll actually do the power or uh not just instantaneous power but coulomb counting and it will do the coulomb counting for you continuously and then give you like how much total uh how many total coulombs you've used in power so this is really this is particularly good for low power and high power measurement and overall power usage not just instantaneous voltage and current and that is new product new new new new new new new new new new new new new new yeah um don't forget the code side power because low and high yeah side and uh you know get free stuff too so we're gonna do some top secret because we have a pi five here yeah and uh you can put your questions over discord it if we're type 18 slash discord just go to that gg slash it for um we'll see if there's any questions that come in why we do this let's uh do some yeah there's some questions in all right lady what did you want to show on top secret well i thought you know this is a where pi five it's here okay so the other things really have one yeah one um so we're gonna take photos of it yeah we're also gonna try to get blinket working on it but um pretty cool stuff you know uh they did change the um setup of how the ethernet and usb jacks works so the ethernet's back down here like it was for the pi three the poe port changed uh the camera and um display uh interface ports are now uh smaller they're point uh five millimeters not one millimeter pitch so you'll need those we'll ask you pi zero adapter cables uh you'll use those in order to connect displays and cameras uh very beautiful layout for this power management that creates all these voltages required um an on off switch which is really neat press the button turn on off pcie we chatted about that on the uh desk lady at a last week uh this chip with a nice built-in heat sinking um metal top so it'll be really good for heat dissipation uh the cool new rp one um looks like it's got like a high speed differential bridge um to do the gpio it also handles i think uh either like the usb hub or maybe the ethernet fi i don't know it does a bunch of stuff um fan connector ur connector battery for the real-time clock built into this dialogue chip um this is really like a very pro not that the other raspberry pi is one pro but they really it's just like they're really polishing it up you know like they're really making they feel like they really hit their stride and like okay this is a really nice single board computer so you know it does it does change a couple things like the poe connector has changed um we're gonna have to update our blinket code to support this rp one chip but you know if it's at all like the rp 2040 which spun out of it it'll have you know pwm support it's gonna have multiple i-squared c and spi and ur um neopixel it'll be able to handle a lot of the um stuff that's very challenging to do on a raspberry pi like um controlling motors and steppers um controlling fans um reading analog inputs pwm and leds uh so hopefully that'll all be possible now with this rp one so very exciting but a really beautiful design and uh clearly optimized for cost but also uh tons of great new capability that i'm looking forward to okay uh that's some secret oh we're gonna do some questions and then we'll uh get you ready to there we go i got something like that we okay okay uh first up we'll if we update the software for animated eyes bonnet to work with raspberry pi five should it be needed yes but i boy that's it's low on the priority we have to get like blinker working there's a lot of stuff that a lot of people use um so i think if you really want the animated eyes to work um also we have some other ideas about how we want to do it just use a pi four for an hour pi three and for folks who watch things on youtube because uh we are in the same world as y'all youtube just puts ads on everything now so um they also block ad blockers they have an ad blocker blocker um if you have youtube premium they'll also say like you can't use ad blockers so what can you do and and what do we do well you can also watch it on twitch you can watch it on twitter which is now called x you can watch it on linkedin you can watch it on facebook you can watch it on um is there another one you can use youtube slash dl yeah that's you know to download it and then watch it in p4 yeah um so you can watch in all those places the other thing that we're doing and this is where we can use your help is we're trying to de googleify beta fruit so um if we don't need to have a google analytics thing or a google tracking thing or anything that google has uh nothing against google we just there's a reason they're in court for monopoly stuff um we're trying to uh have it so like when you go to our website you're not being tracked in any weird ways uh they change the way they did things there's a big thing g a four and so we're basically not interested in it and we're opting out of everything but if you have do not track turned on adafruit's one of the few sites that respects that um where we could use your help is buy some once in a while so you know you go to a website and you browse and then later on you get an email from them they're like you have something you were looking around we don't like that we won't do that um when you buy something from us we only send the order confirmation and the shipping information we never spam you we don't sign you up for newsletters we don't do any of that stuff so in business world they're like you're leaving money on the table you should be like you know and also do data sharing with other partners so you don't we don't do any of that stuff because we think if we make the best products and we make them open source so the most people can contribute to them build off them they'll reward us as a company in a community and buy something once in a while so that's what we do um so with video we're just going to keep publishing videos everywhere and wherever videos are streamable from the streaming services that we use we use restream which puts it out to all the places um we'll keep doing it that way and we'll put them in all the platforms and we'll as other platforms are able to stream to where we can do one live video and it goes to all the places we'll just keep doing that and i think there should be a different or better way for video than always forcing people to look at ads especially if they pay um like for youtube premium and it seems a little aggressive to then stop ad blockers and then have these weird tricks inside of your phone or your browser where it's like it's privacy mode but it really isn't anyways um next up i mentioned in show until the mini esp 32 doom player you made last year any plans to revisit and bring into the shop um it's still on my list i'm still getting through as you can see a lot of 2020 based um hardware that was designed and then shelled because we couldn't get hardware so we are um it's there it's not it's not forgotten but it's it's in a big pile okay next up uh during your factory footage videos do you use any of uh basically use any electronics to monitor remote monitor the machinery well we're right there so we don't necessarily have to we have experimented with so we have our work order system that's tied into you know our plm and our i guess management system that we made ourselves um so we can display what's going on that's monitored yeah it's not the actual machine but yeah what the machines do but we have done interesting things like we have air quality monitors that we started doing during cobit and we still have those that to me like the stuff for humans um we really like our air quality to be really good at sign of adafruit so those are ones that are all if you look really close you can see those and then we've done things like oh let's um let's know when the machines are running you know you have vibration sensors we have lots of things you can hook up anything adafruit io we might do something where we can tie it to a specific product when we know something's being made it'll publish on like a social media network like oh we're making these right now they're warm in the oven so we have some ideas but those are some of the things that we've done so far um adabox updates uh mention this i'll mention every week we will be shipping some adaboxes this year in some way shape or form the ship shore to just sort over so we're gonna turn on this big machine we'll probably start very slow and we'll get adaboxes out over a long period of time and then we can ramp up to get adabox every quarter again but it's happening we'll probably yeah we'll probably do like a big like here's a bunch of videos about us relaunching adabox but there'll be adaboxes this year please don't email us and ask where you're online there's a lot of stuff we gotta do first but we will get some out and then uh what do you do with your prototype PCBs that don't work you know a lot of them first off i don't make a lot of prototype PCBs usually like only two per design and so it's not like i have like thousands of them sometimes they get repurposed um sometimes you know if i if i wire them and make them work um by changing register values or cutting a trace or something i'll still use them which is why sometimes you'll see me doing demos i'll have like a purple board or green board it's like oh i just use it personally um and then last question for the night and thanks for the links to all the different video services here's the thing about some of those video services um they have to ramp up really fast and they want to get everyone's content and some of the content isn't moderated and like i'm like oh my gosh there's like really nutty things and then it starts to turn into the recommendations after our videos and it's like stuff that like youtube is bad enough with some things or be you'll be watching stuff and then all of a sudden it's in like flatter's land um but anyways um so we'll check out some of those and if there's ones that we can stream to like we're doing with this um we'll just start doing it next up and last question does they differ from a flexible OLED or TFT RGB display looking for something inside a helmet advisor and flexible ink won't work at night yeah we don't have any flexible OLEDs we once got a sample but it wasn't very good um i've seen flexible OLED displays but they're quite pricey so you can get some that have like um hdmi input but they're they're in they like close to a thousand dollars a piece they're they're very um not low cost um but as soon as the prices come down and like i you know they get closer to maker uh level pricing will definitely stock them oh and like one other follow-up so when we start doing ate a box again there's going to be a bunch of people that are like oh you know during the ship shortage i decided like i'm not going to do electronics anymore or like i moved or credit card thing blah blah blah there's going to be people exiting ate a box because we have all full slots we have thousands of thousands of people that get ate a box and some of them are going to say i don't want to get an ate a box so that means there's an opening so we have a lot of people are signed up for getting ate a box so that'll allow people to come in that we couldn't support before and then once we get this going again we'll be able to add more slots um to eat a box the problem is once you have a part shortage even when the part shortage kind of goes away it's still really hard to get things for like five thousand plus you know units i mean the whole it's still not thing like the entire electronics industry is like clearly like clunking around a bit but we're you know we're able to get some parts we've done a lot of redesigns we're being able to keep everything else in stock um we're doing really good on on getting the things that have been out of stock for the last couple years back in ate a fruit and then a request a super small hdmi displays for vr into the shop i don't look around we'll see if there's a source or if there's something that's around okay all right everybody that is our show for the night thank you so much everyone don't forget the code is side power special thanks to zay and our ate a fruit a select it's helping out behind the scenes as well this has been an ate a fruit production we'll see everybody next week thank you so much for spending your one night with us or wherever you may be watching this whatever network out there good night here's a moment of zener