 From the vault. Okay. Got a few things. Okay. First up. We are very interested in this idea of contact tracing. Yeah. And location tracing. Location tracing. And we're interested in the, I think it's called infection notification. Yeah. From Google and Apple that they have that if you're exposed to someone with COVID. Yeah. It has a really low-level operating system. Bluetooth low-energy thing. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's like a little advertising. Yeah. And that's for public health groups. And you'll probably hear about that app more. You've probably heard about it a lot. What we're doing for our team and what we're in the middle of is, so I'll just use an example. So Lady Aida and I go to the Adafruit factory every day. Every day we have things that we do. Yeah. And we know when people are there. We know when we're there. And we also know if one of us got ill, we would want to tell every single person that we interacted with from the last week or so. Hey, you know, one of us got ill. Now there's lots of testing. At least more testing in New York. Let's listen to one of us tested positive for COVID. We would be able to say, hey, Jeanine, you were on the 7pm shift two days ago. One of us got tested positive. Let's figure out the right protocols for you. So if you have any symptoms, we now have contact tracing. Yeah. And that's what you hear in the news because someone in other countries what they do is someone will call you, talk to you. Who did you work? Who did you talk to? Who are you with? We're all these things. But we have 300 million people. We have a lot of million people here. So one of the things we built was something for Adafruit. This is private. This is for Adafruit. So let's say I get the notification, you know, you and I, one of us test positive. Oh, I got to tell everybody. So what I can do is immediately do a data dump of where I've been for the last week. I'm also adding some features, calling the teams doing that where we had my temperature log that I want to do each day. So here's a quick video. This is us just testing this out, not too far from Adafruit. And this is just one of the things it does. It just keeps a log of where I was. And because I have a very specific schedule and I know everyone that I've interacted with and when, if something came up, I can dump the data log. It goes to myself. And I can then match that up with my schedule and people so I can notify everybody who we interacted with. So that's our contact tracer that we're working on. Next up, we are doing a no contact thermometer using feather. And we hope to have a very low cost version that we can make lots of. Here's a quick demo. First Adafruit, no contact IR thermometer test. Worked out. This is using Adafruit feather. Got it done. It's just some stuff we had lying on the house. There you go. Good stuff. Round one. Then we explored the world of UVC. Yes. This video is about four minutes. So check it out. It has a lot of good information. We bought and had a bunch of things. We're working on some UVC stuff, but we wanted to test it with the real equipment that you need to test these things. So take it away past us. What is this? Yeah, you cool cats and kittens. They're going to be testing out some UVC decontamination lights and LEDs. We picked up an X tech UVC light meters SDL 470. You can pick these up at digikey.com. They're not inexpensive, but this is really the only way to get calibrated UVC light sensing. Yeah. I've seen all the online ads that everyone else has for all sorts of UVC looking things. So not only are we developing some at Adafruit, but we had to have this testing equipment, which we have. And we also bought ones to figure out which ones are good and which ones are not. So this is the calibrated UVC sensor. So the first thing we're going to test out is this like decontamination baggie. Yeah. You're supposed to like put your phone in it and you're like, they say leave it in there for like, you know, two hours or something. Okay. So for this one, we're measuring, you know, at the bottom of the bag, kind of in the center, about 100, 225 microwatts per centimeter squared of UVC light. And then we're going to check out this little handheld ball. 11 watt. So yeah, 11 watt sterilization. So a couple inches away. And this one is, you know, about five times as much light. It's about 500 to 600 microwatts per centimeter squared. And how long would you have to leave something in the box and then that's so far to decontaminate? Okay. So looking it up, the notes are for decontamination of an N95 mask, one joule per centimeter squared. And then for inactivation of coronaviruses, which I don't know the difference between inactivation decontamination, maybe just means they just don't function anymore, but they're still there. It's only one millijoule. So for this one, if you want to decontaminate three hours to deactivate one minute, for this one to decontaminate, it would be about 30 minutes, so half an hour, and to inactivate 10 seconds. So this is pretty good. This is a nice wand, you have a wand something over. Yeah. And you just do it continuously, making sure you got 10 seconds total for surface. All right, then we have a bigger one. Then we have this big one. And what's interesting is this is, you know, this holder wasn't actually meant for UVC light. So it was funny because we were like testing it and we're like, oh my god, the value is zero. But it's actually because this plastic cover is UVC filtering, which is good because usually you don't want to have UVC light. So being very careful, don't look at this. Yeah. It is about, you know, 500 to 800 microwatts per centimeter, so almost a whole milliwatt per centimeter. Put that on immediately. Okay, and then you have a couple other options. These are the UVC LEDs. We're experimenting with a lot of these. This is one type and one model and we're not happy with the performance yet, but we need to figure out some stuff. So this one, look how close we are. So getting it really close. It's only like 65. So it's half as strong as even this like decontamination bag for iPhones. Yeah. And this was a lot more expensive. So, you know, I'm not really convinced by UVC LEDs. I mean, these bulbs are easily available. If you get a real UVC bulb, it seems like, you know, they're quite powerful, even ones that are meant for, you know, this is for aquariums. And then finally, you got this like disco light. So this is what you see everywhere. They're, and, you know, they charge 20 bucks or whatever. And a lot of people, I've seen photos online where they're like, I have this and, you know, they put on top of their like shoe rack or something like that. This does absolutely nothing. Zero. Zero. It's a purple light. Zero. Zero. This does nothing. This has no UVC light coming from it. It's great for your black light room. Yeah. It's great if you want to find stains on your white sheets, I guess, but it is not useful for decontamination. So this one, you can do some things. So here we go. It goes up to, you know, if you get really close. You can really touch it. It adds up close. Yeah. It's like 2,000. Yeah. It even changes units. It's like up to a milliwatt. Of course, you want it to be a little far away. Yeah. But then I think this one is, this one's really good. And these bulbs are not too expensive. You know, they're only, you know, they're only like 20 bucks a piece. This one, it can go up to two. If you're really close. Three. Yeah. So let's put this back on. Okay. All right. So don't look at the bulbs. Yeah. But now you know the secret of UVC decontamination bulbs versus LEDs. We're learning a lot too. So we'll post more as we learn more. All right. And just a little bit of recap. Yeah. The UVC LEDs have a huge heat sink. The purple light, you know, you want that one to work because it looks cool. It's like, boy, that'd be great if that purple light did something. It does nothing. The goggles, they do nothing. Also, Philby is working on some cool stuff. This is an amazing light painter that's powered by CircuitPython. And then I want to talk a little bit about one of our next big projects that we're going to try to do. We want to get everyone who needs a mask in New York City a mask. And we're just going to bypass all the things that is hard for people like logos. We already have one. Nice logo there. Thanks, Bruce. So NYC makes masks is what we're calling this. So during this entire crisis, a lot of things we didn't have. And according to elastic, but now we have a lot. Well, according to a lot of people who do this for living, virologists, infectious disease specialists, there's a good chance we're going to be back to dealing with this in September. And you know, it'll take me a long time to process. I'm still trying to keep it all together and help as much as I can. After this, I'm just going to like need a week to just like think about what happened. But we didn't have a lot of things we needed. And we kept running into roadblocks. And I say we as a community and a society and as a group of people in New York, the supply chains started to close down being able to get things like masks, simple masks. These used to be 30 cents. Now they're like $5 each. So there's so many things that we said, Okay, let's do what we can with what we have now. New York City needed face shields. We stopped everything, pivoted, became an essential business for not only for like ventilator components and things that other groups needed because we have the manufacturing capability, but also face shields. One of the things we don't have is masks. And we need masks in New York City. These are the blue surgical ones. These are things like the fabric masks, filtering ones, something in the N95 world. So what we're going to try to do is a fundraise and you're probably saying, well, why don't you just ask like one of these like rich VCs or these oligarchs that have billions of dollars that always say I want to change the world. Especially ones who funded companies that based their hardware off of our hardware. Yeah, so that's not going to happen. I spent the weekend talking to all of them and they're not going to do it. So I think I understand the reason they want to work on a vaccine. They want to they want to deploy it on blockchain or something. But the thing that we know is every person needs a mask. So other countries, when you go into the subway, you can get a mask. When you get out of the subway and get a mask. When you go to work, you get a mask. In New York City, there's dog parks everywhere. Someone has a job where they put in a little blue bags to put dog poop in. We figure this out. And so I want to make sure everyone has a mask around New York City. Yeah, there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't have a mask. The cloth ones, they're fine, but people have to remember to wash them. They have to do things. If you look at countries, specifically in Asia who have had to deal with this, there's face masks everywhere and they're manufactured there. And so what we're trying to do is take all the money that we have raised with a plastic bag ban. Sure. And then we can spend that money on getting people masks. So we have a loan request from our bank Chase. They got back to us today. They said, look, we're doing all this PPP loan stuff. We'll get to you when we can. We're talking to other financial institutions. And I'll tell you why we're trying to get a loan. The machines go from $500,000 to $5,000,000. We think we can do this for $800,000. Sounds like a lot. It's not. Every single one of our machines at Adafruit is over a million dollars. It puts the components on circuit boards. For us, this is normal. $800,000 would be a deal for a machine for us. But this one specifically makes masks. First, it would be $10,000 a day than $20,000. And then we'd be able to do a million a week. And if we really are serious about reopening the economy, everyone needs a mask. We don't have a vaccine. We don't have millions of people tested every day. Everyone who's going to have to go to work, essential workers who are going to work, we all need masks. They need to be so prevalent that you don't even need to think about it. And then there's a lot of underprivileged communities. There's a lot of homeless. There's a lot of people that are just never going to have them. And we have to make that happen. So that's going to be an effort. We're going to change our site so we can have a GoFundMe section. We're going to talk to people who said, I'm ready to help. If we have Plan A and Plan B, Plan C, if we can't manufacture them, no problem. We're an importer of goods. We will continue to buy hundreds of thousands of masks. We have some on the way right now. And donate them. Exactly. So that is one of our goals. A mask for every person. We're calling it NYC Mixed Mask. We want to have the manufacturing capability. So in September, if we're back to this again, there's no like, what about it? Where's a mask? Are they in China? Where are they? Oh, they're stopped at the border. Oh, no. They're commandeered. Oh, no. This is something we can make here. So that's our big plan. That's top secret. You'll hear about it more soon. Back in the vault. Okay.