 New, new, new, new, new, new, new, new. All right, so here is this little holder here. Yes, this is a battery holder. I actually got these by accident, but I was like, these are kind of cool. These are used in like little toys or like wearable jewelry. This is a coin cell holder with a little button and a little bit of circuitry and it goes through flashing modes. So even though it's like a coin cell holder, you know, it provides three volts to whatever you've got. When you press the button, it goes through three different modes. Fast flash, slow flash, and then count it on. And then of course, you press again, it goes off. So, you know, I think yes, it's used for LEDs and little LED decorations, but I think there could be also projects where you want something to not be on all the time or you want to, you know, maybe make some, you know, I'm thinking like folks who do squishy circuits or other basic electronic circuits where you don't want to have a microcontroller blinking at LED. You could just use this instead. So let's go to the overhead and I can show off the demo. So I actually have it with the other LED product. I'm going to show off. This is a gigantic LED with a diffuser. I press it once and turns on. Fast flashing, press it again. Hold on, my camera is like so upset. Hold on. Okay, sorry. So you press it off. Fast flashing, slow flashing. Click again on constantly and then press one more time to turn off. So I think still pretty handy comes with bare wires. I've started them on or you can use alligator clips to connect to whatever you wish. Okay, next up. Okay, we've got mechanical keys, multiple different mechanical keys. We've got, these are reds. So these are Kale box reds. So you can see there's a box on the top and that's what your key cap plugs into. So these are, you can plug them into our Neo-Key, our Neo-Key breakout boards. They are all equivalent to Cherry MXes. So if you have something that's Cherry MX compatible, you can use these. So just, there's four different colors. I'll go through all of them, but they're all my count for the same size. They just have different feelings to them, which I'll have to try to be evocative. So the reds are linear and they're kind of the most popular. So we'll start with those. The next one are the bottom. That's the bottom. Yeah, you can see they plug in. Next up are the Kale box blacks. So these are a little, they're also linear. They don't have any sound. They're a little bit stiffer than the reds. Some people like the blacks. They're equivalent to Cherry MX blacks. Again, you have the same size and shape. They plug into our sockets, whatever. Then there's the browns. And the browns are tactile. What does that mean? It's like when you press it, there's a little bit of a bump to them. It's not an audio click, like it isn't a sound loud, but there is like a little bit of a bump so you can feel that's been pressed. And these are equivalent to Cherry MX Browns. And then finally, there's the Kale box whites. And these are actually clicky. So if you want loud clicky buttons, these are the clickiest by far. Maybe I'll even take one out and I'll demonstrate the clickiness. That's me clicking. It's clicky. So these are the clickiest. And then, can you feel the clicky? Yeah, why don't you focus it on? Yeah, it's tough because it's white. I love contrast there. The browns, again, these are, they have, I can just feel like, ooh, there's a little bit, it's hard to tell. You gotta just feel them. There's a little bit of a bump to them so you can really feel that you're pressing them. And then the blacks, which are a little bit stiffer than the reds. And then of course the reds, which I think I stole for a project, so I don't have them here. And then you can get keycaps and anything that has this X, top two, you can see there's a little X to it, snaps onto the box to make for a keycap. So, you know, you want a keycap, again, anything that's Cherry MX compatible is within this family, it'll work just fine. You click here, it clicks content. Okay. And then you had shown this little, have circle light up thing before. Yeah, this is an LED, I mean, we have these like strip LED backlights. These are hemisphere ones. I think these are used for like car gauges or something with LCD car gauges, but not sure exactly. They're kind of cool if you want like a unique shape. They have two LEDs in parallel in them so provide them with like 30 or so milliamps. They just look like a white LED so give them like 3.3 volts, put a resistor in line, there's more than 3.3 volts going into them. PWM them, again, it's just that LED was a gigantic diffuser. All right, next up. Next up, iSquared C Mini. This is a little iSquared C helper buddy from X Camera Labs. So they make the iSquared C driver and the SPI driver. So this is a little mini board that has firmware that can communicate with your computer. They have Python 2 and Python 3 libraries and some other libraries that'll let you send and receive commands from iSquared C devices. So the larger one has like a TFT screen and like debug info and all that good stuff. This one's meant to be small and inexpensive. It's got a CP 2104 USB serial converter chip so there's drivers available and then it just sends commands back and forth over serial. And this one, what I like about it is it has a STEMI QT compatible port on it. You can also plug in SparkFun QuickBoards and they come with a cable so you just plug in any board with header on it if you'd like. Next up, we've got these NeoPixel dots and these are funky. I gotta explain these because they are not what they seem. So most NeoPixels, what we call NeoPixels are basically shift registers. When you send them data, the data, you send a strand of data down into the first NeoPixel. The first NeoPixel will take the first three bytes off of the data that's coming through and pass the rest along. Kind of bucket brigade the data over. And that's what lets you basically chain as many NeoPixels as you want together. You just keep chaining them and you just send more data. Each one only grabs the data it needs and passes the rest along. And that's why NeoPixels have inputs and outputs because the data comes on the input, gets reduced, and then sent out the output. And these are not, these are prefixed address LEDs. So what's interesting about these LEDs is they are NeoPixel protocol compatible but they don't have an input and output. They just have a data line. And the LEDs are 100 of them, zero through 99, they are considered uniquely addressed. And if you cut the strip and we wire it, it doesn't matter which pixel comes first in the strip. They all will respond as if they were in that long strand. This is a little bit of a mind twist, right? Because we're used to like, oh, the first LED is the first LED. In this case, the first LED is pre-programmed to be first and no matter where it is physically on the strand, it will act as the first one. So if you chop out 50 to 60. It'll still act like 50, 60, even if you put it at the beginning. Yeah. Very weird. That's good to know. But this one, so you're like, why would I ever want this? Because here's the thing, you can't have more than 100. Like these are pre-addressed, you can't get another strand. Like if you get multiple strands and tie them all together, they'll all act the same, right? One will act like one, two will act like two. Exactly. Like if you chain them at the end, there's not gonna be like, you don't get to extend it. However, there are situations where maybe you have a costume or you have a build where you don't want to have, you want to have addressable strips, but they have to be like in a tree. Like they branch out from a central point, but you still want to address them uniquely. This is what it would be good for because even though they're all connected to the same input, they act as individual LEDs. Or if you want to have, another nice thing is if one pixel breaks, it doesn't break the rest of the strip, where that's another nice thing about these. Because again, that one data line, it's not a bucket brigade, it's all shared. So if one gets cut out, one gets damaged, one gets smashed, it doesn't matter the rest of strip still works. So kind of interesting, a little bit weird, but kind of cool. I think that there are some situations where people would want them, but just be aware you don't want to mix these with like normal neopixels unless you really know what you're doing, because if you think about it, like it's counterintuitive to how most people are used to now using neopixels for like the last 10 years. This is like, okay, now it's hard-coded. It's hard-coded and you're probably wondering, hey, can I change the hard-coded address? And the answer is no. We don't know how to do it. There might be, I have no idea how you would do it. All right, next up, we have an update, another version of the Loeb Kit. Yeah, so this Loeb Kit is now available with the Raspberry Pi for two gigabyte as a pack. However, we're out of stock on those too. We have sold out of all of our Raspberry Pis at the moment of this broadcast. That said, we have the pack without the Raspberry Pi. So if you have a Raspberry Pi 4, check it out and you can experiment with the free Microsoft Loeb system for programming your own custom AI models. Next up. This SHT31 is a popular temperature and humidity sensor from Syriana and we now have it in STEMI QT format. Yay, same as before, but now in our standard pinout order and physical shape, we also have a little cutout to keep it isolated. We've been going through and STEMI QT of finding all of our old sensors. So the SHT31, you know and love a great little sensor, still has that protective cover on it, the Teflon cover is a good sensor and we have Python Arduino circuit Python code for it. And now you plug and play it. Hey, you can plug it into that iSquared C mini that we showed earlier. All right, we have two starters to show tonight besides you, Lady Aida, our community, our customers and all of our team. First one up. First up is the QT Pi. Okay, QT Pi RP2040 is finally here. We previewed this. It's now live. It's the same QT Pi that is so adorable that you know and love. Now, you can see on the bottom it's like super power. Cause people were like, how could you make a QT Pi M4? And I kind of forgot to it. But this is kind of the same. It's going to be as fast as the SAMD 51. It's got eight megabytes of flash memory. It's got that 130 ish megahertz dual core cortex M0 runs circuit Python. There's going to be an Arduino core runs micro Python. It's got USB-C, all the goodies. So let's maybe let me show it off on the overhead and I can give it a tour. Hold on, I got to find my plug. My magical plug. Can you get my magical plug? So actually have it potentially some of these neopixel dots. Okay, so USB-C, little fella here. So it's got power pins. So over here you've got your five volts ground, three volts pin. You've got the SPI pins in the same location, clock data and data out. You've got two UART pins, hardware UART RX and TX. You've got I squared C data and clock. And then here's something different than the original QT Pi for the SAMD 21. This is a different I squared C port cause there's two ports available on the RP2040. So this is the second port. So you actually get two extra pins because these don't conflict with these SDA pins. And then you've got the four analog inputs cause there's four analog inputs on the RP2040. You've got the boot button and you've got the reset button and the boot button after you've loaded your program, you can use this as a GPIO pin input. So you can use this as a user button as well after you've booted. And then on the bottom, you've got the RP2040, a crystal, again, eight megabytes of flash memory, capacitors and all that good stuff. And then this little jumper, this is for Bill Binko who always wanted to have a way to have, when this finally has USB host capability published and documented, you can use this for USB host as well. So it's super adorable and small. It's basically pin compatible as the SAMD 21 QT Pi, but of course, tons more powerful. And of course it has all the support circuitry. Oh, there's also a NeoPixel on the front. I forgot to mention, so you can blink to your heart's content. I would like it. I think this is gonna be a fun and popular board. It's really powerful. It's got 11 IOs available for very tiny projects where you don't need all the stuff that the feather has, battery charging, lots of GPIO pins. This will do the job. It's very cute and it's also got cast-related pads if you'd like to use those. So I think this could be a good little engine when you need something very small, very portable. And that USB-C is, it's a wonderful connector. Goes either way. It's nice and strong, but easy to use. All right, one of our new boards, Funhouse. Okay, also we have double the goodies this week. So Funhouse is our home automation board based on the ESP32 S2, which is now circuit Python compatible. And recently I saw 2.0 expressive Arduino support added for the ESP32 S2, which is great. So we were thinking about doing home automation projects and what would we want in a platform that's really just for home automation. We did a couple projects with the Metro ESP32 S2 to do home automation, but we're like, well, wouldn't it be great if I had all these sensors built in and I had a TFT built in. And there was so much stuff that we were like, oh, hey, can you have this built in that we're like, you know, we should just, we should just make a board that is really designed specifically for home automation. And hopefully we'll even have home assistance support for it as well. So let's look at it on the overhead. So I'll turn on the TFT in a moment. Okay, I'll zoom out, this is so big. You already zoomed out? Okay. There we are. You might wanna show the, here we go. Okay, so this is the, I'll turn it on a little, I'll just wanna show things off. Move the protector. That's good, you should, but you know, also show the amazing silkscreen lighting. So it's silkscreen by Phil B. Did a wonderful job here. I just said, okay, it's like a, you know, it's like a triangle top board, but he took it a step further and made it really goth, which is great. So on the front here, we've got three GPIO buttons. You got button input, so that's great. This is the reset button and there's also a little doorbell, it's a piezo buzzer. Now this is the on-off switch, so I can plug this in now. And we always like it that you can turn off things, especially stuff where it's like sensing. So let's turn this off, turn it back on, quite nice. And then we've got the buttons. So if I press this button, you can see this lights up, up and down. And when I press it, it's gonna go beep, beep, beep. That little piezo, so good for notifying, doing audio projects. There's a little red LED here just for indication. And of course there's five dot star LEDs at the top, which is wonderful. It's like a little Christmas tree lights on your house. A light sensor if you need one. And this is kind of neat. The ESP32-S2 has native capacitive touch support. So we added, here is when you touch the crows, the little goth crows, when you touch them, you can see the cap touch number goes up so you can detect capacitive touch as well. And then there's also a slider here, although this code example doesn't have it, but this is a five element slider. So you can use this to dim your lights or raise volume or lower it. So touch the tree to change the volume or just use a slider control with capacitive touch. And then down here we have a humidity and temperature and barometric pressure sensor. And people are always asking me to add cutouts so it's not affected by the heat of the Wi-Fi or power supply. So there's a little cutout. That's why there's these slots here to keep it as isolated as possible. You can see the temperature and barometric pressure and humidity here. And over here is a PIR sensor slot. And of course I forgot to bring it, but you can plug in a PIR sensor into it on the front and it points out to do a motion detection because that's a common thing for home automation. And then on the back, you've got the ESP32-S2 with four, is it two megabytes of PS RAM or four? Can't remember. I think it's two megabytes of PS RAM, four megabytes of flash memory. ESP32-S2, which is great for circuit Python. I've got good circuit Python support for it. It's got Arduino support for it as well. It's basically like your ESP32 that people know and love, but it's got USB support, which makes it great for circuit Python. It shows up as a disk drive. There's a reset button, sorry, a boot button over here for putting it into boot litter mode. And then we've put extra Stemma ports over here. So these are analog input ports that you can connect a digital or analog sensors to. Each one of them is analog input or digital IO. So you've got three ports. So good for water sensors or magnetic relay sensors or relays that you wanna control something with or if you want external ladder speaker or other motion type sensors or break beam sensors. So lots of different sensors that we have in the shop that people wanna use for home automation or sensing around their house. You would plug that into here. And then of course you could have the sensor be far away from this board because let's say you wanna plug in a water sensor. If the water sensor's on the board, you're gonna destroy the board because it's sensing water and it's like, it's gonna freak out. But if you have the water sensor plugged in here, then you can have the wire go far away. It was a Stemma QT connector here. So you can of course connect any one of our iSquared C devices. This is a TFT connection and of course our favorite USB-C. And then we've got these SMT nuts. And here's a, while we were designing this field, we said, hey, you know, by the way, your design is really close to the same size as a Raspberry Pi mounting holes. Like I was only a few minutes, just by coincidence when laying out this board. So we did is we actually made it so it's exactly the same hole pattern as a Raspberry Pi. So you could actually like literally if you had long screws, you could just screw it onto a Raspberry Pi computer or use a Raspberry Pi case or accessory. So you can actually kind of act as like a Pi shield and do all the sensing stuff for you that the Raspberry Pi, you know, that would maybe go into Home Assistant and this would do your sensing, your NeoPixels, your button inputs. Analog to digital converter. Analog to digital conversions. Even the DAC, it's got a DAC built in so you can do digital to analog. All that stuff. Get a home automation hat. Yeah, like I mean, I think also you could have it be remote and control, you know, communicate over wifi. So I think like, you know, we've been playing with Home Assistant a little bit and other home automation projects. So I think that this is kind of like what would be a really good base for home automation projects using CircuitPython or Arduino or using it with the Adafruit IO. So we've got a couple that we've made. We're still manufacturing some more. We'll get them into the shop. So if you've got ideas for home automation, check us out, see if this will do what you want. If not, let us know what other sensors you want to be able to plug into it to extend and create your own custom home automation projects. Let's do it. Let's do it.