 First thing I want to do is say head on over to this URL if you want to check out this week's product pick of the week And maybe get a jump start on throwing one of your cart if it looks like something you want And you want to get it on a huge 50% discount Which is excellent for this before I say anymore what I'll do is I will have lady Ada Go back a little bit in time quite a few years In time in fact to to introduce this Parts pal. It's a pal that won't let you down as much parts That's the theme song I'm working on. Yeah, it's a pal that won't let you down Okay, the parts pal is it's a kit of kind of all of the parts that you would want It's kind of a it's a little bit of everything All together in a nice little case. So this is the box It comes with this box. It's a nice latching box and Inside there's multiple bags and each bag contains a different set of components So let's start with the big bag first So you get a half size breadboard so really handy you can put components inside of it You also get a stick of 40 pin breakaway headers. You can break this apart You also have non breakaway female header female headers and come a breakaway style But you can cut it with snips or with strong scissors if you'd like you also have Some wires these are pull apart wires So you can pull them off and you get 20 short wires and 10 long ones and they come in 10 different colors so you get like a full set of colors. That's kind of nice. You also get a bunch of LEDs You get five green five millimeter LEDs and you get five red LEDs that's kind of what we started with and then you also get one 10 millimeter RGB LED I just love these are just so handy because they're like really big. They're great for indicators They're fairly bright as well, and you can use them in the breadboard and Get you know RGB inside of them. So that's kind of nice for for color mixing Next up we have some resistors You don't get a lot of resistors, but you get enough to get started with here's a 10 4.7 K 10 1 K 10 560 ohm and 10 10 K These are kind of resistors that I use the most so that would be handy You also get a bunch of capacitors. These are really handy because you know you can get resistor kits, but capacitor kits are rarer so this is 10 micro farad 50 volt So it's one set and get five of those you get five 100 micro farad 16 volts So of course the lower the capacitance the higher the voltage. It's usually a trade-off. We want to keep it So you know you you really need high voltage use 10 micro farad if you are using Everyday voltages that most makers use this is the 100 micro farad work fine, and then we have 50 volt capacitors And I'm not going to sort these out, but we have ten point one micro farad ten point zero one micro farad and Ten one point no micro farad. So you kind of get a range of Capacitors and the little numbers on them indicate which the value is next up is mechanical Parts and some sensors you get a piezo buzzer. I love these you make beepy sounds. You can also use it as a basic tap sensor You can show my controller pen when you tap it There's a little bit of a voltage spike and also when you square wave out to it You can make tones so very handy breadboard friendly you get three Breadboard friendly friendly slide switches. They fit into a breadboard and they they have you know single pull Double throw. Yeah, that's right. I always get those confused Slide switch, so it's kind of handy to get three of those you get five six millimeter tactile switches these are also breadboard friendly and You know press and then the pins short handy for basic interfaces. These are super common. You get a one kilo ohm potentiometer, so these are nice breadboard friendly potentiometers and With the twisty knob and you get a 10k one so you get one one K and one 10k So it's kind of nice one of each and a nice knob with an arrow I'm getting breadboard friendly and use it with that solderless breadboard all this stuff is breadboard friendly It's just kind of a point you have 10k thermistor It's not as nice as an analog out temperature sensor, but we have code example You can use it as a temperature sensor. You just need one of the 10k resistors and set up a divider And then it's quite easy to measure the voltage and convert it to temperature You get a photocell so light sensor and you get a vibration switch So when you flick it or when something moves the two pins short together So it's another easy way to sense motion. I call it the the poor woman's accelerometer If you just want to tell it something's moved This is a good sensor to use and we're not done yet. We have one more baggy. You can tell there's a lot of parts There's like a hundred and seventy total parts. So you get five power diodes. These are one in four thousand one power diodes So good is fly back or power or four waivers or halfway back to fire. So it's one in four thousand ones You get five signal diodes one in four one four eight Can be used a small fly back. It's also really good for just You know Signal diodes you you don't want to use to put use them for power regulation so much but if you want to you know have Voltage go only one direction you want to Uses as parts of filter or something one LD 33 3.3 volts One amp or so voltage regulator. So if you want me to 3.3 volt output you get that to 78 LO 5's sorry 7805's 1 amp 5 volt regulators So handy if you need to get a 5 volts regulated output and then You get five NPN transistors and five PNP transistors are kind of common. I think they're like 30 volt Transistors about 200 milliamps probably each good for all sorts of power switching. You can actually do quite a bit These are pretty good transistors. So if you want to power high high voltage stuff from a microcontroller pin you can use this You can use it for powering a small motor with the fly back diodes and Do basic stepper motor control and stuff you can make it Slightly crummy, but still functional H bridge if you really really needed to and then finally TLC 555. So this is a Wide voltage range and low current 555 timer I really like this particular 555 It's a little more expensive than the any 555, but it's CMOS not TTL so it comes in foam and You can offer batteries and you can run off of a AAA battery even Which is really nice and I think those up to omega Hertz So great for all sorts of timing needs All right, that's parts pal. That's again. Yeah, there's a lot, but I want to explain every component So I think it covers everything that you'd need when you get this You're kind of you know that you'll have enough to build all the projects that you're working on Can be used with any kind of microcontroller microcomputer electronics project. You do analog 555 timer Except no limitation. Don't buy breadboard buddy. He's not your buddy He's not your buddy. It's not breadboard buddy. It's parts pal. We also want to have a bit gender neutral. Yeah Yeah pals pal Yes, that's right pal is pal So let me flip the camera down here. Look at that right there that Is my product pick of the week this week it is the parts pal So parts pal is fantastic for any time you're going to travel and need to grab some emergency Electronics if you're going to work on projects go somewhere where you're not sure what you're going to encounter and it's fantastic as a beginner Kit for doing a lot of the types of projects that you want to do when you're learning how to use microcontrollers in particular Or just electronics in general, but it's really great for microcontroller projects if you look at some of the getting started books and Tutorials that we have up on Adafruit if you're doing something on an Arduino on a circuit Python board of some kind New Raspberry Pi Pico or even a Raspberry Pi full board single board computer You often want the types of parts that are in here for doing your intro projects. So let me jump down here to The down shooter. I'll just show you some of the highlights of what you get in here So first of all you get this nice Impossible to open. No, let's get this nice case And in here we have breadboard Jumpers some nice jumper wires here as well as some header pins breakaway headers You've got the Let's see here are LEDs. So you can use these for indicators when you're doing blinkin LED types of projects Really good for indication. We also have a pack of different types of capacitors We have resistors in a few different flavors that are kind of the ones You're going to want when you're getting started or when you have general repairs to do We have in this bag Transistors we have voltage regulators. We've got a 555 timer and op amp All kinds of good stuff there Diodes that I mentioned and then we also have a pack here with I can dump these in the In a little tray there. We have a piezo buzzer. We've got switches slide switches some trim trimmer potentiometers a Little photocell light sensor. This is a little vibration sensor. You can use it sort of like an accelerometer or a tap sensor thermistor for measuring temperature Here's that 555 timer So you'll you'll frequently do these types of things with it when you're just first learning if you're if you're putting together Projects based on some of the getting started tutorials be it for micro python circuit python arduino You will usually have your microcontroller and then it'll say okay plug it into a breadboard and then add these parts to these pins So here you can see I've got ground going to one leg of an LED The other leg of the LED is going through a resistor and then through another jumper wire back over to one of the pins And I'm sending it a really basic blink project But next thing you'll do is you'll upgrade to hey, I need a button and maybe I need to add a potentiometer and then I can start the LED blinking and adjust its rate with the knob those are the types of things that you'll Definitely want to do when you're getting started So this this kit makes a really good gift if you're giving someone a microcontroller and helping them get started This is a really nice. You don't have to assume they have anything They're they're pretty much going to have what they need for the basic types of projects and even some some more advanced ones So Let's see. I don't know if there's much more to say about it What I'll do is I will show you here is the parts pal on The Adafruit site right there and you can see during the show right now It's 998 so you can get it for half price maximum of ten of them ten of them for per customer So if you have big big plans that might be That might be something you can take advantage of there here you can see Go to this view of the world for a second. You can see all those parts laid out there So that's a really nice representation of what you'll get in there. It's a lot a lot of stuff Also, if you take a look over here, this is Let me go to my learn page This is some of the learn guides that you'll encounter so here's some getting started in micro python From Tony to Cole I think catney has some getting started in micro python and circuit python on Pico that also use pretty much just parts in the parts pal And you can see other projects where we just needed a few of these parts to augment other stuff that was going on so a lot of a lot of great learning stuff and And and beyond that you can do with the parts pal there So Sorry, yeah, sorry by the way for the the buffering I am as Todd said in the chat I am recording this separately so I can release a fixed version of this later But I think that'll probably do it for us. So head on over here That is what's the id number on this this is 2975 head on over to 2975 right there. There's the url Pick those up. Those are on discount just during the show You don't need a coupon code. Just buy it during the show and you will get it for the half-off discount And that's only good during the show And a little grace period after Hopefully even though the the show is buffering live, you'll be able to catch up on this later in in the the archived version of it and I hope this convinces you to go get one now and get it on the discount price Let's see. What else? I think that's going to do it. So Let's let's finish this up and then I'll go yell at the internet. I'll shake my fist at the rain too Let me try to fit this back into its container here so I can Put it up on my pegboard The case has a nice hang tag on there. Don't break that off if you're using a pegboard to to hang this sort of stuff That is my product pick of the week this week. It is our best friend the parts pal braided fruit industries. I am The buffering john park and I will see you next time. Bye. Bye