 Hey, what's up, folks? Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noelle Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. I enjoy my every week. This is my brother, Pedro. Good morning, everybody. I'm Pedro. I create a tech here at Adafruit. And every week, we're here to share 3D-printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is where we combine 3D-printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody hanging out in the Discord chat room. We'll take a moment to welcome everybody to the show. This is episode... Sorry. Let me do my thing and then you can shout people out. That's it. This is episode 408 called Master Store Talking to You 20 and Pool Float. Coaster. Hello, everybody. Discord. Pedro, go ahead and tell people. Good morning, everybody. That's all. We're hanging out in all of the chat rooms. Over to discord.gg slash Adafruit. Also hanging out in Facebook chat on Twitch. On Periscope and LinkedIn. Is it still called Periscope? I think so. Is it Xscope? Maybe we'll call it Xscope. I don't know if I can pronounce what the X sounds like. Xscope. Oh, it's like G. G. Something like that, yeah. So we're hanging out Discord. Some people are saying hello. Hello to Dewester. Paul Cutler. Hello, folks. Good morning. We are hanging out in that Discord. If you'd like to join the Discord, you can go to our URL. It's up here in the social banner that I just popped up. Discord.gg slash Adafruit. That will give you the invite link to it. And we're hanging out in the live broadcast chat channel. It's right there in the sidebar under general. Lots of other channels as well. Help with all the different things. 3D printing, Arduino, circuit python, et cetera. Yeah, we have a packed show. Awesome new project. Got some prototype stuff. A very fun summer themed time-lapse Tuesday video. And then we have a lot of community makes this week that we're going to get through. So I'll go ahead and start off with paying some bills. 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Let's go ahead and jump into this week's project. This week's awesome project is the remake of Master Sword. Yeah, from Legend of Zelda and every Zelda game, the Master Sword is the iconic sword that seals the darkness as Princess Zelda sets herself. So, Pedro, you did this project a couple of years ago using the prop maker feather wing. And that needed two boards, the prop maker feather wing plus like an M4, I think it was. And, you know, now that we have the all in one dev board, the feather prop maker, RP2040. How different was it to remake this project? So, so remaking this project is definitely a lot more pleasurable when you have a bunch of terminals and everything built into the board. So you don't have to create this pretty big sandwich. You have a bunch of cool features like being able to adjust your audio gain on the, you have like servo inputs and everything is a lot more modular. So when we're building a lot of things, we have to continuously take things apart and be able to just screw off the components. So much more easier, a lot more, a lot less wear and tear when you're documenting. And then just general assembly when you're trying to figure out the order in which to install everything definitely makes it way more easier. And because it started Python, you know, just getting the code in there, obviously way more enjoyable. Having USB C being a little bit more modern. So you don't have to go around and especially with the max, there's just USB C. So it's just C to C on there. You don't need adapters for that. I think charges are right on there, having the ability to add even additional stuff like with the stem of port. You can have it be, you know, sensing some sort of, you know, humidity or temperature or anything like that. So you can actually turn this into like a environmental sensing board or fun stuff like a screen. You can add a screen or the LED backpacks if you're doing something with the little LED matrices or even the character things that could be cool for some sort of ammunition thing. Lots of fun stuff that's yet to be explored with the stem of QT. Yeah, I'm glad you said the screen. I need to remember that one since I forgot the Five Nights of Freddy, one of the new DLCs. Yeah, it's like a wrench that has like a little display on it with like sound effects. Definitely got to do that and incorporate the screen into that with the little rotary encoder. So there's so many cool props that we can do now since everything is all squished into just one little board. It makes it a lot more easier to fit things inside of. So before with the board since we, it required such a thick sandwich with both boards on there. I had to completely hollow out the handle, making a little bit, you know, the wall thickness of that was super thin. Now I can start thicken it up since I don't need all that space in there and dedicate all those the thickness to actually making it battle ready. So you can actually use this without a fear that you have such a thin wall on your prop. So definitely increases the rigidity of it. Some of the things that we tried doing like with the lightsaber was sending this in to was a JLC. It was quickly rejected because they didn't want swords to be three printed. But of course we got to find, you know, the light at the end of the tunnel with that. Yeah, you can do like custom pan tone colors with them, but what they can't do is do this dual tone sort of paint with glare on it. So if you can see on the camera at certain angles, it's blue and then at other angles, it's like a purple. So you have to use those really cool gradient dual tone filaments. Yeah, definitely made me go, well, okay, cool. In the time that you guys took to figure out that you couldn't even print it. I had the entire sword already printed out. Yeah, cool. Okay. Yeah, I think some projects make sense to, you know, to try getting printed in resin from a printing service. Folks that have their own resin printer just make themselves. But yeah, you have so much more I think options with filament. There you can totally see it right there. It's like a blue. Yeah. Yeah, it's a really good use of the of this purple. I'm not sure what the name is. Oh my God, it looks so good. It's like a multi coated glitter. Let me see if you can see all that glitter on there too. It looks so beautiful. Like the way that it just brings out the details. It gives you that shine. And the filament is like super nice and sturdy too. There's no stringing on it. Man, it is beautiful. This is from Stronghold. I'll pull it up while you talk more about it. Yeah, but just have the that filament right there because that was one of the things that it was dreading to from the old project having to paint the whole sword. And for this one, all I had to do was just paint in the little details for that and then add the other paracord. You could paint that detail and you could kind of see that it is still sort of baked in there. Some of the leftovers from the original model that was created by Chaos Cortex Garrett. Okay. This is a modified updated version of that. So one of the other things, the first one was just completely glued. Even the board was just glued in there. Now everything has screws. So it's all fastened. Nice. Like, see there that was lazy and do all of the screws, but that's just enough to make it nice and sturdy. So all of the blades are connected. Bring up the other one. Let's say here that we're using M 2.5 screws to connect all of the blades together and then M3 screws to connect the halves. So these just one half of that will connect together. And then the other thing too is since the sword is pretty big, we want to make sure that it was the tips were compatible with the longer blade or the shorter blade. So you could pick which size blade you want to print out. If you just print the extra piece, it's pretty much this entire giant, like 100 millimeter extra that you can add onto there. You can see the difference between. It's huge. Yeah. Yeah. But if you want to print the full sized one, you can definitely go at it. It has all of tabs and everything you need to connect that and make this giant. Claymore. Yes. Claymore. That's what we're looking for. Yeah. Two-handed sword. Yeah. I mean. It's going to be more pixels. Yeah. The cost doesn't go up. Cost goes up. Battery life goes down. Yeah. So then, you know, the primary leases like toys for the kids. So probably something this big, they're, they can't swing this around. They're going to hit things. So. Yeah. I think it's all produce. Right. So you can travel that much better convention. Or kiddos. So I think it works for both. Yeah. Good length of sword. I think you found a happy medium. And it's all done in Circa Python. Shout out to Liz for converting the code over. She just kind of, you know, reworked the, the pinouts and change the audio setup. So instead of using the analog audio, it's using the I2S audio. It's, it's way better audio. Oh my God. Yeah. So in the last sword, I had to like drill out these little speaker holes because you didn't have, you know, such a fine tuning of the audio with this one. Like I didn't even do that because it's so loud that, you know, the, the hole coming out of the Palmo is plenty. And if I wanted it to be louder, you have the ability to up the gain by I think it's 12 decibels on there. So you can even make it louder than that. I have the filament right here. Let's take a look at that. Well, that's a good idea. I see a comment over by Duest. You're saying the using white nylon screws to sort of hide this in there. Yes. Totally. This is just what I had on hand. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean nylon isn't going to be as strong as stainless steel. Right. That's true. Yeah. That's too small too. This is a 20 millimeters long. And I don't think they make those in the M25. It has to be an M3 for that length. I mean, I guess if after you tap the, you know, make the thread. Oh, right. Then yeah, that would work. Yeah. If you tap this, the thread, I think you might be fine. The originally what I didn't have time for it and should be not too hard is to countersink this a little bit more and then just just pinch out little discs to hide the screw hole. So you could go that route as well. But I think, yeah, if they make the M3 nylon screws that will definitely hide it a lot better. For the guy, I wanted to show, you know, where the screws are. So it's one of the considerations I was looking at for exposing the screws. You have a non-screw side. Yeah. Yeah. For the photos, that's the most of what I'm showing the pretty side. Yeah. All right. Do you want to verify this is the right filament? It's called Strong Hero. Is it Strong Hero? Yes. And this is the color, right? Like the light blue and then the dark purple up here. Yeah. So here's another shot. There it is. There it is. That one. This one looks way more like gluey. Are these two different ones or something? They might be showing one side of it. So when you change sides, that's probably what they're showing. Yeah. This stuff's great. It's very, very affordable. We're looking at $20. Look at that. It ships next day. Next day. Strong Hero 3D. So being a Strong Hero and print with Strong Hero. Very fitting name. Yeah. The two of the rainbow colors is what you've been using. There's a glittery one and then there's like the, just the silky one. Yeah. I want to try their gold. Their gold looks cool. Yeah. What is it? Like all gold? Yeah. It's like this variable gold. It adds very nice depth and detail to a lot of the prints. They have a green. Oh man. This is beautiful. All sorts of different ones. Yeah. But the Master Sword really, really shines. The hilt really shines with this one. Yeah. Very cool. The long squid saying it's, the big one is taller than me. Yeah. Yeah. It's as big. Cool. So that's that. And then for the weight filament, is this what you used? The Avery weight. Yep. Phil cube. This stuff uses LED. I'm glad they're showing that off right there in that little video preview. Yeah. It is the best for diffusing. All right. These. Is that Elsa? And Anna? Yeah. Frozen. Is it glow in the dark or something? No. It just diffuses LEDs really good. Yeah. They don't show that here, but okay. We know that it does because that's what you use. Yeah. It's what we've been using for a while. Yeah. You get a bunch of tests on figuring out which ones. Yeah. Yeah. It's this off weight, ivory weight that works the best. Cool. All right. Let me add that link to the discord. And I've been adding links to all the various chats, by the way. Oh, good. Yeah. Yep. When it's your turn, it's hard to get all this stuff in there. Yep. All right. That's a demo guide. Oh, you drive it because then you'll be able to. I don't know. I don't have it pulled up. Fine. I'll give you time. See. I will remind people that although the prop maker feather rp 2040 is out of stock, you can sign up to get notified when they are back in stock and you can use discount code master sword to get 10% off. You can still get new pixels, batteries, switches, buttons and whatever else that you want to use in your next project. It could be a cosplay thing or not. All right. Let's go ahead and check out the learn guide for this. Nice little general breakdown of project overview. Of course, all the cool features of the prop maker feather. What makes it a lot more better. Obviously the terminal blocks, the class D audio amplifier, the LIS 3D all nicely built in. Sandwich is no more. Making it nice and flim for adding to any of the props. I think the next one I'm going to do is a retro fitting for another lightsaber from a soca. Yeah. The general differences between those. Yeah. Should be fun with that. Some of the parts, it's a pretty low parts list. A lot of the things that you need are like the wires. Like the picoblade wires to connect the speaker just to reach everything, the JST extender for the battery. And then actually another JST 2 pin for the slide switch. So you can easily, like everything is so modular. Oh, that's, that's interesting. Yeah. So nothing is, there's no playing games with, oh no, I have to unsodder a thing because I have to thread it through a thing. Yeah. So everything just comes apart and can be reused. And yeah, I'm using the, there was a bit of concerns last week that the the oval speaker with the longer cable was out of stock. But my preferred one is this little wired oval speaker because then you can just add an extension to that. And then just unplug it and plug it back in. And then the actual extension is just screwed into the terminal. So you have two modes of modularity. Yeah. It's nice. They're like pretend. So you just, they're ready to go off out of the bag. Even because I have to cut the length down. I mean, so much easier just tend that. Then, you know, heat shrink and like stick things together. So a lot more easier. The screws, like we mentioned before, using three different sizes here. The five millimeter M2.5 by five millimeter long. That's what's going to hold all of the, the, the holders. So quickly, all that looks like the blank one here. Just like the shells for this. So we can see how all of these holders are in here. So I picked this up. You can see that the battery, the speaker, and then the feather amount, they're all just separate boards. So again, modularity for that. So all that just pops right in like so like that. That's so cool. Yeah. And then same thing with the battery. I think we showed this off when we first prototyping. Nice little battery holder over here. And I really liked the way that it just snaps in. So that's what this component looks like all by itself. I liked how it makes the battery flat. And then they pop this out. You get these little, these little like slits so you can have access to remove that because the screw to mount that in is actually right there. So again, M2.5 by five millimeter long screws that'll screw into the handle and then positioning the wire. It's on top, just snaps right in and holds that on very nice. So definitely be using this for other projects that require the cylindrical 2200 milliamp hour battery. Yeah, for sure. And then for the speaker, it just press bets in. There is a little pop this out. That's breaking it. Have a little sticker that you can also use for adhesion so that can pop right in and out of there. And then for the feather, I did use tabs for the little pins for these mounting holes up here. And I am using screws and some traumatized with where things just break off last minute. And you're like, no. And then there isn't enough room to route all the cables. Good thing that there's this little detail here because this little part right here is just big enough. That's funny. That works out really well. Yeah. And then it just goes underneath here. The wires have enough room to go out to the bottom there. Yeah. So yeah, using the detail of the model to your advantage. Yeah. Definitely always look out for that. The screws for the the blades connectors, those are the M25 by 12 millimeters long. And then for the halves, those are these long M3 by 20 millimeter long screws. Yep. Now I am using a bunch of Phillips heads here. I would definitely recommend getting the hex screws. I stripped so many of these of the length of them. It's 20 millimeters long. I wasn't going to sit there with a hand screwdriver driving all these in. So I did have to use a little handheld hand held screwdriver for all these. Dang it. I didn't grab it. I did use, I didn't put anything in here because I didn't want people to strip it, strip this stuff. So it's like a angular bit so I can go in there. I'll show it in like snaps when I post. Yeah. I remember you said you used it. Yeah. Yeah. So the tab length is just big enough to allow those bigger screw bits to fit in there. So you have enough room to fit that in there. That's one of the things that took a little bit to get it right because you can't have the screw all the way up against the wall because otherwise you can't get any screwdriver in there. So a lot of considerations for fitting your tools into your model. Yeah. Too much thought in there. And I think that's it. Covering the screws, all the components, I think everything except the, of course, the prop maker. It's probably coming in soon. So definitely sign up and be ready for when that is back up. So moving on to the circuit diagram, show how the components are all connected, which is again, screw terminal, screw block terminal. The only other thing needs to be soldered in is the enable in the ground pin for your slide switch, which again, we have the two-pin JST. So that just pops off. Not really permanently connected to that. And here's a photo of what all those components look like with their accompanying JST connector, extender connector thingies. I think the only complicated thing that was, they look kind of weird is just the way that the LED strips are soldered in parallel, meaning that it's just a mirror of, they're just a mirror of each other. So that both sides, you know, the strips are facing outwards so that it's eliminating the whole blade. And if it was just one strip, it would like loop around and the firing blast wouldn't look like it does like that. So it's both of the strips are just mirrors of each other. So we don't have to use up as much memory or you know, animation cycles for that. So that's a trick there. We don't have something that needs to mirror your other strip. Just have the data going into, you know, to the strips. So you're basically just sharing the digital connection. So it should be the exact same animation going to both strips. So you move it on to 3D printing. All the parts are there. STLs and of course you can edit the Fusion 360 file. You can modify any of the, like if you want to use a different board or something like that or if you want to position something differently or if you want to make the blade even smaller. All of the profile sketches for that, you can edit those to fit your printer. Since some of the blades you are going to have to rotate diagonally to fit on your bed. And so all of those are already properly oriented so that you can go ahead and just print from there. Supports. You are going to need supports just for the handle where all of the mounting holes for all of the holders are. And it's basically just using the custom supports to plop them down wherever there's a mounting hole. So if I enlarge this, you can kind of see here, each one of these little blocks is where the mounting holes for the holders are. I'm going to enlarge one here for the slide switch, a little cut out. Since there are these little walls that hold the slide switch in place, these little walls here. So just to, you know, so there's something supporting it when it's printing in the air. Since it does print flat, and the reason for that is because of the detail here, all these, like, it has to print, you know, flat like that. But that's the only part that requires the support materials. And then as you can see here, the infill is pretty low. I think it's like 3%. Wow. Yeah. So it's super low infill, but because of the extra walls that we're able to have in there, it's still sturdy. Okay. And then just a link here to the original files from Garrett. Get those, which include the one that he has also has like the sleeve too. So you can like print that out as well. The sleeve cover for the sword. Yeah. There's like a bunch of detail in there too. See Liz did a really good job of doing a porting over the code. And here's a nice little breakdown of the circuit python. How to get into circuit python to get all that nice and working. So if you need a refresher on how to get your UF2 or if you need to reflash it, all that info is there. And then the next page is the actual code. You can see how she updated that. Move the pins around. The only update that I did when she handed over the code was just the number of pixels used. So if you get like a different strip, you want to go like with a low density one, you can adjust that. And with that, you could also adjust the speed of the blast too. So that was the only other thing I needed to change because the speed will change based on how many number of neopixels you have. Yeah. So then if you want to do any, like messing around with the colors and then all of the waves too. If you want to pull any other different waves, you have all those for the swings and the hilts, sound effects. So you have all those different way files to swap out if you really want. And everything is beautifully commented and you can download this as a project bundle, meaning that the entire folder will download all nice like with all your libraries and all the sound files like this. There's the download files for each one. And wow, she broke it down into the functions and everything. This is super detailed. If this is like what really interests you for creating props with all these sound effects and how everything works and how everything is triggered, how the force for like the LIS3DH, the accelerometer, how to switch that up for something else. All that is very meticulously detailed here. Super cool. Moving on to assembly. Pretty simple. Just assembly the blades with the screws onto the hilt. Soldering the neopixels. Again, I show here how they are connected in parallel. Connecting the board to the holders. And then placing those inside the hilt the way that the slide switch just presses through and then connects to the rest of the board. How to get your wires underneath the board to string them and have them in the way when you're connecting both pieces together the way the speaker mount connects and then the layout of the neopixel strip. I did try doing the chloroplast which is what we're using inside of the lightsaber. It's just using one strip to sort of bounce the light off. You could totally tell that it was it just didn't bounce off as good. I'm guessing because in the lightsaber it's a cylinder. That makes sense. It bounced the light off. The cylinder definitely helps. That's good to know. Keeping the strip nice and straight and having it nice and tight inside there. But in the end, you can't even see it doesn't really flop around as much. I didn't even have to put any glue or anything in there to hold it in. Inheld in just by the tolerance of the other half of the blade. It's pretty modular in that sense that you don't have to have anything holding on to it except the walls that are pushing the strips into the center. That was a nice little maker lottery being won there. Then finally the final layout of everything inside is what that looks like. Just making sure utilizing the geometry inside of the blade. You can see where the chunky connectors can hide away and has nice open spaces for them to hang out in. Just the way you can coil. I shortened the JST connector for the battery. You could just coil it in there but for the photo it's hiding stuff. Just so you can see the other components on there. That's pretty simple there. Even like parts right here where this right here is holding on to the strip. Again, utilizing the geometry inside to hold things together. Like I said before, I am using this little handheld drill just to get the longer screws in there because you're going to be in there for a while with 20mm long length screws. This definitely helps even when you're building the threads for this when you're tapping all of the standoffs. Absolutely helps. Again, if you want to add the paracord detail, you could just pin in there since when we were filming it did have a tendency to slide over. You can see some of the detail here where it's got the purple glittery stuff. I definitely recommend using that. That's pretty much it. Cool. We got a question from Squid. Do the screws fasten into the plastic directly or using heat sink inserts? Directly. Yeah, you could use heat sinks but because I'm like when I'm prototyping there's like 20 of these in the garbage I can't heat sink in there. I think a heat insert makes a lot of sense if you're going to take it apart multiple times. Which I have with this and I haven't had any problems. You could definitely do that. Now that I have everything finalized I would definitely do that if I didn't have other projects to work on but you could definitely add that in there now. When I'm first prototyping I don't do that. There's literally a big old trash can full nothing but freaking blades and handles and all the little parts for that. Alright. Cool. I think that's all the questions I see. Alright. There you go. Master sword. Master sword. Much better. A lot more durable. It's better sound. Better pixels too. For the first one I used a low density one. You could swall the individual pixels this one. So clean. Even with the highlights here you can see just barely. Yup. By the way just as a no I think I'm reminded that the sound effects I sampled them from breath of the wild. I think from breath of the wild. So you can change them out if you want. Yup. Alright. Cool. Where am I? Here I am. My discord tab died. Okay. Oh yeah they're a pain when prototyping. Okay squid's just agreeing that they're a pain. You can add them now though. Cool. Alright. That is this week's project. Check it out. If you want to build it check out the learn guide on all the parts. All the files are there. Definitely edit those up. Alright. Let's see I think next up we're going to do what are we prototyping? Yes. So let me queue up. So for the next project it's up to me. I'm collaborating with Phil B. Painter Dragon to recreate this old project from back in I think 2015. It's a D20. It's a dice or a die I guess for Dungeons and Dragons. Each of these faces have a different number and when you roll the dice it'll speak what number it landed on. So it's two halves. Yup. So the two halves open and they're joined together with these neodymium magnets. So the first one is the speaker holder. Because it's an all in one board the previous project had like four different boards which is crazy. It had like a trinket, a lipo backpack an accelerometer an amplifier. Now it's all in one board which is great. You have access to the USB-C connector. There's a speaker holder here with some holes here and then some holes here on this half. There's already connected. I have just some demo code running just to see what it sounds like. It may or may not play because I have Cura open. That's just that sound effect. Just to test out what it sounds like. But yeah, this is the part. I actually sent it off to JLCPCB to get it printed in Resin because some of these services are pretty difficult to print with all the labeling and stuff. It prints like this. And the only other feature that I think I added was Filby had a good idea to counterbalance this to kind of make the weight of the two parts a little bit more equal. So he suggested adding this little holder with some copper pennies to make the weight. So I have a little scale on the other side of the house here that I used to make sure that these are both weighed around 13 grams. So they both weigh 13 grams. So it's pretty much weighed balanced. It's not going to be perfectly balanced. At least we made the attempt to kind of balance it out a little bit. And this right here is going to hold a little slide switch so you can turn it off and on. Because once it's closed you don't want anything really revealed. I have the resin prints on order. They're like here already and just got to get them delivered today. So I'll play with that. It's printed in that black resin that we used for the lightsaber. But this is going to be a fun build. Filby is going to be working on converting the Arduino code, the legacy Arduino code to circuit python. It's using a different accelerometer that doesn't have freefall detection. It's going to have to redo the math a little bit. But he's up to the challenge. And this will be a fun project for folks that are into Dungeons & Dragons or even just to kind of showcase something that's like I still haven't seen anything like this where it's like a talking D20. And after all these years nobody has recreated this as a commercial product which I think is kind of funny. So yeah that's forthcoming. I mean next week maybe not. I think next week I'm going to have something else. But for now this is what I've been prototyping. It doesn't require any support material miraculously because it's just the way the icosahedron like you have a flat surface here and everything kind of is at either a 60 degree or 30 degree angle. So it's not too bad. There is a little bit of like dribble here. Hopefully that will look good in resin. I think it will probably look amazing in resin. But there's no neopixels in here or anything like that. So yeah that will be a fun one fun collab. And then the other thing so that's prototyping. Let me queue up my screen here. I want to show you folks the CAD what I got going on in CAD. I'm going to share my entire screen. Alright Pedro, bring it in so we're not in tunnel view. Let me know when it's up. Alright so Pedro he found a really good over the head camera rig is basically steel piping that creates this kind of shape and I wanted to get it but it was actually too big for the table that I have. So I figured let me recreate that project with some T20 aluminum extrusion some T plates some hardware screws and some 3D printed mounts. So this is a couple of aluminum extrusions that are fastened together with various plates like this T plate here. We actually carry this stuff in the Adafruit store. You could also get these parts from McMaster car or Amazon but I wanted to create this so that it can act as a rig for doing over the head shots but also hold poster boards and backdrops for getting photography. So here is my simple kind of design I have this 3D printed bracket here that allows you to basically fit and slide these pieces of 2020 so that I can like adjust the height of it with fastening and tightening these screws and then I have these little 3D printed clips here that will allow me to kind of get poster board kind of clamped onto that piece. I'm using these coupler to increase the length of the 2020 so that they're nice and long so they can fit a bigger piece of something and then for these end caps I'm using TPU ninja flex to kind of round them off and have a little bit of grip because they act as feet so that's pretty much it there's no code or anything and Lamar was like yeah why don't you go ahead and make a learn guide for it because folks might want to build their own overhead camera rig if you have this open on a table you can extend it you can shorten it it's very modular and I love working with 2020 because you have these T slots where you can basically add stuff remove stuff lights, you can mount your monitor HDMI monitor or any other type of thing so you can definitely have a string of lights so you can have some perfect lighting you can use the 2020 to slide in a piece of poster board if you wanted to use it as a backdrop for cameras and because you have these really long feet it's very very sturdy so it holds maybe 5-10 pounds of camera and lens these days camera is a little bit lighter of course you can add an iPhone, a cell phone camera GoPro camera but I think it's going to be nice to have an overhead camera Pedro you've been using yours it is so good that camera angle you don't have to mess with and when you have it on a tripod it's always difficult to have just a straight down shot things always look oblique tapered off just because of the angle you have a tripod there it's in your way you can't get in there 10 years now we've always had to reach around and grab things all difficult and hurting our backs and covering things up when we're trying to show when we're soldering things you'd have to solder it all funky and different because the camera would be in the way or you'd have these shadows always on you or the lights wouldn't fit or you know there's all these things that complicate things you're trying to document when you're in this weird angle that a tripod gives you when you're having an overhead just straight down you can even leave on your stabilization which is supposed to turn off when you're on something steady like that it just makes the workflow a lot more better the pictures come out a lot more straight and detailed you cannot obstruct any other thing that you're trying to show for assembly purposes whoa it's too bright I'm trying to play around with the and it doubles as your backdrop holder too yeah here we go studio lights it's supposed to be like a studio but it's not it's like too big of a studio this is the render environment infusion just to give you a little bit better look at what it would look like for reals it's a big thing right so you're saving space by not having that freaking tripod there especially around your table when you're moving stuff around or trying to get around it there's always that moment when you're about to record and you freaking hit the tripod and it's like great I gotta wait for the stupid thing to freaking stabilize yeah that's funny so that's what I'm working on yeah right you know you can get your 2020 anywhere leaving the mar was like ah folks probably won't be getting it for me to prove but that's fine and wherever you want to get your 2020 oh I do have the little holders here so one slot will go up here and then you have another one going this way so it's like a cross beam what I ended up doing was to avoid any support material like I just did a giant chamfer here so it prints like this that way you get like maximum yeah so it's very sturdy there are two millimeters length and then I have two screw holes for M4 so you can have the M4 screw and those slim T nuts to kind of lock them in place so I have two of these here so I have those printed I'm ready to go I'm going to be putting it together on this table this table actually folds out it's an Ikea table I really recommend this one because it has both storage shelves or drawers and it's able to kind of open out so I recommend that if you're living in a small space these are really nice tables from Ikea just want to save space right yeah so that's cool because even if you have the space you'll use it up with having you know all these big things everywhere this definitely helps in sort of organizing the chaos that happens when you're doing assembly there's no way around that if you want to look at aluminum extrusion let me share my screen again it's going to be this tab you can see here we have all of the different things here there's a dedicated extrusion category so you have different corner brace supports the actual extrusion they're 610 millimeters long we have the slim T nuts which I really like corner braces, L plates coupler plates, screws we have a lot of stuff actually for building we used to have these open beam starter kits back in the day they've been discontinued since but you can probably get these from other places we also have these oval T nuts if you want like a better thing but yeah this is a really awesome material for building something very strong but also lightweight because aluminum is not heavy and you can cut it down to size with the chop saw, miter saw hack saw whatever so yeah I'm going to be using that for all the photos moving forward so it's going to be really nice instead of having a C stand those are not fun alright I'm going to jump back over to discord see if anybody oh I love this project Yanni posted this project from Bill Doran from Punish Props I watched the YouTube video it's a foam prop I love his foam smithing stuff I learned a lot of techniques there's like a I was like how do you craft an icosahedron with a foam and he has like this oh is it a pattern? it's an angular mount for an exacto knife that allows you to kind of like angle it and then you just like kind of cut it anyway watch the video it's really fun if you want to build stuff out of foam because it's really nice there's also a giant d20 here I guess it's funny and then DJ Devin is prototyping something pretty cool is this the mailbox with an LCD on it that's cool bring it on to show and tell it'll be fun to see tonight even if it's cat I like seeing cat stuff so do the folks let's see what was another thing I wanted to talk about on time so I'm going to skip that for next week I was going to talk about the new emboss update to fusion 360 maybe I'll do a layer-by-layer on it or maybe we'll just talk about it next week and we'll talk about it after the show what we're going to do next week next week is kind of special but for now let's go ahead and jump into this week's community makes on Tuesday we do a timelapse Tuesday video and this is this week's timelapse Tuesday very summer themed this was a design released from proto pasta the makers of craft filament they make really good stuff we like their filament and this is a pool float coaster koozie don't know it was interesting just because of the way that the modeling job on there when it's scrolling down in your feet I thought it was a real pool float excellent job of modeling a detailed flow and it actually floats you can see there in some of the shots the pool was nice and wavy it had wake all over and none of the drinks tipped over thankfully it's just water excellent not airtight at all there's still water in here so it will eventually be filled with water and might just sink but if you're using it sparingly it should do a good job of holding I would have to drink no it doesn't fit so something small that we were showing in the video so they have different there is different models so there is one where it's chopped up into like three parts so you can have like different colors and you can see it on the top one and it slides together and then like even some funny stuff like this little holder here is for like tiny soda bottles for like gnomes I think is what they call it yeah there is I thought it was like the like the little tube thing that you put the air into like they modeled that but oh so this isn't dual extruded it's like snap fitting that's smart it's not too late like to post the video so I forget what the time of printing in there but it's a while it takes a while to print it's a nice big print I like the filament I'm not sure which I guess they have like a kind of variable rainbow type of filament going on that's cool yeah that's a pretty cool one right there what else about it it floats totally floats it's a free STL right? yeah free free free free and excellent job on the modeling like all the little details that the crevices that happen when you inflate the I guess they collaborated with CM Design to create it so try out the CM Design for collaborating with Prada Pasta um yeah we can learn more about their collaboration on their blog did you want to drop a link in this is a thing want to go on their blog and see what the what else so yeah they did the this fun lamp as well probably some other stuff let me see if they have any better photos here on their website welcome Prada Pasta yeah it looks cool alright do they have it anywhere else trying to see I think cults is where I see it oh everywhere yeah they have it everywhere thingiverse, printables aldebles see if people made it yeah we got a couple makes here you don't have a pool but you have a sink no problem in the bathtub yeah I guess in the bathtub it makes a lot of sense mmhmm cool alright wherever you like to get your fine STLs we're all fine STLs are downloaded but let me add this again it's really cool to put it in the pool the choice of the you know Rambo filament that's what you had look at that look at the interpolation PG it's real you even have Declan at the end there or Gavin somebody oh yeah Declan cool and it took a while to print I suppose oh yeah it takes a while it shows up there they probably have some settings they suggest 11 hours right but that's with the time lapse so probably half that just a little bit less okay cool alright we got still a couple minutes to catch up on community makes so let's hop into the makes this week first up we have a make of the air pods max headband and ears on printables this user here FRNK K, T, R, G, R posted up their make I guess they just printed the band it's a Lego stud band for an air pods max and they said they rated it, thank you for rating it not for myself so I can't test it but the flexibility is good printed in Fiberology, Fiberflax 40D black so it's supposed to be printed in the TPU just a refresher the air pod max has this really nice headband that has plenty of room for mobility so we designed a couple different designs and yes, Lego minifigs do fit on there so if you're a big fan of Lego and you have air pod max headphones check it out, you can print it in TPU or NinjaFlex cool after that we have make from G Maranda on the heat set insert press this also uses a piece of 2020 aluminum extrusion to create this really nice rig for doing heat set inserts and they said they designed a new base for it, it's reprinted so it's great this is probably one of the most remixed projects because people have soldering irons they have their own bases they have their own what do you call them skate bearings because this one's kind of a custom not custom but like a different type than the normal Z88 or whatever they're called but anyway, looks good very fun, check that out very useful and after that the octoprant raspberry pi oh wow pie touch display rig one of those evergreen projects still works Udo 2017 posted it up to their make nice case, just need to install the pie very nice it's just not a case for your pie and a pie TFT from Adafruit or whoever else it looks good, printed in black lots of folks have made this one for monitoring their octoprant setup and after that we have a make from Mars Isis posted up their make of an iPhone X case printed in I believe TPU doesn't say but they printed out folks are still printing out these iPhone cases this is one of the things we do when we get into iPhone we make a case for it so fun I have to keep going back to the three printed ones the one that I was using from the pop socket I took the case off and it freaking broke all I did was remove the case I have my pop socket one it doesn't look like it would crack yours is a different material like the magnet popped out oh man that's why their it's like you're going back to the three printed one because it's TPU it's not going to just break on me that's true and to end off the segment this is a make that was posted on Facebook and Liz found this one and sent it my way this looks amazing so Jay Wilkins posted up their make on the Walt Disney World you saw this too post in there yeah it's got over 4,000 likes on it anytime we post in there nah it's like the reddit culture like you shouldn't someone else has someone else who made it which is great so shout out to Jay they said not a tip or trick just something I made while waiting for our next trip back I made my own fully functional magic band reader with the chasing lights in the sounds you get in the park it works with our magic bands and other RFID sources that's what people will see this is Adafruit here's the learning guide because of course didn't say that somewhere they're not going to post any links or anything or what it is or where they found it well theirs is like the someone else made it look at that that looks great made mine an RGB and a gold plate that's great ah that's awesome this is on thingiverse it is there is folks of course they didn't post any links or anything nah it's fine well that's great oh yeah and there's of course folks at Salomon on Etsy and stuff of course you know that crowd came in there too yeah right because people just want to buy it which is fair and the earth deals are free to you know to create and sell because why not and that is this week's community makes thank you everybody for sharing your makes with us it's very gratifying to see folks actually make the projects and that's very cool let's jump back into this course see if anybody's coming up with anything wait that's the wrong one sorry Pedro folks weren't supposed to see that that's our notes document helps us get all the stay in track got all the links posted I think so alright well let me quick programming note maybe not so quick before we close off the show next week is circuit python day on Friday so we're actually going to push the Wednesday show for next week to Friday at 10 a.m that's really 10 10 a.m but toying at 10 a.m Pacific I mean Eastern time this for Friday so that's August 18th circuit python day it's a full day of live stream scheduled programming it's going to start off with John Park he'll have like a 10 minute introduction and then we're going to do 3D hangouts special edition we're going to have Liz Clark special guest come in the show and chat about circuit python because she actually does all the circuit python code we do the 3D printing but Liz also does 3D printing and design so we're going to we're going to chat about how we collaborate what her experiences have been working with Adafruit writing code in circuit python for these type of projects it's going to be a lot of fun so we hope that you join us on Friday at 10 a.m Eastern time I think it's actually at 10 10 right yeah 10 10 but just come in at 10 a.m because then you'll see John Park who's going to be like I'm seeing it hey here's circuit python day and yeah it's our holiday it's the snakiest day of the year or something don't forget coupon code today first 3D hangouts is Master Sword gets you 10% off your order tonight is going to be show and tell if everything goes right it's either going to be Mr. and Mrs. Lady Aida or Liz Clark so either of those folks will be here's the banner it starts at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time and then ask an engineer at 8 p.m. Eastern time back to back shows cool squid will be there teacher Devin have a great day he's got to go everybody's off to lunch we're off to 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