 Good evening everybody and welcome to the Adafruit show and tell I'm Liz I'm gonna be your host this evening if you would like to join show your project you can join in the live broadcast channel on the Adafruit discord and that's at adafruit.it slash discord We're gonna kick things off with some folks from Adafruit. Good talk to our friend Jeff first Hello Jeff. All right. Hello So last time around I teased that I'd gotten a genuine next computers mouse Very cool. And by the way Someone on our slack was sharing that it's I think 30 years or something since Apple and next merged. So Computing history there and I'm not sure I have the number of years, right? But anyway, my guide with the keyboard has been updated so that you can take your next mouse and plug it into the keyboard Yeah, plug it into the keyboard and then plug that into the rp2040 and into your computer and then you've got a keyboard and a mouse on your one USB connector and Yeah, that's in the guide. So it was pretty easy once I found some documentation of the protocol Coming up the next thing I'm gonna do is Make a direct adapter. So if you have a mouse, but no keyboard, we'll do another adapter a lot like This original one here. So that'll be an upcoming guide project Very cool. And yeah, that's what I mainly wanted to plug today But like we discussed behind the scenes, maybe I'll come back and show you something else depending on the people We've got yeah, thank you and really looking forward to checking out your guide on this Yeah, if you can get the mouse it's a little bit of a rarity there. All right, we'll see you in a bit. Thank you Next we're gonna go to name Pedro Hey, Liz. Yeah, so we wanted to share our Kalaam projects this was the fun countdown clock so you can adjust the circuit Python code to Kind of countdown to your favorite events right now. I have it set up for Christmas. So we got a couple days left here These are using the alphanumeric displays with the new stem of QT a fine board So they're all days of chain together with the stem of QT cable There's a microcontroller reason that you speak to us to right here I've got a little 3d printed snap fit bit for that and it's not really the case. It's just a stand So it's pretty simple to open face open back so that you can you know get to all the bits if you need to and it Just has like this nice little angle here That's about 70 degrees and you get that nice view. But yeah, the things just press fit into these little holes and Very simple assembly once you have the backpack soldered. So Yeah, so the guide went up live yesterday. So folks can check that out we showcased it on Three mornings show. Yep, three hangouts So folks want to build one you have plenty of time to Countdown, I mean, there's always a countdown to something so Evergreen project and then secondly, we wanted to plug the addition of Pico W to whippersnapper Hugs to Brent for hooking that up. Yeah, so be working on a case that'll support the pie cowbell in the back So we can have access to the stem of QT connection and then the reset button on the side So make a cool little wall-mounted one But I'm saying we don't have one of those cases that so for the Pico anyway So we'll work on that and then hugs to Dan for doing tests with the new Mac OS release So they finally fixed the uf2 drag-and-drop bug that was present on there I think it'll take like about two updates I noticed that on the M2 it like updated and it was working perfectly then on the M1 max It needed like two updates or something. So just be aware of that. You're updating if it doesn't work Yeah, I was like, oh man, I know they're that different and then the other thing Escapes my mind. Oh, yeah, all the you it works the tiny USB I somehow messed up the bootloader and was able to get that back on there the ESP tool that Melissa wrote that worked perfectly So everything's working again. Yeah, we'll sweat in there like, oh, no, I just busted this thing So yeah, shout outs to everyone getting everything working back to normal. It's so funny Gotta praise when everything works again Definitely, I was actually just saying someone else in the community I was here when stuff's broken, but not necessarily when stuff's fixed. So glad that they Also, um additional shout out to Melissa She didn't update to the alphanumeric display library that allows it to scroll the text So without that update that project would not be possible. Oh, wow. Yeah, good shout out. All right That's all we got and a couple more layer by layer and 3d stuff on 3d hangouts if you want to check that out earlier This Awesome. Thanks guys. Thanks Have a good one Next we are going to hear from some folks in the community. We're gonna kick things off with DJ Devon Hello. Hello Liz. Can you hear me? Yes, I'm good. How's it going? It's going great, actually I've made some awesome progress. I've been 3d printing a lot These are all the different iterations of the the step switch Cap that I went through and each of the each just has this minuscule tiny like a 10th of a millimeter off Kind of thing like they are they have to be so precise because on the the sides of the step switches It's hard to yeah, you can't see it But on the very side of the step switch is a tiny little pin and that pin is not inside of that side body It won't click. No clicky. No clicky. No. Yeah, so So I got that running with the with the display on the MCPs It's hard to see here So just says toggle on and off and just got that just the touch There's just the toggle and they're a docker at all the code for that. So this uses async.io There's there's no MIDI stuff yet. No music stuff yet Everybody got well not everybody but I sent out a batch of boards to some people that expressed an interest in getting them so those went out so happy holidays to everyone that got one of the TR cowbells half of them were fully assembled and half of them were kits and Just one note is that all three of these or all six of these have to be soldered and There was one person I'm not gonna name names, but there was one person that already figured out a way to jump Basically bodge wire fix and get the second ITC bus working and getting both of these on one ITC bus So that this could actually function the ITC and the stem of ports could actually function correctly So that was really cool. I Don't think I gave people enough credit for being able to bodge fix their own stuff Dealing with everybody that I sent them to is far more experienced than I am So that was really cool to see to see that stuff working and then these are the the longer 808 style caps Okay, these work. Okay The shorter ones actually do work better Unfortunately, so all of you who had your heart set on like the long 808 styles Gonna have to go with a different kind of switch because there's just too much leverage on on these short bodies So I will be figuring out maybe a custom switch in the future. So we'll see that's what I got Very cool. And so you modeled that switch The orange ones and printed them to like make a custom colorway Yes, the orange was not available from out of fruit So, but I really wanted the 808 style Anybody who does anything with sequins or you're gonna, you know, it's just it's a given So that's why I went through all the trouble was just to get the orange and I Made the first 3d model and that was as knowing Pedro came on earlier they highlighted in the 3d hangouts to day this morning that The 3d model for this that actually does work and you can just drop it right on the cap and all of these caps You can just take off and switch colors. So it's not like Yeah, oh, no, I Soldered this color onto this switch. No, just take the cap off and flip the cab It'll have to desolder the entire switch. Just flip the caps So yeah, that's oh, sorry. Yep, that's what I got and So the 3d model is available in out of fruits 3d CAD parts the out of fruit step switch so anyone that has a 3d printer you are now free to 3d print in any color that you want and I imagine since that their steps which is most people are gonna go straight for orange Probably awesome. Well, thank you for sharing that with the community. I think folks really find that to be helpful You're very welcome and everyone have a lovely holiday season. Yes. Happy holidays. Thank you Next we are gonna go to Mark gambler Hello, Mark. All right. I need to go outside Great So it is currently minus 23 Celsius. Oh, wow So, that's why I wanted to wait to the last moment one second to switch the camera around and I wanted to show off now the outside display I've got Looks great. Oh, yeah, I 80 Neopixels being driven by That was a pie cow running the pixels around it followed by the tree is driven by a Qt pie The stars 3d printed and it's all doing different animations. Super easy to control and change. However, I feel I Can time it if I want can do pretty much anything excellent Yeah, it worked great. This is actually be awesome once that 8-pin Scorpio board comes out Then you can drive everything off one One board. Yeah, and then yeah over on the other side I still have my previous display front that I was showing off a couple weeks ago Running lighting up my whole yard now Excellent. So is it fair to say that you're winning the holiday lights on your block this year? On my block. Yeah, there's not a lot though. My neighbor's got That's a fair number as well. I'm like, wait, I'm not sad I can do this But yeah, besides the two of us, there's not a lot on the street right now But yeah, this turned out awesome. And yeah, super easy to do. It's all in circuit Python, too Excellent. Well, thanks so much for sharing Mark and happy holiday Jesus well. Thank you Now we're going to go back to Jeff to have him play a song Mark go inside and have some hot chocolate Yeah, so I'll have you switch over to my downcam in a second But I was going through some old things and I found this magazine from 1985. It's issue one of robot experimenter Hey Yeah, so Let's see. How's my view here? And honestly, we're doing a lot of the things today still that we were doing back in in this age So the cover photograph here It says the cover shows Russell using his voice-controlled robot computer workstation lifting a glass for him to drink Russell has been developing applications that a lot physically disabled people to use the available computer resources to complement their lives This is just one use for a voice-controlled workstation And then there's a whole article about the workstation in here You can also use it to tune. I guess I'm upside down here. Hold on You can also use it to tune you to press the buttons to tune your ham radio. I think is what I understood from this. Oh, great and Yeah, so it was going to cost only 895 dollars, which I checked is like $2,300 today But if that was a little too rich for you these two were pretty cool the affordable robot arm was only $200 then $600 now, okay, and it I think works with your Commodore computer Commodore 64 Vic 20 Apple 2 or IBM PC so it's really versatile it works with all the computers and Then I thought this one was a really cool possible remake so it's a two-wheel robot and On the disc you blacken whether to run the left motor or the right motor It slowly spins the disc and follows your list of instructions That's really cool. So, you know, you could make it do a little dance or Whatever you could imagine and I'm thinking we could remake this We've got all the stuff and then Maybe I don't know an idea for somebody to pick up But yeah, this was a oh, there's a plan for an entire computer in here It's like like six pages of schematics. Wow, it's a whole computer. You can build it. I guess Anyway, it was a time of wonder for for computers and I just wanted to share this with y'all So yeah, this is 1985 and I will look whether this is on archive.org and if not, I will scan it up Oh, awesome it on there. Great. So yeah robot experimenter 1985 Very cool. Thank you for bringing that by that. I'm I'm curious to Maybe try out some of this being this I saw recently I mean Emily Velasco is doing some color recognition stuff and having colors trigger different tones on a synth So I think they're definitely like a lot of stuff to explore in that arena. Oh, yeah, very cool. Yeah Awesome. Thanks so much Jeff. All right. Have a good night. Thanks. You too All right, that is going to finish our show and tell great projects night everybody in about 15 minutes at 8 p.m John Park's gonna come on with his workshop live right here But until then hope everyone has a great evening good night