 Now Dr. Mack has a cool stuff found. It's actually one we've talked about before But it's been a long time. Well, and I'm gonna write a column about it pretty soon. I've been I Actually just got another kind of this thing that I play with before I write about them but it's called the twinkly lights and The one that I've got that I'm gonna show you is called strings and it's 250 addressable LEDs Now What's different about that? What's unique about that? Well Each individual LED is mapped and you can then make it do things like this So Bob Bob is showing patterns of lights that he I guess you you drilled holes in this is a piece of wood I built and okay, there's 250 holes Okay, that's not the only way you could use this and I'm gonna tell you why it's so cool But not only will it do stuff like this look here's he's showing an American flag pattern And it also will dance to if I were playing music. I could get it to respond to music Which is really cool. All right, so that's that's kind of what it does now. What's so cool about it is The way it orients those dots is by pointing your camera at it and it records It looks and says okay, and it lights them all up in sequence and it says okay light number one is there one Two is there you could put them on a wall in I do this on my Christmas tree years ago They were designed for Christmas trees, but it turns out because of the app. They're suitable for any lighting I mean that you've got two ten foot Strings of 125 lights and it doesn't matter This is the the the part that I want to make sure people don't Don't lose here is that it doesn't matter how you lay them out You don't need to worry about where light number one is you like for for us on the Christmas tree We just strung them up on the tree and then point the camera and the camera does all the work Yeah, it lights them all up I think yellow or something and and as you move around the tree it starts changing the color to okay now It's green. I know about those go over here, and I'll keep changing whatever it changes it to it doesn't matter But it's it's got this idiot proof Then it's got all these built-in Effects so you know like these stars and Squirrels and that stuff's all built in you don't have to do anything But you can also do things yourself like for example you can Write your name with your family's gonna be my question. How do you how do you program this? There's a bunch of you can to it to a limited degree You can't do everything that it that you can do with presets, but you can do a lot of stuff Custom and and you do it on your phone It's not like you have to like when to use the word program is technically accurate But probably misleading or like a symbol or yeah, you just I mean just with your finger. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Yeah It's fun stuff. I I we love these things on the Christmas tree because it Really fun I made the wood thing because I wanted to be able to take it in like whatever room I want to hang it in what I like is I can say to it Turn blue 40% and it responds to voice It doesn't as far as I can tell it doesn't let you call up a preset by voice But it will do colors. I think it will do Pulsing, you know, I think you can say pulse blue. Okay. I know you can say a Percentage so it can act as a room light and you can go anywhere from I guess 10% or 1% to 99 or a hundred percent But for the presets you got to use your phone as far as I can tell I'm gonna find out because that wouldn't I mean It already responds to voice for some things. I can't imagine it would be that big a deal Show the shooting star. I thought I was pulling up presets with the Amazon a lady interaction now that might work I'm talking about the s lady now I haven't even set up the a lady because the s lady is always on my wrist or my Yeah, for sure. I set her up for other things like my office lights. Half of them don't aren't home kit So of course the a lady is office lights off Right, right? Well, we should do it a deep dive into home kit or home bridge and hoops So that so that you can set up hoops at home at wherever your new home is Bob You know, I get to start over. I get to like Buy things that I want does it have so how do you talk to it? Is it Bluetooth or it's Wi-Fi? It is it's connected via Wi-Fi. Yeah, and you just you just say to the s lady, you know, I Minor named twinkly lights. So I see set twinkly lights to blue 50% and that happens So cool. It's sweet. Yeah, and they're not that expensive This this thing was I think $99 250 lights and there's other kinds different different LED types and different configurations I think there might be some that are fewer bulbs and less expensive and I think there's even bigger configurations, so there's a bunch of Options and it's pretty fun. I've really had a good time both looking at it and and you know building the holder for it Yeah, I like building stuff out of wood. Cool. That's my new passion