 Lady Ada, what is this hey buddy and welcome to your favorite half an hour on the internet That's right. It's time for a show and tell me lady Ada with me Mr. Lady Ada behind this day to put back for you where we do all of our Manufacturing of electronic goodies, but for the next 25 minutes or so We're gonna check in with people from the Adafruit community and beyond just a community as well See what they're up to you see what they're coding crafting 3d printing after this nice long weekend Let's check in to start with Kevin. Hello, Kevin. How are things into Diki land? They are good. I hope everybody had a safe and happy 4th of July. I Get all my fingers I do too all ten of them So this week I was lucky enough to get a macro pad, which this this little guy is a lot of fun I've been having some fun with it today. Yeah, so one thing that that I did is I'm a I'm crazy about keyboard shortcuts so this thing is perfect for that and It's set up for Safari, which I have a Mac or I use Sketchup for 3d printing a lot So I haven't set up in Sketchup here Can you share my screen? Yeah, let me find it over here. So we're working on all the DK's So when I made my sign that's buried behind me These are all the files from it, but when I'm in Sketchup if I want to just orbit around I just push the orbit button I can orbit around if I want to erase just click the erase button and I can erase whatever I want. Oops should have done that. Let's undo it There just undo so this thing is so cool for doing that And if I want to switch over if I go into Safari I can just switch my little dial pad to Safari and start opening new tabs or go back or Toggle between tabs or you know, whatever it is, but this thing is cool. I enjoy it. I'm looking forward to Spending more time with it There is a button you just came out so you can check those out get inspired also ready writing a circuit Python library to make it even Easier, but we wanted to get started with some beginner guides, too Yeah, it's it's super easy to use it circuit Python. You guys have done an incredible job with this and Once again another great product for made it for you and I'm looking at you playing around Some folks says it looks like Ziggy from Quantum Leap, which is this little handheld computer, which I agree with and then the other thing that we were just talking about before we went live is What we're seeing is a lot of people are are getting back into making or this is our first time that they've started to make stuff and keyboards or macro pads or You know something that goes on their desk that's useful that has utility seems to be the first toe dipping It's like oh like I built a keyboard and then I like learned a little bit of programming And so we think that this is gonna be a good way to get folks into to learning more and doing more Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right I think there's so many uses for this like even somebody that has a As simple as does as a keyboard, but doesn't have the number pad on the side You can run this to be your number pad if you wanted Yeah, every app requires you to memorize so many key commands to really use it well So we're thinking it's gonna be a good use for that. It could be a pretty simple password generator to or not generator but enter your password for You know into your password for Apple hit this button into your password for Google You know, it's pretty cool. All right. Well, thanks so much Kevin send all over regards everyone at did you key? Somebody said hi. I absolutely will you guys take care. We'll see you soon. Thanks Kevin. All right Scott you make circuit Python and some of your creations are on the show until you're working on something else this week Yeah, so I showed this off on my stream last week before I took off to go to the Oregon coast, which was great This is a mirror of chrome that is on my Android here that I have on my desk So what you're seeing is just the webpage and then I also have a feather blue fruit Sitting next to it and if I hit connect to Bluetooth devices I should connect to it and then I can hit this bond button and it should load the code up high So what we have here is we've opened Moses unhappy Open code up high and one thing I thought was really cool when I was doing this is I'm actually programming with emoji Which is kind of wild so so when everything moved up That's because the keyboard is actually showing on the screen. Yeah, but in this third line here I'm I'm assigning the Tadah emoji to the smiley face emoji So what I can do is I can delete that and pick another emoji say like a hundred percent and then what that does is that automatically sends it to the device and then if I Do a quick screen sir switch so I haven't gotten the serial connection up yet, but if I switch to sharing The this is the USB serial link We can see that I have a 10 by 10 grid of a hundred percent That are from that device So we have be a li file transfer from web Bluetooth on Chrome on Android working and This week this ended ended this week and next week will be trying to get the serial link in the browser as well, so you'll be able to see it all there and Program from your phone, which will be really cool. All right. Well, thanks so much Scott And doing a deep dive this week. I am doing a deep dive and I'm also doing a podcast recording tomorrow afternoon I'll drop it in the discord but Damien I are co-guesting on Talk Python with me with Michael Kennedy. So that's live stream as we do it. So it's it's 4 20 p.m. Pacific Kind of late in the day for east coasters, but that's because Damien's in Australia. So I'm really looking forward to that conversation. That should be really it's available later. We'll put it up on our site Yeah, but timing because we just started to catch up with like a python mainline and yeah, the great merge just happened So Michael had seen that so he was like it sounds like things are happening Yeah, we got Damien to join it too, which is really exciting So for everyone out there if you're interested on what is more than just a trend It's scripting languages on microcontrollers Both Damien and Scott are the center of it. So check it out tomorrow and then deep dive on Friday and maybe Yeah, yeah, hopefully I'll have the serial stuff done. But right now I got to get caught up All right, thank you so much. Cool Jebler hello So a couple weeks ago Lamar said well, why don't you make a calculator? So I went off and beautifully started making a printed circuit board with key cat But the parts arrived and I put it together. So if I can just switch my camera here Let's see this guy here is the calculator running and I went ahead and 3d printed an enclosure and 3d printed these keycaps with a nice little sculpted. This is hard to Hard to get the image where I want it sculpted shape on the keys So those are 3d printable on my Prusa and hopefully other printers does basic five plus six plus seven equals 18.0 So I'm having a lot of fun with this and we're going to put the design files on a tutorial and Explanations all up on the learn system real soon So and thanks to everybody who has been seeing this as it goes along and giving me Positive feedback because that has been really fun on the discord hearing from people who I think it's a fun project So if you didn't get a macro pad Look for this guide. You'll be able to order your own printed circuit boards and 3d print the stuff and put the code And of course it you can use it for all those other purposes Like macro pad, but the focus of this is doing a simple calculator Yeah, we might do a macro pad That's also a larger, you know four by five like we want to start with three by five three by four three by four Yeah, it'd be cool. We can have like a keyboard macro pad Yeah, I'm thinking this may be called a calculator because the keys do make a lot of noise It's the calculator All right. Thank you so much. All right. See you're next up. What's up? Hello I have this little project here. It's just a bundle wires right now, but it basically will Detect cats with this camera and then move this little servo here if it detects a cat and Let me show you I have an iPad here with the picture of my cats on the counter and so Right now is showing multiple cats and so it's like That's fine Alert alert multiple cats here. Okay, so if I show this no cats here, and then I let me zoom in on one cat It'll start by shaking it a little bit. Yeah, and if it doesn't scare the cat after about three Then it'll just kind of start going a lot crazier And you're gonna touch your keys to that Yeah, I'm actually gonna be Like this servo here, I think these keys are too heavy, but I need to like adjust the parameters Determine that cats know that keys Means they don't like keys right get off the counter. Exactly. Yeah, if I shake if I just went in Shifting keys my cats are good running All right. Well, you've replaced yourself with a shell script for work. Thanks. All right. Thanks so much, Melissa. Thanks JP, what you got going on? Hey, so I've also got a cool macro pad project that I wanted to show and this is our macro pad with a Connection to this laptop here, which is running Ableton live, which is really popular Piece music software that launches clips. It can launch MIDI clips It can launch audio clips effects and things like that and it's often played with a grid controller so I've set it up so that I can launch the clips from this macro pad and The cool thing is that the lighting actually matches the color Coding of the clips here and it'll update itself as I play so you'll see it tends to turn the What does turn the the clip on playing green? So I'll bring in drums here. These are all on this column. These are all different drums And then I can bring in a bass and then I can bring in a synth line And you'll see both on the screen and with the LED colors. I'm updating To stay in sync with what's going on over in live I can play a whole Scene just by pressing them all and it'll keep them all in sync. It quantizes them. We can also mute individual lines And I've got one CC knob hooked up here so I can send controller changes and I'm using that for filter sweeps The musical stylings of JP and there we go and then it ends at all So I'm really excited about this project because it actually uses MIDI for almost everything It's sending MIDI to live but live sends MIDI back to tell this thing how to light up So thanks to the sort of existing ecosystem of controllers particularly novation launch pad controllers Ableton has already set up to tell some other device what to do and rather than Reinventing the wheel and coming up with some other protocol It just says ah what the heck we'll we'll Astrodise MIDI everyone does it and we'll send things so if it sends me a MIDI note number on a particular Channel at a particular velocity that tells one of these buttons what color to light up So that's really really me really fascinating the way it's work I've been really excited to work on this and I'm gonna do a deep dive into it on my show tomorrow Show you those MIDI messages and how it all works because those key caps that you asked me to stocks These key caps look at their beauties They do look really good there. Yeah, they're not inexpensive, but they're not that's like But they look great and it's it's a Welcome change from usually when you're doing this stuff and you're in the dark and you've got like a glowing Launch pad over here. It's it's it's a look, but this is definitely sort of a subtler Subtler cyberpunk it kind of is Definitely like cyberpunk. Yeah Yeah, all right, and we'll be showing our p2040 we'll be showing your Videos and previews tonight on ask an engineer and then you have your show tomorrow. Awesome. Come on. Bye. Thanks a great I think so much. Okay. Hey dragon. What you got going on? Oh, hi there Well, Kevin kind of already showed the thing I was gonna show but I am not bitter because That guy like just went live This morning and one of the things I mentioned in there is that it's like easy to create new key sets And that's exactly what he did so, you know, that's that's validation Yeah, so Anyway, also if if you're using this thing if you don't want to get in there and like edit code and stuff One of the things is that those those configurations can be shared really easily like in the forums You just attach a file and people can just drag that file under theirs and start using it right away You don't have to edit anything. Yeah But you know, it's it's the standard, you know, the hot keys type of application here No surprises so go go check out the guide and oh also by pressing down a special key It opens a new window for Digi key. Yeah, that's right All right, this is a I really like the simplicity of the user interface But it's really Effective and you you're using a Jason layout that you saw in other projects. I'm actually not using Jason It's a it's a little circuit Python dictionary. Just oh, oh, yeah Elements it turned out being like way simpler to do it that way. And so I ran with it. Awesome. All right. This looks great I love using the the rotary encoder to select the overlays, right the layers Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Okay safari Photoshop illustrator But I figure we'll be dropping more and more in there, you know And people can share theirs in the forum as I like the private window button That's such a good idea because I'm always like right-click menu down menu menu menu get a private window Yep, because you want to read that that article on, you know, you've run out of your credits Yep, I will quit job. It sounds like Kevin's a big fan. So you already have one beta tester with success Excellent All right, next up we're gonna go to Michael then Gary then Stuart Michael what you got going on this week? Hi, are you guys able to hear me? Yeah Awesome. So I finally was able to finish version two of my satellite phone the hardware the software is not done quite yet But yeah, this is what it looks like. It has a sleep wake button You'd be able to use the WAS and geekies to kind of navigate through the software And yes, like this weird wedge shape design thing And then it has the Because it's using the rock block Modem, yeah, I have the external antenna port too, which is helpful for many situations And then it has the it's all powered by the the cutie pie the first version and then I have a Like the lipo Backpack charging circuit in there, too. So it can all use just that one USB C Which is pretty cool and then the batteries on the lower half and these are This is like the 3d prints of it. So everything is surrounded by this core I don't have the support material off on this But it's just to kind of showcase Kind of how everything is organized And then this would slide in like so Yeah, thank you This is excellent. We were before the show we were talking about All the things that you could start to build so start with like a ruler that has like circuit Python on or whatever And then we have this macro pad that you just saw and then we have a calculator. We're working on We're gonna have a digital camera and then we also want to do a cell phone because a lot of these things are so far away from Understanding how they work for most folks And I like that you re-imagine the shape of a phone too like this is what this has all the this has all the neat things Like you can build a phone. It doesn't have to just look like a square Rectangle, yeah, and I'm planning on making a tutorial once I get the software more like polished to make it more user-friendly But eventually I'll probably make like a YouTube tutorial or something on how to make it It was quite the journey. So yeah, all right Good work keep coming back and I'm looking forward to test texting you from a satellite All right next up Gary and then we'll go to stir it Gary what you got going on this week. Hey guys. Hi Gary in Australia. Just saying Hello, I made a cool little 3D project. It's a Trump legacy. Oh, yeah Slavers and what's a bit of 3D printing with some without some in a crowd magic so Editing some lighting to it as well. That's cool. What's the data disk that you get assigned when you get put on this And just turns on and a little capacitive touch on the side and then if it runs through that's nice And just Just switching through the different light fix. Yeah Evil Anyways Said something and I let a link to I've uploaded the files to process. I'll share them with a great You guys are keen to both something cool with the multi matured multi-material extrusion. Yeah, perfect Yeah, good work I think a lot of folks are looking to make something that has like see-through light up stuff and that's a really good It's a really good example. Listen. Yeah, it looks it looks amazing. It looks professionally injected molded. So it's so good Thank you Thanks, Gary. All right, stir it place out Can you guys hear me? Yeah, okay? So my son is involved participates in a foundation leadership didn't teach leadership and They get involved in projects and things like that and also learn coding. So he and I decided to Make something for the director to show appreciation. So It's a laser laser printed Wow what we did was we got a piece of wood from a Store and we sanded it and spray painted and then we put like a clear coat on there like a car clear coat That's why it's so shiny So in the back we have a cutie pie battery the charger and switch So once you turn it on It displays a message at the bottom. So when you touch this right here It displays the message It says I can't read can you see what the text says it says It's a thank-you message Yeah, it's just the text is really small my eyes are cool All right, yeah, when does this get when does this gift to get given? We're gonna probably hook up with her probably sometime this week or next week whenever she has time to give it to her Gotcha, so normally the students get the awards, but now the table has been turned Yeah, that's a really good idea. It's way better than just giving an apple to the teacher This is like an electronic thing that you'll have for a really long time. It'll be on the wall But what are my students made that the code that I taught them Yeah, we learned something we were able to build this Yeah, and you know, we were able to finish a project being able to finish something is like the hardest thing to teach so She must have done a good job. Yeah, how did your kid do great grade was good for this course Oh, yeah, he's still involved in it. Yeah They're building a nap three with two other kids that are building a nap together over the summer This award might help, but you know make the grade go up even more We'll say all right. Thanks. All right. Thanks so much. Congratulations. All right. That is our show everybody We're about to set up for asking engineer Thank you so much for making this the best half an hour of our week every single week the longest running biggest show-and-tell every single week online and Yeah, it's here See all about seven minutes when we're back for ask engineer. Yeah, all right. See y'all next week. Bye. Bye. Bye