 All right, lady. What is this? Hey everybody and welcome to show and tell. It's me Lady Aida with me mr. Lady Aida and we're broadcasting from our downtown Manhattan headquarters beautiful summer days Summer evening here in New York City. You can see everyone's gone. That's because it's time for show and tell We're gonna check in with digikey and makers and crafters and hackers and creative people from around the internet See what they're up to check in with them for our weekly check-in and then don't forget in about 30 minutes We have Ask engineer, so let's kick it off with Kevin Haven't seen you in a couple weeks. How are you? I am good. How are you guys good? Sounds like a nice summer day in beautiful Manhattan. It's in the sunlight. There's sunlight. This is where yeah It's also beautiful here in minnesota finally, so it's it's good to hear that Manhattan in two weeks. It's kind of exciting. Um, well, are you do you have time to get together? Maybe I'll send you a note That sounds pretty good. There's a there's another person That's uh related to the digikey orbit that's going to be stopping in soon But uh, maybe I'll reveal that next week after the show That yeah, that sounds good. Okay, so what I'm going to share with you guys today is I'm going to share if you want to pull up my screen I'm going to run through our innovation hub really quick that we are just about ready to launch So it's kind of a yeah, you were mentioning this before go for it Yeah, so uh, we have five different areas in here. We have our test bench You know you jump into our test bench and you can look at Different products you can view them in in 360 You can play around with it get more information and you know, of course go to the digikey website to order them I i'm going to go really quick. So I don't want to take up too much time You got plenty of time we have uh our This is our featured product area where we're going to show some of the new featured products that digikey has That are kind of new and kind of trendy kind of you know, something that the suppliers Look at this. What was this? What was this built in? This is like a We worked with a third party to uh to build this and they did such a great job This looks like our new warehouse in the back room So then here comes the the magic digikey parts that we chose some of the newest products Yeah, you pull these up and you can look at them you can view more information about all the different products And I I just did show me random ones, but you can actually go through and select products So this is gonna jump back and so is this is this a strictly web experience? I mean it also looks like you could put on like an oculus uh quest and Go it fly around in it. That's something we talked about How do we turn this into a vr a virtual reality experience? But at this point, it's Strictly a web experience. Yeah Experience it's not the metaverse. This is the digiverse. That's right. This is the digiverse So then this is just some of our our calculators and conversion tools that we have, you know You're gonna do an ohms law calculator Or you know enter in all your information and it all pops up right here Oh, maybe I should uh look at a led series resistor calculator and Yeah, you can actually this five volts into five volts, you know all the information and they'll calculate it for you So there's all of our different calculators in here, which is pretty cool And then different conversions to everyone wants to know how to convert things. So it's all right here at your fingertips Go back to the hub and this is one of my favorite areas the knowledge center Wait, there's your skateboard if you're wondering where it went There is my skateboard and there's the iron man helmet I know my camera's not showing but it's also right behind me Yeah So we have videos over here that all the did digki videos and libraries you know different how to And tech tips a bunch of different videos that digki has you can watch them right on here You know, we have uh, some of the sean himmel videos And all the different cool things that we carry the tech basics another teaching moment And then we'll uh jump over here to resource library We have four different areas. We have digki overview technologies and markets guides and handbooks And then support so you can get to our tech support or whatever might be You know, this is our innovation handbook. You can see we have the startup survival guide. You can scroll through this and Read all about startups. It's pretty cool. Yeah This is all different now like, you know, there's it's like a lot of the Stuff that we've written and videoed about is like So different now because it's like just like the part, you know parts and silicon chore is amazing Yeah, it really the the speed of change is really scary. Yeah But it's pretty cool And then the last one is the board delivery system You know this looks like an old bank teller delivery here in a second We'll pull up some a to for boards, you know, we'll pull up the circuit playground the two circuit playgrounds the clue and then Okay, no, i'm not complaining or anything But if you were to do alphabetical a to fruit would be first You're right. Maybe that is something we should do. I don't know You know what I always say put Put spark fun first because folks you try the spark fun stuff out and then, you know, you should uh They want, you know They come over our place. I don't mind me. I don't mind being the second the second It's little tubes. Yeah, it's bank teller tubes and I think they're working on this because these are usually great But you know, if you pull up the the blue fruit, you know, you can look at this in 360 Yeah, you can zoom in see if it lets me zoom in. Yep Get more information about it and then you can view the datasheet These product details. This will all link off to the digi website. I'm not going to click it or you'll I'll lose you for a second Yeah, just the way stream yard works Nice and then, you know, you can go back to the different board selections select some different boards look at more things and This is a quick overview of our hub and this is for anybody to check out We have some pretty cool things. We're also adding in the background Uh in the future that you know, I'm excited to share with you soon But just not quite yet So this you know, it really allows us to tell a lot of different stories about digi We have to offer to the customers I kind of like that because with the web it's so distracting with All your bookmarks and everything that's going on and tabs if you wanted to have an experience and Have more precious time when you're doing this This experience allows that more than When you're just of course, if you're ordering something that's different, but if you're exploring Um, the the web stop being like that Just the way everything works now. It's uh, you don't you don't get a chance to have an immersive experience Right even videos trying to find all the different videos and all the different resources digiki has to offer You know, we have so much stuff on our website. So Well on youtube if you're like starting to like if okay I'm gonna watch a solder video with digiki and then if you turn your head for a second It'll auto go to the next video and add will play and now you're in some type of Reptiles actually run the world conspiracy video, right? I kind of like yeah, I kind of like how um It's focused. Yeah, I like how this is immersive and you're like this is this is what I want to do It's almost like its own um streaming network Right digiflakes. Okay All right. Okay. Well, thank you shown. This is this world premiere. Is this the first time it's been This is the first time I've really shown it to any kind of an audience It's been mostly internal digiki getting feedback getting You know Getting all the kings worked out and we're we're very close to having this a public link where all right Well, the only bug report to send to those folks is they should offer the ties I'll work on that. Okay. All right. Thanks guys. All right. Take care guys. All right Hey scott. Hey scott. How are you doing? Doing pretty good, you know, I could use a little more sleep, but I think that's a typical new parent thing. Yeah Um, oh bummer. Why sleep when you can code? Why sleep when I can come let me split the view here Um, because you weren't seeing the top of this so what I uh have been working on is They're debug prints for sure. So be aware of that too, but I'm starting doing the basics Or the pre-work for what I consider a web workflow, which is the ability to Use an hgtp rest api to upload files download files and web sockets as well for the serial link um And the first thing that I or one of the first things I needed to do for that is to have The wi-fi when you connect the wi-fi it lasts the whole time Rather than turning off and on as code starts um So I've been working on that and one thing that I did is I was trying to figure out how to Always show you what the status of the wi-fi is. So I split my thing here just so that the um The stat the the terminal status is up here So this snake wi-fi off is coming from circuit python. So if I hit Control d to start up. I have user code But now it says no ip And then as it gets to my wi-fi it will put my uh ip address in there That's cool. All right together look like a status bar Yeah, so I was going to originally do it with like this scroll buffer thing But when I was using that today, I noticed that I couldn't actually scroll up in infinitely which I really do like to do Um, it was just like keeping me to one single page. So here I can still scroll up Um, but because I'm setting like the title I can still see kind of my status And then what what are you using to do that in curses? You said your or vt 100 codes vt 220 codes Yeah, it's it's I think a code that x term actually started Um using the operating system command. So it's like very similar to vt 100 but not quite the same Where you can give it up to a 256 character String to set the title for for the terminal, you know, it's and I mean I remember using text terminals like minicom and z-term and whatever and they would set the top bar It'll tell you your baud rate your connection status. How many minutes And you know how much your pain comp you serve. Um, so i'm glad we're bringing that back I know circuit python. Yeah, so I yeah, so I was uh playing around with that and it is I think it should be pretty universal But we'll need to make sure that like mu and things Work out but the idea with the status bar is that there's going to be a lot of different ways To uh, do work like change code in circuit python, right? Like we were used to be very just usb But we added ble so we have usb and ble and now we're going to add a wi-fi And then when we have usb host I want keyboards to be a thing as well So this will hopefully be kind of an extensible way to communicate to someone like Here's the status of all these different ways that you could be editing your code Yeah, also like are you in a fake sleep mode right now in bluetooth connected? There's a lot of like statusy things could be interesting. Actually if user land could also Um pop stuff in there, you know if they're like I want to see the mac address or I want to have You know the sensor status like maybe have sensor data Um, have a mini sasmark. It'd be cool. Well, that's the thing is it because it's just using this obscure escape code thing like There's no reason that the user code couldn't just print those escape codes and get the same result. Yeah, true All right. Good stuff. Yeah. So that's I I don't know if you have a ton of other people But I do have another thing I could show you. Yeah, we got two more, but why don't you go? Um, rich will be next and then we'll go to john. So go ahead and okay. Let me just show you my my non work thing. Yeah um So I gave you another screen. So so one thing I was Following along with the state level redistricting in washington state um this The redistricting process for those of you outside the us or who don't know in the us is the process of splitting up an area Into equal population chunks. Uh, so each chunk has a representative and this happens at the state level and then um now in seattle it also happens at the city level And one tool that they were uh, I was watching some of the redistricting meetings And they were like we really need a tool where somebody can just draw on the map and tell me What do you think this neighborhood is that we should keep as one? So we have uh, this site I made called map note dev Um, and so you can zoom in and you can select a polygon And just draw I'm like not a j s person Um But you can draw a polygon here And if you double click There's the polygon and it adds it to the url So if I just copy it open a new tab and paste the url I get the polygon back That's a super simple way for folks to share A note on the map, right? Like whether it's a line an area or just a point And it's all super simple because it's all just stored in the url I lost taking stuff in the url. It's handy. Yeah, it is super handy. Um It's kind of like that it reminded me of that tree map dev I think I showed on On show until a couple weeks ago where it's just like well one static page you load the file It helps you out and that's all the page does Yeah So Sharing this but also thanks for always being civic minded I know over the the years that we've been working together use You've been using your talents and skills to help things like um voting information and um This is I think a good example of being an engaged citizen Because the politicians aren't hanging out doing code. Um, that's not their job and sometimes You know citizens and politicians can use tech to come together and also maybe have more transparency And go totally. Well, yeah. Yeah, and the redistricting stuff only happens every 10 years So it is kind of like you gotta get it right. Yeah, hopefully Otherwise you're stuck for it for 10 years and yeah, especially at the state and the federal level. There's a lot of Uh, funny business. Yeah, I'm trying a lot of incentives to not Do the bright thing sometimes. Yeah, so so far the Seattle city level stuff has been pretty promising The commissioners have been pretty transparent and stuff. So it's been all right. Well, thank you so much Scott And thanks for sharing that. Thank you All right, rachel. Hello. How are you? I'm doing great I have built a lego Light diffuser for one of your matrices Oh, that's a good idea. So you put the legos on top of oh, yeah, that's a good idea If this will help with the Oh set Fun. Yeah, that's neat because it's all these little mini diffusers Exactly. Uh, I haven't been I haven't quite got the lighting right for the camera, but trust me Quite beautiful in person And uh, I guess Yes, um and if I can get for example the blue under um, there are a lot of There are a lot of uh lego parts that fluoresce and the blue leds are close enough To the uv spectrum to make them Like that's great. It's neat because it's a combination of uh, you know for the folks out there remember light bright it's a little bit like that and um I always like seeing these projects on show and tell because I know for a fact that lego watches our shows and our website and everything That's a really good idea. I can imagine them doing like a bluetooth light panel one day where you would you know, they have the sheets I go by the lego store here in new york and they have like the giant sheets that are just um, you know, you pop legos on top of it But there isn't a clear one that's you know computer controlled or phone control that you could do animations and things behind it So, um The the maker world tends to be the product development and design for some really good things that come out Uh, but you get to build it now and share it. Well, I mean I I just love to inspire more coding That's based on art and technology and not always navigation and robots, right? So Understanding an led matrix, you know, I've actually Built a whole led matrix out of just raw components stuck on the lego. So yeah Yeah, and yeah, we do um the the form of electronics that we like to do the most is uh, like art and you know technology working with people um We don't do like the battle bot stuff because that's covered done done that's done but like art art bots are Art bots are fun. We did some some things with uh cricket But a lot of it is uh the things that we like do is a lot of light art with leds Right. Yeah. I mean the minute a bot or a drone is going to do something with some kind of other context You know, it's going to map out an architectural area or something instead of just you know battling each other Yeah, it's good too. I just think navigation. Like you said, it's kind of covered and I don't yeah I don't see enough with playing around with um Uh light and color and you know led matrices. So hoping to see more of that and uh I'm working on a new version applying your um your matrix to create fireworks as the backdrop for a lego juneteenth display Oh, cool. We'll be at the brick world in chicago Well, rachel if you don't mind could you send an email with any of these if we could post it up on our blog If you remember on pt at datafruit.com and if anything you got with any of these projects, um, we could uh Put it on our blog or if you're if it's going to be an event let us know and we'll hope to get the word out You mean like videos or just pictures or just whatever pictures Or if there's a video somewhere if you put on youtube you can send links, whatever right, especially on juneteenth I mean we'll be live at the show on juneteenth and um, so be nice to do a little right on Okay, well nice to electronically meet you rachel cool project All right. Now. Do I have to do something here to disconnect? No, I'm gonna I'm gonna press a button and you're just gonna go away Yeah, that's so easy. All right. Bye rachel. Bye Okay, john How's it going? Hi, welcome back. Hey, we blogged your project. Um Last last week or so folks really liked it. Yeah, that was awesome. Thanks. What you get is you're back for more Yeah, yeah It wasn't uh stressful enough so I came back on yeah So, uh, this is a project I did a while ago. Um, it's just a garage door left open notifier um, so you can see here. It's got this, uh Um, little note mcu on here just the wi-fi chip and then there's a tilt sensor here, right? And so so you just mount this on the on your garage door And then when your garage door changed states, right? Yeah, the tilt switch changes It wakes up the the note mcu And then uh, it it sends out an email telling me that I left my garage door open after five minutes It's not like as soon as you open the garage door, but oh handy. I like the simple single use Functionality Thanks, and and so I've had this for a while But uh, one of the things that I've had a problem with is is this case If you don't mount it correctly, right? So if you mount it upside down it's always down, right and uh The the tilt switch doesn't detect the change, right? Yeah So so I I recently got a 3d printer and uh, the update I wanted to do on this was Is uh, I added an orientation arrow on here, right? There you go So uh, this slide up. Yep. So so when you mount it on here make sure your arrow's pointing up And uh, then you always mount it the correct way on your garage door So anyways It's funny with um 3d printers one of the things that um when they first kind of hit the scene we thought that the One of the ultimate Destinations for them was printing enclosures for electronics But when the 3d printers first came out everyone's like I want to put a yoda head And you know they kept going doing that over and over and over But now it seems like that's one of the things that folks really like to do is they're they're making all the different things for their other stuff to Fit in there and you're doing product almost product design from from their homes Yep, and and I'm sure I'm going to be doing a lot more 3d printing stuff So I hope you guys don't mind if I come back on. Yeah, you're everyone We're here every week no matter what if your print prints extrude right and come on by yeah, and then On wednesdays uh this week, you know and Pedro we're off, but um every wednesday You know and Pedro have 3d hangouts the the longest running live 3d printing shows to stop by there too Oh cool. Well, let's check that out. Okay, John. Well cool projects. Maybe we'll see you next week All right, thank you. See you all right Okay, that is our show until everybody. Thanks so much for joining us This is the best half an hour of the week every single week. We only get to do is show and tell Thank you so much for coming by. We'll see uh everyone next week some 30 p.m. Eastern time Where you can show and share your projects Bring some light into the world You know leds legos more and We'll see everybody on ask an engineer in just a few minutes. Bye everybody. Bye. Bye. See you in a couple