 Lady what is this? Hey, buddy, and welcome to show and tell it's the longest running electronics show and tell the internet Starring me lady and beyond the internet and beyond the internet Also on go for in him radio with me mr. Lady Ada on camera control and the entire maker community behind the scenes. We're going to be Checking in with them. We've got did you key? uh, jay is here. We've got jebblers and scott's and brent's and Yes, the cool stuff and maybe some people from the community will come by all our welcome Come by on stream yard retro stuff cool things you have in your attic Packs mods robots things that got you started in the wonderful world of electronics or learning and more Let's first kick it off with jay. What is going on jay? Whoa? You're looking cool. That's cool Sorry, I'll have fun An ultimate since I haven't done this in a while. I finally went back and rebuilt my assi robot from literally One was last time I built that It's got some great use to a lot of people have made one themselves I'm proud of but this year I decided to go back to it and I have built a new assi bot Oh, that's so cool looking. It is assi v14. It's currently being controlled with my phone So I can control it make it look around and stuff and have it judge people I'm using a second playground on the head for the touch sensors, which I hope I got I know I got one program in here somewhere But I'm still playing around with it Or is it touch it sounds cool? Yeah, it also walks, but the walking system has been a nightmare Yeah, that's tough. It's currently very slow. I've definitely learned that it's a lot easier to make things um You know roll rather than walk I've been playing around with this system and it walks pretty well right now. It's just a very big baby I've been playing around with the um walking system. I even have a test setup next to me. So this is how you walk pretty much Simple mechanisms and gears and stuff. I'm I went to walk faster. So I'm going to be playing around with that more this week. Hopefully um Still messing around with some basic stuff But the design is where I really wanted to highlight because um, I've made one that's a steampunk spider The other one's very cyberpunk this one. I want to focus more on afro futurism. So I gave it some african-adriga on the Oh, nice. I'll leave in the symbol in the back That's cool I'm still playing with the design a little bit, but I'm definitely going for more of an afro futurism aesthetic with this Especially since you know, February and stuff Yeah, I love that's like you're not just it's like people have already done like cyberpunk and steampunk and like All those things So I like that you're you're coming at it with a different design aesthetic and you might end up making design decisions That like you you know, you're like based off of like as you're researching Like afro futurism and like historic designs of what can you implement? Oh, yeah, definitely. Um, mostly currently there's been different colors Because I've noticed that a lot of afro futurism aesthetics are more green orange yellow bright colors in their robotic designs And also the um symbolism they have on all this stuff like yeah looks more organic too. It looks it has this um almost like It's living more than just like the kind of static star wars look enjoyed I mean, I kind of really enjoy it. I still plan to make it a wearable I have a design to make a holder for it. I can't make it But one of my biggest things with this is of course the aesthetic I'm gonna make a few of them because I want to do a lot more like video content with them So as I've learned from watching any type of movie series definitely make a few of them because some of them Some of them will drop and then etc um But as well as I'm using the circuit playground to make all the touch sensors and all the other stuff attached on here too I got some vibration sensors when people pick it up. I don't like vibrate. So I can't wait to mess with people with that. Let me down Before picking me up. Yeah, pretty much. I'm working on a few different like Decisions on that but I just got the design done literally last night and got the legs walking finally So it's a very first good step for the 314. I'm actually really happy with it Okay, I'm standing um If you remember drop me a note so we can cover this um on our site through the month of february We have a bunch of special features. This would be really cool to add to sure. No problem. Thank you so much Yeah, good to see you Good to be back on show and tell. All right. We'll see you soon Later. All right. Hello jeppeler. How are you? I'm doing good Uh, so last week I think it was we talked about mice because I did a guide and somebody said why not do the super nintendo mouse so This is actually a modern product it's a replica supposed to be compatible with the super nintendo mouse And I grabbed an extension cable and chopped it up. That's something else And uh, soldered it on to a cutie pie and um, let's see Um, it's cool And yeah, so I can move Whoa with it and you know, we talk about making it easy. This was like soldering plus 20 minutes Uh, I just love making these kind of devices with circuit python so Yeah, it's a two button mouse this version is so new that it is Optical the original actual nintendo one was a ball mouse And I'll pick one of those up and see if the same code works and then maybe next month. We'll write it into a guide Yeah, it's like why why are they we made the s n e s mouse? What games do you know? Do you know any? Yeah, so actually I'll post up a link in discord about this somebody reviewed it and like it's not super Compatible, but they had a whole list of games I was saying earlier that I thought there was just one game, but that was that was bad information There's multiple nintendo games that use the mouse. All right. Yeah I'm glad you got to your information My first experience with like a nintendo style controller And it's just like a few lines of code to read out the data than a few lines to decode and a few lines to turn it to Hid so sweet circuit python for that's way better than the next stuff I'm with these alternate futures where companies End up making things that you didn't expect like we all use pizza. How does our internet because they started out doing an internet service Like a nintendo like we we use nintendo mouse. Yeah, like Like microsoft you like we want microsoft mice like they own the mouse market. They're still pretty good Yeah Well, yeah, and if you start googling for this you'll also find like super tons of concept art Well, why don't why don't we put a scroll wheel on and yeah, maybe the d-pad should be over here and I'm like, I want some of these so can I like have knowing Pedro for a month and they'll design this for me and we'll Yeah, it's like a weird galapagos island of Of of mice that never evolved I mean, look at that mouse. That's kind of cool. Like it you definitely aren't going to confuse it with anything else It looks like the mouse that you control like one of the voltron lines with All right, oh, thanks jeb. All right, uh track ball right here. Yeah Why not a help button There's a weird button on the bottom. No one knows what it does Yeah, I wonder if we're gonna look at like so I have one of these apple mice You don't have to like use the lightning cable on the bottom if like like someone's gonna be like, whoa, I can't believe you charge it upside Anyways, all right. I'll see you later. All right. Thank you. Okay. Next up is gonna be paedra Hello, paedra. Is this a computer mouse? No uh, so lemar found some really cool inspiration for a rocket lamp and This one has white. No, so of course we're gonna use it as a night lamp for one of the kids Oh, that's cool. So they flip the switch and they launch the rocket. Oh launch out and Hunks to liz for coding this up. She has the encoder so it can go cycle through different modes So the first one is the volume for the rocket and then the second one which The brightness Hard to see here because it's all Bright, but yeah, so cool to have a like a night light that has doubles as a White noise and we've gone through so many of these with Gavin like Like different versions of it. I've not seen one that had The brightness with the led which is so funny like seriously Yeah, you think you know what have on there to control the brightness for it, but yeah So we think Yeah, that thing you were doing with like the Einstein kids toys like Yeah, like Like that, you know, well the first thing when I saw that rocket lamp I was like, man I wish you know if it's rockets are like the really loud I was like, yeah, you don't shoot me a white noise generator because you often want one like having something that's either a nightlight and or White noise machine. It saves you some space on your on your desk and it's it's thematic, you know It's like you're the rocket and then kids love rockets So of course I have to make another one because the other kid wants one now I'm gonna build Very cool. And we have the cool rocket switches, you know that you just when you they're like the safety rockets, which is there They're just so cool to you can get a whole thing because then you can start putting like, you know A little planetarium up you can put a moon you can do all sorts of stuff Mars Exactly. Yeah, of course Designs and all that and I'll this this will come out next week, but I'll preview it more there But I'll do some more preview. Oh the second stage booster rocket is out. Okay And uh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I'm gonna go into a window or something there It's super cool. And then just wanted to show what um, their current Nightlight is I think it's using a sip and puff to up when you squeeze it Change the color That's a neat idea because if it's you can use the air the air flow to change the color You're not gonna crack it open and find out They have So cheap, you know, it makes sense But yep super interested in looking at what, you know, what's on the inside of all the kids toys All right, great. Thanks. Yeah, we're gonna learn and build. I'm totally inspired and we're making cool stuff from it Next, uh, Scott, how are you doing doing pretty well? How about yourself? And what is going on? So I think I I was just screen sharing and it was like hiccuping my machine a little bit So let me show you without Before I do that. Let me show you what I got hooked up here. So This is a scorpio New product, which is awesome Scorpio And one thing Lamore did is she actually made it so you can switch it to be an input Um, and it's on pio. So I've had this project that I wanted to do for ages, which is a low cost Low costs like logic analyzer Um, and so what I've been working on is somebody who's already made software that goes on this to capture And send it up usb The problem is is that There's a project called sig rock that's like the open source version of assaille a And the project itself is not super healthy And so there's a bunch of Backlog a bunch of prs that people haven't Gotten checked in And I had this theory that like the problem is is that they all need to be checked into one repo So what I've been doing is re implementing that core of sig rock in python Because python has this really cool thing called entry points, which is a way for To do plugins basically so the idea is is that we have a core signal analyzer thing Where everything like hardware support and protocol decoders are all Done using plugins so that people don't have to get them all in this one repo for them to be available. So Let me screen share and just show you what I've got I will add a lot of words Um, so the the two alligator Or the the clips that I've got hanging off the sides are the bottom window, which is the test debug output and then um And then here we've got uh It's the same cli that you would use with sig rock except it's got p y at the start of it um, and so it's a re implementation of sig rock but using python so I can take, um, this is the 100 samples at 100 kilohertz And this is mostly debug output right now, but it's showing that we are getting like some ones and zeros uh from the device and The next step is to click To connect this to the protocol decoders. So it can tell me what pwm i'm generating from the The other board that I've got here And then we'll be able to like do i squared c and you are and all that sort of analysis So it's very handy when you're doing new drivers Yeah, especially while it's it's the price. I mean I It's totally worth the money But the salae price has gone up and up it used to be 99 dollars and now It's a lot more than 99 dollars. So it's tougher for me to recommend it For people who are just doing i squared c debugging So, you know having a way to just get traces of like is the knack being sent or like how many bytes am I getting or Is there a jitter somewhere? This will be really helpful Yeah, I think so too and uh My salae turns my spotify off It's very weird. Okay. Well, I like Because your computer in focus mode It's a feat. Yeah, I'm I'm excited about this because any of our boards any of our p20 40 boards can now be logic analyzers for folks Which is that's cool incredibly powerful everybody or a lot of people already have them All right, thank you so much Scott and congrats getting back to that project. I know Oh, thank you for that See how far I get in the next couple days. Good luck. All right next up. We're gonna go to brent Brett what is going on? Hi, I'm confused what jeff doesn't know. We're the button what it does on his mouse But i'm excited to see what goes on with it. Um Currently have a fun house. Um, so I've been working on ediford.io the last year ish And we have this really neat interface called whippersnapper and it lets you interact with your board And we have this led button which like works and is great But um, you can't convey multiple states. It's an led. It's like a Boolean on or off So the fun house has like Five dot star rgb pixels on the top of it, which is really nice, but we've been unable to use it So until now We've added um, this is like this list is starting to scroll down, which is nice Like there's a lot more I remember when it was just a one one screen led and a button Yeah, and now we have um dot stars and e pixels um, so For this we're going to auto fill it in the future. So there's five dot stars on this board And we're going to auto fill the color order In like the next revision of this this like the first iteration Yeah, and create components the most typing you're going to do in the no code Yeah, so the important thing is there's no code all the code is running Executed Yeah, so if you click into the color picker Yeah, well it's going to show that he had it. Okay. Oh, yeah, so it starts with no color set and then you click into it And look up by the way, that's going over the internet. Look how fast that is everybody Make it blue Okay, now make it purple Oh, you're trying to so this isn't a trick. Yeah like pre-recorded. Yeah. Yeah, this is a live Okay, now make it yellow Hold up a newspaper for today's game. Okay. I think this is this is really live Yeah, it's sweet and it goes over. Um X color code so you can use aterford.io actions And you can create a new action that like I have one that says the humidity is greater than 40 than you can set it to green For whatever color code that is, uh red So, um, you can use it easily with other parts of the system to like Kind of piece together some web automation stuff Um and iot automation stuff without programming Without knowing how to program without knowing how to use any type of variables in your code We will gladly welcome the snarky emails that say we're making iot and programming too easy Too easy back in my day was hard. Did you make it too easy? Everyone's going to do it now. Yeah So thank you brad Yeah, no problem All right, thanks up too easy Noe, how are you doing? Hey folks doing good Uh this week. I got a little kind of little it's a uh, uh holiday inspired Art display and it's got eight new pixel strips and it uses the scorpio board the new feather arp 2040 scorpio Has some really nice capabilities For doing some really nice new pixel animations Uh, so jeff ebbler helped me, uh convert some of these simple, uh circuit python led animation Effects so that it uses The the pio peripheral so it's doing some really nice frame rates. It's pretty pretty smooth So I designed and 3d printed these pieces Uh that kind of resemble like a tree And uh folks might be like, oh you're a little late, but maybe i'm a little early, huh? So, uh, it's every look everything has a tree involved in it every holiday has some type of Thing that you put things on that Well, this is perfect time if people want to get started on on next christmas if they want to do that I mean like you got to start now. Yeah, yeah totally and um, it's it's uh, I really like these neopixel strips because they're kind of Insulated already. It's got the the sheathing and then you have the uh, the three pen jst connectors Uh, so I got here is a little perma proto board and an idc cable so I can plug it in so it's really modular so I gotta take this apart. It's all screws. There's nothing glued here So I can you know break it down and and store it away which i'm really happy about Uh, so we got a learn guide so folks can build their own they can 3d print it It's gonna fit on most 3d printers because like the base here is just a bunch of brackets that are just screwed together Uh, and then it's like zip tied right so I don't see a tree. I see a gigantic cupid's arrow Sure, it could be that or it can be like a cosplay prop or something. Yeah a metro I see triangle head like At a rave Yeah, you are the death star thing, you know, yeah Uh, so yeah, check it out. It's a it's a really good example of using the scoreboard to make these Yeah, you can have like 8,000 LEDs if you want. This is a nice little Uh, it's a tip of the iceberg for All right All right jp, you're gonna play us out here because this is um all the projects that we saw here are great However, uh This one is a long time coming right on good. Well, thank you so much. I I I've really enjoyed the heck out of this project so uh, here is the um The box that the thing I took apart came with and you can see the original illustrations of this throwback style originally 1965 see and say and it's real heavy on the farm animals as far as what we're trying to teach the children Uh, and I don't know if they've ever done ones that that do urban sounds But we decided we wanted to do one with urban sounds and so we've done one with urban sounds. So this is uh, essentially a brain transplant I've taken the electronics out except I kept the uh button pad that they have inside of there that is how The uh sounds get triggered. So wherever you you place this you've essentially set a little uh plastic nub That's going to when you pull the string Press down on a game controller pad type of thing. There's 12 of them in there Everything else is is transplanted stuff. So I've got a kb 2040 in there. I've got a little i2 s amplifier And I'm able to use the batteries um with a little mini boost. So Since the mechanism is noisy, I don't actually have to release it until I hear the sound at least for demo purposes So I'll just pull it and that's when it triggers the sound Yeah So it's usually in the background of our shows and someone complains like oh About the back the background. I don't know it's new york. Sorry. This one's my favorite for sure. This is the mta uh conductor I love it Where's the pizza retina? Thank you. Yeah, so uh the story behind this is that my friend brian kessinger who's a tremendous artist Animation director and and all around great guy. Uh, I asked him. Hey, would you do some spot illustrations for me? Two hours later. He turned around all of these the guys Uh, he must have really loved doing that. That's like I could tell like animators don't actually turn around stuff in two hours Listen really into it He had fun doing it and and for the center. I said, I don't know maybe like a Statue of Liberty or a skyline or oh, what about a pizza rat and he put a little Like the mascot of new york city This is part of a bigger series that we're doing now of uh toy hacking because we have a kid and The sounds are a little dated and the capabilities have changed quite a bit. So things like Changing the graphics changing the sounds having um internet connected but for a good reason so you could put new sounds on it um being able to turn this into something that's more than just Um something they might throw away or that's very annoying over time because you can change out the sounds You can do lots of interesting things. Um, and these enclosures are great. They're like Battle baby testing. Fantastic. They're really great. Only modification. I made honestly was uh Adding a little widening of one of these key holes that are used to hold the packaging into the cardboard Yeah, so that I could flip uh put a put a switch on there for yeah powering off and on Yeah, he also is original These things originally I think used the uh the little record mechanism back in the yeah At some point they updated to electronics. Um, I don't have The full example one here. I was gonna show you the Button pad which I've now lost but they're kind of cool because they look like the inside of a uh video game controller It's just a little elastomer button pad with the little carbon pills And those close of contact. Uh, I've got a guide out. So if you want to see all that stuff Go check out the guide. It's a new one in the in the learn guide system. Um, and uh I hope it's a leaping off point for people the other the other revelation to me, honestly It's silly, but I didn't know you could get good vinyl sticker paper that works in laser printers and you can and it was Yeah, this is really good It's uh easy to update this in a few years for a completely different graphics that if you want and it's just wave files that I Uh, I have gotten off of freesound.org and then I added my own voice over on top of those Those are all you can find the credits for those in the miles. The only thing that's missing is a guy saying are you Jewish? Well, the other thing is you could do one for each city Sites and sounds you could do one for different countries and then the other thing is you could keep you would keep the same one But you would uh, just swap out the graphics and the sounds yourself. Yep for sure. Yeah, uh, and This one also cracked me up. This is just brian being goofy. I don't know if you've ever seen when they try to do these Uh character ice cream novelties Yeah Yeah And also, I think this is maybe at uh point six volume. You can go up to one volume in code I didn't do any external volume stuff. You could certainly do that or do it with um, haul effect switches if you wanted to use magnets and make it uh, Snead is a lot of room to add a lot. Yeah, that's a lot We experienced uh, we saw what happens if you're an ice cream truck and you go into another person's ice cream truck territory Oh, that's um, there is nothing more vicious and ruthless than the ice cream truck industry in new york city. Oh my gosh I've heard yeah, that should be it. Yeah, that should be one on there. It's like get your ice cream truck out of here This is my turn. Yeah, I'll break your damn face. Yeah Oh my gosh, someone posted uh, some novelty ice creams over in the discord. That's only worth taking a look at All right. Okay. Well, thank you so much hippie for doing this. Um, we're gonna get this a data frame We're gonna take a bunch of photos and some more video And get this out for folks to see. Yes, it is my gift to you. The tar hacking begins now. Yes All right. Thanks everybody. What a great show until all right. 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