 Welcome back to the 3D Hangouts. My name is Noelle Ruiz. I'm a designer at Adafruit. Join me every week for another video. Good morning, everybody. I'm Pedro Rescrate of Tech here at Adafruit. And every week we're here to share three printed projects featuring electronics from Adafruit. That's right. This is where we combine 3D printing and DME electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. If you'd like to hang out with us during the live show, you can hang out on the Discord live broadcast channel. One moment, please. Well, I turn on the tree. I forgot to turn on the tree. If you want to hang out in any of the chat rooms or not only on Discord, we're on Facebook, on Twitch, and on Periscope. It is again at over at discord.gg slash Adafruit. Yeah, we're going to give some shoutouts to everybody hanging out. Good morning, everybody hanging out. Andy Callaway, Du Wester. Hello. DJ Devon. Lots of Santa emojis. It is. Taking a look over at the clock over here. How many days until that holiday? Three days. 12 hours, 58 minutes, and 12 seconds until we got to clean up all the wrappings and break down the boxes. Oh, no. We're out of room in the recycling bins. The laundry's the finest part. Laundry, all the clothes. Wow. Swogging like a true dad in a second. Well, welcome, everybody. We have some fun stuff that we're going to share. We've got some lined up projects. We've got some print in place, goodness. We have some really fun things from the community, new parts. They're just going to laugh and spill coffee from their nose. Yeah, going to get the turkey out of the freezer. Clean up, do some laundry. Yeah, there's a lot to be done. So let's pay some bills. We got bills to pay, as everyone might. The holiday shipping. I think we're done. We're done. I don't know if there's an update to the blog post. We had a blog post throughout all of the months. When was the last day? I think, like, yesterday or something. If you go to aetherford.com and go to the blog, you'll see the final deadline next day of the year, that's the last one. Yeah, yesterday. So it's 2 days ago. Wait, no, the 20th. What did it say? The 20th, yesterday? OK, yes. But Aetherford does a good job at keeping track of shipping deadlines. You know what we'll get there on time? Aetherford gift certificate. It's electronic. It's a code. We'll use that. Good segue into that. It's a perfect, perfect gift. Just give them, like, a couple. Yeah, yeah, it's all good. So thanks for everybody putting in their orders and getting their things on time. We've got some newsletters once a week. You can subscribe to the Aetherford newsletter that's focused on products. We go to aetherford.com slash newsletter. Oh my gosh. DJ Devin is making a homemade tamales last night. Oh, man, that's great. With the masa and the corn husks. That's great. Yeah, that's legit, tamales. With the chile guajillo. 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I think that's it for the intro housekeeping stuff. Tonight is going to be just a programming note. Tonight is going to be hosted by Liz Clark. It's in the DIY. She'll be hosting the show Intel. We'll try to come on there. We still have John Park tonight for a special 10% off coupon code. Get your orders in and get 10% off. JP's got the code. It'll be tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern time. And I think we're back to this week's project. Yeah. Let's turn off the comments. Sid West was saying, yes, everything went excellent. He hasn't posted pictures or a name, right? I don't want to spoil any of that. Leave that all up to that to surprise everyone with names and pictures and all that cool stuff. They're in good health. Everybody's fine. And thank you for asking. Freaking adorable. Maybe we'll see some show Intel-ish. I think they're going into the meeting tonight, to our meeting, in the state of the fruit. But I don't know if they'll be there for the show Intel or whatnot. So tune in maybe. We'll have a special guest. So adorable. Very, very cool. So check out this week's project. It's a collab project with Liz Clark. She wrote the code for it. Yes. This is a project that Katnney wanted to do. So we all collab together on this. It's a really simple 3D printed stand that's housing these electronics. We got the QT Pi ESP32S2. That's that lovely wifi dev board. It's got a STEM at QT port, which makes a lot of these type of projects just plug and play and play. So we, sorry, we did the audio thing. I know the audio is probably crappy, but hey, we're gonna have to go with it. I'm gonna plug this bit, and then we'll do it again. I have no audio. Oh, it's, what? These headphones. That's your headphones? Yeah. Yeah, but it was just my audio, but I knew this said it wasn't working. All right, well, these are going in the trash. Oh, they broke, broke. Oh yeah. Okay. Continue, sorry. No, it's okay. Hello, hello. Hold on, let me figure out why the Yeti mic is broken again. Hello, hello. Stop these. Okay, stop, stop talking. I'm just gonna have to keep the iMac microphone, the internal mic microphone for the iMacs is gonna have to be the mic, because this keeps having problems. I keep restarting the mic, and it keeps failing on me for some strange reason. What a beautiful Christmas present. It's just the nature of doing a live stream is normally riddled with challenges. All right, well, I'm gonna have to stick with the crappy iMac internal microphone and just project. So, daisy chainable alphanumeric displays. We got a library that lets you do lowercase and uppercase fonts. That's really not, you only get one font, but the characters and the numbers and special characters as well. So like stars and ampersands and things like that are supported. So check it out. So that's kind of the rundown of the electronics, pretty simple. You got your dev board, you got three of these breakouts, a couple of semi-QT cables. That works fine. And then the 3D printed stand. So the 3D printed stand is these three pieces. You got this plate that has these holes. So these are just press-fitted in. They're very easy to do so. You just press bit them in there. These have some nice edges here that allow the display to just pop through. So no need to secure them with any glue or anything. They just stay in there in place with friction. And then the screws you wanna use is for this QT-Pi holder. I'm a big fan of making a separate holder mounting bit for your dev board. That way your project is modular. So if you wanna use a feather, you wanna use a different QT-Pi, you can swap out this mounting piece and still use this piece, because this could take a little bit of time to print. That's the main point there. Yeah, modularity and speediness of printing. Also, you could not be able to bend the snap part. Oh, that's right, yeah. The one that I felt was attached. Yeah, a lot of the time to do these PCBs that don't have any mounting holes, we create these little kinda corner clips. But the only way you can get your PCB to fit under those corner clips is to slightly flex the holder and put it in, slide it under the other clips. But that's all documented in the Learn Guide, which we'll take a look at now. You have your own choice to pick whatever color you want. These aren't RGB LEDs, they're single color LEDs, so you'll have to, once you pick your color and you solder it in, that's what you get. You get green, so you wanna pay attention to what color you purchase with your breakout. Make sure to actually label them as well when you put them away from your bin. That's correct, yeah. Because you can't tell what color they are when it's off until you power it, which could be a pain. Yeah. All right, so let's take a look at the Learn Guide. Here we go. What is up with Google and spacing? It does not like putting spaces between text and links. So it's the, this week, you'll see the new guides, this one of the guides, scrolling time countdown timer. The homepage just kinda walks you through what parts you want. You can get the breakout in the display separately, but you could also get kind of a pack where you get the display and the backpacks, the LED backpacks. So you'll need three of them. You'll need some STEMIQT cables, the short ones work fine, and some power. So if you wanna power it off a USB hub or a battery, you have the option to do so. And I'm just gonna run through this pretty quick. The CAD page has all the files. We have STL files. You just wanna print them out. We have the step file and the Fusion 360 file, which you can modify. If you wanna maybe make the base plate a little bigger, you wanna add a fourth display, it's easy to do so using the source file. So that's really good. Whether you use Fusion or a different CAD app, the step file is like friendly for all solid modeling apps. The CAD assembly is in this nice little gift here that I put together, Fusion 360. It just shows you how the three plates come apart and how there's some screws and hex nuts to hold the QDPI together. And speaking of the QDPI, we have the QDPI ESP32 model on the 804 CAD parts GitHub repo. So you can always download that and use it in your designs for free. So check that out. One note about the parts. You can, they print without any supports. And you're gonna need a minimum built volume of 166 by 78 on the X and the Y. They're pretty short, not tall files. So you can whatever Z is fine. You'll wanna install the latest version of Circuit Python on your ESP32 QDPI. This walks you through that. You'll want to create your .env file. This learn guide will walk you through that. It's how you can get kind of the token from your open weather thing, if you wanna do that. So the document here is all there for you to read it through. The code page has the code. It's up on GitHub. You can download the project bundle, which will include the libraries, which is really nice. Listed a great job commenting everything and making it easily customizable. So on the top of the code, you can see the event year, month, day, hour, minute, name, and the message when it actually gets to that date. So it's all there for you to easily customize by having to really modify much of the logic. But if you do, it's all there. And if you're looking for a way to kind of sync up these displays, this is a good example of how to do it. You just kind of tell what address you want, what I squared C address you wanna use for the displays. You just make sure that the jumper is soldered in the back of the breakout. You have the ability to change the brightness of the displays, which I didn't know you could do, but can. It's just really nice. Oh yeah. It was really great for filming because right now I have it at point two. You can put it at point nine. It'll wait too much. It'll clothe the whole room, but it'll block your camera. You can also just quickly write a message to if you wanna do that. So yeah, check it out. It's really nice. Oh cool. And it's all broken down here too. The whole setup for everything. There's also some handling for errors, which is really nice. So if like it times out or something, the program won't just crash. It'll actually keep going, which is nice. So check it out for any timekeeping projects and stuff with CircuitPython and native.io. It's a really good example for it. So check it out. Next page just walks you through setting up the displays. I put together this page here just to kind of let folks know when you are setting up the jumpers and laying out the breakouts, you're doing it in reverse just because of the notion of, while you're looking at the back of the PCBs and the front of the PCBs. So you just have to be aware. So that's why I set it up in this way where you have displays one, two and three going from left to right, it's three to one. And then the address changes is a one, a zero and then none. Just be aware of your order when you are doing this. So I broke it out like that. Circuit diagram, it's just a visual representation of what the circuit looks like. It's just like that. It's pretty simple. Yeah. All right, on to the assembly page, the base plate snap fit together. So you just kind of snap those together. There's like these little notches that keep the thing lined up nicely, which is a good technique for designing things that snap together, having these little notches. It's kind of like a laser cut technique. The displays get installed from left to right. So three to one, you're looking at it in this orientation. I got some gifts here for some of the things like installing the display, just press fit it in, making sure that the orientation is correct. You can tell that their orientation is correct. If you look at the dot decimals, there's little dots they should be pointing down. And then plugging in the cables. Here's a nice little gif of the action of installing the QDPI. I'm gonna probably start doing this more and more where I have a gif image of showing how your hands and fingers work together in this dance of getting your QDPI to snap fit into this thing. Cause once you look at it, you're like, how do you get it out? Well, you have to slightly bend using your thumb and your finger and it pops out. So yeah, once you've done it, you're like, oh, okay, this is easy. I use my thumb as an anchor to kind of pivot this thing. From there, you get the STEMQT, plug everything in, you fasten those screws and hex nuts together and you plug in that last display. I'm running it off a battery here, but you can plug it into USB. That's the, that's probably the nutshell. Pretty straightforward. So if you got these new STEMQT breakout boards for the Alphanumeric displays, this is a really fun project. DJ Devon knows all about these. Super. Super cool. Yeah, yeah. How's the audio? Is it still? Okay, it should have just stuck with the iMac mic and thanks, Blue, whatever. Yeti, Blue. I like this mic, but I don't know what happened, man. Maybe, I don't know, anyway. Leaks to all of the GitHub ad parts, the frixing, the parts all in the Discord and all of the chats. Yeah, give a big shout out to Liz for doing the code and Katni for coming up with the kind of project idea and kind of coordinating the things. But that's this week's collab 3D Printed Project circuit Python IoT. Got some glowy displays. You can use this all year round. You can change it to be New Year's and when the New Year's is over, you can pick your birthday, you can pick Valentine's Day, your holiday, your kid's thing. It's a really fun one. What I like that she didn't mention too is this. What did I not mention? How you can just theme this plate. Oh, the plate. Yeah, the plate fusion, add whatever floral type design to add to everything. Yeah, I hope this is some remakes from folks. So post them up if you remakes this project or add more. I'd like to see a bigger display one, like maybe DJ Devman did. Yeah, the only thing you gotta update is just this main plate here that pops in. Yeah, it just pops in, which I can take out if you want. Very cool. This comes out like that. Very nice. The angle's built into, the viewing angle's built into that slot there, which is an interesting way to do it. And those notches here line up here, so when you pop this in, it can't slide out because those notches are in place. So it's a good way to kind of key and register your designs and snap fit. Very, very cool. You could even laser cut this bit. If you have a laser cutter, you can laser cut the panel because there's no real geometry to it. Maybe the angle here is a little bit off, but it's fine. It's not bad and probably still fit. But if you want to do like an acrylic plate, that'd be nice and fancy, it's all good. If you have a build plate with a textured PEI textured bed, you get this nice textured surface on the base plate, which is kind of nice. But yeah, that's kind of it. Pretty fun, pretty simple. I think you guys can, people can build this in like an afternoon. Might use the 3D printed parts, so it might take an hour or two. Depending on your slice settings, you should update this to be like, you know the audio is only going through the left ear. On your headphones? Yeah, well people are saying that too. Oh really? My left ear says, thank you. Kyoshi says yeah, only with the left ear. I'm gonna see what I can do here. Mono or something. Look at this, 96 color. Oh yeah, like that's useful to me, right? Not if it's a stereo or not. There it is. Why would it not have it turned off by default? That's the weirdest thing. Hey folks, and the audio meter now shows two lines, representing stereo, so I know what's working. Yeah, I literally had to tell the app to do left and right. I like how the default is like 180, but 240. What decade are we living in? We're like, oh I only want left. It wants like UV, whatever colors it's old school. It's like, what are you doing? I don't know, we're never using this software ever again. This is why I don't recommend it. Use OBS, this is not OBS. I won't even say the name of this software that's how much I don't like it. All right, let's go ahead and jump into it. Yeah, let's go ahead and jump in the shop sign. Shop sign, yeah. Are we showing the hour in IoT? Oh, we're on the hour? IoT, probably. IoT updates. We're getting updates, yeah. So, Apple has an update for all you Apple users who are having trouble with dragging and dropping UF2s. There's been two updates. I think it's, I probably should have looked at whatever the number was, whatever. If you go into system settings, the update will be right in there. And I updated the M2, worked as fine whenever the M1 Max did not update. So, make sure that that is installed as well. And now you can drag and drop UF2s, oh my gosh. Yeah, rejoice. I have an update and I'm still on an older version of OBS. I'm on Monterey, Monterey. So, it's a Ventura 13.14, 22 C65. Nice. We have a blog post from Dan. Yeah. So, check it out. Huge shout out to Dan for testing all these. Oh yeah, he's just here to update anything. Yeah. But yeah, it all works now. Even, I did a real test because I messed up my tiny USB, messed up the boot loader so I had to do all of this crap with the ESP tool. Oh, sure. Yeah. The web thing that Melissa made. So, it all works. I was able to repair everything. So, it's a nice way to test if the USB isn't in working. Yeah, or any issues with the Pico? So, yeah, we're looking at the Pico W was able to update all that, testing out more sensors for that. Brent had some ideas on making a wall mountable case for this, so that's what I'm gonna work on next. And yeah, it's working beautifully. There's no disconnection issues. I updated all of the other boards like the Qtipi 32S2, the Feather 32S2, the S3s to the latest beta of Wimper Snapper, which is beta 57. So, it definitely updates to that. Looks like he changed the way that the LEDs are blinking for connection. So, I think it saves a little bit more power. I think I noticed in the battery meters, like the plot that it does for how long the battery lasts, I think it is lasting a little bit longer. And that is pretty much it for my shop talk on Wimper Snapper, updating that. So, you have twos working back on the Mac. I had to use the Windows PC for that for a while, so happy to be just on one computer to work and update everything. So, if you've got yourself one of these Pico W's, check out CircuitPython and Aderford IO and Wimper Snapper on it. You can have fun bouncing between those three different ones. Yeah, so the case is gonna be able to mount the Pi Cabel. Oh, nice, yeah. So, you can have access to your reset button and of course, your Stemma Qt. Connection and the... Actually, I'm probably gonna power it through... Definitely get one of these. Yeah, so I'm gonna tap into the Pi Cabel. Yeah, so I'm gonna tap into the power in the ground rails that are on here and hook up the gauge monitor. Oh, okay. So you can see the battery gauge. Nice. Yeah, that'd be really nice because it doesn't have a built-in, so. Okay. Get your Pico W's ready for us. This is the Stemma Qt Snapper. Let's check real quick. Yeah. Hey, look, new products coming out. Yeah, those Stemma boards. They were added this morning. Pico W, A, they're in stock. All right, Pico W's are in stock. Pico W's, six bucks. What about the other pies? That was back. Pico W is six dollars, folks. Five or... It's in stock. And then, don't forget the Pi Cabel. And the Pi Cab is in stock as well, which is right. Somewhere. There it is. People still saying things. I thought I had ear problems. Nope, you don't. That was us. Sorry. Yeah, so pick this up if you want. That's only two bucks. Very nice. Low cost, Wi-Fi dashboard. Yes, there is a free tier for Adafruit IO. I forget what it is, like three devices or something. Three or two or three devices, I believe. And like 10 feeds. Yeah, it's all on the website. All right, let's go ahead and jump into... Or did you have a shop talk? Yeah, I do. I want to talk about the owl. So I got a personal project that I designed over the weekends. I kind of need help naming it. So this is a 3D printed place owl. And it's an owl. It's got a head, it's got a body. The body is kind of this wire-framed mesh that kind of has this nice, loopy curvature. It's got two wings. This is some really nice filament from Podopasta. It's called Espresso Coffee Bean. It's glittery. It's real nice. So the head is, you can rotate and you can kind of puppeteer it like that, so. Now there's everything in it. We're gonna stick a servo inside there to actually do that. Yeah, that'd be fun. So it's printed place to sign. I'll release it within a couple of days. But I kind of want to name it something special. So any name ideas, folks, let me know. I have a couple of gifts, images of it, like rotating its head, which is really cute. It's a support-free, no assembly. You can't be disassembled because of the nature of the way the geometry is designed. So here's the bottom shows you how these two pieces are separate. And as the print is printing, these two pieces never touch. That's what allows them to be separate and rotate freely. There's some geometry on the neck here that kind of captures a bit of geometry from the neck so that it can't be pulled out or pulled in, but it's still able to be rotated freely. So that was nice. Owl. So we got an owl. It's still Christmas themed, right? Oh, that's what, that's all year round owl. Yeah. This is the older version. I have a newer version where like I added a handle here. So it's a lot easier. It's more inviting for these to really play with it. The puppeteer it. So Owl needs a name in a home. Maybe you'll 3D print it. This is the full scale of it. So it should fit on most 3D printers. Aida-hoo. Aida-hoo. Aida-hoo. Aida-hoo-t. Aida-hoo-hoo. So Owl, that's my job dog. Very fun. I'll try to pull out some techniques that I learned in the shop talk or in the Lava Lair maybe in the coming year. Hootsie. Hootsie? That's a fun one. Yeah, give me more names. So this Owl, you know, it's got this twisty nature to it. It's got triangles, rotation spins. I like its neck. I like those triangles on the neck. They add some sort of color to it. Yeah, very nice. I need to dev and post a link to Boo-bo, the Owl. Boo-bo? Yeah, I'm not sure what type of Owl it is, but yeah, Boo-bo. Yeah, some wood grain filament would be great for an Owl. That's what we're printing right now for the time lapse for this. Aida-hoo. All right, maybe Aida-hoo. Maybe we'll do a vote, cast a vote. It's really hard to capture the color. Oh yeah, it is. Like, it's not green. It's like this beautiful brown color. These speckles. It looks weird on the camera. And that is this week's... Shop talk? Yeah, no, we're not done. We still got... This is like kind of prototypy shop talk. We're still in shop talk. Peter's enjoying that. Trying to not make this squeak. I know, I need to add some water or something to the neck. So we're still in shop talk. We got a nice big, not a big, we got a nice shout out. Shout out from Printables. So Printables.com, it's owned by Prusa, the printing company, but they have this new official brand profiles, which is really cool. It allows brands to kind of have a verified account and you can create community section that lets you highlight models from the community, which I'm gonna try using more. It's a little automated right now, but I'll be using it more. So if folks wanna check it out, try using the site. Our profile is up to date. Try to get all our designs up on there. People are really using it. And a test of that is just the sheer number of community makes that are sent to us. So previously it would be the other sites, but now it's like almost all Prusa Printables are showing up in our makes. And this week is all Printable stuff. So here's a look at highlights from the community section on our official profile. We got a blue check mark, that's nice. So like Liz's project, they have her NeoPixel Sprite Weather display here. She posted up on her account, so I'm able to add that to the highlights from the community. So if other folks have projects and you post it up on Printables, I can showcase it now, which is great. You might see Danger Devin's step switch model that he posted on his account. I have it highlighted here. The cute Christmas tree that is this week's time-lapse Tuesday. I have it highlighted here, it looks great. Some of the remixes for our very popular heat set insert press rig, highlighted from the community, it's very great. So I'd like to reach out to Prusa Printables and have more access to the highlights from the community. Right now it's only, it's very linear, like I just clicked like and it shows up there automatically. I'd like to manage it and like update it and manually curate it is what I wanna do. So I'll reach out to them and see if that's something they can do. But I notice that our badges aren't working. That's another thing, but maybe we'll get the badges back. This is sort of kind of a fun way to kind of show your stats of how much people are actually using your thing and how much your, you know, I don't know, point systems. There's a point system in there and stuff, so. And they have great analytics too. So if you're looking for a way to kind of keep track of your downloads, how much people are interacting with your stuff, Prusa does a great job in the analytics too. So yeah, check it out. We'll be looking at some community makes all in principles in the next segment. I guess is there any other thing we're gonna vote? All right, well, community makes. We're here. So cool. This is a very fun printed place model. It's a cute tree with shoes. This is designed by Caleb. And this thing has been making the rounds. I've been watching a lot of 3D printing folk, time lapse people, like really make big ones, small ones, red ones. This is great. So it's a cute tree and it has these legs that kind of pop out of the bottom and they are all printed place. So it's one single piece. And the part's never touch, which allows the mechanism to work. And I haven't really looked inside and peeked the geometry but there's something special in that geometry that allows the feet to kind of stay standing. And we're using this very lovely metallic green PLA from the fine folks at Pogerto Pasta. So here it is. All right, here's it in underneath. So you can see the geometry has sort of like a, like it's bigger at the end. So you can pose the legs, pop out like so and you can see here where it seats inside. You have to project onto the, oh, I know I'm like projecting onto the microphone. So yeah, here we go. Pretty cool. The way that it inserts in here has a nice little, it looks like it tapers out. It gets bigger so the shoes can fit in. And one thing I didn't do, which would be pretty cool would be you just swap the colors out as it's printing the shoes so you don't have to paint them. Yeah. It's like a coat. There and the little street that goes on top. Cool. And yeah, that a nice amount of principles with shoes seems to be doing the rounds. So what's the newest one? The present one. The present one with shoes. I like a turkey one. Yeah, I'd like to see a shoe with shoes. Yes, I did paint the red. It's just like a metallic red. I should have did another coat but I had grain at a time. I'm gonna be like filming. Yeah, it was like the night before the launch. So hurry up on that. Yeah. It's a, it is so adorable. Oh, it matches all your Christmas decor and it can stand up. It's spreading the legs like so. It's like maintain its position. And I guess there's like a drafted angle above the leg area that allows it to stay standing. Yeah. It's pretty neat. It's all Joel, the pretty nerd print. Really, really massive. I think it was Joel or something. Maybe it was me. I think so. But yeah, those are fun. So yeah, this is the Funk Printables. This is by Caleb Temotillo. Temotillo. And yeah, it's a great little model. You can scale it up or down. There's a little add-on like the star. There's a really, really small. Did you scale it up? Or scale it up? I did scale it up. So on the Z I just added a hundred, made it a hundred millimeters. Okay, so it's scaled. Yeah, scale as you like. People are requesting shoes with shoes. Yeah, I know. I wanted to see shoes with shoes. Off the remixes model. Here's the original one. Oh. Well, that's funny. Oh, they're like bigger. Oh, okay. Oh, I see. So this is like baked in there and you would glue it after. So then Caleb, so this is from print that boy and then Caleb made it so that it's printed place. And a shout out to Printables for having the ability to have the model's origin so I can always track back to whose original, where did this derive from? That's like a really important thing for these types of sites. So that's really cool. So I can get applied credit and I'm just now learning that. Cool, I'll spread that forward to the original idea. Caleb kind of made it a mechanism that can be printed in place without any supports. Pretty wild. So check it out. You can print your own tree with shoes. The next challenge is shoes with shoes with shoes. It's like a Russian doll. Russian doll shoes, that's great. All right, cool. And continuing on with the community makes, we got a couple of makes right on Printables as we were seeing earlier. Res glasses, these are res inspired Neopixel glasses. Really, really fun. Amazing circuit python Neopixel code from Phil B. Paint your dragon. The swirling effect, I wish I had a GIF of it but it looks amazing. So Stern, Sean posted up their print. It looks great in Galaxy Black PLA with Archimedean cords for the top and bottom layers to keep the res' spiral theme just waiting on the electron from aether to rise. Here's a look at the animations. They're fantastic. They randomly spin. You can actually look through these. You can look through them. I don't think we manufacture the PCB but we have a vendor that makes them. These are Neopixels. You can put them over the overhead if you'd like. Just in case you move next to this project. Yeah, I love this project. Things built in. You gotta think, yeah. Now it's a, it's a, Itzy M4. You could swap that out for something else. This is the battery compartment here. The wiring is all done through the back here with some silicone wires. And then you have all the solder pads here. This comes assembled. Like the PCB comes assembled with the caps and the LEDs are ready. And all you're doing is just wiring them together. You just need two of them. But yeah, this is very, very nice. Very nice animations from Phil B. So they're spiraling. They look great. And you can see them. You can see through them. They're a little heavy, you know. It's my full review. They're a little heavy. Oh, I'm gonna back. Just kidding. But they're very fun to wear. And they're heavy. And they fit over your glasses. Just like that. Man, they are heavy. And you weigh. Shout out to Stern-Challon for posting their make. And I hope they build good smoothly. I hope everything fits and works out. Whose res? It's what the kids listen to or something. I don't know what the kids listen to. It's an artist. Yeah, I should have prophesied it with that. That is the musician producer, Lady, who produces from music and DJs. And one of her most iconic imagery is her glasses. She designed and manufactured her own glasses that are 3D. There's like a blog post and story about it. And yeah, I got inspired to remake it. So there we go. Next up is some Lego bricks. Yeah, this is great. Earlier in the year, we seen seed some wooden building bricks that are compatible with the Lego bricks. And it was a nice fun experiment in learning how to use the cam workspace inside of Fusion's 360. Working with wood as a material is very fun. And if you got yourself a CNC or have access to a CNC, this could be a fun, challenging project to learn the process of creating a jig, designing for CNC machining. It's pretty fun. So we have Jensen who posted of their make of the Lego bricks in wood. So it works. See, this is like probably pulled right off of the machine because you do have to post process them with any CNC stuff. It's just the nature of the beast. But it seems to be working, I guess, yeah. Yeah. And it all varies from wood and all that stuff. So check this project out if you're interested in learning a little bit about it. But yeah. Next up, we have some snap fit ornaments. Post it up by Urs Hofer. Post it up their make. They rated it five stars. They said how somehow the flake became short and made the Swiss cross from the remix. So here, a lot of folks are adding their own inserts to the school snap fit ornament. So two halves of snap fit together and there's some geometry on the inside that allows an insert to be spun around. So here I have the Adderford logo in this very nice filament. And then I have an assortment of snowflakes and other shapes. They're very fastive. I also made a really, really big one. So you can scale it up, print it. And a lot of folks seem to like them. So yeah, shout out for folks printing out the snap fit ornament. It's like a couple of years ago now. Very cool. And that's the Swiss community makes. Woo-hoo. Thank you everybody for submitting your makes. They're fun to see. And here are the glasses still going. Oh, I wanted to... I was thinking Devin was asking what lubrication we use for the PLA or PETG stuff and it's this stuff right here, real butter. Yeah, let's go ahead and test it out. Yeah, sure. Tiny little dab will do. Now that I touched the cap, it's all over my fingers. Yeah, that's a little bit of a chance. So I'm just gonna... Just one dab. Whoa. Still getting that noise. Maybe it's a little further down. Look at that. No more squeaks. A little bit of squeak. So eat a hoot? Is that the winner? Eat a hoot. More demos. I'm working on a Christmas tree. Do you wanna see the Christmas tree? How much time do we have? Oh, we got like 10 minutes. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll show you the Christmas tree I'm working on. So this inspired the Christmas tree, right? The ability to have this top that's spinning and the body is separate. So I figured that'd be cool to have a Christmas tree that has a top that spins and rotates freely. So we have here is a similar mesh outer body. And then you have this spinning top here that's separate from the mesh. But what I added was on the inside here of the kind of internal support structure, it has some mechanisms inside. So it has a worm gear on the inside that the worm is actually attached to this tree, which is also happens to be the knob. And inside of right on the outside of that support structure is kind of like a wing nut. So the wing nut has geometry that bodes well with the coil, with the worm gear. So that wing nut has some overhang geometry that kind of ties to the outer ring here. So when I start rotating this, you'll notice that the wing nut is actually pulling the internal shells and then when I turn it the other way, it starts growing them, just the nature of the mechanism. The print quality is a little, as you can see here, there's a lot of these zits and stuff. We just needed to change the nozzle on our printer because it's well over thousands of hours printing with glitter filament and it's abrasive material, and that can wear down your nozzle. So you're printing a lot of glitter stuff and your parts are looking like a very zit like or oozing or oozing. It's time to change the filament, so. Nozzle. Sorry, the nozzle. Yeah. So there's what it looks like. I'm gonna get it to, I think I have to, need some real butter on here. Yeah, so it all prints down here like this, all these concerns, concentric circles. I guess over here, down there I guess. Yeah, so, I think I'll, take some photos of it or at least six, I think this is as good as I'm gonna get it. The original is bigger, but I scaled it to 75%. So seeing that these shells and the worm gear all printed, scaled down at 75% and it works, I think it's a good attestament. It's gonna be very, very challenging to print, so that's why I'm a little hesitant on sharing it, but just know that it's a challenge. It is certainly a challenge for the printer. It's gone through many, many iterations. I wanna say it's over 30, over 30, because I have three different design files and I'd have to add up all of the revisions. But anyway, that's a cool mechanical Christmas tree, inspired Christmas tree design. It'd be nice to make a really, really big one and see how does it work as a really big one. Interesting exploration in worm gear design for me in print and place stuff. So again, the owl inspired the tree and that's why they kind of have similar DNA. That's a good idea. Actually, yeah, you did make a telescopic, or a telescope, right? Yeah, a pirate scope, yeah. In that spawn out of the fails, I kept failing right around here where the gear would pop off the bed because I guess the heat zone here was too much such that the thing just popped off because you have so many internal shells and the internal's like, ah, I'm heating up and it just pops off the bed. So by just adding more offsets, I was able to kind of combat that. But yeah. Some good ideas, everybody. Really good idea. The telescope is that you would just remove the worm gear and everything and just have the shells. With these, you notice these little lips here, they prevent them from falling through and each one is a different height to accommodate for that geometry that catches and they can't be disassembled at that point. Very cool, yeah. Maybe I'll do that. I'll release another part as a pirate scope and then you can see through it. Very fun kits to it. It's all like the retractable lightsaber from the 3D printing world. I believe his name is Joel, right? Is his name Joel too? I think so, yeah. Other good ideas, I hope she is saying maybe a worm or a gear on the side so it'll move it up and down with one of those little musical box things. So it's playing a song. That would be a good idea, that's a great idea. Yeah, this is the start of something fun. That's a good idea. I like the musical box idea. And then with it. It reminds you of Conj's, Cervantes project with the musical box and gears. What I thought of. Yeah, that's cool. And then they have like a stop and end switch on the top and bottom so it can travel automatically reverse. Wow, ideas. I know lots of possibilities. Super fun. Yeah, I'll have to share this then after the show. You got how many days until Christmas do I have? Oh yeah, three. All right, I'll get on it. Hey, check it out. Oh, that's better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just, yeah, I can't wait to print it again. I'm gonna print it again at full scale. So as soon as we're done, I gotta go swap out my novels. Make sure it changes to little socks, kids. Oh my god, yeah, I just posted that earlier. After, I don't know how long it's been. A dry rod or something? It could completely dry rot. So if you don't know the silicone sock, it's usually insulating the heat hot end that's right over your nozzle. Oh, maybe that's why I love it. So definitely check on that. Yeah, it was completely dry rot, or heat rotted or whatever that term is. Just dried. Where it was just so much heat that it wasn't. The silicone was no longer silicone. It was inferred to crisp. Very fun. Cool, cool. I forgot to mention a big thing on Shop Talk. We're gonna go back to Shop Talk and I wanna give a shout out to DJ Devin. DJ Devin added to the eight of the Cat Parts repo. He added the PB861AR, which is the model number of the stab switches. These are great. Here's the STL of it. He has a step file. He designed it Fusion 360. So here's the step switch. Nice. Yeah, it's got pins. It's the right proper footprint. Very, very accurate. I wanted to give us a test drive and use it in Lamar's PCB design. She has a breakout board for the step switch. You might have seen it. So let's take a look at Fusion 360 and it works. Let's look at it. It indeed works. I brought it in. I just flipped it in the right orientation and look how accurate those mounting holes are. So this is a PCB from EagleCad Lamar that's her design tool choice. And it has such tight integration with Fusion 360 that it generated this model for me. Not the step switch, the PCB, which is my workflow for making 3D models of the PCBs. I use the Fusion export from Eagle and it gives you the super clean traces, labels, solder mask, copper colors. It's beautiful. And I have a leveler tutorial on how to use that. So if folks want to start making their own PCBs, there you go. But the very excellent model. Thank you, Devin, for contributing to the Caphart 3.0. Very, very nice. He even has an LED in there. Very, very nice. Yeah. So, shout out to Devin. Very cool. And everybody who's been sharing their parts with the Caphart's community. And it's really nice to see folks designing parts like that. So check it out. You can model up some very fun musicy, clicky switch projects. And that is the show. I think we're done. I think that's the show for 2022. Wow, we're done. I think that's it. This is the last show, folks, for the year. We'll be returning in the second week, I believe, of January. The 9th, I think. The 9th or the 16th. We'll figure out what's going on. The 12th or the 19th. Big plans. Or no, sorry, 11th to the 18th. Yeah, 11th. Yep, we'll switch arousal. So we'll see how we can update the show. Yeah, it'll be cool. Yeah. All right. Lots of fun stuff. Thank you, everybody. Be sure to stop by the show tonight. We'll be on there showing off some of the stuff. Hope to see some of your stuff. Hope to see some holiday festive projects tonight. But till then, folks, thank you for dealing with our audio. We figured just go with the iMac and internal microphone. I like how it was headphones and the headphone broke. One ear, like, what is that? Wild. Don't forget to follow Adafruit on all the socials for all of the postings. I think next week is going to be a little rundown of all the projects that we worked on for 2022. So it'll be a nice little countdown on that. Nice little highlight. And yeah, keep checking into discord.gg slash adafruit for all of the latest of the community. Check out this cool, check out Devon's cool. Dude, you printed his own covers. His cusp of PCB as well. That's so satisfying, isn't it? It's like a superpower. Yeah, man. That's so cool. Right next to the injection molding thing, and you can even tell, and you're nailed it, man. Very, very lovely. Sweet. We get our own taste of show and tell before. That's great. Thank you, Devon. All right, thank you, everybody, for tuning in. Happy holidays with everybody. Stay safe. Stay creative. With all that said, remember to make a great day. Make a great day, folks. See you later tonight. Bye.