 Excellent. Hey, what's up, folks? Welcome back to another 3D Hangouts. My name is Noah Ruiz. I'm a designer here at Adafruit. Join me every week. This is my brother Pedro. Hello. Good morning everybody. My name is Pedro. I was creative tech here at Adafruit. Every week we're here to share 3D-print-to-projects feature electronics from Adafruit. That is right. This is the show we combine 3D printing and DIY electronics to make inspirational projects. Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 420. Whoa. It is November 1st, 2023. Welcome, everybody. We are hanging out in the Discord chat room. If you'd like to join the Discord chat room, you can use our link at the top here, discord.gg slash Adafruit. We'll take a moment to welcome everybody. We started a little bit late because we were chatting it up, but we are here and we are streaming on all the networks this week. All of the things got fixed, I suppose. So Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitch, and X, formerly known as Twitter. Things got fixed, I suppose. Facebook, LinkedIn. That's me. You're watching me. Make sure that all the streams are going. Looks like StreamYard still calls Twitter Twitter, which is kind of funny. It's going to take maybe a couple of years for the rest of social to embrace the new name change. But that's what happens when you change your name. All right. I'm going to give a shout out to Du Wester hanging out. Rozen hanging out in the chat rooms. Hello. And everybody watching on all the YouTube channels, feel free to comment. We can bring chats in and answer chats and all the channels. At least the ones that are the main three, Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube. So good morning. Anything else, Pedro, before I jump into the free stuff? No, just getting the links for the coupon code this week. All right. We'll jump right in. Adafruit.com slash for free. That's where you'll find the details of the freebies this week. $99 a month. We'll get you a free PCB coaster with a golden Adafruit logo. Orders that are $149 or more, you'll get the free PCB coaster. Plus an Adafruit KB2040. That's a lovely deaf board with the RP2040 chip. For orders that are $199 or more, you get the KB2040 deaf board, the PCB coaster, and free UPS ground shipping for continental U.S. only. And if your order is a whopping $299 or more, you'll get the free UPS ground shipping, the KB2040, the PCB coaster, and a circuit playground express. These get automatically added to your order as the tiers build up. And on top of that, you can get our coupon code for the next 24 hours. It's good for all of November 1. It is noodles. We have two noodle projects, prototype projects that we are working on. So that's the coupon code, noodles. Because who doesn't like a good noodle? All right. And that is the freebies. Yay. All right. This week, Pedro, we're catching up on projects you're working on. Quality cases for all of the various displays. And while we're working on that, I'm working on some holiday noodle projects, working on the Learn Guide. Couldn't quite get it done this week. So we do a roundup video of holiday-inspired projects. We have so many beautiful projects that why not make a video highlighting the top, I don't know, five? Was it five projects or so? I think it was six. Six projects. So on YouTube and all the other socials, you have a nice video with... Yep. You can mute it. You want me to mute it? You can mute it. All right. I got it. Yeah. So this is fun. We've done so many projects that I love these videos because they remind me of what we've done. So this is a countdown clock using CircuitBython and the MAG tag. It's an e-ink display. I think it's running an ESP32. So it's Wi-Fi enabled. And it uses Adafruit.io or something or something. There's a Learn Guide on it. But we 3D printed this cool little kind of stand that's very festive. Is it playing? Yes, it's playing. Yep. All right. That's what I thought it was. It was really cool. LED acrylic, edge layer. Acrylic. Laser cut... Laser cutters are becoming more accessible. You can get one at Michaels, for example. That's an arts and crafts store here in the States. And you can use acrylic... The Glowforge. I don't know. One of the Glowforges are at Michaels. Oh, it's already there? Oh. Yeah, it's been there. I forgot. For I think half a year, maybe more. There's a slew of other, you know, affordable laser cutters. I use the CNC mill because Adafruit said I should get one. I got one back in the day when it was other. We used to sell them too. Right. And we used to sell them. Exactly. We used them in-house for creating prototype PCBs. I like to use it for cutting acrylic. So I've seen a couple of folks actually make this project with their own laser cutters and their own bandsaw cut. Yeah, their own designs. So it's just a cool fact to create... A cool stand, really, for pieces of acrylic that you can edge cut. Yeah. Edge layer. Certified Hong Kong code to do each individual little light up. Yeah. Oh, this was cool. So this was inspired by Rez, who is an electronics musician. And she has these amazing LED PCB eyes, glasses that she wears when she performs. And we got inspired to recreate that. And we have these PCBs that already have these neopixels, these diffuse neopixels. And so all they did was created a frame. And I think they used the itsy bitsy and a lipo battery to make these wearable. And you can see through them, actually, which is kind of cool. And it's a code by Phil B. This is like a good mix of like, I still love Halloween, but it's Christmas now. So it's using a cricket and a motor. Oh, yeah, the PR sensor. The DC motor and that wheel for robots is added on there to create this nice little motion activated gift box, which is a nice little... Yeah, it's like a prank. Nice little prank. Yeah, it's inspired by the Nightmare Before Christmas. Yeah, the box is... This press is trying to eat you. Hanukkah, this is a menorah. It's got the eight. Yes. Yeah, eight. No, nine. No, eight. Eight candles. And the middle one lights the candles. Press the button and it lights up the candle. So it uses neopixel buttons and this nice 3D printed menorah. I think it's a cutie pie. Yeah, this one's been... Lamar has had this on the list for quite a while because she said a lot of the ones that are out there don't actually do this functionality, right? Right. They all just light up and they don't actually work. Like a rumor is supposed to be lit on each night, Hanukkah. Yeah. The correct order meaning that the first one is already lit. I'm guessing the other ones didn't do that. Right, yeah. In order... Yeah, the order goes from right to left and then the middle one is used to light all the other ones. Functionally... It's got some logic in there, yeah. It's all done in CircuitPython. Is a Liz Clark collab. Another... Is this a Cricut project too, I think? This one is a Cricut project made in MakeCode. It is a Grinch fireplace. So there is this cardboard with the tinfoil intact as the conductor. I think it's either tinfoil or copper tape. Oh, no, I think you're right. Copper tape, yeah. So as soon as somebody steps on the rug, it'll activate the Grinch to come down. So Cricut, there's a motor on there. That's making it move up and down as it gets activated. And then we have some Neopixel LEDs to provide the flame here for the fire. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, you can do so much stuff with the Cricut and you can have sound effects as well if you want to. Yeah, there's sound effects on here. So when it drops down, it does a nice little laugh. Yeah. And again, yeah, MakeCode. So this was all done in a web browser. Completely editable. All the code blocks are still there. They still work. So if you want to build your own, just get crafty with the fireplace. Yeah, I think you have 3D printed mounts for the various, the motor and the holder for the paper. So the Grinch is actually a paper cutout. I think it's maybe done with the Cricut. Cricut, yeah, Cricut, Cricut. Yeah, because Cricut is the dev board and Cricut is the cutting plotter. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. It's completely customizable and it's just a nice idea to like make it interactive kind of faux decor, you know. Yeah, super fun building this one. Yeah, and that's pretty much it for this one. Since, of course, we're releasing this on November 1st. So you have plenty of time to get these done. Yeah, I was talking to our neighbor, Rick, that's like marketing for public. He's like, man, we're already on the end of January for planning. This year's over for us. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, when you're doing any type of business stuff. Marketing stuff. You have to be two months ahead. You're on the next, you're on the next one already. Yeah, it's very business-facing stuff has to think about it. That's probably why I'm working on this. Yeah. Because it takes a lot of time to develop and iterate. Oh my god, a Grinch has shown up. Oh my god, a Grinch, let me. Go to your mama. It's bring your child to work day every day. All right. That's great. All right. So very good choice of projects, Pedro. Yeah, I had time to do it somehow. Because we have two months of having to post these. So I want to get old. So there's a bunch I didn't add on there for time wise as well. Yeah. Looks like the Mac tags are out of stock. Oh, no, don't tell me. In the crickets are in stock for the Circuit Playground Express. So that's good. Yeah, we're slowly getting the AMD, the Atmel chips back in the stock. So bear with us as we get those back. We recently got the Monster Mask and the Halloween M4s back, Feather M4s. And we'll slowly trickle those out to the rest of the products. But you could always substitute them for an RP2040, right? If there is an available chip. So with that, I'll talk about my LED noodle tree. Cool, real quick. I've been doing this all week. Oh, real quick. The links to all those. I just made the blog post live earlier. So you can see all the links to every project that was in the video. Yay. All right. So LED noodles are super cool. I came up with this 3D printed design of a tree kind of thing. There are eight coils that wrap around and spiral into this tree shape. They taper and then they have these little channels that you can press fit these LED noodles into. So on the bottom here, I have a QT Pi RP2040 and the AW9523 LED driver. It's a STEMMA QT board. So I literally just connect it to the QT Pi because QT Pi has a STEMMA QT port. Really easy to put that together. And then the LED noodles are wired into the pins on the AW9523 LED driver. You don't need resistors. We're still working on the code for it. But this is the demo code that you can use that uses PWM to fade the LED noodles in and out. So you kind of get this cool kind of effect where they're fading in and out. That's pretty much it. I wanted to create a cool new type of LED tree. I've done some with the circuit playground and Neopixels. This time around, I want to use the LED noodles because they're very unique in the sense that you can mold them and press fit them into channels to make three-dimensional shapes. Normally, I've done flat signs last year or maybe two years ago now. I've done a snowflake that was powered off a coin cell. I wanted to take that concept but make it 3D-ified. So I figured using coils to create this spiral LED tree was a kind of a neat idea. There's a cover here that has like a little snowflake in print. And then the base here has a little PCB mount for the QTPI and the LED driver. You can see all the wires there. You do need a lot of wires for it because there's eight of them. But they all solder into the LED driver pretty easily. And then I have here are the voltage wires. You can see the red and then I have like a heat shrink tubing just like the whole heat shrink tubing to keep them bundled up. Yeah, I just figured that'd be an easy way to kind of conceal it a little bit. I probably could have used white wire because then it would have looked a little bit more interesting. But I'm so prototyping it. You have a little tree topper here that's just two halves that are glued together for the little Adafruit star and then this piece here. So it all prints without any supports. You'll want to use transparent, clear PLA filament for this and then whatever shiny filament for the bottom pieces. But it's all powered off the USB-C because the QTPI is USB-C. No need for a battery because it's supposed to be like a desktop kind of tree. Yeah, I just thought it was a cool idea because I have seen a lot of LED noodle projects, but not ones that are really 3D. So that was the whole goal here. And then of course, using circuit Python to do the fade animation for the LEDs. There's a mix of two colors. We got red and green, although the green is showing up kind of yellow just because it's more of like a lime green. But we have pink, blue, warm white, red, I think I said. And there's, I'll show you the product page, but there's a bunch of colors that you can choose from. They're not individually addressable LEDs. The whole noodle is addressable with the LED driver. So the whole noodle will fade in and out. But you could program, you know, blankings and a combination of fading and blinking if you want. Or you can individually say like, I only want the red ones to blink and then I want the green ones to blink. You could do that too, which might be a fun thing. But yeah, I've been working on this, I think for a couple of weeks now, because making the coil pattern and then making it so that it prints without like failure was the thing. But I think I finally got a good recipe for a good design so that folks can print it. It's not too fragile. It's actually kind of nice. Yeah, the structure is very, it's not flimsy at all. Yeah, there's like a note infill. It's all walls, perimeter. So yeah, it's, it's pretty nice. Peter, you got one. Yeah, it's pretty dang solid. Yeah, it's pretty solid. And the, the second, so there's eight total LEDs. And then on the inside you have another pair so that, so that you can actually go and weave in and out of them. So that was like a learning thing too. It was like, originally it was just going to be four LED noodles. With like the support structure being the alternating coils. But then I figured why not just cut out a groove so I can stick, stick another set of four LED noodles. And then I ended up making this like so much more worth it because like you get this really nice light, really nice effect, I think. Yeah, so that yeah, the only thing we're missing is it being on a turntable. Right and spinning. Maybe with one of those slip, slip rings. Maybe I would, I would just put it on the bottom base of it. So you don't have to do any of that. Right. Just getting this tire. Yeah. Yeah, maybe hide a USB battery bank in there somehow. That's the only other thing that's like going to wrap around is the USB cable. But yeah, we have all the noodles in stock and I'm working on the learn guide. Just type in noodles. Get the whole color profile. Actually forgot we had pink. So if you want a pink tree, Barbie pink, we got that. And then the product page is nice because you can switch between the colors here with this nice and then the size. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You see the green isn't really as green because that's just the way it is. So yeah, that's why it's yellow. Yeah. Yellowish. Yeah. The blue might be cool for the tree. But I figured red and green is very kind of Christmasy. So I went with those. Yeah. I wonder what's the difference between the yellow and the warm white? I guess just a little bit more yellow. It's like a peach. Really? But that's just the camera. Yeah, it's weird with the camera. So any hoodle, all of the LED noodles are in stock, right? Yeah. In stock, greens in stock, reds in stock. So yep, pretty cool. Nice. And that is the LED noodle tree. We'll have a learn guide and video I think next week. We got a rush to get. Well, you already have your Christmas tree set up. So I'm leaning on you to get. Oh yeah, I'll get the hair and stuff. Yeah, we're going to set up our tree, I think, this weekend so we can get some shots. But yeah, let's get it early because that already gets these projects started early. Yeah, we never finish it. If you start. And if it's folks time, you know, you have all of November to like print it out and like figure out if you actually want to build it. Do you want to create your own animations? And do you want to modify it? You definitely will be able to modify it. Pretty cool. All right, quiet in the chat rooms. I think everybody's like over from all the candy from last night because. Even the kids are probably hung over too. Everybody woke up late. I know I did just a little late. But we're here now. All right, all the links to the LED driver and the noodles and the cutie pie. So good products. All right, continuing on with what are we prototyping? We got the next prototype as well. We got a bunch of these screens in now. The work begins with getting all the coding to get in and all of the cases to fit. So right now I am working on this four inch round display, which is take it out. Take a look at it. It is not really round. It's more like an ellipse or oval. The screen on where you actually see all the content is a circle. But the plate that the display is on is not. So a little bit challenging that you can see here with the way that this the mount for the qualia board on here, which we're using for all of the displays now will be powered by the qualia. This one has the S3 on it. And see here the mount for it. It's a little weird. You get like these weirdo. You can't really see here. I'll show it in the sketch when we talk about the project when it's released. And then the shape like to have where the ribbon cable connects the PCB on. Oh, yeah. It's a good channel there. Yes. We have a channel for that. And there's like you can see here the just the weirdness and the way that it's sort of like a squished ball from the sides. So it's trying to get that tightened up. So it's like, you know, where it's not so tight where you're like, you know, accidentally breaking your display by inserting it. So it's a little straight out. It's the tiny bit as I close up the tolerances for that. And I think the toughest part was getting the the mounts to go on there because it is sort of like a separate mount for the, oh, crap. I forgot the size of this one. 3.4, 2.4. The rectangular one or the square one. Yeah, three something. Yeah. 3.4, 3.5. Let me look. So it's going to. 3.4. Yes, 3.4. I think I'm going to do like the ninja flex buttons for this. Just so I don't have to keep messing with trying to have this even thinner or having like chamfers where because it's how close they are to each other. It's just going to eliminate or not work at all. So I think I'm going to go with the the route of having a like a strip of three of ninja flex. So each button can be pushed in that way. Maybe like an overlay that goes over it or inserted somehow. I'll figure it out. Might have to push this back up or something, something for this guy. The way I'm going to cut in. I'm not too sure. So it's what have gives you access to buttons, right? The A011 or is that for sensors? Um, I think you do a button or two. So I'll probably wire that and it'll come out of the back or something. But I will try to go in there and do the same thing where I'm sort of cutting in. Like yeah, we can have access to it. I shall see. Yeah, it's okay if you don't. Yeah, because I'm trying to think like the use case of what this is going to be for. So if you don't even need a button, then yeah, if you need it, you do need a USB. So yes, that is something I thought about. So having maybe the right angle adapters that we have. So it's pointing up. So you plug it in like that, like an Apple mouse, which actually would work. Since I'm thinking it'll be on its side like that. So it'll point outwards with the cable and that should work. So yeah, the only thing left is getting the lid designs on there, getting the code to work. There was like a bug with the chrome in terms of flashing the bootloader on there. But that should get worked out soon. So yeah, that's what I'm working on now. Just getting the lids and any other mounting geometries figured out. Cool. All right. And if folks want the display, I'll pop in a link to the square one. And the round one, because they are in stack. Yay. Yeah. So this is the touchscreen one. I think right away off my top of the head use case with this one would be the demo that Lamar and Melissa have shown off. Or it's just, you know, the little drawing demo. Absolutely perfect for the kids. Definitely love that. And maybe another etch-a-skitch around printed in red with the handles on the side. I don't know. Sorry. I was gathering links. Yeah. This could be a good clock. I think that's what we're going to work on is like a log clock. Yeah. Well, Vince just posted in the chat room here in the discord. That looks pretty cool. Let's see. Ooh. That is a really nice one. Yeah. With the tilt clock. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Whether it plays, that'll look pretty cool. Yeah. I'm going to have to incorporate that. Yeah. It's a cool idea because then you can mount the, we do have a ribbon cable extension cables. So we can use that to like, you know, offset the board a little bit, the quality of board. I mean, looking at the thickness of that, it looks thicker than my case. It all fits in there. But if, yeah, we want access to the extra buttons and yeah. Yeah. You'll want to have like a base like that. So, okay. And that's what I got. All right. Yep. We'll show more next week. I have a quick one, a quick project, since it is, since our coupon code is noodles. We have these small, shorter noodles. And I wanted to come up with a 3D printed ornament using them. So I came up with this thing. It's a little bell shape. And it has a custom case for holding a CR2032 coin cell battery, which is just enough voltage to power one of these little guys. And then I have a little slide switch so I can turn it on and off. It's blinking. Nice. There it is. I have to like, press these together. I have a little bit of solid core wire that like wrap around the inside of the case because there's like a little channel for it. So that's kind of a neat way to create like a really like slim, low profile coin cell holder, because we have coin cell holders with built-in switches, but they're, you know, one color, fairly big. And they're not the right shape, I think, for like a little elegant ornament like this. So I posted on socials and folks are submitting different ornament shape ideas. I think the winner is, of course, the Adafruit Star. I'll have to use a bigger one, the bigger noodle, the longer noodle. And then of course, the pickle, the Christmas pickle. So I'll have that in green. But I thought it was a cool idea to create a custom coin cell holder that's like complimenting the design of the ornament. So again, this is a bell shape if you haven't figured it out. And it has a little loop, but it's got that same method of like, you create a shape and then you create a channel for the LED noodle to press fit into. So it's very kind of modular in the sense that you can take the noodle out if you need to. And it's easy to swap out the battery. And yeah, I'll come up with some more fun shapes. I think the pickle will be a really popular one. Yeah, we'll have a pickle because it's apparently a thing. Yeah, the pickles everywhere. Yeah, the pickles are everywhere. So an LED noodle pickle in the works, just got to do it. So anyway, coupon code, noodles. Get your noodles. Light them up. Create some fun ornaments. Very cool question on Discord. MMU man is asking if you can use two coin cells in series for those that are getting empty on power just so you can use them all up? I think so. Yeah, I think you could. I think we have a battery holder that has two. Yes, I think I used that one for the LED noodle snowflake from last year. I think you're right. Yeah, we have a different one. We have a transparent one. Yeah, we have a black one. Let me see here. Oh, awesome. Thanks to Country of Boom for $9 Super Chat. Oh, wow. Yeah, very nice. Thank you, Country of Boom. Yeah, so the LED noodle snowflake uses the two CR10 coin cell holder. So, yeah, this is good for powering up to four because it's six volts. So, yeah, you can definitely double up. What do they use online? Yeah, but as you can see, they're pretty bulky, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they come in black. I guess you can spray paint it or something. But it looks like we have another one here that's good. I used this translucent one too. Oh, no, this is just one now. Oh, right. I actually have not seen this one before. Have you seen this one before? Yeah, I got it. I grabbed all of them. The Ultra Hand. I could probably recreate this design so I can be clear and just reuse the guts, you know, the little spring contacts. Just because that's kind of what I created. Like I created my own spring contact. I think the easier route is just make a cover case like I did. So you're just covering it. Yeah, I think it's bulky. You remember, it's supposed to be a little bit bulky. Yeah, there you go. But you can do like 0.8 for the wall thickness. Yeah, here's a clear one that's nice. That's the one I used. Yeah, it's just single. Yeah, yeah, I guess that's kind of nice. Well, anyway, you can 3D print one and use solid core. Yeah, so all sorts of options. All right, I'll consider that one for maybe the pickle because it is kind of involved to like create your own spring contact with solid core. Yeah, I do have a channel in the print that allows you to like kind of wrap it around in there. The spring contact. We I think also sell parts for the coin cell. So just the individual parts. I'm not mistaken. You could also use copper tape, I guess, if you want to really make it integrated. But having the integrated slide switch is like definitely a nice touch because now you don't have to like take the coin cell out. Or maybe I'm thinking of the nine volt where it's just the connector going out to a barrel. Oh yeah, that is right. Yeah, the nine volt for the ultra hand for sure. He's the nine volt. Yeah. Yep. Okay, are we ready for shop talk? Shop talk the You ready to make it there now? No, shop talk is the Fusion 360. Oh god, we're going to be in here the whole show. No, I mean we have a half an hour, so I'll try to be quick. I'll just show kind of like the finished version of it. So let me share my entire screen. Going to tunnel view. So Fusion 360 got an update, I think yesterday, where they have this new feature called fasteners. So they have an integrated way to apply fasteners. To your mechanical designs. One caveat though, you'll need to you can only access the feature through designs that are created with the teams hub. That's the new kind of data storage for your Fusion 360 models. They have a single user storage and then they have a teams hub, which allows you to share and collaborate your design. So that's just one thing I had to reach out to the support team because I wasn't able to get that feature, but it's super easy to create a team hub. You just click one migrate button and it transfers all your files over to a team hub. And then you can have a lot easier sharing abilities with it. So under the insert menu, they have this thing called insert fastener. This is what the UI looks like for it. It's basically a better way to create screws than having to use the McMaster plugin that's built-in to Fusion, which is what I use a lot of the times, but it's very involved. You have to like, once you get your screw, then you have to use like the pattern tool to make multiple copies. And then you would use a joint to apply them to every individual hole. This is a kind of like a smart fastener thing where you add one screw, it looks at the body and it'll add two screws. So let me see if I can do a quick demo. I'm going to add four screws to this PCB here. This is the LED driver that we're using in the tree. So I'll type in insert fastener. It has a built-in search, so I can say I want M25 screws. So I'll type that in, it will filter out all of the screws. So it's not just screws, it's washers, hex nuts, that sort of thing. And then here are all the available screws. They have Phillips, countersunk, flathead, roundhead, hex bolts, all those fun things. So let me see. I'll just do a regular machine screw, maybe this one. And then it's not working. The whole selected first? Yeah. Maybe? But the idea is that you get this little ghosted preview and then you're supposed to be able to roll over the hole. I wish that option was right in that modal right there. So let me try selecting where I want it first. And then this is just new, so I imagine they're going to have some updates to it. Let me try M25 screw again. We'll do the countersink, flathead for now. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be. Hold down shift while you're rolling over it. I'm holding down shift. Yeah, it's still, I guess, a little bit. It could be also because I'm sharing my screen. Maybe the floaty windows. It worked when we were recording. Yeah, let me see. What did you select? Or the solid? Well, let me just show, where's my color? There it is. Yeah, because when you did it over there, that's a solid. In the timeline, you get your insert fashion, insert fastener feature. You can right click and you can say edit fastener. And then here is where you can kind of see what it is. So if you're using the McMaster insert, once you set it, that's it. You can't change it. Here, you can change it dynamically. So it's very parametric in the sense that I added one thing and it knows that, oh, I'm going to add four of them. And then you can change here the length if it's not long enough. Or you can use these arrows to dynamically edit the size or the length of your screw. And it's just a lot faster. So if you have a really heavy mechanical design that's super reliant on screws, a good example would be the synth guitar. It had a lot of screws. This just helps you figure out how many screws, what sizes of screws, and then the type of screw. So you can have a flathead or a button head or a socket head. And then you'd be able to manage it much better. And your timeline is way cleaner because in that example I just said the guitar, my timeline is filled with all of these screws and joints. So this really bypasses all that and just cleans it up, makes it more efficient. It's a lot faster. And it's parametric. So that is super awesome when it works. Of course, live demos tend to be a little flaky. I mean, with this one again, it's a solid, not a the PCB board. Maybe that's what the issue is. The thing is that it's supposed to work across anything. So you're not supposed to even have to select anything first. Let's say I wanted to add some nuts, I guess, M3 nut. Let's see what happens. Oh, cool. Cap nuts and eye nuts. Ooh, what's an eye nut? Yeah, you can see here how like now I can select things. Now it's working. So it's supposed to work with any kind of whole geometry. So click on that. And it automatically sizes it. You see how it says auto M8? But that's because I selected this weird eye nut. So let me pick a regular hex nut here. There you go. You see how it automatically sees it? So I just rolled over it and it knows it's an M3. You can change the material if you want. I guess this is like if you wanted to create a bomb, a build of materials, for a real product that you're manufacturing, you'll be able to generate a list of exactly the screws hardware that you need for your product. And that just saves you a lot of time. And it's parametric. So click, click, create and continue. It gets added in your timeline. And then you can modify if you ever need to. Obviously nuts wouldn't go there, but it's just for this demo. It could. You could project the hex off of that into that if you wanted to do it a countersunk. Right. Yeah. And it's nice. So there's a new folder called fasteners. And you can see that they're all added there. So that's nice. So it's doing a lot of smarts behind the scenes. That's how I'm going to use it. Yeah, it's a verify lengths to project the cutouts for countersink screws. Yeah, I just like that. I don't have to create joints for every screw now, because that's how I was doing it before with the McMaster thing. Yeah. So hopefully you get some updates as you saw, it was a little buggy, but that's because like version zero. Right. So, yeah, so that is my shop. That we don't have a 40 core M3 Mac yet. All right. Not yet. Not yet. That is this week's shop talk. So I have any questions? Oh, I moved over when I need to move back. See, I posted links to the parts on a good hub. So yes, all the parts that are there. Yeah. The quality board is there. Let's focus on that. Yep. That's what I used to project. Lower layer. Yep. And the right layer is on there too. If you want to see more detailed ones on a bunch of the Fusion 360. Walkthroughs. Yeah. I think it is now time for community makes. Yay. Oh, real quick. Someone in the discourse saying, are you thinking of the jewel thief? Yeah, that would be a good jewel thief. Huh. You remember that jewel? I don't know. What is the thing? It was just like a little light to, you know, use up all the coins. So battery. I don't know. That was that. Yeah. I remember the name. I can't recall what it looked like actually. All right. This week's time lapse Tuesday, Community Makes is this really cool snake dragon using that tricolor neon filament this week. And it looks pretty cool. The way that the color changes obviously the only downside with the way it took the time lapses just so much stringing on it. Yeah. I tried another one with different settings and it came out. I think worse. So oh my gosh. Yeah, it's all over. You can see where I had to do so much cleanup on it. Oh man. But the colors look pretty cool. Even without a time lapse, it's still stringing. I didn't do it without a time lapse. Oh, maybe I could save it. Yeah, I see. So I just ran out of time. Okay. Well, it's a cool articulated dragon snake. Let me share my screen. This is a Colt 3D designed by designer bold on Colt 3D. Let me do this. There we go. I gotta do that. Oh man, I should have done that with the thumbnail. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can have it stand up in this cool camera. And I guess I can wrap around your arm. These are really fantastic photos. This looks like it was printed in some of that silky filament. It's very shiny. It is a paid design. I think it's about $3, maybe $2. It's in euros, and I could be wrong with the conversion. Oh, let me go to in. Well, I'm just gonna pull from the side. There it is, USD. Yeah, so I'm changing it to US dollars. Wait, where? Up here at the top, there's like a... Oh, okay. You can do ruble. You can do all the monies. Nice. So it's $2.51 USD, or as you saw in pounds or euros, it was $2.71, I think. So it's a paid design, but that's because it's really nice. Again, the designer is bold on cold 3D. It's a no support, all-in-one print, right? No supports required. What I like is that it kind of looks like a... Oh, those things called to the tree. Garland? Garland. Yeah, for your holiday, for your Halloween tree. Put it on Grandma's tree. Wow, that's a snag in the house. Poor Grandma. I think that's a tradition. Would you recommend the filament? Pindra, that's from Zyro, I think. Yeah, yeah, if you're not doing time-lapse where your head is moving out of the way for like 10 seconds of a long exposure. Long exposure shot that you need. And yeah, this is excellent. It is the mat filament, so it is a little bit like, a bit more flexible. It's not brittle, but it is like softer, definitely softer. The regular PLA. The tri-color change thing is pretty dang cool. Yeah, I got myself that spool of the last week you printed it. I have here my little tree topper part. This is a little bit different. I don't know the color name. It's on Amazon, but it's from the vaccine. They come in like three different. They have like a gray, this one and the neon one. Yeah, there you go. That's a rosy something. Matt Rose. Yeah, that's it. Matt Rose. So they have Matt Rose, the neon and the gray, and it's from Zyro, I think. Yeah, I like it. They're cool. I left it in the printer to keep printing stuff. Yeah, I'm going to print some cases and see what they look like. Here is the Amazon link, and there are the three. I guess there's four. There's a matte colorful mist as well, which is like a nice pastel tri-color. But yeah, the idea is that you have three colors. The gray ones kind of need three shades of gray. It's PLA. And I want to try the gray. Yeah, this is great because if you're doing something that looks singular, this gives it a lot of shade of color. I don't know. Yeah, it's perfect for simple designs. Vince said it'd be great for the circular case. Yeah, because at different angles the color changes, so it's pretty cool. Yeah, and Zyro is the manufacturer. So good stuff. All right, that is this week's Time Ops Tuesday, long-winded. Are we ready for community makes? Yeah, all right, starting off with Sol Enterprises. They posted up a make of the heat set insert press. They said a fun little afternoon project, enjoyed printing and putting the insert press together, experienced some wobble, but with proper torque, most of the play was taken out. They printed their own controller board for their Radio Shack soldering iron, but yeah, it's a very open design so folks can create their own controller boards, bases, all sorts of things, lots of mods are ready for it, so it looks really nice. And they're using a piece of wood for the base there, which is a good choice. Okay, after that we have a make from Autobot. They printed up this 2020 t-slotted extrusion wall mount, so if you want to mount a piece of 2020 to a wall, this is just a little bracket and they got theirs printed. They got theirs printed, you can see the wall there has a bunch of aluminum extrusion for various things that you want to mount on the wall. They say, so far so good, let's see what happens when the parts start moving. Okay, cool. Yeah, the idea is that it has a profile, a t-slotted profile, so that the aluminum extrusion can slide along the mount. And it has two tabs for screws. Very practical. I think you used this for the, was it for the hat? Yes, yeah, I hung hats off of it, yes. You can hang any other sort of thing though. After that we have a make from 3D Dave or 3Dave on printables. It is a make of the Kingdom Hearts Keyblade. No comment, but a really nice photo, so you can print your own Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts, all support-free parts. And there's mods for it too, if you want to print on a smaller bed, on a 3D printer that has a smaller bed. Cool, just in time for Halloween, huh? I mean, this was posted the day before Halloween, so yes. After that we have a make from Winair, this is the Raspberry Pi Zero Game Boy Pi Girl project. One day it'll be revisited. Winair says, I made this back in 2016. I will reprint the parts with my new printer. Breathe new life into this little project. Does that have, looks like it has the X3, X3D stuff? Maybe. Spooder stuff. Could be. Oh, hi, hi Winnie. Winnie wants to say hello. Let's use our house cat. After that we have another make of the heat set insert press. This one is from Tidechanger. It's a super easy print and fun to assemble, can't wait to put it to use. And they printed it in this lovely red and black combo. Wow. Looks like a stormtrooper. Yeah, and we're not done. Another make of the heat set insert press. This one's from Tayden in 85. They say easy to print. The base was made by me in Fusion 360. And they have this really nice hexagonal chamfered base that looks really cool. Looks like they used a different aluminum extrusion. This looks like a 2040. That's where you put two of them together. You have like this really rigid, you know, extrusion. But yeah, the base looks really cool. I wonder if their bed has that texture and that's like, why can't I like that? Also looks shiny. Looks very shiny. Yeah. Very cool. All right. I think the last one to round it off is a Circuit Playground Express snap fit mount posted up by Kratrix Brit. It says excuse the mess around. This is my make of the star model. The board fit perfectly and made all the differences in my droid build. What? Nice. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. This comes in different shapes, but it's just a nice easy notes, grew, snap fit solution for a Circuit Playground Express. It has these little tabs to hold the PCB down and then two extra mounting tabs. So you can secure that to another service. Don't forget space for a battery. Oh, that's right in space for a little battery if you want a nice all in one solution. So cool. Perfectly encompasses what our duties here are at a different. Yeah. Yeah. You build these things you never know where it's going to go and a droid is like we do this. Take all these components. Yeah. Add more value to your boards. All right. coupon code is noodles get 10% off. If you want to pick up some stuff, it's good for the next 24 hours. All right. We covered the whole hour, Pedro. Oh my God. Yeah. So we're over. Yeah, we're good. So next week will be this LED noodle tree. Then after that, I think the screens. Yeah, I think I'm going to do one more size. Should I do the bar? The bar. Probably the bar next, right? Yeah. Let's ask tonight. See if Lamar wants the bar. There's so many. Killer's choice kind of thing. Like I was in line. I said it. Get rid of so many displays. Too many displays. Oh my God. All right. Well, if you are feeling festive, it is the first of November. Yep. Plenty of time to tackle a holiday inspired project. Check out the learn system for all inspirations. And we're going to all be the socials. That's all that's going to be posted for the next two months. Yeah. All the holiday stuff. Cool. Anything else? Think that's it? Is it for this week? Cool. The coupon codes again. And then later tonight, we still got shows going on. Yep. At 7.30 p.m. Eastern time, we have show and tell. You can come on the StreamYard, join the Discord server. And then I think PT will post the link like 10 minutes before, five minutes before the show. And then after that is Ask Engineer at 8.00 p.m. Eastern time. Tune in for a full hour of open source hardware news, new products, Python news, and more on Ask Engineer. Thursday, tomorrow is JP's workshop. Tune in to see what JP's building and get recaps of all the fun stuff that JP's working on. 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