 some little bit of breaking news what someone just mentioned hey we could port Blinka to that scope there's no there's no hardware though okay all right so let's let's kick it off ready okay what's first all right well we have previously had RGB Neopix like these ultra-high-powered three watt RGB Neopixels and some people like hey can you get ones with RGBW and I was like yeah and look at this beautiful video with like the starburst yeah we have two versions one with warm and one with cool white so it's actually four separate elements in the LEDs let's look at a close-up of the LED so you can see like it's RGB and W there's four elements inside and so you get like true white instead of like color mixed white which for some people like they really want that clean look of a warm white or cool white so yeah thanks you get and we can't see the four four diamonds there each one is one watt it uses the Neopixel protocol but because it is four watts you need a very big five volt power supplies just be aware when you're using that these that each one of them can be using up to like an amp or so half an amp so each one comes on a chain with solder with wires of course you can remove them and solder anything you like there's an aluminum-backed PCB but if you're gonna turn these on really bright you might need more heat sinking just just be aware this is four watts it's four watts it's a lot of brightness it's a blinding yeah so this is a just so you I mean like you can even see them reflecting off me and this is bright in here yeah check this out like yeah it's super bright in fact it's so bright I think I overheated a little bit let me do a thing and then this there you go okay so this is the one with a warm white so yeah I mean these are just like these are very very very bright yeah and but what's nice is they're just Neopixels they've got some mounting holes on them and they're pretty easy to use and this is the aluminum-backed PCB so don't forget if you're gonna use them with a microcontroller or microcomputer you can use them with Raspberry Pi and stuff because we've got Neopixel support there but make sure it has Neopixel support and make sure that it has RGBW support because it's got that fourth byte for the white data okay next up a very adorable mini solenoid this is so cute this deserves to have it so in Pixar movie yeah it's a little solenoid I mean it's a lock solenoid you know I think folks they like our larger lock solenoid this is cool you make a little diary that opens up like with a microcontroller okay so let's go to the overhead so this is it so it's normally open then when you power it it this opens up so because most of the time it's not gonna be powered most of the time it's gonna be locking whatever it's keeping you from opening and then to open it you know this pulls in so this will be either the clearance you've got you've got a couple millimeters of clearance this is a 12-volt solenoid so you have to give it 9 10 11 12 volts draws about like 300 to 400 milliamps when it's powered unlike the larger solenoid that we have this part is not rotatable like the other one you can actually open it up and rotate this this is actually kind of like hard like it's it's bolted in in a way that you cannot change it so another big deal because most people want it in this orientation but that's that there's some mounting holes but it's just a tiny little lock solenoid great for making electronically controlled locks I like that you could get the tiny hot plate and then this little tiny this tiny lock and then you can watch Timothy Chamele is that the name yeah tiny horse okay okay this is this is interesting so this is a nr 52 840 dongle from Ray Tech and this is not something that you can plug into your computer to give it Bluetooth low energy like it doesn't have a native operating system kind of driver to it instead think of it is like a very small microcontroller that is easy to plug into a computer because inside it's a trinket it's kind of like a trinket it's a BLE trinket and I don't have to make a trinket character for it because this is what it is yes so let's go to the overhead and I'll show you what I would make it a beluga well okay so this is okay so I just open this up so inside there's the nr 52 840 module and you can see it soldered in here there's a couple of components and in the back there's a single button and a single LED and that's it like there's no other hardware to connect to so what would it be useful for well I think that there are still some situations where you want to stand alone Bluetooth microcontroller that you can just plug into USB or you could power from a USB power pack for example I think this could be a USB beacon that you know stand alone it's easy to program you plug it in you program it with Arduino or circuit Python and now it's stand alone I think if there's some situations where you want to communicate with a Bluetooth device but you don't want to have the native operating system involved there could be some situations where you can't you know it's Windows 7 maybe or it's a lockdown and you can't install Bluetooth support but you could connect over USB serial and you could send data back and forth you could turn this into like some sort of like a Bluetooth automation tool I don't know exactly what it's it's perfect for but I think it's interesting it's comes like this particular one even though it's the same part number as the generic version from Nordic we have we have this come with the teeny uf2 bootloader so just be aware if you buy this and it's not from Adafruit it won't have the bootloader it won't work we specifically have the bootloader on it when you press the button plug it in the bootloader comes up so you can install circuit Python or Arduino code on it and that's not true of the generic module which comes blank I like that you could just pop this on like a big USB battery bank and it'll just be a beacon forever yeah it could do there's I'm sure there's something that some people find useful for this next up did if you finish all your dinner you get your pudding yeah so these are pudding key caps it's like an add-on kit so you get I think like 15 different key caps it's not like the alphanumeric keys it's kind of like the number pad keys all the extra keys I thought this would be useful because some people like the look of them but they don't want the full keycap set now here's the thing about them as you can see they do not have the same profile they're designed for keyboard that has a curve profile and so you'll see like there's R4 and R1 and R2 profiles and so when you're putting this on your macro pad just keep in mind that like you kind of want to keep all the same profile one on the same row it'll look and feel best that way and if you don't you can kind of get an uneven keyboard like profile so you can show on the overhead here you can seal maybe I'll turn this off so you can see clearly so you see these are tilted and these all have the same tilt but these have a different tilt and if you mix and match different tilts it'll look weird so like in this case I kind of try to kind of match them up I still think it's useful I still think there's a lot of combinations that'll look good it's just one of those things like I tried to find these you know glow-through putting style keycaps but without the profile tilt and that wasn't possible like this is this is kind of what's available this is all you can get and I still think they're kind of neat I think there's you know there's a lot of times that you want the word pause or arrow keys or shift or control or function or any of the other keycaps that it comes with maybe you're willing to put up with the fact that it isn't a perfectly flat DSA or XDA profile I still think it's of some use it's just something to watch out for you can't mix and match every combination have it you know look great okay and the stars should tonight lady besides you our community our team and our customers we have two breakouts yep two RTC breakouts these are kind of the same we haven't breakouts for these RTCs before but these are now the Stem IQT versions so you've got to we've got this which is the DS 3231 which is a high precision temperature compensated crystal real-time clock this is kind of like the finest of the fine this is like the truffle of RTC this is how we tying it together high quality RTC over I squared C on the back there's a coin battery holder and then if you're like well you know I don't want that I'm okay with truffle oil which doesn't actually contain truffles the PCF 8523 I think they perfectly fine real-time clock great for data logging maybe not for clocks you know just because it will lose a few seconds a second or two a day compared to the DS 3231 but for many purposes that the PCF is is perfectly fine also has the coin battery holder on the back plug it in over I squared C now coming with a stem IQT connectors it just makes it really easy to plug and play these into an existing system because it uses our I squared C connections this you either one and you know it's you can pick and choose right you can start with one and then decide you want higher precision or lower switch over to the PCF of course we have Arduino and circuit Python code for both of these because they're just stem IQT versions of our existing breakout these are kind of my two favorite RTCs that the high quality and the budget quality both of it that's it that's new products