 All right, lady. What is this? Hey everybody? Welcome to show and tell. Hi. Hello. I'm here. I'm closer Long show and tell to me Lady Aida with me Mr. Lady Aida at the Adafruit headquarters in downtown Manhattan where we're broadcasting live But what we're gonna talk about for the next 30 minutes is all the cool people and the maker engineer hacker Encoding community. What are they up to? What are they doing? We have some special guests as well first up Coming to us is Jay This is a big deal for us because we've known each other online, but this is the first time that the show and tell hosting his intersected Big fans we get to we meet we get to meet the people that we Idolize so what do you get going on? That's cool. Oh neat. So is that sound activated and also like knock activate. How is it? How is it doing that stuff? Right now. I'm using a different trinket on the inside here with the microphone sound system and a little power booster The problem is that the code is a little bit iffy So I have to play around with it a little bit more for it doesn't catch every sound But most of the time when I'm quiet, you can't see the mouth But as soon as I start talking into it or talking to you, right? No, it's tracking well How do you control the iris opening and closing the iris is actually a hack servo So sometimes when a servo breaks a step tossing it out I will open it up and take it apart and wire just the motor to a controller Yeah, so I have that with this switch here. So it's mechanical Yeah, that way I can kind of control the emotions when I like do things and I can like show people like oh, you know It's fun that way. I like that. It's cool I've seen a lot of good like cosplay especially like spider-man cosplay or Deadpool cosplay They'll have iris eyes because if you have a full mask on it's hard to emote Yeah, the only thing you can do is have your eyes, you know, your eyes are your emotions It's kind of cool. It's definitely something that I went into when doing this was because of that because I Decided to go with like a costume type of prop because of like Halloween coming up I could have an excuse to wear this. Yeah, the J. O. Lantern That's right. I Looks cool. All right, you're gonna do a write-up or some more documentation on this or just a special sneak peek Oh, no, yeah, I would definitely I'll be on our hack was it hack a pumpkin tomorrow I'd be on how to come tomorrow with Kevin, of course and other people and we're gonna be hosting it And I'll show it there. Of course, there's a video coming out because of course, I made a video about it I did a write-up already. So definitely stay tuned. You'd be able to follow my guide to maybe learn something from it. All right. Love it and I talked to did you key? So we're gonna help get the word out tomorrow. So We're gonna retweet and everything so everyone join in if you like Adafrit's after watching videos This is kind of one big one big community and family And Last up before we go on to the next person. Jay. Thank you so much for helping popularize the idea of companion robots We've always been doing robot friends not robot enemies and these are robot friends And thank you for doing that because I think people need to see that it's not just like combat robots And you know that's all like people do that. We're doing something else like our We don't need robots with guns on them. We need robots that yeah So then hang out and just talk to you as I actually just came back from the museum with assi That went to the museum Yeah, we're on your instagram. Is it look you did a workshop with kids and stuff like that Yeah, I did that this weekend and working on some small other stuff too to like share about designing more robots to of course For people to have more but distinguish and design thing of like hey, I want this type of robot or I want this type of robot So more robots will be coming from jay. Yeah And again, thank you so much because it's hard to Show people that robotics aren't you know weapons all the time because that's like everyone watches terminator If you're doing this stuff and it's like ai is going to kill us. It's like well Actually, we can make these things and take the best of us and put ourselves in that instead of the worst of us So anyway, I don't want terminator. I want baymax Yeah, there you go. I want a robot to like read stories to me and stuff. Anyways Okay, well, thank you again All right, good to see you. All right. This is maker power hour next up simon Hello So we've known simon forever. We start kits and you have a new book. I'm gonna do a little bit of screen share and You're kind of like one of the fundamental particles in the uh, the maker universe Oh, I don't know about that. I don't think that's true But I've been writing books for a while every time something comes out So here's your new book Sure. Well, it's um I've all about programming the raspberry 5 pico And it's um, I am it really it's teaching python no matter what you're going to do with it really so Quite almost half the book really is just really straight learning python So you don't need to know any programming at all before you start on this and then I kind of introduce Some electronics to it as well. Uh, so just connecting up LEDs and Um And you know So the simple things like that just to kind of get you started But really it's it's a sort of um, you know getting started book very much for the raspberry pi pico Besides if anyone doesn't know the pico the pico is quite different from the other raspberry pies The all the other raspberry pies are single board computers, right? The pico is very much a microcontroller Uh, it's not you're not running an operating system. It's not a heavyweight device by any means it's sort of and It's very low cost as well And of course it uses the rp 20 40 chip microcontroller chip from raspberry pi as do several quite a few eight a few fruit products now, I believe so, you know, it's um The what you'd learn in here would help you with that as well. Although I I said I'm for this I'm using Micro python with a little bit about circuit python, but mostly micro python because that's kind of the official Raspberry pi line on the other python user the good news is They're very synced up now and people can whatever project you want to do just figure out which flavor You want, um, yeah So it really doesn't matter if you want to do keyboard stuff do circuit python If you want to like hit some lower level stuff use the microphone Yeah, and all our drivers, you know, not knowing about the pico We wrote all of our circuit python drivers and example code for both pico work and also Raspberry pi will work for single board computers or for microcontroller. So They're combining Yeah, it's very difficult decision, but you know what to say and what to use really and I thought it doesn't really matter that much You just have to start somewhere because this is a sort of getting you started guys. So once you You know learn python, then you can jump straight into circuit python That's our vibe, you know, it's like, you know, what if you learn python You now have a lifelong skill That you can carry up from like machine learning and data science and now microcontrollers and all that So I like your approach with starting out with python and then like now we can have something blank Isn't this crazy? Wednesday shipping so people can pick it up It's available now. Um, it's via amazon, but um, also, um, I believe you're gonna be stocking it fairly soon And then you have a kit as well, right? That's right. Yeah I'm gonna take your Goes along with the uh, but it's not essential. Um, you can get by, you know, most of the books Just using the built-in led and the kind of paperclip as a switch Connecting you know connecting pins just to learn the basic principles and things But the kits, um includes Well, the main thing on the kit that's really useful is The summary isn't the pico. Uh, I don't know if you can see this on here Perhaps the focus or not But the um, the pico has the silk screen telling you which pin is which actually on the underside of the board So when you put pico into breadboard, you can't sell which pin is which you're out counting down the rows Which you know, it's quite easy to get the wrong one or things So I'll show you on the book is the easiest way to see when you put the pico into this Breadboard that we include in the kit it actually puts the labels for the pins onto the breadboard Which is just And then you get a little servo motor You get a little bag of components with a uh, trim part a Phototransistor a few leds and the buzzer and a couple of other Components in there as well and it just and the book Uh, and there's a separate set of instructions. I should say that go with the kit So you can buy the kit by its own and not bother buying the book and the and if you do that you've kind of got a more project based Booklet that you can download that some goes along with the kit We will have that in the store. We'll have a book in the store and uh, please come back Maybe show a project every once in a while on the show. Uh, after we have everything Okay All right. Bye. Bye Simon. All right next up. We're gonna go to melissa melissa. What you got going on? I have the um The circuit python code editor here and I've been working on optimizing it for mobile and enabling buttons Uh, so you can see this is like for I have an emulating a phone on my screen right now for the size And you can go to like either serial or you can flip it back to the editor As the different menu options here I'm going to show it to you in the full size here on the desktop here So I've added like some file functions. So you can go ahead and kind of browse down to where you want and You can open something like this and then it takes just a minute and then it loads it And it updates the where you want it. You can go to a new one if you want Uh, you can hit save and run and it'll Um, if it hasn't been saved it'll go back to the last folder you're at um And then it'll actually go and switch over to the rebel and run it when you have it there Cool. It does need All right, when will people be able to play around with this perhaps? I have a pull request in um And as soon as that's merged then Hopefully in the next few days then people will be able to get on there All right, so you nice work melissa. I know this has been a this has been a quest that you've been on for quite a bit It looks really good. It looks really really good. Nice posters. Go Oh, thanks Collect them all. All right. Thanks. Melissa. All right next up Noe and Pedro noe. Pedro went to go walk the dog here. We'll be Now you use the welcome stick and disappear. Oh, no That's your brother. He's around just not right now. You're just a brother brother. Yeah I know he's gonna turn into highlander at some point with you too. Okay, cool So that's so this is this week's project. It's the time stick. It's a prop from the disney plus series lowkey Uh, let me show you guys the diffuser bit because that's kind of the fun part Uh, so here is the diffuser. Let me turn it on so I got the slide switch And the feather hit it inside the handle here and so I got my little slide switch there It's got a built-in speaker and instead of using neopixels We thought it'd be a good idea to use three watch rgb led because it's a lot brighter I like the look of it. It's very you know, it's got a point source look to it Yeah, it's really it's it's really bright too and you can play around with different brightnesses and uh, Tie it to the threshold. Um, so it's got the prop maker feathering And it's really loud But one of the things I learned uh when making props is like it's always a pain to get to the usb port So I wanted this one to be kind of easy to get to it. So this is the pommel and this kind of Screws out and then you have access to this Uh before right there and this kind of comes out. I love this design. This is it. It's really nice. It's got a rail too So it's not like Rotating around inside the handle So that fits in there nicely. It also has a pull tab so that you can actually pull it out and you need to Um, yeah, and that's that's one of the things that I want to start doing on all the props Is to make it so that the pommel and the circuit are all down there Yeah, uh, the speaker's actually hidden inside this little bit there and that's pretty much it This is just a screw assembly here. So it all just screws together and one of the other things Let me let me turn this on for a second because I'm really excited about this bit I wanted all of these pieces to be modular. So this kind of comes out And then you got access to the uh the arch of the LED there and then I figured you know what I did a project The other year Or it's this and I thought it'd be a fun idea That's funny. It's a screw list and um, hey, maybe he has two faces too I thought it'd be kind of fun to just like instead of a pumpkin. I do this And uh, hey, it lights up, right And you know folks are want to build this is like a like a safety thing right not not because you're gonna hit somebody But they can see you right. It's really great And uh, so everyone knows Adafruit is not associated with lego Or lego brand companies don't don't cop us on the lego stuff. Sorry I'm just gonna say it everybody knows. Okay. All right. Well, but but that's this project there's a one guide And there's a video too on youtube I'm gonna be showing all this next week and more and then you're hosting show until next week. So thank you That's right. Maybe page will be come back if I can figure out how to bring him back I'll get on gotta go to the void be on the end of time and get him back. Sorry for how many wishes He is the lego. Oh, no All right, next up scott. All right scott Really interesting weird stuff with circuit python and ripples and more so yeah, I'm hoping to blow some minds here Try and yes, because Hangin out um Join my deep dive streams if you want to see cat cam Uh, that's the main reason people watch I think is to look at the cat Okay, so what I've got here is when I switch my camera. I've got the hgmi the usb converter from the shop and it's connected to a raspberry pi cm-4 board And so this is hgmi output from the raspberry pi running circuit python only so there's no No linux. No, nothing. It's just circuit python And I showed this on my stream on frite last friday and it was pretty slow But I finally figured out The issue and so it's like look at that pretty darn quick. You're making a full computer Operating system with circuit python. Yeah, I when I when I tell people my idea for this I'm like, I just really want like the commodore 64 But modernized Including the software. So this is our own python. This is python Giving you that low level feeling on a high level chip with a ton of a ton of ram and a ton of speed So that's going to be a pretty awesome upgrade paths for people doing circuit python all right, so um Deep dive this week people can uh jump in and ask you a bunch of questions I'm sure there's going to be a bunch always always and and I may or may not be dressing up on friday as well Same as blinka. I don't know We're doing All right, all right. All right. Thanks so much Scott. Thank you. All right next up. We're gonna get a couple people Yeah, as long as everyone does it. Yeah, we're a little chat. All right, you guys keep it to a minute and a half each everybody We get to everyone Okay, uh, can you hear me? Yes Okay, good. Uh, so yeah, just uh continuation on my crazy uh pyramid sculpture thing So I got the 3d prints done Uh, and and I'm really happy with the how it turned out. I spray painted it. So it's all like shiny and stuff So this is like the inside area. Oh, it's a little wacky Um, and then yeah, so the paper will be able to go through in there But yeah, the top part just would slide right over Which is really awesome. And then over here, I have a new macbooks look really cool Yeah, so this is um, this is all the hardware that's going to be going in there. Um, here, let me turn that on It's just a little test right now just to see if everything works So I have the eye spy display. I have neopixels. There is going to be like 41 neopixels all like surrounding the thing Which is going to be really cool. Um, and then uh, yeah the distance sensor And I have it set so it should start printing if it's uh, like three inches away. It'll take a second there um Yeah, I should start in a second live demos Um, oh, that's too close Sorry But yeah, it printed earlier. So that's all that matters. Um, yeah, but yeah, that should print then All right, but yeah keep coming back and showing the progress. It's looking really good Yeah, thanks. All right. Oh now it's printing Yeah, I'm gonna show you. Yeah, it's printing a little test now. Just took a second I cannot wait for the mythical Pyramid to me the demo gods sometimes are late, but they're they're dressed to kill Hi, thanks, Michael. All right next, uh Hey, Rick, how's it going? Hey, how you doing a minute and a half we get to everybody Yeah, I'll give it a try. Oh, let's see. Can I share my screen here? Yeah, if you hit share screen as soon as I see it pop up here, I will uh Toss it up to the big board here Nothing yet Here we go. All right. Yeah, I just wanted to show you quick how I made this thing work. My uh, expedition control. Yeah. Oh, yeah Basically, I use this circuit I found online here with an h1 h11 a1 And it works really great. The only change I made was the 10k pull up external And uh, that will detect any 24 volt circuit And then I use this controller here, which has got a feather relay board power supply for 24 volts to five volts And uh, one of your permaprotos with all the all the circuits on it And that control that that along with some sensors controls the um Um the computer I mean controls the air conditioner And it's really easy to do because basically air conditioner is controlled by 24 volts being there or not there in terms of relays In the system so you can use these relays I use one to turn on the duct and one to turn on the humidist that I mean the humidifier and the um The duct that the damper that goes to it And so h3 ac it's fairly easy to do it just like I said, you just got to know what you're looking at Yeah, and you know, and then this is my controller that sits on my uh, my dresser And it's got I use one of your shields here to control the whole thing along with a omega 2650 Yeah, nice work. Cool. All right. We'll keep coming back and showing this stuff. We're going to be doing a lot of like um home monitoring and more so um keep your eye on the stuff that we're doing we're have Adafruit IO projects Some of the data of this stuff online because a lot of hVAC systems are just they're not internet connected and no This is an older one. It uh, you said it has a zone controller in there But I'm actually bypassing that for one of the ducts. Yeah, my room. We did that in our apartment for the thermostat Okay, cool. All right Thanks for coming for coming back. Yeah, all right. We're gonna go to christy Next and then we're gonna go to doctor and then dan and and mark so everybody just Mind the clock and go go go Hi, so I have I want to show something that I'm making for halloween and I'll try to get into the view of the camera here It's kind of a pumpkin patch scene pumpkin patch with a full moon Um, and there are these key caps I found on etsy with jack-o-lanterns Then there's a neo key and each one neo key breakout board and if you press a key All right, you may not be able to see that very well The moon I should have made it brighter. I don't know if you can see but when I press the green key the moon is lighting up Ah, I see Yeah So it's yeah, I should have I should have pumped it up even brighter. Um But yeah, I'll show you something really scary if I turn it around I've got all these wires And so the next step is to kind of clean, you know clean this up. No, that's scary These are wires are color-coded Um, but yeah, that's what I wanted to show nice. All right, pumpkin-y. Thanks so much christin. Happy halloween Keep coming back and more halloween. Thank you pumpkin spice tronics. All right next up doctor All right, so I got something pretty simple, but I think it'll be useful Uh, so my lights that I've had under my desk for the last 10 or 15 years decided they're not going to work anymore They just blink randomly. So I picked up some of these four watt rgbw neopixels There's no bread They're so bright and I think they will perfectly replace the 10 watt halogen bulbs I had So I'm going to put them in the original enclosures. So I can reuse some of it at least And uh, I made use of one of my perma proto boards and made this control interface That's nice Yeah, so I decided I was going to do um One for each color. So I've got rgbw reg green blue white so I can Individually control the color channels display to show me what the values are on and off so Coming together and I have so many of these boards. I had to figure out something to do, right? Exactly what they're for good work. All right. Thanks for your time. Take these guys Nice crt in the background there some classical Tronics happy halloween That's that's old lc. That's from 1998. Okay. It's got that neck neck CRT look to it. Oh, yes, it's got that chunky look and uh, you know for everyone out there who watches show and tell Bring by retro stuff too I mean show and tell is all about the old tech that we all get inspired by and then some of the new stuff that We're building as well. That's always fun. Oh, he's okay. All right. Thank you doctor All right, dan and keep it to mid and half and then we can get to mark and that'll be a successful show until take it away Unmit your mic and tell us what you got How to doodly folks I I know I've shown this before and whatnot, but You know things get put off and everyone has short term memory now. I don't remember what it is. So do me again Who are you? Why are you here? Welcome to the show? Well, call me george and but yeah, the um as they say you put stuff off and then life has its own ideas and Yeah, if you remember way back in the day when you're you guys were talking about how your building got condemned While you're building your business. Well, mine did so Is there a problem? Why should that Stop me Managed to get a few things out of storage and whatnot garbage picked a really big whiteboard And hey, what show and tell wouldn't be with Without the furkin that's right What dog friend name gotta gotta ask it's a rule What's that Phil? What's the dog's name? It's a rule. We have to ask Canine fuzzy pants, right? That's what that's gonna be my second guess. Yes Otherwise known as wiggle butt and of course they come out and say hello Hi, he's wiggling his butt. So yeah, that makes sense. All right. So this is your workshop for now and you're uh, Hey, you can't get worse than condemned. So you might as well grab all the stuff you can and and do whatever you want Absolutely and uh, but what about showing it before? Um The open source power chair. So I've been diving into it and I've got time so why not you know, yeah I put it off and uh, so I've just been learning Eater fruit tutorials, uh like learning how to do the Potentiometers I forget which tutorial that that this one is from but I was tinkering with that earlier I just got the uh What do you call it joy stick that I wanted? It's a three axis plus a button on top gotta love that um, but yeah, I've just been soldering and wiring and And pulling out some of the old favorites All right, cool. All right Coming back as you rebuild your workshop and more and we look forward to seeing your uh project And I think good timing with your wi-fi because it just stopped All right next up mark. All right. Why don't you play us out? Play us, uh Spooky. Oh, this is great Don't know if you get how well you can hear that Yeah, it's just screaming I think There's a Yeah, our sensor it looks like and then when it's in front it does the little uh skull talker Yeah, so let me just stop for a second Because I'm not going to hear anything Uh, yeah, so it's a distance sensor. Uh, it's actually can based on light too. I Did a bunch of like jump scare laughing skulls last year um That ran on a whole bunch of different native fruit boards that were all light sense. So for the hackaday halloween contest this year, I decided to uh Actually make a 3d enclosure for all the electronics and rather than just make it based on light make it based on distance so You can place this anywhere you want and the ultrasonic sensor will detect when somebody's close and start screaming at them good Right on that's what we want. Thanks for showing this and keeping it halloween theme tonight very much appreciated and uh Keep coming back with cool projects. Good work mark. Thanks a lot Oh, okay. Nice nice ambient lighting too. Spooky. All right. That's our show for tonight tonight's very special night We're doing the eight a box unboxing Um, we weren't sure if we were going to be able to ship eight a box as some people got them Some people they're still in transit. It is the world it is right now with supply chain and But we didn't want to pause the unboxing because we wanted to do it. Yeah, we still wanted to do it because some people are gonna have them um We have a url eight a box as eight of fruit dot com slash eight a box 20 shipping gives you an update and also For folks who get them there is uh some zip ties that are included Some of them work. Some of them don't sorry. It is just the Supply chain. We are living in a world in a society in a society. 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