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And if you happen to use an Adafruit board, we're going to double that. Also, folks will be awarded $50 Tindi gift cards for the most artistic projects. Great way to get creative. Great blog post here. And there are lots of examples of stuff. And this has been running since the 10th of August. And the deadline is October 11th. Spill the bean, pumpkin seeds, from what you've made. Very, very cool. So check that out. I'm excited to see more Halloween projects because we're here. It's not too late, right? So there you go. You're right on time right now. I think that's all of the housekeeping. What else do we have? I think that's it. Another thing real quick. Tonight, Show and Tell, we're going to be hosting it. So if you'd like to join the show and tell, you probably know how to do so. But we'll be hosting, so we can't wait to see folks. Tonight, that's going to be at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time. And then, of course, Ask Engineer happens at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. But we're excited to see you folks there. So I'm going to jump back over to the Discord and see if the stream is still going, right? You're good. You're good. I'm good. All right. Any other shout-outs, folks? Halloween is in August. I'm sorry, Andy. It is. It starts in August. It just does. If you go to any of the discount stores, Halloween spirits are all up around. Decor is all over the place in the Disney parks. They had their grand opening of the spirit, I believe, like, last month. Grand opening. Last month. Gosh, it happens earlier every year, but that gives you plenty of time to get into the spirit, into the season. Make a big project. I've already been posting projects on the blog. All of the 3D Hangout or the 3D Time Lapse videos are all Halloween. This is a Halloween company, by the way. Lamar and Phil love Halloween. Phil B, Paint Your Dragon, and Literal Dragon, who is all about Halloween. So embrace the culture and get some monies this time. So win some stuff and make some stuff. It's a make-or-holiday. You've got to get into this, folks. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Every day is Halloween, says Cup of Cafe. Yes, it is. I hear that in the Halloween tone. Every day is Halloween. Every day is Halloween. Yeah, that's just been running on repeat in the background. I need to change up my decor here to put more Halloween stuff. Like there's a pumpkin style. Yeah, we got to get everything out of the attic and the closets. Fun stuff. All right, well with that, folks, are you ready to catch up on two weeks of projects? Here we go. Let's go ahead and start off with this week's project or last week's project. Last week's project. Let's go ahead and take a look at these awesome resin cast and key caps. Before we went off on holiday, we showed four. I even started making some of these. And this is using our really cool mold kit that we have in the shop. We've got a couple of these that are in stock. To piece a little silicone design, you can pour your favorite UV curable resin to make your own key caps. These are MX-compatible. So these will work with the Cali switches that we have. We've got a bunch of those. And the cool thing that I want to test out was having components as well as the googly eyes. It's hard for me to focus. Let's get this as close as we can. One of the things we are known for and to the Halloween eye products. There you go. Of course, we had to add some googly eyes to this. With some gold flakes. Yeah, yeah. This is glitter. So we wanted to try out doing multi-layered key caps. So you can kind of see. There's like two layers on this one. I've got super macro mode here. So there you go. You can really see. No, you did really good. Even I don't see any of the air bubbles. Air bubbles is one of the enemies of casting. And there are some, but because it's such a small part, you're less likely to get these air bubbles. Oh, they're just going to be diligent in trying to get these out. It would definitely help to have one of those chambers that take away all of the bubbles. If you're going to sell these on Etsy, you might want to invest into that tolling. But this was a great first starter. Kind of get your feet wet with resin. Oh man, look at this one. So this is a good combination of mica powder and embedding a literal resistor in there. I think the joke is that these should have been a capacitor. A resistor to have some resistant caps. No, capacitor to have some cap. Cap. Key caps. Yeah. You're hitting the limit on what's the biggest thing you can put in your key cap? Probably one of these. And it kind of magnifies it, too, which is quite interesting. What is it, the MP222s? Yeah, a little transistor. Connie, the transistor over here. So that looks really, really good. So this is a mixture of these little glitter that are cut into the heart shapes. I like those. We also use those on the kitty cat paws, which we also have the silicone modes of the kitty cat paw. And lots of little creative things you can do there with the nubbins. Wanted to make the hearts for each of the pads there, along with some glitter. And look how good these stems come out. Stems are excellent. So in the video that we put together, please take a look at it. If you do plan to get into these, the trick really was to cure it in layers. So as you're adding more layers, you want to cure each kind of thing. I just did a little bit of autofocus. Let me turn that off. There you go. And one of the things we found is the silicone mold. The tolerances work best with the Cherry MX non-cale socket, or non-cale switches, just because it's a little bit loose on the kale box. So that's just a little bit of a warning. If you do want to resin cast and use these silicone molds, the tolerances for these stems are going to work the best on the Cherry MX style stems. And what is the difference between them? Well, you can see that one has a crossbar and the kale box has a literal box. So for whatever reason, the taunches like okay, but it can, oh no, it actually, it's not too bad. It's not too bad, right? If you're trying to show off with it, it can do that. It'll take a little more force on the Cherry MX one, so you can do that. Especially when you have a googly eye in there and you're specifically hitting it to have an eye bounce around. Yeah, that's fun. But hey, that's just one of the things that we want you to know about. These profiles are, oh boy, U1 or something. So you can check out that these have very particular profiles. So this is silicone mold, it's a two-part bit, and then we're using our curing lamp that we talked about two weeks ago. This is a LERD guide and a 3D print and something that you assemble yourself with a permaproto and some UV LEDs. The real add-on to this really was this little tray because as you are adding stuff, this is very floppy and it can sag a bit. So the deal here is that this little tray will keep it nice and straight as you insert it into the mouth of this lovely device. Yeah, so this has been updated. The thing of response for this has the tray included and if you want to pick, or you may have to build this guy out and you can pick up all the parts for this. It's just the permaproto, the half-size permaproto board, and it's 30 of the UV LEDs. Yeah, that's a fun project. Oh, and a power boost. Oh, and a power boost because it's rechargeable. Yeah, that was one of the most, in terms of the little hidden secret for this was keeping the stem and the two parts of these completely in line. So check out the guide for all of the step-by-step on some of the little gotchas to increase the yield of popping these out. One of the other things I don't even mention in there is just like 3D printing instead of filling all of the molds up and then having four fails, just do one, so if it fails, it's just one. Yeah, we have some of this pigment, which is like powder. We used mica powder, but this should work as well. We haven't tried it, but we remembered, oh yeah, we have this pigment in stock, so we might as well throw it up there. Most of the things are in stock, the macro pad's still out of stock, but you could use the snap or any number of things. Yeah, this'll work with anybody, like so. That's what's cool about it. And I think we have a link to the resin, maybe not. Oh, I did not put a link down there. Yeah, you can get it from Amazon. It's literally the first stretch result that comes in. Yeah, there you go. This is a, what is this, YR rhythm? Oh, Y-Rhythm? Yeah. Right, this is it. Single part, so you don't have to mess with trying to weigh a two-part epoxy resin or anything like that. Nice feel of the features. Odor-free, self-degassing. You smell a little bit, so make sure that you are in. We're gloves, you can see Pedro's. You know, you want to have a nice silicone mat when you're working with it. And then this is 200 grams of this. How much of this resin do you have and how much do you think you need? I think I have a little bit more than half of the bottle left. Oh, great, so you can make. You can make a ton. You know, a ton of these, maybe a whole 300. Probably, I don't want to say maybe 50 or something like that, with like your fails as well. So, quite a bit for I think like $20 that ships next day on Amazon. All right, I wonder if you can get these locally from like your Joanne's or your Michael's. I would not be surprised since it is used for a lot of jewelry making. For sure, look at these diamonds, these gems. Specifically what these are supposed to be for. And this comes with a bunch of the tools too, like your little mixing. That is really important. The silicone stuff, because the little silicone pokers, toothpicks, are what help you pop those air bubbles and just spread out the mica powder. And the mica powder, just search for mica powder. Actually, this is Alvaro for telling us about mica powder. We were like, what should we use? And he was like, mica powder. So here's the bottle. 200 grams. This is what we recommend. And it's clear, right? So you're gonna get it super clear. Mix it with pigments, you can put stuff in it and maybe get a bottle of alcohol for getting rid of any of the tackiness. But yeah, it looks great, man. Yeah, so in terms of the layers, I think I was able to get three different layers on there. And that's about all you need really to have like a foreground, like the hero of what your key cap is trying to like visualize. So this is like volume up and volume down. So of course I have the glitter cut out. I was gonna grab musical little, or these not treble clefs. Quarter notes. Yeah, they're quarter notes. Some sort of note. Yeah. Yeah. Super cool layering of different elements. Yeah. I wanted to see if there's any other type of like Halloween themed ones to make a Halloween sound effects little thing. Super cool. Check out the guide for that. And we still have the silicone molds as they are in stock. Here it is on the website. We have a slew of them. Different, what would you call it, layout, I suppose. Of course we have the kitty puzzles are out of stock because folks really wanna make those. But right now we got the three by one and the two by 2.5 units. But I guess this is the one you're using. It's the control key one. Okay, so this is it. Yeah, it's only $4 for this mold. So there you go. It'll fit right in our little UV. All of these do, yeah. Oh, except the space bar. Yeah, the space bar's huge. But the majorities and the kitty paws are working pretty good too. And that is the resin keycaps. Lots of fun and there's possibilities in terms of theming and all that. Good skill to have one for every month. All right, so we're gonna go into the next. All right, learning guide. This week we have a video for- This is all gonna be keycaps, so. It's all keycaps, yeah. So this week we got a video for our emoji keyboard. This is a project idea from Liz. She wrote the code as well and I put together the 3D printed case. One of the things that was fun about it is Lamar wanted us to play with these re-legendable keycaps. So these keycaps have these little printed inserts. These keycaps have two pieces to them. They got this gray keycap here that has the injection molded stem and that fits perfectly into a kale block switch. But these little covers have these little clips on the side and they have plenty of room here to either paint them or add these little inserts. These little inserts are just printed from 2D paper. You can pop one out like that if I don't damage it. But that's what it is. It's just this clear flat top. There's no dome or curvature to it, so it's really, really simple. And then this is a little paper print that I printed out. I used a template from Carter Nielsen who's on the Adafruit support team. He's also a guide author and he created a project that uses the, I think it's the macro pad to do two step auth codes. And then he used these keycaps to have different services like Discord, Google, and whatever other service that you need to do to auth codes. Yeah, so that's really the thing that I added to this is kind of new. I just created a bunch of these because I had like a whole pack of them. So I figured I'd put some of my favorite emojis and here's what my little template looks like. I have this available in the Learn Guide so you can download this. This is a sheet of all the emojis. There's so many emojis. So creating this template was, you know, it took some time because I had to like space out everything and then an illustrator. You have to use the glyph window because you can't, like it doesn't support emojis. It's quite fun. But let's take a quick look at the Learn Guide and see where that is. So the Learn Guide covers all of the stuff. Liz put together an awesome code walkthrough. We kind of talked about this before we left. So I kind of skipped that and go straight into the usage page because this is really where you can get that PDF. That's sort of the latest update to the project. So if you want some PDF template, you can use this. And then if you have an editor like Inkscape or Illustrator, there's layers in there and you can turn on and off the different emojis and sheets of them or create your own. So that's what we got there. Another thing from a design standpoint, I'd like to talk about, as I was filming this, I kept running into the problem where my cutie pie keeps popping out of its holder. So I finally created a little bit better method of holding it in place. These just pop out all in one go, which is really nice because you got kale switches here. I'm gonna take off the frame and then talk about how is this being held in place? So really when you plug this in, it normally pops out but I have these very, very tiny chamfered edges on each of these corners and those grip onto the PCV. And really the trick here is that you have these open reliefs here on the holder that allow you to pop it open. So if you wanna just flex that slightly, that is how you open it. And the only reason this works is because you got two things here. You have a one half millimeter thickness of your bottom cover and you have reliefs here, which allow you to, well, flex it slightly because otherwise if this was too thick, you wouldn't be able to flex it. If there wasn't any reliefs here, well, you wouldn't be able to get in there. So that is the latest update. Any QDPI project I'm gonna do for moving forward will have this geometry. It's a little bit extra work to create these little things, but is it worth it? Yes, absolutely. And of course, one of my favorite things about this project is there's no soldering required. Everything's super modular. This literally just disconnects and I can use this QDPI in any number of projects now. No soldering, it's just clean and maintained nicely. And the best part about the QDPI is, it's in stock right now for 995. And if you wait till tonight, you can get 10% off your order. So make sure you tune in to Ask an Engineer tonight because that's gonna be fun. So let's go ahead and look at the overhead again. I'm gonna try my best to put this in, but see if I can, you can just barely see those tiny little corners there. And that is what keeps, and it's a chamfer, a one millimeter extrude with a chamfer. I don't even think it's, I think it's 0.5 millimeters actually. Take a look at the cat in a minute, but the way I get it in there is you fit it at an angle and you notice that, well, now these little clips won't allow it to go in. So that flex right there, you flex that, it clicks right in. And now it, it unflexes, right? It straightens out and now it's like really in there. And yeah, now it will hold up against all sorts of USB cable connections. That just clicks in there. Orient this the right way and just click all these in. Sorry, I did that off camera. But yeah, let's pump this in and I think the number one comment that I keep seeing or not keep seeing, but one of the things that would be interesting about this project is if in the future, maybe we'll have a Unicode support. Cause right now it's a bit of a process to do an emoji where you have to execute several commands to get the emoji pop up to work. You have to add some extra delays, particularly for Big Sur, Mac OS Big Sur. But on Windows it's pretty quick. It's much quicker, less delays. But yeah, that's pretty much the project. So shout out to Liz for coming up with it. And thanks for everybody checking it out. So if you wanna build this with the QT Pi, it's in stock. The one by four, however, is problematic as it has a Sandy chip. And well, it's gonna be two years until we get a Sandy chip. So we might have some hardware revisions on this particular board. But with that, let me punch in some emojis here. Let me see if I can do this. Yeah. So here we go. Some live emojis. Are you all ready for emojis? Guitar. Oh, that didn't work that time. Let's do it again. Guitar. There's your guitar. There's the synth controller. Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt. And the Akita, which is a dog. And then I hit Enter. There you go. Isn't that faster than having to pop up the window, search for emoji, and yeah. So let's hope that we can get Unicode support at some point, but that's the emoji keyboard. Let me do a quick thing here. So the Learn Guide's up there. I've also updated the STL of the bottom cover because that's really the only update that I've made since we released it. So yeah, it's not popping out anymore, which I'm super happy about. Because I'm filming this and I just keep, I'm just like, you know what? I'm not gonna film anything. I'm gonna go back into Fusion and update this. And because it's so modular, I did not have to reprint the cover or the frame because I maintain the same dimensions and everything's parametric anyway. So there's some CAD lessons there. All right. That is a cool flex, bro. Yeah, that's a good one. And then Dexter is saying, hey, I have a 2D printer. I could do this. Yeah, yeah, for sure. These re-legendable keycaps are out of stock, but I don't know, maybe someone else stocks and they're very, very cool. They don't have to be emojis. They can be actual letters or actual stickers and things. More any of the number of new emojis that are coming out in the next, what do they call it? Revision or update? Yeah, that's right. It's gonna be fun to see new emojis. There's so many of them. Geez. Need some new fruit. Yeah. You got star fruit. A star fruit would be nice. I noticed they don't have a starfish because I was like, oh, I need to put an I in a starfish. Y'all can guess why. Cool. All right. I didn't take a time code for that. Son of a gun. All right, so here's a time code for this segment here. What is it? 27 minutes in. This is 3D models. So if you'd like to use a 3D model of any number of Adafruit components or boards, please check out our GitHub repo, our 3D Cads part, has just about every board from Adafruit as a 3D model in step file format and Fusion 360 file format and also as a STL. So if you'd like to use any number of those file formats in your CAD packages, check out our GitHub repo. That is how I'm able to make these models so accurate. They're actually directly converted from Eagle, which is the CAD software that Lamar uses and gets brought into Fusion 360 because they have such great tight integration and that's why we use it. So check that out. The website for that is, Pader's gonna post the link. You already did. Adafruit slash Adafruit CAD part. There you go. The way they work is you can use control or command F and then search for the PID. Let's say we want the QT Pi. I'm just typing QT Pi and we have two of them. We have the regular QT Pi, the PID 4600 and we also have the QT Pi RP 2040, which I'm not seeing. So let me type in RP 2040. There's a number. There it is, 4900. So you have the QT Pi, the Itzy Bitsy, the Feather, all the RP 40 boards. We even have the Neo Key right here, the one by four QT thing. We also have the Neo Key Feather Wing, the Rotary Trinkie, all those boards are there. Yeah, and I'll be working on more parts as we get new boards and stuff. I think the Ortho one is something that I haven't added yet, Ortho. It's problematic, yeah. So I'll get on that. But for now, there's tons and tons of boards and components, so check those out. So there you go, there's the Ken parts. Big ups from Short says, say it was a lot of time. For sure. When we first started, that was a lot, the large part of our time was trying to figure out where all the mounting holes for the boards were. Yeah, we would have to use our calipers and manually measure everything for many years until we figured out, or it's out. At least a dozen of the prototypes that we would have to print out just to get that alignment in correct. For sure. Having onboard components modeled too is really important so you get all those little resistors that might get ripped off if you mount them incorrectly, right? Cool, all right. I think we're ready for the shots on. The lawn mowers. The lawn mowers, yeah. I said that Andy was like, where's the lawn mowers? They're a little late today, there they are. Yeah, they're coming, don't you worry, they're coming. Okay, so we're ready for a shop talk? You take a time code? Go ahead and jump into this week's shop talk. I don't know what it is. Oh, with some CNC stuff. Yeah, I'm in CNCing, so hold on. Shop talk, I'm just trying to take notes here. All right, so let's take a look. I was fortunate enough to become a member of the Banton Tools Residency. They sent me one of their new machines. This is the Banton Tools desktop CNC machine and one of the projects I wanted to do is a two-sided key cap. And I wanted to mill it out of wood, different types of wood. So with this, I had to create a custom fixture or a holder for these key caps. So this is just some footage of running through one of the operations here, doing the top side of the key caps. So it was a long journey of learning and failing. Speaking of failing, I actually have the machine down right now. I have some replacement parts for it, but I have maxed out like 20 hours of milling. I kind of maybe over tightened the belts and broke them. That's the part of learning. I also broke a couple of bits, but hey, that's all the part of the game here with CNC milling. So the goal here is to create a learn guide next week and a video that shows you the recipe of all the toolpaths, setting them up in Fusion 360 and ultimately the physical things that you need to do to create this type of project geometry, what have you. So let's take a look at the overhead. Take a look at the final product first of all. These are all CNC milled on the Banton Tools. These are all key caps that are boys. The DSA profile, they're symmetrical profile. So you can see here they all have a 20 degree drafted angle and they have these little curvatures on the tops of them. So they feel really nice. These are three different types of wood. We have maple right here. We have some cherry and some walnuts. And let's pop one off just to take a look at the inside. This is the inside of the cap. Let me do a focus. Inside of the cap, you can see here that we are very, very close at the limit of our tools. So all of the geometry is designed around the end mills. So there are three different tools I'm using to create this. The actual stem is a 1.32 inch. The inside here is a 1.16. And the outside to do an adaptive clearing, I'm using a 1.8. So three different tools, not too bad. And we got about a millimeter and a half of shell here, but these are quite nice. And they seem to be pretty strong too. So that's really nice. They fit in perfectly into the kale switches. So that's a look at them. You can almost make out the step-downs here and see those radiated things. But they look great. These are completely unfinished. I still need to get some lacquer on here to really pop out the grain of the wood. But these are what I'm working on. This is just the fun experiment that I was playing with. And I also played with this knob design that's also a two-part thing. But mostly we're gonna focus on the keycaps. So real quick, I'll show you my jig or my holder. This is the part holder. These keycaps here come off like that, but this is what the holder looks like. These are just some actual injection molded DSA keycaps. And they actually fit perfectly in my holder jig. So the idea here is that you have a holder that holds the first top of the keycap. What I do is I create this piece first. I mill these out in a big array and then cut them out in blocks. And then when I flip it over, that's where I'm etching away everything. And then they get secured with some tape. So I add some tape down here. And then these are fitted there. I wanna close the door. And I'm able to do a three-by-three layout here because of the massive volume, the build volume and the Bantam Tools desktop CNC. And then these come off like that. And then it's easy enough to just pop these out from the tape. And the tape is what really keeps them in there. But that's the kind of thing I got. The way I'm able to secure this is with an L bracket. And you'll see all this in the video. Just imagine this is the L bracket. I'm able to probe the bracket so that I know exactly where these are gonna be placed. And then the Bantam Tools software does a great job of visualizing where your G-code is. So it's quite a mix of things. But that's what I'm working on. And you can expect a learn guide in a video next week. So yeah, lots of wood, lots of keycaps. Yeah, people like the wood and the milling. Yeah, let's take a look at the milling again because it's so fun to look at. Yeah, that's just facing. It's quite a change to go from an eighth inch to a quarter inch end mill and just be able to just shrug through this material. It's pretty awesome. And here as you can see my holder and these little blocks here underneath them is the inside of the keycap. And that's what you wanna mill first. You wanna do that operation first so that when you have a couple of them, you can add them to this holder here and then do the top side. And you can see how much it has to kind of etch away. And you have to have an offset so that as you can see the slope of this thing and it's really important to kind of do it in this order. But hey, that's just a little bit of the recipe here. It's like we're cooking, we're CNC cooking here. So very cool, any questions or anything like that? Let me know and maybe I can get them, include them into the video. Yeah, people wanna see some milling on top of the keycaps. That would be cool, yeah. Yeah, I don't know what to add to the tops, you know, like mill some sort of etched number or maybe an emoji. Yeah, I think I'm gonna leave them blank, you know. And I also have some other wood so I'm gonna run through some of the things about the different types of wood. The other thing I think is combining it with the resin so it would just be like one layer on the top, you know, like how they do like those rings where it's like burnt wood with the ashes like in there to make it look like it's some sort of. A resin table keycap, a resin key. That's cool. I would like a little like cut one section and then like add that blue mica powder on top of there to have it be like a river. That would be so cool. Yeah, and we'll get some shellac on these to make it look great. But that's what we got for CNC stuff. It's been a fun journey and it's almost, we're almost at the end of it. Okay, we're still in the shop talk so I got one more fun thing I wanna talk about. This is a fun piece of code that I saw from Todd Bot. So Todd Bot's been doing so much cool circuit Python code and this one, let's take a time code. It's at three, nine, there's nine, Todd Bot. All right, so check this out. This is the, you know, the macro pad we're still hanging out here. I'm gonna plug this in and Todd's been playing around with PWM to make some super fun sounds. Uh-oh, did I break it? Yes, I broke it. All right, there it is, it's reloading. There it goes. Three to the keys do different effects. As you hold it down, you can play around with the duration of the octaves and it's just a really fun noise maker. It reminds me of like Tommy's Oskytone arcade punk. But this is all done in circuit Python. Sorry. All right, let me stop it. It's super fun to play with. I don't know what I'm doing, but this is really fun. It's in this orientation, which is really interesting. I almost wanna redesign this so that it's, you know, and this handle would be over here on top. But hey, it's cool, it's monitor, right? So check it out. It's called the noise toy. Let me show you Todd's Instagram and we'll throw a link in the description in the thing here. But yeah, I saw this on Todd's Twitter and he has a gist on GitHub so you can play around with the code and he does a better demo than I do because he wrote the thing. This is really, really cool. Very, very fun. So you can check that out. Let me drop the link into Discord. Todd, if you're out there, keep it up, man. This is so fun, it's the best downloads, man. So there's my, I don't know, promo or something? Fun macro pad, it's very different because it's hard to demo hotkeys, you know, because I'm running the show so it's always fun to have a game or something like that. There's also other games too that you can check out. Philby's Dragon egg catching game is fun too. But hey, noise toys is what I wanted to play with today. Just give Todd a shout out. So check it out. I think that sort of bleeds into community makes. Yeah, you're right, yeah, it does. So let me take another timecode where we are here with time, we're at 40, 41, community makes. Yes, this is definitely what we need for a Halloween setup. So let's do our community makes. First up, we're gonna catch up on I guess three weeks of time lapses. I have three time lapses here. I remember the first one. So the first one is the, this sky, this is so cool. It is a Nintendo switch holder in the shape of the master sword from Zelda, Breath of the Wild, or Breath of whatever. No, it's the Star Wars. No, it's the game. Sky by Pablo Pirata, Pirata. And I love how such an excellent detail way to create a holder for your joy cons. So you got a shield for the blue one. And for the other one, it's the sword. So you are swinging and it's a motion controller, right? So the game allows you to use the accelerometers to control your weapons. There it is. Did an excellent job of having a single extrusion print. All of these just pop into place. So he did an excellent job in terms of having all the tolerances fit really well. So no special like a t-shirt or anything that was required for this. No sanding either, huh? No sanding, no painting. All you do is just pop in. This is two parts right here. So you can have all the colors separated. Look at this detail, oh my goodness. Same thing with the sword over here and with the. These are popped in inserts? Yeah, that just pops right in. Pop it right out if you want. And this is the, you know, the sort of design style that's been simplified for this Skyward game. So you'll see different versions of the master sword, but this is a really nice one because it's simple. And this is all one piece. Oh, I can see where this is there. Yeah, it pops in there. These two pieces get together. No supports, or did you get supports? Supports was on the inside of that. Got it. Because of the overhangs. Right. Other than that, no sort of tricks for getting the tolerances to work. They all fit and very snug. Very, very cool. I need to get the game. I have not time. I know. And here's the shield. Here's the shield. You can print it in whatever color. Just glue them together. They all snap fit. Yep, they all just snap in there. And again, super impressive the way the drafts are set up so these just can easily pop in and don't need a multi-material printer for this. Let's print all the different pieces in whatever color. Can I play with the time-lapse again? Do you show it printing? Just the blue part, because all the little pieces, it's uninteresting when it prints. Even the handle for the sword, it's just a short. Actually, I didn't put that in there. It's so short. It is short, but hey, it's cool to run through it. All right, yeah, there's a little bit of support there. Cool. All right, just want to show it again. So this is my Pablo, and I have a link here. Excellent, excellent job. To the universe. Great for cosplay, cosplay slash playing. Oh, I can put all the links to this. Yeah, I gotcha here. I got it. What's funny is, I believe Nintendo is selling their own. Yeah, you know, I think they shot accessories. They definitely shot. But it's so cool, you can just print out your own. Yeah, so. Customized to work with you. Pablo Vada. Shout out Pablo. And you won't be out. Excellent colors right here. Their prices are always high, so if you break it, you can just print another one. Very, very cool. So check it out. Awesome accessory to play, Skyward Sword HD. Cool. Oh, cool. The models were actually created by Zoltinky and modified by Fiber. All right, cool. Looks like there's a story behind this. That's awesome. Yeah, all right. We'll check it out. There's a link there in the description. On to the next one. We have a Tiki mask. This is a Tiki mask by Madd. Madd's ST. I think it's in the other room. I don't know if you can wear it or not. You can put some straps on the sides. Okay. A little big. Might want to add some like cloth around the eyes just so your face is a fully visible sense. The eyelids for that is so big. Okay, I'm trying to get the link to the... I might have not copied it correctly. I apologize. Yep. Edit message. Hit her, push it update. Here we go. I know the video is running in the background, so here let me switch to the website. This is by Madd's ST. And there's several versions of it or just a cut up different. Yeah, just cut up for different size. Print beds. Got it. That's fun. It's big enough to print as one whole piece. You know, I thought this was from Crash Bandicoot. Indeed it is. So it's inspired by the Akua Koo mask from Crash Bandicoot. Remember playing that as a kid on PS1. And it's a bit of a low poly version. Yeah, I tried to print it out the high poly version. The cura just crashes the one trying to slice it. You brought it or is it a new one? No, it's in the other room. Okay, well you saw the time lapse of it. It's pretty cool. It's pretty neat. It's a very simple to print, right? Mm-hmm. What was it arranged for? Just support material on the teeth and the eyes. All right. The overhangs happen. Cool. Excellent. Works there. And then the last one is... This is a request. It's timely. It's a request from P.T. Mr. Lady Year. But they just sold the suicide squad. There were some eater fruit circuit boards in there. Yeah, the coin cell. The coin cell battery. It's like a bomb, everything. And of course, the Star-O, the... The star of the show. Star of the show. Flipping starfish. Yeah, so of course, you wanted some hollowing eyes added into here. So this is the Ninja Flex print of a Star-O. So slice it up into two parts so that the bottom can come off. It's completely hollow on the inside. Wow. The only modifications I did to that was use a mesh mixer and hollowed out the geometry to this. Then we just added a hollowing in there, the M4 version. They get a little bit of a crispness to the eye graphics. And then the acrylic convex lenses that we have. Nice little 500 milliamp hour battery on there. You have access to the on and off switch and USB if you want to edit the shader for the eyes. I think, I believe it was like yellow and green. It's funny that this is actually the iris that in the movie, it's pretty much like the golds on the inside and then blue on the outside of the iris. Yeah, it's just that needs to be, the iris needs to be bigger. But other than that, yeah, it's a nice little way to make a Ninja Flex prop of Star-O. Super easy. I can't see starfish like normal anymore after seeing that movie. And what's cool about this because it sends a Ninja Flex the way that this snaps in. This is really cool the way it can cup into the outer kind of lip. And it curves inwards, so it's got a good thing to it. It's just nice and creepy. I was having too much fun creeping out my son. Chasing him around with that. Chasing him around. All right, let's look at the time lapse because I didn't play it yet. But oh, you got a bit of a. Hey folks, sorry about the static. My mic died. How about that? I need some new batteries. Well. Colleges on the ears. Colleges on the ears. How long did that have? About a minute. About a minute? Well, how fitting that it's on Star-O that you get this crazy audio. But hey, we have backup mics right here. So shout out to backup mics. I don't know. Yeah, shout out to the Yeti mic. So it doesn't need a battery. So this is the remix here. I believe it's a remix. Maybe it's not. It's from Super Dave71 on Thingiverse. Thank you, Dave, for posting up your Star-O the Conqueror model. You've remixed it happily. So maybe we'll post it up as a remix if folks really want it. It's also on Tinkercad, which is really cool. So check it out. And it's also a remix from some real Starfish. Oh, excellent, yeah. Remix of a remix of a remix. So excellent. All right. Sorry about your ears. So they're the only other tip in terms of, besides the hollowing it out and getting the two pieces sliced so that the way that this press fits in to the other side is the airbrushing that I was trying to do. I thought it would work on the black. Of course, it did not. I should have printed it all in white. And that would have worked. So I had to use the acrylic paint, which I thought would have cracked and fell off with all the bending. But it does not, so yeah. This matte finish, too, feels really nice. And of course, you can have that slimy look by adding probably some resin on top or some sort of acrylic, some sort of clear coat on top. Maybe that would crack it. But hey, there's so much stuff you can do with Ninja Flex. Again, this is the Cheetah Ninja Flex. What's the shore hardness, 80 or 90? 90, 98 is the shore hardness. Stuart's asking, what fill did I use for the Ninja Flex? What infill, maybe? Infill, I think it's like 10%. The trick for hollowing this out inside of mesh mixer is just having the thickness be, I think it was like 2 millimeters for the thickness when you adjust the hollow settings inside of mesh mixer. And another tip when you're printing with Ninja Flex, you probably want to use what, blue tape? You don't want to print it straight on your PEI. I did. So I have a 0.35 initial layer height. So it's higher on the bed plate. And it didn't fuse to it? It did not fuse. That's the trick on that one. Just have the initial layer be like 0.35. You can almost see the texture. The height, not the width. Was it on the powder coated? Yeah, PEI. So the powder coated PEI sheet. Yeah, we need to upload our profiles that we've done for the CR10, V2 and V3 and Pro. Just as a thing. I have them so dialed in right now. Just as a thing about this Cheetah style Ninja Flex, it's less elastic, but it's still super duper. Depending on how flexible you print it. So this is like three layers. But there's no elasticity to it. So just be aware of that. If you want some of the stretch, you want to go with Ninja Flex. But if you have a boat in, you're pretty much limited to something like this, which is Cheetah's 90-shore hardness 98. Jerobo just walks around like this or he kicks one of the rats. Then he gets eaten by the rats. And then the way that we're mounting this on, it's just hot glue. Yeah, a little dab of the hot glue here will hold it in place. And then put the lens. We're being concerned here with not using too much, but you can just rip it out to recanibalize in a different project. Yeah. I don't want to put that on my face. That's just, I think he's going to request that with some Ninja Flex rats. Hey, it's Halloween. It sure is in August. Shamiest my name. I mean, we got, what is it, the Halloween, the boobash coming up I think next week. So we're all in on this Halloween right now in August. All right, so. Cool. All right, yeah. 10% for the infill. Which doesn't really matter here since the- It's all parameter. Yeah, it's all parameter. You're not even getting any infills. No. It's just straight in parameters. How many parameters? Three? Or four? Three, three parameters. Solid. And if you meant like, how did I like fill? Like one of the parts of that like crack and the under extruded just a bit, huh? It's just the angle of it. It has texture to it. Yeah, it's the angle. It's just paint stuck in there. Yeah, that's fine. Did you have to clean up any of the stringiness? Very low. I mean, it's all on the inside so it doesn't really matter. It's funny. You can kind of see some of the stringiness right here. You can just cut them off. So the sports just pop right off just because of the offset that I have set on them. It's the 0.22 for the Z offset on that code. I think that's it for this week's time-lapse stuff. There's more community makes. We do have more community makes. So let me grab some links and we'll share some links here. All right, so I'm doing what's at time code is 55 if we're almost out of time folks. All right. So first up we got, we got a fun make from Stuart. Stuart, you're in the chat room. Hello Stuart. This is the pie badge. Stuart wanted to make a case for his pie badge. This is a snap fit together case. It's got all the cutouts for the buttons and even some cutouts for the NeoPixels. And Stuart also made a diffuser as well for the NeoPixels and TPU, which is really cool to see. But yeah, if you need a case for your pie badge, check this one out. I also have like a bezel I think too, that you can add if you have your, if your monitor is kind of coming out. So check it out. Thanks Stuart for posting that up. Just search for a pie badge case on Thingiverse or the learn system and you'll find the parts there. All right, next up we have our first make of the kitty paw keypad. So, Nikoie Wen posted up their make of this very cute kitty paw shaped keypad. It's a, I didn't think anybody would build this, but this is so cool to see that somebody actually build one. And it looks great. It's got party pair on the inside. And as you press the keys, the toe beans rather, the party pair will animate because it's all in circuit python and shout out to Liz for helping me on that one as well. So yeah, it's great to see folks are making the most ridiculous keypads. And also from Neo, Nick, Nikoie, Nikoie. They also have the lemon keypad, which is a fun one too. This is the predecessor to the kitty paw. So that's really cool to see as well. All right, next up, we have a Star Trek comb badge with the circuit play ground. This is something I actually milled out of brass and aluminum, but it's an STL, so you can print it out. Folks are printing it out. And this was printed on an Ender three. That's really cool to see and some nice kind of glossy style filaments here. Excuse me. So that is really cool to see is there is Star Trek comb badge with circuit play ground. The actual circuit play ground is fitted behind the comb badge and it uses the accelerometer to actually chirp and light up and do some other things. So check that project out. It's from 2016, look at that. You even got your shirt going on there, Pedro. You were like evil Pedro Spock. So everybody wanna see Pedro as a evil Spock. Watch this video. And man, that was a fun project to mill because I never played with brass and milling brass is quite better than aluminum in my opinions. But anyhow, circuit play ground, 1001 uses. All right, next up we got a macro pad case. This is by John Park. John Park made his own sort of case for the macro pad. And this is a make by Ryan X7. So Ryan X7 printed this out and it looks great. They sanded it, it looks like injection molded. They sanded it and I think spray painted it as well. Very nice finishing. And they're really sweet designed by John. These are really nice buttons too, look at that. Very, very cool. I like all those little edges and stuff and make the details really, really sweet. So check that one out. If you wanna get another case for your macro pad, check out John's. All right, we got one more. I believe this one's from Jeff. Jeff Epler has some designs as well. So follow him on Thingiverse as well. NMSR 1196 is his username, but Jeff has here a little TPU bumper. So the description here, what's the make? I don't know who, well, in any manner. They saw it on the CircuitPython day stream and they wanted to print it and they found it here. So if you want just a simple little bumper to keep your macro pad nicely kind of secured or gripped, this little bumper here is designed for TPU filament, which is what we're talking about. So check it out, it's a good print. Should print really well. It's a good starter print. This is the right type of geometry you want if you're doing NinjaFlex for the first time or any TPU for the first time. Oh, Stuart says that's him on Thingiverse. Sorry, sorry, that is you. Oh, that is fun. So Stuart, you made all the things. So shout out to Stuart. But yeah, Jeff has quite a few designs as well. So check out Jeff, he does a lot of open SCAD designs. So check out Jeff's page here with follow. With follow, if you ask. I'm not signed in, so it doesn't show I'm following. But I am indeed following. Cool, cool. And that's the Swedish community makes. Thank you everybody so much for posting your makes, posting your designs, sharing it with the world. That's really sweet of you. I got a knife and a starfish. What are you showing on here? I'm gonna get it in the eye. That is exactly like every video game that has a monster. Yeah, you gotta get it in the eye. Nobody like shoot him in the eye and I didn't do anything but a spear. All right, folks, we're gonna end the show. Oh yeah, it's lunchtime, it's lunchtime. So thanks, Stuart. So later tonight we're gonna be hosting show Intel. That's right, it's at 7.30 PM Eastern time. We're posting the StreamYard link in the Discord. So make sure to stay tuned on that, have all the notifications turned on. So you won't miss out on that. And then right after that it's gonna be a whole hour of Ask an Engineer with PT and Lamar. Take a look at all of the goings on this week, all the new products and of course the discount code. That's right. So get those carts ready with all of the projects for your next, or all the goodies for your next project. Don't forget, Halloween Hackfest is going on. This is a contest. You can win some monies for making stuff and you get double the prize if you submit it for gear. So why not check this out? It's your Hackaday IO account set up. IOT pumpkin ready? Yeah, that's a good idea. Or your Mac classic, haunted Mac classic with a native sticker. All right, folks, thank you so much for joining us. We're gonna see you next week. But until then. To make it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Don't forget to make a great day. See you later tonight. Music.