 Eye on MPI. Eye on MPI brought to you by Digikey and Interfuge. Thank you, Digikey. This week's on MPI is Conductive Containers. What is it? What are they? What is this? OK, Conductive Containers. I think I want this. I think I want this. You do. Well, they're very nice packaging for electronic. We talk a lot about components and PCBs and soldering processes. But you also have to take your boards and you have to store them or you have to ship them, whether because you're shipping boards to a customer or a subcontractor or to your packaging location. And I've seen the packaging that CCI sells, but I kind of didn't think that I would want to buy it. And obviously, you'd want to buy it because you want to. You, like many other manufacturers or makers, need to ship around hardware. And they make a nice series of boxes. They make two types that we're going to cover here. One's called the pillow stat. And these are ESD cardboard, ESD-coated cardboard, with ESD foam in two layers that kind of fold over each other. And that's the one I've got here. And then they've also got the core stat, which is the corrugated pink foam. And these I've definitely seen. I've had BGA cards or whatever shipped in this. These are just larger. They have the corrugated foam. They're better for, and the foam is softer, but these are better for large PCBs and end designs that you want to sell. And of course, you could put the boards inside of an anti-stat bag inside of here, but it is kind of nice because it's all anti-stat, the whole thing. It's from top to bottom, nose to tail anti-stat. And another thing that's really nice about these packages is that they come in multiple off-the-shelf sizes. Now, you can absolutely contact this company and get custom sizes. And if you're doing something with 100,000 or 10,000 pieces, I think they're in Michigan. And I'm sure they'd be happy to quote you and make it. But chances are, you can use one of the off-the-shelf sizes. They have quite a few. Here are, oh, pardon me. They have the, this is the, pardon me. They have the corrugated packed sizes. And you can see it's like seven by five and four by four and 10 by 10. So multiple different sizes available off-the-shelf. The new thing for this week is the pillow stack, which are these thinner, they're kind of component boxes. You can use them for PCBs. I thought maybe you'd show that on the overhead real fast, how they come. So it's all black, but you can just deal with that. Comes in eight or three black. So they come flat like this package. So you can buy large quantities of them and they come flat and then you fold them up and you get them. And here, for example, I have a Trinkie and then this is a very nice soft foam layer that can kind of cradle. If you have parts on the bottom, they won't get crushed. And then you fold over this foam and then. Yeah, you can probably even turn on the light. Turn on the light, yeah, it's a little bit nicer. Yes, you can even see the foam. So you have the foam and then you cover it with foam. So now it has anti-stepped foam on both sides and then you fold both pieces over and then on the top you've got the ESD warning. And you can tape it closed if you want and I've gotten parts closed. I've got chips and LCDs and stuff in this packaging before. And then the core stat, which is the pink foam is larger. I neglected to get one of those, but you've probably seen harder that you've received coming in. And what's nice is that you don't need to have an anti-stat and then anti-stat bubble and then like an anti-stat box. It's kind of like all in one. It's very compact and effective and it's very fast. Especially if you can just get the off-the-shelf stuff. All right, and then you have this other. Oh, this is just all the options for the core stat. This is the core stat and this is the pillow stat. The pillow stat's kind of for thinner stuff and the core stat's for larger stuff. And while you're at it, they do have other really cool stuff at CCI, which I recommend you check out and DigiKey carries some of them. This is a really nice ESD, like all-folded cardboard box with a little handle. They also have reel storage, which we use here. Actually, you'll feel can look and see that we have all this core stat that's used to hold our reels here at the Adafruit factory. It's really durable. Looks great at last for a very long time, even though it's just wax coated or whatever coated cardboard. We've used a lot of CCI stuff to do our ESD handling in-house. I've heard from manufacturers are like, oh, I skipped an ESD step and actually that's what was killing 10% of my boards. It's a super shame if you go to all the effort to do some manufacturing and then somebody who's a little bit dried out and staticky and wearing wool, zap's your hardware. So that's why I recommend packaging it in ESD safe. All your PCBs in ESD safe materials. And we do that here at Adafruit and now we have another option from CCI. All right, available from DigiKey and you can check out the short URL here or the part number you can search for it by its name or 207-930-848. And there's a whole series. I picked one box. I think this is the box that I've got here but they have a bunch of different sizes, so don't. And we dug up, they have a video channel and we have a video so we're gonna play it's about a minute or so. We're gonna play the video. Correct pack shippers made with core stat conductive corrugated. The outer box provides for the fair day cage. You open up the containers. The containers has foam laminated to the top loose in the bottom. The foam construction is convoluted where it has fingers and a base. If you put a board down in there, the foam on top comes down and encapsulates the board by the fingers up here, matching the base here and it surrounds the product so you don't have any movement once it's inserted into the box. Box is a front lock mailer. So the tabs lock in place just like that. It has all the appropriate symbols on it for ESD. This version is a pink non-permanent solution. So this would be a one way shipper. You can upgrade the box to a black permanently dissipated foam. Again convoluted, so it's universal. You could also change out the mailer portion of it to conductive fluted plastic which adds a little more rigidity and longevity to the box. Correct pack shippers. This week's IonMPI. Thanks for your time. IonMPI.