 All right, leader of this week's iNAPI is with Sun Tsu. Sun Tsu. It was a California company, originally I thought it was Japanese perhaps, but actually I think they just used the Sun Tsu art of war name to their name, which is cool. But they're a company and they make all sorts of electronic components. I just bought some crystals from them. They're the only company that had 32 kilohertz crystals in stock. This week, we're focusing on something I saw on digikey.com slash new, which is... I just noticed something. Their packaging says... You can't... Oh, okay. Sorry. Oh, it's part of the secret? Okay. Wow. I just noticed it. Okay. Hey, buckle up folks. This is going to be a great iNAPI brought to you by Digikey. No, this is going to be good, because if I notice something... You're ruining it. Okay. No one has any idea what I was looking at. Okay. So they make, you know, they make foot pedal switches, so this is a rendering of a foot pedal switch. So these are, you know, famously used in, you know, guitar pedal effect pedals, and this is their... You know, they have a couple of different styles, and you can see the three styles. There's like different depths of the panel mounting, and they're slightly different like tops. Like one's kind of flatter and one is kind of rounder. And these are just really, really, really durable panel mount switches, and they're meant for like 100,000 actuations, which is a lot higher than a lot of switches. And considering the abuse that they take, because they are like, you know, they're called stomp boxes, you stomp on them with your feet. You can see on the right is an image of a stomp box. You know, sometimes they have knobs and stuff, but these are used by guitarists, and, you know, their hands are busy. They're playing guitar, and so they can't reach down and press a button. You know, sometimes the guitarists also have knobs and stuff, but if you want an external filter on it, use a distortion pedal or effects pedal or stomp pedal or whatever stomp box would we want to call it. And so these buttons, they're durable, and they will put up a lot of abuse. Compare that with, you know, these classic tactile switches. They're basically the same thing, but these little tactile switches have, you know, very little, you know, force activation required, maybe a hundred gram force. And you know, they're good for like, you know, maybe 50,000 or 10,000, 50,000 activations, but they're definitely not going to be durable. I mean, even in arcade switch, you wouldn't want to press that with your foot. You know, you would smash the plastics. You need something metal, and you need something that has like a nub that sticks out so your foot can feel it because usually, again, you're wearing shoes, right? So you want something that you can feel that there's a point through your feet because you don't have a lot of sensory feedback through shoes. You know, another, you know, I was thinking, like, what other times would you use foot activation? So sewing machines, you know, if you've ever used a sewing machine, you know that there are, you know, pedals like this one. This is a potentiometer style pedal that you use your foot with and you can, you know, tilt it. You know, some people can do very fine motor control with their feet, but most people, again, they're wearing shoes, so you can do kind of linear motion or pressing. But you know, a couple of other things that were mentioned is robotics, hospital and medical equipment. Sometimes people, you know, they want to turn something on or off, or they want to lift or lower a bed. They use foot switches, of course, you know, sewing machines, tattooing machines apparently, which is like, oh, obviously, you know, if you're tattooing, you want to control whether it's on or off, but your hands are holding skin in that tattoo gun. And so you would use a foot pedal for that as well. So it's, even though these are, you know, they're called guitar pedal switches, they're not necessarily just for guitar pedals. And there's a lot of different options in stock. There's ones that are like, you know, they're all panel mount. Some have solder lugs, some are PC mount. The one that I picked out that I'll show you has a JST XH connector, actually, which is pretty cool. And did you know that there's actually a whole section on Digikey called guitar parts and accessories? There is, and there's like 800 parts in it. Go check it out. You know, the catalog is still large. You know, I'm used to like oscillators and tactile switches, but these are actually under guitar parts. It's a different area than switches or tactile switches or buttons or whatnot. They're considered a different type of user interface. So I can show it on the overhead before we go to... Well, let me just say where it's available. It's available on Digikey and... And there's lots of stuff. Yeah, and, you know, worth noting, we've been doing this segment with partnership with Digikey for a while. It's really useful. I like to think that we're helping people find all the, you know, the industry. Yeah, like you don't think like, what if you had a foot control button, but it's like... Yeah. You know, sometimes you have to look at, again, because it's like these are just for guitar pedals, but they're used for like tattooing machines. Whoever did the tattooing machine, they were probably like, oh, should I put the button on the tattoo gun? Maybe it's actually like, no, it turned out it was a better idea to have a foot switch. So this version, I like that it comes with this little GSTX-H because it means it's user replaceable. It's polarized and, yeah, it's got, you know, the two panel mount, lugs, very thick panel mounting area. And I like that it's like you can panel mount between the two. So it's like it can be offset. And then, you know, this has, you know, maybe it's 500 gram force, maybe a little bit more. And it's on the bottom. It says can do up to six amps to 125 volts. It's got the SunSu logo. And it is a marketplace product. Can you go back one just to show? So this is the first time we've highlighted something. Oh, can you go back one more because it's maybe more readable? This is the first time we've highlighted something that's a marketplace product, which means it's not shipped from Digi-Key. It's actually shipped from SunSu. And they are in America. So you'll get it pretty fast. It's just, you know, get it in like three days instead of overnight. And it came with this really cool packaging, SunSu, which has this special message for you. They're helping tech companies create kick-ass products. Yeah, I saw it, well, and this is what I saw over there. And I'm just like, whoa, that's cool that they're- This is a cool packaging. Yeah, like that's a cool thing to put on there. This is actually some of the nicest packaging I've seen for electronic components. I'm kind of jealous. I'm thinking, I was thinking of showing this to you also because this could be like inspirational because I like it's only spot color, but it looks, they did a really nice job. Whoever designed this packaging over at SunSu, by the way, they did good. I know what good looking packaging that's easy to use and affordable looks like, and this is it. So beyond that, they also make great foot switches. All right, that's all you have to say. There you go.