 Welcome to the show. It's me, JP, and it is time for another episode of JP's Product Pick of the Week. Thank you all so much for stopping by. If you're wondering where these people are, I'm talking to our, well, it's all of you, but also, if you want to respond to me, check out our Discord. Head on over to adafruit.it-slash-discord and jump on over into the live broadcast chat channel. Also, I am checking out our YouTube chat. So, hello, Spacepope, Charles, Evan, Dave, Johnny, Tackle the World, Gary T. Welcome and thanks for joining us. And over in our Discord, hey, Susan Dexter, Jim, Paul, Johnny, Scott, E, beam me up. Johnny Burgall, welcome. And thanks for joining us here today. So, before I go any further, what I want to do is let you know where you can go if you're interested in getting a sneak peek at and maybe throwing some in your cart of this week's Product Pick. You can just head to that QR code or this URL right here. There it is, floating in space right in front of me. If you head on over there, there's no need for a coupon code or anything like that. No tricks, no puzzles to solve. You don't have to identify stoplights or mountains or bicycles. All you have to do is throw the item in your cart at a reduced price and check out before the show is over. We got a little bit of a grace period at the end there, but that's all you have to do. Now, the next thing I want to do is have Lady Aida introduce this to her from her new, new, new segment. So please take it away, Lady Aida. We got an assortment. An assortment. So I actually got this for me and then I was like, you know what, other people probably want this too. So this is a collection of like 25 different buttons and you get 10 pieces of each. So I think that's just enough that you can like make trouble and it's a mix of different sizes, different stems. They're all kind of like standard buttons. So you will be able to get more of these. I'll try to find the matching Digi-Key. Yeah, I'm getting in there. Hold on, hold on. So for example, here is a sort of standard through-hole 12 millimeter by 12 millimeter tactile switch. So this is your standard flat top. But then also we have the SMT version. So same thing, but surface mount. So there's a mix of surface mount and through-hole. Maybe you're like, well, I like that 12 millimeter button, but I really want a tall stem. This one has like a five millimeter stem, something like that, maybe six, sorry, 10 millimeter stem. Or maybe you're like, well, I want one with a cap so you can add a nice button cap on the top. This is the version with a cap stem. There is a bunch of the six by six millimeter tactile switches. So this is your standard six by six by five. This is a six by six by four point three. The height of the actuator is a common thing you have to tweak and they're always available in different sizes. So a little bit more flat. I like the five, but maybe people want the six. There's the right angle version. So this is a six by six right angle style. So it uses a slightly different pinout. So watch out for that. Let me see if I have other six millimeter. We have six millimeter flat SMT. I like this kind of button. I remember seeing it first on the Arduino Uno. So same size, but SMT version. There's also one that is that boxy shape, but also SMT. Sometimes we use these when you need a little bit more height. There is the two pin right angle through whole six by six millimeter. So it's kind of like, I've actually never used these. It's a little funky because it's right angle, but doesn't have that extra set of two pins for mechanical strength. So it's just a two pin, but floppy. It's still maybe useful. Let's see. You've got another one. This is a four point five. So these are cute. Sometimes you see it and they're like, oh my God, it's a six by six millimeter tactile switch, but it's tiny. It's a small version. So it's so cute. 4.5 by 4.5. Oh, here's a two pin, six by six. Again, a little bit weird. You don't see these very often, but very breadboard friendly. No wonder which pins are connected to inside together. These are very easy to understand. So these are good for repairs as well as, of course, designing new products. And then there's like a bunch of other small switches. These are, let me be less common. Right angle 4.5 by 4.5. You know, these are pretty common. We've seen three, three millimeter by six millimeter SMT. Right angle. We use this style a lot. No right angle designs. SMT right angle three by six. So it has little holes in the bottom. You have to punch in to give it mechanical strength. There's the right angle three by six with a lot of mechanical support on the back. There is the tinier three by six, the slimmer style. These are very, very cute and fashionable. The taller three by six. I know there's so many buttons, huh? So this is a taller style. I think we use this style on our pie TFT. And then a bunch of small, flat, oh wait, there's one more three by six. This is a, oh, it's a, it's a smaller actuator. So it's only the 4.3 height, not full five. And a lot of tiny little tactile switches, right angle, flat tactiles. Like we use these on the cutie pie. These have a slightly bigger actuator. That's kind of nice. These are ultra flats. These are like sometimes called dome switches. This is, I don't know what this one is called, but I see, you know, spark fun really likes using these little metal buttons with the gold plate. They're four by four millimeters. Here's this ultra small, flat one as well. So you get all those 25 different buttons, 10 of each. Great for prototyping repair, where if you're like, how big is a button that's 12 by 12 millimeters? Well, now you know. Yes, that is, that is it. Man, there are so many buttons. So here they are. This is my product pick of the week. It is the tactile button assortment. You get 25 different kinds of buttons, 10 each. And there are a mix of through hole as well as surface mount. And you can use them, you can usually use the surface mount on things like boards if you want, and you don't need as much mechanical strength to them. And some of them have little pegs for registration. Some don't, but it's a terrific assortment. So you can see here they come in these excellent little labeled bags that tell you, if I can get the shine off of that, the size in millimeters. This is a three by three and a half by 1.9 millimeter button. You can see little, little baby buttons there. And in fact, I've got a nicer, well, before I move on, I'll say these are all numbered so you can see there are 25 bags there. They're all numbered. You might even want to make a little case for these, use a little like parts case, and you can peel off or cut those labels so that you know which is which. But I haven't done that yet, but what I have done is put together a nice little smorgasbord of the buttons here and a little parts tray. And so you can see we've got this terrific little throw a me back in there. Oh, that's a bigger me than I wanted. How about that little one? That's good. So these are actually the only two repeats. I think these are nearly, not quite nearly identical, different actuator size. Let's get the different colors on these. But these are I think a typical six millimeter. This is one of these right angle ones that has some good support for the board. These I love. I'm crazy about these. I'm putting these on Jay's MIDI button board that I demoed on show and tell a couple weeks back. They just have a really nice, it's a 12 by 12 millimeter, but they have a really nice tall, I think 10 millimeter button. So those are really nice there. And then as you can see there are some of these really wee sort of half width ones. There's some really flat little baby ones right here. They're super nice. Here's a case where we have sort of the regular through hole version. And here is the surface mount version. So depending on your needs and how you're wiring stuff, these can be really convenient. You can glue them to stuff and run leads for wearables and props and those sorts of things. Let me show you over here the page for this. No, that's not it. How about that? My software is disagreeing with me. There we are. Get that out of there. So here's the page. You can head over here to the tactile assortment, 25 buttons, 10 pieces each through hole and surface mount. If I refresh that, there you can see we've got it for half price. So great discount today on this. It's $9.98 for the bag. And as the more mentioned, you never know what you're going to need for repairs. So these are kind of nice to have on hand, particularly I've done this before. I have accidentally banged a surface mount reset switch off of a pie portal. If you've got boards from Adafruit, there's a really good chance one of the switches in here is going to be a good repair replacement. And it's actually kind of fun if you take a look and go back to the down shooter here to play identify the button. If you look at something like a cutie pie, you can see that's probably one of these down here. This little baby three by three and a half millimeter. If you look at something like a circuit playground, we've got some more standard six by six. More like the ones up here. But these are surface mount, right? So if you're used to having through holes in your life, if you get a bum switch, if a problem ever occurs with a switch, you could probably replace it with one of these surface mounts that we have here. So that's a really nice use for those. Let's see. Let me just check the chat and see if there's any questions or thoughts. Looks like Derek Treywick over on the YouTube said I grabbed a set. Super happy. That's great. Handlebone. Yeah. The discount price is about $10. $9.98 for the bag. And that's 250 switches. So that's like what two and a half cents a switch. If I did my math right, if not, it's probably 25 cents a switch. But I don't think that's it. Decimal points. So let me grab my discord as well. The other thing I want to do, this is actually based on an idea that I believe Phil had quite a while ago. He said it'd be fun to do some videos, sort of knob feel videos, if you've ever seen those on YouTube, sort of ASMR. Videos of the sounds of knobs and switches and buttons and things like that. I kind of have something prepared for that. A couple of things. So first of all, before I do that, I'll show you, if you're wondering which of these are the through holes. I took the through hole switches and laid them on a board. There are a bunch of through holes. All but one are sort of this normal mount, horizontal mount, I guess. This one is the vertical mount that has just two pins so it didn't require special registration. So that's a bunch of the through holes there. But what I wanted to show you a kind of fun demo of is the sounds of these switches because they are good and clicky. And I'm going to get some help from a little contact microphone module thing I've got set up here. So this is a contact mic there and you can see when I'm tapping it, it's registering the taps. I have a little oscilloscope off to the side there and this provides a little bit of reverb so you can hear it better. So what I'll do is I'll take let's say this guy right here and turn up the volume. Clicky clicky. Got some feedback. Now let's grab a little teeny switch. How about this one here? If I can still activate it. It'd be kind of fun to make a beat with these. Here's a little tiny one. I'm going to use some tweezers to click this one actually. Maybe I'll make a sample pack of those and you can make your own cool beats with the various switches of the tactile switch set. Question we had in the chat was why do I have the proto board upside down? It was just for visibility since this is white on the other side and I thought we could see the switches stand out because of their silvery metal tops a little better on the upside down proto board. That's the only reason there. Yeah, NPR style. Hello everyone. Now it's time for button sounds with John Park. Let's see. We have one more. I want to grab one of these metal ones actually. Let's see if that has a different sound there. Again, super tiny. These are great to actuate with either a fingernail or if you have a plastic little tool for hitting reset. That's a good one. Let's see. Let me know if there's any other questions. If not, yes. Thank you, Johnny Burdell says well, tactile switches is kind of self-explanatory so no questions. Great. What you see is what you get. You get a whole bunch of different sizes. You get 10 each of them. Some of these we probably have one offs here and there in the store. I think the six by six we have a party pack, party platter tray that comes with different colors. I think pretty much all of these other than this little dome, this one barely makes any sound. I'll put it on here and you'll hear not much. It's like a heartbeat. That one's actually pretty quiet. Most other ones are quite clicky. None of them are soft touch. The actuators are all hard on them. All right. Well, remind you if you want to go and grab some head on over here to this URL. And that'll get you set up. And I think that's going to do it for today. So thank you all for stopping by. My product pick of the week this week is the tactile switch assortment. 25 different kinds of buttons, 10 each. I forgot to pre-punch a whole. All right. Thanks, everyone, for Adafruit Industries. I'm John Park. This has been JP's product pick of the week. Don't forget to head to the store right now before the show is over. Pick up some of these for half price before the show is over. And then the price will go back up. Thanks, everyone. Bye-bye. Click, click, click, click, click.